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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-02-20
Refunding the Cotton Tax.

Mr.. Cook, of Georgia, has introduced
bill in the house, which provides for
the refunding of the tax collected on
raw cotton from 1868 to 1868. Recog-
nizing the depleted condition of the
public treasury, and the fact that suffi-
cient revenue may not be collected to
meet the current expenses, the present
bill proposes to issue thirty-year bonds,
bearing five per cent. interest, payable
in gold, to an amount equal to the whole
tax collected and provides "t that since
the several states can more convenient
ly and satisfactorily refund said tax
than the government of the United
States" therefore these bonds shall be
issued to the several states in which the
tax was collected. The amounts awar
daI To th. seueral states are as fnllnWs
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-02-20

livered to Miss Rosalie NJ. Poe, the
aged and helpless sister of Maryland's
brilliant poet, Edgar A. Poe, the sum
of $64.35, the net proceeds of his lee
ture recently delivered for her benefit,
entitled GA Warning Voice from the
Grave of Edgar A. Poe" The feeble
old lady expressed herself in terms of
warm gratitude, but spoke gloomily of
her future"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-02-20

A Bowl OF PUNcH AS WAS A Bowl
A remarkable bowl Of punch was mad1
across the water in 1874. II was madl
in fountain in a garden, in the mid.
die of four walks, covered overhead
with orange and lemon trees, and in
every wa k was table the whole lengtIt
of it, covered with refreshments. Ia
the fountain were the following ingredi-
ents: Four hogheads of brandy, twenty
five thousand lemons, twenty gallons { {
lime Juice, thirteen hundrod-weight q
white sugar, thirty-one pounds of grated
nutmegs, three hundred toasted Bis
cults, and one pipe OF dry mountain
canopy TO keep Off the rain, and there
was built on purpose little boat.
wherein was boy, who rowed rounl
the fountain and Allied the cups of tha
company. It is supposed more than EiS
thousand men drank from the fountain,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-02-20

A Non-TALKATIvE DANBURY News
MAN.-James Montgomery Bailey, of
Danbury, writes to A. J, Demarest, o.
the Newark Industrial Institute, that
he cannot address that body. he says ::
= am sorry TO write you that must
decline the invitation. 1 do not talk,
sing, or dance in public. / sometimes
feel that l ought to sing, aud OCCASION
ally think 1 have a call to dance. but
nv partner is opposed to dancing ON
religious grounds, and everybody con
nected with me appears to have a most
ulaccountable antipathy to singing, I
can't talk. IF, however, Mons Fab,r
succeeds in perfecting a mtchiue that
will express it's views in a mora baaIti-
ful articulation than a discharying sG5a
bottle has yet been able to attain. and
will throw into its face an Appearance
differing from two opposing boot heel
taps, then / shall gladly mo1nt the
rostTum, and endeavor in my humble
and unpretending way to make it hot
for the masses"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-02-20

"A female lecturer in California,
speaking in behalf of her sex, says
a. Mans pleasures would never suit us.
and his profits we have. We allow
him enough to dress respectfully, and to
take him to lectures and other jntellec-
tual circussess but the bulk of his in
come we appropriate.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-02-20
Chinese Theatricals.

Lord Macarty has been present at a
Chinese theatrical performance. The
building, including lodgings for the ac-
t)rs, gardens, &C., occupies a site which
covers a square mile. The perform
ances lasted twelve days and twelve
nights without interruption. The
twelfth day was, of course, the crown
inc dnv. II represented the "Marriage
of the Earth and Ocean," when every
animal was represented from the ele-
pbant down 10 the donkey, after which
the ocean offered its steamers, rocks,
corals, mermaids and whales, the final
effect being produced by a whale throw
ing a cascade OF water over the stage
without hitting any one in the house.
Thereupon the Chinese enthusiasm
knew no bounds, and the audience re-
preached Lord Macarty, whose English
blood was not stirred, by the cry Of
" Hashowny haho." The fun of it is,
the audience come and go, eat and
sleep, rarely leaving the building dur
ing the twelve days of the performance.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-02-20

AT recent dinner of shoemakers
the following toast was given: " May
we have all the women in the country
to shoe and all the men to boot"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-02-20

AT Susan B. Anthony meeting in
Rochester the other day, they took up
collection and netted three breeches'
buttons and an old pair of spectacles.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-02-20

-"I say, Josh, I war gwlne down de
stree de odder day, an I seed tree
bark" "Why, dat am nothing Sam:
I seed one holler once" Wal, 1 seed
de same tree leave" "Yal va! va !!
Did he take his trunk wild him p "No;
he left dat for boar
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-02-20

The st. Louis Globe calls the New
York and Omaha donble-track ar line
the mildest- manuerCd subsidy that ever
cut the pocket or scuttled the finances
of nation.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-02-20
TAX was cOIItCLGu. lie HuOUuIs HWdI
del to ths several states are as follows
Pine-Apples.

The history of the pineapple dates
back for three or four centuries. Co
Inmbus found it on the Island of Quad
aloupe in 1893. The Javanese cultivated
it as early as 1899, and it is supposed
that it was first brought to Europe from
Java, 1t appears that this fruit was
transplanted from South America to
Asia and Africa, for in 1892 it was car
ried to Bengal and China from that
country. It thrives in Brazil, and, ac-
cording to Humboldt, grows wild in the
forests of the Orinoco. They spoil very
easily, and sometimes during the voy
age here the whole cargo of a vessel is
spoiled. 1t is considered good trip il
three-ouarters of the cargo is IN good
condition whf n the vessel arrives. inns
depends not only upon the length OF the
voyage, but also to the bad weather e4-
perienced, thunder showers Delng partic-
ularly destructive to them. It is estl-
mated that four millions two hundred
thousand pine-apples are brought to
Now York annually. The business of
canning this fruit is becomming quite
extensive, and likewise profitable, in
that city, and several firms are engaged
in their preparation, and they put up at
least a million pine-apples every year.
PoE's SIsTER.-FOr many years the
announcement, Z" A sister of Edgar A.
Poe is living at Baltimore, in great des-
titution," has appeared in the exchanges
at irregular intervals. The Baltimore
Gazette has conferred boon upon news
paper readers in supplementing the
OLD time paragraph with the following
" Yesterday Rev. George w. Powell,
nastnr of the ITniversaliat church. de.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-02-20
The Wedding anniversary Gel ebrations

The WeduInB anlVersafy ceItDfAIlOns
occur as follows Three days, sugar /;
sixty days, vinegar first anniversary,
iron fifth anniversary, wooden tenth
anniversary, crystal twentieth anniver-
sary, china twenty-fifth anniversary,
silver; thirtieth anniversary, cotton
thirty-ffth anniversary, wooden forty
fifth anniversary, silk fifieth anniver-
sary, golden seventy-ffth anniversary,
diamond
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-02-20

When a man calls flor two fresh
ecRs in Nevada, it means a dollar and a
half.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-02-20
LAWYERS.

A NJ. HUGHES,
"A ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Columbia, Tennessee.
Will sttep,i all courts to be holden for Ma1ry Rze
adjoining counties. ..
Once, Whitthorne Block SEcS%u
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-02-20

God of granite and the rose,
Soul OF the sparrow and the bee,
The mighty tide of beng flows
Through countless channels, Lord, to Thee.
1t leaps tho life in grass and flowers,
Through every grade of being runs,
It's glory shines from prison towers,
And comes TO us from stars and suns.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-12-04

intrinsic strength, and are very far supeN
rior to their men l never heard such
English spoken as at some of the private
houses | visited. Propriety without
'rigidity. and classical amiabilitY. met
ne very frequently. At the same time,
-nme of the little eonveniences, withnu'
which We could not get along are Who'll
! ~ absent from households otherwise
very perfect Their cuisine might be
remedied
Georgia is a superb State, with such
latitude of climate and scenery that it re
minded me of California. l saw some
views there atmospheric, horid end seen
ic, that never saw surpassed. And, in
character costume, aud that nameless
aerial relation of people and things.
which makes effects, the South Is much
better adapted to illustration in Gtera-
ture than the North.
why, at =, as sat in the hotel in
that dr0wsv, satisfying air felt thas II
were to stay there year, l would be
just like the rest of the people, and want
70 put my legs higher than my head, and
hardly talk, so much Was the effort
Harte thought that one evil of the
South was the surplus of political dis
cussion. The press was not enough a
news press, but redundant in contrOVer'
sy and political personality. He also
thought the northern people were ignor-
ant of the Snu b. For my part" he
said, II had not the faintest iden of the
country.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-12-04
Fence Law.


a correspondent of the Sumervil FdL-
con, in giving an account of a discussion
at meeting of one of the oranges of
Fayette county, gives the following arr
guments which were presented by those
in favor of the ssage by the next legis-
lature of Fence Law:
lst' The scarcity of fencing material
in Old settled countries.
2ud. Where timber is abundant it is a
great waste both of material and of la
boz 10 make fences.
3rd By destroying the forest, the
country is made more subject to drouth.
4th In order to keep up crop enclu>
slres the farmers are forced to own more
woodland than they can make profitable
as pastures.
9Th. The farmers who OVID good stock
ranges cannot, under the present system,
avail themselves of them by rhe use of
herdsmen, because the stock Of the whole
community are turned on their ranges
9th. The present system forces the
man who owns good natural pasture
land, TO incur a great expense that he
may furnish pasturage for his neighbOr
cattle.
7th The fencing required to protect
crops is worth more than all the stock
turned on the commons
Sth. Much Of the Southern country is
now lying uncultivated because it can
not be enclosed do away with fsnces,
and the large farms can then be divided
into small ones, and thus inducements
can be offered to immigration.
9th. t is tn the interest of renters to
~ IL, 1t l.
easier 60 keep his own stock up than to
protect his crop against tAe depredations
of others Dad The time spent in hunt
ing his stock would be- saved. Bird Ills
stock when kept up and cared for would
be more valuable 4 h. The stock being
of a better quality, he w-uld not need so
many. and he would find it cheaper to
feed few through the whole year than
manv through the winter.
l0;h Experience proves that stocf
ranging on old & ids, aud permitted to
become lean are much harder to winter
and soon degenerate.
Ilth. The stock kept on the farm
would become fertilizers instead of im>
poverishers, as Is now the case.
II The ranging stock, by travell ng
in paths, start more gulIies than would
ever be made by men passing On horse
back, or with wagons over the fields
18th The present arrangeme' { offers
a premium upon lHziness by the hand
owner furnishing sustenance for the cat
tls of those who look 70 the com non for
summer feed To illustrate: There are
ten families supplied Wit'r milk from cows
running in a certain range-by accident
one Gets his fence burnt do any OF
these milk lovers feel duty bOund to help
in making a new fence -? toe tTOto not. i
As there have appeared 80 many arts
Giles on tie cost of fencing, we omit the
arguments Of this kind but one 0f the
eeptiemen showed. by calculation, that
u sauid be better for the farmer TO
furnish good pasture for bis tenants,
than to keep Up his fences, even if these
tenants lid the work F3r nothing
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-12-04
SENATORIAL.

THE appeal thinks that the vexed
question of settling the Senatorship can
best be determined in q caucus of the
Democratic members, in which the
claims and strength of each candidate
can he fully discussed
We make room for portion of its
article TN that subject from which can
be gathered the gist of its suggestions ::
1t says
THE members of the legislature
should unite on the man who will act for
the best interests and reputation Of the
State. How to secure and elect snch a
man, and at she same time preserve the
harmony of the DrmOcrutic party, is a
perplexing problem. We see ut one
way, and that is pointed out by the tra~
ditions Of Tennessee politics and nearly
every State in the Union, and that
way IL for the Democratic members of
the legislature to hold a caucus at an
early day cdHrdss the claims IF all the
dspirGHts NTH malice toUard none JUS
tice to all nominate a candidate and
then stand by the caucus nOssia0tion,
first, last. all the time This has been
thirty years Every STATE furnishes a
precedent. la New York, Missouri,
Michigan, New Jersey and in all the
States where Senate are soon TO be
elected, no OnpGsition is made to select
ing the candidates by the dominant par
ty in a caucus Of the members of the
legislature. Profting by the examples
IN other States, and the harmonious
workings Of the caucus system in Ten.
nessee in former elections for United
states Senators, we trust the Democratic
members of our legislature will meet in
caucus, mpare notes consult the great
interests Of the State. impartially weigh
all sections and all aspirants, and then
select and inhexibly adhere to the man
who in their expressed opinion will unite
the party, reflect honor upun the State,
and give satisfaction to the people.
general scramble will produce discOrd
aud acrimony that will tell in the cleo
tinn two years from now. A bitter per-
sonal contest for the senatorship would
exhibit spirit very different from that of
the motto : Every thing for the cause
nothing for men"
The fifty thousand Democratic maior>
ity in Tennessee did not prevent the
party from meeting IN convention and
nominating candidate for governor, and
the large majority in the Legislature
should not deter the party from adopting
the wise policy, by meeting in caucus or
convention and uniting on q candidate
for Senator.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-12-04
That LunatlO Asylum Again.

1t has been no easy matter to get the
location of this institution ''to stick, !"
and even at this writing we have no
positive assurance that the Governor will
approve the third and last selection of
site for its location.
The Commissioners have recommend
ed the Webb Place, Eve miles nearly
south of Memphis and the Governor ac-
companied by his experts has made q
visit to the place.
The chances are now that West Ten
nessee will not secure the Asylum till
the next legislature takes action on the
subject, as the time has expired within
which by law the institution ought to
have been located, if the place spoken
ofabove is not considered by the Cows
srnor a suitable location, as this selec-
tipn was made only the day before the
limit expired
From the beginning, the locating of this
Institution. which is of so much impor-
tance to the welfare of the insane of this
part of the State, seems to have been
conducted by the commissioners in the
interest of particular towns and not in
the interest of its benefciares
How much will it benefit the city near
by, or the village in sight seems to have
been the most important question.
A respected contemporary thinks that
Mississippi ought to contribute someo
thing in "a much as the location at the
Webb Place is SO near her borders.
With so many good places to se'ect
from, it would be lasting pity to make
an unfortunate selection, and the Cover,
nor will no doubt be we'll satisfied that
the place selected will satisfy everything
contemplated By law in regard to its 10
cation.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-12-04
NEXT YEAR

December is the time to cast about
for employment next year, and whatever
you intend to pursue for living, it is
essential that you make all the arrange-
ments to that end before Christmas.
The prudent farmer especially will be
busy this month in securing a good class
of luborers fer 1878, and In fixing up
everything about the farm, preparatory
to the next crop.
The inability of many of the laboring
class to make crop next year without
assistance has been caused, in many
instances. by neglect and Incidence, but
in many Others By the failure of crops
the present year.
Our farmers, who are on the lookout
for labor, will doubtless use proper dis
elimination and h clip the more deserving
those who have faithfully tried to help
themselves.
We have large number Of lazy and
thriftless negroes, who have ROT, even
through necessity, yet learned that they
must work or suffer, but their chief pleas
sure seems to be in wning long gun
and three hungry dogs This class
ought to be ignored by the farmer, in
selecting his laborers, as long as there is
single deserving negro in the country.
We have all along maintained that the
native white people of the South are the
only real friends of the negro, and this
the we'll disposed negro has begun to find
out The best evidence of this is, that
even amid the trials and hardships oc>
casioned by the drouth of the present
year, we find our farmers : disposed to
divide with the negro who has deserved
well, and to help him through to more
prosperous times. This is as It should
be, and We hope never TO see the day
that we shall not be grateful even to the
negro upon whom we are at present de-
pendent, in large measure, for the la
Dor to cultivate our lands
As before suggested in these columns,
ouI farmers, by prudent selection Of
deserving laborers for 1875 can now re
tain in the country the better class and
force in some degree the inferior class
to leave the country All this is suita-
BILE work for December.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-12-04

We clip the following sensible para
graph from an exchange, and it is true
e. cry word Of t
Now is the time when all should re-
member their subscriptions. A wise
man will see that his money il sent on
in season. A good newspaper is every
thing to a young family. Farmers
families are necessarily much secluded
from society, and the advantage to be
Obtained Is by intercourse with other
minds. Newspaper, in good measure,
supplies this want 1t tends to brighten
their own minds, and gives them hun
dredS of new suggestions they would
never have had. u cheers many iOneS
ly hour, and keeps them out Of more
mischief than you ever dreamed of Il
is rest to the toiling mother to sit down
and look over the home newspaper, each
week, which your thOughtfulnea has
provided and it will save many a dol
lar bill IN the course of r year. There
Is nothing that helps to promote health
of o, dy like a cheerful mind. Look af>
ter your newspaper, and don't lose tn e
face Of an old friend for want of little
attention at the proper time.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-12-04

De is at best, but Cinderilla at the BALI
We wonder at his slippers his face clothes and hair
But the greatest wonder is. how he got there.
Our wonder, however, is not as great
or distraeting as his own For, when he
links of the fairy Recanstruetion, which
wrought this marvellous change in him.
md then sees, the familiar pumpkin
which, he, from early and fond associa-
ton, had come To regard as an elder
brother, suddenly transmitted into a
carriage and gayly caparisoned horses,
and examines his glass slippers, and then
timor0usly ventured to lo..k down. down
into the depth where his fairy found him
among the cinders and ashes of snuth~
ern desolation his head swims and he
instinctivelv leans heavily on President
Ulysses arm, and, d ubting his own
identity. begs not to be called senator or
Representative, but to be called by his
old name so familiar in Sleepy Hollow
Schneider
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-12-04
Alexander H. Stephens at the
White House.

IWashington special to the New York Herald.
AIrxaI der n. Stephens ca lied on the
President to-day to pay his respects, as
has been his custom to do during his
membership of the House lie was re-
ceived most cordially by the President,
who detained him for some time in
friendly conversation. Mr. Stephens is
better than he was last winter and has
gained sumo h"Sh, though the attenuated
appearance of the veteran is still appar~
ent. In regard 20 the organization of
the next eHouse he remarked that it was
useless t. worry about crossing a strea IN
until it was reached. His voice seems
stronger and his eyes brighter than
when he made his spe ech ut the last ses~
sion, on the pay of members of Congress.
socially, Mr stephens has all the vivaci>
Ey of his younger colleagues
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-12-04
immigration Project.

It is proposed to send J. B. Kille-
brew, author Of the Resources Of Ten
nessee, to the North west to present to
the people there the advantages of ou'
State 50 as thereby to inducs immigra.
ton.
If there is one man in Tennessee who
can do more than any other in indu-
cling people to locate among as By clearly
presenting all the advantages here Offer
ed to them, that man is J. b. Killebrew.
No man in the State has given the sub
ject such close attention as he has, and
certainly there is no one that can tell
what he knows more clearly.
On this subject the ClarksvilIe TObdc-
co Leaf says:
A wiser movement cannot be made and
better man cannot be found There Is
no man in Tennessee who possesses Mr..
killebTeW's knowledge, energy and judg-
meRt concerning our res urces and the
proper manner of presenting them.
Population is "ne thing We need, ener>
getic honest, frugal population, erowd~
ing out worthless elements, whether
white or black. The industrious white
man viii not need to leave Tennessee )
he can find nothing better. a mai
who has been trying the Western States,
told us the other day that Tennessee was
the best country for the poor man that
be had vet found The honest and indus~
trious black man will be useful, and he
will prosper but all worthless elements
should see that they must learn industry
and become useful elements or they will
have to yield their places and retire be-
fore those who wall till the soil, not en-
cumber it.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-12-04
Civil Rights in Indiana.

The school law of Indiana, provides
that equal facilities shall be offered to
white aRd colored children in tho pub
lie schools of the State, but that tn
School Directors can make separate
provision for them.
A negro applied for admission for his
children to one of the schools set apart
for whites and was refused.
He brough suit, ir the Circuit Court,
against the Directors and gained the suit.
An appeal was taken to the Supreme
Court of the State and the judgment of
the lower Court was reversed.
According to the principles which
characterized the intense Radicals Just
prior to the election, Indiana needs Just
a small dose of recons truction.