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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-29
Cause of the Mississippi Overflow.

At a recent meeting of the Chicago
Academy of Science, Ex-Governor Bross
of that city read an elaborate paper on
the subject of the Mississippi inunda-
tiOns, in which he argued that the over
flows which are now devastating SO
large a portion of the finest cotton dis
tricts of Mississippi, Arkansas and Lou
isiana, and nearly all the choice sugar
region of the latter state, find their
explanation not in a larger volume of
water than usual poured into the lower
Mississippi from its tributaries, but in
the fact that the bed of the river is
gradually rising, thus lifting up its wa
ters to higher level, and causing them
TO flow over the banks and levees which
once confined them. In support of this
view he declared that he had cOnversed
with many intelligent and observant
boatmen in st. Louis, who confidently
averred that the bed of the river is
gradually rising fromthe deposit of sed-
iment, just as the river PO, IN Italy,
whose overfows are more frequent and
destructive than formerly, is lifting its
bed from the same cause. This view of
a very interesting subject is strength
ened by circumstances attending the re-
cent overflow. It is a noteworthy fact
that this recent overflow was not caused
nor accompanied by an unusual rise
either in the Missouri or upper Mis-
sissippi the floods came into the lower
river at and below Cairo, chiefly
from the Ohio, Cumberland, Tennessee,
White, Arkansas and Red rivers and
the food in the Ohio lacked several feet
of being as high as former years have
witnessed. Had the great streams above
Cairo, the Missouri and its tributaries,
and the upper Mississippi, with its af-
huents, participated in the rise, the
lower river would have been raised sew
eral feet higher than it was-a height
that would have carried it probably,
over nearly all the levees, and caused
the inundation of all the lowlands bor-
dering on it. That so great and de-
structive an overflow as that which took
place should come from the compRra-
lively limited volumes of water poured
into the river at and below Cairo, seems
to suggest a decreased capacity of the
river channel to contain its waters, ow-
ing to the elevation of the bed. If this
theory be correct, some very interesting
questions present themselves How
long Is the process to go on? If the
levees on its bank are to be built higher
as its bed is raised, to secure the coun-
try from inuudation, there will come a
time when the mighty river viii flow to
the sea like an aqueduct, through chan
nels Ii ted up above the plain. But
there is a limit TO the work of raising
the levees the higher they are built
the weaker they become, and In a great
food, in which all the upper rivers shall
participate, the levees would be carried
away, and the released water would
submerge the 10 y regions in far more
destructive deluge than any we have
yet witnessed.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-29
The FalIacieg Of Finance.

An English writer says In the Pail
Mall Gazette Many political phenom-
ma of the modern democratic world have
shown that blunders and iniustices be-
loug TO no particular era or state of So
ciety and here we have the congress Of
United States repeating that particular
fraud of feudal princes which even In
the middle ages had fallen into the low
est discredit. There Is absolutely no
difference in principle between adulter-
atinR the metallic coinage and intia-
ting " the paper circulation. The sole
distinction consists In the greater llabIl-
ity of the older piece of cheating to be
found out. a medieval gold coin had
its proper intrinsic value III the market,
and the mOney-chauger who melted
down a coin of some particular issue
and discovered that it was half made up
of copper. at once knew that the sover-
eign had been swindling his subjects
But the effects Of adultsrating a paper
currency have to be detected, not Dy
the scales or the tests. but by some
slight labor of the brain. As a bank
note is, to begin with, piece ot paper
which is absolutely without appreciaols
value, a very superficial person may
/ conclude that anv number of pieces OF
yaIueless. paper may be made valuable
/ by printing on them the same Wor Is
F which appear on the face Of . redeem
able note. The difficulty. such rs II IS
/ Of seeing through this fallacy gives the
modern corrupter of money ms Sole ad-
vantage over his execrated preueceSsOI,
bnt both the act and its consequences
&c iJent;caI in tba two cases. The i'm
/ ace and superscription of the monarch
/ lied in the older example the assertion
+ that "the United States promises TO
paw is a lying assertion in the modern
! instance.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-29
FOREIGN.

Two more fights with Carlists are re-
ported by Madrid with the usual Republican
success.
The King of the Sandwich Islands
favors commercial treaty with the United
States, but deprecates annexation.
The three American students recently
drowned in Lake Geneva, Switzerland were a
Mr. Grant, and two brothers named Wood
berry.
Ten persons have been arrested at
Cork, Ireland, on suspicion of being concerned
in the mysterious disappearance of arms from
the barracks.
Advices from Madeira state that vines
are in satisfactory condition. The Azores
newspapers deny the existence in these islands
of a movement in favor of annexation to the
United States.
It was not the brother of the Czar
who was recently arrested, but Prince Nicho-
las, nephew, who stole some diamonds from
his mother aud gave them to well known
French actress. The Czar ordered that the
law take its course.
A special from Paris says a cabinet
has been formed. It's principal members are
Gaulard, Decsse and Lavergne, Grivart and
Ozanne, all Of whom belong to the moderate
section of the right and right centre. The
object of the new government is to concilate
both centres in order to carry the septennial
constitution through the assembly.
A letter from Paris says: 1t is the
impression here that the new Spanish ministry
will shortly exhibit Alphonsist tendencies,
Unquestionably large proportion OF the
better classes Of SpaniarZ1s ook forward to
the enthronement of the prince Of the Aus
turias as Offering the best chance for the pros
perity of Spain, despite the strong doubts ex-
isting whether he possesses the qualities fit
ting him for the duties of sovereign.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-29
VEST.

Northampton, Mass, lost nine bridges
nearly new by the mill dam flood.
Henri Rochefort, who was a passen-
ger on the Mikado from Australia, has arrived
at San Francisco
: a Chicago packing house was burned
last week, consuming 500 live hogs and !. .OOO,-
600 pounds of dead-loss $40, ,0O6. distributed
among 40 companies
The bulkhead of Grassner Dam, in
upper Wolf river, Wisconsin, gave way last
week while nine men were engaged raising
gates. Four men were instantly killed and
others badly injured.
Forty crusading ladies were arrested
and taken before the mayor or Pittsburg, Pa,
last week, who dismissed them with threat
of punishment if arrested again. They sang
the long metre doxology and departed.
Accounts from the southwestern
parts of Minnesota represent that the ground
is literally alive with young grasshoppers
which have already commenced eating vegeta-
ton. If they remain the prospects of the
crops are hopeless.
A Northampton, Mass, dispatch says
there are now in Mill River valley twelve
hundred destitute and homeless people to
feed and clothe, not for one day only, but
until their future is decided upon, and must
have at least one hundred thousand dollars
for immediate use. The women as usual ex-
hibit more fortitude than the men, and in
stead of yielding to their sorrows put forth
praiseworthy efforts to improve their gei eraI
condition.
At a meeting of the United States
Centennial commission at PHILADELPHIA. a
financial statement was made showing the
total subscription to be "a, 4O5, 200; total ex-
penses to May 1, including plans and work on
grounds, S144, 712; and estimate of total cost Of
buildings according to designs S8, 75O, ,OOO
Tho report of the executive committee says :
@ Without the government aid which has been
requested it will be impossible to render the
celebration creditable to the nation and worthy
of the occasion. The responsibility there
fole, for success for the centennial exhibition
now clearly rests with congress-"
One of the most remarkable sales of
blooded stock ever held III this country took
at Dexter Park, Chicago, last week, being that
OF the celebrated Linden herd of shorthorns,
belonging to Hon. w. G. King of Mime
apolis. Fifty-eight cows.and twenty-one bulls
were sold, the former aggregating S1O1, ,615,
and the latter S25, ,375, being an average of
81, 9s2 each for the bulls. Buyers were pre-
sent from every part of the United States,
from Canada, and one, Mr.. Robbins, from
England, who made the most notable pur-
chase of the day, that of the bull Duke of
Hillhurst, for which he paid S14, 900. A large
number of the finest animals sold went to
New York, Kentucky, Iowa, Illinois and Mis-
souri,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-29
There &c p squares b eaeh column.
NEWS OF THE WEEK
EAST.

Scranton, Pa, reports the suspension
OF the Lackawana Iron company, throwing
700 men out of work, while at Reading 1. 600
are likewise treated by the suspension of a
wool-hat factory.
A dispatch from the scene of the Mill
river disaster says the last two bodies have
been found, and the total loss of life is now
known TO BE- 147. Some idea may be formed
OF the terrific force of the rushing stream Of
death by the statement that the fissure in the
ruined barrier shows that the food must have
started with a volume of 175 feet wide, and
35 feet deep.
New York is experimenting in COM
pnisory education. A law has Just gone into
effect requiring the parents and guardians of
children between eight and fifteen years of
age to give them annually at least fourteen
weeks Of elementary instruction. Probably
the most practical feature of the law is that
which forbids the employment at any labor of
children within the above ages during the
time the public schools are open.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-29

Alligators five feet long are retaiIed
in Perry, Georgia, at a dollar apiece.
The president has nominated Mrs.
Susan H. Burbridge as postmistress of Hop
dnsville, Ky.
Gaines Chisholm, charged with the
murder of Penn Bedel, in Atlanta, Georgia,
has been acquitted.
The darkey immigration into Missis-
ippi from the Carolinas are turning their
faces homeward again.
Andy Mclaughlin, boy of fourteen,
killed his father with rock, few days since,
in Madison county, Ky.
VIM. Fry, a Louisville negro, seventy
four years old, has received life sentence for
numbering his young wife.
Mrs. Waechter, proprietress of beer
saloon at Memphis, suicided by hanging her
self from the transon of door with a clothes
line.
Gov. Smith, of Georgia, has respited
until June 10, Henry Jackson, the negro who
was to have been hung in Leesburg last Fri
day
A man named Jordan, and his three
sons, arrested in Columbus, Ga, for counter
feiting nickels, have been sent to Savannah
for trial
Fred, Walcott, of Frankfort, XIV,
went home drunk and killed his mother with
hatchet. He is in jail but likely to be
lynched.
Governor Moses and ex Treasurer
Humseet Of South Carolina have beeh in
dioied by republican grand jury on charges
OF breach OF trust with frau lulent intentions.
and for grand lareenv
The supreme court has decided that
quarantine fees, imposed by states, are un-
constitutional, and the circuit court at New
Orleans has issued an order restraining the
board OF health from collecting such fees.
The Memphis Cotton Exchange has
appointed the following delegates to the con-
We ltion OF the cotton exchanges at Aueusta.
Ga, June 10; w b. Galbreath. John Toof
W. P. Proudfoot, s. NJ. Gates, ]. C. Fizier. J.
F. Petit
Reports from Little Rock state that
nearly all OF Baxter's forces have been re-
turned TO their homes, and quiet generally
reigns The Notifications around the state
house are being levelled and matters put il
their old condition.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-29
Obedience in Children.

Unquestioning obedience We must
demand from tie child for her own
safety. It may often be q question OF
life and death whether the little girl
runs when she is called, or throws
away something which she has in her
hand instead Of putting it into her
mouth, But has not this habit Of obe-
dience higher Office than this It is
the first yielding of the unframed viii
to rightfuI authority, and as such has
an immense Significance. The mother
who cannot train her daughters and
sons to obedience were better childless,
for she is but giving to her country ele-
meuts OF weakness, not elements OF
strength. She is furnishing future In
mates for jails, penitcntiaries, and pris-
ons, and putting arms into the hands oi
the enemies of law and order.-Mis'
4. G. Brdckett
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-29

A RETIRING Virginia editor says CT
have never been hoFse-whipped, revol-
vered, knitted, kicked, licked, bricked,
pummeled or eussed for any thing have
said. written or done or left undone as
an editor, and IN ceasing TO be one I am
filed with a melancholy sadness"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-29
A PhiIOsOphic View Of the Grange
Movement.

At the session of the social science
association at New York, lengthy pa
per. by william Q. Flagg, of Illinois.
was read, on the farmers movement in
the west. After giving the history of
the movement and its effect upon DO
litical parties, it concludes "The
farmers movement meant primarily an
advancement in the intelligence and
ability of the tiilers of the soil; second
~, an unusual feeling of oppression and
distress, resulting from the mischievous
Legislation of the country, and finally,
an effort to reform abuses and carry to a
more logical conclusion the principles
of our republican democratic system.
It was a part of the universal upward
tendency of the manual workers of the
world, and was as irrepressible as the
progress of democracy on earth. It
foreshadowed the time when the cum
ming of the hand would be displaced
by the brain of the worker, equal and
exact justice TO all men, 'all men are
created equal > government derives It's
Just powers from the consent of the
governed ; whatsoever ye would that
men should do unto you, do ye even so
unto them These were all accepted
principles and must work out their iogi-
cal results"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-29
LOOK!


The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scription is out or unpaid, and that
you are requested to pay up at once
We would take great pleasure In extend
ing credit to our friends and patrons,
but cash alone viii pay expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to strict cash
rule. We hope you viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of 8ach 6
coupse, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.
g. We enter no new names on our
books without the money In advance
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-29

WRITERS of every age have endeav-
ored to show that pleasure Is in us and
not in the object offered for our amuse-
ment. If the soul be happily disposed,
everything becomes capable of afford
ing entertainment, and distress Will a.
most want a name.-GoJdsnsit
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-29

A DAEKEY gives the following reason
Why the c lored race is superior to the
white All men are made of clay, and,
more valuable when highly colOred.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-29
GENERAL.

1t Is understood that the Howard
eourt-martiai stood four for acquittal and
three for conviction.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-29

To arrive at perfection, man should
have very sincere friends or inveterate
enemies ; because he would be made
sensible of his good or Ill conduct,
either by the cen ures of the one or
the admonitions Of the other.-Dio-
qenes.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-29

All subscriptions must be paid In advance, and
discontinued to ths adiirasH
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-09-25

I;on q ,mpropriesy conyeyedin the very fact
s fv legislator holds In hispocket Che free
nose Of a railroad which may . ksiasors OIL
h,n. there is The temptation to negsecs-ot
dn,y il frolics and excursions whilst legslas'.
i've seats are empty, apd the public business
aelayed-aye, and lha.. too while the per
diem Of members i. regulIly drawn out Oh
the treasury. 49,. Y 49,. X q
It would be better If the press too were
ex,luded from the dead-headdist. The pub
nc would have the truth about railroads
much oftener told. So far re are con.
cerned more than one of the railroads OF the
State have come TO the conclusion that free
passes should not be granted to editors. u
all would adopt the same conclusion
with regard to I all misrepresentation
out Ito each the same rule-We, TOT
one, will have not word TO say in the way
Of com plant; but We shall applaud the deci.
sion of the railroads US right ana proper.
When it is done, however, let 1t be fair and
general. Let there be no exceptions no
under-cover favor to the petted ape (accora'
ing to the fable)-but let all pay their way
we can share with the rest. Put an end 70
fayors that seem to the disinterested TO be
fsvors given for favors expected, and The
effect will be to vindicate truth, protect pub
tic interests, and dispense justice. -
Nor Is dead-beadism peculiar to railroads,
1t is iuDgous growth that has fastened IL.
self upon nearly all departments OF life
Your public presentations of canes and 'sets
of plate" &C., purchased by the hard earn
ines of poor employ sand office-hunters arc
esresious outrages upon the poor, ana
arrant deceiYcrs Of the public. They are
in the main frauds played off for personal
advantage at the expense of much-op
pressed and suffering class people. On,
il the void knew the deception and delll,
sions and collisions and frauds at the bottom
of all these shallow proceediugsl How con-
temptible would appear the creatures whose
plans for personal promotion and greed
prompt nearly all Of them "
Our opinion is that dead.headism has
taken a fearful stride In this land. "Dead-
bead" in his true nature, is great
enemy of the public. He is cousin german
to "Hugger-Mugger" and his part is to
sgloze" over things and to "puff'' per-
sons. He is a co-conspirator with Selfish
ness in plans to deceive and fleece the
public. He deserves not the favor or friend
ship of the State, and is the real enemy of
public comfort and fair play, and of public
justice. Looking upon the true relation of
the public to dead-headsm, we could imagine
no more just sentiment than that which
might be condensed in the cry, "DoWn
with Dead-headism
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-09-25
Legislative and Other Dead-Heads


The Wing of yesterday makes an an
nouncement quite interesting to the public.
1t is the runor that our railroads of the
Slate haye come to an understanding
among themselves to discontinue free tickets
to members of the Legislature altogether.
We trust that this agreement has been in.
deed entered into, and that an abuse which
reflects upon all parties concerned is to be
ended. The Wing is right in speaking Of
the custom as fraught with evils. The legis-
la.or occupies the position Of guardian of the
peoples rights aud lsw-msker for the pub-
lie good, aud this should prohibit him from
becoming the recipient OF fagors from cor
porations whose policies may be outrageous
to the public interests and may demand the
investigation and correction Of the Legisia.
ture. Fayors accepted BY Legislators from
such corporations may be ikened to gifts re-
ceived BY judges from those whose acts and
rights they are TO pass upoa--an act of
moral o5llqnltg which would subject such
judges 10 she general censure.
sfhe Whole dead-head system neeis over.
Istliins. That Of the Legislature is corrupt
oss in its tendency and besides the sugggges-
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-09-25

AN ACCIDENTAL REvoLUTIoS.-[New Or
leans Picayune, September 19]-One thing
should be remembered in connection with
the engagement of Monday, which resulted
in the overthrow of the Kellogg usurpation,
and which seems so far to be entirely over
looked. 1t was not the purpose of the citi-
zens in turning out to force an engagement.
Their purpose was to secure the arms which
were aboard the steamship Mississippi, pur-
chased by and consigned to them. As sew
eral previous lots of arms bad been seized
and detained without authority, and as the
lot per Mississippi were under peril of seiz-
ure as soon as landed, they determined to
turn out, march down in force, and take their
arms. They were intercepted BY the police,
and fired on with artillery and muSketry,
and then, and not till then, they opened fire.
The impression has gone abroad that our
people turned out to make an attack, and,
strangely enough, that impression has been
fostered by some Of our papers and accepted
by our people. This is mistake. II the
citizens had been allowed to take peaceable
possession of their arms they would have
retired withouta shot. The police precipi-
'tated the fight and forced an engagement
where only demonstration was intended.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-09-25
he ATVES.

Died, at his fathers residence, 7o9 Twenty.eighth
street. st fifteen minutes Ia Il O'Clock +. NJ, Sep
tember 3d. W LILLIAN 4. BlLLUPS, Dr., second
son of William A. and Mary j. Billups, in the
nineteenth year of his age.
The funeral will take place THIS (Friday)
MORNING, september 2Jth, 1t Union Station
church Mt O'Clock. Relatives. school associates
friends and acqualntances are invited 10 attend to
pay the last tribute Of respect TO one whom 10 know
was To love. s-
Norfolk and Portsmouth papers please copy.
Died, at the residence of her husband, on the Esd
of September, VILLA r.. beloved wife Of Henry
Harris, in the twenty-second year OF her age.
She leaves devoted husband and one child and
many relatives and friends to mourn their loss.
Weep not for me, my husband dear,
Although am gone, yet do not fear;
A home in heaven plainly see,
Therefore, dear husband weep not for Inc.
Ny little baby, to you farewell;
What is your doom cannot tell;
But God Is kind and Just and true,
And he Will always remember you.
Father and mother, to you goodbye,
] am going home to yonder sky,
And when days, months, and years have past
May we all meet IN heaven ut last.
Her funeral will take place at 10 o'clock TO
DAY from st. Marks church.