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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-06-25

A WHOLE FAMILY DIE OF STARVATION.
Says the Fort Smith (Kas.) Monitor ::
1t is reported that an entire family, re-
siding on the Blue, few miles south of
Kansas City, died OF starvation a day or
two ago. The persons referred to lived
in an isolated locality, and the first in
telligence of their distressed condition
was carried to the house of a farmer by
one Of the children, who stated that
both of her parents were sick, unable
to leave the house and wanted assist
ance It appears that for some reason
no attention was paid to this request
until the following day, when parties
who went to the house indicated and
found the husband and wife and two OF
their children had actually died of star
vation. The third child, who had been
the messenger of the day before, was
lying senseless upon the floor.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-06-25

SWEEPING CARPETS Floor coverings
are a great source of discomfort, and
o ten of disease, on account of the dust
they continually give off when disturbed.
The lungs become irritated with these
particles of dust, which often result IN
disease. But carpets we will have, and
the best thing is to keep them as clean
as possible with the least raising OF
dust. Tea leaves are excellent, II moist,
to segregate, the dust in pellets without
spotting the carpet. Indian meal IS eG
celIent to scatter over the cloth before
sweeping. But the most etfectuI plan
is to take equal parts of meal and salt
sweeping off Immediately, before the
salt becomes Dissolved IN moist atmos-
phere. Salt Is a great absorber OF
water. and becomes quickly moist, thus
entrappiug the minute particles OF dust
and preventing them from rising. Dur
ing these house cleaning times when
carpets are taken up, revealing a great
amount of fine dust, it Is well to sprinkle
the floor thickly over with damp salt
before sweeping. In any case where
sprinkling is usually employed before
| S Seeping, damp salt is far better to use.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-06-25

Con Lone, the ex confederate officer
attached to Col Gordon's Central Afri-
can expedition, who not long since dis
covered a third great lake at the head
quarters of the Nile, has reached Egypt
on hs return from journey 20 the
country of the pigmies, discovered by
SchweiDfurth His journey has been a
successful one, and he has made disoov-
cries of very great interest to geogra-
pliers and ethnologists, AS his term of
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-06-25

AMONG the smuggling devices de-
tected at New York is the illfcit impor-
ttatIon OF ribbons HID in Watch-cases-
800 worth in eseh cose. Other articles
nave been Hmuggied in through Con
sular official mail,bags.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-06-25

The drinking water furnished the in
hab#Hnts of Washington must be a sort
of@anRibal soup, thirty-one bodies of
Hnfantile humanity having been found
IN cleaning out the sediment of the res
erVOir last week.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-06-25

The government is going to send two
entomologists to the west to study the
grasshopper and his habits, with a view
to extermina!ing him. The people of
minnesota seem to be mastering the
pest with clubs and other weapons,
witheFtt the aid of high science.
The Portland daily press., 1875-01-06
Current Notes.

The Bessemer steamer which was to keep
everybody from being seasck has been thrown
up.-Lo,veH Courier.
Congressman Schumaker's connection
with the Pacific Mail subsidy was, like the
famous 'S. c." checks, only a ''chronologi-
cal coincidence" So the Democratic Brook
lyn Eagle has discovered.
The habit of some persons-for it is a
mere, short-sighted habit-of postponing the
payment of their bills, requiring them to be
presented repeatedly, involving much incon-
venience, with loss of timo and capital, to
the creditor, is shameful, if not dishonest.
This habit, at all times bad one, is some
thing doubly bad at this time, when the ef-
fort of every man should be to stimulate the
circulation of the body ommercial.-Phita-
delphia Press.
The Hartford Cowant says Senator Hamlin,
is finding the political road hard one to
travel and notes serious disaffection among
the better class of Maine Republicans, who
desire to see their state more worthily repre-
sented.
The Boston AdrertiSer's Washington spe-
cial says that the Senate finance bill will
uOuUI6SS pass Iuo I1Ouses Ocu. Opluutr mas
written letter to friend, giving his objec-
tions to the bill, one of which is, that no pro-
vision is made to compel national banks to re-
sumo specie payment when the government
resumes. When the day for resumption ar
rives, he asserts that banks may, with impu-
nifty, refuse to redeem their notes, throwing
their entire weight on the government and
necessitating suspension again.
The men who are going to elect successor
to Schurz are essentially of the same kind as
those who elected Bogy; the scenes at Jeffer-
son City in January, 1875, will be arepetition
of the scenes of January, 1878; the infu-
ences, methods and results win be the same;
there will be the same strong smell of whis-
key, the same strong smell of corruption,
and to expect anything else would be to ex-
pect reversal of the laws OF nature. There
is an old proverb that you cannot make silk
purse out of sow's ear, and it will apply
closely enough to the product which may be
manufactured out of the raw material Of a
Bourbon Legislature.
The Boston Advertiser has pronounced in
favor of Mr.. Dawes for senator from Massa-
chusetts.
The Portland daily press., 1875-01-06

Mr.. NATHAN APPLETON of Boston, has
written an open letter to the Secretary of the
Treasury, advocating the readjustment of the
values of the gold and silver coin of the coun-
try upon the basis of the metric dollar, and
urging the plan of Ricardo for a return to
specie payments. ''The idea of the plan was
merely to fix a date when the paper money
should be redeemed by the bank at small
price above what it was then quoted at, and
so on, at fixed intervals, until it could be re.
deemed at par. For this it was only necessa-
ry for the bank TO have fair amount of bull
lion in its vaults, and it was found that when
the specified dates arrived for making the
promised payments, but little paper was act
ualy presented at the counter of the bank for
redemption, and that this paper had of itself
in the market the value at which the bank
had agreed to take it,"
The Portland daily press., 1875-01-06
Rooms To Let.

FEyWO Gentlemen and their wives and two OF three
4 single gentlemen can be accommodated Hi.n
pleasant rooms and board at IS Free street. ocIf
The Portland daily press., 1875-01-06

IT will be seen by our Augusta special that
the first great issue in the senatorial contest
is on the time of holding the caucus, Mr..
Hamlins people insisting upon an immediate
caucus, and his opponents holding that the
middle of next week will be soon enough. As
the caucus is useful only as means of ac-
commodating differences in the party, it is
hardly wise or decent to force the time against
the protest of any considerable number of
members. As the election is not to be held
until the 10Th inst, there is no necessity Of
preciptating the caucus this week. The
matter is fully stated in our special, to which
we call attention.
The Portland daily press., 1875-01-06

A RATHER entertaining family quarrel is
going on in England, and has got itself ex-
tensively advertised through newspapers and
novels. The disputants are Miss Florence
and Miss Augusta, daughters of Capt. Mar
ryatt, seaman and novelist. Miss Florence
has written several novels, not VIII lily un-
known to American readers. These novels,
Miss Augusta says and says too in the columns
of an English paper,are sensational, ridiculous
and calculated to bring the family name into
contempt. The offending sister has taken an
exquisite revenge. She has introduced her
critic into novel, and has painted her as a
very unlovely person indeed. Moral: don't
quarrel with novelsts.
The Portland daily press., 1875-01-06
TERMS $500 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE.

THE statements circulated by word of
mouth and by the telegraph respecting the
attitude of county delegations on the senate
rial question must be taken with many grains
of salt. There seems to be deliberate pur-
pose on the part of the Hamlin operators to
carry their schemes through by system Of
brag and buster. 1t is quite within bounds
to say that the contest is nobody's fight yet,
and interesting developments are quite possi-
The Portland daily press., 1875-01-06
THE PRES s.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JAN, 6, IA

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley T.
Pulen. Editor. ALI railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer a favor upon us by demanding
credentials OF every person claiming to represent our
Journal, as we have information that several "bum
mers'' are seeking courtesies in the name of he
PRESS, and we have no disposition to be, even as
siyely, party to such frauds.
The Portland daily press., 1875-01-06
STATEMENT.

After having graduated in the leading college of
New England and practiced his profession for years
in Boston, the Doctor received honorary member
ship from Wittenberg College in 1856 1t was in the
latter part of this year that his first lecture was de-
livered in fremont Temple Boston, before the 'Fra-
ternity course, and the city papers were so full of
his praise that the said lecture called tor and de-
livered in one hundred cities OF the Union dur
ing the year. The year following he opened in
fremont Temple his full course of Physiological Lee
tures and that immense hall was crowded for thirty
three consecutive nights, at the conclusion OF which
some three hundred citizens made him present OF
bust of himself. and thousand of his hearers
petitoned the Lowell Institute to make of his
lectures in that highest American Literary lnstit9-
tion. After giving his Course of Lectures in frovi-
dence, r. t. the audience en- mGSSe made him a'pres-
ent of full length, litesize, $1,000 portrait of him
self.
After holding an audience of nearly three thousand
people in Cooper Institute New York city, in 1867,
for fifteen evenings (an accomplishment which Mr..
Cough himself confessed his inability to do) he re-
ceved from the "Geneological Soc ETY." of that city
in 1872 the compliment of an urgent request for the
"honor of his name in furthering the interests OF
their great book entitled "The Representative Men
of Boston," In the summer of the same season the
Doctor received the degree of LII. u. from Austin
College. The enthusiasm created at times by bis lee
lures has been so great that in Taunton, Mass, in
1867, and in Pictou and Halifax, N s., the past sea-
son, the audiences in their endeavor to gain admis
sion have broken in the doors of the hail. and in
case overturned seats drove ont the ushers
and took possession. In st. Albans VT, 1872, as
well as in other places, he was obliged to move to a
larger hall to accommodate the immense conc purse
of people who hocked to hear him. His reception
rooms at the hotel crowded by the best people
OF the place, not only for professional services but
social converse. Throughout the Dominion OF Cana
da, families of the old NObteSSe headed by Her Mai
esty's Government Official have expressed their
hearty approval of these lectures, under whose pat
rcnage they have been given the past season.
To make the Statement short, and show proof
to DR.. Hebbard's claims to public patronage we sub
init the following names and testimonials 0he orig
inal autograph letters of which in the hands
of the editor of this paper for public nspection)
VIM Cullen Bryant, Horace Greeley, Wendell
Phillips, j. G.. Whittier, Rev. Father Sherwood
Healy, Rev. Father Lyndon, V. g., Hon. John Hook
er, Hon. John Boyd, Gov. Morgan, Gov. Bullock,
Hon. j. q Goodrich, Prof. II. W. Longtellow
JAG If
The Portland daily press., 1875-01-06

THE commercial progress offs st. Louis dur
ing the past year, as set forth in the New
Years supplement of the Globe, is remarka-
BILE, and very lattering to the pride of the
great southwestern city. There has been
more trade by many millions of dollars than
during any previous year, the increase in re-
ceipts on seven articles alone amounting to
thirty-thrce per cent, or more than $15, ,000,-
900. The cotton receipts were one hundred
per cent. greater than in 1873. Were it not
for the complete prostration of the iron inter-
est St. Louis would be the most prosperous
city in the Uni
The Portland daily press., 1875-01-06
TO THE PUBLIC.

pie in the science of Health, Strength and Beauty, is
one which very few physicians can fnt time 10 at
tempt, but which every one who is intelligent and
Hebbard (whose reputation is well known to the
Portland Public makes business of doing this. He
makes abstruse science as plain of comprehension
as the alphabet. He makes his humblest hearers IA
mar with the technicalies he uses, and teaches in
the plainest words how to prevent many OF the COM
ills OF life and what habits are destructive to
health and happiness. He is an educated man,
gentleman is welcomed by resident physicians; and
Everywhere he goes patronized by all the best peo
pe and therefore, in placing DR.. Hebbard before
the public of this city instructor and entertain
er of course thorough understanding of his charac
ter his ability, and his objects is needed by the
thoughtful in order to insure their interest in the
theme proposed for discussion; and it is for this pur
pose that the Manager of DR.. Hebbard's business
calls the attention of the public to the following
The Portland daily press., 1875-01-06
NOTICE..
pcaks EsIand sfearuhoat DO.

Peaks Island Steamboat Go.
TEyHE ANNUAL MEETING of the Stockholders OF
IL the Peaks Island Steamboat Company for the
election of three Directors and any other business
that may be legally brought before them, VIII be heu
at the Old School House, on Peaks Island on MON
DAY Evening, Jan. I1th, 1875, at 2. NJ.
Steamer Express will leave the end of Custom
House Wharf at P. NJ, for the Island. Returning
alter the close of the meeting.
JAMES w. BRACKETT, Clerk;
Portland Jan. 4th, 1875. Ja5dtd
The Portland daily press., 1875-01-06
AnrpIIa, Meeting,

THVIIE Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the
IL Portland, Bangor & Machias Steamboat Co. Tor
the election of Five Directors and for the transaction
Of any other business that may legally come before
them, will be held at the office OF the Company on
Railroad wharf, foot of State Street on TUESDAY,
January II, 1875, at O'Clock P. NJ.
Portland, Dec. 25. 1874. did
The Portland daily press., 1875-01-06
CurmberIan6 Na,jonaI BANK.

TEVHE stockholders of this Bank hereby notified
B that their annual meeting for the election of
Directors for the ensuing year. and the transaction
of apy other business that may then come before
Them will be held at their Banking Rooms on Tuss.
dny the i2ti, day Of January 1875, ats
o'clock, p. m. ,r,,
pnrt1and Dec, 1lth, 1874. I'd
The Portland daily press., 1875-01-06
ANNUAL MEETINGS.
Cumberland County Agricultural
SOcIQsy.

yUJHE annual meeting of the Cumberland County
Il Agricultural Society will be held in the Reeep-
tion Room, City Building, Portland, on THURS
DAY, Jan.7, 1876 at II A. M, for the election of
officers and the transaction of any other business
that may properly come before the meeting, The
members of said society will take due notice thereof
and govern themselves accordingly.
SAMUEL DINGLEY, Sec'y.
Sebago Lake, Dec. %, 1874. dec29d&wtd
The Portland daily press., 1875-01-06
Our Jolly Old Tar.

A Washington special to the Boston Joura-
al says it has 'leaked out' that Commodore
Howell, late Commandant of the Kittery
Navy Yard, has written letter to Secretary
Robson sharply criticising Mr.. Burleigh's re-
marks in the House and leaving our member
in 'very embarrassing position personally
and politically. Secretary Rcbeson says
that Mr.. Burleigh desired the removal of Col.
Wentworth because he was Mr.. Burleigh's
rival for Congress. Col. Wentworth has not
been lively or dangerous Congressional
asprant since 1872. Further, as regards the
question of character, the best men of this
district who have had business relations with
John Fl. Burleigh, can vouch for his high
standing so that he need not be personally
embarrassed" On the other hand, respect
ing the Secretary of the Navy, observing men
in this district have not the best opinion. He
had told Mr.. Lynch that the offices held by
Col. Wentworth and others were sinecures.
He afterwards told certain senators that the
places should be retained. When Congress
abolished the offices, Mr.. Robson without
authority and in defiance of Congress, created
position for Col. Wentworth. In view of
this homely fix into which the rubicund Rob-
eson has put himself, it is no wonder that he
desires to embarrass Mr.. Burleish. In this
connection it may be further stated that Sec
retary Robson has only created one sinecure
position in defiance of the will of Congress
the one occupied by Col. Wentworth at Kit
terry. Why has he not proceeded to create
them at all the navy yards? Has there been
no influence from a "source it was difficult to
withstand?" Evidently our great national
sailor isn't entirely happy. What splendid
opportunity there would be for Bristow or
Jewell at the head of the Navy Depart
ment. How unpleasant it would be for the
harnaclesl
The Portland daily press., 1875-01-06
MERCHANTS NATIONAL BANK,
OF PORTLAND, ME.

(EyIE Stockholders in this Bank are hereby notified
that their annual meeting for the choice of
directors. and the transaction of such business
NAV legally be brought befores them, will be holden
at the Bank on TUESDAY, the 10Th day of January,
1875, at 10 o'clock A. NJ -
CHAS. PAYSON. Gas.
Portland Dec TO- 1874. Ge10-tawT&Ttd
The Portland daily press., 1875-01-06

We do not read anonymous letters and commune
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
ali cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
bat as guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or reserve COM
munications that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1875-01-06
C:,scO National Bank Of Portland.

yHlHE annual meeting of the Stockholders of the
Il Casco National Bank of Portland for the choice
of Directors and the transaction of such other busi
may legally come before Them will be held at
their Banking House on TUESDAY, the 18th day Of
January 1875 at 10 o'clock P NJ
de11dtd VIM, A, WINSHIP, Cashier.
The Portland daily press., 1875-01-06
BOARD OF TRADE.

ANNUAL MEETING.
ygyHE Annual Meeting of the Board of Trade for
tbe choice of officers and the transaction of such
other business as may legally before the meet
ing will be held on Monday Evening. Janu-
ary tin. 1875, atS 1-2 O'Clock.
Per Order NJ. n. RICH, Secretary.
ia5d1W
The Portland daily press., 1875-01-06
CONSULATE OF SPAIN.
% Merchants and shipHaasfers.

TO Merchants and shipIsa:asfers.
NZOU are hereby notified that on ard after'the first
IL day of September, 1874. the new regulations
prescribed by the Government Of the Republic OF
SPAN in regard to Consular fees will take effect.
The fees for clearance Of vessels are as folows
For Vessels with Cargo.
Certifying Manifest .,........... $500
Bill Of Health. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 4.00-Sl90
For Vessels without Cargo:
Certifying Manifest. st.,.,...........,.S7.G0
Bill Of Health. .-......... .......... 4.00-S11.0
THOMAS LOZANO,
sc2dtf Spanish Consul
PRINTING of every description neatly
executed gt this GHlce.
The Portland daily press., 1875-01-06
Thursday Eve e, Jan. 21-Lecture =.
Training of Children, or Temperament,
Character, Success,

Doors open at Il Lecture begins at 7s; Closes at
OF O'Clock.
ADMissIoN.-Course ticket with reserved seat
S15O Course ticket S1.0O; Teachers course ticket,
Is cts Scholars ticket so; Single ticket %.
The Portland daily press., 1875-01-06
Canal National Bank.

TEyHE annual meeting of the stockholders of 1.-THE
II Canal National Bank of Portland for the cleo
ton of seven directors and for the transaction of any
other business that may legally come before them,
will be held at their Banking House ON TUESDAY,
the 18th day of January, 1875. at II O'Clock A. M.
B. c. SOMERBY, cashier.
December II, 1874. I'd
The Portland daily press., 1875-01-06
,vE,e National Traders Rauk.

FENHE Shareholders of The National Traders Bank
Il of Portland are hereby notified that their anru
al meeting will be held at their Banking Room on
TUESDAY, the 18th day OF January next, at 3
O'Clock P. M to choose five Directors for the ensu-
ing wear, and to act on any other business that may
legally come before them.
Portland, Dec. 18th, 1874. I'm
The Portland daily press., 1875-01-06

WE hope that the rumor that Mr.. Hamlin
purposes to go to Augusta to camp on the
Legislature is not true. We hope so for his
own sake, for he occupies the dignlfied posi-
tion of United States Senator. We hope so
for the sake OF the people who are now pay
ing him to be in his seat in Congress. We
hope so because the state ought to be spared
the spectacle of United States Senator,
while Congress is in session, when his duty
should chain him to his seat, leaving his place
to intrigue for his own reelection. Can it be
that he dares not follow the proud and high
example of William Pitt Fessenden when, in
1864, he stayed at his post and allowed the
most skillful intriguer in Maine to roam un-
checked over the state? Does he fear that
Maine would fail to justify towards him
like confidence? Doubtless it might not.
Mr.. Fessenden's way to the hearts of the
people was by the way of craftsmanship and
good public service; Mr.. Hamlin's by the
commercial road of trick and dicker, and
when man is in trade he must be always
behind the counter.
The Portland daily press., 1875-01-06
Letter From Rome.

THE ITALIAN ELECTIoNS.-THE ELECTO-
RAJ NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. EFFECTS OF
PARLIAMENTARY GovERNMENT.-HU-
MORs OF THE ELECTION.
The Portland daily press., 1875-01-06
FOR SALE,

GSOUTHERN PINE FLOORING anu SIEP
= BOARDS in lots to suit purchasers, for sale low
RYAN 81 KELSEY
ny28 No, 16lC0mmereial Street.
The Portland daily press., 1875-01-06
CITY ADVERTISEMENTS
COAsTING IN THE STREETS.

CITY MARsHAL's OFFICE,
Portland, Dec. 81, 1874.
yx,HE following streets have been designated on
which boys 3an coast with seds during the win
tor and on none others. If detected in coasting on
other public streets, the penalty of the law will be
cutJTCel:
On Boyd'street. ..o., :. r,os,,p
on New High. blow Cumberland street.
On Melen steret.
On Pleasant to Centre street.
IN Atlantic to Fore street.
On Fore from Atlantic street. .,...
On Grove, from c, ngress to Portland street.
on Clark. from Salem to Summer street.
On Chestnut street. o.,,
On oxford, from Washington to Smith.
GEO. w. PARKER, City Aarsnal.
dec22 u4w
The Portland daily press., 1875-01-06
Eagle Sugar EseGsaiDg Co.

yHJHE stockholders of this Company are hereby no-
IL tilted that the annual meeting for choice of Di
rectors and the transaction of other business legally
office on TUESDAY, the 18th day OF January, 1875
at 3 O'Clock p. NJ. 4. 80
The Portland daily press., 1875-01-06

ENGLAND is greatly excited over the con-
dtion of affairs in India. There are rumors
of mysterious movements going on among
the Mahrattas, preparatory to an outbreak.
Native emissaries are travelling through vari-
Gus parts of India, distributing the sacred
cakes, and there are strong indications of a
serious revolt.
The Portland daily press., 1875-01-06
REAL ESTATE.
FOR SALE.

A LOT of vacant land, situated on the west SIDE
"a of High, between Pleasant and Danforth, Sts:
This let has front of about 81 feet and is about l94
feet deep, and plans have been drawn by How, for
dences, and adapted for the same. Enquire OF
EDWIN CHURCHILL,
No. Portland Pier,
mare9 From u to 2 o'clock. p. M.