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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-12-23
Street Conversation.

Old gent who never gave any thing
without grunt, and young man, who is
a live, active business man.
Old Gent What good viii it do, sir,
to have another railroad one is
enough"
Young Gent" Well, suppose there
was not allowed but one merchant in this
county. Would he not make US poor fell
lows smoke Charge ten prices for bis
goods, get insolvent and do as he pleas
ed
" 1 expect ne would if 10 had it ali his
own way. But what has that to do with
railroads p
6" just this Competition is the life of
trade. We have one road. We ali burn
coal, a carload on the car is worth ten
dollars. This road charges fortY-fve
dollars to haul the car here. IF we had
this Memphis and Knoxville road, they
would haul 1t for ten dollars, and make
money at it 1t seems to me that there
is saving of thirty-f7e dollars in every
carload Of coal that we buy"
q" l see, see" says the old man.
When this road charges three dollars
and twenty-five cents freight-to New Or
lsans-on each bale of cotton, the N &K
can carry it and make money at one dol.
lar and twenty-five cents per bale, and
that saves two dollars per ba.e. There
being 5000 bales shipped from Bolivar
each year, there is saving of twelve
thousand dollars each year in cotton
freights alone
" [ see, see," says the old man"
Then the return freights on every
thing which our cotton buys will be re-
dueed in the same ratio and there is an
other twelve thousand dollars each year
saved. "
q see" says the old man. "But
want to ask you a question How do
you know that when we get two railroads
freights will be reduced"2
" Well, how do you know that if there
was but one merchant in this country
that he would charge more than living
price on his goods, and if you let other
merchants come in, they will undersell
eachother, until they get down to reason
able rates.
Well 1 know it because It's human
nature"
Just SO. As man manages railroads
as well as merchandise, don't you cup
pose that the same human nature which
by competition, reduces merchandise, and
everything else, to living rates, will guv-
efn railroads 2''
1 see, see, says the old man.
They ship cotton from Jackson,
Tenn, to New Orleans for two dollars
and fifty cents; charge from Bolivar three
dollars and twenty-five cents, and from
below Canton, Miss, to New Orleans six
dollars per bale
The Mobile road charges per bale from
Jackson to Mobile two dollars and fifty
cents. From Henderson Station three
dollars and fifty cents; from below Me-
ridian six dollars per bale to New Or
leans. You can ship barrel of -four
from New York to New Orleans for sixty
cents, and they will charge you eighty
cents to ship one to Pocahontas.
81 see, l see, said the old man, 81
see. Well, well, why did 1 not see that
before. had made fool of myself,
telling people another road would do no
good, and nobody but crazy fellows
wanted it. Bless me, 1 am the fool
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-12-23

A circular from the Office of the Geor-
gia commissioner of agriculture gives
some interesting facts IN relation to the
cost and production of cotton, as cOmpar-
ed with 9th er crops, which show how
much the PEG pie of that State have been
injured by their devotion to the sta
pie -. The estimated cotton crop in
Georgia for the present year is four hun
dred thousand bales, which it has cost
eleven cents per pound to produce, or
eleven cents per pound more than the
crop will bring on the home market.
According to this showing the planters
of Georgia have actually paid the enor-
nous sum of twenty millions of dollars
for the poor privilege of furnishing cot
ton to Northern and European spinners.
While money has been lost on cotton,
it has been made on almost everythin z
else. Sugar cane has cost S53 IS per
acre, and has brought $I30 56-a net
profit of $40 so Sorghum has given a
net profit of S24 a. Corn at an average
production of nine bushels to the acre,
peas and fodder, have yielded net profit
of So 80 per acre.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-12-23
KNOxVTLLE & MEMPHIs R R

INV d ' A4AG " AG4& Mp n n
jackson has hopes of the NJ & K. R.
R. Hear the Wing and Tribune speak :.
The subjoined resolutions adopted at a
meeting of the chamber of ommerce, at
Memphis, on the fourteenth inst, infuse
new vitality into this line, which has
dragged its slow length along during the
hard times which overlook it at It's incep-
ton. 1t will be remembered that Wayne
county voted 1925, 900 to this road few
weeks ago. Fayette has subscribed
$4,000, Giles has voted $4,000 and
Hardeman county has given considera-
bic also, besides the road bed from
Henderson to Bolivar is well nigh COM
pleted. IF Shelby county responds with
her accustomed liberality, the enterprise
assumes a definite and tangible shape,
and rises out of the mists Of speculation
into the su might of a reasonable proba-
bility. But our understanding is that
the subscription in Wayne county was
given on condition that the road should
tap the Tennessee river at Clifton, is it
not likely that the road will pass through
Lexington rather than through Saltillo
and Henderson, going to Memphis ?
This, of course, is matter to be investi-
gated by our citizens, and should the
road be diverted to Lexington, it will
revive the old project of the jackson and
Tennessee River railway, to which this
city has always voted larger tax than
the whole line demands of Shelby county
1t behooves the people Of Jackson to
watch the developments connected wi tn
this road, which we believe will be built
at some day, and which we shall not
oppose, but encourage, let it go where it
may. If the ctizsns Of any section
eyince more energy than ourselves, let
them reap the fruits of their toll and
sagacity. Let Jackson, however, jsal-
ously guard her own interests and see
to it that she is not strangled CONNER
cially by Gordon Of railroads.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-12-23
Important Sale OF Res
Estate in Grand JuRCs
ton. Tenn.
tIOU. Iemm.

BY virtue of q degree of sale entered
in the cause of Jossia DPlOsch. vs. Polk
j. Bowers, administrators, No 462 X. p.
of the Chaucery Court Of HardemaE
County, Tennessee, at the July term,
1874, and renewed at the January and
July terms 1875, Of said court, / will, On
Tuesday, January Attn 1S76.
sell at public cutlery, to the highest bid
der, at the Stonewall House, IN Grand
Junction, Hardeman cOuaty Tennessss,
the following real estate, tO-Wit:
Blocks Nos Is, IA, IS, 10, 29,i64, go
and CT; an undivided one half Of block
Nos 40, Sc and 81 the south half of
bl OK No 65; lots \ o. !, 2, 3, 4 and 5.
in block No 81 /; lots Nos. l, 2, 3, 4, S
and 6, in block No. 81; lots No. Is. 10,
20 and 81, in block No. 81 al of block
No. so ercepE lots Nos. 8, 7, IA aad IS.
An undivided ore half Of ten acres south
of the Memphis and Charleston, and
East Of the New Orleans, 50. Louis, and
Chicago Railroads.
An undivided ons-hslf OF ten acres
North OF the MemL his and Charleston,
and vest Of the New Orleans St. Louis d
Chicago Railroads.
TERMS: One-third cash, balance on
q credit Of IL and "a months. Notes with
approved security required for deferred
payment, and lien retained, etc Pur-
ehasers required to comply with termf
Immediately upon conclusion OF sale.
For information, description, etc apply
at this Office or to Wood 4 MeNeal, At
torneys. etc. The situation and sizes Of
said lots can be seen by referring 70 she
maps of Josiah Dsloaeh Of she plan Of
said town Of Grand Junction. Title alb
soIute on confirmation Of sale. This De
ceDbsr Ist 1878.
JAMES FENTRESS ia,
Clerk and Master.
uil l. HaTdin, and Wood q aoSsal,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-12-23

cOanty Tax %. School tax (, total S Ig
Penalty u per cent interest 5 per sent.
Clerks fee /, Printers fee l, SheriE Zee 80
cents.
Kittle, 300 acres land, State tax 10,
County tax SO, School lax 80, total SO;
Penalty u per cent interest 8 per cent
Clerks fee /, Printers fee ], Sheriff foe so
cents
Mathis Joseph, $50 acres land, Ssase
tax SO, county tax GO, S1hOol taz q, %
tai IS; Penalty u per cent, insareat 8
per cent. Clerks fee ], Printsrs Zee I,
sheriff fee so cents
II. SIMPSON,
Tax CelIeetes.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-12-23
Non-EeesIdent Notice.

Slate of Tennessee, Hardeman County
C. I. Milstead, IS. w. II. Perry.
IN this cause it appearing by affidavit,
that the defendant w. N. Perry is Justly
indebted to the plain tiff and is a non res
ident of the State absconds himself so
that the ordinary process of law cannot
be served on him and an original attach
ment having been levied On his property,
it is therefore ordered that publication
be made in the BULLETIN a newspaper
published in the town of Bolivar for four
successive weeks, commanding the said
W. 81. Perry to appear before me or
some other acting Justice of the Peace
at my dwelling house, It being nay Office
in the 18th Civil District Of said county
on the 29th day of January 1876, and
make defense to said suit against him,
or il will be proceeded with exparte.
JASPER SHELTON, J. j.
Tor Hardsman County.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-12-23

The receipts for freight and passengers
rec eived at Bolivar each year are at least
10000; this includes the freight on
articles shipped from this place as well
as those received. twenty-five per cent.
of this. amount would be saved by the
building Of the Memphis and Knoxville
road ard this would be ten thousand
dollars each year, whilst the tax to be
paid by the town would only be three
thousand dollars, even if the railroad
yielded no dividends iii yielded ten
per cent, then the tax would be nothing,
and that it would probably do this is
shown by the fact that the Denver and
Rio Grande road has, as net earnings,
81 ,673 03 per mile, on cost of $4,000
per mile, or more than twelve per cent.
NJ
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-12-23
A CURE FOR HYDROPHOBIA

The old Chester Valley, Penn cure
for hYdrophobia, made a secret of for
years by its discoverer, Joseph Emory,
but after his death, given to the public
by his son, is the root of the. herb
elecampane, boiled in fresh cows milk It
is asserted that it never failed to prevent
or cure hydrophobia in his day, not even
after the spasms had begun. He put the
root into pint or more of fresh cows
milk, boied IL, and gave to the patient,
fasting gave a second and third dose
on alternate days, and never failed to
make cure. His patient was permitted
to eat but little, and not for sometime
after the dose was administered. During
the present year, a boy bitten by a mad
dog died of this horrible disease in Boli-
var. Would it not have been we'll to
have tried the old weIi-tested remedy of
pennsylvania upon him ?
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-12-23

NOTICE-All accounts due the firm Of
II. NJ. Polk & Co, contracted since July
"a, 1875, must be settled by note or 9TH
erwise, by January l, 1876, as the pres
ent co-partnershlp will be dissolved or
that day.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-12-23
: ehnsylVanla upon him z

The $4,000 is only one twenty-ifth
of the taxable property of the town. a
man owning twenty thousand dollars Of
taxable property, would have to pay only
two hundred dollars each year to pay
the whole debt in twenty years, if tho
railroad paid no dividends If the taxa
BILE property were doubled by the bnild-
ing of the road, the $4,000 man would
only pay one hundred dollars year for
twenty years to pay the whole debt,
principal and interest a FIVE thousand
dollar property owner would only pay
fifty dollars year with the property at
its present valuation, or twenty-five
dollars, if it was doubled One thousand
dollars of personal property is exempt
from the railroad tax, and there is 8 no
railroad poll tax
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-12-23
A HEAVY BLOW Al MR.. GRANT.

The house OF REPRESENTATIVES puts It's
veto upon third term by a vote 232 to
10, condemning any aspirations to a
third term in the presidential Office.
They say that the example of Washing
ton and succeeding presidents has given
the sanction of law to the custom of
retiring at the end Of second term.
And furthermore that it is anti-Republi-
can to endeaYor to break down this prec-
edent A large number of the Radical
members voted for the resolution. So
mote it be,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-12-23
NOTICE.

Those of our subscribers who find
On z mark on the margin of their
paper, will know that they owe Us
for subscription, and an early remit
lance viii be thankfully received, as
we are very much in need of the money.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-12-23
PITSER MILLER

HAS FOR SALE
two Horse Wagons cheap,
Best Flows,
Best Straw Cutters,
Be st Cultivating HArrows,
Best Subscribers,
Deep Tillers,
That every body needs.
Wiudship's Cotton Gins, that is good.
Brooks Cotton Press, all iron, and lasts
always.
Has also good sawed lumber Of ell
kinds, Planned Flooring, Ceiling &C.. al
made at home, and warranted TI7-t
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-12-23

The net earnings of the Denver and
Rio Grande railway were one thousand
six hundred and seventy-three dollars
and sixty cents per mile. This makes
twelve per cent. upon the cost Of the
road, which was thirteen thousa and five
hundred dollars per mile. Has any
broad-gauge road in the country ever
yielded such dividend
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-12-23

We were yesterday informed by a
farmer living near Macon. in FaYette
county, that 1t will cost the farmers
near that place one thousand dollars to
haul their cotton to Lafayette station,
on the Memphis and Charleston railroad
in wagons, and fifteen hundred dollars
to get it from that place to Memphis.
With the Memphis and Knoxville road,
this cotton conld be placed in Memphis
at seven hundred and fifty dollars
appeal
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-12-23

The escape, and successful eluding
of the officers of the law by Boss Tweed,
shows what money can do, as we'll as
the eurruptibiIity ofpublic functionaries.
1t appears everything had been arranged
before hand, and the big rascal goes free,
whilst the small sneak thief usually suf-
lers the penalty of violated law.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-12-23

If it would require the whole town
and and all the people in 1t to raise the
$4,000, it would take halras many, and
twice as much, to raise the same amount
and it would be unjust for few men of
liberality and public spirit to give their
money to benefit those who were too IL
liberal to spend it on public enterprise.
These are the reasons why these sub
scriptioas shonld be voted. E.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-12-23

Without this subscription the road
cannot be built to Bolivar, and what has
been exp ended will be CLEAR loss, and
other towns with more sagacity and en-
terprise will get all the benefits Of this
road, which is destined to be one OF the
most important and valuable roade in
the Stats. Y
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-12-23

All towns where there are railroad
open ings, have increased in wealth and
population. some one hundred and some
enc tbousand per cent, and 50 it Will be
with Bolivar. B.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-12-23

The assertion that the NJ. & K.
Railroad Company is an insolvent
corporation is without particle of truth,
and the author of such a statement utters
a falsehood. The assets of the Company
far exceed the liabilities, and this every
man of sense knows. L.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-12-23

A man who does not desire to pay IN
terest eau, by buying bond, save the in
terest and pay the principal The town
can at any time stop the interest by pay
ing the principal S.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-12-23

The expenditure Of the twenty thou
sand dollars among the people during
the next year, would not only give you
the road, bat wo uld make times compar-
ativeIy easy, by afording employment
and money to the. people. K.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-12-23
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
TIE sEG1TE PRESS
|, Everything Claimed for Them

White Plains, Ga, Feb %, 1875.
Messrs Pollard 81 Co.
Gents ! take pleasure in tating the
Smith press | bought Of you through K.
Tappan, Mapp & Co., Is everything
claimed for it. Yours truly,
j. Il JACKSON.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-12-23

The firm of Even, Pendleton & Co.
wholesale druggists of Nashville. have
failed Liabilities $4,000. This was
considered one of the most substantial
firms il the City of Rocks.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-12-23

The President of the Memphis aud
Knoxville Railroad Company authorizes
US to say that he will not call for the
Bonds Of the town until he has made
contracts for completing the road to Hen
derson Station, with good and sufficient
security conditioned to do the work for
the $4,000, and the assets on hand.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-12-23
Hardenaan County
Delinquent Tax List.
STATE or TENNESSEE, }
HARpEmAS COUNTY.

HARDEMAS JOUSTy.
BY virtue of the power and authority
vested in me as Tax Collector Of Harde-
mau county, viii on the
first Monday Of January, 1876,
it being the third day of January, offer
for sale the following described tracts of
land and town lots and parts of town lots
the same having been assessed for taxes
for the year 1874 which taxes are due
and unpaid, together with penalties and
costs.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-12-23
DISTRICT No. II.

Brown, a. 2S4 acres land, State tax
5 a. co, tax 3 40, School tax ] Sc, total
10 90 Penalty u per cent, interest 6 per
cent Clerks fee !, Printers fee l, Sher-
e fee so cents.
Hill, L c 100 acres Lana, State tax CO.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-09-30
A YilIainOus Outrage.

An outrageous piece of vlllainy is cred
tied to the peach-growers of Roundtop,
Kent county, Md. They advertised for
fifty women to pick peaches, promising
they could easily earn $1.50 to So per
day, and get board for 50 week. A
number of Philadelphia girls went down
there only to find 600 already employed,
who found it impossible to earn more
than twenty cents day of fifteen hours
work the food supplied them was unfit
to eat; they had to sleep on piles Of hay
and straw, and would gladly return
home, but could not, because out of
funds, and could not raise enough to pay
postage on letters informing their friends
of their situation. Eighteen of the Phila-
delphia girls managed to reach Baltimore
penniless, and having tasted for twenty
four hours, were sent on to Philadelphia
by the city.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-09-30
A Florida Devil Fish that Almost Baf-
fled Fifteen Men.

A monster devil fish was caught under
the New York steamship wharf on Mon
day afternoon. He in some way got
under and was unable to find his way
out from among the piling. Some men
at work upon the wharf heard the splash
ing which he made and fired several shots
at him, but as they seemed to have no
effect, harpoon was obtained and his
capture effected, fifteen men being re-
CURED to tow him ashore. The blood
which escaped from him colored the
water for about ten feet on either side.
He was sixteen feet in width and fifteen
in length. His fins were about four feet
long, and his tail about the same length
and not much larger than persons
finger. His mouth opened to the width
of two feet and was eighteen inches in
length, and projecting from each side of
it was feeler about one foot wide and
two feet long, which he rolled up and
unrolled at viii. So far as could be as
certained, there has been but one of these
singular fish caught In this region before
this one. Previous to the war one larger
than this one was captured near Center
street wharf. ~ er10,adiss0 (FTG.) O6-
| server.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-09-30
The Slow Times.

We do not look for sudden revival OF
business any longer. IF our diagnosis
of the case is correct, there can be no
sudden cure. We of this generation
will hardly live to see the country genu-
inely prosperous. Great masses of prop
erty are to be abandoned. The capital
stock of multitudes of corporations will
be sunk, and their property will pass
into the hands of bondholders and cred
itors, at such price that they may pos
sibly be made remuneratively useful.
Hundreds of millions of invested funds
will practically cease to exist. The
things in which these funds have been
invested cannot be used, and they might
just as we'll have been thrown into the
fire. Thus the means of living have
been enormously reduced among capt.
talists. and more men need work to do
than used to need it. With this fact on
one side, we find set over against it the
other fact that, of the multitude who had
adjusted their industry to the conditions
of war, only part are needed under the
conditions of peace. Tens, twenties,
fifties are to be counted out of the mills,
the factories. the shops, and sent either
into idleness or into some other field of
industry. In other words, our national
industry is to be readjusted.
The cities and centers which have
grown so rapidly will naturally cease to
grow. The larger cities will grow, per-
haps, as London grows, by their attrac-
ton for men of wealth, but men Of enter
prise will not crowd into places where
there is no work or reward for them.
The boys will stand by their fathers
farms better than they have done, and
hundreds of thousands of men and women
who have left the farm and the farm
house must return to them. 1t is pleas
ant to reflect that living can be won
from the ground, and that agriculture
holds certain cure for all our troubles.
Mr.. Greeley's old advice, SEQ West,
young man, was based upon a philoso-
ply whose soundness the people of this
time cannot question. The tendency in
his time was to overdo business, and
that tendency went on, to the distressing
results Of which all of us are the wit
nesses and the victims.
It is pitiful to see men and women
lying idle. 1t is pitiful to see them in
great masses thrown out of employment.
We wish they could be made to under
stand how hopeless the situation is for
at least hAlf of them--how necessary it
is that they should be seeking employ
ment in agricultural pursuits, in lives of
industry adapted to the present circum-
stances Of the country-in anything and
any place except that which is proved to
be insufficient for their needs. This
change must come, and the quicker it
comes the better for them and the better
for the country. The American people
are not lacking in shrewdness, patience,
adaptiveness, and industry, and the good
time viii come, though it is likely to be
long delayed. j. G.. Holland, in
Scribne7' for October.