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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-03-12
WEST.

A band of one hundred and forty
Kiowa Indians surrendered to scouting party
on Salt Fort, Feb. %.
The Ohio house of representatives
has adopted resolution requesting congress
to reduce the presidents salary to s25, 900.
An attachments has been levied on a
large amount of real estate belonging to VIM.
S. King. near st. Paul, to recover, 1926, 600
paid him by Irwin on account Of procuring the
Pacific Mail subsidy.
A dispatch from st. Paul says, the
Smithsonian Institute records, show the mean
temperature of the winter to have been two
degrees colder than that of any previous
record in forty-two years, since the regular
observations at Fort Smelling were instituted.
The annual report of the Illinois
Central railroad shows the following earnings
for the year: For freight, SIS, 700, 572; for
passengers, 81, 679, 457; total earnings. 81
947, ,555 decrease from last year, 1886. 738 ;
operating expenses for the year. $4, O3O, $50 /;
decrease from last year, 1868, ,958. The length
Of road operated was 1, ,1O7 miles.
The puddlers of Pittsburg, who struck
against reduction of wages last December,
still idle, and express a determination to
hold out for long time yet. The Pittsburg
Bolt Company, a few days since, made COR
tract with gang Of lore1pudders, sufficient
in number to run their furnaces, and one-haIf
OF them have arrived, the others having missed
connection.
Two members of the Sioux Black
Hills expedition have returned to Fort Lara
mie. Their transportation consisted OF a
small sled drawn by one OK, and they had
been two days without food. They report that
they left Sioux Oct, q, reached a point in
the Black Hills, six miles from Harney's Peak
on Christmas, and Immediately erected huts
for shelter and built large stockade. Two
members of the expedition had returned to
Sioux City and one died. They report the
finding of gold, but say the weather was too
severe to do much prospecting. The distance
from Cheyenne to the Black Hills is $50 miles
over good travelled roads to Red Cloud agen-
cy, which is 40 miles from the diggings. The
government won't allow miners to enter the
hills.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-03-12
FROM WASHINGTON.

The senate confirmed the appoint
ment of W. t. Gates as postmaster at Ohatta-
nooga, Tenn.
The president has appointed H. R.
Pease, United States senator from Mississippi,
whose term has expired, postmaster at Vicks-
burg.
The comptroller of currency has
called upon the national banks for report of
their condition at the close of business on the
1st inst.
The president has sent the following
nominations to the sOnate; William J. Smith,
surveyor of customs, Memphis, Tenn; col
Iossor OF customs, John p. Sanborn, Huron,
Michigan.
The final report of the house COM
rnittee on expenditures in the department of
Justice, recommends the discontinuance of
many assistant district attorneys, and the con-
solidation of the two districts OF North Caro-
lima, the two of Virginia, the two Of AIichi-
gan, and the two Of Wisconsin.
The president has signed the bill for
the relief of Gen. Crawford and for other
purposes. The effect Will DO to retain Gen.
SiclKles on the retired list with the rank OF
msior-generaI, aud, also, Gen. Badesu, who
was retired on full rank Of captain, and rend-
ers retired officers eligible to diplomatic and
consular positions The bill reduces in rank
and pay large number Of officers, and Gen,
Crawford is the only officer promoted by the
bill.
The deficiency bill appropriates 81,
76O, 900. OF this sum, S9,771 is to defray the
expenses of Speaker Blaine in resisting the
false imprisonment suit of James b. Stewart
a witness in the Credit MobiIier case; $780,.
600 is conditionany appropriated for the pay
ment Of poetoflice clerks, etc; S300.0 600 for the
adjustment Of the salaries OF postmssters Un-
der the act Of 1874, and the remainder Of the
appropriation is divided among many other
objects.
The river and harbor appropriation
bill, now a law, contains all the provisions as
passed by tho house, except the following
items, which had been increased: For i'm
proving the Great Kanawha river, $500, 600
the appropriation for the Tennessee river wac
fixed at 100000. Several senate amend
ments, except the one providing for the i'm
provement OF the mouth of the Mississippi
river by the Eads project, we're abandoned by
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-03-12
FOREIGN.

The Carlists under MireI have been
defeated by the national troops.
The Marquis of Harrington supported
the bill, which passed its first reading.
A decree has been issued by Emperor
William prohibiting the exportatlon Of horses.
The italian bark Giovanne, has been
wrecked in Cape Cod, and all on board, except
the steward, fifteen persons, perished.
Advices fIOm Buenos Ayres state that
the palace of the Catholic archbishop in that
city was sacked, and the houses Of Jesuits set
on fire.
a London dispatch says John Mitch
ell is utterly prostrated and has frequent
fainting fits. 1t is thought he viii be COM
PEELED to withdraw from the election contest
in TiPperary.
A dispatch from Berlin says it is re-
ported that the German government has de-
manded the dismissal of the Papal Nuncia at
Munich, and the cessation Of relations be-
tween the Vatican and Bovaria.
The North German Gazette says the
French government has ordered the purchase
of 10000 cavalry horses in Germany. The
Gazette hopes the German authorities will
take steps to prevent such purchases.
A dispatch from Alden announces that
the missing boats crow OF eighteen persons
from the steamer Hong Kong, which foun-
dered in the Indian ocean, have arrived there,
Six more lives are known to have been lost by
the disaster.
In consequence of the last encyclical
of the Pope, the government has introduced
in the Prussian chamber of deputies a bill
Withdrawing state endowments from Catholic
clergy, and providing for their restoration
Only to those Bishops who will bind them
selves by a formal document to obey the laws.
The steamer Gothenburg has been
wrecked on one OF the Fourneaux islands, in
Bass Strait, between Van Deiman's Land and
Australia. She had on board 85 passengers
and crew Of 35; of these only four persons
are known to be saved. Three boats filed
with passengers and crew are yet to be heard
from. The steamer had large cargo, which
included 8, 900 ounces Of gold.
In the English house of commons Sir
NJ. H. Beach. chief secretary for Ireland, intro
duced a bill lessening the penalties for IN
lawful possession Of arms in Ireland, repeal
ing the law which authorizes the closing of
public houses and arrest Of all persons found
out-of doors after night in proclaimed dis
tricts The chief secretary stated that the
government intended TO re-enact laws against
RIbbonism in Westmeath as it had been as
sured that the Ribbon conspiracy existed as
strong as ever there. He pointed to the
fact that Jno. Mitchell was elected to parlia-
ment because be had declared he would never
| consent to be at peace with England. He
alluded to the return OF ennigrAnts from
America, who, he said, had acquired western
vices and forgotten their Irish virtues There
we're reasons for not wholly removing
the restrictions on the possession of fire arms
in Ireland.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-03-12

Not a heartbstone shall yOu find on
which some shadoW has not fallen, or /
about to fall. Further than this, You
will probably find that there are few
households which do not cherish some
sorrow not known to the world who
have not some trial which is their pecu-
liar messenger, and which they do not
talk about, except among themselves
some hope that has been blasts d some
expectation dashed down some wrong,
real or supposed, which some member
of the household has suffered tremb-
ling anxieties lest that other member
will not succeed trials from the pecu-
liar temperament of somebody in the
house, or some environment that
touches it sharply from without some
thorn in the flesh some physical disa-
bility thai cripples Cur energies when
we want TO use them the most some
spot in the house where death has left
his track, or painful listenings to hear
his stealthy footsteps coming on.-Dr.
Sears,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-03-12
Sheen on a Farm.

Sheep are undervalued by the mass
land-hoIders as a means OF keeping up
the fertility of the soil and putting
money into the pockets OF farmers.
The moment one begins to talk OF
sheep husbandry, the listener or reader
begins to look for wool Quotations, as
if wool was all that yields profit from
sheep. One might as well look for
wheat quotations alone when there Is
talk about the profit of forming.
Sheep on a farm yield both wool and
mutton. They multiply with great
rapidity. They are the best of farm
scavengers, " cleaning field" ss no
other class of animals will. They give
back to the farm more IN proportion to
what they take from it than any other
animal, and distribute it better with =
view to the future fertility of the soil.
Prove this? There is no need OF proof
to those who have kept sheep, and
know their habits and the profits they
yield. TO prove it to those who have
not the experience, It is necessary they
shOuld try the experiment or accept the
testimony of an experienced shepherd:
But the live stock of q farm should
not, necessarily, be sheep, exclusively.
Cattle, horses, swine, have their re-
spective places in the farm economy.
How many of each to keep is ques-
tion that locality, character Of markets,
adaptation of soil, predisposition, taste
and skill of the hUsbandman must de-
eide. But one thing ought not TO be
forgotten, that the more stock man
keeps on his farm the more grass and
it ought to, and, if properly managed,
II will grow. The rates of increase
will correspond with the business tact,
technical and practical knowltd dge, end
skill OF the husbandman,-Ne5O York
World.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-03-12
the senate oonforoes, and stricken out of the

the senate conferees, and stricken out of the
bill
The proceedings of the Senate show
that the bill for equaIizing bounties was not
in proper shape for the signatures of the
speaker and of the vice-prisident, it being
held by old and experienced senators that the
motion to lay the report on the table, which
was agreed to by vote of 80 to "a, was un-
deniably refusal on the part Of the senate
to accept the report. Much surprise was ex-
pressed that the bin, though not finally agreed
to by the senate, should find its way to the
president signed by the presiding officer OF each
house. The president was informed OF these
facts and he withheld his signature but if
the bill had come before him in an unques-
tionable manner he would have returned it
for the reason, first that the bill appropriated
from the treasury large sum OF money at a
time when the revenue is insufficient for the
current wants; second, he did not believe that
any considerable portion of the ex-soldiers
who were supposed would be benefited by
this appropriation, were applicants for it,
but rather that it would result more in a meas
ure for the relief OF claim agents and mid
die men, who intervene or would intervene to
collect or discount the bounties granted by it.
The public debt statement, for March
1st shows a decrease in the public debt during
February Of Sc $50, 1873:
Bonds at 6 per cent. ........S1, 15I, ,992. 500
Bonds at per cent. 572, ,137, $50
Total. otaI.........................s1. .724 1870. $50
DEBT BEARING INTEREST IN LAWFUL MONEY
Lawful money debt.-....-..-...S 146I8-OOO
Matured debt. bt............-.---.. 7,779,67O
DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST.
Legal tender notes. s....$ 382, ,072, lat
Certificates of deposit. ......... As, ,S55. 900
Fractional currency. y.....-.... A, 904, 1853
Coin certificates. tes......-..... 22,269, 400
Total without interest. 495, ,101, ,511
Total debt ....................s2, 242. .689. .481
Total interest. est.........-........ 26,426, T3S
CASH IN THE TREASURY.
Con-.--.-.. ...------ -.--.-.-..S i5,6Z6,O83
currency 1O,5lS,OJI
Special deposit held for redemp-
ton OF certificates of deposit,
as provided by law..-...... 1885, 900
Total in treasury. y.......... 3 131, 500, ,181
DEBT LESS CASH IN TREASURY
Debt less cash in treasury. g, ,137, ,31S, ,9S9
Decrease of the debt during the
past month. Observation-Disclosures. $500, ,1S3
BONDS ISSUED TO PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANIES. -
INTEREST PAYABLE IN LAWFUL MONEY.
Principal outstanding. g...........S64, ,623, 512 90
Interest accrued and not yet
paid. id.......................... GA, ,628. .512 90
Interest paid by United States. 26, ,264, 1O2 "a
Interest repaid by transporta-
ton Of mails, etc.. .... 5,724, 214 %
Balance OF interest paid by the
United States. ~, ,6S5, U.s. %
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-03-12
TIMELY TOPICS.

MIR. HALE, of New York, who has not
been able to attend the sittings of the
mouse for the past four weeks on
account of illness, has written Mr..
Crittenden, of Missouri, expressing his
regret that his illness had prevented
nm from taking any part in correcting
the injustice which was done to Brown,
OF Kentucky, in the resolution of CEN
sure moved by himself and adopted by
the house in the earlier part of the ses-
sion. He repeats his conviction that so
far as the resolution imputed to Brown
any intention of prevarication or double
dealing in his response to the speaker.
himself and a majority of the house
had been misled, and had done inius-
tice to Brown. He adds GA careful
examination of the record since. ouali-
flying it by my own distinct recollection.
satisfies me that I did wrong to Brown
In imputing this intent to him. and that
there was nothing in his response to the
speaker inconsistent with good faith or
integrity of an upright and honorable
man. shall never hesitate to express
freely the conviction that I have above
expressed to you, and if anything CON
tained in this lettor within your iudg-
ment be of service to MIR. Brown. I beg
you to consider the letter entirely at
your service, for any use whatever that
you or other friends of Mr.. Brown may
think proper to make of it."
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-03-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

The customs receipts for the week
ending Feb. 27, at ports below mentioned,
we're as follows: New York, g, 913. .567; Bos-
ton, 1878. .536; Philadelphia, S169, 368; Balti-
more, $3.50, 94O
The Pennsylvania railroad reduced
it's fare for passengers from Baltimore, as fol-
lows To Pittsburg, IS; to Wheeling, $3.50 ;
to Cincinnati, Sc; to Indianapolis, 81; to
Louisville, So; to Chicago, So; to st. Louis,
SO.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-03-12
LATE NEWS SUMMARY
EAST.

Owing to strike among the opera
tives, six mills at Fall river. Mass, have been
stopped, the monthly payroll of which
amounted to between 100000 to 800 900.
The assessments upon the operatives at work
have been doubled.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-03-12

When a girl crops her front hair
and pulls it down over her forehead like
a Mexican Mustang, and then ties a
piece of red velvet round her neck, who
can wonder at the number of pale-facad
yOung men that throw away their am
bition and pass sleepless nights in try
ing to raise down on their upper lips ?
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-03-12

The Chicago Tribune would not be
surprised if the first test case on the
constltutionality of the civil rights bill
should come from the north, assigning
as it's reason that while the number of
people in the north who now deny any
of the political rights of the negro is
very small; the number of those who
entertain social prejudices is still very
large. The practice of excluding ne
groes from the public dining-rooms of
frst-class hotels and the choice seats in
frst-class theatres and operas is as gen
eral in the north as in the south, and q
test case is as likely to 60 to the supreme
court on one of those points from
Chicago, Boston or New York, as il is
from New Orleans, Louisville or Rich
mond.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-03-12

In twenty-one counties in Georgia,
very careful agricultural statistics were
collected last year, ia compliance with
a state law. In these counties the
whites had 85,6 ,697 sheep; tho negroes
barely 265. They sned 4,211 dogs, or
about twenty times as many dogs as
sheep, to supply them with wool for
clothing and mutton. It is difficult to
discover any wsy in which southern
agriculture may prosper while savage
taste for dogs and guns are so powerful,
not only with persons of color, but
with some millions Of the white race.
In the twenty-one, the counties referred
to, the whites keep seventeen thousand
six hundred and ninety-seven dogs.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-03-12

CAPT. Eugene Morris, an old steam
boatman, recently secretsry of the
Good Intent towboat company, of New
Orleans, is dead.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-03-12

The real strength of the United
States navy Is 81 vessels, which com
prise 10 iron clads. T0ere are % YES
sells building, and 35 laid up for repairs.
These, if necessity required, would in
crease the number to 118 The officers
are 1 admiral, 1 vice-admiraI, II rear
admirals, % commodores, 80 captains,
80 commanders, I1G Iieut. commanders.
252 heutenants, and Is medical direct
Ors. This force is scattered all over
the North and South Pacific, North At
lantlc, and along the borders of Asia
and this country.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-03-12

A SON of Alexander Hamilton, now
living in New York, at the age of 80,
claims that his father wrote the whole
of Washington's farewell address, with
the exception of the first three lines.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-03-12

A CONVENTION of citizens of upper
Michigan, is called to meet at Ishpen-
ming, with a view to petitioning the
legislature and congress to allow the
upper peninsula to lapse into territory
entitled Superior.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-03-12

Mr.. THoRNE, a member of the North
Carolina legislature, has been expelled
from that body because he did not be-
lieve in "the God of their state consti-
tution," though he believed in a su-
pTeme being.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-03-12

The Pennsylvania Legislature hes
almost unanimously passed law, i'm
posing fine OF $1O,O and fifteen
years Imprisonment on each and every
person who shalt continue to conceal
Charlie Ross. This is not &c post facto,
as further concealment aud not that of
the past, is punishable under it. A
special clause is added which will ope-
rate to free the original kidnappers or
present holders of the child, if they re-
store him within thirty days from the
passage of the act.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-03-12

GEORGIA has 83,319 negroes who own
property. They nave 1913, 100 acres of
land, and their property is valued at
s6 600 600
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-03-12

A band of one hundred and forty
Kiowa Indians surrendered to scouting party
on Salt Fort Feb %.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-03-12

VICE President WILSON coutemplates
a trip to the south, and will probably
leave Washington for that purpose next
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-03
OUR PHITING EDITOR.
He Lays Aside the ShiIIaIah for
the Baton of GaIlantrY.

y
Col. Jas. L. McKissack, Phiting Edi-
tor of the CITIZEN, famous for his deeds
of ValOr in defense of the helpless, his
open charity to INDECENT institutions,
and generous conduct in all relations,
recently transported himself back to the
time in auld lang syne when his manly
CALAMITY was the envy of his fellows,
and showed that the spark of love is not
eXtinguished by vicissitudes or deadened
by flight of time. The beautiful bevy
of young ladies who constitute the pu-
pills of Martin College had met last
Thursday in Antoinette Hall for some
purpose connected with the closing ex-
ercises of the institution, when Col.
McKissack sent up to them a large bas-
ket full of large, ripe, yellow oranges.
The young ladies were delighted, OF
course, but the following note will best
explain the feelings:
The young ladies of Martin College
return their sincere thanks to Mr.. j I.
McKissack for the handsome present OF
oranges that they received from him
yesterday. They also beg that theiI
friend will accept from them this bou-
quet, as an evidence of their apprecia-
ton of his gift. They pray that .fol0erS
may always strow his path, and that he
may never lack for good and precious
friends, such as the good always gather
May 20, 1875.
The Colonel is proud of his beautiful
bouquet, and pTOuder of the note o.
thanks so beautifully expressed. He
will preserve it as "a SouUeRiOr, that hi:
generations may see that they had il
| their sire a trait of character worthy o.
emulation, and that this age had thOs,
who could appreciate worth and gal
| lantrV
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-03
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

This is the name of a new Chair ere
ated in the Faculty of Vanderbilt Uni
versity, especially for our friend Rev.
John Sherrell, of this county, whose
stenteTian voice has made almost every
hilltop and every valley in Giles county
echo the Gospel of Christ, and reverber-
ate with praises to God, while his saddle
bags have transported more Bibles,
tracts, dirty shirts and cold chickens
each year, than the railroad itself. We
mean, of course, the saddle-bags made
by him for the Methodist preachers and
cOlpOrturs of the Tennessee Conference.
He is peculiarly the man for the chair,
and his title is as distinctive and appro-
pirate as that given to DR.. McFerrin as
''The Begger." He is the best ephippi-
osaccotechnic artist in the church, ac-
cOrding to reputation, and will fill the
chair with a zeal and ability which
greater professors might initiate with
OrOfit