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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-04-20

the spring, in a very inexpensive man.
ner, performs the cultivation nearly as
we'll as when done by hand. IF the crust
formed by the winter SHOWS and spring
rains is thoroughly broken, and the
ground to the depth of two or more
inches well pulverized, the effect upon
the wheat is almost like magic. 1t starts
into the most vigorous growth, and In a
few weeks has nearly or quite doubled
in size the wheat not narrowed. In
pieces of wheat which have come under
the writer's observation, which were har-
rOwed in strips, that is, one strip not har-
rOwed at all, and other strips on each
side thoroughly narrowed, in the early
part of June, the narrowed wheat stood
fully one foot higher than the unhar-
rOwed at each side, and in every way was
strikingly Tanker and more vigorous.
Mr.. Robert J. Swan, of Rose Hill farm,
Geneva, n. Y, who has heavyclav lands.
says he has narrowed his wheat for four
years with the Thomas harrow, and finds
the yield to be increased fully ten bushels
per acre. Byram MOulton, of Alexan-
der, Genesee county, n. Y, harvested
from fifty acres 900 bushels of wheat
His neighbors only obtained about ten
bushels per acre. The only difference in
land or treatment was that MOultOn's
wheat was Thoroughly narrowed with the
same implement in the spring and his
| neighbOTs' was not.
The effect produced by narrowing
! barley and oats, after they have obtained
a growth of four or five inches, is equally
as marked. l have observed many in
stances where fully twenty bushels per
acre increase in consequence OF thorough
narrowing was obtained.
These facts and many others of similar
character show clearly the great profit
which farmers may derive from a thor
Ough cultivation by narrowing of wheat,
oats, barley and other sOwn crops.-COr
Country Gentleman.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-04-20
Ancient Art and Modern Science.

In a lecture recently delivered in New
York by William G.. Prime, LID, on
d" Ancient Art and Modern Science" the
learned speaker said that it was a false
notion to suppose that there was a con-
test between religion and science, but 1t
was undoubtedly a fact that between
christianity and certain theories of the
more modern schools there was such -
contest, and it was one which it wasvain
to attempt to reconcile. One or the 9th
er side must be right. Either the bible
was fiction or these theories of the mod
ern scientists were fctiOns without any
support in facts. All attempts at COM
promise were misChieVOUs, and the aSSeT-
tiOns of the scientists should be met with
the counter assertions that all theories
which are contrary to the teachings of
our religious system are, of course, false.
All these mischievOus theories of modern
science were disprOved by ancient art.
An object of art being shown, the stu
dent of art at once asks, " When was it
made? Who made it ?" and applying the
well known rules of art he can answer
these questions by the object itself He
knows, first, that some one. made it, and
il you should try to convince him that
it made itself, or was produced by pro-
cess of evolution, he would say you were
crazy, and if what the modern scientist
calls the works of nature are the works
of art, then the rules of art apply to
them. The student of art in all ages had
recognized that the creation was the work
of a divine artist, and to him they had
cOnsecrated their nOblest works, and the
great maker of art itself was the master
artist, God. In seeking for the origin of
man, there was no other safe guide ex-
cept art, and the art student was the
only authority for the ancient history of
man, and the modern student was con
frOnted by the indispUtable facts of art,
which show that at a period less than
five thousand years ago the entire race of
man upon the earth consisted of small
number residing somewhere in the west
ern part of Asia. The evidences given
by the modern scientists as to the eX-
IRENE antiquity of the race should be re-
ceived with great caution, because in
every instance where the art student has
been called upon to examine these evil
| dences they have been found to be defec-
| tive. Mr.. Prime then traced the coming
| of money back to its oldest known source,
and from this back through the time
when metals by weight were the stand
ard of value, and anterior to that when
the lamb was the measure of exchange
the record going back to 5000 years
and his conclusion being that then men
were few and lived near together and did
not need any money. With the same
result he traced the history Of language
back, and finally the history of pottery,
in each case the trace becoming lost about
$500 years before Christ.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-04-20

THE GOLD FEVER IN NORTH CARO-
LINA.-It is clear that the gold fever
which ragged to such an extent in this
section many years ago is reviving. This
is evidenced by the influx of miners here
coming on prospecting tours, and the in
creasing amount of gold talk" which is
heard on the streets and elsewhere
Evidences have been abundant of late
that there is no lack of gold in this part
of the state, and that only means and
well-directed efforts are needed to produce
it. A plenty Of fine gold ore has been
found on the land leased by Messrs. J. J.
Jackson, II. A. London and John Man
ing, in Cheatham county. They propose
uniting with northern capitalists and
working the mine on an extensive scale.
-ChdrtOtte ObSerUsr.
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By r. V. PIERCE, NJ. D., of the Worlds Dis
pensary, Buffalo, n. Y, Author of "The
Peoples Common Sense Medical Adviser"
etc, etc,
Knowing that you are subject to a great
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until they have become perfectly discouraged
and have almost made up their mind never
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than to live and suffer as they have. They
say they are worn out by suffering and are
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mode of treating such difficulties than that
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! and depicting of the vital forces of the Sys-
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TEN are relieved by this mild and safe means
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LOST.
BY ROSE TERRY COOKE.

Once on time she came to me,
As some small star from heaven mi hit fee
To be mOrtaPs sole delight,
a love by day, dream by night,
The sweetest thing on land or sea,
NY little darling crept to me.
a trembling, tender, fairy thing.
90 grave TO smile, too sad TO sing,
Aware OF earth with grieved surprise,
y alien from her native skies,
a baby angel strange to see,
Ny little darling came TO me.
But love and loving taught her smiles,
ana lie and living baby wiles-
Inc = ne way to cling, to coax, to kiss,
70 MI my heart with deepest bliss;
1Iitysi nSaiI OF hearts, my life, was she,
ms little love who came to me,
nat words she stammered, soft and low.
10 other ear but mine could know;
more gentle than a cooling dove,
More Iond than any voice of love
% shy, 50 sweet, so tenderly,
MY little darling spoke 10 me.
know not how to tell the grace
i nat dwelt upon her wistful face
nus. he tinted skin, the lips pure bloom,
ne clearest eyes that knew not gloom
ne mar as soft as moth wings be,
MY little darling showed to me.
Ald5 know that all Is gone
In, Ihat here sit and grieve alone.
That every fair and gracious thing
loved and lost is but a sting;
another thorn my memory,
My little darling brings to me.
But kindly night doth pity main.
IN all my dreams she comes again.
II precious head is on my breast;
NY happy arms caTess her rest:
l near her words Of tender gIee;
My little darling kisses me,
an sweet is night-tOo sweet. too briaf
w men DAY recalls our hitterest grief.
~, ne hungry heart, the longing dire
d Ihat burns the soul with vain desire.
~ he ancient cry Of wild distress.
ne Rachel mourning, comfortIess.
- God once more that face to sect
My little darling, come to mel
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mates based upon proper financial
grounds and established principles. But
in this instance, when we get to count
ing by the hundred millions, and see
hundreds of millions beyond, with very
possible billions in the prospective. and
no defined or understood or even guessed
at limits to the great bonanza or source
of this immense wealth, all figuring and
calculation is lost in glittering, golden
hued, and silver-starred armament or
bOundless wilderness of incomprehensi-
bic affiuence, the naturalization of a
vast golden dream, compared with
which all others pale into utter insignif-
canoe. Crosus, Aladdin, Monte Christie,
and Sinbad the Sailor, were mere pau
Pers as compared with Mackay, Fair,
Flood & O'Brien.-GOlde11 Hell (NeU. J
Meas.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-04-20

MANUFACTURERS THE SCALPs OF
WILD ANIMALs.-The very large sums
of money paid by the authorities of
Blair and other counties in the noun
famous regions of the state, for scalps of
wild animals the past year, has Cansed
an investigation, which has revealed a
we'll devised and carefully executed
method of defrauding the treasury. In
one instance in Blair county the skin of
a colt, which had died, was taken and
deity cut up and manufactured into
ears, and Palmed off upon UnsusPecting
justices as those of a veritable fox. In
another case a real fox skin was con-
verted into ears and made to answer for
a large number of Reynards. The hide
of 4 black cat was utilized and enlarged
TO represent any number of skunks,
while fox ears were split up to do double
duty. One family of pseudo Nimrods,
it is alleged, has drawn from the county
treasury, since the first of January, one
thousand dollars. Some eighteen or
twenty warrants have been issued for the
arrest Of the persons engaged in this ne
farious business, some of whom have al
ready been arrested and lodged in jail.
The officers of the law are still in pur
suit of others, with strong hopes of their
capture. An information before a JUS
tice of the peace shows that in one town
ship since January !, 81, $50 has been
paid on scalps, three-fourthse ST which was
to one family.-PittsJJtTg Dispatch.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-04-20
HaRRoWING WHE4T IN SPRING.

The advantage of narrowing wheat
lands thoroughly in the spring, as soon as
the ground becomes dry enough to pre-
vent the horses from sinking into 1t, is
known TO many farmers who have prac-
ticed il. but is unknown to the majority.
Wheat is usually sown in September,
upon well-prepared land. This land Is
left there, subject to all the storms of
rain and snow, and the dry weather in
succeeding spring, until after the wheat
is harvested. In consequence, the land
becomes in May and June nearly as hard
ne a meadow. At n season of the year
when the plants are in the greatest vigor
of Growth, the land is so hard as not to
Give one-half the nOurishment it would
if kent mellow by any process. Sup
nose for instance, corn should be planted
In the fall, under similar conditions with
wheat. and that the winter did not in
iure It and that it were left without
cultivation of any sort until harvested;
n il evident that the yield would be
diminished over one-half; in fact, the
Weld would probably be so light and
poor as to be almost worthless.
Now, wheat, by many experiments IN
its cultivation by hand in England, shows
as great sensitiyeness TO cultivation as
corn; the yield, by careful hand cuItlVa-
ton, being increased to sixty, and, IN
some instances, eighty bushels per acre.
Now, thorough narrowing OF wheat III
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-04-20

UNNITIGATED MILIoNAIREs.-Wh
Que reflects upon the immense wealth
now possessed by the four principal own
ers of the intellectually rich bonanza de-
yeloped IN the Consolidated Virginia and
California mines, at the north end of the
Comstock, the mind Is dazed with w0n-
der, and figures after figures are added to
the already long array until thew sbaoe
oil into the misty realm of the fabulous
and incOmprehcnsible The wealth of
the Rothschilds, the Astors, and other
rich men noted in history and known of
Mt the present time could be counted.
calculated, and defined by regular esti-
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-04-20

AT our request, Cragin & CO., of Phil
adelphia, Pa, have promised to send any
of our readers gratis ION receipt of 10
cents to pay postage), a sample of Dob
bins Electric Soap to try. Send at once.
VEGETINE thoroughly eTadiCates every
kind of hUmor, and restores the entire sys-
TEN to healthy condition.
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A RAPID and emphatic recital of the
following is said to be an infallible cure
for lisPing: Hobbs meets Snobbs and
NObbs; Hobbs hobs to Snobbs and hobbs;
Hobbs nObs with SnObbs and robs Nobbs'
fObs. This is" says hobbs, "the worse
for Hobbs Jobs" and Snobbs sObs.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-04-20
NEW ORLEANS.
COTTON MARKETS.

NEMPms.-Market frmer a, l2IZc.
Observation-Disclosures duh at i21Za1255c.
SAvASNAH.-Nlarket dull MIddling 1870.
NEW YoEK.-Market firm. Middliug, 155zgl3
9-lGc.
IIvERPooL--Market quiet. Middlins upland,
1896 ll-16d
GALvEsToS-Market nominal; nothing doing
NIiddling, l2tsc.
NEW ORLEANs.-Ordinary TO strict ordinary s
asz4c; good ordinary 90 strict COOL ordinary lOi-
Mlj4.c low middling 10 strict low middlinE, llt2g
l2lsc; u.iddling TO strict middlingi l2I29l554c ,
good middlins, l3lI9I3Isc.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-04-20

CHAPPED hands, face, PimPles, ring
worm, altrheum, and othe cUtaneous affec
tons cured and rough skin made soft and
smooth, by using Juniper Tar Soap. Be care
ful to get only that made by CasweIl, Hazard
& Co., New York, as there are many imita-
tons made with common tar, all of which are
,rartbIpcE
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---ASTHMA---

THE subscribers are manufacturers and propri,-
i tors Of Or. T. ". Reads Celebrated Asthma
Relief which is undoubtedly the hest Asthma Rem
eiy vet discovered. Instant relief guaranteed OF
purchase pTIce refunded. We put up the medicine
in boxe= Of three sizes which retail for 2lc 5HC. and
81 Persons RENTING the retail price wlll have The
medicine promptly forwarded hy mail, post paid
Also samples sent free to any one who may desire
Prices per dor sl.75f $3.50 and 500 Ergs. price
SIS: $50, 81. Wholesale agents: John T. Henry,
Curran s. Co, y. " John j. Park q sons. 'lIflH-
natl ohio. richardson a Co. St Louis, No, lord,
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Murdered Oh His Knees.

A Columbus special to the Cincinnati
Times says: This morning, at ten
o'clock, the police in the nOrth-end were
startled by the screams of q woman, and,
starting toward the point from which
the noise came, were met by a woman
wild with agony, who said her husband had
shot and dangerously wounded her son.
Upon arriving at the woman house, the
murdered boy was found lying on the
floor in a pool of blood, with a great
wound in his side, and his father lying
by his side kissing the face of his victim
and wildly calling on him not to die.
The boy was found to be quite dead, but
the father would not believe it, and,
with his eldest son, fought against being
removed from the scene of blood.
On leaving the house, the man APP
peared to be quite drunk, but before
reaching the statiOn-hOusc was quite
sober. The name of the murderer is
Patrick Pickering, a laboreT, who has a
wife and six children.
The mother of the victim is too wild
with grief to tell an intelligent story
about the deed, but as near as can be
learned, it appears that Pickering had
been drinking liquor during the day, and
went home intoxicated. Recently, his
son, aged seventeen, next 10 MS OtueSI,
had offended him by keeping company
with an Objectionable boy. Upon reach.
ing home he called his boy out of bed to
apologize for his misconduct. His father
forced him to get upon his knees to pray
and promise never to go with the Obiec-
tionable boy again. As soon as he had
got upon his knees his father took up a
heavily loaded shotgun, and without
any warming to the poor boy, whose head
was bowed in prayer, fired at him, the
charge passing through his heart, killing
him almost instantly. Just before clos
ing his eyes in death the boy cried out.
@ Father, you have killed me-"
As soon as he reached the statiOn-hOuse
Pickering became wild with rcmOTse
wildly crying: "Tm murderer. l am
going to commit suicide. Poor boy, poor
boy l wish l was where ne Is now
All night the prisoner paced his cell, mad
with remorse, but he was carefully
watched to prevent his committing
suicide.
Pickering is about forty years old
The dead boy is said to have been of good
character.
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100000 witnesses

Will testify to the virtues of DR.. TUFTS Pills.
Wherever ChilIs and Fever Bilious Diseases or Liv-
Affections prevail they have proven great bless
ing Readers single trial viii convinSe you that
this is no Catch-penBy medicine.
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MARKET REPORT
CINCINNATI.


Wheat %. Corn, sic. Oats 43c. Pork, % IN.
Iard-stcam, 1870; kettle, 1910. Bulk meats,
MEMPHIS.
Flour is steady and unchanged. Corn, 55c Oats,
SOC. Lard, 15I5c. Bulk meats-ShOulders, &c clear
rib sides, PIC; clear sides, i254c Bagging l312c
LOUISVILLE
FIour-Extra 90 \ No. /, 6 %; fancy, 80.
Wheat, / 2S. Corn, 46c- Oats, i2c Hay, - 90.
Pork % so. Bulk meats, l23Ec. Bacon, 1856
SsIgar-cured hams, 15c. Iard-Tierce, 1f1zc5 keg,
151{c. Whisky, O6. Bagging, lJc
ST. LOUIS.
FIour-Superfne fall %; extra fall, { 70 double
extra fall, p triple extra fall, 90. Wheat-N0
. red winter 80 bid. Corn-No mixed, 451zc
cash, and 45I5c May and June. Oats BIC whisky
1 as Pork, % 90 Lard, 1876 Bulk meats PFC
NEW ORLEANS.
Sugar Common, 81; fair, 51gc; prime to strictly
prime nc; choice. SIC NOlasses-'Tood prime
4sc; common reboied, 81 prime renOiledr 4oc.
FIour-Superhne, 90; double extra, So triple
extra g 90; choice and family, p. Cornmeal,
. 30. Corn Mixed, sec: white, Sc yellow, 6Oc.
Oats 45c. Bran, Coo. Hay, p 90. Pork, p %
Drv salt neats-Shoulders, &C. clear rib sides, l2c
clear sides. II. Bacon Shoulders, 10; clear rib
sides lacs4. Hams, 14l4c- Lard-Ilercer refined
14IZc: kes. 45c. Rice-COmmon TO prime louisiana,
&c. Cofee-OrdinaTy 30 prime. tsc- whisky
Choice rectified, II Louisiana, 10.
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In these diseases the patient elther gets
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ordinary ska diseases that is more OF
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manent
Those afflicted with chronic diseases should purchase
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per dozen s. per half dozen bottles, 81 per bot
Sold by druggists
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THE DEiTH.BFD OF ANDRFW J9HySOE.

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touChingy p"TtTays the last moments Of the great
statesman with family and friends grouped around
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