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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-07-20
THAT OLD BUHMER-and re

Republican, Carl Sch urz, two years ago
became, as it was stated, too honest to
bed-fellOw any longer with the rank and
file of the Grant Party, and manifested
this disposition by holding aloof from
active participation with the Republic
cans. Since then he has been choDping
short grass on the political commons. He
visited his fatherland In the meantime,
and aired his eonceit in the fumes
of Rhine wine and Lager Beer
VIXEN the contest waved warm just pre-
vious to the holding of the CiueiRnatti
and st. Louis Conventions, the public
was anxious to know on which side of
the fence this old Political blOst would
cast anchor. He has declared for the
Hayes ticket because the Tildsn plat
PORN, as he says, fsvors the repeal of
the resumption clause: This, too, in
the face Of what Gen. Hawlsy, Chair
man Of the Committee On Resolutions
in the Cincinnati Convention claimed
when he said that his party could not
endorse the act of 1875 or demand re.
sumption in 1879. schurz could not
accept the honest utterance of the st.
Louis platform, but easily swallowed the
deceitful twaddle of the CINCINNATI
Convention. This conduct of the sx-
Senator was what We expected. He had
long since been bought soul and body by
the gold lord rings in Europe and the
East and he dared not go counter to the
interests of these precious beings. He
had consumed too much Of their money
and wine not to obey orders from head
quarters. Well let him go. His first
love is the orbit in which he shssld
move. He Is politically on the make and
he thinks be scents the green pastures of
Republican success. Let us disappoiHt
him in November.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-07-20
LOCKED HORNS.

The Republican Senate and Democrat
ic House are stubbornly bu ting at each
other over the Appropriation Bill The
former oppose any reduction in expendi-
lures while the latter with equal stub
borness demand Fetrenchmsnt. Boiling
midsummer heat at the Capitol may
bring them to a compromise. But let
she House fight il out thus during the
heated term aud November will award
che Democracy with verdict of well
done"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-07-20
County Convention.

A Convention of the Democratic voters
of Hardeman county will assemble in
Bolivar on Saturday, the 5th day of Au-
gust next, for the purpose of nominating
a candidate for the Legislature, and for Sc
lecting delegates to attend the Floaterial
Senatorial, Congressional and State Con
TentiOns. A county executive committee
will also be appointed TO serve for the
uext two years. J. NJ. HUBBARD,
Chairman Executive Committee.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-07-20

Hon. Dorsey B. Thomas is about to
start forth on e rampage tour in aid of
his indpendesnt candidacy for Governor
This is unfortunate. He has no chance
for election and can only expect to waste
wind and gresnbscks. Both these. had
better be savod-they are too impcrtan
to be squandersd upon the political hus-
tings. Probably Mr.. Thomas thinks he is
competent to lead the State out Of the
wilderness Of its present embarrassment
Il is singular that he alone has heard the
divine call out of the skies. He may
have hOning after Ofice-it 80, then,
let him try bis hand. Defeat may serve
the purpose of a wholesome blister in
drawing to head the raVagss of an i'll
fated ambition. A good fall will start the
flow of better and purer blood in his politi-
cal makeup than that wishy-wsshY stuff
now exhibiting itself in Indepsndency.
This honorable gentlemen is too good
and too gifted to be found thus beating
the air while dangers thic ken in the
path of his fellow cOuntrymen. His
voice should be heard summoning the
masses to the deliverance Of the govern
msnt out o f the hands Of the Philistians
that have plundered every department.
and now aim to prOloRg the pillage..
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-07-20

We are requested to state that the
citizens of Civil District, No. l., will
hold meeting at Grand Junction On
FRIDAY next, the 2lst inst, and the citi
EenS of Civil District, No. TO-, at Sauls-
bury on Saturday next, the 22d inst, for
the purpose of selecting delegates to at
tend the County Convention on the 5th
Of August.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-07-20
GRANT Is EERvOUs-his pr

GRANT Is HERVOUS-his ply
sicians state that he sleeps but little.
Those investigating Democrats in Con-
gross have filed his couch with tor
menting itch fungus. He is anxious for
an adjournment. He is fearfulIy sensi-
tive lest his official character be gibbited
like that Of Belknap. He hears the
thunder of the coming storm in q re-.
awakened public sentiment against ibis
administration. His Chambers nightly
flIed with lank and lean skeletons that
chase sweet slunber from his eyslids.
The Bristow and Yarysn dscapitssions
will yet prove bonb-shells in his career.
These cases will show The fOully corrupt
Vaccinations of his presidential rule.
They contain enough good court facts to
condemn him at the bar of public
opinion. The eighty thousand Office
holders take stock in him and be is
forced to sustain them. Bristow was
too honest a reformer to suit the wicked
Wilss of his kitchen cabinet. Railroad
stockholders, and Credit MObilier adVo-
Gates aAd all such birds of prey cOnsti.
tuts the background Of his greatness.
Grant was too porous. He soon abb
sOrbed so much of the surrounding vii
Iainy of the Federal officers that he is
politically debauched, and though Gen.
surabls, is yet entitled to oommisara-
ton for prostituting his weaknesses to
the behests of adroit trickstsrs. Let
the Democrats give him and his party an
opiats in November that will make him
and them sleep q sleep that knows no
waking.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-07-20

That traitOr-fOe, Observation-Disclosures,
would reopen and .haekls afresh the
Healing wounds of the late civil struggle.
And for What7 That his revolutionary
partyism may continue to plumber the
government
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-07-20

II we count the 1906 bales of cotton
purchased in the last two months for
Augusta factories, il win make the to.
tai takings from this market by home
mills 1850 against $3.50 last year,
showing an increase Of 2688.-rCollum-
bus ga Enquirer.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-07-20

From every Court House square and
Oross roads in our land let TIlden and
Hendricks pole pierce the heavens this
fall, and have floating in cir from its top
most reach the ensign Of the unterri6ed
National Democracy.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-07-20

The Democratic Rouse has made S39,-
42i ,961 of q reduction from current ap-
preparations, and 64,6OS,627 of q re-
ductiou from estimates. And yet the
Radicals are not happy.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-07-20

Inc meEcauGiIo agency Oh N. Il Duu
d Co., give the following as the total of
che past six months, as compared with
same period of last year, which is far
from reasSuring.
First quarter: Second quarter.
No. Amount No. Amount.
1875 1882 &43 600, 600 1881 $50, 200, 900
1876 2,SO6 64,OO0,00O 1874 43,OOO,OOO
Six months.
No Amount
1875......s.............. 1868 SIG, 600, 900
1876 .................. 1900 $4,000, 900
This exhibition shows what contrao.
tien has done for the country. The Dan
report shows that the greatest increase
was during the first quarter Of the year.
Il seems that We have reached the bot
tom. That quite oil the financial vitali-
ty in the body polite has been exhaust
cd.
Referring to the prospects here in the
South it says:
"It will be seen that the promise OF
the crops in agricu lturel regions is al,
most universally favorable, and that, with
few exceptions. the local trade 10 these
localities is likely 10 be considerably i'm
proved during the autumn. Especially
favorable are the accounts from the
South, which, after years of depression
and poverty, now shows signs of self-de-
pendsnOs and ability to purchase and
pay for their supplies. The returns
from this section are more encouraging
than from the manufacturing districts,
which are gloomy indeed; and comparing
the condition of these two sections of
country with the position occupied by
each Eve years ago, the contrast is very
marked and instructive"
We trust that the torturtng screw Of
contraction has ceased to turn. The
people need rest. Remember that
Blaine's radicslism means further con-
traction, and TIlden reform means Fsas-
suring prosperity.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-07-20
Currency Number of

We supplement the foregoing table
with the following (fOr the whole natiOn)
of commercial failures for 1870, II, ~
and '73.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-07-20
CHIP.BASKET.

Governor Tildsn' is: Presbyterian.
We always thought he would be elected;
now We know his calling and election
sure. - ClarksVille Tobacco Leaf
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-07-20

Time sets all things even. The mur.
derer OF Gen. Hindman has at last met
his doom. A telegram from Rome,
Ga, announces that Haywood Grant was
hung there yesterday for arson. He
confessed to having killed four men,
one of whom was Gen. Hindman of tie
Confederate army, at Helena, Arkansas.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-07-20

The national laws on taxation are so
unjust that they would appear to the
stranger as if the government had been
given into the hands of the aristocracy
and all their wealth exempted from tax
alton, and the burdens placed upon the
poor. The farmer is taxed on his hoe
and spade each 90 per cent; on his
hOrse-shOes, 81 per cent; on his chains,
100 per cent, on his handsaw, IS per
cent, while the bondholder is taxed on
his bonds, NOTHING. Could a more
unjust law be NADER The necessities Of
the laboring man burdened with heavy
taxes, while the rich bondholder draws
gold interest from the people on $780,
0OO, 600 of bonds without taxation.-Ex.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-07-20

1t is stated that since the close of the
war the Augusta, Ga, cotton factory has
paid to its stockholders one hundred
and ninety-eight per cent on the present
capital, equal to eighteen per cent. per
anaum; and during the same period
have invested in real estate, new build
ings and new machinery about four
hundred thousand dollars, without the
sale OF new stock or calling on the
stockholders, and the amount to the
credit of the profit and loss account is
about one hundred and ten thousand
dollars more than on July /, I875.-TEx.
st. Louis, tJuly 1.-THE Kansas City
Price Current has adVices that the grand
total of the Texas cattle drive to July
9th is 305, 290 head. Of this number
50,638 have been held in Northern
Texas, while the remainder, 254, $50,
have been driven Nsrth. Several thou
sand head which we're Wintered in
Northern Texas last season were also
driven North, which will probably swell
the total to two hundred and sixty and
seventy thousand head.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-26
For The Midland Railroad.

Mr.. Edlt0r:-I landed at Red
Wing Aug. ED, 1856, being engaged
to 60 twenty miles into the country to
survey village on the north branch
of the Zumbro. I arrived in Red
Wing near night Of Saturday and
put up at the old American House,
kept by Dick Downing. Sunday 1
heard Rev. ]. w. Hancock preach at
the little brown school house, there
being no church building in town.
During the day I climbed Barn bluff,
looked over the town, and liked. its
situation.
On Monday proceeded into the
country, over a road just trodden
enough to make track, and at dark
crossed the north branch Of the
Zumbro and put up at log house,
without a roof. In the morning I
could see no other house in sight.
l was in a new country, land was to
be had at $1.25 an acre.
The country was beautiful, CLOTH
ed in verdant green and diversified
with groves, hills and streams. A
colony from the East had pitched
their tents in this village, and here
they proposed to make their homes.
Here they surveyed village plat
and the third day after the name. of
Zumbrota was accepted for the new
village, with its one log house. The
colonists selected and filed upon
their claims, and then went East, in.
tending to bring their families the
next spring.
Although in the valley by an &C.
cident almost, for my. destination
was farther north and merely to look
at the State, l concluded to take
some land and spend the winter.
filed upon a quarter section of land
in October, 1886; pre-empted it on
Thanksgiving day, in Winona, and
have lived upon it now nearly twenty
years.
These twenty years have worked
wonders, not only in and around
Zumbrota, but in Red Wing anc
all of Goodhue county, as we'll as ot
the State of Minnesota. The expe.
1iences of these years, if written
down, would show many struggles
much self-sacrihce, an abundance o
hard work and privation; as we'll a.
much accomplished, of success, de-
velopment and results.
The wild prairie has become the
fruitful field; the rude shanty ha:
given place to the farm house
churches, school houses and village:
have sprung up on the North Branch
Red Wing has become an important
city, one of the largest primar,
wheat markets in the world; while
Goodhue county has now more
horses to plow its fields than it ha<
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-26

product, and because they did not
raise more stock, etc.
When the large crops were har-
vested a new want was experienced.
Granarles were now a necessity.
Bins made Of rails would not answer.
Rain and snow, and rats and thieves
called for lumber to build shelters
for the grain, and the burden of
transportation began to be felt.
When man had but ten or fifteen
loads of wheat to haul, it was a sort
Of recreation to take it to market.
But the extra horses and wagons and
men necessary to move the three
million bushels of wheat now raised
in Goodhue county are not realized
by those who sit in their Offices and
do the business, or by those who
lecture and advise and instruct the
farmers.
The fact is, MIR. Editor, to support
my family I must raise large guam
tity Of wheat. To raise this wheat
| must work hard myself and keep
a large working force. If can
make margin Of twenty-five cents
on a bushel of wheat, l must raise
1000 bushels to clear $1,000. That
amount would be considered mod
crate as the income Of business
man in town, and economy would
still be the motto where $1,000 was
the limit of expenditure for all pur-
poses in a family. 1t may be a
good thing for farmers boys to stick
to the farm, but they need some
education and some privileges or
they will not stay.
Now we find, to haul the wheat
sixteen to twenty-five miles over the
hills is great burden. 1t costs one
bushel in ten, as an average, to put
it down in the river towns; and the
question comes up: what can we
do? Shall we continue indefinitely
to be at this expense; to sit still and
do nothing? Or shall we contrive
some way to be relieved of this item
of team work? Again, distance
from market makes it absolutely
impossible for farmers to market
their wheat in the fall. The harvest
over and stacking done, every team
is put in requisition for fall plowing.
1t takes favorable season to do
the threshing and plowing before
the winter sets in, and when it takes
from one to two hard days work to
put forty bushels Of wheat in mar
ket, merchants will have to put their
bills and accounts over due on file
and wait the time, not when farmers
will, but when they can market
their crop.
| cannot see any solution Of the
question at issue except in the mod
ern highway-the railroad. A rail-
road is a pressing want of the peo-
pie, the farmers Of the country.
speak from my own experience. I
do not theorize or speculate on the
matter. l have raised all the way
from 500 to 5000 bushels of wheat
yearly. The increase of production
makes largely an increase of labor
in the family as we'll as in the field.
The increase of income is nearly
kept up with by an increase Of ex-
pense so that it is problem yet un-
solved with many whether it pays.
In summer it is hurry all around, in
fall plowing and threshing, in win
ter, blow high or blow low, through
cold, storms, drifts and snow, must
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-26
20 to market as the only time in tn,

go to market as the only time in the
year to spare.
Are we to blame, then, when we
try to secure railroad, even though
it be a narrow-guage, and not just
where we would prefer to have it
built2 or even if we are obliged to
aid it or help it on its feet? Are we
to sit still and wait? If SO, please
say how long it will be wise to do
so. J. A. TEACHER.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-26

of men, women and children in 1860.
In the progress of this develop
ment, much has been learned, and
in learning these lessons many good
men have been used up. Capital
has been absorbed; farms have been
foreclosed, and poverty, emigration
and failure have discouraged many,
while, on the whole, success has
been wrested from fortune by a stern
contest. Economy and hard work
have been the notices of successful
men among the farmers of the inte-
rior: Enterprise, energy, and public
spirit among the business men of
Red Wing.
In the early days, Red Wing was
the nearest point of supply for a
large territory. Freeborn and Dodge
counties, as we'll as Goodhue, look
ed to Red Wing for lumber, build
ing material, provisions, etc. When
the farmers began to have little
produce to sell, Red Wing was the
best market. Red Wing men saw
that their policy was to have good
roads into the country to facilitate
journeys to and from the market,
for although the natural outlet for a
large tributary region, that city was
Ysomewhat difficult Of access. The
high bluffs to be surmounted and the
deep ravines to pass through made
the building of roads expensive, yet
the public spirit of the citizens, Sec
onded by right sentiment in the
County Commissioners, has done
much to overcome these difficulties
and give comfortable access to Red
Wing. >:
The building Of the railroad
through Rochester cut off large
area from Red Wing. Still it grew
strong, the development of. Good
hue county more than making up for
the loss. Cooperation also STEP
ped in and helped to lift. The River
railroad was built and the country
all rejoiced. No man can point to
any obstacle thrown in the way OF
that improvement by those in south.
ern Goodhue. On the contrary, it
was helped and encouraged in the
legislature by all the members from
the county. More lately Zumbrota
subscribed some two to three thou.
sand dollars of stock to help build
the steam Touring mill in Red Wing,
hoping thereby to steady the prlce o1
wheat.
The farmers of the country started
on small scale. 1t was the favor.
ite theory that each man must dc
pretty much all his own work in or.
der to live, or that it would not pa,
to hire much. For years they strug
gled on, raising few hundred bush.
els of wheat, hauling it to town with
their oxen, sleeping under thei,
wagons, depriving their families o.
comforts and conveniences and thei,
children of schools and education
until new light dawned upon them
The truth was, the margin of profit
on bushel of wheat was so small
that large quantity must be raise(
to insure living. This called fol
investments in breaking up ground
in buying teams and machinery anc
furnishing seed. Thus large debts
were incurred, the farmers were hare
up, the newspapers, as usual, were
wiser than the farmers and taugh,
them how short-sighted they were ir
: buying more machinery than the,
could pay for, in raising all of one
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The absOrDtiOn of the Mir

The absorption of the Mime
apois Tribune and Mail by the
Pioneer-Press Company, although
accomplished, is not a success. 1t
has excited a good deal Of opposi.
ton. It is believed that David and
Joseph won't bear spreading over
so much surface, and the public
don't care to have them so attenu-
ated. The consolidation will not
probably be a success.
The City National Bank of Chi
cago has failed for $Soo,ooo. Jen-
nison will please take notice. Great
institutions for depositors, these
banks! Eth, General?
The Republican State Conven.
ton is to meet on May 24th, in St
Paul. This county has FIVE dele
gates.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-09-02
HAYES AND WHEELER CLUB.

HAYES AND WHEELER CLUB.
In accordance with previous announce
ment the Republicans of this city organ
lied Hayes and Wheeler club at the
court house last Saturday evening. j.
w. Scott was elected temporary chair
man and G. NJ. Simpson temporary Sec
rotary. On motion committee of five on
permanent organization were appointed.
L. A. Thrasher, Peter Bell, J. A. Hart,
c. NJ. Simpson and John Paxson. This
committee was also instructed to draft
constitution and by laws and report Sat
urday evening Sept. I'd. The chairman
announced that the Secretary would re-
ceive names for membership in the club
when forty-five persons gave in their
names.
The chairman then introduced D. G..
Haskell, the Republican nominee for
Congress in this district, who made a
telling speech. The club will meet again
this evening, elect permanent officers and
receive additional members, when it will
be addressed by Col. Plumb, of Emporia.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-09-02

faithful and efficient officer and is 80
well and favorably known to the people
of this county that it is useless for us to
say anything in his favor. His nomina-
ton is foregone conclusion. However
if there is Republican in the county
who desires to try for the position we
will cheerfully publish his announce
ment, take his five dollars and commend
his case to the consideration of the Con-
vention.