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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-11-15

FIVE Chiname7 in wagon were en-
tering Oroville, Cal, week ago, when
q man with rifle met them and de-
handed their money. The driver start
ed the horses and the man fred, killing
one, whose body fell from the wagon.
On the body was ST. 900 in money. The
other Cinnamon rode into Oroville.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-11-15

both high and low standing, and scare
~ a. day passes but he receives lette
asking aid to help build seminarie
churches, and charitable institution
he Is reported as giving away upwa
OF $l00,O0 per annum. MIR. Coburn
probably worth Sc. 600. 600
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-11-15
MISCELLANEOUS e1EAN1Nas.

The schooner Gypsy Bride, from Pictou for
Georgetown, Prince Edwards Island, fonnd-
cred off Rollo bay. All hands were lost.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-05-31

The inventors of Burnett's Cocaine
knowing that when the loss of hair occurs, it
is generally from that part of the head where
the greatest heats necessarily generated and
that animal fats by their nature induce heat
rather than alleviate it-turned their atten
ton and pharmaceutical science toward
vegetable oils, as the basis of medIcament to
promote the growth and preserve the beauty
OF the hair. The Oittiig cOtVS, or COCOANrT
OIL, presented itself most strongly, as pos
sesslng many qualities peculiarly adapted for
the purpose; but its Odor was Objectionable
and its density Except when exposed to heat)
seemed for a long time to defy all efforts to
render it available, for popular use, in cooler
climates. BIZ q scientific selection of other
ingredients, those which will chemically
combine with the oil have been discovered,
and they together have produced q com
pound, which Is unqualifedIy pronounced to
be the best that has yet appeared.
In the form presented, this oil is perma-
nenly deOdOrized, and held in a combination
which peculiarly sdapts it for the toilet; BUR
NETT's COCAINE is Unrivaled in delicacy
and agreeableness-toolfng in its nature
and possesses such penetrating affinity for
the secretion of the skin, that il il rapidly alb
sorbed.
Itgreatest efficacy is best secured by a per
feet cleansing, before its application of the
hair and scalp, under which circumstances
this oil dttdyS irritation, T6lOrcs all tendency
to dHHdrlef; and iHrigordtes the action of the
capillaFies iii the highest degree. Its effect
upon the glOSsiness and richness Of the hair is
such as cannot be surpassed; and it is offered
to the public in the firm belief that it only re.
quires to be known to supersede all other
preparations. We are confident that no one
who will make a tIial of its efficacy VII be
willing to return to the use of any other pre-
paration.
JOSEPH BURNETT & Co, Boston, manufac
turers, aid ptoprietOrs.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-05-31
Stick to YOiIr business.

There is nothing which should be
more frequently impressed upon the
minds of young men than the importance
of steadily pursuing some one business
The frequent changing from one employ
ment to another, IS one of the most
common errors committed, and to it may
he traced more than half the failures of
men in business, and much of the dis
content and disappointment which rem
der life uncomfortable. 1t is a very
common thing for man to be dissatisfied
with his business, and to desire to change
it for some other, which, it seems to him,
will prove more lucrative employment;
but in nine cases out of ten, 1t is a mis-
take. Look around you, and you will
find among your acquaintance abundant
veritication of our assertion.
There Is an honest farmer who has
tOiled a few Yeas, got his farm paid for,
but does not grow rich rapidly, rs much
for lack of COntentment mingled with in
dustry as anything, though he IS not
aware of it. He hears the wonderful
stories of California, and how fortunes
may be had for the trouble OF picking
them up; mortgages his farm to raise the
money, goes away to the land of gold.
and, after many months of hard toll,
come home to commence again at the
bottom of the hill for a more weary and
less successful climbing up again. Mark
the men in every community who are
notorious for ability, and equally noto-
riOUs for never getting ahead, and you
find them to be these who never stick to
one business long, but are always fOrsak-
ing their occupation just when it begins
to be rOfitable.-iScjentjtic Americun.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-05-31
TIE HORRORS OF WAR.
An EnIs0de In the RussO-Turhfsh Cs
naiRn OfIsII.


In 1911 the opposing Russian and
Turkish armies stood facing each other
on opposite banks of the Danube. Dur
ing the night between the 9Th and 9th
of September the Turks succeeded, by
making a feint. and so attracting the
Russians 10 a spot some three miles be-
low the real point of passage, in throw
ing a force of 1000 men and four guns
across the river a short distance above
Giurge7o, The first attempts of the
Russians to drive this small body back
into the river were successfully with
stood; reinfOrCPments were rapidly
brought over from the right to the left
bank, until finally 10000 men and fifty
guns we're assembled on the northern
Shore. Every effort to advance further
and drive back the Russian army, which
had fallen back into an intrenched posi-
ton, was, however, repulsed; the Turks
themselves. being obliged after a time to
construct ititr6nGhmehts to Withstand
the counter attacks directed against
them. Unable to drive back the invad-
ing force, the Russians desisted from any
further active measures against 1t, but,
bringing a strong Rotilla of gunboats up
the Danab5, to prevent supplies being
carried across the river into Shs Turkish
camp on the left bank, they quietly
awaited events. The provision Of the
Turkish force, thus completely isolated,
unable to advance because of the Russian
force in front Of it, unable to retreat be-
cause Of the fUtilla which efectua1ly
prevented any bridge being thrown
across the river. soon began to rim Short.
The weather became cold; but there
was no fuel with which to kindle fires.
Under these circumstances the sufferings
of the men were very great. For some
time there was hOrseHesh; but it had to
be eaten raw, as even the tent poles had
been cut up and burned. Hundreds
died daily, and their. comrades had not
strength to bury them. Disease was
consequently soon added to famine, SO
that when finally, on the 8th of Decem,
Der, peace was concluded; but -four
thousand meh, who are described as be,
ing but living skeletons with scarce suf
ficient strength to stand Upright, were
lift out of the. thirty thousand. who
three months before had crossed The
river
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-05-31
Malaria and Vegetation.

ten. Egbert L. Viele read a paper
before the New York academy of science,
last Monday night. which is eff great
scientific interest. The subject discussed
was the relations between malaria and
vegetation, and in laying the Foundation
Ior this the consideration &C the relations
existing between the animal and vege
table kingdoms in the lower forms of
organic life. The solution &C the causes
OF disease, especially malarial diseases,
Gen. Niele believes will be found in the
parallel lines of cellular development in
plant life, where the animal and vegeta-
bic are almost identical, passing in some
instances from the one kingdom into the
other with the facility of n mere change
of garment.
In The ascendiDg-scale of the great line
Of demarcation which first develops IT.
self, is the all important fact that the
refuse of the.One is the life of the other
This led him to infer that somewhere in
this border line between these two great
kingdoms of nature there must be lust
equilibrium Of the normal elements OF
vitality, the destruction of which may
be the true cause of most of the evils
which have been entailed Upon Our
existence. In great cities, he said, the
surroundings Of nature are removed and
the equilibrium of the natural forces is
destroyed BY the preponderance OF
animal life.
Malaria, he said, signifies bad air,
while miasma has been more sharply
defined as infection floating in air; but
no definition, however full or precise,
can give anything like an adequate con
ception of the wonderful potentiality and
universal presence of the morbifc prin-
ciple which is known as malaria. Mas
matte or malariaI diseases include all
those specific disorders which are
contagiOusly or which may become cpl
demic, and to these are due nearly three
fifths of all the deaths which take place
throughout the world. After referring
to the fact that the physical health Of
all human beings improves in the
atmosphere of the country where vegeta-
ton fiOurishes, Gen. Viele spoke OF Prof.
TyndaPs demonstration that even minute
particles of the air are vital organism
developed under favoring circumstances
into actual living creatures. In this one
simple experiment, he said, is the whole
secret Of COntsgiOn.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-05-31
FARM AND PRESIDE,
IEnPes on Manure.

The proportions of salt and lime of
which l make a mixture, is one busheI
OF salt to three bushels of Stacked lime
This mixture put in cistern, hogs
head or barrel, and keep it filled with
water; pI2cing the cistern in the ground,
on one side where / make a heap O
manure. In former years when I carried
on quite large farming business. and
kept five horses, and otter stock. I built
manure shed adjoining my horse stable
of the same length AS the stable. The
floor of the stable was slightly inclined
to the rear, and all of the urine wOnId
run to the back part. Here I left an
opening into the manure shed, and made
water tight floor, descending from both
sides TO the centre. In the centre. and
under this floor | placed tight trough
emptylng into the Cistern. Upon this
floor the manure was thrown every dav
from the stables. The liquid in the els
tern was pumped over the manure two
or three times week, and all thesurplu-
which was not absorbed by the manure
run back into the cistern. When the
water was exhausted, an additional
quantity was supplied. By this method
@ll the animal excrements, both solid and
liquid, were preserved,
~A'S SiASSs VI Ci4AS IAlOAC Vi procedure Is
to preserve the whole of the manure
without exposure to the sun or the rains.
and thus evaporation and washing away
are both prevented, and, consequently. a
large saving of the most valuable parts
OF the manure. The direct effect of this
salt and lime mixture upon the manure
is to hasten decomposition, while all the
properties OF the manure are preserved
TO destroy the terminating power of foul
seeds, which usually are such terror to
the farmer, and-to reduce the whole mas.
coarse or fine, to such a condition as will
enable the workingmen to handle and
use it as they would ground gypsum, or
any other fine fertilizer. Whenever the
mass becomes warm, and likely TO FIRE
fang, set the pumps to work. and a uui.
etus will be placed on it at once. have
generally kept IN the stable barrel of
ground gypsum, which I have sprinkIed
around the stalls two or three times a
week, which prevents the rising of the
carbonate of ammonia from the oecom-
posing excrements, in the stable, which
Is 80 destructive to the eyes and lungs o.
horses. BY this process, an almost I'M
limited amount of the very best manure
may be made on the farm in . YEAR
And the beauty of the operation Is. that
you know of what it is rC,mnosed and
ton for ton is worth rc.ore than anv arti.
hclal fertilizer witch you can buy a,
from $50 to so per toni 7. Names.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-05-31

The economy and desirability of green
crop manuring over all other methods,
excepting irrigation, is evident from the
low cost and availability to all from the
large quantity of nitrogen and valuable
chemicals obtained at lower cost than by
any other manure; from the superior
cultivation the land receives during this
process, and finally because the poorest
land can be redeemed in one year by the
ability to pillow under three crops in a
single season, or by planting rye, buck
wheat and corn, thus supplying all the
minerals demanded by any crop. The
hest practical illustration of the value OF
Green manuring is furnished by some OF
the finest farming lands in New York
state. that are producing more now than
thew did twenty five years ago, and yet
have been treated with clover only dur
inc the past seventy-fve-years, furnished
excellent crops in the rotation of wheat
oats Germ, barley and grass. The best
method of handling clover for green
maDuring is to SOW the seed early and
nov or Dlow under about the middle o.
lime if mown, let it remain spread
over the ground as a mulch and top
dressing. and a second crop Will mature
sufticie5lty by the last of August TO NOW
again and pillow under in September.
clever and It's roots average washed
Tyoig6t of two aud One-quarter pounds 10
tba s,uare foot, or foIty-nine tors pc.
acre. Rye and corn VIII furnish two
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-05-31
A Look at Jassy, the Russian Base in
EurODC,

had been prepared, l know not by
means of what absurd prejudices to find
in the vicinity of the Pruth and the
| Bessarabian frontier nothing but small
and miserable villages, in which comfort
was impossible. l was therefore con-
! siderably surprised when I was informed
IN Bucharest that Jassy was a town Of
! 10000 inhabitants, with good hotels,
| fine mansions and we'll paved streets.
| Arriving there, after about seventeen
| hours OF railway travel, l found all
| these statements pleasantly confirmed.
Jassy is built on the top and along the
! slopes of range of hills which in sum
mer are said to be remarkably beautiful
| but in the bleak, rainy weather of to
| day they were somewhat dreary. l dis
embarked into sea of mud, however,
| quite like those l had seen in the peas
ants villages. A Russian mujik, dressed
In an immense great coat descending to
his colossal boot heels, with a girdle
| about his waist, and a CapdraW n down to
! the bridge of his nose, escorted me to
| his "droskhy," as the carriages are called
even on this side of the frontier, and was
! soon wheeling me through muddy pools
! in the lower part of the town, As soon
as we reached the hill / discovered that
the streets of upper Jassy were paved
| with asphalt and were as clean as tho. @
! of Paris. The long straight roads were
! filled with droskhys rafting to and fro,
and with country vehicles,s the high
wooden arched collar above the horse
neck proclaiming the Russian manufac-
| ture of wagons. At every corner / saw
! the Jew In his gaberdine, with his black
skull cap coquel tishly Perched on top of
his gray hair. The Jews in ROumania
are one of the most important elements
of the population, and l shall have some
| thing to say of them in a future letter
| They have been greatly abused here
! even latterly-and they do not look upon
the coming of the Russians with any
marked degree of pleasure. The Turk
| has generally shown himself civil to the
| Jew, but not because of desire to be
civil; rather because of general negli-
gence:
The rain fell in binding sheets as my
muiIk drove into the muddy courtyard
OF the principal hotel ia Jassy. In the
corridor, of this hostelry l find any mum
Der OF square jawed, red faced servants
sitting outside their masters doors,
I whence, l conclude, there are Russians
here already. Four or five OF these ser.
wants appear to belong to one man, who
continually calls them in a loud voice
creating the most intense excitement in
their ranks. When any guest of the
hotel passes, these servants rise and re-
main standing until he has passed
'Ed10drd Kings ,}tSsy Letter To BoS on
| ,EO1rT1I
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-05-31
Evils of Gossip.

/ have known a country society which
withered away TO nothing under the dry
rot of gossip only. Friendships, once as
firm as granite, dissolved to iellv, and
then ran away to water only because of
this; love that promised a future as en-
during and as stable as truth, evapOrated
into a morning mist that turned to a
days long tears, only because of this: a
father and a son were set foot to foot
with the fiery breath of an anger that
would never cool again between them
and q husband and a young wife, each
straining at the hated lash which in the
beginning had been the promise of a
GOd-blessed love, sat mOurnfully by the
side of the grave where all their love and
all their 10y lay buried, and all because
of this. l have seen faith transformed
to mean doubt, Joy give place to grim
despair, and charity take on itself the
features of black malevolence, all be-
cause of the fell words of scandal, and
the magic mutterings of gossip. Great
crimes work great wrong, and the deeper
tragedies of human life spring from the
larger passions; but woeful and most
mOurnful the shipwreck often made of
noble natures and lovely lives by the
bitter winds and dead salt waters of
SANDER. So easy to say, yet so hard to
isprOve-thTOwing on the innocent all
the burden and the strain of demOnstra-
ting their innocence, and Furnishing them
as guilty If unable to pluck out the
stings they never see, and to silence
words they never heaT-gOssip and
SANDER are the deadliest and cruelest
weapons man has ever forged for his
brothers heart.-AU .Hc Year Round.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-05-31

'rops IN one season by blowing the rye
under when in the milk, then sowing
one and one-half Dushelsof corn per acre,
cutting it and permitting it to remain as
top-dressing during the winter. The
great value Of rye as a green manure
consists in the fact that its component
parts are nearly the same as stable
manure, ton for ton, except slight diff
fering in phOsphoric acid. Rye will
grow where no other crop cant rye and
buckwheat do well together, and cutting
the buckwhest when in blossom viii
furnish second crop. Oats and barley
are valuable as green Natures. barley
being richer thah any grain or grass in
potash or pGOsphoric acid. Oats will
yle!u the greatest weight in straw and
sraIn II cut in the milk. Green manures
gather daily supplies of moisture, espe-
lalIy If on the surface, feeding the
organic world with nourishihg food or
olo0d, which can not be obtained from
ordinary manure when plowed under.
The latter often remains worthless from
iry>rot or heat produced from lack of
moisture needed to bring out its value.
Another decided advantage possessed by
green manures is the large amount OF
water the contain for supplying the
growing plants through drought, while
1ther manures only consume the water
In the sOil.-1faiHe Farmer.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-05-31
Starvation in Nottherh Fhffn.

simultaneously with the. dearth in
India, a famine is raging in the north of
China but while the care and energy of
the Indian government reduces the dis
tress in the former case to a minimum.
people are dying by thousands in China
of sheer starvation, The scenes of the
chief distress are in the north and east.
in the extreme north bf kiatigsu, in
Shantung, In Fechili, and in Shanse ;
and from Shantung especially the ac~
counts are heartTendering. The whole
tract of country suffered last Skinner
from severe droUth, which iieaTiy de-
strOyed the crops; and the peasantry,
having eaten what little grain they had
in store, or were able to gather. are re-
duced TO the last stage of want. The
people are eating grain htsks, potato
stalks, and elm bark; buckwheat stalks;
turnip leaves, and grass seeds, which
they gather up in the fields. After
these are exhausted they pull down their
houses and sell the timber, and MANY
eat the rotten sorghum stalks from the
roof. They sell their clothes and chill
dren. Having no clothing left to pro-
tect them from the cold, many take
refuge in pits underground to keep them
selves warm by the fetid breath of the
crowd. In the east surbubs of Chinge>
how city there are four such pits. One>
third Of the number (24O) originally put
into them are now dead within six
weeks, and no sooner is a corpse carried
out than a crowd are struggling for the
place. Villages of 500 families report
300 dead of starvation; villages of 300
report 100 dead,
Almost the whole province Of Shan>
tung Is suffering but the suffering of
eight hen districts is said to beyond de-
scription. and as each contains an
average of 1000 villages, the thousands
who have already persisted may be too
readily conceived.
The government are doing next to
nothing to relieve the distress. They
have allotted only E14,OOG for the whole
of these eight districts-a mere pittance
for such calamity.-Load5i Ti5nc5.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-05-31
Effect Of the New York Pool. Selling
Bill on Racing.

What effect on racing will the passage
of the bill prohibiting pool selling in
New York have 30 said I to Mr. Nc
Grath, as we walked toward his housa
a very bad effect" was his renIv
The opponents of poOI-selling claimed
that if the bill was passed the race-tracL,s
would receive the patronage of a LARGE
class of people who were kept away from
them by the betting that was done ON
them-church people, ! presume they
were. Well, the time may come when
horse races W II be opened with PRAYERS
but it will not be in my DAYS, or yours
either young man People 90 to the
race tracks and buy pools on the horses
in order to partake of the excitement of
the races. The booksellers pay the rae
ing associations large sums for the privi-
lege of selling pools. and the money on
ables the association to offer large purses
and stakes to be COntended for. The
large stakes induce the owners of the
finest horses to enter and run for them
and this 1t Is that makes fine racing, and
makes the race track attractive and non
ular. Take away the privilege of selling
pools, and the associations, thus denrivad
/ will be compelled to curtaiI the Size ~
/ their stakes and purses. This viii Dre-
I
/ entering them for competition, for If il
/ costs four, five or six hundred dollars 10
train horse for racing, you are not going
/ to enter him for a stake of halt. or eve6
/ the whole, of that amount. Iffrst-cIess
horses do not contend for the prizes the
/ public will not patronize the coIIrsa
racing will fall into decrepitude and The
/ consequence will be that it will no Longer
be profitable to breed the finest kind of
/ horses, for their price will decline so thai
/ 1t will materially interfere with the in.
| come OF stock raisers all over the country
| This Is my opinion at present. but the
/ result may be to build up ricinr to an
| unthought of extent outside of the state
OF New York, and may induce the own
ers OF the best stock to run it more in
/ the west and south" "What effect will
[ the passage of the bill have upon Mr..
/ ChambeTlin's fortune ?' said ]. - WHY
/ 1t will be his salvation was the response.
/ or course all the New York meetings
/ will be run as advertised and announced
/ this year; next year Is when the pinch
/ will begin but would not be surprised
if the meeting at Long Branch was one OF
] the most brilliant of any ever held in