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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-02-01
New York Cash Price rs

we nave IN 6t0ck, OF cur own manu-
factHre, roofing materials, ETC., at the
following low prices:
1000 rolls extra Rubber Roofing, at 3
cents per square foot. (Or We will fur
nish Rubber Roofing, Nails, Caps and
Slate Paint for an entire new roof, at a
cents per square foot
1000 rolls 2-ply Tarred Roofing Felt,
at z cents per square foot.
5000 rolls 3-ply TaFred Ro ofng Felt,
at p cents per sqEaFe foot.
200 rolls Tarred Sheathing, at cent
per square foot
5000 gallons fine Enamel Paint, mixed
ready for use, on inside or outside work,
at - per gallon, all shades
1000 Bbls Slate FlOur-...-.per Dbl. s. 90
1000 " Soapstone Flour...per Dbl 3 90
1000 a Grafton Minera;...per Dbl. 90
1000 " Metallic Paint, dry per bbl. 3 90
Special prices per toa d load lots
All orders - EccCglF1nssd with the
su5jeet 70 20 DAYS draft we'll kaoEn p ties.
n. Y. SLATE PAINT Co.
IO2 and I04 Maiden Lane, Ne,g York
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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-02-01
NOTICE.

All persons indebted to Osborne i Co.
for the year 1876 will please come up
and settle by cash or note.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-02-01
Card to the Public.
Mr.. JOHN 81. JOHNSON

WOULD respectfully intern his sld and the
public generally that he has commenced the Stove bus
aEain, next door Reynolds furniture Store. He
repleBshbg his stock by supplies Of Stoves Tin
irsa Of all kinds lie would be glad 10 have his
old patrons give him their ORDERS Having lost every
thing the Gre he would urgently request persons
owing hin 70 call at aad settle. jan AT
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-02-01
Personal.

The barber shop, kept by James Hill,
has been removed to the South side of
the square, over the store of Ingram &
McCIarty, where he viii be pleased to
serve his old customers and the public
generally. Rates as usual. If.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-02-01

A farm of so acres. two miles east Of
Bolivar. Apply to
febI IF F. Fentress.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-02-01
Wells Tea Company

Il Of the largest and most reliable houses in the
trade al parties requiring Tea in quantities viii do
veil to seal their orders direct jan Is
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-25
Fright in a SchOOl-HOuse.

Many years ago cub bear was caught
by stout lad near the borders of Lake
Winnipiseogee, in New Hampshire, car
ried into town, and, after proper drilling,
became the playfellow of the boys of the
village, and often accompanied them to
the school house.
After passing few months in civil
lied society, he made his escape to the
woods and after few years was almost
forgotten. The school-house, meantime,
had fallen from the school mistress's
hands; and instead of large boys learn
ing to read and cipher, small boys and
girls were taught in the same place
knitting and spelling. One winters
had been left open by some small ur
chins going out, when, to the unspeaka-
BILE horror of the specialized dame and
her fourscore hopeful scholars, an enor-
nous bear walked in, in the most famil-
lar manner in the world, and took seat
by the fire.
Huddling over their benches as fast as
they could, the children crowded about
their school mistress, who had fled to the
farthest corner of the room; and there
they stood crying and pushing to escape
the horror of being eaten first. The bear
sat snuffing and warming himself by the
fire, however, showing great signs of
satisfaction,b putting off his meal until
he had warmed himself thoroughly
The screams of the children continued,
but the school-house was far from any
other habitation, and the bear did
not seem at all embarrassed by the out
cry. After sitting and turning himself
about for some time, Bruin got up on his
hind legs, and showing to the door, be-
gan to take down one by one the hats,
bonnets and satchels that hung on sew
eral rows of pegs behind it. His men,
DRY had not deceived him, for they con-
tanned as of old the childrens dinners,
and he had arrived before the holidays.
Having satisfied himself with their
cheese, bread, pies, doughnuts, and ap-
piles, Bruin smelt at the mistress desk,
but finding it locked, gave himself a
shake of resignation, opened the door
and disappeared. The alarm was given,
and the amiable creature was pursued
and killed, very much to the regret of
the townspeople, when it was discovered
by some marks on his body that it was
their old friend and playfellow.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-25
The Steam Plough.

Fraser's Magazine, in an article upon
the modern agricultural improvements,
says: In the way of sheer downright
force, few effects of machinery are more
striking than a steam ploughing engine
dragging the shares across wide ex-
panse of stiff clay. The huge engines
used in our iron-clad vessels work with a
graceful ease which dect IVES the eye; the
ponderous cranks revolve so smoothly,
and shine so brightly with oil and polish,
that the mind is apt to underrate the
work performed. But these ploughing
engines stand out solitary and apart from
other machinery, and their shape itself
suggests force, such forces as may have
existed in the mastodon, or other un-
wieldy monster of the prehistoric ages.
The broad wheels sink into the earth
under the pressure; the steam Kissing
from the escape valves is carried by the
breeze through the hawthorn hedge,
hiding the red berries with strange,
unwOnted cloud; the thick, dark brown
smoke, rising from the funnel as the
stoker casts its food of coal into the
fiery mouth of the beast, falls again and
floats heavily over the yellow stubble,
smothering and driving away the par
tridges and hares. There is smell of
oil and cotton waste, and gasS and steam
and smoke, which Overcomes the fresh,
sweet odor of the earth and green things
after shower. Stray Jumps of coal
crush the delicate pimpernel and creep
ing convolvulus. A shrill, short scream
rushes forth and echoes back from an ad-
jacent rick-putf! the fy-wheels revolve,
and the drum underneath tightens its
hold upon the wire rope. Across yonder,
a curious, shapeless thing, with man
riding upon it, comes jerking forward,
tearing its way through stubble and clay,
dragging its iron teeth with sheer
strength deep through the solid earth.
The thick wire rope stretches and strains
as if it would snap and curl up like a
tortured snake; the engine pants loudly
and quick the plough now glides for
ward, now pauses, and, as it were, eats
its way through tougher place, then
glides again, and presently there is a
pause, and behold, the long furrow with
the upturned subsoil is completed. A
brief pause, and back it travels again,
this time drawn from the other side,
where twin monster puffs and pants
and belches smoke, while the one that
has done its work uncoils its metal
sincws. When the burrows run up and
down slope, the savage force, the fierce
remorseless energy of the engine pulling
the plough upward, gives an idea of pow
er which cannot but impress the mind.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-25
Russian Funerals.

Much as | dislike funerals, have had
to see many, and of all kinds, but none,
except at times, in the form of the Epis-
copal church, are to me so beautiful or
so pleasant as these Russian funerals
black, too still. We bury our dead too
much as if we were trying to draw les
son from the dead, and as if we doubted
where the soul had gone. The Catholic
service is too grandiose. There is fine
music, but the ceremony is too long and
too entirely confined to the officiating
priest. In the Russian church every one
seems to be taking part in the service,
and the dead are treated with tender
ness and love not elsewhere found. The
bows and prostrations, the tapers in each
ones hands, the kissing the hands, the
earth thrown in the coffin with its beau
tiful symbolic meaning, are marks of af-
fectionate respect, as we'll as the carrying
of the coffin and the earth thrown into
the grave by the hands of the friends
and relatives. There are no black pals,
no double collins or burial caskets, no
horrible screwing down of the lid. dust
thou art, to dust must thou return" is a
truth which man here does not attempt
to evade. AS 1 said above, every cere-
mony and every repetition here tends to
make us realize the fact of death, with
out destroying any of its sanotity.
My thoughts and reflections have de-
tanned me- long, and the funeral pro-
cession which gave rise to them has
passed my window long since, and the
church bells are silent.-Eugene Schuyler,
in Scribner.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-25

WHEN child picks flowers in field
and brings us the whole handful, one up
and one down, all see more clearly the
beauty, the harmony in color and form
that is so good to our sight. We arrange
them, and altogether they blend in a
beautiful whole, so that we do not look
at one, but at the whole boquet. This
perception of the harmony of beauty is
an instinct in us, lying in our eyes and
ears-these bridges between our souls and
the created things, even in the beating of
the waves of the air made manifest in
sound.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-25

READING FOR CHILDREN.-When chill
dren are young, they must read books
suited to their age. But after they have
entered their teens we should buy them
almost no books written especially for
girls and boys. OF course exception
must be made in favor Of few books by
the best modern writers for young peo-
pie, whose influence is, on the whole, so
beneficial; it would be wrong to deprive
the young folks of the combined pleasure
and profit of their perusal But any in
telligent child of thirteen, whose mind
is not already vitiated by an acquired
love of trash and sensationalism, will
read with delight Cooper, Irving, Dick
ems, the Vicar Of Wakefield, SCOTS prose
and poe try, the descriptive poems of
Whittier, Longfellow, Bryant, etc.
From the best fiction it is an easy step
to the lighter histories, travels, and bio
graphy, and taste for good reading has
been created. Trash:has no temptation
then.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-25

How PEDESTRIAN LIvEs.-Miss
Won Hillern, when preparing for walk,
rises at FIVE A. NJ, eats two raw eggs, and
walks ten miles, returning to her bath
and hearty breakfast of rare beet, boiled
potatoes, oat meal and stale bread. After
this she rests until one o'clock, when she
takes fifteen-mile walk, dining on roast
beef and potatoes, following with light
tea, and retiring st ten p. NJ, under all
circumstances. During her walks she
relies entirely on beef tea and the raw
yolks of eggs for nourishment, quenching
her thirst With seltzer and prune water.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-25
Small Things.

In the animal kingdom are found myri-
ads of forms so minute that their bulk
is reckoned by less than the millionth
part of a cubic inch, yet each one is en-
dowed with organs of sense or assimila-
ton sufficient to serve the purpose in
their sphere of life. The vegetable king
dom, also, offers abundant specimens of
microscopic forms, calculated to excite
our admiration by the beauty and mi
nuteness of their organisms. Such is
notably the case in several forms of
Diatomocee. The striated markings of
Pleurostg'na fasciola aggregate to $4,000
to the inch, while Amphtpleura pellucida
often exhibits stria exceeding 100000 to
the lneal inch. And yet the skeleton of
these minute organisms are composed
mainly of slick, the slick again being
made up Of silicon and oxygen. Not
withstanding the almost infinitesimal
magnitudes of the organic world, human
skill is able to compete in the matter of
minuteness. Platinum wire has been
drawn so fine as to rival in minu teness
the smallest fibre of the spiders web.
Gold has been deposited upon the sur
face of other metals, and drawn to such
extreme thinness that thOusand-mil
lionth part of grain exhibited the WIS.,
ibe characteristics of the metal. The
oscillations of the horizontal pendulum
can be measured to the one eighty-mil-
ionth part of an inch, by the aid of a
small mirror, beam of light, and a
graduated scale for reading the vibra-
tions. Nobert, with mechanical skill
unsurpassed, has repeatedly ruled with
a diamond point upon glass the nine
teenth band of his test-plate, consisting of
lines less than the one one-hundred and
twelve thousandth of an inch apart, and
it is claimed that he has succeeded in
ruling plates covering $4,000 lines per
inch, such as would aggregate in super
fetal areas to over 50,00O,0 100000 to the
square inch.-L. Il. Curttss, in Popular
Science Monthly.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-25
Purchasing Agency.

Ladies who are DESTROYS of having goods
purchased for them in San Francisco can dc
so by addressing Mrs. w. Ii. Ashley, who
will send samples of goods for their inspec-
ton and approval. Would say that am an
experienced dress maker, and have the ad-
vantage Of buying at wholesale, and would
give my patrons the benefit of same. Goods
purchased and sent G. q. ID. Send for Cir
cular. ANY information in regard to styles
cheerfully given. Would add that l have a
frst-class establishment for Dress-making,
and am prepared to execute country orders
with dispatch. Address Mrs. w. Ii. ASHLEY,
120 Suffer street Room 81 San Francisco.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-25

MARRY THE WOMAN.-Some men
marry dimples, some eyes, a few ears ;
the mouth, too, is occasionally married ;
the chin not so often. A young man
once fell head over heels and ears in love
with braid. He was so far gone that he
became engaged to his braid, but a new
mode of hairdressing having been
adopted by his tiance, the charm was dis
solved and never renewed What do
young men marry Why they marry
these and many other bits and scraps of
a wife, instead of true woman. And
then, after the wedding, they are sur
prised to find that although married,
they have no wives. He that would have
wife must marry woman.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-25

FEEDING Housewife american Ag-
yiculturist says: "The best grain for q
horse is certainly oats; the next barley
corn as a steady feed is not wholesome
at all. Oats have about the requisite
quantity of nutricious and indigestible
MISTER to be healthful, and barley APP
proahes very near oats in this respect.
The actual values of these grains are as
nearly as possible equal to their usual
market values, the latter being in reality
based upon the former.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-25

ATTENTION is called to the offer made by
the National Silver Plating Co., 7O4 Chestnut
St., Philadelphia, in our columns. Their sill
ver-ware is beautiful and fully up to standard,
and their generous offer is available to all the
readers Of this paper for ninety days after
date
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-25
SAVE YOUR MONEY

DY getting your PHOTOGRAPHS at HowLAND's
DNEw GALLERY, No. Is Third street, San Fran
CISCO Firstclass Photographs for half the price
charged other galleries. Lifesize Portraits In oil
or water colors, only TEN DOLLARS. Old Pictures
Enlarged to any size and beautifully coiored. Best
Enameled Cabinets and Cards VERY CHEAP. at
HOwLANDs NEW GALLERY. eH-Please call and
sec our work and get prices before visiting else
where and be sure and remember the number; b
Third street, corner OF Jessie.
B. r. ROWLAND. Artist,
SAN Francisco, CAL
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-25

A WASHINGTON letter. writer says that
Mr.. Simon Wolf, President of the Wash
iugton Schutzenvercin, who set aAoat
the story that Mrs. Hayes sent the his
toric bouquet to his society, is likely to
lose his official head. He Is Register of
Deeds for the District Of Columbia.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-25

TEACH self-denial, and make its prac-
tice pleasurable, and you create for the
world destiny more sublime than ever
issued from the brain of the widest
dreamer
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-25

AN old rail-splitter in Indiana put the
quietus upon a young man who chaffed
him upon his bald head in these words !:
"Young man, when my head gets as soft
as yours, can raise hair to SELL
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-25

TESTED BY TME.-For Throat Diseases,
Colds, and Coughs, "Bro,cn's bronchial Tro-
ches" have proved their efficacy by a test of
many years.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-25

THE LITTLE PAINS, toothache, headache,
earache, cramps, COLES, corns and bunions,
are relieved by one application OF Trapper's
Indian Oil Price 50 Cents.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-25

USE Burnham's Abietine for Group, colds,
sore throat and hoarseness.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-25

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DURNHAMs ABIkIlNk FOR BURNS, sCALDs.
ID Cuts and sorcs OF ali kinds
nm MAGNETIC TlMEPlECE. Metal
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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-25

VANS IN FLoRIDA.-A correspondent
says: 1--WE plant yam sprouts early in
the spring, say thousand, and from
them We cut cuttings or vines, and cut
them about eight inches long; have our
ridges made, and dig trench in the center
Of each one, in order to hold the water,
then drop them about twelve inches apart
and go along with forked stick to push
them in, and then we are done until dig
ging time. Our digging time comes off
in September, and, in fact, We can have
yams at almost any time, as We can plant
at any time. On new pine land yams
will yield from 100 to 800 bushels. They
are selling at 81 per bushel, and never
lower than rs cents, and think it will
pay we'll to raise them. Horses, cows
and hogs eat them as we'll as corn, and
they are an easy crop raised"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-25
Handling Hops.

Both the quality and value of hops are
impaired if leaves and stems are mingled
with them. Pick each hop singly and
separate the clusters. Set apart or re-
ject all discolored, poor and rustsmitten
hops, and wherever this is impossible,
thoroughly mix the whole pile before
baling, to secure uniform quality. Never
pack green and brown hops together, un-
less you want to injure the value of your
goods. Be very careful in drying your
hops. Those too much dried or scorched
loose their rich flavor and aroma, while
those not sufficiently dried will heat
when baled and become worthless. Bale
on rainy day, as the hops are then most
pliable and pack better. Let each bale
be neat and trim; for in hops, as in but
ter, bad packages lower the price of the
best of goods. Well pressed bales sam
pie better, while in those compressed SO
tightly as to exclude air the hops are
quite likely to heat, especially if slack
dried. Mark your name in full plainly
on the narrow side, near the top of each
bale, with a stencil plate and turpentine
mixed with lamp-black, and be sure to
put the date of growth on every bale.
Just before shipping, especially to great
distance, make certain that the goods are
in proper condition to bear transporta-
ton, by examining the center of each
bale with ''trier." In prudence, as well
as from honesty, resist the temptation to
mix old hops with those of this years
growth; buyers are neither rash nor mex
perienced, and such an attempt at decep-
ton is pretty sure to recoil on the Of
fenders.-Rural Ne,o Yorker.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-25
AGENTS WANTED ; ~ ~ :% :SSs !: /:

Frontier :" valuable and authentic history oil
the Herosm, Adventures, Trials, Prvstions, Captivi.
ties and noble lives and deaths of the Mothers OF
the Republic" BY william w. Fowler F. DEWING
Il CO. Publishers. San Francisco Cal
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1877-12-29
Good RESOLUTIONS.

This is the season for forming good
resolutions. Nearly everybody is going
to swear off" from some habit or
other on New Years. One declares he
is going to quit drinking altogether,
another that he will restrict himself to
three drinks day. third resolves to
indulge in nothing stronger than lager.
and all are to gut gambling and
smoking II the resolutions now
formed amount to anything, there will
be no drunkards, no card playing and
very lItle smoking during the year of
grace, 1873.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1877-12-29
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
A Contemplate Act.

There was dance at Justice ElIiott's
building in Paradise village, Christmas.
A large number of persons attended.
and everything passed of pleasantly
during the evening. While the dancers
were absent from the hall at supper
time. some cowardly, contemplate
sneak entered the han and strewed the
floor with Cayenne pepper. When
dancing was resumed it became appar
ent to all in the room that something
was wrong. and investigation disclosed
the fact that pepper had been sprinkled
ali over the floor, and the dancers ad-
journed to their homes. IT some of the
boys who attended that dauce fad out
who it was that sprinkled pepper on
that floor. they will make Paradise the
hottest place in the universe for him.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1877-12-29

LAST year $4,000 cattle were de-
stroyed by wild animals and venomous
snakes in India, and 3D. wild ami
mails and 27O.l85 poisonous snakes
killed; l20. 0l5 rupees We're expended in
rewards. Iu the current year 10. 273
persons and 54.S30 cattle have been
killed, and l24 STA rupees expended in
rewards. In the central provinces the
deaths from this cause increased from
SIT in 1875 to 1908 IN 1876.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1877-12-29


HAVE you any excuse for suffering
with Dyspepsia or Liver Complaint? Is
there any reason why you should go
on from day to day complaining with
Sour Stomach. Sick Headache.
Habitual Costumes. Palpitation of the
Heart, Heart Burn, Waterbrash.
Gns wing and Burning Pains at the Pit
of the Stomach, Yellow Skin, Coated
rorgue and disagreable taste in the
mouth. Coming up of food after eating.
Low spirits. &c. Mol 1t is POSITIVELY
your own fanlt If you do. Go 10 your
Druggist aud get bottle OF Green's
August Flower for rs cents your cure
10 certain, but if you doubt this, get q
Sample Bottle for 10 cents and try it.
Two doses viii relieve you.
Agents Crane II Brigham. wholesale
druggists; San Frsncisco.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1877-12-29
SPECIAL LOCALS.


Lost, on Christmas evening. between
the PostolIice and the Humboldt mill,
Russia leather purse. containing six
or seven dollars in silver, l01 shares of
Hornet mining stock. and other articles
of no value except to the owner. The
finder will be suitably rewarded upon
leaving it at the SILVER STATE
office. dec26-tf
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1877-12-29

This evening the pupils of the public
schools will give an exhibition at Gen.
tennial Hall. The programme is
varied. aud consists of recitations,
dialogues. athletic exercises, the drama,
etc. 1t is hoped that there will be a
good attendance, as children should be
encouraged in snch exercises.