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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-09-15
All trains daily on msin line.

The EXPRESS SOUTH bound connects at
Lynchburg for the West and Southwest and
at Danville for the South, South East and South
West.
The MAIL south bound connects with G. q
@. BaEt and West, AID at Lynchburg for the
South and South Wet; st Manassas for StrsE-
For WARRENToN S Is II. daily, and
6 50 o. M, except Sunday.
GORDONSVILLE LOCAL leaves Aie1an-
dris Is o. N. Tuesday, Thurfdsy aid Sslur.
day Leave Gordonsville st 81 q. III. Mon
dsys, Wednesdays and Fridays, arriving at AL
e1sndria at 2 Is p. m.
FRONT ROYAL ACCO Leaves Washington
4 30 o. M, Alexa IS p IN. Saturdays on
". striving at Front Royal 40 p. m. Leaves
Front Royal 4 40 q. m. Mondays only, arriving
at Alexapd 1is Is a. M, Washington 40 q: m
North bound trains make close connections
With Baltic & Ohio aid Bait. & Potomac trains
to Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. and
10 all points North ard Northwest.
The Mail has Ps,lor Cars. and the Accom-
modstion train Sleeping Cars through, without
change, to White Sulphur Springs; also through
Sleepers, without change between Philadelphia
ana New Orleans, on the EXPRESS.
Through tickets to the South and West and t"
ALL THE VIRGINIA SPRINGS At lowest
rates Special excursion tickets q! low rates hy
the Front Royal Accommodation.
s. SPENCER, Supt. 1rsnspn.
II RR0AnI1S E, r = iy Ia
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RAILROADS.

South Bound Express. Nail. acconoh
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WASHINGTON & OHIO RAILROAD
SPRING ARRANGEMENT
TWO TRAINS DAILY (GXCEPT. SUN
DAY3 BETWREN ALEXANDRIA AND
ROUND HILL.
Beginning May I. 1877.
Leave Washington u 3. n., and ~ D. rn.
and Alexandria at 9 10 a. N. and rs y. M
Pass Leesburg, gcing westward. st II Is q. n.
and 6 10 p. m. and arrive at Round Hill at II
N. and 10 p. IN. Leave Round Hill at 8 20 e.
m. and 1890 p. M pass Lceaburg, going :ast
ward, at a. 10: and 10 p. m.,. and arrive, a:
Alexandria at Is q. N. and 2:l5 D. M. and 1t
Washington st s 80 q. m and $3.50 p. ID.
@- Passengers from Washington will takc
the Washington and Ohio care 8, the Bsilmore
and Potomac Railroad station at 90. IN. AND 4. 70
2. H., and 60 III rough 10 Round nill Without
han 90 Of cars. / I =
The 8. 10 g. m. traInfrom Alexandria and ~
o. m. train from Round Hui connect st Round
Hill with Harris Daily Line OF Coaches
for Snickersville, Berryville and Wincheater;
also with Reamer' Line Of Coaches, which leave
Leesburg daily for Aide and Middleburg.
Both trains. westward make close connections,
at Vienna, with SiBsons Line Of Stages for Fair.
fax Court House.
Comm tstiOn tickets, s cts. per mile
Annual tickets. $50.
K. II. HAVENER,
y3-tf General Tickle! Agent.
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nUR PURE CIDER VINEGAR cannot be
~ exeelltd in quality, and is sold at 8 low
price. F. j. DAVIDSON, =.
aug2o lat King street.
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r1HE VEST Observation-Disclosures
l. % cents per bottle just received and for
sale by JANNEY & CO., Druggists,
ie7 Nos 70 u l45 King at.
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FOR THE POTOMAC RIVER LANDINGS

The new aad commodiou. iron .~>
steamer JOHN W. THOMPSON,
| bull! especially for this route, leaves the com.
psny's wharf, Washington, EVERY TUES.
DAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY, a. 7
o'clock g. In. and Alexandria at 7:3O .. nj
FRIDAY and SUNDAY, st 6 o'clock p. m.
This company makes close connections st Al
exundria with the w. c., Y. NJ. & &. s. K. 4.
20. and with tho W. s. o. r. R. Co.. Freight
received for all points, North and South,
handled with care and forwarded with prompt.
ness and dispatch.
For further information apply to
F. A. REED, Agent,
janney's wharf,
or 8! the Office Of the COM pany, under the Na.
the Treasury Department, Washington.
nh 10 SAMUEL BACON, President
zk11 o14DzS E ZTh rs LINES WEEK
PHILADELPHIA, PROVIDENCE AND
BOSTON.
Steamers leave Alexandria EVERY TUES
DAY and leave Philadelphis EVERY SAT-
URDA Y, st II o'clock m. from Pier n n.
Wharvea. ...|
This line connects st Ale1andris with the o.,
A. & n. and W. s. y. K. Rs, and st Philadel-
pha with the new and popular Iron Line" for
Providence and Boston.
Freight forwarded with promptness and caro-
free of commissions
No charge for transfer in Philadelphia and
no wharfage in Boston. Through to Boston in
si4ty-fve hours. Through rates and through
bills Of lading given. Insurance guaranteed at
iess IL an usual rates.
Agents:
Y. a. REED, Alexandria.
VIM. p. CLYDE & CO., Philadelphia.
GEO T. HYDE, Geor getown, D. G..
JOHNSON BROS, Washington
ian 9-tf
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A CHOICE lot Of new uncovered SUGAI
"a CURED HAMS, Shoulders and Break
asst Bacon received to-day by
SENT r. w. AVERY, 226 King st.
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INLAND SEABOARD COASTING CO.
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TOR POTOMAC RIVER LANDINGS.

On and after Monday, February 26. LID
s77, the steamer MATTANO, Capt
VIM. q: Byles, will be run as follows: Leave
DAY from King street wharf, at Z 80 o'clock
g. m for Landings on the Po,omac as far down
as Nomini Leave Eomini EVERY TUES
DAY and FRIDAY MORNING, at o'clock,
for Washin gtor. arriving carly the same even
ilg. Freight received daily.
feb g J. BRODERS & CO., Agents.
VNT.AND kSEARuARD COAST CO
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STEAMERS.
THE POTOMAC FERRY COMPANY,

TN4E POTOMAC FERRY COMPANY,
i Angus: 9, 1871
SPECIAL NOTICR-Both Fer -
~ Boats will be on tho line between .&c
Ale1sndris and Washington on and after Mon
dsv. tke 18th of August, running as follows:
LEAVE ALEXANDRIA
AZTEC, 8 50, 80, 10 80 snd II 30 = NJ. and
II 80, 80, 23o, 80, 4 30, 5 80. 6. 6 80 and 80
p. n.
LEAVE WASHINGTON
At73O. 80. 9 80 10 80 and II so q m. and
~ 50, ! 80, 2 80, 3 go, 4 30, co. s. 80 and 80
2. N.
ON SUNDAYS.
Leave Alexandria at 80 10 60 and II 80 3:
No., and IL 80, ! 90, ? 80, $50, 4 30, 80. 6. 80
cop. N.
NJ. and II 90 81, 50, 80, 30, 5 80 6. 6 80
and 80 p. m.
GEO. r. PHILLIPS, Mansger.
SAA'I, GEOSKY Sup't sug9
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-07-19
Milk and Butter.

There IRE no farmers productions.
says the Maryland Farmer, so subject to
injuries from many slight causes as milk
and butter, and none so sensitive to un.
pleasant OdOrs of every kind none that
is go much and so readily deteriorated in
value as these are. Hence, all kinds of
uncleanliness should be avoided, and the
utmost neatness should be observed in
every step of their production and mar.
keting, from the very feeding, handling
and milking of the COWS, as well as treat
ment and handling of the milk, with the
churning, working and putting up of the
butter. All of the implements used, the
water and the salt used, and the rooms
occupied in keeping the milk and max
ing the butter, should be kept perfectly
clean and sweet, in order to produce the
best quality to secure high and fancy
prices. No article that the farmer pro-
duces for the market has such a wide
range or difference in price as butter, not
even cheese or choice fruit. We see by
quotations in all the great butter markets
that the prices OF eating butter range all
the way from one dollar to ten cents per
pound, while greasy, cooking butter is
even lower than that; even the packages
an which it is put up, whether firkins,
pals, tubs, or rolls, affect the prices for
which it sells. Grains and meats have
but small range compared to butter ;
the difference in the prices of butter is
much greater than the difference in the
cost; hence, it is much more profitable
to make and sell a first class article than
a poor one.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-07-19
GsGrice.,'

The English language IS often puzzle
to foreigners, and sometimes drives even
an American hotel keeper into a corner,
as for instance in the following expert
ence at the Fifth Avenue hotel, where a
wealthy French guest came to complain
at the Office, and was there met by the
gracious GriswOld, who rose to explain
What for, sare, your garcon not pre-
sent my demandT"
Your demand, MOnsieur?'
Yes, sare. Do I speak Inglis perfait,
sare? Do you comprehend me, ?"
" Certainly, your English is perfectly
correct, my dear sir. What is it you
desire?'
"Vy, sare, you tell me I can have at
my private table wis my frens, vatever I
desire to manger-pardon, to eat"
Certainly" said GriswOld, "any-
sauce, if you wish"
''Ah, no, Monsieur, Eat is too richie. I
simply desire some grice."
"Eh! some what?"
"Some grice, Monsieur GriswOld, such
as l eat for dinnay re ozer day"
"Ah! you mean rice, boiled rice-cer-
tainly, all the rice you desire"
"NO, sare! 1t is not rice. Eat is
what Eat premier garcOn-head waiter
say. 1t is a bird l want, sare; I want
him roast, not boiled"
"Roast grice Why, let me see,' said
GriswOld, in a dilemma, not wishing to
appear ignorant of his guests meaning
Il don't believe there is a single grice in
the market"
"Ah, you make meestake ven you say
single grice."
"Indeed?"
eyes, sare. Vatyou call little rat ?''
"Mouse," suggested the hotel propri-
etor.
Eyes. Zen two of zem, vat you call
two-mice, eh?"
"Quite correct, g." responded the host.
"Zen, if one is re bird you call grouse,
two is what you call grice, eh?''
"Why, not exactly" said the hotel
man, struggling to keep countenance;
owe say two grouse, Just as we say two
sheep or two deer-but for mouse, mice,
and"
"Yaas, sare, said Monsieur, triumph
antly, IAN Wy not you say two hice for
two houses, or two house for two houses,
or"
How far he might have continued
cannot be said, but at that moment the
head clerk, Palmer, standing near, had a
violent attack of coughing, and Carr, the
room clerk, walked off suddenly and
slammed on the big bell, and called for
front" to do something, and then stuck
his own head down beneath the counter,
as the amused host walked away towards
the dining-hall with his guest to order
the "two griCe" for Monsieur's private
table,-BOgtOH Commercial Bulletin.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-07-19
Chicken Cholera.

Our highest authorities and most
thorough investigators agree that this
disease is a blood poison" caused by
malarial or miasmatic atmospheric agents.
The remedies and representatives. indi-
Gated, then, are such as will neutralize
the poisOns in the blood, tone the system
to render it more impervious in morbid
and epidemic influences, and also destroy
malarial and epidemic poisons in the at
mosphere. Proper dietary and hygienic
measures must also be observed in hous-
ing in dry, well ventilated quarters, kept
scrupulously clean and frequently white.
washed with fresh-lime wbitewash to
which has been added a weak solution OF
carbolic acid, Diseased quarters should
be saturated daily with a solution of car
bolic acid.-Semi- Tropical
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-07-19
ERectINe soarsnrnwu-

Take two small, cheap mirrors, fasten
them back to back, attach a cord to one
angle and hang them to pole. When
the glass swings the suns rays are reAec-
ted all over the field, even if it be a large
one, and even the oldest and bravest of
crows will depart precipitately should
one of its lightning flashes fall on him.
The secSnd plan, although a terror to the
crow, is especially well adapted to fields
subject to the inrOads of small birGs. and
even chickens. 1t involves the artificial
hawk made from a large potato and long
goose and turkey feathers. The maker
can exercise his initiative skill in sticking
the feathers into the potato so that they
resemble the spread wings and tail of the
hawk. 1t is astonishing what ferocious
looking bird of prey can be constructed
from the above simple material. 1t only
remains to hang the object from a tall
bent pole and the wind will do the rest.
The bird will make swoops and dashes in
the most threatening manner. Even the
most inquisitive of venerable hens have
been known to hurry rapidly from its
dangerous vicinity, while to small birds
1t carries unmixed dismay-Scientifc
american,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-07-19
PITH AND POINT.

In Rome, Georgia, the other day,
seven brothers, named Hill, were indicted
for ceunterfeiting. Rome sat on her
seven Hills as Usual.
RECENT Investigations prove the asser-
tions that one baby with a large biscuit
will make the couch of wearied industry
more uncomfortable than fifteen prize
mosquitoes.
A BRIGHT boy in a suburban school,
being asked the other day TO give an ex-
ample of comparative and superiative
degrees, promptly answered: Miss,
mister, mistress"
A PUNCH bowl which once belonged to
Robert Burns was sold at Dumfries the
other day for two guineas. Mr.. Burns
| wrote poetry, but he was not the author
of the sweet lines as to the advisability
of punching with care.
OLIVE LOGAN says the Princess oil
| Wales initiates Paris women in her dress
and that a polluted stream runs
through London drawing rooms decked
with all the entieing loveliness of sum
mer roses and pulling its tainted current
to the strains of sweetest music"
| NEITHER Bret Harte nor Albert
Rhodes has got his desired
foreign appointment, but Secretary
Evarts is amusing them, mean
time, with such observations as this
" Literary men can get laurels on theil
brOws, but they can't browse on theil
laurels."
IT was little to much when the fore
man brought us a paper slip that the
pressman had rested his hand on afte
handling an inky rooler, and asked us t.
put in the names of the tOwns-es
pecially as he knew we had refused Il
put any war-maps into our columns.
THE "White Whale March," com
memoratiVe of the white whale transpor
tation from Quebec to Cincinnati. is
new musical publication. As the whalr
died before arriving, however, the name
might be changed to the Dead Marcl
in Saul-t Water"
The history of beer dates back to tn,
time of the old Egyptians; but it is no
recorded that any old Egyptian eve
drank fourteen "schOOners" at one sit
ting in order that thirteen other ole
Egyptians might have the pleasure o
treating around"
Haberdasher Ito assistant who has hac
the ''swop ")-"Why has that lady gOn
without buying ?' Assistant-'W
haven't got what she wants. Haber
dasher-F'IH soon let you know, Miss
that keep you to sell what I've got
and not what people want"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-07-19
Khere frnm

1t Will be seen from the above figures
that Australia stands next to the United
states IN quantity supplied, although
fresh meat has to cross the equator and
encounter a voyage three or four times
longer than one from New York to Tiv-
erPooL The prospect is that that far of
country will greatly increase its eTnort
OF fresh meat in 1877 by new imnr6vas
ments in refrigeration. Pi0'e-
It is an instructive fact that HoI1srd
with dense population of her o1-- -
feed at home, where they wall ont tto
sea to obtain thousands of acres Of $500 :, =
land at the bottom of it, exports abon ,,9
on:-'ou'th as much beef and mutton ~
Great Britain as the United StateS
where we have grazing lands by the HIM
dred million acres, which costs us moth
ing. The relative cost of the meat 80.
producers. sent to England by different
nations would be an Interesting subject
of inquiry. Belgium has the most people
IN the square mile of any nation in Eu-
rome. vet this small kingdom exported
lat year 25,62l hundred weights to
Great Britain. This intensive system of
tarming is able to compete with the most
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-07-19
A striking Exneriment,

The old method of showing the COM
pound nature of light by the composition
of artificial colors on the lecture table is
to arrange the various ColOrs in proper
position on a disc, and to revolve the
disc rapidly; but a pure white cannot
be produced by this method since there
is necessarily a partial absorption of the
rays on every part of the disc.
My method is to arrange seven lanterns,
in the first place, so as to project their
several circles of light side by side on a
white screen, then TO color each circle by
introducing slides of glass stained to
initiate the several colors of the spectrum
(the proper intensity of color being found
by trial); we thus get seven circles on
the screen colored from red to violet and
arranged side by side Then by turning
the several lanterns so that the projected
circles shall exactly overlap each other,
we get one circle of white light, proving
that the seven cOIors together make
white light.
The same effect can be produced with
five colors only if properly selected; and
even two, the ordinary cobalt blue and
deep orange, will nearly do. If these
two last be made to partially overlap the
effect is very striking.-Co Correspondence
Nature,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-07-19

extensive system of oattle-grazing and
stock-husbandry.
Selling COWS, calves, steers and oxen,
windwheels for irrigation as in Holland
and Belgium, corn, hay and corn-meal
for feeding all growing and fattening
animals, have fairly come to the front in
the battle of advanced agriculture. With
the right quantity of rain, natural or
artificial, the right quantity of manure
and proper culture, how much corn,
plant and seed may be grown in Tennes-
see on ten acres in twelve months? If
we are to compete with all the world in
feeding the bipeds and quadrupeds Of the
British islands, it is time to study closely
our resources Neither Uruguay nor
France nor Canada nor Australia will
hold back for our benefit. 1t is cultured
intellect against cultured intellect, and
we should be sharpening our wits tol
good work.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-07-19
The War Against Disease.

The war waged against disease by Hostel.
ter's Stomach Bitters goes braveiy on. Dis
patches are constantly received from the
cured indicating the decisive nature of the
advantages obtained by the great botanic
cordial over its formidable adversary. Mala-
rial fevers, constipation, torpidity of the liver
and kidneys, general debility, nervousness
and rheumatic ailments invariably yield to
this conqUerOr and preventive of disease.
For the infrmities incident to the decline of
life it is also an excellent specific. 1t hastens
cOnvalescence and repairs the ravages of i'll
health by facilitating the conversion of food
into blood of a rich and nOUrishing quality.
The appetite is improved by it and in eases
of nervous disease it tranquilizes that great
sensorium, the brain, for more effectually
than any mineral sedatiye.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-07-19
Gapes In Chickens,

The London Cottage Gardener saws:
" We have learned to jest at gapes by
making free use of camphor. We give
to chicken in a very bad case a pill the
size of a small garden pea. AS soon as
we see symptoms of gapes we give the
birds water to drink which is strongly
impregnated with camphor, thus giving
to the chickens that which was favorite
medicine with our great-grandmothers
'camphOr julep.' The treatment seems
to explain itself. The gapes, or gaping,
Is caused by the presence of small red
worms in the windpipe. No medicine
can reach them unless it does SO by vapor.
An hour after the chicken has swallowed
the pill it smells of camphor. Camphor
is a very strong vermifuge, and the
worms die
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-07-19
That Bogus Quarter.

Two or three weeks ago, a woman, who
was never known to board street car
before, took seat on Grand River aY-
enue car and banded the conductor bo-
gus quarter. He returned 1t, and she
loudly protested that she was the last
person on earth that would have know
ingly carried counterfeit money IN her
pocket Next day she offered 1t to an
other conductor, and when she returned
it she exclaimed:
"Why, mercy on me! but was sure
that I burned that bogus thing last
nightr'
Coming down town yesterday morning
she handed it out TO the first conductor,
who tossed it out of the car window and
said:
cot course you don't want to be ar
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-07-19
Sew Disease Attrlbuted to Tobaceo.

DR.. Baker, secretary of the Michigan
state board of health, says: There has
come under my notice for several years,
but more particularly during the last
two years, a kind of rheumatic
condition of the walls of the chest. The
patient complains of a dull, heavy pain
in the chest walls. The disease, in a
large majority of cases, is confined to the
left side. The pain is circumscribed and
limited to a space of not more than two
inches in diameter, just below and little
to the left oSthe left nipple. At times
the pain is very severe, and always con-
slant day and night when the patient is
awake. have investigated the disease
to some extent, and find it to be more
common among tobacco users, especially
those who use the weed 90 excess. Pa
tients suffering from this complaint in
variably come to their physician with the
belief that they have heart trouble.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-07-19
New Horseshoe.

Mr.. Yates, of Manchester, England,
has invented a horseshoe, composed of
three thickness of cswhide. compressed
into a steel mould, and then subjected to
a chemical preparation. 1t lasts longer,
and weighs only one-fourth as much as
the common shoe; it never splits the
hoof, and has no injurious influence on
the foot. It requires no calks; even on
asphalt, the horse never slips. 1t IS so
elastic that the horses step is lighter and
surer. It adheres so closely to the foot
that neither dust nor water can penetrate
between the shoe and the hoof.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-07-19

rested for carrying counterfeit money
around %
Bogus! Why. is it possible that I
didn't throw that quarter away !"
She handed him a nickle, rode two
blocks farther, and all of a sudden left
the car to speak to friend on the walk
When the car went back the woman was
walking in the middle of the street, bent
almost double, and glancing this way and
that, as if in search of some small object.
She looked up, recognized him, and
called out:
Say, did any Of you fellers find a
market basket along here 2''
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-07-19
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
The Farmers Daughter.
By ANNIE L. JACK.

By ANNIE l. J ACE-
She lives within quiet home
No model Of the graces,
Unknown to cultures higher walks,
Or fashions siddy places;
A thoughtful girl, so sweet, so wise,
With earnest face and loving eyes
The faI mer's gentle daughter.
From morn till eve this little maid
Is busy al her labor
she sweeps and dusts the old farmhouse,
And helps poorer neighbOr;
No gossip will she listen to
A merit rare / own to you
SO lives the farmers daughter.
On baking days her tiny hands
Are busy at the making;
No bread more light AID sweet than hers,
Was ever made by baking;
She churns the butter golden, sweet,
And keeps the dairy white and neat
The farmers useful daughter.
Her garden is an Elem fair.
A-Oloom with pinks and roses
She knows the name Of every flower.
And makes soma gorgeous pOsies
And corn and squash, and herbs TO Dress
The farmers happy daughter.
Long may she braveIy smile on US
Our darling household fairy,
The queen OF garden, house and lot,
And princess OF the dairy
To teach US by her pleasant way
To love the things OF every day
Tod bless the farmers daughter.