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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-09-20
THE NEED OF LEVEES.
Nine Million Dollars Lost Last Year for
Want OF Them-FIEures and Facts
for COugressu1en.

The st. Louis hepuDuCan says: Ap-
proximate estimates of the cotton
crop for the year ending September
l, 1877, show a falling off OF
274,OOO bales from the proceeding
year-the figures being, for the year
ending September l, 1876, 4,699, 900
bales for the year ending September [,
1877. 4,425,000 bales. 1t is further esti-
mated that 100000 bales of the deficiency
was the result of the everfows in the
lower Mississippi and its tributaries in
the spring and summer of 1873, and of
this 81 900 bales are apportioned to the
lower Mississippi, SO, 900 bales of the
Arkansas, and 81, 900 bales to the Washita
making 1877 900 bales, together; lost by
high water on these three rivers. Esti-
mating cotton at ten cents a pound, and
45O pounds to the bale, the loss was as
follows 81, 900 bales on the lower Mis-
sissippi. S5. 1865 900; $4,000 bales on the
Arkansas, $1485, 900; 81 600 bales on the
Washita, So, ,OO5, 900; total, $8, 855, ,000--
nearly SO, ,OO0,00 lost to the country by
inundatiOns that effective levees would
have prevented. The expenditure of
half this sum would probably provide
the three rivers named with the leVees
needed to protect the plantations from
overflow. and guarantee the country
against such losses in future. The cot
ton crop is one of immense value and
importance it constitutes much the
largest single item in our table of ex-
ports, our cotton shipments abroad having
been 1892, ,659, 900 in 1876, and $171, ,118,-
600 in 1871, while our exports of bread
stufis, the next largest item, were $l3l,
$4,000 in 1876, and $11S,884,0o0 in
1877. Whatever can be done to increase
the cotton crop ought to be done--not
for the benefit of the south and the cot
ton planters, but for the advantage of
the whole cOuntry---since the manu-
features of the east and the grain and
meat growers of the west are scarcely less
interested IN the matter than the people
of the south. The most productive cot
ton districts are those bordering on the
three rivers mentioned as the scene OF
these devastating inundations, the lower
Mississippi, the Washita and the Ar
kansas, and it is these districts than an
enlightened national policy suggests
should be effectively protected by levees.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-09-20
MISCELLANEOUS.

Taylor, the acting president of the
Mormon church, is a most bitter and bigOted
religious fanatic, Salt Lake dispatch says.
Spencer, the absconding president of
the Chicago State Saving institution, Is re-
ported to have sailed from Quebec for Eu-
rope on the first.
Frank Leslie, the NewYork publisher,
has gone into bankruptcy. Cause-unfor.
tunate real estate specuIations, His various
publications will be continued without
change.
Sitting Bull is said to be encamPed at
Point Horse Buttes, one hundred and twenty
miles from Fort Walsh, on British territory,
and has no intention of going upon the war
path.
A Ben DeBar monument association
has been organized in New York city by the
theatrical managers and actors, for the pur-
pose of providing q suitable monument for
the dead comedian.
The Shakers at Enfield, n. H, have
lost four girls lately by marriage, and are
trying to prevent further defamation bv
having one of the husbands prosecuted for
abduction.
Spencer, the defaulting president of
the Chicago savings bank, which went under
with several millions of the hard earnings of
! the poor working people, has been tracked
| to England, where, it is expected, he will be
arrested and brought back.
A California paper describes Z" the
latest thing out" as a new horse shoe made
! out of three thicknesses of rawhide, COM
! pressed together by heavy pressure. 1t is
| said to last longer, weighs only one-fourth as
/ much as the cOmmen shoes, never splits the
| hoof, and has no bad influence on the foot.
1t is so elastic that the horses step is never
uncertain.
| Experiments with electric lights lately
| T1aca at CrOOStadt he -.
fixed on board the Peter the Great, and was
OF such intensity that small print could be
read on a vessel moOred four cables of. II
| is contemplated to furnish all the forts al
Cronstadt with this light.
The apostles of the mormon church al
Salt Lake have arranged that a quorum o.
| apostles next in order to the president sbal
assume control of the church John TavIor
the first of the apostles. is now virtually tht
head of the Mormon church
A San Francisco dispatch of the 14tT
says Fung PAX, a prominent Chinese mer
chant, leaves for Hong Kong to-day bv tn,
steamer City OF Pekin. He goes to carr,
out request made by Colbs, and endorsed
| by Chinese companies, to visit the district,
from whence his people immigrate to Cali
fOrnia, for the purpose of checking or limit
ing any further immigration.
a circular was issued by the apostle
of the Mormon church at Salt Lake on tn
10th, saying that ihey held a meeting an,
waited upon the Lord, who blessed them an,
revealed the steps they should take. Johl
Taylor is sustained as acting president of tn
twelve, and q quorum OF the twelve apostle
: I is the authority of the church I W YouDo
, II. II. Wells and g. Z, Cannon are ordere
, TO assist president Taylor. Il is claimed ths
the last days are at hand, and that an saint
must be faithful in building TEMPLES an
paying tithing.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-09-20
Ahout Babies.

The following paragraph will be read
with pleasure by all who own and love
babies. It Is no less admirable as de
scription of baby than as an example
of a keen sense of proper place at which
to put a full stop:
Did YOU ever watch a dear little baby
waking from its morning napE 1t Is one
of the prettiest sights in the world.
There is crib with its small proportions
and snow-white drapeTy that covers
something, outlined, round and plump.
There is nothing to reveal what it Is, not
the slightest movement Of the pillowed
wbiteness that is visible, no sound to in
dicate the keenest actual life until the
hour hand of the clock that stands sen
tinel, like yourself, has twice made iSr
circuit. Then there is a slight pulsirg
of the white drapery, pink, tremulOus
hand, fair as a rosebud, Is thrust out
and from the nest thus broken into ap-
pears a round, diminutive face, with wide
open ewes that have not much speculation
in them yet.
Soon, however, they cease to stare, and
become questioning, serious, as II won
der1ng what kind of world it Is they open
upon; and the head lifts itself just q
little, and two snow-white feet stand UP
spasmodically, with simultaneous move
ment, each toe of which has an attendant
dimple. But the head is too he9vy-It
falls back on the pillow with its oWr
sweet weight, the hair all damp an
/ golden-the cheeks Peachy-the mouLi
pouted as If the angels kissed it in "a
/ dreams. A first lingering go-O-O come
/ from its rosy depths, sweeter than any
birds song, for it has a spirit tone, anC
vet retains a thrill of its native skies
The chubby hands are lifted imPloringiv
persuazively-the baby is awake an'
/ ceases TO be an angel.
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was hauled to shore, and the anchor
brought aboard, and If the ehore ad-
mitted, the order was given to pols,
if not, to cordelP' until a point was
reached where they could use the warp
again. Sails were used whenever there
was a favorable wind. Most of the
" regulars" were provided with a mast
and spread 800 to 400 feet of canvass.
One in particular, the Cadmus, carried a
Iiainsail, topsail and topgallaBt sail.
The Cadmus made the run through the
Canadian reach thirty miles, in seven
hours, and OH Che same voyage, from
Birds Point (now Cair0) to the mouth of
the Tennessee, forty-fve miles, in day
light The masts were movable. The
multiplying steamboats,, with their
quickened voyages. found a suffciency
of business to keep these boats in use
(towing them), and the building Of them
was continued on the Ohio lor some
time. In 1926 the steamboat Merchant
was built at Pittsburgh with her consort
"a model barge). The cOnsort had a
cabin on the main deck extending fore
and aft, with a fOrecastle and quarter
deck. The Merchant carried the cargo
and fuel, the boats crew and deck passen-
gers, who were not allowed CT the
cOnsort, it being reserved exclusively for
cabin p8ssegers. In the same year the
Hercules. the first upper-cabin boat, wss
built. This innovation was much OPP
pos ID, and it VS. generally predicted
that she would CapSize with the weight
of this " tOp-hamper," but on her trial
trip she behaved SO well that she was
voted 4 success. and no more cabins on
deck were built.-N 0. Democrat.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-09-20
SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES.

p, Thirty Chii..-u merchants in San
Francisco have united in an appeal to the
board of education to have public schools
opened for the instruction of Chinese youth.
The American home missionary society
reports its treasury to be "behind" to the
extent of $40, 600. About 400 missionaries are
dependent on the receipts for their support.
Bishop Simpsons lOng-promised Cyclic
pedia of MethOdism has got on to the ex-
tent of one hundred and sixty royal octave
pages in print, and the whole book, which
will have 1000 pages, will be ready next
sping.
There is to be a southern educational
convention in Atlanta on the seventh of No
vember, for the purpose of considering the
difficulties of the educational situation, and
of deEising the most effective means of sur
mounting them, and establishing in every
southern state wise and efficient system of
public education"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-09-20
w. W. PLEDGE.
PLEDGE & EVANS
Fight for Life With a Mad Dog.

A fearful encounter with a mad dog
occurred inI Bridgewater, n. H., on
Thursday last. On the afternoon of
that day a large mastiff entered the
house of Widow Huckins and sprang at
the throat of young woman, a da1gh-
ter Of Mrs. Huckins. She threw up her
arm and the dog bit her in the right
hand. The mother, who was in another
room, hastened to her assistance, when the
dog sprang at her, biting her in the same
way. The dog then ran down the road
to the house of Gilman Fletcher. Here
a small pet dog was tied in front of the
house. The mastiff sprang upon him
and killed him. Mr.. Fletcher, who was
the only one at home, raised a window
to ascertain what the trouble was, when
the dog bit him in the left arm, making
an ugly wound. Mr.. Fletcher then
seized a pair of large tongs and stepped
to the door, when the dog sprsng at his
throat. A blow from the tOngs Knocked
him back, but he instantly rallied and
made another spring, with the same re
suit Thus the fight continued for 6
long time, the dog becoming more infu
rated at every blow, when finally ht
succeeded in driving his fangs int
Fletcher's right arm, tearing the fest
! into threads. 1t was now fight for life
and by desperate effort the dog was giveI
a blow that partially stunned him
This was promptly followed up, and tht
| dog soon dispatched.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-09-20
THE WAR.

Prince Gortschakoff has declined all
mediation.
The Russians in Asia Minor are con.
fining their themselves to a defensive atti
tude,
Nicsics surrendered on the 9th. The
garrison and inhabitants withdrew to Cat,
schko,
Further accounts of horrible atrocities
have been sent ont by Russian and Turkish
authorities.
On the sixth Eyoub Rasha's corps de-
feated the twelfth Russian corps, which res
crossed the LON in disorder; abandoning
their fortified positions near KechlOwa. The
Russians lost 5000 killed and wounded.
A Russian official bulletin, dated Pore.
din, IA, says, we made no further attacks but
bOmbsrded the Turkish Notifications and
the town of Plevna at short range. Towards
four p. m. the town began to burn and two ex.
plosiOns were observed within the fortifica-
tions. The Turks made little reply to our fire
and directed all their efforts against our left
wing, which threatens their rear at this point
General Skabelof repulsed five furious at
tacks, but was compelled in the evening, af-
ter the sixth attack, to evacuate the fortif
cations, which he captured Tuesday. Dur.
ing Wednesday night our troops entrenched
themselves in their positions.
ents of the Times and Daily News, after wit
Messing the attack on Tuesday, arrive at the
conclusion that PleVna must be taken by
gradual approaches. The former, writing
f1om the Russian headquarters, says the
Emperor and Grand duke Nicholas were
on the battlefield until nine o'clock last
night. The emperor returned to headG uar.
ters here (Poredin) late last night. The bat
tlefeld of the last FIVE days is silent this
morning, and there is talk of submitting the
Turkish position to a regular siege and sap
ping up the redOubts, while a close blockade
is is instituted, with intent to starve Osman
Pasha's forces. The villages enclosed with,
in Osman Pasha's lines are full of supplies
for the simple wants of the Turkish soldiers
and the fields groan with heavy crops OF
maize. The losses this morning are spoken
of here as being about five or six thousand
but there are no details. The emperor, this
morning, went back to the battlefield to visit
his soldiers. Unless this position of affair
is shortly changed by a decided Russian
success, the events of the campaign will turn
on the movements of Mehemet Ali and Sulie
man Pasha, rather than on the fate Oi
Plevna, but information concerning these
generals is of the most meagre description
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-09-20
Praying and Flowing for Rain.

A very interesting ceremony, quite
novel in character, was held on the 29tb
ult. at Indore, at which ali the folks of the
town, from the Maharsjah down to the
humblest peasant, Joined together. Early
in the morning the whole town, led by
his highness and the royal family, wended
their way to a village called Banpupga
two miles off from Indsre, where thew
were to pass the whole day, It BEING
strictly enjoined that no one should ligbf
his kitchen fire, but enjoy a general bic
mic IN the fields. Men, women and chill
dren all we're there to the number. If *
said, OF $1,000 persons. The gathering
was to invoke the gods by PRAYERS and
pooiahs to send down rain. After the
poojahs were over, the Maharaiah took a
! plow in his own hands aud titled a nor
( lion Of the grounds, and her highness the
Maharani, who played the part Of the
| peasant wife, waited on her lord in the
| fields with his daily meal wrapped up in
| the folds Of her cloth. The gods were
really moved by such a pathetic scene.
| FOR Immediately afterwaTd showers came
down, and the crowd dispersed amid great
! TeioiCings.- Times Of India.
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The Indian Gentle Sex.

Our special correspondent withGeneral
Howard writes that the wounded were
fearfuIly tortured and mutilated by the
Nez Perces squaWs on the Big Hole bat
tie ground. The soldiers had taken the
Indian village, but bqiDg overPOwered by
numbers were obliged to fall back and
fight their way to a position on the side
of the mountain which the enemy had
taken possession of. They had a desper-
ate encounter, but carried the point,
and Immediately dug trenches with their
troweI bayOnets. In the meantime the
wounded had been left on the bottom by
the creek, and whit the bucks set fire TO
the grass and tried to burn the little
hand of soldiers out Of their trenches, the
.quaws mangled and tortured the poor
fellows who were still alive but unable
TO hep themselves. The atrocities per
petrated upon the helpless boys in blue
by these sheIdeyils can hardly be realized
by any one unaccustomed to tales OF
barbarity They heated their camas-
hooks red hot, and then thrust them
into the bodies of the wounded mangled
them in every conceivable manner, and
slowly tortured them to death IN ways
known only to red devils. Early in the
action a bugler, mere boy, was wounded
in both legs. One Of his comrades car.
ried him off the field and then returned
to the fight, the bugleT saying that be
would rest there a few minutes and then
cry an1 walk off to a place of safety. The
Indians got possession of the creek and
bottom land, the squaws discovered,
| mutilated him and burned both his eyes
out. The boys suffering can be i'm
agined, and death was certainly wei
come relief to him.-Slh Lake Tribune
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-09-20

OF the extra session will relate only to the
business for which the session has been
called. ONLY the estimates for the support
OF the army for the present fiscal year will
be sent in. These have been prepared by
the war department and sent to the treasury
congress,
The instructions to the Sitting Bull
commission are to treat with the chief on the
basis Of a pardon to himself and all his war
rlors for past offenses and to demand the
unconditional surrender of their arms, am
munition and ponies, and that they proceed
forthwith to such reservation as shall be
selected for them. If this is declined negO-
tiatiens will be suspended and the govern
ment will wage a vigorous war upon these
hostiles if, at any time, they return to the
limited States
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-09-20
FOREIGN.

Gambetta has been sentenced to three
months imprisonment and to pay fine of
1900 francs.
The Russian government has ordered
all arrears of taxes to be paid at once or
they viii be doubled.
Mr.. F. w. BlydeD, the new Librian
ambassador to England, is the first minister
ever accredited to that country by g negro
state. He is of pure negro blood, and was
educated chiefly in Liberia. He has excel
lent ability, has been a professor in the col
lege of Liberia, has contributed very clever
articles to Fraser and has served in the Ii
berian government. He has just been re-
ceived by Lord Derby.
The pope's health is reported worse.
His limbs are partially paralyzed, but No
immediate danger is apprehended.
Nearly all the regiments in the British
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-09-20
Mercantile.

j. G. KAESTLE, Grand Junction, boot
and shoe maker. Work done in the latest
style and fit guaranteed.
G. L. PEELER, Grand Junction, watch
maker and jeweler. Repairing and cleaning
done on short notice and at cheap rates.
Work guaranteed.
VIM, NICK. HALL Drugs and groceries,
New and full stock, Goods sold at Memphis
prices.
w. w, HAWKINS, dealer In all kinds of
dry goods and genreal merchandise. New
and complete stock,
IRWIN & MAULDIN keeps constantly on
hand complete assortment of dry goods,
groceries, etc,
COLLINS & Co, druggists, have a full
stock OF drugs, oils, paints, lamps glass, ETC.
STINSON. WELLS & CO., manufacturers
of glass monuments, Orders solicited. Work
Guaranteed. Office opposite depot,
DR.. A. J. ADAMS, proprietor of the cele-
brated Asland Flour Mills, Orders solicited
and promptly filed.
DENNIS FLANNERY, proprietor of the
National Saloon. Full supply of fine liquors,
Opposite StOnewall House.
J. NJ PREWITT, dealer in dry goods and
groceries, Give him call.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-09-20
4 Fatal Fly.

The French papers are devotine
some portions of their scientific record
Just now to a terrible epidemic which
has broken out at the French pensI
settlement Of NOumea, in New Gale
donis. A number of cattle having
been attacked with epidemic fever,
under its influence rushed into the for
est where they perished entangled
amid the interlacing vines and close
tree trunks. The flies that fed on the
flesh of these poor creatures returned
to the settlement, where their bite
has proved invariably fatal to human
beings and animals alike. The sting
is said at first to cause no incOnVen-
ience, but a small pustule soon forms,
filed with a brewnish watery fluid
which speedily assumes the form of a
hard iDfamed swelling, accompanied
by int0lerahle itching and intense dart
ing pairs Death usually ensues in
from twenty-four to foft5-eight hours
after the appearance of the pustule.
Every remedy possible has been tried,
including applications of caustic and
cauterization by red-hOt irons, but in
vain. The deaths from this source
already numbered over sixty on the
receipt of this last report, the evil BE-
ing aggravated by the exceedingly
filthy condition of the slaughter hOnses
around N6umea, the refuse portions
of the animals killed there being left
to decay unheeded. A prominent pork
butcher of the town. TO whom femon
STRANGE had frequently and vainly been
addressed respecting the unclean con,
dition of his slaIhter-Pen, was Overtaken
by a swift and dreadful retributinn; he
was stuug by fesh-fy from his own
garbage heap, while at work, and died in
Twentv-four hours. This dreadful mode
of death is not unknown in France,
though it has hitherto occurred in isOla-
ted cases only. For instance, the widow
OF NJ Lafitte, the great wine-grower, was,
several years ago, stung while walking in
one OF her own vineyards, and fell vic
tim to the effects of the bite.
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Keel and FlatbOating in the Early
DAYS.

A writer in volume entitled " I'm
proyements in the First National
Century" gives the following descrip-
ton of the means employed in naviga ting
the Mississippi and Ohio rivers "These
we're (flatboat's) improved into keelboats,
for the purpose of ascending the river,
and were propelled by long poles in the
hands of the bOatmen. These standing
OIL the gunwale drumming board) at the
extreme bow of the beat, thrustiDg the
pole in the mud and setting the shoulder
against the top, pushed the boat for
ward by walking towards the stern,
which reached, they drew their poles,
went forward and repeated the move
ment. By this laboriOus mode Of travel
al the merchandise sent from the east
via New Orleans reached its destination.
The voyage from New Orleans to St.
Louis required four months" The
mode above recited rs a rule was only
EMPLOYED in the Ohio in low stages OF
! water. but in the Mississippi very
| seldom; the general mode was cOrdelling,
| bushwhacking and warpiDg, the latter
/ being the most used. This was done by
/ cOiIing a thres-quarter inch line In a
slziff, pulling to point above, making
/ one end fast, and dropping down to the
/ boat with the other; when all hands
tailed on" and walked aft on the cargo
| box: a. each man reached the stern be
/ let 90. passed rapidly forward and tool
hold again. In the meantime the war;
layer7 were making another lay. II
running out of a pocket, and around 1
point. resource was had to anchors, ever
boat being provided with two TO four o
them on nearing the anchor the boa