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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-17
Measuring Corn in the Crib

A Missouri correspondent of the Rural
World gives the follawing rule for meas,
urIng corn in the crib.
Our county paper published rule, and
said IL was passed by the last legislature,
but whether it really passed as this paper
published it--in the interest of stock men
Il don't know. The rule is this
Reduce the solid contents to cubic
inches and if the corn is shucked, divide
by 1900, which will give the number OF
bushels of shelled corn; but if the corn
is not shucked, take one quarter from the
number of cubic inches thus found, and
divide the remainder by 1900. Now, in
a pen 9x9x1O, there is about Is bushels
less by this rule than the old rule we
have always used. So, you see it is a
considerable item. A very nice thing
for people who buy a good deal of corn.
You would please a number of sub
scribers around here if you would in
vestigate and give us the truth about
the matter. will give the rule we
have always used here:
Reduce the solid contents to cubic
inches, and divide by 2,150, and take a
fifth for shuck, and one-half for cob, and
you have the number of bushels of
shelled corn.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-17
Important Facts for Those who Burn
Kerosene.

Kerosene oil is one of the products de-
rived from refining crude petroleum as it
comes from the we'll.
The oil is always more or less danger
GUS, according to the amount Of volatile
gases left in it.
Every lamp filled with the fluid is liza
bic to explode after burning several
hours.
But no explosion will ever happen
with the lamp full.
A simple test is to place a tablespoon
full of the oil in a saucer and apply a
lighted match; if the oil ignites it is
unsafe; never use it. If it does not
take fire it is not necessarily safe; be-
cause the temperature of the oil in the
open air is nos so great as that in a
burning lamp
The only reliable test is one made by
slowly heating some oil in which a Their
r1ometer is placed, constantly noting the
number of degrees and applying lighted
match, not 70 the oil but to the vapor, it
any, just above the surface. If the oil
flashes below 1902 reject it.
This flashing point is the temperature
at which the oil emits an iDfiammable
vapor, and depends upon the quantity
of naphtha or gasoline in the oil. This
pOlnI suouIu always Uo HIgner GndH IHe
temperature that the oil ever reaches in
lamp, which is often 100
Cautions. l. Keep the metallic parts
of lamps clean and the air passages open.
2. After lamp has been burning
three or more hours at one time, never
relight again, till refilled
8. In extinguishing the light, turn the
wick down quite low and allow a few
seconds to intervene before blowing out
the Pickering fame, or, better still, do
not blow it out, but let it " ficker' out.
= Central Nea0 Jersey Times
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-17
A River that does not Give up its Dead.

The Colorado River is noted for
''swirls," so called. They occur every
where, hut only at high stages of water
A bubble rises from the bottom and
breaks with a slight sound on the sur
face. The water at the point begins a
rotary motion, 80 small that an inverted
tea cup might cover it. Larger and
larger grows the circle, till a surface of
forty feet in diameter is in motion,
spinning round a tunnel-shaped hole in
the center, two or three feet across at
the top, and coming to a point in the
depths below. Often a large tree float
ing down the stream is caught, and its
foremost end thrust up in the air twenty
or thirty feet, while the other passes
underneath-the exposed end to be
slowly drawn down again, and to disap-
pear. Three soldiers, deserters from
Camp Mohave, passing through the
ravine in a skiff, Immediately below the
fork, suffered their craft to run into a
swirl. One Of the crew, at the first init.
nation of danger, threw himself over
board beyond the charmed circle, and as
he SWAN away he turned his head and
saw the boat spin round until one end
being drawn into the vortex and the
other upheaved in the air, it slowly sank
as it revolved into the turbid bosom of
the river, its human freight to be seen no
more; fer the Colorado river does not
give up the dead-no corpses'lodge upon
its shores.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-17
Honor in 1Its Ounnana-

Says Comley, in his recently-issued work,
The History of New York STATE, fThe day
has passed when the benefactOrs of human
ity were allowed to live in ignominious pow
erty-their sacrifices, their labors, unrecom
penSed. To-day, the benefsctors of the
people the men who devote their lives aud
energies to the interests of humanity-these
are the men whom the world delights to
honor, and whom it rewards with princely
fortunes. As an earnest worker for the
welfare OF his felioW~men, DR.. r. V. Pierce
has won their warmest sympathy and esteem.
While seeking to be their servant only, he
has become prince among them. Yet the
immense fortune JaviShed upon him by a
generous peonle he boards not, but invests
IN the erection and establishment of institu.
lions directly contributive 20 the public
good,the people thus realizing, in their liberal
patronage, new meaning OF that beautiful
oriental custom of casting brea upon the
waters. Noted in both public and private
lie ioT AIS answering integrity and all those
sterling virtues that ennoble manhood, Dr.
Pielee ranks high among those few men
| whose names the Empire State is Justly
| proud to inscribe upon her roll of honor.
Ambitious, yet moved by an ambition strictly
| amenable to the most discriminating and
weil~balanced judgment, his future career
| promises to be one of unparalleled activity
and usefulness ABLY supplementing the work
he has already accomplished, by life at
| once noble in effort, enviable in It's grsnd
results" While DR.. Pierce's genius and
energy have won for him so enviabIe posi-
ton on the records of a nation, having been
| elected Senator by an overwhelming major
| ity, his justly celebrated Household Remedie,
have gained for him yet more desirable
place in the hearts of grateful people. His
Golden Medical Discovery and Favorite Pre-
| scription have brought health and happinekt
! to ten thousand households.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-17
A Wonderful Well.

The deepest artesian we'll in the world
is now IN progress at Pesth, and has al
ready reached a depth of 95I metres
g, 1l8 feet. The we'll at Paris, which is
547 metres in depth, has hitherto held
the first place in such achievements.
The work is carried on at the expense Of
the city, which has granted a sum eoual
to $40, 900 for the purpose, with the in
tention of obtaining an unlimited sup
ply OF warm water tor the municipal es-
Establishments and public baths. The
water at present issuing has a tempera-
ture 16l degrees Fahrenheit, and the op-
erations will be continued until that of
us degrees Fahrenheit is obtained.
About $4,000 gallons of the LIQUID
stream out daily End rise to height of
80 feet. This amount will not only sup
ply all the wants of the city, but is ex-
pected to convert the surrounding dis
trict into q sort of tropical garden, by
the constant evolution of heat. Since
June last the boring has penetrated
through 200 feet OF dalomite, and the
preceding strata passed through have
supplied number of interesting facts
to the geolOgist, which have been noticed
from time to time in the Hungarian
academy of sciences. The difficulties
to be overcome have given rise to many
highly ingenious engineering devices,
such as a method for driving nails, at
the enormous depth above mentioned,
and more, the means of drawing them
(by magnets), of cutting off and pulling
up broken tubes, and, above all, a valus-
bic mechanical apparatus by means of
which the water rising from the well is
used as a motive power, driving the
drills at rate of speed double that
previously impaired from the mouth of
the we'll.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-17
Sal. aud A.he. n. Fertilizers.

A Canada correspondent writes:
1t is pretty we'll known that this sec
ton of the world is one of the great salt
centers, and therefore experimenting has
the great advantage here of being, in
this article, cheap. On heavy clay land
/ have found little use in Falt dressing,
but with an addition of unleached ashes,
in quantity about so bushels of ashes to
ten of salt on each acre, have &aken a
third more Of a root crop, and The quail
ity of such is always superior. On light
soils, salt alone has, with me, always
proved beneficial; but even here have
had the largest returns when ashes were
used in connection with salt. On field
OF clover or any deep-rooted grass salt
alone is very bensdcial, especially when
used in tbs fall rs a dressing. In every
experiment rnade found that the best
results were obtainable when the salt
was used az tOp-dressiug in the fall. In
nv orchard and vegetable garden l al
wsys uged it mixed with ashes in the fall,
and pIow the ground in spring. l have
used salt to kill noxious insects that af-
se1t fruit trees by giving the ground
nnder the tree a heavy dressing, and it
has proved beneficial and safe, even when
used in quantities sufficient TO kill the
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-17
Rural BreVIIIea.
Cook all meat fed to fewls.

Cook all meat fed to fowls.
Frozen leaves are injurious to cattle.
Mast is very plentiful in Georgia, this
season.
Corn in the ear sells at so cents per
barrel in East Feliciana, La.
Last year England imported over &c.,
600, 900 worth of eggs.
Upwards of $11 ,000, 600 is invested in
live stock in Great Britain.
At the last show in Paris, fifty differ
ent kinds of grapes from one district
were displayed.
A mandatory of butter-tubs in Craw-
ford county, Pa, turns out two hundred
tubs day.
Vermont has 213, 700 COWS, valued at
So, 255, 600, calling the average value of
each COW $40.
Ohio has 381, 900 acres of apple Or
chards, and raised this year 10000
bushels of apples.
1t is stated that 10000 bushels of APP
pies have been shipped from Grand Isle
county, VT, this season.
New York has 692, 800 horses, which,
at an average price of 1851 each,
aggregate total value of $50, 293, 4S6.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-17
DI.ense crow Apace.

Like an i'll wind, and cannot be mastered
too early. What is a trihing attack of sick
moss to-day may, if unattended to. become
serious case in a week. Small ailments should
be nipped in the bud before they blossom
into full blown maladies. If this advice were
attended to, many heavy bill for medical
liver is disordered, the stomach foul, the
bowels obstructed. or the nerves disturbed,
resort should at once be had to that supreme
remedy, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, few
doses of which will restore healthy action
and put the system in perfect order. Il is a
wise precaution to keep this incompatible
preventative in the house, since it checks,
with unrivaled promPtitude, disorders which
breed others far more dangerous, and in
their latest developments are themselves
often fatal
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-17

seller. Utah is also again coming to the
front and an occasional good sale is made,
while Colorado is literally alive with men
who are anxious to put money into mines
and reduction works. This is evidence
that there is an abundance of capital in
the United States to develop her mines
If an opportunity is afforded the con-
trollers of the capital to make an inves-
tigation of the property offered for sale.
1t shows that mining is now beginning to
be looked upon in its proper light-as
legitimate business instead OF a specula-
tion.-HeLen0 MOI IadsDendent.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-17
wh.. i. the n eep of a Horse.

In various stables in England, where
powerful dray horses are kept, the food
given being hay, straw, oats, corn, beans
and bran in varying proportions, the
ration has been calculated at: Lancashire
and Yorkshire railroad company, IL
pounds hay, 16 pounds grain; Thompson
& Kay, Manchester, 10 pounds hay, Is
pounds grain; scavenger department,
Manchester, IA pounds hay, 20 pounds
grain. Thaer gives the daily allowance
of medium horse, doing ordinary work,
at s 2 pounds hay and 80 oats. The al
lowance for the horses of the municipal
guard of Paris in 1910 was IL pounds of
hay and 8 pounds of oats daily, with IL
pounds of straw for litter. The French
hay and IS pounds of oats, and IL
pounds iof straw for litter. The forage
ration of the United States cavalry horse
in 1861 was IA pounds of hay and u
pounds of oats, corn or barley; 100 pounds
of straw monthly being allowed for bed
ding. The mule ration is ii pounds of
hay and pounds of grain.
According to the auditors report of
the city of Boston, 1876, the number of
horses in the fire department was 1874.
The bills paid for hay, grain and straw,
$18,342 90; for sheeing, 1874 II; for
medical attendance and medicine, 1859
40. We thus have the cost per horse as
below:
Food and bedding .................-...... 1886 So
SnoSlhS '-.'''''.'''''. .'''''.''.''''''''' 20 VI
Medical charges. Observation-Disclosures. 26
Total. $167 05
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-17

Wonderful agricultural seeds have of
late been offered by heretofore unknown
dealers in obscure towns in Tennessee,
Michigan and other western states. OF
courie it is no prejudice to good thing
that it should have an obscure origin,
but the things thus offered are either not
good or are offered under names likely to
deceive. Thus Ivory wheat" is no
wheat at all, but the old Durra corn, a
form OF which is offered as "Pampas
rice" while it is no more rice than it is
wheat. The Diamond wheat" which
Is offered with much flourish of names,
including Montana and other kinds
of "rye," is, as we shall show at another
time, one of the Oldest grains in cultiva-
ton. So the Hulless oats" as cold
rs the hills" every now and then turn
mp as the basis of a disastrous swindle.
The Dura corn" the "Polish (though
now called Diamond wheat and
by many other names,) wheat"
the old, very old, " Hulless oats, :"
all these almost as old as agri.
culture itself-may have their uses,
but to introduce them as novelties, or
under new names, shows, on the part OF
those who advertise them, either ignor-
ance or fraudulent intent, and so far as
the purchaser is concerned it makes no
difference which. Let every farmer and
gardener be assured that unless nov
city " in the way of field or garden seeds
has Reimbursement of some agricultural
paper-is either commended by the edi-
tor of the paper, or by some correspond
ents, whose accuracy the editor endorses
Jet him be sure that he can afford to
wait, or if he tries the thing at all, let
him do it on a scale so small that failure
will be of no serious detIiment. In be-
ginning our war against humbugs for the
new year, we have given prominence to one,
the influence of which for evil is shown,
by our correspondence, to be the most
widely extended, and another month
propose to pay attention to others, which
operating in a smaller way, are none the
less perniciOus.-Apl. AgTicultUrist.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-17
A Mining Revival.

The revival of mining industries in
California and Nevada is everywhere sp-
parent. There is demand for improved
or developed properties never before
known to those sections. Capitalists are
on the lookout for investments in that
direction, and it is no trouble to sell
mine for a good figure if its develop
ments are such as to show it is really a
lode and not blowout. In Arizona, too
there is great demand for mines aud the
prices paid are generally very fair TO the
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-17
AsABEsQUEs.
nv THOMAS BAILEY ALDRIcH.

ny THOMAS BAILEY ALDRIcH.
vban ALI the panes are hung with frost,
wild wizaTd-work of silver lace,
wheel my sofa on the rug
Before the ancient chimney-piace
And. basking in the frelight's glow,
hear the hemlOck chirp and sing,
As IL within its rudy core
1t held the happy heart Of spring.
Ferdousi never sang like that,
Nor he Of Shiraz, I'll be sworn;
lounge and blow white rings OF smoke
And watch them lightly upward borne.
The curling wreaths like turbands seem
OF silent slaves that come aBd go,
Or yiziers, packed with craft and crime,
Whom behead from time to time
With pipe stem at single blow.
/ Aud now and then a fragrant cloud
Takes gracious shape, at my desire,
And at my side my lady stands,
Unwinds her veil with snowy hands
ehad0wy shape, breath OF fire.
o love ii you were only here
Beside me in this mellow light.
Though all the bitter winds should blow,
And all the ways he choked with Stow,
'Iwould be true Arabian night.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-17
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TwiilRd silk Umbrellas Paragon frame, g each
Rest GinEhani. patent protected rIhg - each.
Circulars and samples n.Hiied fee on 9ppltCAtln
Shirts only delivered free. KEEP MA y FAt'1 = IL
ING CO.. los and 49, Mercer street. New frJF.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-17

FORTY YEARS OF SUCCESS is sufficient
Syrup as cure for Consumption, Coughs,
Colds, Hoarseness, Sore Throat. It contains
no opium is pleasant to the taste.
For sale bv all DRUGGISTS
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-17

A LONDON advertisement "a gentle
man of high birth having run through
all his money is reduced to extreme in
convenience. He has never worked and
doesn't know how. Moreover he does
not like 1t. He will feel obliged to any
lady or gentleman who will undertake to
support him. Apply 10 'R. F. c., at the
Office Of this paper
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-17

CAUTIoN.-We caution our readers to
beware of diptheria, pneumonia influenza,
bronchitis, congestion of the lungs, coughs
and colds at this season of the year. Get
bottle OF JohnsOn's AnOdyDe Lininent and
keep it ready for instant use. 1t may save
your life. It has saved thousands.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-17
The Greatest Dtscovery of the "a

The Greatest Discovery of the a Ee
IS Dr.. Tobias celebrated Venetian LiTllnent !
Diarrhea, Dytentery. Collie, and Spasms, taken in
teTnally; and Group, Chronic Rheumatism, Sore
Throats Cuts Bruises, Old Sores, and Pains in the
Limbs. Back and Chest externally, 1t has never
failed family will ever he without it after once
giving it fair trial. Price, 40 cts DR.. OBIAS'
VENETIAN HORSE LINIMER I, in Pint Bottles,
at One Dollar is warranted superior to any other
NO PAY, for the of Collie Cuts Bruises Old
Sores, etc. Sold by all Druggists. Dep 10 Fark
Place New York.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-17

STODDARD's "Poultry World, Hart
ford, Conn, should be had by all fowl-br
ers. 1t costs but $l.25 yearly, or only $2CO,
including twelve superior Chromos to SUBJ
scribers. 1t is practical, original and always
fresh. 10 cents single number.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-17

GAN OUNCE OF PREVENTION, ETC"
-Sheridan's Cavalry Condition Powders will
positively prevent all ordinary diseases COM
mon to horses, cattle, sheep, hogs and fowls,
besides constantly improving them in sp-
nearance and value.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-17

THE constantly increasing sale of BUR-
NETS COLOGNE, confirms the opinion of
the best judges, that it is equal, if not supe-
rior, to any domestic or foreign. 1t also re-
ceived the highest award at the Centennial
Exhibition.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-17

INVOLUNTARY, signs, lack of enter
urise. a frequent desire to mituEate foetid
breath Sc, are some of the effects of hepatio
arrangement; use HOME STOMACH Bit.
TIERS Prepared by the Home Bitters Co.,
St, LOWS, Mo
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-17

II is said that at three years old we
love our mothers; at six our fathers; at
ten our holidays; at sixteen dress; at
twenty our sveethearts; at twenty-five
our wives at forty our children, and at
sixty ourselves.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-17
MONIES DISPUTE about other matters.

but sll agree on the merits of DooLEY's
YEAST POWDER as par excellence the best Of
all. GrOcers throughout the country keep
it, and find it gives supreme satisfaction. By
using it the housewife is sure of delicious
bread, ruSk, rolls, biscuit, buckwheat cakes
and all The delicacies made from -four.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-17
SOUTH AMERICA.
Particulars of the LOss OF an Ocean !
steamer, by which Over One Hundred
Persons were Drowned.

Particulars of the LOss OF an Ocean
Steamer, by which over One Hundred
Persons were DrOwned-
The Star and Herald has letter from
Lima giving the particulars of the loss
OF the steamer Atacma, which went to
pieces on the rock known as Quiebralas,
short distance south o. Caldera, on the
Chllian coast, on the night of November
3Oth. The captain, all the officers, and
many OF the crew and passengers were
lost In all it is estimated that ou9
hundred and one persons were drowned:
Twenty-Five were saved. The ship was
on trip from Valparaiso to Callao. She
struck at eight O'Clock in the evening,
when a majority of the passengers were
below, and SO instantaneous was the
breaking up of the ship that no time was
given 10 gain the deck. The cargo lost
was not of great value, and the passen-
gers were mostly Chilians journeving be-
tween the ports. Mr.. Kennedy, agent
fer the Pacific steam navigation, at
Charanel, was returning from Valparaiso
on his wedding trip. He managed to
fasten life-belt on his bride and threw
himself with her into the water, but
before they could extricate themselves
from the floating debris spar fell striking
tue lady on the neck, causing instant
death. The husband afterwards reached
the shore and the body of his bride was
washed upon the beach. The bodies of
Captain Lambert and of the purser were
also recovered. Later information says
the passengers numbered fifty-four and
the crew seventy total, one hundred and
twenty-four. 1t appears the shock burst
certain pipes connected with the boiler,
and the escape of steam, mixed with
cinders, prevented anybody getting on
deck to lower the boats, with the aid OF
which, and the life buoys, all on board
might have been saved. The total nu ~
Der saved is thirty.