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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-08
A MAm.DRIVER's sUFFERNGs.
Living on Tobacco and Snow for Ten Days
and NIGHTS

Living on Tobacco and Snow for Ten Days
and Nights.
From the AIontans Independently
Bobby Casey, the faithful and intrepid
mail carrier of Montana, carried what
is known as the horseback mail, but
which is, In fact, conveyed in a two
wheeled vehicle like sulky, from Sun
River to the Twenty eight Mile Spring.
On the 9th ult. he started from the
former place. There was 8 binding
Snow-storm ct the time, and the track
across the prairie was obhterated. As
he did not reach the end of his drive at
the appointed time it was assumed that
he had lost his way; and this theory
proved to be well founded. There were
not wanting brave men both at Helena
and Sun River to undertake the search
for the missing man, but their efforts
were in vain. On the Sd inst. William
Rowe reached Benton, and was informed
of the affair. The weather was fear
fully cold; but this fact did not deter
him from the attempt that humanity die
tated. Mounted upon a horse, he set
forth, and in due time found dim track
where it seemed probable that Casey
had left the main road. Following this
his Iabors were rewarded on the 9th
inst. by finding the driver, about twenty
miles north of Twenty-eight Mile
Spring. Casey was sitting in his cart,
which the horse was drawing slowly
was in a doze, and Mr.. Rowe shouted to
him once or twice before he was aroused
to consciousness. It was then found
that his right foot and leg were frozen
nearly to the knee, and that his left foot
.. SC hal hot hn
will not suffer the loss of either limb.
His story was soon told, and with his
recollection of his experience, and what
Mr.. Rowe learned in his search, the
tale is wonderful beyond fiction. The
driver had been wandering over that
trackless prairie for ten days and nights,
without food or shelter, and in a tenn
perature never above zero. All this
time he had moved in an almost per
feet circle, and had picketed his horse
and camped every night In almost the
same spot. More remarkable still, he
had daily passed within a mile and a
half of the Twenty-eight Mile House,
which was his destination. All this
time, amid sufferings that would have
crushed an ordinary man, Bob Casey
had only one thought, that he must stay
with the mail and get it through, what
ever befen him. And he did; not a
single package was lost. Starving, half
frozen, and dazed by exposure and pri-
walton, his duty was still uppermost in
his mind. During all these terrible days
and nights the only thing that passed
his lips was tobacco and snow. He had
with him a goodly supply of the former
article at the start, but as day wore into
night, and night into day, he began
boarding it with as much avidity as ever
did q miser his gold
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-08
CannihaIs in South America.

The Panama Star and Herald prints
the following A curious story comes 10
us, upon the authority of the pre- ect OF
the district of Caqueta, in the state OF
Cauca, and on the borders of the Brazil
ian empire, of hostilities between savage
Indian tribes, which are marked by the
atrocities common to central Africa, OF
the islands of the south sea. On the
desolate lands of the lower part of the
river Caqueta live two tribes of Indians
the HuitOtes and Guaques = between
whom appears to be an endless feud.
They seem to exist but to destroy and
annihilate each other. The tribes of the
Gusques are veritable cannibsls, so far
SIS the Huitotes are concerned. They
hunt them as they would wild beasts,
with the object of making prisoners,
and then sell as slaves in the Brazilian
territory, or reserve for their horrible
feasts.
The frightful orgies prscticed at these
barbaric rites are described by gentle
man named Guzman, a Colombian, who,
for commercial purposes, visited the
country inhabited by these tribes. The
buildings or temples in which the vic
TINS are sacrificed are thirteen meters
square, with several doors on either side
and which Will accommodate ABOUT forty
individuals. The victim selected is led
by the hand by a chief several times
up and down before the assembled saw
ages Amid shouts and laughter, the
trembling captive is obliged to pass out
and IN through the various doors, and al
| last is allowed to remain standing for 8
few moments In the center of the build
| ing, in the midst of his savage destroy
ers. Then, without word of warning
the savage chief attacks the helpless
creature with a club, knocking him
senseless or dead with the first blow, and
then dismembers and divides the body
| among those present, who devouT the
remains like wild animals.
But the Guaques are in turn exposed
| to the attacks of wandering parties OF
Brazilian negroes, who at certain seasons
of the year ascend the Caqueta river,
attack dwellings and villages, making
prisoners of men, women and children
indiscriminately, whom they carry of
to their homes and sell into slavery
every year, without protest on the part
of the local authorities, or steps being
taken to put an end to the traffic.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-08
non1EsrIO RECIPES.

CHEESE CAKES One quart of curd
after the whey has been strained off ;
mix with it half a pound OF butter, an
ounce of pounded blanched almonds,
three eggs, tescup of currants season
with sugar and lemons or ross-Water (;
bake In plates with haste.
SPANISH CREAM.-One ounce pela-
tine, three pints of milk, six eggs, eight
tablespoonfuls of sugar. Cook the gela~
ne one hour in the milk, then when it
.ones TO a boil beat the yolks of the
eggs with the sugar aud stir in let it
siHomer; then take on the fire and pour
over it the whites of the eggs beaten to
a froth flavor with lemon or vanilla.
FRENCH TAPIooA Take
two ounces Of tapioca and boil it in half
a pint Of water until it begins to melt,
then add half pint of milk by degrees,
AMI boil until the tapioes becomes very
thick add well beaten egg, sugar and
favor to taste, and bake gently for
three quarters of an houE. This prepas
ration of tapiocs Is superior to any
other, Is nOUrisbing, and suitable tor
delicate children.
LEMON PIE.--First make your crust
and line yonr dish; next take Que ia
blespOonful of cOTn>starch, wet with 8
little cold water, pour on one tescupful
of boiling water, and cook as for starch-
ing clothes; set away to cool. Crate
the rind of one lemon, squeeze the Juice,
removing the seeds, and the pulp cut in
bits, the shell being worthless. Beat
the yolku If three eggs with one teacup
of sugar; put your Ingredients together,
adding a pinch of salt, pour into your
dish End bake il 3 modersteiy heated
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-08
Are rhorourhbred.-arardys

We may sum up what we have said
In the Ireceding chapters upon this
question, by stating that, when the
breeding aud management of the thor.
Oughbreds have been in accordance with
natures laws there is no foundation for
the assertion that they are deficient in
hardness and that the widespread
belief to the contrary has resulted mainly
from the bad effects which inevitably
follow in and.in breeding. That with
certain kinds of thoroughbred stock this
course of breeding has been 30 extern
sively practiced as TO very greatly impair
the vitality of the animals 30 bred /;
while in others. where selection mas con
stantly been made with refereD ce to
hardness, strength and endurance !;
where close inbreeding has been avoided,
and where there has been no unnatural
forcing and oampering, thOroughbreds
have no peers in these valuable qualities.
That the lack Oh hardness complained
OF in thoroughbred stock is an accident,
due to a peculiar course of breeding or
treatment, not Justly chargeable to the
simple fact that the animal is a thor
cughbred, and not necessarily following
the course OF breeding essential to the
creation of a thoroughbred. Tnat in
proportion as uniformity in all essential
characteristics is Appropriated, the me-
cessity tor care in the selection OF breed
ing stock with view to con .titutiOnal
vigor is increased, in order to maintain
hardness and vitality; ard hence the
much greater success in which some
breeders of thOroughbHeds attain than
others, with the same strains OF blood.
That thoroughbred transmit their own
qualities with much more certainty than
mongreis, or animals OF q mixed breed,
and as they have generally been per-
fected to a remarkable degree in one or
more valuable qualities, the use of a
thoroughbred male upon common or
mixed stock almost always shows a
marked improvement in the produce.
That a cross in the blood usually gives
increased vigcr to the produce, but when
both parents are already OF mixed blood
nothing is gained by crossi that to
secure beneficial results from crOss-b eed
ing at least one OF the parents must b. 8
thoroughbred, with race characteristics
so firmly fixed that, while it may be in
vigoraJed and strengthened by being
transplanted, so TO speak, iutO Il new and
virgin soil, the produce will retain al
the excellence of the thoroughbred pa
rent that, however excellent the re ,ult
from cress-breeding may be, the animal,
30 produced can not themselves be relied
upon TO transmit that excellence, excep
in a further union with thoroughbreC
stock. Hence, in all cases, to secure thu
highest benefits which result from
cross in the blood, as well as to perpet
uate the excellence which has been at
tanned in any given breed, at least on
of the parents must be thoroughbred
and hence the great importance OF maiu
tanning absolutely thoroughbred races il
their purity as the only source to b
relied upon in efeeting further improve
mant
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-08
Gems by the Wayside.

Men who complain of the miseries OF
this life are, for the most part, such RS
are unwilling to practice seH-denial OF
submit to those rules of their animal
and moral economy upon which sslutary
and uniform happiness is founded.
He cannot be called an accomplished
or polite man in company who is con-
tinually betrsying fear to offend or a
desire to please-though his behavior
ought to be regulated internally by
both these motives.
The sweetest flowers are those which
shed their odors in quiet hooks and
dingles; and the Purest hearts are those
whose deeds of love are done In soil
tude and secret.
The self-deniaI which vice exacts is
greater by far than that involved in the
struggle of virtuous endeaYor.
God is too merciful to let us have a
full view of our character or a PAN
oramic prospect of our vices.
The cultivation of the heart should
be like that of a garden, where we
prune and weed before we begin to
plant.
He who breads giving light to the
people is like a man who builds house
without windows, for fear of the light
ming.
The best thoughts are ever swiftest
winged, the duller lag behind.
To abstain from a small thing is more
difficult than to undertake a great one.
The love of public opinion is often
mistaken for the dictate of genuine
bravery.
When men speak i'll of thee, live so as
nobody viii believe them.
The man of knowledge lives eternally
after his death, while his members are
reduced to dust beneath the tomb. But
the ignorant man is dead, even while he
walks upon the earth; he is numbered
among living men, and yet existeth not.
Every moral sentiment, every intel
lectual action, is to me a hint, pro-
phetic star of spiritual power to be ex-
banded forever, just as faint ray from
distant sign is significant of unimag-
Unable spleudor.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-08

oven. When nearly done, beat the
whites of three eggs to a froth and add
four tablespoonful of powdered sugar
remove the pie, spread the fIothing with
q knife, and set in ths oven until nicely
Drowned.
BEEFsrEAK PUDDING. - Take two
pounds of round steak, one teaspOODful
each of summer savory, celery salt, and
one small onion chopped very fine,
sprig of parsley, salt, and white pepper.
Cut the steak into small pieces and place
a layer OF it in buttered dish, the sides
of which you have lined with paste.
Sprinkle over the steak some OF the
onion, celery salt &c; add another layer
of steak and seasoning until all is used,
then pour over it a little water and
cover with paste. Place on the top of it
buttered psper, and stand 1t in basin
of boiling water, cover it tight, and let
it boil two hours and half To make
the paste, take one teacup and half of
-four, half teaspoon III of salt, and two
tablespOonfuls of roast beef dTippings,
and wet it up with a half teacupful of
water.
SOUR BRATEN.-T lake eight pounds of
Tump, not too lean; dry the meat with
a cloth; mix pint of vinegar with tie
same quantity of water; put the beef in
a deep earthenwsre pan, and pour the
vinegar and water over it; leave the
meat in the mixture for two hours, turn
ing it from time to time; take it out
and rub the meat with two tablespoon
fulsof salt and tablespoonful of pepper /;
cut in strips half pound of fat smoked
bacon; take q baking pan and cover the
bottom with the strips of bacon cut in
thin slices three large carrots three
onions, 8 stick of celery, one bay leaf,
twelve cloves, and CRATE a small piece OF
lemon or orange peel; put the beef in
the pan on the strips; sprinkle the beet
with the cut vegetables add two large
| tablespoonfuls Of brown sugar; cover
the beef with what remains Of the bacon
pour on the vinegar and water, and bake
slowly for four hours. As it evaporate;
in baking, pour from time to time some
warm water iuto the pan, not pouring il
on the beef May be eaten hot or cold
| The sauce may be strained or not. Sou
| bTaten, in some respects, is the German
a Ia mode beef. It is national dish, anC
being less troublesome than a Ia mod
beef, may be substituted for it.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-08

Z" I cannot save any Of my salary,
said Senator Lamar to your correspond
emit. at is impossible. I never paid
q cent beyond livery hire and few lit
tie kindred items of election expenses,
In my life, and I have been IN politics
long time. I could save $1,000 a year
If I would do certain things, but I DO
not think my conscience would be sat
isfied If did. For instance, I pay
about $500 a year for newspapers. 1
like to read them. I have passes over
railroads. I could travel all over the
United States free. But I pay my fare.
It costs me SGT apiece fare for my fam
lily every time come and go between
here and home. have telegraph
passes. 7 never use them do not
think it would be right. I can send
anything I please over the express lines,
yet pay my express bills. / spend my
salary and never have any money.
Some Senators use all these privileges
of deadheading, and they say 1t is right.
7 think otherwise. But there is one
thing that think should be done, and
I shall propose 1t as soon as I get
chance. Every Senator should have
private secretary. He has more CORE
spondence, committee work, ETC., than
he can do. And each Senator should
be allowed a private secretary. The
Senator gets $1,000 year, and cannot
support his family in keeping with his
position and employ private secretary
on that sum-" The conscience of this
Senator should be embalmed. IF you
were here and saw carload Of dead
heads on the street-cars when Congress
adiourns you would be disguised.
They haul out cards and give their
names each time to save cents. I
paid my fare one day, and the conduc-
tor told me it was the only fare he got,
though the car was crowded, and was
standing on the rear platform. The
car was full of Congressman. This in
cident is fact that the people should
Washington letter tn Brook
| Inn Union A7-0lLs.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-08
MOrtany In Cities.

Besow is given an interesting table
showing the mortality in the principal
cities of the Union during the year 1873.
The figures were collected by Health
Officer Minor, and can be relied upon as
being Official The population of Gin
cinnati IS placed at figure which is be-
ieved by competent judges to be far
below what it really is, and which, no
doubt, VIII be found to be erroneous
when a correct census is TAKEN as is
proposed by DR.. Minor in a communica-
ton which he made to the Police Board,
and which was most favorably received
by that body. Chicago, on the other
hand, as viii be seen, has an inflated
population of 100000; these figures are
arrived at by including all the county
(Cook) in which that windy city is stu
ated. Taking its own figures, however,
it is a very healthy place, showing but
1919 deaths IN each 1000. ST.
Louis not having furnished data, it
cannot be seen how that city stands for
healthfulness
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-08
What ia YannIaY

We take from the Colonies and India the
following interesting note on the subject
of vanilla It is mainly supplied by
Mauritius, Brazil and Mexico, but could
probably be grown in other colonies
The paragitical plant which yields this
bean viii climb up any tree that gives
sufficient shade; it attains 3 height Of
one foot only, and thrives thirty or forty
years, producing some fifty pods apiece
each, after the second year. The besns
take eight or ten months to mature, and
are gathered between October and De-
cember. They are oiled occasionally to
prevent shrinkage, and dried in the sun.
when warm they are wrapped IN wooden
cloths to absorb the evaporation, and
during the process attain their black
silverY hue. Vanilla is the most costly
in proportion to its weight Of alI vege-
table productions, and only few hum
dred weight reach England annually.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-08
The Vanilla Bean at the Mauritius.

Of late years the cultivation of vanilla
has been introduced, the high price of
the beans attracting attention. This was
not always the case, when its only use
was favoring essence now it has been
found to be of great assistance in silk
dyeing, and the demand for it became
much increased. It is a heavy, sluggish
looking plant, climbing up the stick or
trunks of trees near, while it is planted
In q serious sort of way. the leaves are
fiat and thick, and the PODS hang in clus-
tiers from the joints of the stems. The
flowers have to be impregnsted by hand,
and great care is used in handling and
drying them. The pods are at first green,
when dry they turn black, and if props
erly prepared exude beautiful needle
shaped crystals. Shade is absolutely
necessary to the plants, and the circum-
stance is taken advantage of by the pro-
prietors, who plant the vines in rows
under the strawberries which adorn their
gardens. Thieves were not long in find
ing out the value of the beans, and for q
time the new industry received q check
owing to their depredations, until law
was passed containing the most stringent
provisions for its protection.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-08
Too Near His Figure.

On one occasion, when Gen. Butler
was in command at New Orleans. a
colonel up in the Red river region made
application for q furlOugh, which was
refused him. Soon after the colonel lett
his command without permission, and
went to New Orleans, where he was
arrested and put in irons as q deserter.
Upon an intimation thst he wished to
make an explanation, Gen. B. had him
brought to his headquarters.
Well, sir" said the general sternly,
'what have you to say in explanation of
your conduct 7'
{. Well, general, there are two Jews up
yonder who have some cotton they want
to get through my lines. First they
offered me $500, which refused. Then
they offered me $1,000, then s., 900. then
$o5, 900 and at last they offered 500, 900;
and / tell you, general, they were get
ting so near my figure, thought I'd
better lesve"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-08
Tha HaIinstat.

The heliostat is sn apparatus which,
through some slight modern improve.
ments, carries on an idea whose origin is
lost in antiquity. It is an arrangement
o mirrors through which the reflection
of the suns rays is made by q code OF
signals to convey notes Of military
movements to distant points. The plan
of working is very simple. The mirror
of the heliostst is placed so IS 20 reflect
the suns image to distant station, and
when the instrument has once been set
the clockwork arrangement sufices to
maintain the mirror In its proper posi-
ton. In this way the distant station in
question always sees the dazzling raw
reflected from the mirror, except when
the latter is purposely obscured. The
appearance and disappearance of the
bright spot or fash constitute the sig
mails. The ordinary Morse alphabet
supplies sn intelligent code, and no one
out of the line OF signals can read or
understand the message. asa substi.
lute for the dot and dash, which go to
make up the ordinary written Morse
code, the light is shown for short and
long intervals. The appearance or non
appearance of the light can be noticed
at ten or twenty miles distance without
the aid Of glass,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-08
The ColIinsville Cloud.

DR.. ii. L. Strong, q prominent physi.
clan and property holder, gave the most
lucid description that was obtained. He
was riding a shert distance southwest of
the city, and saw the sterm.cloud as it
approached the city. For fully half an
hour previous the sky wore 8 strange
appearance, and the atmosphere appeared
dry and heavy. The stoTm-cloud formed
almost due east of the city, and was
about $50 feet high, and shaped some~
what like balloon. It appeared fully
fifty feet at the top. and Japered to a
long, narrow pendant, which " f1irted {"
from side to side as the cloud passed
along. 1t moved with great velocity,
and was accompanied by a desfening
roar, while the air was flied in its imme
date vicinity with debris of all kinds,
which was gathered up by the waving
pendant and carried up into the broad
portion of the cloud. Everything that
the pendant touched was demolished, and
heavy timbers were carried by it several
miles to the eastward. The cloud struck
the eastern limits of the city, passed
directly east to Clinton street, where it
changed its course to the southeast, and
burst a short distance from the south>
eastern limits. A number of citizens
stated that their attention had been at
trscted by the singular appearance OF
the sky for some time previous to the
disaster, but they did not apprehend any
serious danger. The first warning they
had was the fearful roar of the cloud as
it approached, and before they could
comprehend the danger it was upon
them, tearing and crashing through the
buildings, and filling the air with frag-
ments of timber, limbs of trees, broken
furniture and clothing. A popularity
of the action OF the cloud was that it
seemed tu strike the ground at intervals,
leaping over some houses and destroying
others.