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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-08
u.r arsn, 1aors an. vn,,enea.

Carter and Southland have reduced the
business OF pOrk-raising 70 q science.
The former, intent upon taking the palm,
started off with thirty-nine hogs Upon
twenty OF these he bases his hope
of success o. the original number sew
eral have been killed In January three
OF them came 30 very near choking to
death that the farmer grew frightened
and slaughtered them. They weighed
SO, 817 aud 738 pounds respectively.
The hogs entered for the prize have had
the very best care. There are JUST two
events in the lives Of such housekeeping
and eating. They are too fat even to
waddle. They never wake up except to
eat, and that process over th-y again
stretch out upon clean straw in their
separate pens. These particular hogs OF
Mr.. Carriers were too lazy even to feed
Themselves, and, indeed, even if they
were not, they could not see their food.
For weeks they had been in total blind
ness. Like the average hog of no partic-
ular distinction, they all had eyes, but
three inches and half of genuine fat
kept them closed completely. The feed
ing process is one of interest to both hog
and spectator. The farm hand rolls W
boiled meal into round balls and forces il
into their hogships' mouths. The hogI
gTunt and swallow and keep it up until
they are perfectly gorged. They are KEEP
in stuffed condition on the best of meal
and all that is asked OF them is to grow
fat. Southland has not killed yet. II,
began the year with twenty-nine hogs
ali Jersey reds, but his pens now contain
but twenty-three. There they wer
lying around, granting and putting, ant
with snouts pointing upward in searcl
of air. Their eyes could not be seen
and it took strong fingers to pry ava
the masses of tat so tFat the hidden OIL
gans of sight could be opened out. TIL
blind, helpless masses were shaken b
loud breathing, and occasionally woul
give vent to a snort, but tn y SCENE
entirely unable to get upon their feet
National Live Stock Journal.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-08
Tanning Russia Leather.

A correspondent of the London Times,
at St. Petersburg, states that in prepar-
ing the famous Russian leather for book
binding, the hides to be tanned are first
laid to soak for three days and nights in
8 solution of potash to which some quick
lime has been added. The potash used
is made of the tree called in Russia linn,
the elm it is not purified, SO that it is
of brown color and earthly appearance
about twelve pools OF this, each pood
being equal to thirty-six English pounds,
and two pools of lime for one hundred
skins. By means of their tongues, when
the causticity of the alkali is found weak,
q longer solution is allowed. When the
skins are taken out, they are taken to
the river and left under water for q day
and night. Next vedro of dogs dung
is boiled in as much water as will soak
fifty skins, the latter being put into this
solution when it is at the heat which the
skins can bear, and in this they remain
one day and night. The skins are then
sewed up Wster-tight; about One-third
of what the skin viii contain is then
filed up with leaves and small twigs,
chopped together, of the plant called
tolomanka, or bearberFy, and the skins
filed with water they are now laid one
on the other in q large trough, with
heavy stones upon them, 90 as to press
the infusion through the pores Of skin in
about four hours After this, the skins
are taken to the river and washed, and
are ready for the dyeing, the white st
skins being laid aside for the red and
yellow leather.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-08
An Ingenious Night Iamn.

A recent number OF the Paris La Ma
ture describes q simple and convenient
night lamp, the invention of NJ. Behu.
indicating the hour by the extent of COM
bustion OF the oil. From the oil reser,
vOir rise two vertical glass tubes one
contains oil and is graduated for the
hours; the other contains the wick satu-
rated with oil, and giving the light. The
construction Is such that one hour is re-
quired to consume the quantity of oil
between the two graduati0ns of the first
mentioned tube. A reflector placed
under the flame at the side throws 8
luminous besm across the graduated
tube. During the night one can thus
see at what height the oil stands in the
tube and read the corresponding hour,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-08
How a Clever Attempt At Smuggling
was Detected.

A new and somewhat novel mode of
smuggling has been discovered. On the
arrival of the steamer Silesis from Ham
burg, st her dock, she was boarded by
her usual number of custem-house in
speet0rs under deputy surveyor Kibbe,
who at once proceeded to take the bsgs
gagesdeclarations of the cabin passengers.
While thus engaged a richly-sttired lady
presented her card to Mr.. Kibbe, one o.
the inspectors, Gnd asked permission to
go on beard. She stated that her broth
er, Alfred A. Som, was among the pas
sengers. Suspecting nothing wrong, the
official granted the lady's request, and
she quickly disappeared into the cabin
After a stay of about half an hour the
lady Tesppeared. She wore long, fur
lined silk circular, which she did not
bring on board with her. The inspect
ors sccogted her and invited her to be
searched. She was indignant. A thor
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-08
M DEAD.
NJ YAnpYKR snonr.

Sometimes. with eyes that are dimHea by tssrs,
The burial ground OF the Past tread
And tsise the I'D Of vanished year,
And gas upon my dead.
They lie in the tomb Of memory all
Unseen by the souIless eyes they dread
no hand bat mine can lift fte pail
That covers my hallowed dead.
One by one laid Them away.
Laid them way In the shadoWy tomb,
Where only my feet are permitted TO stray
through the deep and sunless gloom.
First Innoeenee died. could not hold
To the bright illusions which childhood gave,
No longer the copper Of life was gold
When innOeeDee lay in its gravel
And Faith went next In TIE long ago
chung to 1t braFely with childish tTast,
But time dealt many s cruel blow,
And Faith was turned 70 dust.
Ambition number With my dead
In lugiy youth 1 held il dear
Then al It's fires were flaming red,
Now all Its ashes are here.
And ali I more dear than all the rest,
IL that dead Love y hich fills the tomb,
Like soae sweet flower, plucked and Prssasd,
With lingering perfume.
Aiasi that ever love should come,
If coming, It is doomed to die.
II cold must grow the touch, ana dumb
ihe lips We sanctify.
The last Of all my dead is Hope;
lis burned here, and evermore
Through memOry's tangled maze gToPe,
HeaEt-heavy and footsore-
AID so, with eyes bedimaed by tears,
The burial ground OF tue pa t tread,
And raise the lid of the vanished years
10 case on these, my dead
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-08
How General Hardee Learned = New
Peint in Tactics.

General Hardee, whose manual of In
fartry tactics was in use in all the
southern armies, visited a rural Georgia
town one day during the war, and the
commander of second-class militia !"
company sought to do himself and the
general honor by parading his command
In front of the inn in which Hardee had
rooms. The writer upon tactics came
out upon the balcony to review the
command, and the militia officer put
his men through their PAGES. Ia one Of
the man9uvres the men became cona
fused and got into 3 hopeless tsngle.
Hardee, n telling the story, said that
he could think of no possible way IN
which they might be extricated, and
waited with great curiosity TO see what
the militia commander would do. That
rural tactieian looked st the confused
mass for q moment with a scowl of per
plexity upon his forehead then his face
cleared, and he shouted the order Dis
entaDgle to the front march Where
upon the men rushed forward and formed
g new line without regard to the order
Of the old one. HaEdee said the CONF
mand Wss not IN his own or any other
book On tactics, but that it ought TO be.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-08
SOUTHERN FARM AND HOME.


A correspondent of the Forest and
Stream gives a new remedy for killing
Aeas on dogs. II you try 1t give our
readers the benefit of your experience.
The following is his letter: "Seme years
ago learned from q druggist in this city
that the managers Of our orphan asylum
freed the heads OF the IN ortunate waits
from parasites by applying tincture of
hshberriea to the scalp. I tried the same
thing on my setter pup for heas with
perfect success. Since then / secured
another setter, which was also troubled
with Aeas, and one application cured
him. did not use in either case more
than few crops, rubbing them in on
the nape Of the neck and at the end OF
the back where the dog would be in no
danger of licking the place to which the
tincture had been applied, My care in
this regard may have been excessive, but
as the stuff is poisonous, pre- erred TO
run no risks. This is q sure cure, and
can be obtained from druggists anywhere
for q few cents.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-08
The Height at which Birds Fly.

1t is much to be desired that some
thing positive were known as to the
height at which it may be possible for
this point we have ESQ far as / am sware)
made by Mr.. Glaisher on the six pigeons
taken up in his celebrated balloon
ascent, September 5, 1852 (Rep. Brit.
Ass, 1902, page $3.50, unfortunately ad-
NIT of no definite deductions. One
pigeon threwn out at the height OF three
miles extended its wings and dropped
as a piece OF paper" A second at four
miles " few vigorously round and round,
apparently taking dip each time" A
fourth st four miles, in the descent
few in circle" and then alighted on
the balloon. The two remaining pigeons
were brought down, and one was found
to be dead Perhaps a little more
"practice" or " experience" was wanted,
but, at any rate, the results do not seem
/ to favor the notion that birds can fly
comfortably at those heights. Nor is
this surprising, considering the well
known effects of the TaEifsctiOn of the
air at great heigl Is. I, of course, pre-
tend to no special knowledge of this
subject, but Mr.. s. w. L. Glaisher, F.
r s., kindly into ms me that at an ele-
walton of FIVE miles the density of the
air is about IL 7 of what it is on the
earth's surface at an elevation of seven
miles about 1, and of ten miles about
l17.5. I know not whether experiments
have been made to test the endurance o.
birds life under such condition al
the last, but it could, o. course, be easily
produced under an air-pump. 1t would
not be so easy to test the power of figh
under tbs same condition. 1t is only
obvious that the power would be very
greatly diminished. and should be glaC
to learn the results of any investigation
of this kind. Physicists and physiolo
gists might here give ornithologists great
help.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-08
Turning Tragedy Into Farce.
Boston Saturday Gazette

On the first appearance of the play
I" Brutus' q ludicrous incident occurred
which Mr.. Payne told me mortified him
exceedingly, and which, so slight are
the causes which stamp with success or
failure new drama, threatened it
with serious disaster. The part of '"Iul-
lis" was taken by Mrs. Glover, an
admirable actress, but extremely feshy,
and without a thought on the part of
any one of the suggestiYeness of the
scene to an audience always ready to
appreciate the ridiculous, the following
passage was allowed to pass the repeated
reneaTsals of the play:
Messenger Fly, Tullia, hyp
TuIliaS" Fly was not horn to fly I''
The audience caught the idea at once
of the impossibility of her flying, and
burst out into shout of laughter, which
was only checked by fortunate brilliant
coup de theatre which followed it and
restored the play. The next day the
lines were struck out, and on reference
to the opening scene in the fourth act, it
will be seen that the appearance of the
I" Messenger is omitted, and Tullis +"
enters alone and opens the scene with
the lines: Goods whittier shall frantic
mother fiy 2'
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-08

ough search of her clothing was made.
Upon her were found tweHty>three yards
OF black silk, three and half dozen
pairs of kid gloves, one roll Of light silk,
thirty napkins, four pieces of silk hose,
forty-five pairs of merino hose, and five
valuable highly ornamented meerschaum
pipes, and one cigsr-holder. The lady
reluctantly gave her name as Mrs. NJ.
Lautertsch, of No. 167 East Sxtysffth
street Duputy-Surveyor Kibbe then
gave his attention to her brother, and
was well rewarded. In trunks which
Mr.. Sohn claimed as his property the
following articles were found: Five
table cloths, one dozen handkerchiefs,
FIVE table covers, 500 cigars, and q oman
tity of miscellaneous articles of first
class manufacture.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-08
why Flowers Turn to the Sun.

Wiesner has presented to the Vienna
Academy a monograph upon heliotrop-
ism and geotropism in plants. After
historical sketch, the author treats of
the influence of light on heliotropism,
and shows that with decreasing intensity
of light the strength of heliotropic effect
increases to q certain point, and beyond
this point decreases. The lower limit of
light intensity comedies with the lower
limit of heliotropic effect for the stop
page of growth in length, while the
upper limit does not coincide, or only
occasionally comedies. with the upper
limit of heliotrOpic effect for growth in
length. In the case of very sensitive
heliotropic plants, the upper limit of
light intensity for stoppage of growth In
length lies higher, and in less sensitive
| plants lower, than the upper limit for
growth in length. He next considers
the relation between the refrsngibility
of rays and their heliotropic effect, and
shows that portions of very sensitive
heliotropic plants, as Vicia saliva, curve
| in all lights, even in the ultra~red and
ultraviolet, except the yellow. Expert
ments on the joint action of heliOtrop-
ism and geotrOpism are next described,
and the author concludes that the phen-
omenon of heliotrOpism is due to the
unequal growth upon unequslly lighted
sides of the plant.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-08
A COUP DErAr.

e little seeds by slow degree
Put forth their leaves and flowers unhear9,
Our love had grown into tree,
And bloomed without single word
haply hit on six O'Clock,
The hour her father came from town;
gave his own peculiar knock,
And waited slyly, like clown.
The door was open. There abe stood,
Lifting her mouths delicious brim.
How could waste thing 50 goodf
I took the kiss she meant for him.
moment on an awful brink
Deep breath. froWn, smile, : tSsfi
And then, 90, Robert, don't you think
That that was Father-cdrdhsrS
London Society.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-08
Cincinnati EnQGireT

Mss ALICE BLAINE, the eldest daugh-
ter Of ths Senator, retains no trace Of
the wound IN the face which abe acct
dentalIy gave herself last year. She is
sti1 ct school
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-08-12

TnE unknown quantity in the Ohio
election next October Is tho Greenback
vote, which was large enough in 1877 to
leave the Democratic candidate for Gov.
ernor, Bishop, with a plurality only, and
not a majority Of the total vote cast; and
in 1873 To place the successful Republican
candidate, Barnes, in the same situation.
This year Il" Is generally admitted that
Ewing's only chance Of success is in pick
ing mp the Grcenback vote. The Cincin'
natl Enquirer, Democratic, has published
interviews with leading G~rCenbackers In
all parts Of Ohio. whose net result Is the
prediction that Ewing will receive about
10000 votes from the Greenback- National
party, Foster 1000, and the Greenback
candidate tho rest. The GreenbaGk vote
was only $1,000 in 1873, very much less
than u tenth Of the total vote Of the State,
but IL unquestionably holds the balance
Of power between the two parties. This
distribution Of It suggested by the Enquirer
interviews, however, would only give
Ewing m uncertain plurality Of 5000 OF
no in q total vote of over B5S,OOO, and is
in itself an indication Of tho extremely
doubtful prospects OF the Democratic can
didate..
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-08-12

Horace GREELEY's estate seems full Of
surprises. Such property as he thought
valuable has, thus far, proved valueless,
while that which he had mentally charged
up to profit and loss, having no expecta-
ton Of getting a penny from 1t, has come
out handsomely. Only few months ago
Cornelius ]. Vanderbilt, to whom Mr..
Greeley had lent thousands of dollars
without any security beyond his sword paid
every dollar Of the debt, with interest.
This would hayO amazed the lender had
he been alive moro than ANYBODY else in
the community. Now another windfall,
the New York Time says, has come, or is
about to come, to tho heirs OF the late edi-
tor of the Tribune. Some years before his
death he had been induced, very injudi-
ciously, it was then believed, to buy q
tract Of land in West Virginia, for which
he paid ten or twelve thousand dollars, or
more, and which he subsequently decided
to be literally apermanent investment. It
is said that tho land has 80 improved Of
late that Mr.. Greeley's daughters have just
been offered forty thousand dollars for it,
and that they may get much more.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-08-12

was made in a deprecated paper money,
greenbacks, and that Of 1880 will bemade
in coin. It Is true, in 1870, the depreciR.
Itionoi greenbacks was, noninally, only
liz PET cent less than gold; but; in fact, the
greehback saluationsin 1870 were double
what gold valuations are now; or, to state
the truth in another way, the gold yalua-
tons Of property Of to-day are only one
half what the greenback valuations were
In 1870. All the wealth Of 1870 Is here
still, and more, too, but the money in
which II Is valued has itself increased so
enormously in It's relative value that the
wealth Of the country appears to have
stood still, or TO have made but little
growth. According to the rate Of increase
Of wealth from 1850 to 1870, which was O
doubling every ten years, the true valua'
ton in 1880 should be s6O0OO,0OO,OOO; but
II, as Is probable, II will be only $4,000.
100000, or the same as It was in 1870, then
there will have been a dissipation Of $780,
600, OOO, 900 in delusive valuations; all the
country's increment in realwealth will be
covered and concealed by what We call
the "shrinkage in values" but what IL
really the increase Of the purchasing pow
or Of money.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-08-12

DEAN STANLEY has told one of his au-
diences in Westminster Abbey that the
English prayer book is worth reforming
because everything worth preserving is
capable OF Improvement. Such a reform,
he said, ought certainly to remove from
that book the compulsory recital OF the
Athanasian Greed and the prohibition OF
the reading of the burial service over the
most sanity members of the Society Of
Friends or the most innocent Of little
children. "The prayers in time OF rain,
drought and plague, and the Thanksgiving
for victories could also be ~improyed.n
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-08-12


TilR Democrats Of Mississippi seem de-
termined to do. their best towards defeat
ing the Democrats OF Ohio and every
other doubtful State. The outrageous bull
doing Of an Independent candidate in
Yazoo county Is still fresh in the public
mind when threats Of the same sort Of
treatment are openly made in Rankin
county. This is another section in which
the blacks largely outnumber the whites
but at the last election not n single vote
was cast against the Democratic ticket,
The Democratic managers apparently
don't mean to allow much more opposi'
ton to the regular ticket this year. AS in
Yazoo, there has been a movement to-
ward running an Independent ticket al
the coming election, but the Democratic
organ at the county seat serves notice in
the plainest language upon all persons
contemplating such course that they will.
pursue 1t at their peril. 1t says that ENC
bull.dozing will be attempted on II par
unless our interruptions opponents force
US to it, by recognizing their loyal league
clubs and "reviving race prejudices," but
it warns the ,white-skinned organizers o
such clubs to cease their efforts before i
is too late. 1t remarks that this game wa
tried in Yazoo county, but the white PEG
pie soon put a stop to it, and concludes
by declaring that I'VE want peace, ant
we are going to have it if we have to igh
for it" This kind OF tactics may serve Il
elect Democrats in Mississippi. but thu
Republicans couldn't ask better cam
paign documents for circulation in til,
close Northern States that are to decide thu
next Presidential election.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-08-12

the olden times, when the Democratic
chances Of success In an election were
hopeless, sotne shrewd Hlbernian
would inspire confidence In the ranks Of
the faithful by telling them 10 wait TIL
the gravel train comes In with the Dino!
cratic voters" As a political machine the
gravel train Is now delunct, Mr.. james
Reynolds, the road nastet himself .
Democrat and o Hibernian, Of French
parentage, assures me that the lntroduc'
ton OF this machinery will probably re-
duce the Democratic majority Of Tusca.
rawasto very meagre proportions.
INCREASED business
Is expected for this road when II reaches
Wheeling, where net less than 100000
tons OF, iron arc used annually In the var
ious manufacturing establishments. The
city OF Wheeling has . population Of 49,
900, located on both sides ot.the Ohio
River, with the best advantages for manu-
iactures. It possesses one oil the largest
nail factories In the country, with blast
furnaces, glass works., and other indus
tries, In these manufactures large guam
titles OF iron ore and coal are used, and the
Cleveland, Tuscarawas Valley 4 Wheeling
Company expect to got their share Of
the transportation, The line Of their road
is literally hemmed in with coal mines.
There are points where for twenty miles
tho coal lies above water level, and its
average thickness is more than FIVE feet.
The whole route OF the Wheeling exten.
sion is through q mineral and agricultural
region, rarely surpassed for natural re-
sources.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-08-12
DIED.

BUDKE.-At his residence, on Wheeling Island,
AUguItl1, 1879, al 3 o'clock A. ", FRANK W. BuDKEl
lgO1 70 Year,, . months and 2 days.
Funeral from Ills late relidcncC, No. 81 Maryland
street, Island, on Tuesday, August u, 1870, at $50
P. n. lntermOnt aS Peninsula Cemetery.
IillSbugh Commercial Gazette please copy
LOEFFLER-on Monday morning, August II,
1879, nj 7 O'Clock, HRHRY L6EPPLxR, Ia the 18th year
Of hiSagc.
Funeral from his late residence. No. II Eighteenth
street, OH Wednesday afternoon at 1 o'clock. Friend
Of the family arc invited.