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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24
just How anu Why Nero FlddIed.

Nero fddled while Rome was burn
ing. And when We 60 behind the returns,
we discover that Nero Was what the la
mented AFtemus Ward would call a
" sRgaeious cuss" He had been so fre-
quently disturbed and threatened with
death by the neighbors, whilst playing
g Baby Mine" and e Whoa. Emma" st
home, that he determined to have nice
quiet time With bis fiddle at least one,
without interruption. So while Rome
burned, Nero took 3 seat on q stump on
the outskirts OF the. city and ratified of
Z" Lanigan's Ball." /" You'll Never Miss
the Well till the Water Runs Dry"
" Where was the Light when Moses
Went Out" and other airs popular in
his day-and not single brick-bat was
heaved at him. He knew that all his
neighbors, and their sis, and their
cou- and their -nts were down in the
city listening to the 6remen swearing at
esch other, and shouting through their
ridiculous horns, "TuFn--on--the-
water--Pbeaix H-o o o-s-eH'.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24
Fried in Lard.

The London World -ecites how re-
yenge was had by one of the most emf
nent pianists In that city. He had suf-
fered much from the irrepressible con-
versation of drawing-room audiences,
and devised the other day means of
giving little lesson to the town. He
arranged with his violin, his violoncello.
and the rest that the music should come
to a sudden stop in the midst of the
loudest passage of the piece, at a given
signal from him. It was done. The
Dawling and shouting voices were left,
IN the twinkling of an eye, high and
dry, as it we're, upon a shore of silence.
Joyous, clear, and distinct, above them
all rose a voice from the foremost
seats, the voice of Lady -. These
words of hers were ringing upon the
startled air: ave always fry ours in
lard!"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24

CREAM GARBAGE Wash, cut fine,
boil until tender, and drain the water
from it. Brown two tablespoonfuIs OF
butter in a saucepan; put in the cab
bage and pour over it teacupful of
good cream season, and let simmer for
halt an hour,
To Cook Wash the roots,
and as the outer skin is scraped off throw
the roots into cold water. They require
nearly an hours boiling in plenty OF
water; throw in with them little salt,
a small piece of butter, and the Juice OF
half q lemon. Serve with rich gravy
or melted butter.
An EXCELLENT WINrER DIsH.-Six
pounds of brisket of beet, roasted for
half an hour; put it into q stewpan
with four quarts of water, some carrots,
turnips, celery, onions, cloves, herbs,
salt, pepper, and vermicelli. Let it
stand four hours, simmering slowly, but
it must not boil. Skim frequently.
WASHING FLANNEIs.-Theo one thing
for which the best servant preserves an
animosity is hannels. She will soak
them in warm water, and drench them
with soda, and reduce them TO the con-
dition of boards. To wash fannelE
nicely, take warm sospsuds, use two
waters, and soak the fianneis IN hol
water for few minutes.
To STEW CARRoTs.- Half boil, Their
scrape and slice them into a stewpan
Add 70 them halt g teacupful of any
weak broth, pepper and salt TO taste
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24
An Asparagas Bed.

de who lives IL the country and has
no asparagus bed has at least one heavv
am OF omission on his conscience for
which lie never can give an ADEQUATE
excuse. If the man who does " not pro-
vide for his own house Is worse than an
lnhdel, he thatwill not &c bother % with
an asparagus bed is anything but ortho-
dox, and yet can not call himself a
nationalist. Some are under the delu-
sion that an asparagus bed is an abstruse
garden problem and an expensive luxury.
Ear from 1t. The plants of Conoyer's
Colossal 1.-THE best Variety can be OBJ
tanned OF any seedsmen at slight cost. /
have one large bed that yields almost
dsily supply from the middle of April
till late in June, and 1 shall make
another bed next spring in this simple
way: AS early in April as the ground
Is dry enough-the sooner the better
1 shall choose some warm, early. but
deep soil, enrich it well, and then on one
side OF the plot open furrow or trench
eight inches deep. Down this furrow /
shall scatter heavy coat of rotten COM
post, and then run ploW or pointed hoe
through 1t again. By this process the
earth and compost are minglei, and the
furTow rendered about six inches .ieep
Along its side, one foot apart, will
place one yeaT-old plants, spreading out
the roots, and taking care to keep the
crown or top Of the plant five inches
below the surface when level then half
nj the furrow over the plants, and when
the young shoots are well up, fill the
furrow even. shall make the burrows
two feet apart, and, after planting as
much space as l wish, the bed is made
for the next fifty years. In my fathers
garden there was good bed over fifty
years old. The young shoots should not
be cut for the FIRST two years, and only
sparingly the third year, on the same
principle that we do not put young colts
at work. The asparagus is a marine
plant, and dustings of salt sufficient to
kill the weeds viii promote its growth.
T.; z. Roe, in Harper's Magazine for
April,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24
Comn,on se,,.n PIoulnr.


The depth of soil can alone determine
the depth of blowing, When the soil is
shallow the gradual deepening of it
should be sOnght by the use OF appropri-
ate materials for improvement until the
object is fully attained. The subsoil
ought not, as rule, to be brought out
OF its bed except in small quantities to
be exposed to the atmosphere during the
TALL, winter and spring, or in a summer
taIIoW; nor even then except when such
fertilizers are applied as are necessary to
put at once into a productive condition,
Two indifferent soils of opposite charac.
ter, as stiff clay and sliding sand, some
times occupy the relation of surface and
subsoil to each other, and when thor
oughly mixed and subjected to cultiva>
tion they will produce soil of greatly
increased value.
Soils appropriated to gardens and hor-
ticultural purposes are often deepened
to fifteen and even eighteen inches with
benefit, and those for general tilIage crop
TO about twelve inches with decided adj
vantage. But whatever is the depth of
the soil the pillow ought to turn up the
entire mass if within its reach, and what
is beyond it should be thoroughly broken
up by the subsoil pillow. When all cir
SantnNhuCCo art AAFOFaQ!0 10 the use OF
the subsoil pillow, en- increase in the crop
follows, as the hard earth below the
reach Of the ordinary pillow has been
loosened. This permits the escape of the
water which TAILS on the surface, the cir
culation of air and q more extended
range for tie roots of the plants. by
which they procure additional nourish-
ment and secure the crop against
drought. The benefits of subsoil plow-
ing are most apparent in an impervious
clay subsoil and least evident in loose
and leachy soils.
On low or strong land the experienced
farmer prefers to see the furrow left on
edge exposed to the action of air and
harrow, Sandy or dry soil requires fat
blowing, which tends to consolidate the
land.
AS rule those crops are the most pro-
duetive which are plewed the oftenest
Caution must be used, however, espe
cially after the second blowing of corn,
when sI.rface-plOw is less liable TO in
iure the roots than an ordinary one. Cot
ton, while requiring that the ground be
stirred repeatedly, calls for care in its
cultivation after the bolls begin TO form
As the turns made in blowing con-
sumes time il is economy to run the fur.
rows in the longest direction. Actual
experiment has proven that the time lost
in turning short plots make a large item
In the expense account.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24
Atmospheric Phenomena About Pixies
Peak.
New York Time,

Some curious natural phenomena are
witnessed from the summit of Pixies
Peak. Electric storms are so remarkable
there that those who have witnessed
them are eloquent as 20 their splendOr.
Little thunder accompanies them but
the whole mountain seems to be on fire.
and the top one sheet OF fame. Elec.
tficity comes out of every rock, and
darts here and there with indescribable
radiance. An observer says that it PLAYED
around him continuously, shot down his
back, glanced out Of his feet, and so
completely filed him that he became
charged like Leyden jar. He could
not retain his foothold he bounded and
rebounded from the rocks after the man
ner of an india-rubber ball; he felt as
though q powerful battery were throb-
bling and thrilling through his frame,
and, fearing consequences, he hurried
into the signal station. The signal off
GERS stationed st the Peak see some won
derful sights, and If they had as much
Imagination and rhetoric as they have
patience and powers OF observation, they
could furnish some very vivid descrip>
tions of what they witness. Several
men OF science who have watched elecs
trio storms from the top OF the mountain
think the phenomena the grsndest and
most imposing, and that they can hardly
be surpassed anywhere. The Peak com.
mandA q view of one hundred miles
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24
HOW to See the Wind

Much advice has been given as to how
to 60 raise the wind" The following in
formation about seeing the wind is not
uninteresting Take a polished- metallic
surface with a straight edge-a large
hand-saw will answer the purpose. Choose
a windy day, whether bot or cold, clear
or cloudy, only let it not rain or the air
be murky; in other words, let the air be
dry and clear, but this is not essential
Hold your metallic surface at right an
giles to the direction of the wind-name,
~, if the wind is north, hold your sur
face east and west, but instead of holding
the surface vertically, incline it about
forty five degrees to the horizon, 90 that
the wind striking glsnces and flows over
the edge Creeping it strsight) az wa ter
over a dam. Now sight carefully over
the edge st some minute and carefully
defined object, and you will see the air
flowing over as water flows over q dam.
Make your observations carefully, and
you viii hardly fail to see The air, no
matter how cold. The result is even
better when the sun is obscuTed,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24
A Chapter on Temperance.

DIR. Willard Parker sums up his views
on the temperance question in five con
illusions First-There is a wide dis
tiHcJiOn, which ought to be recognized
by temperance ref0Imers, between fer
mented and distilled liquors In fer
mented liquor alcohol is found IN its
natural chemical com bipation in dis
titled liquors it is found pure and sim
pie. In the one case 1t may be EN-
ployed in diet and for nourishment in
the other case it Is to be regarded only
as medicine, and IS a dangerous one,
to be used only with caution. Fer
mented liquors include ale, beer. cider
and the various wines. Second-If lien
would use pure fermented liquors in
moderate quantities, as a condiment,
and only in connection with their meals,
the use need not be harmful, and at
least in the case OF those past the middle
life might be beneficial. Therefore, the
state ought to license only real inns, and
for the sale of fermented liquors alone
Third-TOtal abstinence is 8 good thing
for every bsdy, because the use of even
fermented liquors is dangerous, in that
In some individuals, especially in those
who inherit q tendency to iDebriety, it
creates or awakens an appetite for drink
and healthy persons do not need them.
Fourth-Distilled liquors are deadly.
Their use is productive of more disease.
physical, mental and moral, than that Of
any other known agent and produces an
immeasur8bly greater number of I'M
timely deaths. Fifth-Distilled liquor
is an indispensable medicine, but its sale
should be confined To drug stores, and
on the prescription of a physician.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24
James g. Benefits Arctic Cruiser.


It is stated that the Jeanette will
start on her voyage OF discovery about
the middle Of June. So soon as her
commander, Lieutenant De Long, ar
rives he will select the crew. The eff
GERS, so far IS chosen, are Lieutenant
Charles w. Chip, executive officer /;
John w. DanenhOwer, master and as
sistaut engineer George w. Melville,
engineer-all having connection with the
navy. The crew, composed OF volun.
teers, will be carefully selected, and
must be healthy men and able seamep.
The Jeanette will take food and fuel
for three years cruise. Sailing on OF
about the 18th of June, the Jeanette
will touch st St. Paurs island, one or the
fur-seal or Pry biler groups, and st St.
MichaeIs, q trading post in Ala ks,
where dogs, and dried fish for their food,
fur clothing and more sledges will be
taken abosrd. Then she will touch at
St. Lawrence bay, on the Siberian coast.
From here she viii proceed northWesterly
in search of Professor Nordenskjold, the
Swede who sailed from Stockholm last
July to make the mplished
northeast passage through the Siberian
sess. IF the natives are TO be believed,
ne has reached Koliutchin bay, not many
hundred miles from Behring's straits,
where he is frozen in, and probably per
fectly safe. In this direction, the sew
enty-frst parall has never been passed.
The Jeanette viii winter near Kellet
Land, and make 8 dash for the pole the
following gu INNER.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24

radius, wild mountainous region, con.
tanning many lakes and the sources of
four great rtvers-the Platte, Arkansas,
Rio Grande, and Colorado of California.
Imagine that broad, picturesque extent
kindied and glowing with electricity,
and you have an ideal picture Of sub,
Unity which no poet has begun to paint
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24
Intellect.

A distinction has been drawn by Rev
George HensloW between the kind of
intellect in brutes and that in men. It
is given for what it is worth: /" It has
seemed to me that brute reasoning is al
ways practical, but never abstract
Brutes do wonderful things suggested by
the objective fact before them, but
think never go beyond it. Thus, a dog
lett in a room rang the bell TO fetch 8
servant. Had not the dog been taught
to ring the bell, (which on inquiry
proved to have bsen the case, this would
have been abstract reasoning, but it was
only practical. The arctic fox, too wary
to be shot like the first who took bait
tied to a string which was attached to
the trigger of q gun-would dive under
the snow, and so pull the bait down
below the line of fire. This is purely
practical reasoning; but had the fox
pulled the string first out of the line of
FIRE in order to discharge the gun and
then get the bait, that would have been
abstract reasoning,
Brutes and boys are just alike, in that
nothing occurs to them beyond what the
immediate fact before them may suggest
The one kind call purely practical rea~
soniDg, which both have the other alb
stract, which brutes never acquire, but
which the boy will as his intelligence
develops"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24
Col. Buford,s nefense.

New York Sun.
Among the lawyers retained to defend
Col. Thomas Bufor0, in bis trial for kill
ing Chief Justice Elliott, of Kentucky,
ia ex Judge Curtis, of this city. Judge
Curtis Is a personal friend of Gen. a 81.
Buford, a brother of the prisoner, and
was engaged through him. He has been
engaged in several cases Involving guess
tons OF insanity, including that OF DE-.
Helmbold, who, after three years of It'll
CATION, was decided to be in possession OF
his faculties unimpsiTed, and the Bouden
will contest, in which the theory was
establishes taat a person in the advanced
stages of Bright's disease is incapable OF
making a valid wili BE declined last
evening 70 stste what tile line of defense
would be in this instsnca, bat said that.
judging from the published accounts of
the killing, he had no doubt that Col
BufOrd st the tiwe of the deed was in
sane. The trial Is set down for the 28th
inst, and bewiH start for Kentucky q
week earlier. His first effort will be to
secure an adjournment oil the trial and
change OF venue. He has the news
from KENTUCKY that the lawyers there
are afraid TO take part in the defense, but
refuses to believe it.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24

4 LITTLE girl, when her fathers table
was honored with an esteemed friend,
began talking very earnestly at the first
pause IN the conversation. Her father
checked her rather sharply, saying,
q Why is 1t that you talk SO nuchg
" Tause I've dot sometin' TO say" was
the innocent reply,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24
M Line Drawn.

An exchange says that the President
of a short railroad IN Western New
York is also conductor, and, upon coca
sion. baggage-master, traek-hand, etc.
The other day he had TO act as brake
man on an extra coal-train, and when he
got home found the door shut against
him His wife explained, I have been
wife TO the President, the conductor,
the ticket-agent, and I don't know what
besides of tins road. but I've got to draw
the line somewhere, and 1 won't marry
tire brakeman"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24

OUR namesake If Portland tells Of an
old farmer who. having eaten sn oyster
stew for the first time. said, " liked the
soup pretty well, but didn't ike them
pollywogs-" This recalls the story Of
the Hs0sier who lunched with Gen.
Jackson, and had among other things,
cEam payne and olives. General. !" he
said. Shaping tn old hero on the back,
Il ike your cider, but durn your pick
lss."- Boston Transcript
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24
Sand and Rats.

To discourage rats that burrow unde'
walls, don't lamp the holes with broken
glass bottles, which viii merely incite
them TO dig new holes, but put a shovel
full of dry sand over each hole. The
rats soon come up through this, but in
doing so let half the sand into the bur
row, which, unlike earth, they cannot
either force or carry up again, and by
repeating this at every fresh-opened
place their runs become quite filed up,
and they make up your foundations
again.
TIE hanster is small rat-il1e animal
with a pouch on either side of its
mouth, which It finds very convenient
for secreting grain. It abounds IN the
sandy districts between Northern Ger
many and Siberia. and single animal
has been known to stow away 100
pounds of beans. At Asehersleben It
became so serious a pest that early last
September the town offered a reward
for these little animals, and over 60,000
were killed. The hamster Is very game,
and 3 savage fighter. It's fur, which II
Fariegated. is marketable.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24

CHIEF JesEPH wears his hair banged
ia front aud braided down the back.
he recently received some pull-backs
from the Unitel States troops. but be
don't wear them.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24

a SMALL boy and gun are harm less
when apart, but they make : terrible
combination.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24

MANY people get their best health in
later life. The nonagenarian poet
R gers said he never had three cOnsee-
utiYe days of good health till past forty.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24

A brennan anti-eellisive steamer car.
RES en- electric light at the Prov while
threading the thousand mssted
Thames -
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-02-27
Worth TWirA the Sum

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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-02-27
Johnson Joins
The List of Those who Bear the
Brand of Cain.


The List of Those who Bear the
Brand of Cain.
STANTON, Tenn, Feb. GA
horrible murder occurred about
nine o'clock last night at a tie
camp in the Hatchie bottom, in
which Joe Ousley lost his life at
the hands Of Frank johnson.
The murder originated from a
trivial matter. -Four men were
sleeping on pallets in front of
the fire place. Ousley began to
quarrel with johnson about his
taking up too much room, and
wanted him to move. johnson
did so, but it did not satisfy Gus
ley. Getting up, he remarked:
Il will cut and shoot you!' John
son made some remark in reply.
Ia return Ousley called him a
hard name. johnson said: "Joe,
/ can't take that. Ousley star
ted for his overcoat which con-
tanned his pistol, Johnson pick
ed up an AK, and just as Ousley
got his pistol, struck him Just
under and in front of the right
shoulder, burying the AK to the
eye in the body Of Ousley. The
blood poured forth in torrents
over the walls and floor of the
rude shanty, presenting a horri-
BILE nd sickening spectacle.
johnson left, and has not yet
been captured, but parties are in
pursuit Of him.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-02-27
Legislative Notes.


Senate bills on third reading:
Senate bill 127 was taken up
under a suspension of the rules
and passed third reading. The
bill prevents Judges from sign
ing bills Of exception until the
venue is proven.
TO prohibit railroads and rail-
road corporations from charging
more for local than through
freights. The bill also applies
TO passengers.
To repeal the charter Of the
town of Jasper.
70 allow all manufacturing
companies in this State TO ap-
point one or more guards who
shall be vested with all powers
now conferred upon the FoIice in
the city of Nashville.
To repeal certain sections Of
the Code, prohibiting the en-
ployment Of colored men as EN-
gineers OH railroads, 16 to B.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-02-27
Another Lynching.

ChelOt fAAS SO'''f'N
A negro man named Alex Nc
Gill was hanged by a masked
mob Numbering about twelve
men Wednesday night, the Eth,
about II O'Clock, near FlatCreek.
The only offence the negro had
committed, as we are reliably
Informed, was that he threatened
TO shoot the first ku kinx he
saw. He had come from Coffee
county the day on which ne was
lynched, having arrived at his
father-in-law's late III the eve
ming, 1t is strongly believe
that his father-in-law was The
informer to the mob Of his arri-
val. Coroner James S. Miller
held an inquest Thursday and
rendered a verdict ding to
the above facts.