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Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-14

Most of our readers will remember the bitter and prolonged fight little Paraguay made against big Brazil. She was finally beaten ; and now, says writer in the London Times, Paraguay is 8 bowling wilderness; the only census you could take would be orange trees |" To the credit of the Jesuits it must be admit ted that they administered the country for a long time and made it very prosperous. De- cadence set in with their withdrawal and now little remains of all they did but empty stone churches standing alone in the jungle.
 The Springfield Republican calls attention to one of the results of the present tariff. The duty on steel rails is now more than their cost, delivered at New York At the time the duty was fixed, the price of steel was four times what it has become since, through the adoption of the Bessemer process. Now, the manufac- ture of steel rails is simply monopoly.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-14
$500 Will Buy
SlO.00 Will Buy

1 keg nails l sack ashton salt 17 pounds mackerel l pair of the best barn door hangers ever used,
 20 feet of track and screw stay roll l good cotton hammock in colors pair ladies cloth slippers
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-14

Georgia is growing all the wheat it needs, ~ Of that State South Carolina is following her example. and. by a more judicious system of agriculture, proposes also to raise her own supplies Georgia cotton factones are also said to tse doing very we'll, declaring from 8 tS F per cent dividends. The South IS cer- tainly on the right road to become more pros- per6as than she has ever been before.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-14

The Springfield Republican says that Gov. Jewell Is busy laying his pipes for another struggle for the senatorial nomination in 1SSO We dout believe the party machine-which Jewell undoubtedly cOntrols-is strong enough to bear the strain such performance would require On the other hand, Wm H. Barnum proposes to make another fight for Demo crztic legislature in 1880; and, in case he gets o0e. feels pretty sure of succeeding Mir. Easna- Connecticut has government which sesnas to be republican in form but what is it in realays Rich intriguers dispose of our mOzs important offices without any real refer enee to the wishes of the people.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-14

AucH as we boast of the general distrlbutlo3 Os oar landed property we are much behind the Preach in that regard. We have but three millions of people owning lands used for agri- culture France has double that number England. on the contrary. has but a quarter of a million Of land holders. and four times that number of paHpers- Only an eighth of her population till the soil.
 The Cincinnati election nvestigation shows :!ood deal that both parties ought to be ashamed Of The Democrats tried fraudulent vuting. and the Republicans took advantage of the federal election law to employ detectives in their interest of very doubtful character. They even sent them into precincts other than tbnse of their residence, which is directly con- frxrv tn law.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-14

1 Bradley 20 20 pounds,s sword fish 100 1 carpet sweeper PTS Buckeye moving machine @ 6O.OO boxes pills 6 Ayers aud Herricks) 100 double rolls extra heavy wall paper 100 Quarter ream note paper and packs heavy white
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 is really elegant in style finish and design 65Oo ! wire spring bed good enough for any one 450 1 hair mattress good one 17.6O ? cotton (curled cotton) TOO 6 bottles Hurd's washing mixture 1.10 papers national yeast cakes ,16 1 heavy round or square point steel shovel .75 25 yards good weight and good style prints 1.31 more of those penny herring to make change o2
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Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-14
S8O.OO Will Buy

100 pounds Masury's white lead 7.5C Hillsdale iron beam blow with wheel FOG liz ht dark grained bedroom suite complete IT 7OC 20 yards extra quality checked mating 6OO Plnmb's patent dry air refrigerator 250O l colored sssal hammock, best quality 235
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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-08-28
The SUgar-beet.

The sugar-beet will grow in almost
any part of the temperate zone, and the
land that is best suited to it is soil in
which wheat will grow readily; either
land that Is clayey, but not too stiff, or
land that is rich, light and sandy. The
beets penetrate the soil from eight to
twelve inches, and their weight is from
one and a half to four pounds. The
seed is sown in the spring, and when the
plants come up they are thinncd out to
one plant in about every twelve inches.
As soon as they are sufficiently grown
they are worked with a cultivator as we
now work corn. They are harvested
in September or October. Cows are
fed upon the leaves and upon the
pulp that remains after the extraction of
the sugar. and the result of such feeding
is said to be the production of very su-
perior milk and butter, or high-class
beef, and of barn-yard manure of avery
rich kind The product of beef under
iudicious cultivation is from 80 to 40
tons to the acre, and the yield of sugar
is about per cent. A case is mention
ed of a French farm of S32 acres, the
sale of produce from which amounted to
$50 a year before beet culture was in
troduced, but which, six years after the
first beets were planted, yielded over
$40, 900 year.
OF course, the very best results can
not be looked for at once. American
farmers win have tolearn by experience
how to grow the crop to the greatest adj
vantage 1t took nearly half a century
to establish this great industry in EU-
rope upon firm basis; but our farmers,
perhaps, viii hardly have to wait so long
for the best success, because it viii be easy
for them TO avail themselves of the ex-
perience of the French and German
growers. France now grows about l,
500, 600 of tons of beet sugar every year
and not only does she supply her own
people, give employment to capital, Ia
borers, and land, but she makes hand
some profit upon her sugar exports.
This is the result of the resolute deter
mination of the first Napoleon in 1872
to have the experiment tried in France
under promising conditions.
That 1t is equally well worth trying
here is certain. The demand for sugar
is increasing and likely to increase. The
people of this country consumed, in the
year 1876. IA, 900 tons, or ], ,669, 900, ,00C
pounds of sugar OF this huge amount.
only l72, ,4SO, 600 pounds, or less than 1C
/ per cent, We're produced at home, chiefly
| in louisiana The remainder, 1,561,-
! $50, pounds, was imported from Gu
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-08-28

cans as fresh fruit; into glass in the form
OF old-fashioned preserves and brandy
fruit, and into jars as sweet pickles. The
best peaches to brandy, you can tell the
old women in the country, are white
heath clngs, and the best to preserve
are the yellow smocks of Delaware and
Maryland. We use Bartlett pears not
enriched by sunshine only for preserves,
but put Dutchess pears into tin
Ounces come next; we jelly, preserve
and can them. CranberTies we
don't do much with except to
put them into cans in the form of sauce
After ounces and cranberries we take
hold of apples. Apple preserves are,
however, principally for export. We
use almost any tart apple, and we ship
thousands of cans to Europe. The ap-
pies take us pretty well into the winter,
and the rest of the year round to April
again Is filed up with canning West In
dia lines, Canton ginger, tamarinds,
French capers, Spanish olives, and in
making orange marmalade, salad dress
ing and calvesfoot Jelly"
Singularly enough, it would seem that
the pickle-making business Is an entirely
separate trade from the manufacturing
of preserves. Green-corn canning is
also business by itself, it having been
learned that corn must be canned as
soon as gathered if any thing like its
flavor is to be retained. In the estab-
lishment just described, fiavoring snups
are also made from the various fruits
The largest sirup-manufacmring estab-
lishment is, however, in the lower part
of the city, and lemon sirup is the kind
most largely manufactured.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-08-28
An Isolated City.

No passenger or sleeping-cars are al
lowed to approach nearer Memphis than
100 miles, and no box-freight cars near
er than 80 miles. Persons leaving
Memphis must be free from every symp-
tom of the fever. Their baggage must
be sent to the depot at least six hours
before the departure of a train, for which
period trunks and their contents are shut
up in a close room and exposed to the
fumes of sulphurous acid gas, after
which they are repacked and certifi-
cate of their thorough disinfectiOn past
ed on them. The passenger must ride
for 10 miles on the tender of a lOcomO-
tive to point where the first transfer is
made. Here in the open country, near
no hsbitatiOn, the passenger and his
baggage are deposited to await the COM
ing of the connecting train which arrives
fifteen minutes after the engine bringing
him out has left for Memphis. On this
train he rides 80 miles in an open stock
car, where the motion of the engine in
sures the fullest and most complete cir
culation of air. At a point 100 miles
distant from the plague-stricken city he
finds the regular trains, and realizes that
during the remainder of his journey, no
matter what direction he takes, he Is an
object to be Stunned by his fellow-pas-
sengers, and of grave solicitude to the
health authorities of every city through
which he may pass.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-08-28
The Suicide City.

San Francisco may fairly be called
the - Suicide City" From 1860 to 1874,
the reported cases of self-destructiOn
averaged about 30 year among the
white population. But in the latter year
the number suddenly jumped to 81, and
it has since reached 103. Comparative
statistics show that the proportion of sU-
icides TO all deaths in San Francisco Is
full three times as great as in New York,
although instances of sef-destTuctiOn
are from various causes extremely fire.
quent in the latter city. The mania for
self-destructiOn in the chief city of the
Pacific slope is attributed to the conse-
quences of the universal passion of the
population for gambling in mining
stocks Suicides increased with the
growth of the mining excitement, and
since the collapse Of mining shares in
1877, over 200 persons have cut short
their existence with their own hands.
Taken in connection with the business
losses, crimes, suffering and disorders of
the last few years, the above facts show
that the Bonanza mines have not proved
an unmiXed blessing to the people of the
Golden State.-BufdJO Courier.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-08-28

jured himself, the young lady coldIy
said that their acquaintance had better
end then and there, and swept up stairs
to their room, while her two brothers,
bursting into roars Of laughter, told the
ruined assistant teacher that his trout
were blue-fsh.
1t was the end of Mr. Smiths dream
of love. Nothing could induce the
young lady to see him again, and her
brothers having told the story at the 10
cal grocery, Mr. Smith was greeted at
every turn with inquiries as to the price
of trout. His brain gave way under his
disappointment and shame, and he now
walks the streets and fields of Quogue-
wasset howling for the small-boy who
sold him the fatal blue-fish, and public
ly promising to infiict upon him the en-
tire list of tortures known to the Span
ish Inquisition.
This story teaches us that when we
90 fishing we should either buy the fish
from an honest dealer, or give them to
a girl who does not know the difference
between fresh-water and saltwater fish.
Had Mr. Smith learned this lesson in
early life, he would not now be wander
ing about Quoguewasset, a spectacle to
men and terror to small boys and nerv-
Gus women.-Ne1O York Tribune.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-08-28
Some Facts About the Pulse.

Many erroneous impressions prevail
about the pulse as indicative of health
OF disease, a common notion being that
its beatings are much more regular and
uniform than they really are. Ere
quency varies with age. In the new born
infant the beatings are from $50 to 40
to the minute, in the second year, from
100 to 115; from the seventh TO the four
teenth year, from so to 80; from the
fourteenth TO the tweHty-iirst year, from
10 to So; from the twenty-first to the
siXtieth wear, from 20 to 20. After that
period the pulse Is generally thought to
decline, but medical authorities differ
radically on this point, having expressed
the most contradictory opinions. Young
persons are often found whose pulses are
below 60, and there have been many in
stances of pulses habitually reaching 100,
or not exceeding 40, without apparent
disease. Sex, especially in adults, in
fiuences the pulse, which in women Is
from 10 to II beats to the minute more
rapid than in men of the same age.
Muscular exeTtion, even position, mate
rally affects the pulse. Its average fre-
quencv in healthy men of q Is, when
standing, 81; when sitting, Il; when
living, &c per minute; in women of the
same age in the same position, 81, 81
and 80. In sleep the pulse is in general
considerably slower than during wake
fulness. In certain diseases-acute
dropsy of the brain for eXample-there
may be $50, even 200 beats; in other
kinds Of disease, such as apoplcXy and
some organic affection of the heart,
| there may be no more than 20 to 80 to
the minute Thus, one of the common
| est diagnostic signs is liable to deceive
| the rnnst eNnerienced nractitiOners.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-08-28

ba and other Spanish possessions, from
Porto Rico, Brazil, the British West IN
dies, the Dutch East Indies, the French
West Indies, China, Mexico, England,
Germany, Belgium, and other countries.
In value the sugar imports represent
nearly one-sixth of all our imported mer-
chandise, the value of imported sugars in
1873 being $S1, 1S7 ,504 1t is the sugar
imports also that give most trouble to
the Customs Department of the Govern
ment, the disputes about the quality and
so forth being endless. 1t is quite with
in the bounds of possibility that the time
may come when we shall pay to our own
agriculturists the vast sums of money
that are now expended for sugar in near
ly all quarters Of the globe by Ameri-
cans; and it may happen here, as it has
happened in France, that besides sup
plying the home demand we NAV have
surplus for export. American enter
prise and ingenuity, operating upon land
as fertile as any in the world, and with a
favorable climate, surely can achieve as
much as has been accomplished by the
peasantry of France. -PbtIadeIp1i0 BuI-
Zeti1
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-08-28
An Historical Table.

The table upon which Napoleon III.
signed the declaration of war by France
against Prussia at st. Cloud in July,
1870, has been just added, with the
sanction of the German Emperor, to the
HohenzOllern Museum in Berlin. When
St. Cloud was bombarded and occupied
by the German troops during the opera
tions against Paris, the table was saved
and taken in the first place to Versailles
and afterwards to Berlin. The table is
round, about five feet in diameter, and
covered in the center with green cloth /;
the outer rim of the top being of ebony,
richly inlaid with mother of pearl and
various metals, and bound with an orna-
mental gold ring. Under the top of the
table are six drawers of the form of a
truncated segment of a circle, and each
provided with cunningly constructed
lock; the inner part of the drawers be-
ing of mahogany, the outside of quaint
ly carved and inlaid mother of pearl.
By the side of the table stands an arm
chair covered with green leather, which,
being a favorite chair of Napoleon Ill,
was sent to him at Wilhelmshohe.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-08-28
The Cars Safety-Guard.

The Nihilist organ, the Revolutionary
Chronicle, which is, in fact, but sup
plement of the notorious ZcniIjd-j-ZOL
contains in its last number the following
interesting details concerning new Sc
cret Imperial Body Guard - 1t is prob
able that there are few people in Russia
who are aware of the existence of a very
original institution, the sO-called safety
guard. 1t is kept secret by the Govern
ment in order to facilitate its working.
Its duty consists in watching over the
personal safety of the Gar and the high
State functionaries. The members of
this corps are subjected to the strictest
discipline, and though organized as a
military body nevertheless wear all
kinds of official uniforms and civil
clothes. The crowd Of supposed work
people which assembled when SOlokieff
made his attempt on the life of the Gar
was for the most part composed of the
members of this corps. The gendaTmc
Koch, who arrested the wOuld-be regi-
eide, was one of the Secret Guardsmen,
and has been rewarded for this service
by being appointed Commander Of the
Corps, in the place of Gen. IIase. This
Secret Guard, which numbers at the
present time more than 1000 men, is
placed under the direct control Of the
Car, and its very existence has been
kept so secret that even now the fun de-
tails Of its organization are unknown" F"
IT lately cost a Philadelphia widow a
life interest in the sum of $4,000 TO re-
marry in the face of provision in her
former husbands 5 Will. Phineas Hough,
,Jr., died and left his widow the house
they lived in. the furniture, and the in
terest on $50, 900 to- live on so long as
she should remain single. Should she
remarry then the money was to go to
his father or his heirs. Notwithstand-
inc this clause, held in terrOTem over her
bv the long fingers of Hough, Jr's, skel-
eton, the Widow Hough became Mrs.
Alexander NJ. BonbTight. Her affection
for Bonbright was stronger than the will
at anv rate The heirs of the $50, 600
under the Wills provision claimed her
forfeiture and their rights. She con-
tested, and the Judge decided according
to Blackstone that ''man has dominion
over his property even after his death
and adiudged the restraining clap'
! id and binding.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-08-28
The Value of Presence of Mind.

Presence of mind has lately proved
valuable in several interesting cases:
Henry Kuhn, at the bottom of Du-
buque well, drove his pickaX into the
side, and stood under it when ne saw
the earth-laden bucket falling, thus saw
ing himself from being crushed John
Carey, when lightning struck the New
Haven mill of which he was foreman,
knocked down three of the panic strick-
en- operators, who were madly rushing
toward the narrow exit, and so prevent
ed n dangerous jam on a stairway. Mrs.
Dunkin of Long Prairie, Mimi, was
threatened with an aX by her crazy son.
She said, . Well, if you want to cut off
my head, lets 90 to the ehopping-block. "
He nodded, and they passed out to the
woodpile. 1t was dark, and addressing
him with, - Now, I'll put my head on
the block she drew the white kerchief
from her neck and threw it down and
slipped away. The lunatic struck the
kerchief a heavy but harmless blow.
Julia Clarke, San Francisco factory
girl, was caught in machine by her
long hair. She seized Il pair OF shears
and cut off her long tresses SO quickly
that she was not drawn between the
wheels and killed, as she otherwise
would have been. Ten men started
down the shaft of a Nevada mine in a
small skip. The dOnkey-engine broke.
and the miners felt their vessel sink
downward with lightning speed. Death
" fear turned every face white. In the
panic most of them clutched the skip To
wait for the crash. At the first intima-
ton of disaster Patrick Mccarthy, the
engineer at the top of the shaft, seized
a heavy plank and thrust the end be
tween the pinion-shaft and the reel, from
which the cable was running off. The
drum was revolving with terrific speed
and the friction produced streams of fire
and smoke. But the engineers thrust
was exactly ut the right point, and the
end of the board soon checked the de
scent, bringing the skip to "A standstill :
few feet from the bottom.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-08-28
A Fortune in a Barrel Of Apples.

This is one OF the ways fortunes are
made in Leadville, Col. A. Cohen was
one of the spectators who went
there to look for silver mine His
money dwindled rapidly, until he had
only three dollars and fifty cents left. In
desperation he went to Il wholesale gro
cery and bought a barrel Of apples, pay
ing his entire capital on account, and
remaining in debt one dollar and fifty
cents. Then he set up a stand at busy
street corner, and offered his apples for
sale at ten cents apiece. Before sun
down he had sold out, and was the pos
SCISSOR of nearly thirty dollars. The next
dav he had a larger stock in trade and
did equally well. In fortnight he was
a well-to-dO man. His profits had been
immense. Now he has large fruit,
nut and candy business, and has store
full of assistants.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-08-28
An AUGUST DAY.

Over the fields by winding ways
We wandered on together,
Under the flashing azure skies,
In n hush of August weather
Round about US, afar and near,
We heard the locusts humming.
And the asters starring the lonely path
Laughed out 10 see as coming
Bird songs out of the sunlit oak
Fell ripping through the shadow,
Like "a spear of flame the cardinal flower
Burned out along the meadow.
Into our hearts the blithc wind blew,
It's own free gladness giving
And all things laughed in the happy earth
For the pure sweet joy of living.
Two rO0med with their eyes alight
And their hearts too still for laughter
Two in revel of golden fire,
Looked neither before nor after;
One went dreaming with dOwncast face
Through the hush of the wood and cover,
But one praised God from trembling heart
That the shadow of pain was over.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-08-28
Marveis OF a Minnesota Swamp.

J. w. Blanding, one of the Commits
sioners appointed by the Governor to
appraise the salt lands in our county,
has given Us an interesting account of a
natural curiosity visited by the Commits
sioners during their trip. In the course
of their search for and examination of
the above lands ia the northeastern part
of the county they came upon a large
tract of quaking bog land. Running in
a northwest and southeast direction was
a line Of mounds from six to 800 feet in
diameter at the base, and from ID to 80
feet high, of conical form, the slope
being about 45 degrees. These mounds
were a shaking bog to their SUBMITS,
where was found a circular opening six
to eight feet in diameter, filed with
clear, cold water and of unknown depth,
a pole eight feet long being their only
means Of testing the latter. Most siu-
gular of all, few feet from these wells,
upon digging from 10 to "a inches, a
solid body Of ice was found. Who can
give US an explanation of this phenOme-
-BrecbeBridge Free Press.