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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-06-26

NEURALGIA AND RHEUMATISM. = A
very simple relief for neuralgia is to boil
q small handful of lobelis in half pint of
water till the strength is out OF the herb,
then strain it off and add teaspOonful
OF fine salt. Wiring clothes out of the
liquid as hot as possible, and spread it
ov the part affected It acts ike a
charm. Change the cloth as SION sa
cold till the pain is gone then cover the
place with soft dry covering till pergpira-
ton is over, 60 IS to prevent taking
cold Rheumatism can often be relieved
by application to the painful parts OF
cloths wet IN 8 weak solution of cal soda
in water If there is Inflammation IN the
joints the cure is very quick; the wash
needs to be lukewarm.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-06-26
A POISONED STREAK.
seventeen ChiIdrea as.e frsn Drinking
EIs ~ afers.
Enstrn Rarnla


The entire school district known as
the Jacobs Mills district, at Newark,
ten miles from Island Pond, Vt, num-
boring twenty children, drank water
from brook poisoned by the carcasses
of dead horses and sheep also potato
tops upon which Paris green had been
used, they being thrown into the brook
Seventeen children were taken down,
and eleven are dead. The others can
not live. Edward Morse lost two, Fred.
Simpson one, L. Wilson one, Mr.. Park
one, John Cole one and John Aldrich
five, his entire family of children.
Mrs. s ldrich is hopelessly insane. The
children suffered untold agoniee, and
alter death the bodies became pttrid
and required immediate burial. Work
has been suspended and great excitement
prevails. The teacher of the school
noticed something wong about the
taste Of the water and forbade its use
in the school, but seventeen of its
scholars used it and were stricken down
within twenty.feur hours. One of the
children, q son of Mr.. Hudson, pulled
through. Just above the school-house
was field Of potatoes, and Paris green
was used extensively to exterminste
potato bugs. The potato tops were
dumped into the barn-yard of Horace
Cheney, who built drain from the
barn-ysrd to the brook. He also buried
colt in the spring of 1878 on the edge
of the brook, and the flowing water
washed ous parts of the carcass. A
Mr.. Simpson, who ha lost one child,
objected to the colt being buried there,
and caused Cheney to move it and
bury it elsewhere, which was done,
but it was buried In q swamp only
f ty feet from the brook, the water Of
which ran into the brook. Cheney
remarked that he guessed be
hadn't bettered it mucn. Violent
! threats are freely expressed toward
Cheney. Samples OF the water have
| been sent to Boston for analysis, and
the selectmen will not take any pro-
ceedings till the result is known. Old
and young are taking the disease, but IL
a milder form, and will soon recover
| Six physicians have been unremitting
in their attendance. Public opinion
runs high, each one having his or hel
views of the troubles, no two stories
being alike. " The brook was poisoned
and Cheney did it." is the common ex
preston. The matter will be thoroughly
and properly sitted, and the offenders, i
any, will meet with just punishment.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-06-26
Electric Light at the Cauitol.

The arrangements for lighting the
capitol building with a new electric
light are nearly completed. The ex-
pertinent has already been made in the
hall of the house of representatives., and
a single light placed on the front row of
the reporters gallery and over the
speakers chair made the whole half 80
light that print could be easily read at
the points furthest from the burner
The plan is to place four lights in the
hall, and it Is now believed that they
will be a very great improvement upon
the present arrangement of gas burners.
The electric machines have been pur-
chased under the appropriations for light
ing the interior of the building, and It is
in contemplation to place another in po-
sition for the purpose Of supplying q
light of vast power upon the top of the
dome. It is claimed by the inventors
that burner can be constructed there
which shall have a very appreciable
effect upon large ares of the city. It
Is claimed that, with the steam power OF
the heating and ventilating apparatus
in each wind of the building, q dynam o.
electrict machine of 175, 200. candle
power can be run.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-06-26

There is no time to be lost when cough
attacks one, IN adopting means of proven
tion against consumption and bronchitis.
A cough may, with perfect truth, he termed
the incipient stage of those destructive
maladies, and it is the height Of folly to dis
regard it. If neglected, it will surely cul-
inmate in some dangerous pulmonary affec~
ton, but if DR.. VIM. Hall's BaIsam fer the
Lungs be used, the complaint is speedily
vanquished, and all danger averted. There
is no pulmonic comparable to this great
specific. Sold by druggists.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-06-26
Arkansas Editors on the Territory of
Oklahoma.

Arkansas Editors on the Territory of
Oklahoma.
The editorial association of Arkansas
adopted an address upon the subject OF
the Indian territory, which puts the
question so clearly and concisely that it
deserves to be reproduced "Lying
along our entire western border is a
country of great beauty and fertility.
1t ought to be the home of thousands OF
happy families, the site of growing and
busy cities, the theater OF intellectual
and material progress. Instead, it stands
as the barrier of progress and monument
of governmental folly. Fugitives and
lawless men have crossed the borders, to
the injury of the indians and reproach
in the whites. Where they have been
tn contact with the best OF the whites
ofe relation has been pleasant anC profit
able. This ia strikiDgly illustrated by
the result Of the actions of Secretary
Schurz in August. 1877, based upon law
and treaties allowing the people OF Okla
homa to employ white skilled labor.
The consequence is that vast tracts have
been brought under cultivation, school
hou es and churches built, and a new
era of progress inaugurated. We be-
lieve that the organization of the terri
tory OF Oklahoma by congress is a ne ces-
sity, growing out of progressive civIliZa'
ton, and an act of mercy, owing to the
exposed and unprot cted condition OF the
ILdian. We therefore recommend that
members of the association strive IN
every way lawful, honorable and consist
ent with treaty stipulations TO effect this
end -
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-06-26

People residing in paludal Districts, or re-
moving to euch localities, can place reliance
in the efficacy OF DR.. E. WilhOft's Anti-Peri-
odic or Fever and Ague Tonic, to prevent or
rather counterfeit all maiarial diseases. 1t
never fails to cure Chiils and Fever, Dumb
Chills and Enlarged Spleen, and is guaran-
teed to contain no dangerous drug. The
composition of this medicine is given with
each bottle, and can be had from all druggists
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-06-26

same in other countries we are unable to
say. The steady increase in the whole
number OF suicides Is true, we believe,
of all civilized countries, though the
rate Of increase is not everywhere so
rapid as in France,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-06-26

AN ARTICLE OF TRUE MERIT. -" Browns
Bronchial Troches" are the most popular
article in this country or Europe for Throat
Diseases and c oughs, and this popularity is
based upon real merit, % cents box.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-06-26

A LEGAL gentleman met q brother
lawyer on Court street one day last
week, and the following conversation
took place :" Well, Judge, how is bust
ness p" "Dull, dull; I am living on
faith and hope" Very good. but 1
have got past you, for 1 am living on
charity Boston Courier.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-06-26

A thoroughly good Cabinet or Parlor Or
gan is worth two poor ones. Mason & Ham
lin make the best. The prices are a little
higher than those of the poorest organs, but
it is much cheap er in the end to obtain the
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-06-26
FOR TEN DOLLARS cash

we will insert seven-line advertisement one week
in LIST ~ 25g weekly newspa pers or four lines in
different lis OF 537 papers, or ten lines sWo wesSs "a
a IN ice Of al her OF o aud distinct lists
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one week in all Jour or the NAL, lists, enc tlno
one week in an six list comb ned being more than
go psper- also have lists of papers by states
ti,rou III. mt the United States aud CanEdG send
for our IOLpage pamphlet. Address GEO. +.
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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-06-26

Smoke POgue's Sitting Bull Durham Tobacco.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-06-26
MASON & HAMLIN CABINET ORGANS

Demonstrated best by HIGHEST H0NokS At AL.
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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-06-26

CHEW JaoksOn's Best Sweet Navy Tobacco
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1879-05-09
Fred Douglass View of the Negro Exodus.

This respected representative of the col
ored race says of the flight OF negroes from
the South Unqueationably the original
and fundamental cause of the present exo-
dus is to be found in the cntrages cona-
mitted in the Gulf States, especially on ac-
count Of the differences of political opinion
and action. The negroes. like all other
people, love freedom, and will make sacri-
fees to secure it. The movement will be
productive of limited benefit, but it will
not, in my Judgment. be sufficiently bene-
fetal to compensate for the hardships
which this new move will entail upon the
actual emigrant. Il IS not my belief that
this immigration will do much to strength
en- the Republican party BY adding votes
to that party in the Northern States. Il II
not probable that the negroes will take up
their abode in any State or Territory which
is not already strongly Republican. To
my mind its political significance is far
more limited than it's financial Significance.
II will do more do more to destroy South
ern prosperity than TO reduce Southern ma
iorities. II it has any political Significance
at all. ii will be becauseit emphasizes the
fact OF IaWless violence on the greand OF
political opinion and action in the Southern
States, and may strengthen the sentiment
all over the North In favor of bringing back
General Grant a. the favor Of our Rspubli-
can sorce in 1880. The emigrants from the
South have probably selected Kansas as
sheir land of promise partly because its
name ias tsoH - lleagg associated with the. ne
cause OF freedom to the race.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1879-05-09
PrsventabIe Disease.

The savage has few diseases, civilized
life has many. Are civilization and disease
inseparable This must not be admitted.
A higher civilization than we have yet at
tanned would show US that great proper
tion of our diseases arises from our semi
barbarous ignorance and are preventable.
This, our day is remarkable for quackery
that gives long list of diseases and nos
trums for the cure of all complaints. Is
not prevention better than cure, and wise
precaution that needs no better than the
ingenuity of mixing them? The savage
breathes pure air most of his time, civilized
man shuts himself up in boxes and takes
great pains to exclude the air. The great
art of ventilation is to admit pure air at all
times, but in cold weather to have warmth
and pure air at the same time. No gener-
al arrangement has yet been made on this
vital point. The savage drinks pure water.
Civilized man digs wells and taints them
with cess-pools, stables, rubbish thrown in
and around--then scientifically filters the
water and drinks it with great satisfaction.
(Filth chemically mixed ia water cannot
be filtered from it, The savage cats when
hungry. Civilized man eats at stipulated
times, and too often goes through the cer-
emony when not hungry. The savage eats
on average no more than is good for him.
Civilized man on ordinary circumstances,
eats twice as much as is good for him and
takes his risk ON the balance. But gaunt
poverty in hard times comes down below
savage life--ls worse fed, worse sheltered
and worse cared for. Disease and demor-
alization in abject poverty and in hard
times, 60 beyond anything found in saw
age life. The savage bathes often in wa
ter. Civilized man dips his hands and
face carefully in water twice day, but
most of them are innocent of good wash
all over, or of bath once year. Hard
work beyond the strength of the worker,
and to make up for hard times, is pres
ent source of disease and breaks down
the constitution OF thousands. And 80
on inscrutable Providence sends fever
and numberiess diseases. It is ignorance,
mismanagement, filth and poverty that
decinates . population with disease-it is
not Providence. The remedies for evils
may be far off, but still the facts should
be born ia mind.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1879-05-09
Mans Age.

Few men die of old age. Almost all die
Of Disappointment passion, mental or bod
lily toll or accident. Passion kills men
sometimes, even suddenly. The common
expression, choked with passion, has little
expression in 1t, for even though not sud-
denly fatal, strong passions shorten life !;
weak men live longer than the strong, for
the strong men use their strength and the
weak have none to use. The latter take
care of themselves, the former do not. As
it is with the body SO it is with the mind
and body. The strong are apt TO break, or
like candle, run ont. The inferior ami
mails which live, in general, regular and
temperate lives, have generally their pre-
scribed number of years. The horse lives
lives twenty Ave years /; the OK fifteen or
twenty the rabbit eight; the guinea pig
six or seven years. These numbers all bear
q similar proportion to the time the animal
takes to grow it's full size.
But man, of the animals, is one that sell
dom comes mp TO this average. He ought
TO live hundred years according to his
Law, az five times twenty are
one hundred but instead Of that he
scarcely reaches, ON an average, four times
his growing period the cat six times, and
the rabbit eight times the standard Of
measurement. The reason Is Obvious
man ID not only the most irregular and
most iltenperate, bat tho most laborious
and hard working Of all animals; and there
IS reason 10 believe, though we cannot tell
what an animal secretly feels, that moro
than any other animal man cherishes
wrath to kaepit warm and consumes him-
self With the fires of his own secret refec-
tions.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1879-05-09
Read Carefully.
From the Christian Globe,

To read without research is to read with
out power because, whatever be our ma
tive aptitude and our educational prepara-
tion, there can be no proper power without
labor. AS the labor Of smithing develops
the muscles of the smiths arm into brawny
breadth and strength as the exertion of
walking similarly develops the muscles of
the pedestrians legs, SO the exertion of
thinking, OF analyzing, of comparing. of
combining, of testing and determining, Of
patient and diligent intellectual mining
develops and increases Intellectual capaoi-
ty. Want both knowledge and the power
to know and the power to know, the
power Of quick perception, of accurate
Judgment, of ready recollection, of grace
full combination, of comprehensive classifi-
cation can be acquired only by thorough
aud persistent addiction to Independent
research, to sound criticiom, and to &C
quaintance with writings of wiser and
greater men. All this calls forth and in
creases our cogitstive capability, and
forms such intellectual habits as are Of
priceless value in the walks and ways of
true intelligence. Power aad possession
are too oftsn confounded. 1t may be
thought that boy at school, or young
man in college, student in his library, or
a professor in his researches has wasted his
time by learning what he never will have
vocational use for but if be thus increases
his power for vocational labor or for intel
lectual labor of any sort, he is richly re-
warded, though the particular knowledge
thus acquired may never be turned to di-
rect operative account. Ability to distin-
guish is increased by distinguishing abili-
ty to assort is increased by asserting abil-
ity to remember is increased by remember
ing ability to criticize is increased by
criticizing ability to achieve is increased
by achieving and so the right rule OF
in relation to any intellectual
pursuit, is to ascertain how far we have in
creased, or may increase, not only by our
intellectual possessions but by our intel
lectual power. By this rule both early
education and self education should be ex-
amined and determined and by this rules
too, the real worth and rival claims of
classical culture and mathematical study
should be weighed and sattled.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1879-05-09
Intellect in Brutss.
From Nature

MIR. A. Petrie writes "In my own FAM
lily we had tabby cat who, would let her
self in at smother door by climbing up some
list nailed round it, then pushing up the
click-latch, pushing the door, with herself
hanging on it, away from the post, so as to
prevent the latch falling back into its place
and then dropping down and walking back
to the fire. I knew Skye terrier who, be-
ing told to carry a fishing g-rod, carefully exl
perimented along its length, to find its CEN
tire of gravity, then carried it on till his
master came to narrow path through the
woods. Here Skye considered, dropped
the rod, took it By the end, and dragged it
under him lengthwise till the open road was
gained, when he took the rod by the centre
of gravity again and went on. This could
not be copy Of human actions, but the re-
suit of original reasonin.." Mr.. Henry
Cecil gives the following on the authority
of the late Mr. Dawes, the astronomer:
" Being busy in his garden, and having
large bunch of keys in his hand, he gave it
to retriever to hold for him till he was at
liberty. Going into the house soon after
he forget to reclaim the keys. The remen,-
brance of what he had done with them only
returned to him when he required the use
of them in the evening. He then recalled
that he had given then to the dog, and for
gotten to take them again. Calling him,
and looking impressively in his face, he
said My keys fetch me my keys The
dog looked wistful and puzzled for mo
ment, and then bounded off to the garden,
his master following. He went straight to
the root Of an apple tree, scratched up the
keys, and brought them. May We not fari-
ly put into words the dogs train of reason
ing thus My master has given me these
keys to hold he has forgotten them /
cannot carry them all day but I must put |
them IN safety where can find them
again?'" Mr.. r. Howson sends US the
story Of terrier-like dog Of no particular |
breed, named Uglymug, who had poodle |
for companion. Whenever Uglymug saw
signs of family meal being laid out, he
inveigled the poodle into labyrinthine |
under pretense OF seeking for |
rats, and when the latter was fairly intent |
On its game. Uglymug sneaked back to
enjoy all by himself what he could get from
the family table.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1879-05-09

NEW METHOD OF QUARTZ REDUCTION.
Louis Francois, o resident of Grass Valley
township, Nevada county, has devised 3
new method of applying power for the re-
duction of quartz in battery. The power
is intended to be applied by q water wheel,
on the shaft, On which are piacsd the cams.
These cams strike the end Of thu levers,
which are constructed on the trip-hammer
principle, being supported by ssandsrds
with loose socket, as the centre, and oppo-
site end attached to the end Of the stamp.
With the revolution OF the water wheel
the cams strike tha end Of the trip levers,
driving the stamps fast or slowing accord
ing TO regulated speed. The model is
quite simple, and . million the plan could
be built cheaply. and would be admirable
ass prospecting arrangement, although it
can ba used for mills Of larger sisas The
inventor believes that the reducing capaci-
IT, OF this mill, per stamp will he much
eraatsr than when tho lifting power Of the
power OF the cams is applied directly 70 the
stamps 10 M FiE5 -755
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1879-05-09
Death Of John A. Dix.
Philadelphia Times, April 22d.

Philadelphia Times, April 22d. ~--
One by one the few men who link the
present with the last century are fading
away. Major Gen. John A. Dix last night
passed to the final rest, ripe in years and
full of honors. Born in New Hampshire
in 1898, he has more than rounded his fonr
score years, and no one of his contempora-
ries has filled SO many and such valled pub
lie Offices. He was an adjutant ON the
frontier in the war of 1912, and was Adjn-
tant General of New York half a century
ago. He subsequently became SGperin-
tendent of Schools and Secretary of State,
and was chosen to the Legislature in 1912,
whence he was transferred to the United
States Senate to fill the seat of Silas
Wright. He will be remembered as the
colleague of Daniel s. Dickinson in the
Senate, when the latter was leader of the
the Hunker or pro-Slavery Democrats, and
Dix was che leader of the Barn Burner or
Free Soil Democracy. He braved every
thing for Van Buren in 1848, leading the
Free Soil ticket as the peoples candidate
for Governor, and when the divided Dem.
ocracy united on Pierce and elected him
over Scott, he successfully became United
States Treasurer and Postmaster in New
York. In 1861, during the closing days of
the Buchanan administration, when re-
bellion was surging against the govern
ment, General Dix was made Secretary of
the Treasury. IL was while serving in the
Buchanan Cabinet that he gave the famous
order to the Treasury agent at New Or
leans "If any one attempts to haul down
the American flag, shoot him ON the spot"
He served during the war as Major Gen.
eral Of volunteers, but was never assigned
to active field duty, and he earned no new
distinction as a soldier. After the war he
was one of the earliest and most ardent
advocates of universal amnesty. He was
conspicuous as a member of the Union
Convention held in this city in 1866, and
was appointed minister to France by Presi-
dent johnson. He was unfriendly to Grant
in 1868, and was uuheard of in politics du- |
ring Grants first term. In the early part |
Of 1872, when New York was trem bling in
the balance between Grant and Greeley,
Thurlow Weed united large dissatisfied
elements of both parties with the Republi-
cans by making General Dix the Republl-
IAN candidate for Governor. He was
elected by large majority, but in 1874
vas defeated by Tilden by a larger major
ty in canvas for a second term. Since
hen he has been living in the quiet that
lis advancing years demanded, and yester-
lay the story was ended as he peacefully
passed to the dreamless sleep that knows
10 waking. He possessed few elements of
greatness, but he had fair ability, spotless
aud tireless fidelity in all public
rusts, and his record Of four score years is
IMPLY the history of useful and honored
ife that filed the full measure of its days
n worthy examples to mankind.