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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-09-29

eyes" the old man said, with con-
firmatory sigh. Then he added, ''You
know that shaggy, rough-haired
Scotch terrier Of Ben Martins? Well.
sir, Ben he sent to Philadelphy and
cot a couple of dozen o silk worms and
fed 'efn to the dog, an'-ye liant seen
the terrier since last Saturday, have
YEP"
No, the Editor hadn't seen the dog
nor Martin himself since April.
well, sir, hope I NAV die some
time if that dogs hair haint come out
the softest, finest silk fringe You ever
saw in your lifel Silk fringe with q
braid two inches deep along his back,
am ball Of chenille hangin' from the
end of each ear. Ben's going to buy
a cougle o. hundred cheap long haired
dogs, feed 'em silk worms. and shear
'em every spring"
The editor thought he would like to
see the dog some time, when Ben had
time to bring him in And he plunged
his pen into the ink two or three
times, as though he would write
something.
''Yesm the old man sighed again.
And once more frightened up, he re-
sumee 81 say" he exclaimed, "you
remember that long-legged, onery
loOkin' meat hound of Dick Rogers,
don't ye, that killed Lem Crandell's
sheep last February ?"
The editor expressed faint, a very
faint recollection of Dick Rodgers dog,
and Mr.. Thistlepad went on.
''The boys had little target shoot
over at Mosey Stringer's place on the
Fourth of July, and while they was
sheetin', if that blamed, hungry starve-
ling of a dog didn't get at tina. box and
i eat up more'n twenty cartridgesi On
my life if he didn't Make him sick
Not a hair of him. He just frisked
around and seemed TO feel better for
it. Well, sir, about IL o'clock that
night that dog went off,"
MOP exclaimed the editor, with
more interest than he had yet display
ed. "By George did he moke big
noise Did he thonghl Hurt any
body p
NO" the old man said, rising to go
'Freckon not; he just went of with
Bill HockenbuFy, that comes to SEE
Rogers big red haired girl. He came
b TEX next mornin'7
And the editor returned TO the bu-
siness on the Speakers table while the
heavy tread of the honest old agricul.
turist faded away down the distant
stairs, amidst the heartless, mockins
laughter of the younger men on the
staff.
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The Drought Of 1873.

In letter to the Louisville Courier
Journal telling Of the terrible drOuth
now prevailing in the West andSOuth,
a correspondent inserts this scrap of
history : At Pleasant Hill 1 cOnYersed
with an intelligent and pious Shaker,
who held to the doctrine of final per-
severance in his undying faith in the
goodness of God in not suffering
total failure of crops to occur. He
was young man in 1919, the year of
the "Great Drought" when from
early summer to the middle of Janu-
ary there was no rain, when the air
was hot and dry, when the clouds re-
fused to form and be condensed into
showers, when the dew point was not
seen, when he stagnant pools of
water in the creeks and branches be-
came so thoroughly carbOnized and
miasmiferous that the cattle died, and
all vegetation was utterly parched up
and apparently destroyed. During
that terrible drOuth the cattle became
afflicted with the shot weather ich,
and thousands died, literally tearing
the skin from their sides and backs in
their frantic efforts to scratch them
selves to relieve the intolerable itch
| ing. Deer and horses died with black
tongue; fowls and birds became list
less and stupefed, moped in despair,
lost their plumage and died in utter
misery. Men, woman and children
! grew sick with disappointed hopes
| for the healing showers, drinking the
| foul carbOnized water and eating the
! dusty food, and many died of a disease
/ not known before or since. Madened
with the intOlerable itch and frantic
with eating the dry and desiccated
grass, deprived Of all nutritive ele-
ments by the long drouth, the cattle,
sheep and horses rOamed over the
fields and through the forests, moan
ing and bowling or paving the earth
in impotent rage. Added to these
horrors, the fields and forests took
fire, and burned for weeks and
months. The air was filled with
smoke and ashes, producing another
horror in the shape of some form OF
ophthalmia that was almost intoler-
able. Fresh vegetables were soon ex-
hausted, the cattle were too diseased tO
be used for food, water was scarce and
unfit to drink, fires were raging, and
the whole population afflicted will
disease in some shape. This state Of
things lasted until the middle Of
January, when the blessed rain an0
the really beautiful SNOW came anC
saved the country from utter annihi
lation. The gentle Shaker had feared
that such another dread season wa!
beginning; that the water was agaiI
becoming carbonized and impregnateC
with deleterious earthly salts anC
other constituents from dead insects
infusoria and rotting mammalia. A
this very time the good Shaker die
not know that cattle and horses wer
dying in some parts Of Illinois of
disease similar in many respects t.
that he described in so graphic
manner, and startling under circum
stances so similar.
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eARM ANp nouEsnoLp.


The drouth has reduced the supply
of corn, and also shortened the winter
grass. 1t is yet time TO remedy this
scarcity by sowing rye. Run the har-
row and then the eultivator over
every field where corn has been cut.
potatoes gathered or any other crop
taken of, and SOW from one and a half
to two bushels Of rye to the acre. Put
il in with the cultivatoF or even the
harrow, if anything prevents it from
being more carefully covered. Every
acre of rye sOWn in September will
Give, in February and March a good
fresh cut fer the mich COWS, besides a
good grazing in the early winter and
a heavy fertilizing mass Of fresh vege-
tation, to be turned under III Aprilin
time for planting corn, Irish potatoes,
sweet potatoes or any other crop.
The land viii be benefited by turning
under the stubble of this extra crop
of rye. The stock viii be the gamers
bv the fresh food, while the dry fOd-
der aud hay viii be saved.
Many good farmers SOW rye this
way on r~larvested land every
year, and by turning under the stub
bic after cutting the green crop in the
spring, the lans has gained in fertili-
tv and pr0ductiyeness, but this season
no one should neglect 20 follow the
practice, as every blade Of food suit
able for stock will be needed before
next spring.=F Farmers Home Jour
nal
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Get what you can, and what you get hold;
Ills the Stone that viii turn all your lead
into gold,
as poor Richard says. And when you
have got the Philosophers Stone, sure
you will no longer complain Of bad
times, or the difficulty Of paying taxes.
The doctrine, my friends, is reason
and wisdom but after all, do not de-
pend too much upon your own indus
try, and frugality, and prudence;
though excellent things, for they may
all be blasted without the blessing of
heaven and therefore ask that bless
ing humbly, and be not uReharitable
to those that at present seem to want
it, but comfort and help them. Re
member job suffered, and was after
wards prosperous.
And now to conclude, experience
keeps a dear school, but fools viii
learn in no other, and scarce in that
for it is true, we may give advice, but
we cannot give conduct. However, re-
member this, they that won't be coun-
seled, can't be helped, as poor Richard
says and farther, that if you will moi
hear reason, she'll surely rap YOU
knuckles.
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Every Ladder Has Two Ends.

When a small boy, was carrying a
not very large ladder, when there was
a crash. An unlucky movement had
brought the rear end of my ladder
against a window. Instead of scOld-
ing me, my father made me stop, and
said very quietly 'Look here, my son,
there is one thing 1 wish you to re-
member; that every ladder has two
ends" 1 never have forgotten that.
though may years have gone. Don't
we carry things besides ladders that
have two ends? When 1 see a young
man getting fast habits 1 think he sees
only one end of the ladder, the one
pointed toward pleasure, and that he
does not know the other is wOunding
his parents hearts. Many a young
girl carries a ladder in the shape of a
love for dress and finery she sees the
qualification of a foolish pride at the
forward end of that ladder, while the
end that she does not see is crushing
modesty and friendship as she goes
along thonghtlessly among the crowd.
Ahi yes, every. ladder has two ends,
and it is a thing to be remembered in
more ways than one.-SeLected.
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She Found Him.

The following story, says the Wash
mgton Capital, is true in every detail
A milliner of responsibility married
dissipated tailor, who abused, neglect
ed and abandoned her. Several years
having passed without a clue to his
whereabouts, her friends advised di-
vOrce aud her acceptance of an adj
vantageous offer of marriage. The
woman persistently declined every
offer, and when she had accumulated
a sufficient sum started off in the d.
rection her husband was supposed to
have taken when he left her. At
Halifax, n. S., she received a slight
clue, and took the steamer to Port
land, Me. Thence she followed his
track to New York, where she ceased
for many months to hear from him.
Finally she found that he was work
ing in Albany, for which place she
Immediately started. She was about
a week too late he had been discharg-
ed for drunkenness. Spending her
days at lucrative work and her even
ings at detective service, the un-
wearying wife at length discovered
that he was employed by a large firm
in Chicago. She wrote there, and was
answered that her husband had gone
away, nobody knew where. Not sat
isfied with this, she travelled to that
city and ransacked every concern in
terested in the tailoring business
there, until she met a fellOw-country-
man who said that her husband when
last heard from was in Omaha. She
wrote there, got no answer, but went
on. There she heard that he had GER
tainly left for San Francisco, where
he had obtained a fine place as cutter
in large firm. She of course went
thither, only to be told that her hus-
/ band had been several days away from
work, and was drinking hard. Tic
/ had not been even at his boarding
house. This led her to visit the station
/ honseS, and in one of them she ascer-
I tanned that her husband was in jai
for ten days. He was released anC
/ prevailed to return home after si1
years absence. All this occurred
eighteen years ago, and to-day tn,
! prodieal husband Of yore is a stric
temperance man, in Independent cir
cumstances, a model husband anC
father and a respected citizen.
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WASHINGTON NOTES.
WHAT SHALL BE DONE WITH THE
sAssIS.


WHAT SHALL BE DONE WITH THE A =
sAssIS.
There is still a wide difference of
opinion here among lawyers, and even
Judges of the courts. as to whether
Guiteau must be arraigned for trial
here or in New Jersey. w lille it is not
at ali probable that any counsel viii
volunteer to defend Guiteau, and that
would be a disagreeable duty to any
lawyer, the court will have to assign
him counsel and it is naturally sup
posed that his lawyers viii do their
best for him, raise every possible
point in his defense.
FEARS MOB VIOLENCE.
Guiteau evidently does not dread
his trial so much as the vengeance of
the people. He has fretted himself
sick in apprehension of mob violence.
He has been put on jail diet by the
Jail physician, and asks the guards
and warden, every time he sees them.
day and night, whether there is any
indication of a purpose to attack the
Jail to take him out. He seems to en-
terrain some hope of escaping with a
light penalty if he can escape popular
Indignation.
THE FATAL BULLET.
The bullet cut from President
4 Garfield's body at the autopsy wa:
! given to DR.. Bliss, who Immediately
! handed it over to Private Secretary
Brown, who carefully wrapped the
ball and sealed the package. and vii
perserve it till such time as it may b'
needed in evidence at the trial o
Guiteau. The fractured yertebre il
now in the hands Of scientific gen
tleman, who is preparing 1t for eXhi
bition IN the National Medical Muse
UNI in this city.
A CURIOUS SPECTACLE.
Ex-President Hayes went all owe
the White House, and was very mucl
moved by the recollections of his fou
years of residence there. He shOol
hands with all the employees. He wa
present, accompanied by Senate
Sherman, when President Arthu
was sworn in to-day, and was tn
third person to congratulate the Pres
ident. The presence of himself an
Senator Sherman at the inauguratio
into the highest office of the land of
man they removed from the Collector
ship of New York about two year
ago makes one of the historical pie
J lures of the present sad chapter
national affairs.
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him that did not, and he said that
he would tell me. He said that when
he was a youngster and started fol,
college at Hiram he had just fifteen
dollars ten-dOllar bill which was
in the breast pocket Of his coat and
five in his trousers pocket BE said
he was footing it up the road, and as
the dav was hot he took of his coat
and carried it on his arm, taking good
care to feel every moment or two for
the pocketbook for the hard-earned
fifteen dollars was to pay his entrance
fee at the college. After a while he
got to thinking over what college life
would be like and forgot all about the
pocketbook for some time, and when
he looked again it was gone. He went
back mournfully along the road hunt
ing on both sides for the book. After
a while he came to a house where a
young man, leaning over gate, asked
him as he came up what he was hunt
ing for. Young Garfield explained
his loss and described the property,
when the young man handed it over.
/ The President by this time was laugh
/ ing, and in conclusion said: THAT
young man was Bliss, wasn't it Doc
4 TORI The Doctor laughed and said,
! 'Yes;' and when General Garfield
said, You saved me for college, the
Doctor answered, yes, and may be il
had not found your ten dollars you
would not have been President Of the
United States The President laugh
ed at that, and said that if he got well
and made any mistake in his admin.
istration DR.. Bliss would have to take
the blame"
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MORNING.
LONGFELLow.

A wind came up out Of the sea,
And said, 20 mist, make room for me-"
1t hailed the ships, and cried. 'ssail on,
He mariners, the night is gone"
And hurried landward far away,
Crying, "Awase it is day"
1t SAID unto the forrest, s.Shoutl
Hang all your leafy banners Outr'
It touched the wood BIRDS folded wing,
And said, 80 bird, awake and sing"
And Ger the farms, so chanticIeer,
Your clarion blow, the day is near"
IL whispers to the fields Of corn,
elbow down, and hail the coming mOrn,"
IL shouted through the belfry tower.
"Awake, o belil proclaim the hour"
1t crossed the churchyard with a sigh,
And said, ''Not yet; in quiet lie."
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Knew His Business.

"Can / see the lady of the house p
inquired the peddler. DWELL, yes,
you can if you amt blind p snapped
the woman who answered the bell.
''Oh, beg pardon, madam you are the
lady of the house then ?'' Yes, I am
What did you tako me for? Did you
think l was the gentleman of the
house or the neXt-dOOr neighbOr, or
one of the farm hands, or the cat, or
ice-chist ?" q didn't know, madam,
but you might have been the youngest
daughter" Oh, did yer? Well that
was nat'ral, too" replied the lady Of
the house. "What dye want, sir ?"
Then the peddler displayed his wares,
and when he left that door step half
an hour later, his face was full OF
pleasure and his pockets full OF
money. He understood human
nature and had made a good sale
Boston Transcript.
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SneeuIating In a Church.

New York Sun Selling a church
''short" and afterward taking it in
again at a lower price seems more
like a Wall street transaction than an
ecclesiastical one. Yet the Congrega-
tionai Church in Patterson, n. J.,
seems to have done something of this
sort in a perfectly legitimate manner.
These good people had church and
yet had 1t not, for il was SO heavily
mortgaged that il practically belong
ed 10 the creditors. So, after strpg-
Cling along with it for seven years,
they SOLD it to the creditors in 1877.
Since that time they nave until few
weeks ago been short of a church,
and have worshiped in anything that
came handy. The corporation which
took the building at $4,000 in a
worldly one, which has no use for
church edifice. Therefore, after hold
ing the property for q while, and find
ing no sale for il at anything like the
cost price, this corporation concluded
to let 1t go at any reasonable offer.
By this time the CongregatiOHalists
we're able to raise $4,000, so they
made an offer of that much. The Of
fer was accepted, and now the church
has taken its old building IN, hay
ing made $4,000 and four years in
terest by the operation. There are
many mOrtgaged churches which
might thus profitably .sgo short" Oh
buildings but for the possible risk
that some church might come along
with cash and scoop IN the property.
/ A very nice question now arises as 70
whether or not the Congregational
/ church building at Patterson should
/ be dedicated anew TO the Almighty
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-09-29

We note the growing popularity Of
s.HUGREs' ToNIc,D as a reliable and
standard remedy for Chills and Fever. It
is made By r. A. Robinson 4 Co, louis
Vile, KY. one Of the leading Wholesale
Drug houses Of the West, and has been
sold by them for many years. The sale
steadily increasing, Literally upon its
merits.
Il produces the desired effect without
many Of the disagreeable sensations which
Quinine occasions.
We recommend onr readers to give it a
trial. Price 81 90 per bottle.
FuiI directions given Tor use.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-09-29
President Arthur,s HousehoId.

The household now called to the
White House by the death Of Presi-
dent Garfield has no lady presiding
over IT. President Arthur lost his
wife a year ago last January, and an
acute feeling over her loss is among
the sad reflections which press on the
President at this time. She was the
daughter Of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Herndon, of the United States navy,
who went down on his ship, the
Central America A gold medal, IA
recognition Of his bravery, was voted
by Congress to his widow, and a
monument to his memory was erected
in the Naval Academy grounds at
Annapolis General Arthur married
Miss Herndon, in the early part Of his
career as a lawyer in New York City:
lie has two children, one a youth OF
seventeen named after his father, bat
colIed Allen by the family; the other
a girl of eleven, named Nellie. The
President has one brother, Major
William Arthur, of the regular
army, he has three married sisters, of
these Mrs. Mary McElroy, of Albany,
has spent much time at his house Of
late, and has looked as much after his
household affairs as she could. Presi-
dent Arthur's accession 10 his new re-
spOns5bjiity has been too recent Tor
him 70 give any consideration to
family arrangements for his residence
at Washington, buff the cares of her
own family viii permit, Mrs. Nc
EiEoy viii most probably be the lady
who wiz preside IN the White House.
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Where Garfleld Filst Saw DE. Bliss.

Mr.. Crump, the steward Of the
White House, tells this story: ssThe
day he was shot, and on Sunday, he
kept talking all the time, but on Mon
day he was more quiet, and then on
Tuesday morning the doctors shut
down on his talking. Sunday morn
ing, just after the crowd of doctors
had cleared out, / was alone with the
President and DIR. Bliss. The Doctor
sat on one side of the bed and was
on the other. President Garfield had
hold of DR.. Bliss hand, and turned
his head and asked me if I knew
where he first saw DR.. Bliss. told
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WHEAT OPTIONS.
WISCONSIN AND MICHIGAN AGAINST
SPECULATIVE GAMBLING.


SPECULATIVE GAMBLING.
Lansing CAIicll9 Republican: The
Supreme Courts Of Michigan and
Wisconsin have both sat down heavi-
" on the business of gambling in
wheat eOptions.v In the case Of
RAYMOND and others against Leavist.
decided at the june term of our
Supreme Court, the complainant had
supplied $4,000 to force up the price
in Detroit and cause a ~corner," thus
compelling parties who had contracts
to fill. or who must purchase wheat
for legitimate consumption, to pay
more than would materially be re-
quired Having lost 10 per cent Of
the amount In this speculation the
complainant brought suit to recover
his money but the court decided that
dealers who manipulate the market III
order to bring about unnatural fluc-
tuations in prices are engaged in the
plainest and worse kind Of produce
gambling, and come under the cen
sure of the law of the land. Such
contracts cannot be enforced, and if
parties see fit to invest taeir money in
captions" they must get it back by
other than legal measures. The Wis
consin Supreme Court, in the famous
case of Barnard against Backer, held
that speculation in grain, where there
is no intention to deliver on the one
hand or to receive and pay on the
other, are unlawful and fall outside
the protection of the statutes, the
same as other kinds of gambling and
4 betting. The business methods prac-
/ ticed in the Milwaukee Chamber OF
! Commerce are but hazards upon pros.
pective changes in the market. Til,
sales are not bona fide, no grain be
ing actually delivered with the full
i price paid. Therefore, any suits a
/ law growing out of such transaction
viii not be sustained in the courts.
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to be very valuable. By introducing
pure carbon in pulveFized state into
the melt graphite enters into the
metal. greatly improving IT, The
metal produced Al the establishment
about three tons per days
worked mp on the premises into semi
steel, gr.,te-bars, sad-irons, street-car
boxes, etc.
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There Is a messenger boy in New
York who win probably not have
much trouble in holding his own in
this world. Sent by his employers
for some money at the bank, he was
counting his money when a bystand-
er said, you've dropped a bill" Re
membering the trick, instead of stoop-
ing down ne just put his foot on the
bin and continued counting. When
through, he picked up the bin, and
was walking Of, when the bystander
remarked, Il guess 1 was mistaken ;
I must have dropped the bin myself"
'tI'll keep it to remember you by" re-
marked the boy as he went away.
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A Boston actor was suddenly forced
to sneeze violently while in the very
act of kissing the heroine Of the piece,
and the girls in tie audience all
thought he was the most elegant
osculatOr they had ever seen. Great
ness Is often the result Of aceidt mt.
.BostOn Pot.
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No farmer can afford TO waste his
time and wear out his lands in Guilt
waiting nJn-paying crops. Study what
crops your lands are best adapted to
and confine your labor TO them. Re
member always that poor land is a
feeble mother which can give no sus-
tenance. The more YOU work II, Il c
poorer YOU make both it and your