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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
Summary of the Most Important Eveuts
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Minister Fitzpatrick died at Santiago on
Sunday last.
Six hundred persons were vaccinated in
Chicago on Monday.
The Mcpherson Barracks, at Atlanta,
Ga, have been sold for SIG, 900, and the ar
my post there has been abandoned.
An extra session Of the Louisiana Lesis-
lature convened at New Orleans on Monday
last to consider the revenue question.
Nearly a block Of framed business houses
in Short Greek, Kansas, was burned on
Thursday. Loss, about O,OOO. Insurance,
unknown.
The United States steamer Kearsage will
go to New Orleans shortly and open a ma
val recruiting rendezvous with a view to
obtaining apprentice boys for training.
At Antioch, Ca, Mrs. Auglin learned
that her husband was at the house of a
Mrs. Jackson. She went to the house of
Mrs. Jackson and stabbed her four times,
killing her. Mrs. Auglin is in the Madison
jail.
j. NJ. c. Lewis, thrifty farmer living
near Antioch, GA, left his house to visit his
mother. On his return he found his wife
and three-year-Old child side-by-side on the
floor, beaten to death A negro suspected
Of the crime is in Jail.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-15

of thoroughbred and high-grade bulls.
a few miles farther up the river he
has another fine stock ranch devoted
to the breeding of pure HerefOrds.
His herd of thorough breds In this
variety numbers thirty-fOur head.
These two ranches, and several others
owned by the same gentleman, all
making up ariver frontage of eigh-
teen miles, and il Guiding a number of
very productive meadows, are situa-
ted on the south side of the Arkansas.
and are all under fence. Directly op-
POsite these, beginning at Fort Lyon,
and reaching down the river r dis
tance Of twenty-five miles and extend
ing back far enough to include an cx-
panse of $4,000 acres, IS another pas
ture under fence, the titles for which
are in the same name. Here then are
forty miles of water front and a hum
dred thousand acres of pasture under
fence, all owned by one man. The
fencing on these ranches viii sum up
over 100 miles. Northward to and
even beyond the Kansas Pacific, and
southwark to the Cimarron and be-
yOnd into the Pan Handle of Texas.
Craze lis cattle, more than 1900 in
number. Already this autumn he
has shipped LOO fat steers, whose av-
erage weight has not been less than
1,200 pounds, and he will yet ship
from 500 to 700 more quite as good.
His sales ofcattle this year will reach
100000, perhaps $4,000.
This is but one ranch. There are a
humber of others on the Arkansas
between the Pueblo and the State that
are but little less in extent. This
shows how rapidly the best lands in
the Arkansas Valley are passing into
the hands of very few men. As it
is now, half a dozen men own the
bulk of the bottom lands and through
these control most of the grazing
lands for miles on either side of the
river, from Pueblo to Kansas
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-15
WASHINGTON.

Counsel tor both the defense and prose-
cution have had consultation with Presi-
dent Arthur, and he has refused to take
the stand and be subjected to such quest
ions, as Senator Davis was on the Guiteau
case.
Congressman Cox, OF New York, has
prepared bill to increase the pay Of keep
ers of life saving stations, and provide for
the pensions to families of men in that SER
wee who may lose their lives in it. He
also proposes fifteen additional Iife-saying
stations on the great lakes and the At
lantIc Coast.
To prepare the foundation for legislation
that shall settle in advance of future con-
tingencies something that might cause seri-
Gus trouble, Senator Beck will introduce a
resolution directing the judiciary COM
mittee to consider what is mean in the
Constitution by presidential ''inability,"
how this inability should be determined,
and in general what legislation is neces-
sary to carry out the provisions OF the con-
stitution as to the presidential succession.
1t IS thought that the Garfield case will
lead 10 the necessary legislation on these
questions this season.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-15
Isit Rightly

Is it right for men who profess and
call themselves Christians 10 pray,
Lead us not into temptation" and
then needlessly expose themselves to
the influence of drinks which have
tempted and ruined thousands? ?
Is it right for men 10 ask God to
"Give us this day our daily bread"
and then support a system which
licenses men to destroy the good grain
by converting it into body and soul
destroying drink?
Is it right to build churches, chapels
and schools to help TO save the people,
and at the same time license men and
women 10 open shops in which liquors
are sold which viii destroy the peo-
pie?
Is it right to license a man to sell
drink which viii make people drunk,
and then fine men and women for get
ting drunk?
Is it right to license men to make
paupers and criminals, and tax sober
and virtuOus people to pay rates to
keep them.
Is it right TO derive a revenue out of
a system which demOralizes and de-
grades the people?
Is it right for people to wish the
temperance cause success, and at the
same time continue to drink and sup
port the liquor traffic?
Is it right for any man or woman
who wishes well to their country to
stand aloof from the only certain cure
for our national intemperancc.
Is it right for Sunday-schOOl
teacher to teach scholars to beware of
the dangers of the public-hOuse with
breath smelling Of strong drink which
comes from such places?
Is it right for minister of religion
to preach against drunkenness, while
he continues to use the drink which
alone produces it
Is it right 10 admit into Christian
churches, as members, liquor sellers,
or persons in any way interested in
the traffic, who, by their business, are
constantly hindering the spread Of the
Gospel, and leading professors of re-
ligion astray?
Is it right to expect God to help
Christian efforts when these efforts
are tainted with the money which
comes from the ruin OF souls?
Is it right to DO wrong and expect
wrong to produce right?
Is it right to ask these quest Ons, and
if so, what answer can each reader
give to them ?-JOh7l ". KirtOH.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-15
The Hair Of the Head---Its Uses and
Abuses.

Every organ of the human body is
given to do some special services to that
body. To prevent that service, to
thwart any organ from its Legitimate
business, is to injure the body more
or less. The hair Of the head has
special and important t'business to do.
which it is too often prevented from
doing, much to the injury of its pos
SCISSOR. First, it is intended as a pro-
lection and covering for the head.
The old adage, keep the head cool
aud the feet warm, has led many per-
sons into the mistake of thinking that
the head can be safely exposed to the
cold. keep the head cool" is wise
maxim if applied TO the inside of the
head, that is, if meant to deter from
brain-heating drinks; it is very un-
wise if it meant that the head should
not be well protected from severe
cold, from cutting and keen winds.
When the present fashion of removing
every strand of hair, frnm the ears and
temples, and turning it up from the
nape of the neck, was first adopted by
women, the London Lancet comment
ed on the style and said it would pro-
duce plentiful crop of neuralgia.
The LGacet's prophecy has proved to
be true. Facial pains are quite
common with young girls neither the
present style of hats, nor of wearing
the hair affords their heads pro-
lection from the biting blast.
The grand important business for
the hair is to serve as an electrical
conductor, to catch from the air cleo
tricity and convey it to the brain, and
through the brain to the nerves of the
body. This function is thwarted
by fashion. Men cut their hair too
short, women twist and torture, and
tie up the ends of their hair and con-
fine them tightly to the head. Both
sexes would be more vigorous and
elastic, mentally and bodily if the
hair was permitted to do its part in the
human economy.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-15
Political Notes.

The Atlanta Consultation SAYS =
Tatfy is good thing, but it is wasted
in this instance. The people in the
South do not believe they can serve
themselves or thir section by making
the entire revenue of the government
subservient to the already well-filled
pockets of few hundred Manufac-
turers."
Savannah (Ga.) NeiCS:-"The aver
age citizens view-of the fact that the
government has a surplus of 100000
600, derived from internal revenue
taxation and the present tariff, argues
pretty cOnclusively that the former
could be lowered and the latter re-
duced and leave the government a
large, if not larger, surplus"
HOughton Mining Gazette ODE
troit has just organized a piping hot
free trade club. Michigan, with its
vast iron, copper and other resources,
isn't State that one would credit
with giving much ofa chance to a
fire in the rear organization Of this
kind TO play into the hands of the Cob
den league, whose mission is to de-
strOy American industries"
The Mobile Register says that it has
no sympathy with any hue and cry
raised against the national banks, and
believes that we have perhaps as
convenient a system of banking as
we could have. But it is opposed to
''the power that the national banks
possess of influencing financial legis-
laiion," and thinks that 'the banks
that attempted this last winter should
have been wound up and no more al
lowed the benefits Of the law they had
abused" "
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-15
FrauduIent packiRg Of Cotton.

KOsciuSkO Star: We have heard
considerable complaint recently among
the cotton buyers of this place of loss
on account of purchase of planted cot
ton, that is cotton bales containing in
ferior cotton in the middle of the bale,
which is concealed by good cotton on
each side. ANY man who intention
ally puts up one Of these fraudulent
bales Of cotton ought TO suffer the PEN
atty of the law, and il is the duty Of
those who own presses to see that no
such fraud is practiced by those who
work them.
The following is the law upon the
subject of fraudulent packing cotton
in section 1852 of the code OF 1880:
'If amy person shall fraudulently
pack or bale any cotton, he shall, on
conviction thereof, be fined not more
than 500, and imprisonment not
more than six months, at the discre-
ton Of the court"
It is a good law. AS cotton Is the
chief production Of this section, every
protection ought 70 be given by law
to prevent fraud by any one in hand
ling it. Cotton buyers in this and
other markets have lost heavily from
this source lately, and all who sell cot
ton hereafter may expect a close scru-
tiniZing, and every bale whose record
is not good will be heard Of again at
its original point.
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Inherited.

The poison of sins with which men
and women taint their flesh and blood
re-appear in their descendants some
where. a striking example Of this
inevitable curse is related by Rev. DIR.
Deems, of New York, In which the
mark left by drunkard's thirst leaDed
over two generations, to re-appear in
the third. DIR. Deems says "a oung
gentleman of sincere character, a
member Of the church of which / am
pastor, gave me the following expert
ence :"
lie said that, to the best of hs
knowlege, not a drop of any sort of
intoxicating liquors had ever passed
his lips. He knew il had not so far
back as he can remember in his child
hood. He has, therefore, no tempta-
ton to drink from either a strong
habit or love for the taste of wine or
other liquor; and yet he maintains a
daily warfare with the appetite.
He never passes saloon without a
strong inclination TO enter. He has to
rein Himself up, and 10 draw himself
away, not to enter and take bis first
drink. This is not an occasional or
spasmodic feeling; it is the one regu-
lar conflict of his life.
My friend gave graphic descriptions
Of one or two such pitched battles
when the desire became almost strong
enough to oyerpower his viii. / did
not ask him about his father, but did
say to him.
'Was your grandfather addicted to
strong drink ?"
He said, 'no, neither he nor my
father; bat my great grandfather was
a habitual drunkard.-Y Youths Com
pdnjOR.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-15
Whiskey Trade Of West Tennessee.

There are one thousand and sixty
two licensed whisky shops" in West
Tennessee. During the month of Oc-
tober there were reported sold, thirty
one thousand ttcO hundred and ainty-
three gallons by these fountains of in
iquity. And this vast amount does
not include beer, alcohol, &C, hut on
ly such as whisky, gin, wine, &c. This
single months sale OF whisky cost the
consumers not less than 100000. just
think of It'll Two hundred thousand
dollars expended in one month in
West Tennessee for whisky! Now if
we should estimate she traffic of the
entire year by this month, we woul
have the enormous sum of ttCO million
four hundred thousand d0LL0rSi
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-15

AT last there appears to be genuine
awakening among legislators, as well
as others,to the necessity of securing an
international copyright convention or
treaty, between what may be termed
the literary countries and the United
States. The wholesale introduction
by American piratical publishing
houses Of the brain-work of English
aud other foreign authors, works
great wrong to the authors abroad
and in America as well; it also
wrongs the publishers abroad who
pay heavy royalties to their authors.
Let an international copyright law be-
come a fact; then American authors
will not starve.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-15
Scarcity of FueI in the West.

Nebraska correspondent Chicago
Tribune: "What shall we burn p is
the cry of a large majority of the peo-
pie of Nebraska at present. There are
three kinds of fuel used-wood, coal
and corn-and the question is which
of the three will ii pay best TO burn.
In reality, il does not pay to burn
any of them at the present
prices. Some years, when coal and
wood have been high and corn low,
farmers and others have saved money
by burning the latter; but now all
three are high, and perhaps all fuel
used corn is the dearest. And vet coal
and wood are very high. Hard coal
is quoted by Lincoln dealers at $I3
per ton. There viii probably be con-
siderable ofan advance on these prices
before the winter is over. AS for
wood, very little good wood is brought
to this city, and what there is sells for
50 per cord. There is no timber of
consequence in the State, and there
fore most of the wood burned here is
shipped in by rail from Iowa and Mis-
souri,.
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treated with Indifference or contempt
they will not submit to be treated
as serviles. This fact, if remembered
and acted upon by the people, will do
much to induce immigration. Times
have changed and the opinions of the
people have broadened since the year
I868-7O, when European immigrants
came South and left again in disgust.
They can come now with an assurance
that they will receive fair treatment
at least from the intelligent people of
the South.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-15
Postal Order Relative to Smallpox.

In consequence of the alarm caused
in some portions Of the country by the
reported spreading of smallpox, Act
ing Postmaster-Genera Hatton has
issued the following order: When
the health officers of a village, tOWd
or city, by official action, declare that
mail matter from any other village,
town or city, is liable to communicate
contagious disease, which at the time
is prevailing in the place whose mail
it is thus sought to quarantine, and
such health officers shall furnish to
the postmaster a certified copy of such
declaration. it shall be the dnty of the
postmaster TO refuse TO accept such
mail matter from any carrier or mail
messenger, and he shall furnish such
carrier or mail messenger with a copy
of said declaration, to be delivered by
him 10 the office thus Quarantined
with the mail matter so refused, and
the facts shall at once be reported to
the First Assistant POstmaster-Gen-
eral. In the absense of the Board of
Health officers, the declaration of the
regular county or city medical society
may be accepted, and failing such or
ganiZation, the opinions of such ply
| sicians the postmaster may regard as
most reliable may be acted upon. The
mail returned shall be held until the
/ prohibition is removed, and shall. after
| being properly fumigated under the
! direction of medical authority, be
| forwarded to the place of original dis
] Tin alton
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-15
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

TuEIE is little to chronicle Of inter
est in the literary progress of the
South. The idea of a distinctively
Southern literature, while it COM
mend5 itself to Southern authors, does
not seem to meet the appreciation of
the Southern people. a fact evidenced
by the very meager patronage which
is accorded to Southern literary pub
lications. The truth is, the people
purchase that which commends itself
to them, it makes little difference
from what section or country it
comes
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-15

GALL Soar, for washing silks, rib
bOns. etc, is prepared as follows: Heat
to go degrees, in a copper vessel, l
pound cocOa-nut oil, then stir in half
pound of caustic soda, and add half
pound OF white Venetian turpentine
heated quite hot in another vessel.
Cover the kettle, heat gently four
hours, then increase the contents un-
til they are perfectly clear, then add
one pound OK gall, and stir in CASTLE
soap until the mass viii yield but lit
tie to the pressure of the finger. Cool
and cut up. This soap will not injure
the most delicate cOlors.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-15
On FauIt-F Finding,

Were the sayings as true as it is
trite, that practice makes perfect, how
thoroughly fault-finding would be un-
derstoOd by most of usi But it is a
difficult and delicate art, having its
excellence rooted in self-control, and
requiring every help which tact and
wisdom can bestow. 1t must de done,
constantly done, this faHlt finding
with others how, then, can it be done
well how can it be done well in the
best possible manner?
Surely it is worth a little thought, a
little care, little study. Experience
here Is a useless teacher to msRy they
rush into the duty, partly with feel
ing of pleasure, and partly with a
cowardly eagerness, which will they
think carry them successfully through
the difficulties. They forget that the
object of fault-fnding is to make mat
ters better; that our fault-tinding
should be toward grOTn-up persons
as our punisnments are to children,
explanations of our wishes, given
graYely, gently, af1ectiOhstely. Fault
finding which gathers aid from abuse,
which lends itself to excitement, can
only stir up feelings of animOslty.
Rather should we on every occasion
of fauit-fnding, the smallest as well
as the greatest, rise into the calm and
blessed region of the peace-maker.
For is not the offender a great disad-
vantage disappointed at his failure,
conscious, though pride may prevent
his admitting it, that he occupies the
inferior position that his self-respect
is questioned? Restore the sense of
dignity so essential TO all improve
ment, and you place him where you
will at least listen to your remon-
STRANGE and respect you for your SUI
periority. Apply with your corrective
a braceful helpful tonic it viii make
the fault-fnding more effectual, and.
like mercy, will bless equally the
giYeF and receiver.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-15

THERE is little in the latest publica-
tions to justify the hope that liiera-
ture is gaining very rapidly either in
the strength and vigor Of thought
presented, or in the smoothness and
euphonious arrangements Of the SEN
tence in which the opinions and re-
lations of the writer's are conveyed.
Book making as a trade seems to
drift toward the rehabilitation Of old
ideas, and the new dressing of an
tiquated thoughts. Revision and
adaptation seems to be the principal
employment of authors at present.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-15

''The corn crop Of the United
States" says the St. Louis RepU0Li-
can, @is the most import crop raised in
the country. 1t may be called the
basis Of our agriculture, for not only
is corn a bread material and largely
used as such by great portion Of our
population, but it is the cheapest food
for animals, and is easily converted
into bacon, beef, mutton, milk, butter,
and cheese, and working muscle for
horses and oxen, not TO mention its
convertibility INTO spirits, glucose and
other articles Of consumption.
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THE CATTLE KINGS REALM.
A HUNDRED THOUSAND ACRES STRETCH
ING TWENTY-FIVE MILES.

A HUNDRED THOUSAND ACRES STRETCH
ING TWENTY-FIVE MILES.
DenUer Republican: Thinking that
something or interest might be writ
ten concerning a representative cat
tie ranch in the Arkansas Valley,
your correspondent accepted an invi-
tation extended him by the largest in
dividual cattle owner now living in
Bent county to visit his thoroughbred
breeding ranch at ProWers' Station,
twenty miles east Of West Las Asi-
mas. The sun had not yet risen, and
the moon still shone, when l left the
train and found myself at PrOwers'
a large stone barn, corrals, wind
mill, neat stone house, a newer
house of the same material, not yet
finished, both surrounded by regu-
ldrly planted grove of young cotton
wOOds-these were the home improve
ments on one Of the largest cattle
ranches in the State. An early morn
ing ride had given one a keen appe-
tite, and a good ranch breakfast with
its real tenderlOin steaks and delie-
iOus old fashioned gravy was as Keen
ly enjoyed. The morning. meal fin
ished, in company with the owner /
visited the short horn herd, which
still stood in the corral. In this there
are forty thoroughbred short-hOrn
cattle-bulls, heifers and COWS. These
are bred with the greatest of care,
and from them each year number of
thoroughbred bulls are turned out
that sell, before they are one year old,
at all the way from 800 to $500 each.
Besides this herd of thoroughbred
cattle which is kept at home, the same
gentleman has on the range in the
main body of his cattle a large number
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FOREIGN.

Six hundred of the tenants Ofthe Duke OF
Devonshire have decided not to pay their
rents, except with a reduction of 20 per
cent.
The Dublin correspondent of the London
Times says: "The conspiracy against the
payment of rent is extending, and intimlda-
ton, bOycotting and threats are prevalent
throughout a large area of Territory"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-15

There is no holy past. The world
revolves in its annual orbits and
brings seed time and harvest, and al
so il makes its diurnal revolutions
and brings day and night. But the
davs and the years which have passed
away carried with them all events
which distinguished them. The pO10
is all we can claim. The past is a
memory, the future a hope the one
possesses a sentimental interest, the
other nothing. We think, act and live
in Sn eternal to-day, and will do 50
during the lifetime Of the race.