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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-11-12
CONDENSED KILOGRAMS.

GEORGE CASTLE and John and George
Shipman, of Hardin county, Tenn, were
sentenced on the 9th to thirty days each
in the Shelby County Jail and fined 500
and costs for working and selling corn to
illicit distilleries.
A SENSATION was created in Chatta.
nooga, Tenn, on the 9th, by the discovery
of about four hundred dollars of counter
felt money. 1t is believed there are a
gang of cOunterfeiters in the city, and
every effort is being made to ferret out
the criminals.
j. M. JOHNSTON, the county treasurer of
Green county, Ark, has abscOnded, and is
considerably behind in his accounts with
the county.
A NEAR friend of Mr.. Randall's is re-
ported as saying that Randall will not be
a candidate for Speaker of the next House,
but will put forward Blu nes, of Missouri,
as his candidate for the place.
TIE Supreme Court of Mississippi on
the Sth delivered an opinion holding the
local option law passed by the last Lsgis-
lature to be constitutional
THE Chicago packers have declared war
upon all labor organizations, and on the
sth signed a resolution declaring that
hereafter none of them will employ any
man connected with any labor organiza-
tion.
BUTCHERS at Albany, n. Y, are refusing
to slaughter stock from Chicago, as the
knights of Labor are bound to support
their brethren in their strike.
THE Executive Committee'of the Knights
of Labor on the eth issued general order
directing all the men employed in the
Chicago packing establishments to stop
work. This makes the strike general, and
causes $4,000 men to stop work.
THE imports into great Britain Of cotton
during the past week were 81, POP bales,
and exports $500 bales. Since January 1
the imports of cotton have been 2,904, ,260
bales, and the exports So, ,OO9 bales.
TIE Augusta. Ga, cotton factories have
voluntarily reduced the hours of labor
from sixty-eight TO sixty-five hours per
week, and all the mills resumed opera
tions on the stb.
GEORGE THoEBE, candidate against
Speaker Carlisle for Congress in the Sixth
Kentucky District, announces his inten-
tion to contest the election of Mr.. Carlisle.
He claims that after the contest had been
very close the returns Of the back coun-
ties were "doctored."
DAVID HUDSON, Of Shelby county, Mo-,
has lost seven head of fine cattle from
black leg. The disease was epidemic in
that region last winter, and its reappear-
ance has caused widespread alarm among
the farmers.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-11-12
THE HOUSE SPEAKERsHIP.

A Delicate Question Arising in the Event
of Speaker Carlisle's Election to the
Fiftieth Congress Being COntested.a
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.-Rumors have
been in circulation which can be traced
to no authoritative source, represent
ing that Speaker John G. Car
Isle, although he has been re- elected,
will decline the Speakership in the Fiji
tieth Congress. The story current upon
the street has been that the Speaker, Un-
his opponent last Tuesday, intends to
contest the election, feels that it would
be improper under the circumstances to
accept a position which would require
him to appoint the committee which
must pass upon the election con-
test. NOBODY can say that any
thing has been heard from Mr..
Carlisle regarding this matter, and it is
extremely improbable that the discussion
which has been started had it's initiation
in anv way from him. The point once
raised, however, has necessarily led to
much discussion. A great many people
seem disposed TO believe that the ques-
tion of delicate propriety which is thus
raised is one Mr.. Carlisle can not well
avoid. They insist it would be out of
place for the Democratic majority of the
next house 10 ueJcTnlu6 III aQVdQ cG
whether Mr.. Carlisle or the contestant
for his seat, Mr.. Thoebe, is entitled to
represent the Sixth Kentucky district.
They add that even if the House
undertake to pass thus informally upon a
contested case by choosing a member
whose election is contested for Speaker,
Mr.. Carlisle himself ought not to accept
the honor under the circumstances. OF
course all this is splitting hairs, and it
NAV be Carlisle will have the good sense
to pay no attention to such ridiculous re-
fDements of proprietY. Still, the talk goes
on, and is seemingly encouraged by Ran
dall's friends, who fancy his choice
for the Speakership would be inevitable
with Carlisle out of the road. Many of
Carlisle's friends, on the other hand, in
sist that there are plenty of good men, If
Carlisle is not to be chosen, aside from
Mr.. Randall. In this connection they
speak most prominently of Blount, of
Georgia; McCrary and Breckenridge, Of
Kentucky; Springer, of Illinois, and
Hatch, Burnes and Bland, of Missouri;
also, Mills, of Texas.
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NO.9.

wonderp" asked Felicita, who had not
spoken before.
''Oh, not so bad; it is kneaded by the
MUSES. and baked by Apollo. Some
people, not many fear, however, eat
it with a relish, at least in China and
Japan, if not in England or America,
Still, Swen-Kiang, was a prudent girl,
though not prudent enough to prefer
an old King to young lover, and that
this artists bread might not lack for
butter, she hurried up into her cham
ber, fetched a iewel-casket from her
dressing table, and returning gave it
to Tu-foO. He took the casket care
fully under his left arm, gave his right
to the Princess and the two stepped
into little boat which was anchored
near by. Tu-foO took the oars and
rOwed off in the direction of the Island
of Bliss.
''See, there is the bark; it is already
long distance away from the shore;
soon they will land on the Blissful
Island. When Pelikan, who had been
sleeping since dinner time, woke up
and roared for his daughter, alasi she
was nowhere to be seen. The Emperor
rushed down to the sea-shore, peered
out over the water, saw the boat,
recognized the fugitives, and called
loudly for his men at arms. There
they 90 marching over the little bridge
which separates the main island from the
one adjoining it. How warlike they
look in their flowing robes of panther
skin lined with astrachan, and with
quivers of fish-skin hanging over the
right shoulder! These warriors march
solemnly down to the pier, step on
board the Chinese frigate; the Emperor
and his sOn-in-law, who was to have
been, King Yoo-Foo, follow and pur-
sue the flying lovers.
Poor Swen-Kiang, unhappy Tu-foO,
the frigate gains rapidly on them. The
Princess wrings her hands and weeps;
already she sees in Imagination her
lover deprived of his nose, his eyes put
out, his pigtail cut off close to his head,
his legs hewed from his body, the
Chinese punishment for poor, audac-
ious young men who run off with En-
peror's daughters. Swen-Kiang utteTs
a piercing scream, clasps her hands and
invOkes the aid of the Chinese Venus"
''What is her name?" asked Lucia.
Lucia, answered the painter
slowly. ''Some say, however, her
name is Assunta, and others assert it
to be Felicita. The goddess hears her
prayer and answers it. In the twink
ling of an eye Swen-Kiang and Tu-foo
are turned into two pretty little birds.
There, look! they are flying up into the
blue sky, billing and kissing each
other as they go. That is the story,
fair ladies, the plate tells me. "
''And the pigtails, the fine pigtails of
Swen-Kiang and Tu-foo, what became
of them?"
True, had forgotten the pigtails.
They were left lying in the boat and
were changed by the goddess into two
long, ugly snakes; and when the
hump-backed King Yoo-Foo, and the
Lord High Executioner, Wong-Bang,
his constant companion, stepped on
board the boat to look for the lovers
one of the snakes bit the Kings toe
and the other the Lord High Execu-
toner's heel, causing them both to
jump very high and swear very loudly,
in Chinese. -
You may suppose that this was all
very pleasing to Lucia, Assunta and
Felicita, and is it not to you alsoP-
Boston Budget.
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china.s Empress powarer.

A short time ago it was announced
that the Emperor Of China, having
reached his fourteenth year, was about
70 take over the reins of power from
the Empress Dowager, and that nothing
now remained but for the astrologers
TO select a lucky day. 1t has, however,
now been arranged, at the Emperor 6
request, and the arrangement has been
approved at a meeting of the imperial
Princes, that the Empress Dowager
shall govern in conjunction with the
Emperor until he reaches the age OF
twenty. The officials have been or
dered, therefore, in future TO send their
petitions, memorials, etc, in duplicate
-one copy for the Emperor, the other
for the Empress. The latter has been
SO successful as a ruler that the plan il
a wise one. She is not the mother Of
the Emperor, but one Of the wives Of
the last Emperor but one. The pres
ent Emperor is the son Of Prince Chuns
the Prime Minister. Manchester Gaard-
san.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-11-12
a NotorIous EemaIe Crook Caeed.

NEW YORK, Nov. Emma Jennings,
alias Dillon, alias st. Claire, alias Ander-
son, very handsome and weil-pre served
woman of about forty years, was yester-
day arrested on Broadway by detectives
on information and photographs fur
nished by Superintendent EbeFsold, Of
Chicago. She is said to be one of the
most expert pickpockets and ex-
peTienced shop-iifters and confidence
women in the United States. Another
telegram was received asking that she be
held on a charge of stealing $500 from q
farmer. For this cause she left Chicago
Sunday night. She was remanded 10
aWaft a reouIsition.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-11-12
Warned to Keen Awav.

BosToN, Mass, Nov. There has
been considerable excitement among the
Knights of Labor in this city recently
over the discovery that quite a number
of the members of the order had gone to
Chicago to work In the packing-house
In which the labor troubles are at pres.
ent existing. The executive board Of
District Assembly No. 30 of the knights
of Labor yesterday issued a circular to
all the Knights in the district calling at
tention to the packing-house troubles,
and forbidding them under a penalty TO
90 TO Chicago to work in those houses.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-11-12

MILES CITY, Mont, Nov. 4.-Chief
Crazy Head and two Chey enne bucks
who were arrested and put in jail here
last week, charged with killing some
sheep belonging to a ranchman named
Wyman, were released yesterday at the
request Of the military authorities. Their
arrest caused all the excitement on the
Rosebud which resulted in sending
battalion Of infantry TO Cheyenne agency
TO suppress any attempted uprising on
the part of the Indians.
The three bucks have gone up Tongue
river aud back TO their people. Although
no trouble is anticipated, the troops have
received notice TO remain at The agency.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-11-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE total coinage executed at the mints
during October was S4,172,101, of which
81, 900, coo was in standard dollars.
HUNGARIAN semi OH cial papers admit
that the finances Of Hungary are in a
critical state, and il is rumorsd that the
Minister of Finance will resign.
A WHITE whale, about thirty-hve feet
long, has been making himself quite famil-
lar of late in the neighbOrhood of LoE z
Branch, n. J., and several parties have
been badly scared by coming in proximity
10 him while boating or fishing.
TIE German Aid Society OF Wisconsin
is agitating the question OF securing an
amendment 20 the American Constitution
requiring all foreign born persons to re-
side in this country five years before be-
ing allowed 10 formally declare their in
tentions of becoming citizens.
OK the 81 the French delegates returned
to New York from their visit to Niagara
Falls. An Of them were vastly pleased
with theic trip and unstinted in their ad-
miration OK the great natural wonder thew
had seen. Tuey departed on the morning
OF the 81 for w Washing ton.
OK the 81 six OF the crew Of the bark
Tres Auroras, from Barcelona for Havana.
who were picked up by tho schooner
Annie b. Hutchison, were landed at New
York. The Tres AurOras sunk October I9.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-11-12
Dead Among stranRers.

BALTIMORE, Md, Nov. "a we'll
dressed young man who registered ten
days ago at a hotel here as B. f. Wilcox,
New York, fell dead about noon to-day
on Lexington avenue. He was travelling
in the interest of an advertising scheme,
and letters found in his sache show
that his name was w. r. Woodruff. He
claimed to be a native of Chicago, where
he said his father lived. The Coroner
found that death was caused by heart
disease. No money was found among
his effects, and he viii be buried By the
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-11-12

SETH WILMARTH, aged seventy-six
years, man of remarkable mechanical
ability, died at Maiden, Mass, on the 9Th.
Since 1855 be has been superintendent and
master mechanic OF the Charleston Navy
Yard.
THE reports in the Austrian press that
Nine. Gerster, since the birth of her
daughter, had lost her voice, that her
husband deserted her and that she had be-
come insane, has elected a telegram from
Mime. Gerster, declaring the story a libel
Gus untruth and that she is living happily
with her husband.
GENERAL MIDDLETON, commander of
the Canadian militia, in his annual report
will recommend that the gatIing guns
now held Y A and B batteries be trans
ferred to two Of the infantry schools,
and that additional gatling guns be pur-
chased to supply one to each infantry
school. He believes, after a thorough
study Of the American weapon, that il
could be made serviceable in the hands OF
the militia.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-12-15
FERTILIZING WITH BRAIN.

W. do not believe the time has
come when the small farmer can
successfully conduct his business
without performing some manual
labor, nor when the large farmer
can attain marked ucc without
that intimate knowledge of his
work that comes from actual partic-
ipation in it. But we do most fully
believe thatthe day is forever passed
when the chief reliance of the sue
cessful farmer, whether his acres be
few or many, can be placed upon
manual industry, however persistent
if u~ndirected by a mind c%onversant
with the progress of the times in
all that relates to his business. In
the past, when the apparently un-
bounded West offered it's fertile soil
free for the taking, and when Amer
lea held monopoly Of the railways
and improved implements of hus-
bandry there was some excuse for
the hand-to-mouth policy which has
been the chief characteristic of our
agriculture; but the day of free
homesteads is almost ended, while
the extension of the use of agricul-
tural machinery throughout the old
world, the development of agricul-
tural resources of the southern hem
isphere, and especially the bringing
of the half-naked farmers of India
into direct and close competition
with ourselves through the medium
Of the railroad and steamship-all
these r steadily and surely taking
from us the vantage ground we
have heretofore held as food produ-
GERS for the world. One thing is
certain, and that is if the American
farmer would retain this vantage
ground, he must bring to his work
something more than brawn-some-
thing more than Drawn reinforced
by mechanical ingenuity. These
hav served us we'll in the past, but
henceforth they must take a secon-
Diary place, yielding the first rank
to a still higher exercise of the intel
lect than that which has given us
the steam engine and the modern
harvester.-Fdrm, Stock and Home.
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r

For many years the practice OF
breeding mares on the seventh or
ninth day after foaling has become
such an abuse that [ am prompted
by a humane feeling to offer a pro-
test in their behalf. Every inteIli-
gent man we'll knows that this is
contrary to all laws, and must nee
esssariIy destroy the functions Of re-
production, besides detrimental to-
wards life, vigor and health of the
tetus in Utero. This constant con
dition of conception and carrying
not only destroys the power Of the
uterus and it's contents, but acts
directly upon the health of the
mother. l know full well that some
gentlemen r willing to cite instan-
ces where mares have thrown one,
two or even more colts in succession
of first class calibre, yet hundreds
stare you in the face to the contrary.
There is no doubt in my mind that if
old Hira, Aerolite and many others
received a reasonable time after foal-
ing (say two months or a year, we
would have had more representa-
tives from these illustrious dams. In
no instance can [ call to mind during
fifteen years of constant practice
with human mother, where quick
conception and rapid births have
not left a diseased, broken down
and cut short life.
[ trust these few lines will reach
the hearts of some breeders who will
give our grand and great mares a
chance.-Dr. f. b. Corrigan, IN Live
Stock Record
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Correspondence.
: CALL THE
Some Brief but Pointed Reasons Why
it Should be Held.

EDITOR PROGRESSIVE FARMER
Col. Burgwyn's idea of holding a
Farmers Convention is a good one
and will commend itself to all who
desire to learn, but those who know
it all and cannot~be taught anything
wiH not see any good in the Conven-
ton. All other professions have de-
monstrated that organizations and
associations have helped them, illus
trating the old adage, Nthat two
heads are better than one, If one is a
sleeps heady Farmers have been
taught that each was independent,
or ought to be. That might have
answered fifty years ago. Steam and
electricity have completely changed
ourenvironments. Organizations and
corporations governments now A:
Laws are passed at their dictation.
Taxes are levied in the name of
"American labor that they may
collect millions of dollars for them
selves. The farmers (each) i%ndepen-
dent. Who taught them that? Some
intellectual lions. To those who are
satisfied with their independence, |
commend the following fable, writ
ten more than $500 years ago:
"Three bulls for ii long time pas
tured together. A lion lay in am
bush in hope of making them his
prey, but was afraid to attack them
whilst they kept together. Having
at last, by guileful speeches, succeed
ed in separating them, he attacked
them without fear, as they fed alone,
and feasted on them, one by one, at
his leisure" If there was no other
reason than the one limited at above,
it would be we'll for the farmers to
meet in Convention. But much can
be learned from the discussion of
purely agricultural subjects. Our
people learn nor by "the friction
of mind upon mind" than from all
the schools and colleges. Township
clubs, county clubs and State Con
ventions will do more to develop
our agriculture, to elevate u man
hood, to protect our interest, and
command that respect from other
professions to which we are entitled,
than all the speeches of the intellec-
tual lions, budding and blooming
once every two years, only to be
killed by the frost of the power of
organizations or corporations.
NOTES FROM ENDERLY.
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WE THIS.

The Charlotte Democrat, 81 NV
most sensible papers in the o'as.,
noticing the report that a COMPANY
of Northern lumber men were I ooo
templating the purchase OF 7' C
acres Of timber land in North '"'0
lima, says: g
"Persons who sell large bodles W.
land to foreign individuals or d 'I to
poration will have have cause
regret it afterawhile. When na sso;r
Southern people get clear Oh Snem
lands, which many of them 9 "biI.
anxious to do, they and theIl Of
dren will soon become "he"ei' the
wood and drawers of water III Cell
non-residents and foreigners .otes
some Of your land at modera'0 it
to those who want to settre a,Is.
and cultivate it but not to sP.esocts
tors and adventures in large
at cheap prices.
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2 THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER, DECEMBER l6 1886

when the soil often freezes TAR oelow
the onion set. It is probable that
the onion thus frozen does not ina"
out until spring and then the frost
is drawn out by the thawed SOIL
around it.
FARROW COWS.
It is common for farmers who
have a number of cows to dry them
off after eight or ten or at most
twelve months Of the greatest o
of milk has passed. This good pol
lev for those that are thus situated
as a COW giving only three to five
or six quarts Of milk daily is worth
more to fatten than to keep tor
what milk she will give. But tor a
small family, where but little milk
and butter is required, agood farroW
cow may prove a desirable requlsl-
ton. A really good COW may be
MIXED two years or even three or
four with proper management, and
give nearly a constant mess during
that time. 1t is the drain on the
COW from the calf she is carrying
that necessarily shortens the milk
ing period, however good the feed
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THE USES OF STRAW

The value of straw is too little
taken into account on or off the farm
Too many farmers seem to act on
the principle that it should be fed
to cattle. This is the least impor-
tant of it's uses. It's value as food
is so slight that cattle fed exclusive
lv on straw would die about as soon
as if fed on any such substance, as
dead leaves, for instance, the only
use of which is to properly distend
the stomach. The feeding use OF
straw, therefore is only in connec-
ton with concentrated food.
But there are other uses of the
straw Of cereal plants which render
it an important integer in farm
economy. One of these is the Gov
ering Of sheds. Another and its
most important use is bedding for
animals. Another use to which it
may be profitably put when cold
and winds are severe, is in forming
an impervious barrier, by filling a
space a foot wide between two rough
walls of sheds. These walls may be
made of any rough material, as slabs
or poles, but "a enough together
to prevent the pulling out Of straw
by the animals. Thus sheds and
stables may be rendered as warm as
much more costly structures.
The use of straw is too much ig-
nored as a means of comfort used as
bedding for animals. Under sheds
it should be laid a foot thick and in
the yards not less than six inches.
In stables that are regularly cleaned
it should not be less than six inches
in thickness. Thus it will fully
soak up and hold the liquids and re-
tain them while spread on the land
to be plowed under. 1t takes no
more material as bedding six inches
in thickness than less, for only the
soiled portions need be removed.
The added value to the animal in
conserving warmth is not generally
estimated.
1t not only keeps the animals
comfortable, but as straw is
valuable principally in proportion to
the liquid manure it has soaked up.
1t will pay to use literally in the di-
rections we have mentioned, and
less so as food in Winterthan is gen
orally practiced.-Farm, Field and
Stockmdn.