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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-09-03
The best fishing-grounds need t.

The best fishiug-grounds need to
be protected from the ruthless sport Of
amateur fishermen. Blueish, which a
dozen years ago could be purchased at
Nantucket from twenty % thirty cents
apiece, now bring from one dollar to
one dollar and twenty-five cents, ow-
ing to the scarcity and the great de-
mana The natives never ate the
delicious fish until taught by summer
visitors in their delicious qualities a.
1oods-B0s5o Journal
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-09-03

A Box OF GLENS's SULPHUR SOAP is equiv
alent 10 many Sulphur Baths. Don't for
geti6.
Brown, SOC.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-09-03

For removing dandruff and curing al
scalp diseases, use Halls Hair Remover.
Ayers Ague Cure is acknowledged TO b6
the standard remedy for fever and ague.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-09-03

SNATCHED from the jaws of death; saved
from the grave-are sample expressions in
letters from ladies who have been relieved
from lives of misery and suffering by I'm
glish Female Bitters.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-09-03

IF a cough disturbs your sleep, take
Piso's Cure for Consumption and rest well.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-09-03

THE pupil of ona's eye is made to attend
to bus ness by the lash that is ever held
over 1t.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-09-03
DELAYS Are Dangerous

The time to take medicine is when Nature gives
her nrst warning. That tired feeling is often the
forerunner of serious disease which may be warde6
of il you attend to yourself IN time Don't wait till
your system is all run down and you obliged to
stop work, but take Hoods Sarseparila now. Il
will purify vttalize and enrich your blood create
an appetite and tone the digestive organs, cure
headache biIiousness and dyspepsia, rouse and
repulate the liver ami kidneys, and give strength to
the whole body.
v1se in the Massachusetts State Prison, and have
sIs 1ed IL in nv family with perfect satisfaction
we believe It to be everything that Is claimed Tor
tn 4, w. KEENn, deputy warden, State Prison.
CharlestOqn, Mass.
Having bsen afiicted with complication OF dis
sorders the result Of impure blood took HOODS
sarsaparua and the result was perfectly sat-ataer
tory MRS. j. BARTON, Sew Haven, Ct.
Hoods SaYSSparlI19
Sold by all druggists. 81; for S. Prepared only
y C. !. HOOD s. CO. ApOthecaTies, LoNNed' MISS
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-09-03

IT is a sleepy old coat that has had no
nap in seven years.-lSL Louis Chronicle.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-09-03

A New York theater gives to every
lady attending performance a plate Of
ice-cream as a chrome.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-09-03

IF there is any one who should be trapped
in slumber" it is the man who snOres.-
Chicago Tribune.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-09-03

No, NY boy, the ryse in wheat win barley
make man cereal well, il he gets corned
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-09-03
. 80 lonrons distilment. whose effect

MORE physique and less physic is what
the average american needs.-AeTchGtIt
IrGgeier.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-09-03
SAFE, permanent and complete are th

WIEN singers voice fails he can not
take up his notes.-LosoeH Citizen.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-09-03

MADE of oil wor5-the incorporates
ton Commercial Bulic}ia.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-09-03

'fGoING to learn to dance, Claude7"
'sYes, Pve taken steps in that direction"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-09-03

A GREEN turtle can live six weeks with
out food That is why it is green.-Fitts-
buTQh Chronicle.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-28
a stamp upon it showing its true char

a stamp upon it showing its true char
acter."
1t appears that the fears expressed
about the danger of referring the bill
to the finance committee were well
founded. for of its eleven members five
voted against the bill on its passage,
and two others-Aldrich of Rhode
Island and Jones of Nevada-were OPP
posed to the bill until the tax had been
reduced and it had been otherwise
amended, thus leaving only four mem
bers of that committee who favored the
bill as it came from the house.
The opposition to the bill has been
vigorous and persistent, and the adop-
ton of the amendments is claimed as
a victory by the bogus butter interest.
The bill as it stands is better than
nothing, but it is true that in its
amended form it gives less protection to
the dairy interest than the producers of
genuine butter hoped to obtain. If
there are any who think this measure
of really little importance to the dairy
men of the country, let them ponder
the facts presented by Senator Miller.
In his speech he pointed out that the
great depreciation in the demand for
COWS in New York, Pennsylvania and
other dairy states was clearly attrib-
utable to the manufacture of oleomar-
garine. 1t costs twenty cents per pound,
he said, to produce the best creamery
butter, and yet farmers must sell it at
fifteen cents on account of the compe-
tition of bogus product. Strange to
say, the manufacture of oleomargarine
is in the hands of only thirty men in
the United States. Yet these thirty
men have almost wrecked the dairy in
terest of the country.
After the friends of bogus butter in
the house had fought for several hours
to delay action on the bill, the senate
amendments were concurred in without
change-yeas one hundred seventy
four, nays seventy-fve. 1t is believed
that the President will sign the bill. A
Washington special says that Con-
gresham Durham of Chicago, who led
the opposition to the measure, says the
S4S license required of retailers will
drive the small dealers out of the bust
ness. He does not think the wholesale
dealers will be seriously affected,
though they must necessarily raise the
price about three cents.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-28
Who Should be Elected to Office {?

Mr.. EditOr:-Should men elect to any inn
portant office man who freely uses intoxi-
cants? Is it consistent with the response
bility of the elective franchise that votes
should be cast for drinking men for justices
of the peace, for judges of probate, for rep
resentatives in the legislature, state senators,
governor, acknowledgement or any other
office? Are drinking men the true repre-
sentatives of the people of Vermont? Are
they the men we can trust to enact inter-
pref or execute law? However gifted or ex-
perienced such men may be, do we not owe
it to the oath we take " so to vote as to pro-
mote the best good of the state y never to
vote for men who by their habits may be dis
qualified for discerning between right and
wrong, between truth and error? Do we
not expect especially that our representa-
tives and senators-the men constitutionally
esteemed in high repute for wisdom and
virtue-should in their elections of men to
senatorships and judgeships choose those
who are above suspicion or faint of intem-
perance, RIGHTEOUSNESS or other criminality?
Even if they were elected with the under
standing that they would vote for Mr. A. or
b. for senator and he was found to be free
user of intoxicants, or otherwise grossly i'm
moral, ought they not to give their votes for
moral and worthy man? Or for a judge or
for any officer to be chosen by them? An
Incorporate candidate, or an essentially i'm
moral candidate. no party has right to
nominate for any office, and no partisan nor
party can III ROOu IalUn sustain MIN, Ii SuCn
a candidate is elected by the legislature or by
the people they must do it in disregard of
constitutional qualifications, in inconsst-
ency with virtuous principles and in disre-
gard of the highest interests of the state.
Electors have inquiries to make of the char
acter and habits of those whom they would
elect to any office, and the higher the Office
the more searching should be their inquiries.
No fondneSs for, nor prejudice in favor of,
any popular partisan candidate should
weigh against moral disqualification. Tai
ent has not been so sparingly bestowed in
Vermont that we are obliged to trust those
who are unreliable by vice, even if they have
been trusted long and perhaps are no worse
than they have been for the last four years.
If there is unrelableness about them let
them remain where they will do the least
hurt and have the best chance to reform.
Put reliable men in their places; they will
do vastly more honor to the state and ma
ton. Let not temperance blush for the
candidates which the majority sustain.
T. S. HUBBARD.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-28

pleasant facts. There was no allusion
to the Presidents repeated violations
of his civil service reform pledges,
of Pan-Electric Garland's scandalous
operations, or of many other matters
which have reflected great discredit
upon the administration.
The candidates on the state ticket
are respectable in point of ability and
character, but we doubt if it proves a
stronger ticket for the state democracy
than that of 1884 or 1882. AS there is
not the slightest prospect that it will
be elected, there is no use in review
ing the merits of the candidates. The
speeches made in the convention were
not of the highest order of ability or
consistency. In regard to Mr.. Atkins
sentiments on the workings of the pro-
hibitory law in Vermont and the incon-
sistency of republicans in relation to
that question, we shall have something
to say at another time. Mr.. Shurtleff
and Mr.. Meldon had considerable to
say about the exactions and expressions
of corporate wealth and the onerous
burdens of the farmers and working
men. They seem to think that some
universal panacea may be found in legis
laton for the ills that affiict the body
polite, but somehow or other the
wisest of people have never yet sue
ceeded in finding it. We understood
Mr. Shurtleff to say that national banks
and savings banks should not be per-
mitted to loan money to farmers at
higher rate than three per cent. If
this is correct, then it is simply nom
sense, and every intelligent farmer
knows it. In that case, what rate of in
terest would the savings banks be able
to pay to depositors? Would the de-
positors be satisfied with two per cent?
1t would be very desirable if it were
practicable that every man should own
his house and every farmer his farm
free of incumbrance, as Mr.. Shurtleff
suggested. Unfortunately, all men are
not endowed with equal capacities or
favored with equal opportunities, and
for the most part they are creatures of
circumstances. So the world will con-
tinue to have debts and mortgages and
other disagreeable concomitants of the
credit system.
The platform adopted by the con-
vention copies the republican in its en-
dorsement of Irish home-rule, anti
oleomargarine legislation and railway
commission. The resolution on the
liquor traffic squints at license law,
and demands the enforcement of exist
ing laws until repealed. We fear if
the state depended on democratic Off
Gals to enforce the existing laws :"
relating to the liquor traffic, the results
would not be particularly gratifying.
One good thing in the resolutions is
the demand for an equitable adjust
ment of taxes between mortgagor and
mortgage. In many respects the reso-
lutions are only designed to catch GER
tain classes of voters.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-28
Double Taxation.

We are glad tos see a little movement made
toward the adjustment of double taxation on
farm mortgages. There is nothing that OPP
presses the farmers more to-day than this. 1t
matters not whether the farm is taxed or the
mortgage-only one should be-and with
money as plenty as it is now the rate ought
not to be over four per cent on good mort
cages except for taxation The st. Johns
bury Republican says The grangers of
Kennebec county, Maine, at a recent meet
ing, passed resolution asking members of
the next legislature to use their influence in
favor of law for the abolition of double
taxation on mortgaged real estate" That's
where the Maine grangers show their good
sense. Such law as this in Vermont would
do more to elevate our farming interest
from its present depressed condition and
advance the welfare of the whole state than
all other possible measures combined-a
thousand-fold more, The reform would be
worth to the farmers hundred railroad
commissions. If our farmers have an eve to
their own interest they will send no man to
Montpelier next fall who will vote against
this important and indeed imperative, re-
rm.-Herdid and NeicS
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-28
Protection for Dairymen.

The senate on Tuesday of last week
passed the oleomargarine bill, but re-
duced the tax from five to two cents
pound and imposed penalty only
for selling unstamped oleomargarine
knowingly" The amendment to re-
duce the tax to two cents pound was
adopted by the following vote:
Yeas-Messrs. Aldrich, Beck, Berry,
Brown, Butler, Camden, Chace, Cockrell,
Coke, Colquitt, Eustis, Gibson, Gray,
Hampton Harris ingalls,, Jones of Ar
kansas, Jones of Nevada, Henderson,
Maxey, Payne, Platt, Pugh, Ransom, Rid
dleberger, Stanford, Vance, Vest, Voorhees,,
Walthall, Witthorne and Wilson of Mary
land-thirty-' vo.
Nays-Messrs. Allison, Blackburn, Blair
Cameron, Conger, Cullom, Dawes, Dolph
Edmunds, Evarts, Frye, German, Hale,
Harrison, Hawley, Logan, Mcmillan, Ma
hone, Miller, Mitchell of Oregon, Palmer,
Plumb, Sawyer, Sewell, Sherman, Spooner,
Teller and Wilson of Iowa-twenty-eig
The bill was passed by vote of
thirty-seven to twenty-four, as follows:
Yeas-Messrs. Aldrich, Allison, Black
burn, Blair, Camden, Cameron, Chace,
Cockrell, Conger, Cullom, Dawes, Dolph,
Edmunds Evarts, German, Hale, Harrison,
Hawley, Hoar, ingalls,, Logan, Mcmillan,
Malone, Henderson, Miller, Mitchell of
Oregon, Palmer, Payne Platt, Plumb, Saw
yer, Sewell, Sherman, Spooner, Stanford,
Teller and Wilson of -thirty-seven.
Nays-Messrs Beck, Berry, Brown, But
Ter, Call Coke, Colquitt, Eustis, Glib
son, Gray, Hampton, Harris, Hearst, Jones
of Arkansas, Maxey, Pugh, Ransom, Rid
dleberger, Vance, Vest, Voorhees,, Walthall
Witthorne and Wilson of Maryland
twenty-four.
An analysis of this vote shows
that the democratic senators were al
most solidly opposed to it, as but five
of them voted for the bill, viz: Black
burn, Camden, Cockrell, German ant
Payne. The negative vote of twenty
four senators was solidly democratic
with the exception of Riddleberger o
Virginia. Every southern senator bu
four was against the bill.
Some good speeches were made il
favor of the bill by Senators Evarts
Miller, Edmunds and Hawley. Mr.
Evarts' legal argument was masterl
defence of the bill on constitutions
grounds. He said the question wa
, whether one good and honest product
, an element of foreign commerce, wa
: to be attacked by fraud and its exist
/ ence threatened. He declared tina
! "where state was restricted an
hampered in what was called its polio
= powers through its being surrounde
S by other states, then the presumptio
S was that the federal government shout
: exercise jurisdiction over the matte
It That was the situation in this cas-,
q Here was constituent, factor,
n value, an energy in foreign commerce
y and the bill proposed that the gener
l. government shall regulate it by havir
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-28
The Democratic Convention.

The Vermont democrats somehow
succeeded in assembling the largest
convention of their party last Thursday
they have had for years. Its proceed
ings were entirely harmonious, but
would have been more interesting if
there had been contests over some of
the offices. Hiram Atkins had every
thing his own way, as usual, only
more so. Though we heard a few of
the delegates criticise Mr. Atkins ire
pressibility, yet there was not the least
show of opposition to his pre-arranged
programme. Some spectators of the
scene ventured to inquire as to the
whereabouts of that formidable oppo-
sition to Mr.. Atkins leadership which
was threatened last winter in Brattle-
boro, Rutland and st. Adams. Prob
ably the kckers " are taking their
summer vacation, for none of them APP
peared at the convention. For their
comfort we will say that Mr.. Atkins
grip on the Vermont democracy seems
to be stronger than ever. He had the
convention so firmly in hand that when
ever he demanded rising vote on a
nomination or proposition the whole
body of delegates rose up as one man to
do his bidding.
Some meddlesome persons who took
the trouble to canvass the delegations
say that there were one hundred sixty
nine postmasters among the members
of the convention, with fair sprinkling
of other federal officials. We are un
able to verify this statement, but it il
certain that there were from eighty t.
one hundred of such delegates. 1t il
evident that the recent order of Presi
dent Cleveland warning government
officers not to participate in politica
caucuses and conventions had no ter
rors for the Vermont democratic office
holders. They probably regard it a
simply gratuitous reafiirmation of hi
sentiments to allay the growing rest
lessness of the mugwumps, and as nc
intended to be enforced. The CLOWN
eulogies of the several speakers upo
the national administration were chief
remarkable for their suppression of III
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-28
Member of Congress.

The Brattleboro PhoniT says that it
gives no credence to the report that
Colonel Hooker is making still-hunt
for General CIRCUITS place, and " looks
with confidence to see Colonel Hooker
put quietus on it as soon as he re-
turns from New York" We trust
that the confidence of the Picnic will
prove well-grounded, though reports
from many sources apparently trust
worthy have been to the effect that
Colonel Hooker was candidate and
that his canvass was meeting with
some favor. In common with most of
the republican newspapers of the state
and large majority of the republican
voters of the second district, we have
INDUCED in the hope that there would
be no contest for the congressional
nomination this year, and that General
Grout would be nominated for another
term practically without opposition.
He has proved useful and judicious
representative at Washington, and he
has done his utmost to strengthen the
republican party while faithfully per-
forming his duty to his country. He
has been industrious in his official la
bors, and kind and considerate in at
tention to his constituents. He has
made some notable speeches on the
oleomargarine, Fitz John Porter and
Dakota bills; and though laboring I'M
der the disadvantage which repub-
lican member must always experience
in democratic house, yet he has been
able to take prominent position and
command the respect of his fellow
members. Our personal relations with
Colonel Hooker are cordial, and we
have no reason or disposition to dispar-
age and misrepresent him, but we be-
lieve that General Grout has well
earned another term, and that the dis
trict cannot do better at this time than
to return him to congress. We believe
that his denomination is well assured,
but in order to make his success abso-
lutely certain we ask republicans to
rally to the caucuses and give him the
support which is justly due to the value
of his services to the district.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-28
The OleOmargarine Bill.

Washington Correspondence Boston Journal
The vote in the senate upon the PROPOSE
ton to reduce the tax ON oleomargarine
from five to two cents per pound was evil
IDENTIFY not anticipated by the friends of
the bill, and is regarded by them as a sub
stantial defeat. AT all events, the opponents
of the bill consider the reduction as a
marked triumph The opponents of the bill,
from the moment that the general sentiment
in congress became apparent, have not been
endeavoring to defeat the bill upon its mer-
its. Their purpose has been either to de-
feat it by delay or to secure a reduction of
the tax. They wished to have the amount
reduced to one cent per pound. Mr.. Ingalls,,
in one of his vigorous speeches, led the
movement to reduce the tax to two cents,
and he was supported by number of
republicans, all of whom subsequently
voted for the bill. The object in endeavor-
ing to prevent any reduction in the amount
of the tax was to pass the bill without
amendment, so that it would not need to be
returned to the house, but the amendment
for the reduction having been once voted
on Mr.. Hoar stated that he thought the bill
would be more efficient to accomplish its
purposes with two-cent tax, and on the
vote in the senate, after the bill had left the
committee, he voted for the reduction. The
republicans who voted for the reduction of
the tax to two cents in the senate, the vital
vote on the bill, We're Messrs. Aldrich,
Chace, Hoar ingalls,, Henderson, Palmer,
Platt, Riddleberger and Stanford. The vote
by which the tax was reduced was thirty-four
yeas to twenty-eight nays, majority that
is not likely to be changed by a conference
committee. The bill finally passed by a
vote of thirty-seven yeas to twenty-four
nays. The bill lost strength in the debate.
Had the vote been taken ON the first day of
the debate it now seems probable that the
tax would not have been reduced.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-28

suits for the republican party, for tn
fact is that only seventeen out of two
thousand four hundred twenty-sever
nominations to office submitted by thd
President for confirmation have beer
rejected by the senate. We often heard
it remarked during our stay in Wash
ington that Mr.. Edmunds was more
obnoxious, personally, to his republican,
associates than to the democrats. The
Washington correspondent of the World
confirms this view when he saws !
"Tbere is a good deal of friction be-
tween him and the other republi-
can senators-more, perhaps, than
there is between him and the demo-
cratic senator's"
In an interview with a correspond
ent of the New York World, Senator
Edmunds has given an evasive and in
complete explanation of his legal work
for corporations. He admits that bel
has been employed by the Vermont
Central railroad, the Missouri, Kansas
u Texas railroad and the Adams Ex-
press Company, but we understand
him to assert that he has not appeared
for any of the Immigrant railroads or
any corporation which has had any
claims upon, or favors from, the govern
ment. Now unless call men are
liars" in Washington and New York,
he has not told more than half of the
story. A Washington dispatch, dated
April 5, 1886, read as follows:
The long-pendng suits between the
United States government and the Union
Pacific railroad have been decided at last
and in favor of the United States, by the
supreme court The decision of the court
of claims has been sustained and a iudg-
ment given for S1,57i6S3. Senator Ed
munds was one of the railroad corporations
lawyers.
In speech in the senate on the rail-
road attorney bill, June 23d, Mr.. Ed
munds admitted that he had been
counsel for some of these railway
companies now and then, in causes in
the courts of the United States and in
causes in courts in the states" We
referred last week to the fact that Mr..
Edmunds was so much engaged in the
great telephone case in 1884 that he
was unable to take part in the presi-
dental campaign. His opposition to
the Beck bill, in connection with his
speech on the subject, is not very con-
sistent with the views he has given to
the World correspondent.