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The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26
The Senate.

The more important new bills were:
BY Mr.. CollinsWorth To amend the fish law
| 80 far as IL concerns Crockett county.
BY Mr.. Wsddell; To require all banks char
| tered by the State to publish quarterly state
| ments of their financial condition.
By Mr.. Canada: To amend the law relative to
BY Mr Smithson: To authorize the governor
| to appoint three commissioners to revise, amend
and cOdify the statutes OF Tennessee.
BY Mr.. Waddell: To give owners OF threshing
machines lien on grain threshed.
By Mr.. Thompson: To provide for the ap-
pOintment by the commissioner OF agriculture
of three commissioners to inspect fertilizers.
By Mr.. Gilmore: To require process to issue
under all bills in Chancery Court within sixty
days from time OF ding, and under all bills here
tofore filed within sixty days from passage OF
the act.
ton on County Courts in the collection of in
heritance tax.
criminal districts composed Of only one county
which has population OF less than $1,000 81 900
per annum.
Senate bills on third reading were disposed Of
To establish uniform system of text books
In the schools OF the State Made the special
order for next Tuesday.
To extend the Jurisdiction OF Chancery Courts
to be concurrent with that OF Criminal and Cir
cult Courts In habeaS corpus cases; passed.
To prohibit persons from wearing buttons,
emblems, badges. ETC., OF secret societies to
which they do not belong; passed
To amend divorce laws so as to allow persons
divorced for certain causes to remarry; rejected.
The House.
The most important new bills in the house to-
day were:
By Mr.. Smith of Johnson: To prevent the
playing of pool within so feet of and saloon and
providing penalties.
BY Mr.. Rogers To prevent taking of deposit
tons in typewrittng.
BY Mr. Kinney of Haywood: To make fees for
Inspecting coal oil 20 cents for single BARREL
Is cents barrel for one to fve barrels and 10
cents a barrel above five barrels. Wherever
FIVE single barrels are sent to the same party,
only Is cents shall be charged for each barrel
above five.
The senate bill to prevent the sale Of adult
Grated food or drink passed.
House bills on third reading went OF as fol-
lows:
To permit defendants to plead to the merits of
any suit on overruling OF plea of abatement;
passed.
To authorize County Courts in counties of
30 900 to appropriate $3.50 per annum TO enable
circuit clerks to employ deputy passed.
To repeal the law prohibiting county super
Intendents in counties Of $4,000 or over from
teaching school passed.
The assessment bill was made special order
for next Wednesday.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26
TENNESSEE STATE NEWS
Condition of the state Treasury.


The following is the report of the
legislative committee on the State
treasury: "Wc are required to state the
actual condition of the treasury from
the date we began this investigation.
From the report of experts submitted to
as wc find the following amounts due
from the State on the following ac-
counts: Interest on State debt. 50, SIT. so;
interest on school funds, 500, S37. is; due
charitable institutions, $26, 355. II; due
on State prosecutions, $77,7l1.92; due
State officials. IS. 299. "a; due United
States direct tax fund, $21, ,543 81; due
new penitentiary fund, So, $50. %; total,
S216. 7O3. Treasury credited by amount
of cash on hand January 25, 1897, ST.
251. 90. Excess OF liabilities over cash
ON hand, S139, ,541.71. These liabilities
do not include the mileage and per
diem due the members of the legisla-
ture on January 25. 1897, of which
SO, 136. os had already been paid and is
carried as part Of the cash balance Of
that date, reducing the actual cash bal
ance to sos, 1876. "a. However we are in
formed by the comptroller that since
January 25. 1897, substantially all of
this indebtedness has been discharged
out of tho funds then on hand and such
as have come into the treasury since
that date"
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26
''THE WORLD DO MOVE"
While violets and Honeysuckles
Bloom On caney Branch.
First Love Scrape at the Old Schools
hOuse-"Them Strange and Ten-
der Spring Feelings" - Time
the Good Physician.

One day idst week me and mother we
went down in the woods pEster l6okin
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26

There are from four to six grains
of aqueous humor In the eye.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26

few of their possessions, either
| household effects or live stock, and
the future for them is filed with dense
| gloom even when the water subsidies,
which will be late in the planting
season. They will have nothing to
make start toward their maintenance.
1t is not difficult to foresee the logical
consequence of the condition, both to
| the immediate victims and communi-
ties relying upon them, either wholly
or in part.
| The river at Helena is AZ feet on the
gauge, which is one and one-tenth feet
below high water mark, while the river
| at WestOver is six inches higher than
ever known before, and at Old Town,
! six miles below Westover, the river is
three inches above the highest water
mark. At Modoc it is three inches
higher than ever known before.
Floods In the Northwest.
The effects of the mild weather in
the northwest are beginning to be
felt. Melting ice and snow has opened
the Bad river in South Dakota and its
violent waters are pouring into the
still frozen Missouri. The Cheyenne is
expected to open to-day and precipitate
an awful gorge in the Missouri, which
will soon break, in the vicinity of
Pierre. Settlers on the flats are
moving their effects to higher quarters
in anticipation of disastrous flood.
The ice gorge in the Missouri at Flor
ence, Neb., moved out, and the river
rose three feet at Omaha. From all in
dications the spring rise of the Mis-
souri, promises to send an unprecedent-
ed volume of water into the Mississippi
this year, which will play havoc should
the situation on the lower river not
improve soon.
The Situation Growing Worse in Iowa.
Sioux City, Ia, March 2O.-Though
many of Thursday nights rumors of
drowning are unconfrmed, the actual
flood situation is growing worse. The
Floyd river has carried away every
bridge from Lemars to mile above
Sioux City, and is still rising. The val
ley is full from hill to hill, the
towns of Merrill, Hinton and the
Sioux City suburbs of Springdale, Lynn
and Leeds, flooded and many houses in
Sioux City itself are surrounded by
water. On the Big Sioux, many
bridges are out and at Hawarden, the
water is reported five feet deep in the
streets. The Northwestern is said to
have not a bridge left between Huron
and Hawarden. The Missouri is still
frozen here, but is rumored to be break
ing and gorging at Onawa, same dis
tance farther down.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26
southern Building aud Loan Assoolatfei

Southern Bu1i0lng anu Loan <AssOcA"tAs'sf'
At Knoxville last week Special Mas
ter J. w. Caldwell rendered his report
to the United States court as to the
solvcncy of the Southern Building and
Loan Association and the advisability
of its reorganization. He found that
the .'evidence preponderatss in favor OF
the solvency of the association" but
said he considered it not practicable for
the association to continue its business.
On account of its great number of loans
outstanding and its widely scattered in
terests, it would fall prey to ruinous
litigation. Nearly one-half the loans
were found to be tainted with usury
under the Statelaw. Judge Clark has
the matter under advisement and will
no doubt appoint permanent receivers.
The effort toward reorganization is de-
feated.S
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26
Great Excitement in Sewer County.

Knoxville, March 19.-Sevier county,
the scene of SO many recent whitecap-
pings and murders, is now in a state of
excitement, and 1t is believed and feared
that big fight occurred at Sevierville
tonight. Yesterday the grand jury re-
turned indictments against three men,
charging them with the murder of VIM.
Whaley and wife two months ago. The
Judge ordered the men, who are mem
bers of the famous whitecap gang. sent
to Jail without bond This afternoon
the sheriff learned that an effort
would be made to release the prisoners
tonight The wires between this place
and Sevierville we're cut in several
places. SO that nothing can be learned
except by courier. The United States
mall messenger arrived tonight and
saws that the citizens are in arms. and
that there will be bloodshed before
morning. The sheriff has a strong
guard around the jail A later report
says that the father of Deputy Sheriff
Davis was assaulted by the whitecapss
and that trouble is now certain.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26
DIRECTORS

Collections Made ard Prompt Returns.
Money 10 LOaa on Reasonable Terms.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-06
POULTRY YARD
A FRW FACTS ABOUT LAYING.

As the winter passesthe hens become
tatter, especially if a large share OF
their food consists of grain, owing 20
the scarcity of green food, and should
they come out of their quarters IN IaC
condition, they will not give as good
results in eggs as when they are allowed
a greater variety of food. Because
grain is cheap is no reason for using It
as an exclusive diet, says Farm and
Fireside.
It is a very expensive food if it pro
duces no results, no matter what its
cost NAV be-. During the long conhne
ment of the winter the hens do not re
ceive as much exercise as in spring,
and this condition Of inactivity not
only cause them to become fat, but
renders them more liable to disease.
The first indication Of the hens becom
ing too fat is when they begin to lay
eggs of very large size. They also
some times lay double-yolk eggs, which
is a sure indication that the generative
organs are obstructed with an accumu
lation of fat, for where the two yolks
should have served to make two dis
tinct eggs the abnormal condition may
result in the production of what may
be termed monstrosities in the shape
of double yolk eggs, of which, however,
the hens lay but few, and then cease to
lay altogether. The overfat hen also
drops her eggs while she is on the
roosts, because her organs have been
weakened and she has lost the control
over such function that is possessed by
her when she is in proper form. Dis
appointment is met when the early
pullets do not lay. Their combs are
red and indicate health, but if one Of
them is killed and dissected it will be
found that there are a large number of
embryo eggs which have ceased to
grow because there is a superabundance
Of fat, and the hen or pullet, though
healthy, has been rendered barren by
overlooking grain. Should the spring
weather come, shut eff the grain, turn
them out, and compel them to work
for about two weeks, and any time lost
by them in getting rid of the extra fat
will be repaid by the increased number
of eggs later in the season.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-06
ABOUT DIFFERENT BREEDS.

Well kept Asiatics lay about 100
eggs in a year; Plymouth Rocks or
Wyandottes about 40; Leghorns and
Hamburgs from $50 up according to
how well they are bred and what treat
ment is given them. The Hamburgs
lay quite small eggs; the Leghorns lay
eggs about the same size as those Of
Plymouth Rocks; the largest eggs are
produced by Langshans, Minorcas and
White-face Black Spanish fowls.
There are two classes of game fowls.
One is known as exhibition games and
and is o bred to fight at all, but for
the ordinary purposes that fowls are
usually kept for. The best known Ct
this class are the black breasted red
games and the Cornish Indian games.
Either of these breeds is hardy and
prolific and very heavily meated. The
pit games are bred for fighting exclu
sively and for all respectable Uses are
no better than ordinary mongrels, as
they are bred with the sole idea of
ferOcity.
The Polish breeds are known as the
beauty breeds" and are bred more fer
ornament than use. They get their
name from the heavy poll" Oh top
knot that surmounts their heads They
are fair layers, but are not hardy, the
top-knot or crest easily getting wet
and giving them a cold which runs into
roup. As the feathers in the crest
droop over their eyes to some extent
they are easy prey for hawks Farm.
ers' Voice.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-06
LEGISLATIVE FRANKS,

G~oLDsBoRo, N. c., March 30. 1897.
A Representative Hancock, a Craven'e
elk, 80 full of spoil,
A hand at magic art a pert would play,
80 he and others conceived a way
Whereby, the boys in black a part too
might play, if Young and Quick
they be;
Then Claudee, one of Richmond's-he
rose, too, not to be outdone by
Brewer,
Raised a flag of truce to Enrolling
Clerk SwinsoR. inscribed thereon,
Point" u bows in black, they are
Quick and Young"
Able ind willing, the caucus said, the
Enrolling Clerks office to roam
And their per diem is only q matter Of
time.
The Populist clerk Swinaon denied the
need of Quick and Young,
The Enrolling Clerks office to roam, as
a charge to keep I have
Upon the people at $40 a day unmeeded,
so he said;
And to tEeir demand replied: No niSar
will l ''point" in that { flee 80 be
While as E rolling Clerk 1 remain, a
Populist true,
Then Caudee raved, he did, and rant
ing wore at Clerk Swinson,
iii be damned II you shan't Quick
and Young appoint to your ctice,
For tomorrow I'll Cffer q resolution in
the House to maze you, sls :"
SWinson t Dockery said: I'll never
destroy the POpultgts OF WAYNE.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-06
LIVE STOCK PREMIUMS AT THE
NEW YORK STATE FAIR.

The New York State Fair premium
list has undergone revision 1t now
offers prizes in each class for first class
and second best. These amount to the
following:
Sixteen first and twelve second pre-.
miums on neat cattle amouut to $3.50,
with ten breeds recognized equal to
81 so, and two other breeds with
smaller prizes.
Eleven first and ten second premiums
on horses amount to 1863 each breed
and eight breeds are recognized 50 472
/ Ten first and eight second premiums
on sheep amount to $1O5, with eight
breeds recognized, makes the total for
sheep 81, $40.
Fourteen first and twelve second
premiums on swine amount to $3.50 for
each breed, which with seven breeds
recognized, amounts to 81, $50.
Total for cattle, horses, sheep and
swine, $40, 572.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-06

four or five hours. This ia entirely at
variance with the theory put forth in
the quoted paragraph which is 80
thoroughly consistent as not to be
worthy of any further reference.
But while on the subject of cream
raising it may not be out of place to
mention that there are even at this
date a good many people who cannot
realize that all the cream can even be
obtained between milking, let alone
getting it in four or five hours.
Now the fact Island one easily dem
onstrated-that if milk is set as soon
as drawn, and at or near the tempera
ture at which drawn and quickly re
duced to forty five degrees or lower all
the cream will come to the surface
very soon after such reduction of tenn
perature has taken place. DR.. T. b.
Hoskins once said, nothing could pre-
vent it from rising unless some fellow
sat down on each individual cream
globule.
This is a matter 20 easily demon
strated that there should not much
time be spent discussing it. Take q
glass milk jar and set it in a vessel Of
water and broken ice-plenty Of the
latter-letting the water staEd say up
to the shoulder of the jar. Inside Of
an hour q distinct cream line will be
seen and then very nearly all the cream
will be up and any not up will be up a
little later.
There has been a great deal written
and printed by those who have at
tempted to explain the Swedish system
of cream raising. The correct solution
is a simple one. The reduction Of tenn
perature condenses the watery portion
Of the milk, thus giving it greater
specific gravity, and thereby greatly
increasing the original existing slight
difference between it's specific gravity
and the oily portion. This is the whole
thing in a nut shell.
+. W. MOsELEY.
Clinton, Iowa.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-06
IHE DAIRY
CREAM RAISING.

Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
Erroneous teaching in matters relat
ing to cream raising are more common
than n would expect when it is re-
member3d how thoroughly that sub
ject has been discussed the past twenty
years, or since the introduction of the
Swedish system. The following para
graph is copied from an agricultural
journal of good standing, yet it is error
and nothing but error.
Remember that cream cannot rise
quickly through a great depth of milk {;
therefore if milk is desired to retain it's
ear for a long time it should be put
into a deep and narrow vessel, but if
it is desirable to have it rise, pour it
into a broad, fat dish."
Twenty years ago the round six and
ten quart milk pan was in general use
and milk was Of course set in them
quite shallow-many times not over
two thirds full-this to allow it to cool
more quickly, thereby preventing
souring, but not to expedite the rising
or the cream for as a rule the milk was
allowed to stand forty eight hours.
Later, when the cold deep setting or
Swedish system began to be ~practiced,
Il was introduced into this country in
HT, deep and narrow cans" were
esed and all the cream was easily OBJ
~neo between milking and even in
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-06
SOUR CHEESE.

A correspondent asks how to deal
with sour cheese. The best way is not
to have such stock at ali, but If cue is
caught with some sour chez on his
shelves, there remains only Jne alterna
i've, and that is to cure it as quicklyt
as possible. Sour cheese will stand a
high temperature; in fact, it needs it
from the moment it is placed in the
curing room. It should be frequently
turned and kept in an atmosphere Of
75 degrees. There are many degrees
There are many degrees of sourness in
what Is termed ''sour stock" some Of
which will almost pass muster as fair
cheese, says the Western Plowman.
A more than normal frmness charac.
terizes cheese with too much acidity.
A section Of it, when pressed between
the thumb and fingers, is dry and
crumbly in proportion to the amount
Of sourness with which it is affected.
The taste is Characteristic, an acid tang
taking the place of what should be a
fine cheese flavor.
Many cheese, slightly sour on the
start, soon become more 80 through too
slow curing. Any green stock which
contains an overplus of acid should be
cured as rapidly as possible. 1t is all
the maker can do toward mitigating a
bad defect Of quality. inexperienced
makers frequently do not know that
they have sour stock until they notice
Their cheese making wheyon the shelves.
1t is En- unhappy revelation, for such
cheese are almost cure to sell for only
half price, at best, and this financial
loss is added to by the loss to the max
er's trade reputation. One such lesson
should be sufficient, and a maker who
is caught many times this way will
never make a brilliant success at his
business, says an exchange.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-06
A New Southern Jour

Every number Of the Southern REQ
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Norfolk, Va, contains much informs
value to the prospective Southern invei1
publishes letters from N0rtherners vi
settled in the Southern country. Ever!
interested In Southern investments or &c
subscribe, the low price, Is cents a year, p"
It In easy reach Of all
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-06

g~anization of the party. I walked out
of the Democratic party because of
their false pledges, and am not yet
ready to return.
The Populist party was first organ
lied through true patriotism and true
principles, and in this short period of
time one writer can name four differ
emit kinds of Populists. I don't know
which he belongs to, but think proba.
bly, he is q Democratic Populist. I am
not in favor Of climbing over to the
Democratic party, no o than l am
to the Republicans. I am not in favor
Of Pritchard, nor favorable to Skin
ner's management all through. But
while I am not, there is some fault in
Butler. I believe that Butler, as chair
man Of the Peoples party, came near
killing the party in the last campaign
by favoring fusion with the Democrats
and a platform adopted at st. Louis,
which was only q makeshift. We
know there cannot be three headquRr
ters of different parties under one roof
and not be a little bargaining done.
Who was the Delilah at st. Louis who
shaved SIMPSONS locks to weaken him
that he could be slain by the Philis-
finest And who shall we blame for
keeping Watson's letter Of acceptance
out Of sight until after the election :
I for one have my man spotted. Wat
sons letter was as true and as grand a
protest against trickery of the pluto
cratic machine as ever flowed from the
pen Of man in this latter day.
Take a view for a moment at the st
Louis convention. The sight is enough
to make the blood run cold in the
veins Of all true Populists. There
must have been some of Grover, Car
Isle Co.'s Doodle TO make the machine
run glib, and probably some of Mark
Hanna's to keep that side out of the
way of the little giant. I contend that
a new organization Of the Peoples
party is necessary, and that under the
instruction and leadership of Hon.
Thomas Watson, for some of us have
lost confidence in the present leaders
Of the party, all along the line
from the National Chairman of the
committee down to the county, and
fear that with the same managers
in another campaign will finish the
party never to rise again; yea, blind
guides which strain at a gnat and swal.
low a camel. Where are we driftingi
Has patriotism disappeared on the
shores of great country, or is there
yet a spark left to fight the battle Of
freedom, to free our people from the
clutches OF Tyranny, AID to free US
from boesism, that our country may
be ruled by and for the people. We
see clearly that there iG no relief to be
given to the people through the legisla-
ture, State or National, by the fusion
outfit. Then shall we be deceived lon
ger, shall we keep our eyes closed and
say amen to the barriers of leaders
with the imps Of Tyranny till we q
hear the tinkle of the hammer that fas-
tens the cuffs on hands9 No, let
all true patriots come together on true
prime iples and stand there If it takes a
a life time to fight the battle and free
our country; it will be a life we'll
spent. Then let patriotism reign tri
umphant over this tyranny striken
country. w. A. Russ.