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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-02-23
M e K I Q O.
National Festivities Consequent on the
Great Railway Opening.

Grand Balls, Open Air Entertainments and a
Profuion Of Beauty Road in Full Opera
ton and Beneficial Influence on American
Travel-Lozada's Topic Revolution
Origin, Location and Extent Of the
Reactionist Movement-Battle and
Defeat-Review Of Events
Proclamation Of the Defiant
Chieftain-German In
dustrial Speculation.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-02-23

sugar 10 raised yielding an annual product Of
$I3,s00 or $40 per acre. ~
LATEST FROM THE FIELD.
TeleEraphic news Just published announces
that Placddo Vega presented himself yesterday be-
fore Guadalajara with 1000 men. and not before
Mazatlan as stated. TINS news requires confirma-
uon and Ia to the effect that he demanded the sur
render Of the city of Governor valasts and Gene.
raj Junginto, both of whom refused. General
Corona Is in full operation against the rebels De-
fore Guadaajara
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-02-23
MACBETH ILLUSTRATED.

A Murderer Goaded by Conscience Albert Cham
berlain's Crime and Confession-No Rest
Sleep or Appetite-After Confession
Instant Ease and Comfort-An-
other Victim for the Gallows
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-07-03
Latest News Items.

Long Branch has hotel accomm0da-
tions for about seven thousand persons.
James Stevens. the once famous and
mysterious Fenian, left New York on
Thursdays steamer to take charge OF
the Irish Republican brotherhood Id
Ireland.
The Connecticut Senate has passed
a bill fixing the rate of interest at seven
per cent.
A monument 10 Livingstone is ta.h-
ed of at Edingburgh, where, apparently
they do not believe in Stanley.
Springfield claims possession Of 80
emancipated Young lady who sihoN''
cigars in the street in the evening.
In Burlington, Iowa, on THURSDAY
there were forty-nine buildings burneA
Damage four hundred thousand doliaIs
insurance one hundred and forty ihoo-
sand dollars.
Henry Wilson's health is rapiGly
improving. He has retired to the secLu-
sion Of the country. To rest and Tec~
perate.
Mr.. Charles G. Leland, having mace
visit 60 the Nile, is ont with a Tecoio
of travel, which he calls "The Egyptian
Sketch Book.
-Fargeon's Blade 0 grass has Dee !.
dramatised, and the play produce. "
Chicago last Monday night, with Alls7
Katie Putnam as the heroine.
A woman at Scranton, Penn, put
her tongue to flat iron TO see II u wa "a
hot. She found ont, and that housenolo
is remarkably quiet these days.
The first book printed in the lfls 2
language in America, is the Rev. nee ~ :
i Bourk's EASY Lessons in lrlshr
which is arranged for the English stu
dent in Irish.
-Mosby declares the blacks who 1 nav
been made United States officers 10 y
ginia to have been of more credit 70 LIZ
Administration than the whites.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-07-03

suddenly took her head from under her
wing, and waking, found that she had
dreamed this dream and sung this song
in her sleep.
ssThere is nothing left to do,
But TO try and make IT true"
She sang right cheerily, as she shook
the dew of the night from her feathers.
Howard GLYNDoN.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-07-03
From the New York World.l
Old Probabilities.

HOW THE WEATHER REPORTS ARE COL
LEoTED AND DIsTRIBUTED-A VIEW OF
THE OPERATIONS OF THE WEATHER BU-
REAU
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-07-03
us FENN 6 CO., Sole Proprietors,

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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-22

deceased; and Alsop, the famous ''paIe ale''
man, also conservative, is elected for east Staf-
fordshire.
The Honolulu press says the island has
suffered abroad, owing toaccounts of the pres
ence of leprosy. The authorities say only
about fifty cases remain. The hope is ex
pressed that in six months time the disease
viii be wholly ersdicated- The policy Of the
isolation of patients is rigidly enforced.
Dispatches from various places in Ger
many state that the cholera is increasing in vi
Olence.
Intelligence has been received that Para
quay, Brazil and the Argentine tepublic have
signed a treaty of peace.
The North German Gazette denounces IS
a disgusting invention the report in American
papers of an interview with Prince Bismarck
in which he is made to say he would extirpate
the idea of God and substitute that of thestate
1t declares Bismarck never used such language
or advocated such sentiments and believes the
falsehood originated in the Vaccinations of
Jsslits.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-22
An Enterprising Coroner. 9.

Butcher, when We knew him, was
coroner up in Williamsport Business,
that winter, was dreadful dull. No
body died suddenly, or was drowned OF
murdered, and Butcher not only
had nothing to do, but he made no fees,
and was as poor as Walt Whitman's s
poetry. Suddenly mania for commit
ting suicide seemed to break out among
the people. Mrs. Brown fed herself
with strychnine; both the Smith girls
stuffed. themselves with arsenic; Aleck
Jones took dose'of Iaudanum John
sons colored girl swallowed some bug
poison, and Mrs. Murphy's little son
ate four boxes of phosphorus matches.
These tragic events occurred at inter
walls of a few days, and in each case no
sooner were the facts discovered than
DR.. Bumm was at once on hand with
his stomach pump. He emptied Mrs.
Brown all of a sudden She pumped out
the Smith girls he tore the Iaudanum
out of Jones he separated the poison
from the coIored girl, and he nearly
turned Mrs. Murphy's boy wrong side
out. All of them recovered. The cor
oner viewed these proceedings with re-
gret. He went to Bumm and suggested
that he would give 800 if the doctor
would close out his pump, and $50
more if he would go out of town for
three or four weeks. The coroner said
he did not wish to seem importunate
or obtrusive, but was tired of having
doctors meddle with his business. Then
DIR. Rumm affirmed that he would not
only not sell and not leave town, but
when the next poisoning case occurred.
he would buy a steam engine, attach it
to the machine, and pump the patient
throughout the unending ages of all
eternity if he wanted to. That night,
Butcher bribed the doctors boy to
bring him the pump for 6 few moments.
Then he rubbed some nitro-glycerine
around the end of the piston and sent
it back. The next day Mary Jane Nc
Guire took oxalic acid. The doctor
came he inserted the apparatus down
her throat and plunged the piston
down. a snap, a shrek, loud explo-
sion, and Mary Jane, o where was
she ? Forty seven pieces of her were
found, and they picked.up twelve frag-
ments of the doctor, so the coroner had
chance for SO inquests, the fees of
which enabled him to buy a barrel of
flour, get his wagon fixed, and give his
wife a pink silk dress. He was the most
enterprising coroner they ever had in
Williamsport.- t.--PhiJadeLphia Post.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-22
The Moa.

II appears that the moa, the name
given by the New Zealanders to the
large wingless birds whose bones are
occasionally found in swamps, forests,
and other out-of-the-way places in that
country, is not yet extinct, as has been
generally supposed. 1t is stated, ac-
cording to the Melbourne Argus, that a
very large bird, much larger than any
emu, exists in the back portion of a run
in the Waiu district, on the west side of
the Waiu, and adjoining the large bush
which stretches to the west coast of
New Zealand. Its tracks and footsteps
have been repeatedly seen, and on
recent occasion shepherd started the
bird itself out of a patch of manuka
scrub with his sheep dog. The bird
ran from the dog until it reached the
brow of a terrace above him, and some
thirty or forty yards off, when it turned
on the dog, who Immediately and wise
" returned as fast as could to the
shepherds heel. The moa stood for
fully ten minutes on the brow of the
terrace, bending its long neck up and
down exactly as the black swan does
when disturbed. It is described as
being very much higher than any emu
ever seen in Australia, and as standing
very much more erect on its legs. The
color of its feathers is a sort of silvery
gray, with greenish streaks through it.
If this story is true, it destroys the
notion which has hitherto prevailed,
that no large moas have been seen
.lir,n nir,cn nlnn11t 1870
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-22
Oil of Vitriol for Weeds.

A correspondent of the Journal of
Horticulture CEnglish) recommends the
use of oil of vitriol for destroying such
hardy weeds as plantains and thistIes,
on a lawn or along fences. It is much
more effectual and expeditions than
salt. We condense the following ex-
tract "Take an old blacking bottle,
with a wire round it to carry it by, and
a stick to dip with. The stick should
not be pointed, but should be notched
round for an inch or two at the end, the
better to hold the liquid. just one
drop quite in the heart of the plantain
is sufficient to cause death, and the
notched stick will contain at one dip
enough to destroy three or four plants.
If the acid is good the work of death
can be both seen and heard, for the
vitriol Kisses, and it burns up the plan
tain in moment. A row of plantains a
foot wide sprang up on a lawn here
where an iron fence formerly ran. The
owner, seeing at a place he visited the
good effect of yitriol, put the hint in
practice. The plantains were killed in
an hour, and have never appeared again.
1t is three years ago, and it is impossi-
bic to recognize the line of the fence ;
. it completely burns the roots out. I
have tried it on large dandeIions with
the same result One of the young
gentlemen here amused himself by
hunting out the longest thistles he
could find to experiment on; the vitrioI
completely killed them by eating the
roots out. One drop Will do. Care is
required that it does not touch the skin,
boots, or clothes; it is not safe in the
hands of children, but man or woman
with ten minutes practice can kill plan
tains much more quickly than aEy lad
! can eat gOoseberries.
A WISE questioning Is the hafl OF
/ knowledge. .-SOcr0teS.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-22
9 A Life Miracle.

A Mrs. King had surprise at Shaw
neetown the other day. It was an acci-
dent that Mrs King happened to be at
Shawneetown. She did not intend to
90 there, but the steamboat Jennie
Howell, on which she was travelling,
struck a snag and sunk in the Ohio
river. Several of the passengers were
drowned, and among them some chill
dren. Mrs. King had a child on board
whom she mourned as lost, and was
taken to Shawneetown without her
babe. The Jennie Howell sunk deep
in the water, and the next morning men
went to the vessel to recover the bodies
of the lost. Soon after daylight mat
tress was discovered floating in the
cabin, which was filled with water near
ly to the ceiling. Upon examination a
child, little boy, was discovered on the
mattress sleeping as peacefully as if
nothing unusual had happened. His
bed was not very dry, for it had sunk a
good deal from soaking but still sus-
tanned It's living freight. In due time
the child was sent to Shawneetown,
where the other passengers had been
landed the evening before. Its coming
made an excitement among the wrecked
travellers, for more than one mother had
lost children by the disaster. It was a
touching scene when Mrs. King recog-
nized the child as her boy whom she
had mourned as lost for nearly twenty
four hours. The preservation of Moses
as the safety of Mrs. Kings boy. He had
been tossing about the waste of waters
in the cabin all night, and was brought
TO his mother alive in the hour of her
/ deepest woe.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-22
A Storm on the Coast.


A storm, like all great realities, is
grandest and when best seen it has
nothing to gain from indistinctness of
view. Night, if it increases the danger,
cOnceals what the imagination can
hardly reproduce, and cannot surpass.
The low, driving scud overhead is swept
along ceaseIessly in formIess murki-
ness; huge masses of foam, churned
up in the recesses of the rocks. are torn
up by the fierce blasts of the wind and
whirled wildly through the air, shifting
against the face of the cliffs and the
green banks above, which are fecked
with white as. from the remains of
snOw-storm. The black, rocky coast
line to the south, until it is lost in
sustained confusion of surging spray
and cloud, seems dwarfed under the
snow-white columns that are hurled up
from its base, the SUBMITS of which,
struck by the level wind above, stream
far inland, ragged curtain of spray,
while the heaving masses thunder down
again in a thousand cataracts. The
nearer piers, with their lofty staging,
are buried under the waves, which leap
hundred feet above them as in sudden
surprise and wrath at their premature
arrest. Out at sea, as far as the eye
can penetrate, all is a scene of wild and
tUmultumous commOtion, multitude
nous as the waving tops of forest-trees,
but incomparably more violent, no sue
cessiOn or common motion can be OBJ
served, wave leaps above wave against
the lowering clouds, to fall back, burst
and bafaed, until nearing the shore,
they seem to marshal themselves for
assault, and, rushing on in swift sue
ceeding lines, rear up their turbid
might, bounding, quivering, coiling,
until they precipitate themselves into
the gulf which foreruns them, or are
hurled unbrOken against the rocks.
Sometimes, before the break Of such a
storm, the sun darts out for a moment,
and all the countless features of the
scene, before obscured in gloom and in
distinctness, stand out sharp and clear
as by a supernatural revelation; or, at
night, when the lower rack has been
swept away, and the upper clouds have
again piled themselves into masses, the
full moon pours down between them
through the storm-washed air food of
stainless light, which transforms all the
terror and grandeur into wild beauty
and serail grace. The rocks and piers
are masked IN shifting wreaths of snow
white cloud, the crash and roar of the
breakers is carried off by the wind, and
the waves, now all silver-white, appear
to gambol and chase each other in
harmless play, seemingly incapable of
hurt to ship or life; and on the ex-
treme verge of the horizon, beyond the
nearer light and farther darkness bound
ing it, there is a streak of purest,
calmest brightness, which seems to
speak of region beyond all of perfect
light and peace. But it is very rarely
that a smiling heaven thus transfgures
the wrathfull face of the deep, and most
commonly a storm dies out in the sulIen
gloom which has been one of the most
striking and oppressive features of it's
previous course. e..IHe CO771HiJ 4IGgG-
zine.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-22
FOREIGN LNTELLIGENCE.

Vienna advices state that the medal for
merit in group 26, education, teaching andin
struction,) has been awarded to the collection
of periodical literature of America.
The count of Paris, Orleans pretender,
and the Count de ChambOrd old Bourbon stock,
have been exchanging friendly calls at Vienna,
and there is a report that ChambOrd has for
mally accepted the throne as Henry V. There
is also report that MacMahon has arranged
to restore the Bonaparte line in little Louis,
who will marry AIacAIahOn's daughter. Mean
while all is quiet at Paris, and payment of the
third quarter of the last milliard Of war in
demnity was completed on the 9Th.
An English gentleman in Calcutta vehe-
mently contradicts the assertion that DIR. Muir
ray Mitchell chat the effects of secular edu-
cation in India are most lamentable and have
resulted in a terrible spread of immortality.
He declares with emphasis that the secular ed
ucation given, for instance, at the Calcutta
university has not lowered but raised the
standard of morality among those Influenced
by it. A native judge says that this education
has done more to raise that standard than any
other civilizing agency imported from Europe
Victor Hugo recently addressed an eIo
quent letter to the Duke de Broglie, in which he
urged the release of Henri ROchefort on ac-
count of his literary eminence. The duke re-
Piled declining to interfere with the course Of
justice, and remarking that the intellectual
ability Of the offender snly serves to increase
his responsibility. The Duke de Broghe went
TO Lyons to-day. He made a speech in which
he declares that radiealism and society were
engaged in a death struggle.
No sooner Is the British parliament pro-
rogued than AIr. Gladstone makes change In
his ministry. The marquis of Ripon, and
Childers, and Baxter go out, and Mr.. Bruce
and John Bright come in Mr. Gladstone IN
addition to his duties as premier, will also act
as chancellor OF the exchequer. Other chan
ges are expected in few days. In this man
ner Mr.. Gladstone is preparing for the reas-
sembling of parliament and the new questions
which viii then be launched upon the country.
There have been several important elections
to fill yaoa ncies in the commons, and their re-
suit is taken as indicating that, with a general
election, the Conservative would return to
power. Greenwich which Mr.. Gladstone for
merly represented, now sends Mr.. Boord, a
London distiler, conservative, vice Solomons,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-22
CHRIST NOT RISEN.
BY ARTHT-R EIrcu CTorcy

By ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH.
Eat, drink, and play and think that this is bliss
There is no heaven but tins;
There is no hell
Save earth, which serves the purpose doubly
well,
Seeing it visits still,
With equalest appOrtionment of i'll
Both good and bad alike, and brings to one same
dust,
The unjust and the Just,
With Christ, who is not risen!
Eat, drink, and die, for we are souls bereaved ;
or all the creatures under heavens wide cope,
We are most hopeless who had once most hope,
And most beliefess that had most believed;
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust:
As of the unjust, also the Just:
1t is the one sad gospel that is true
Christ is not risen
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-22
News Of the Week.
EASTI


"A new and ingenious plan Of copcealing
smnggled goods has been exposed on the
Havana steamers. The custom officers dis
covered that the crew had slowed large lot
of cigars and cigarettes in the sails on the
foretop mast. Seizures of goods thus con-
oealed were made on the steamers Cleopatra
and MORO Castle.
Steamers leaving New York for Europe
during May, June and July carried 18, 533
cabin passengers, an excess of 500 only over
the corresponding months Of 1872.
The pilots and pilot commissioners of New
York condemn the proposed plan of the secre-
tary of the treasury to make them government
officers.
Much excitement was created in New
York among petroleum dealers by heavy de-
cline in the prices of crude and refined oil in
the face of the fact that the shipments from
that city this year have reached the unusual
amount of $77, 900. 900. The chief cause of
the decline is said to be an increase of eight
new wells in Pennsylvania, which are yielding
an average of 500 barrels per day.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-22

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub-
scriptior is out or unpaid, and that
you are requested to pay up at once.
We would take great pleasure in extend
ing credit to our friends and patrons,
but cash alone viii pay expenses. and
we are forced to adhere to a strict cash
rule. We hope you viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of such 2
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.
E1T We enter no new names on our
books without the money il aIvrce-
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-22
ANNOUNCEMENTS.

Announcing the name OF person for county Of
hce, s.; state office, $40; federal Office, SI5 Inyari
ably in advance
The above terms and rates will be strictly ad-
hered to.
Religious, marriage, birth and death notices solic
tied, and viii be willingly inserted free of charge
Obituaries viii be charged advertising rates.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-22
An Invaluable Tea-set.

Max AdeIer is responsible for the fol-
lowing eve are glad to learn that
the emperor of China has issued de-
cree declaring that if the chief officer
of his household handles dishes so care
lessly as to break them, he shall be
killed. We say we are glad Of this,
because we hope to have the same regu-
lation put into effect in this country.
If it is, about two thousand hired girls
Will be executed every week, and we
may reasonably hope that the destruc-
ton OF crockery viii be checked. We
have stopped it temporarily in our house
by having a tea-set made of wrought
iron and painted white, When a new
hired girl comes she drops the coffee
pot upon the floor. Finding, with
amazement, that it does not break, she
thumps it with a fat-iron, and drops
bricks on it, and goes out and borrows
a sledge hammer and whacks it and
then, perceiving that it is as good as
ever, she sits down IN front of that
coffee-pot and bursts into tears. Then
she gives warning, loads up with sugar,
beef, and butter, for her sick aunt, en-
bezzles three or four hem-stitched
Landkerchiefs, and any old pillow cases
that are lying around, and starts for the
nearest intelligence Office. We wouldn't
take a million dollars for that tea-set. y
BORBOwED garments never keep one
warm. A curse goes with them, as with
/ Harry Gill's blankets. Nor can one get
smuggled goods safely into kingdom
come. How lank and pitiful does one
/ Of these gentry look, after posterity's
/ custOms-officers have had the Plucking
/ of him !-LoVeU
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-22

rains, though reporting the plant well formed
and boiled, and the condition of the crop equal
to last years Caterpillars appeared through
out the state, without however, causing seri-
GUS damage. In regard to acreage, views diff
fer from no increase compared with last sea
son, to four or five per cent. more. The
picking will commence the same as last year,
from the 18th to the 2Oth of August
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-22
How the Apaches Pop the Question.

Even those cOpper-cOlOredc cut-tbroats,
the Apache Indians, have a touch of
delicacy and romance in them. From a
lecture delivered in San Francisco by
Col. John G. Carmony, we take the fol-
lowing account of their counting Gus
toms Every young girl is at liberty to
refuse a suitor for her hand. The
father, mother and brother are prohibi-
ted from interfering in her choice. Her
person is at her own disposal. After a
brief courtsbip the lover makes form
al proposal by offering so many horses.
Horses are a standard of value among
the Indians. As the sqUaw does all the
work, horses are accepted as an equiva-
lent for her labor. When a young war
rior becomes enamOred, he fastens his
horse near the wigwam of the squaw
whose hand he seeks, where he is left
four days. If she fails to feed and
water the horse during that time, the
master is rejected; but if she accepts
his offer she grOOms and kindly cares
for the horse, and then ties him to the
wigwam of her lover, as much as to say,
81 am willing to be your slave and do
your work" At the marriage the sages
and sachems meet together, and the
bride is not unfrequently loaded with
forty to fifty pounds of silver and cop
per trinklets.
A DRUNKEN fellow wandered into a
/ Sunday-school and took a seat with the
primer scholars, when the teacher thus
! accosted him: Why, James, do you
know what condition you are in ?"
% Yes, MN; in the gall of bit'ness an
bonds of 'niquity. Ask me some hard
/ quesh'ns."
WHY is a thief your only true philo-
sopher? Because he regards every
thing from an abstract point of view, is
/ opposed to all notions Of protection,
and is open to conviction.