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, 1873-01-08
CHICAGO, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1873

WI w,otllor toongroga Ind tho right to inquire
wAotllor tho election lad hoon conducted fiji ac-
eoE;ianGo .f g5,,yiE viz! t,e laws of Slate.
,ot,r. Ma; MnanuNDs III M tionght Tho resolution lad
Mr' I sMnHhlAN urged its iralnofato passage.
biz. CoNlL1NG Thought 1t rnncccsrary to
iieo'iau 2! sliH tfmo tho constitutional questions
Involved III lilo RESOLUTION.
Iho resolution WAS then pnssed
INDIAN APPROPRIATIONS.
. Unfinished business being III order, tho In
dian appropriation lill wna then rou,1,,,cd md
tllo lslt9l discussion Of tho Iplan policy thon
;, An amondlnont was adopted directing tho
Secretary Of tho interior TO communicate to
Congress- wllal appropriations may, in his julg-
ment, 30 dispensed with. An amendment was
W'Ainnobago Indians u Wisconsin 10 tic Indian nm
Territory, If tloy coneent.
IAe sellato then adjourned.
11oUgE.
NEW DlL1.3,
=, several bills woro introduced. mud appropriate
r,,.,, NEw MEMBER.
:, hir. Z. q DUNNELL, Of Ponnsylyanin, took
tho oath, and was assigned hts aont IIo Ills tic
OE1t.
NAVAL APPROPRIATIONS.
III, Mr. HALE reported tle Nsv"l Appropriation
bill, appropriatinE 18, ,8e4 1893, which was 1unle
TIE CHINESE INDEMNITY ruuD.
a bill YVES reported authorizing tho Attorney
Gonoral to examine tho claims Of Tho Chi,sl III
Rl1rauCo Company Of DoBton, a1ld othar ownera
Of the cargo Of tho bark Cai1ora to bo paid out
Of tho Chlnoso indemnity fund. Aftor Discus
Bfon tho bill was roconimittcd.
THE VENEZUELAN CLAIMS
NIr. PACKARD, from tho Committee on
Forogn Affairs, reported q bill to enforce lilo
Of April 25 1906, and tho payment Of tho i'd
illdicnted claims. lilo bill was passed without
discussion.
THE TonT1FICAT10N BILL.
Mr.. NIDLAOK, from tho Committee on Ar-
preparations reported tho Annual Fortfcgtion
bill which was nnlo tho apecial orlor for r1les-
day noxt. Tho bill nppropriateH 81, $4,000.
Tho l1ouHo thot wont into Committed of tic
Whole, Mr., DAWES In tho Chair, On Tho Legis-
lativo, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation
biz. Ihe bill appropsiateB in tho aggregate
On motion Of Mr.. 1I'CnARY and amendment
was adopted, forbidding Tho payment OF contest
ants in contested election caBos. III tho courno
Of his romnrhs, ho stated that tho amount paid
to uni,ucceHBfn contoutantB during tho Init COIL
CroaB wAH 4105, Col. Aftcr .diBpoeilg Of twelve
pagoB, bolug one-tiftL Of Tho bill, tho Committee
rOED
CREDIT MoD1L1EH.
Tho SPEAKER announced tho following
Credit AIobior and Union Pacific Railroad
questions: Wilson. Of Indiana, Bhollabargor,
Honr, Swami, and slocum.
The SPEAKER presented tho resignation Of
hfr. DEVER1DdE, as Congressman-at-L
from Illinois.
House adjourned.
, 1873-01-08
A Temperance Town,

.., rn1NoEroH,. ILL.,, jan. 8.-Tho Temperance
majority,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-04-18
Another Chapter in the Life Of the
HuchIy Married b. Y, of Utah.

AAObACL SAdHLCE II Tic A44C "a TIC
HuchIy Married B. z, of Utah.
On the Sth instant Brigham Young re-
signed his Office as Trustee of the Nor
mon Church, saying to the thrOng
assent led in the Tabernacle at salt Lake
City that be was going to Arizona, beyond
the reach Of mails and kilograms He
had previously ceased to be President of
the Deseret National Bank, the Zion
Cooperative Mercantile Institution, and
the Utah Central and Southern Railroad;
and in retiring from the control of the
Church he completely severe all bis pub
lie relations. It is also stated that he
has made a will dividing his property,
which is popularity estimated at eight or
ten millions, among his sixteen wives and
sixty children. This remark able man
was born at Nottingham, VT, on Jan.
l, 1901, and is Low nesrly seventy two
years old. He was converted to Nor
monism in 1882, two years after the first
organization of the Church, and became
one of the twelve Apostles in 1885, in
which capacity he was exceedingly sue
cessful in making converts, especially in
the Eastern States. After the death of
Joseph Smith in 1874 he was chosen first
President of the Church, and led the
emigration to the Great Salt Lake in
1917. There he has since presided over
the development of Aormonism, ruling
his followers with a depotism to which
the majority have always been submits
| sive, and building up a simple, ignorant,
but energetic and industrious people, into
a community of extraordinary prosperity.
As long as Utah, by its geographical pes
/ ition, was isolated from the rest of the
country his power remained substantially
undiminished but since the opening Of
the Pacific Railroad and the great silver
discoveries have brought upon the MOr>
mons an immense inroad of gentiles, with
q food of hostile ideas and customs, bis
control has become shaken, and in his old
age he abandOns a conflict which he can
no longer wage with hope of success.
Were he young man, he would doubt
less adhere to the idea Of emigrating to
some island Of the Pacific, such as Papus
which tempted him SO greatly fifteen OF
eighteen years ago. Then his plan wa
to sell out the Mormon possessions in
Utah and to move lis whole people tc
that vast, unciyiIized, and almost unin'
habited region in the Pacific, where they
might, for an indefinite period, defy thG
antagoniem of the world But he is ole
and broken, and will doubtless be con
tented if he is able to spend the rest o
his days undisturbed alike by schisms il
the Mormon Church and by process from
the courts of the United States.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-04-18
Gold osmbl;no

Speaking of gold gambling Ehs Boston
Journal Of Commerce says Ehs new Sec
Rotary of the Treasury may sntirsly som.
prehend the policy of the New York gold
gamblers, but that Is no reason ahy he
should allow them to carry it out without
interference. These public pests have
locked up currency and made gold arti-
feially scaTce,-shus profting by both
operations,-but a reaction is at hand.
Importers of foreign merchandise, in
many instances, have countsFmanded
their orders by the Atlantic cable, and in
. few weeks there will be q sensible fall
ing of in mportations,-and,co consequent
", diminished demand for gold with
which to pay duties. Then those who
have made it arti6eiaIly scarce will have
the chance of carrying it without interest.
As foreign exchange is plentiful and
cheap, there Is no demand for gold with
which to adjust balances abroad 90 that
it is required only for custom-hOuse pur-
poses. Fortunately, the markets are
sbundantiy supplied with foreign fabrics,
which have been purchased when gold
was low, and which can be sold at cur
rent rates at q profit; therefore, the
public viii suffer no Inconvenience should
foreign importations cease for . month.
1t is estimated that some $4,000, 900 are
now employed by the gamblers TO make
currency scarce and gold high; but
should importations fall of only twenty
FIVE per cont, 8 break in their schemes
would be inevitable. The people who
prefer foreign fabrics to domestic, are
the prime cause of the rates of gold, If
These would use their own manufactures
more extensively and foreign goods less,
there would be less demand for gold, and
currency would sOsn be equivalent to il
without any Congressional legislation.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-04-18
Abandonment Of Civil Service
RaHnrm

Dir. George ". Curtis has resigned his
position on the Civil Service Board, for
the reason that be regarded several i'm
portant appointments recently made as a
virtual abandonment of 'sthe Civil Service
Reform" The authority for this state
ment, we are assured, SIS Mr.. Curtis
himself" and it is made ''in precisely
Mr.. Gu. tbs own Words.' There is
nothing in his recent illness," We are
still further admonished, ''that could af-
feet his decision on this subject either one
way or the other, and nothing in his
present state Of health that could inter-
fere with his duties on the Civil Servics
Board If he chose to remain there. He
resigned his position 5000 after the rec
cent Federal appointments in New York
city, simply and solely because he thought
that in making these appointments, and
others, elsewhere, Gen. Grant had
thrown civil service overheard, aud that
his (Mr. Curtis, usefulness as a member
of that commission was at an end. Mr.
Curtis friends, while they must all regret
the necessity Of this resignation just so
far as they feel an interest in Civil Ser
vice Reform. will justify him for retiring
from position in which, had be remained,
be would be held responsible for acts
which are nothing more nor less than
disregard of public pledges aud a mosk-
cry of the public faith"
Commenting on this the Tribune says :
"Hsd not Mr.. Curtis given bonds for
the President before the last election,
Gen. Grant would not have been re-elsct
ed, and would have had no opportunity
to disregard his public pledges and mock
the public faith. 1t was upon his promise
more than upon Gen. Grants that the
people took stock in the proposed reform,
and accepted the pledges that have now
been disregardsd. President Grant was
reelected upon Mr.. Curtis Endorsement
of his earneStness and sincerity. A month
of his second term has not passed when
Mr. Curtis resigns, and says the Presi>
dent has abandoned the reform
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-04-18
Reckless.

Ripley, Miss certainly has some reek-
less fellows to contend with, Judging
from the following exhibit, which we
clip from late copy of the Advertiser /:
Random pistol shooting was duly in
sugurated Tuesday, afternoon, on the
public square, in open daylight asd in
open drinance or contempt Of all NUM-
cipal laws 10 the contrary nOtwithstand'
ing, by certain well know parties. Some
half dozen shots, more or less, we're fired
at regular and short intervals on the west
aide of the square ALI in sport, of course,
Oue pistol ball struck the top Of the
business house of Messrs. Hall, TieeF d
Co, another passed through front wins
dow in the store of J H. Pround6t, dam
| aging goods therein to the amount of
several dollars and passing near the
! heads of certain persons that were in
| there trading And where the other balls
went this deponent can not say, but the
| presumption is that they WhiZssd about
at random in any and all directious-and
the only wonder is that some person was
not bit by Q stray ball If such conduct
ns this is 20 be tolerated no mans life is
secure and If a stop cannot be put to II
by the civil authorizes we had better not
have any at all; and then every man car
provide means for his own protection anC
Refstv
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-04-18
Wall nnnA
FroDs The KROzciILe Press and MesseHge;
Of the 9Eh Instant


The county court Of Kncx county, yes.
teFdaY, did honor to itself aad the cOua-
~. The proper manner in which it re-
spouded to the appeal Of the Stats SUI
perintendeDt and other friends of common
school education is worthy of all cons
mendatiou. The court, with absolute
unanimity, voted q tax of one mill upon
each dollars worth of taxable property
in the county, one dollar upon each poll,
and ten per cent. upon privileges, in ad-
ditiOn to the taxes levied by the common
school law, fer the b8neit of common
schools in the county. This additional
levy, We are assured, furnishes q guaFaty
that the public schools can be maintained
for at least seven months in she year
This action on the part Of our court,
80 unanimously agreed TO, is significant
Of the depth and universally of popular
feeling in behalf of our new school sys
tenn For two years past, our people
have borne tax of two mills for school
purposes, and the alacrity with which the
Justices, from every district in the cOun-
ty, proceeded to increase our county
school revenue, shows how eheerfully the
previous leVies have been submitted TO-.
The people of Knox county will heartily
BuBCdiu the ACTION OF the court.
1t is to be hoped the example of Knox
county will stimulate othGr counties, that
may not have acted, to do likewise. 1t is
quite likely that but few of the county
courts, yesterday, were prepared for such
action. The school law has not yet been
generally read and understood. But it is
not too late, by any means, for action
this year. A levy can be made in July
Al \
Let the Justices study the Law, consider
the interests involved, and meet the re-
spo inability like men. 81
We trust that Hardeman viii initiate
the glorious example set by Knox. Ed
ucstion gives tone aud strength; induces
immigration; lessons. crime; renders the
masses happy and prOsperous-alWays
proving fruitful of blessings in thousand
nameless ways. It eleVases the indiVid-
ual and exhaIts communities. With
these views unalterably fixed, We shall
ever remain fTm In our ad EOcacY of well
organized free schools, and ardently wish
that the day may soon dawn wher We
can truthfullY say that every child in this
county has the school room door throWn
wide open for intellectual culture, In
deed, there is heavy responsibility rest
ing upon the shoulders of the Justices in
this county as regards their duty under
the recently enacted common school law
and it would be highly diSsrsditable foT
one of them TO attempt evasion under
| the circumstances. Gentlemen, prepare
yourselves in time, and when the next
Quarterly Court convens do something
handsome towards Illuminating the I'm
cultured minds growing up in our midst
1t is right, in the eye of the Law and
reason, for you to pave the waw hich lsadEy
to knowledge, and you should do it with
out fear or favor.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-04-18
The MOdOcs to be Rxtsrminated.

The following dispatches show that the
earnestness of the government to punish
the Modoes
Headquarters, United States Army,
WAsHISGToS, April II, 1879.
General Gillem, Modoc camp, ria Yrska,
California
-FOUR dispatch announcing the terrible
loss to the country in the death of Col
Candy, and the per6dy of the MOdoo
hand Of Indians, has been shown the
President, who authorizes me to instruct
you to make an attack so strong and per
sIstent that their fate may be oemmens>
urate with their crime You will be
fully justified in their utter extermiua>
ton GEN. W. T. SHKRWAN.
General Sherman, in dispatch to Gen.
| Schofield, says THE Presidents now
sanctions the most severe punishment for
the ModOes, and / hope 70 hear that
| they have met the doom they 80 richly
| have earned by their insolencs and per-
fdy. Consult Mrs. Candy, and have
every honor paid 10 the remains of Gen.
! Candy. You may be sure that every
measure of severely TO the saVsges will
be sustained Gen Jefferson c. Davis,
| now in Indiana, has been directed to i'm
| mediately assume the command made
vacant by the de.th of Gen. CANDY"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-04-18

Grant and bis right-hand bower, Dela-
no, are becoming little sick over the
many wrongs heaped upon their Internal
rcd-skin pets by miserable white trash,
but when a paragraph like the following
is flashed ever the wires from the west
they never evinee the least concern:
LEAvENwoRTH, Kansas, April l0-The
Times Arkansas City correspondent
mentions the return Of the rescue party
sent out to protect and warn the survey
ors on the CimaFrOn river The party
reached the spot where the four SURVEY
ors were murdered, and found their bod~
les horribly mutilated. Denning's re-
mains were brought back to Arkansas
City for interment The remains Of the
other victims were buried where they
we're slain The rescue party encounter
ed several bands Of Cheysnues, all Of
whom made hostile demonstrations, hu {
did not venture an attack.
Possibly, the cruel assassination Of the
gallant General Candy by Captain Jack,
chief Of the Modocs, may tDuch the heart
of Grant, if be has such az organ undeI
bis selfish hide, lat we doubt it very
much, for it must be borne in mind thai
the Chief Executives flood courses
through the. veines Of more than one
Indian brat who rakes lice from tangled
locks with a 6sh-boEe combe out on thG
Peoos river.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-04-18
The Work house Law.

The Legislature passed an act, which
became a law, providing that it shall be
lawful for the County Court of any coun
~ in this State having no county work.
house to contract with the County Court
of any adjoining county having a county
woFk-house for the keeping and working
of the misdemeanor convicts of the
former, upon such terms as may be agreed
upon. This is the wording of the law,
and it goes further and says that when
any person shall be convicted sf mis-
demeanor, and he fails to ply the fine
and costs, the person shall be confined at
hard labor in the work-house of the
county; if not, then in the work>house of
any county adjoining having a work
house, and with which such a contract
has been made, until all the fines and
costs assessed shall be paid at the rate of
twenty five cents for each day so confined.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-04-18
Whisky none II.

Speaking of the sntecsdents Of the i'll.
fated steamship Atlantio's Captsin, the
Nation says:
Captain Williams was formerly on the
Wiiiiams & GuiOn line, and while in the
employ of that company 50 thoroughly
disgraced himself by drunkenness that,
on the representation of one of the pas
sengsrs who crossed the ocean in a Ves~
sci of which be was Ia command, (he
having been helplessly drunk all the way
over, he was removed or allowed to re-
sign his position. This is the
real truth of the story that his dismissal
was lowing to q difficulty with some of
the passengers" The Williams i Guion
officials then gave him letter of recom>
mendatiop, on the strength of which be
got a command from the White Star line.
This makes the sh"meful story complete.
One company dismissss a man for beastN
" drunkenness; a second company pls~
ces q thousand lives In his keeping on
the strength of q recommendation from
the first company. To save little mOn-
ey, the vessel is insuffciently coaled and
to SUPPLY her, she is taken directly on 10
an unknown and dangerous coast, the
man in charge going to bed while she iS
running on.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-04-18
1878. 1874.
GREAT INDUCEMENTS TO SUB
SCRIBERS.
1874.
1873
2 PAPERS FOR $3.50!

BY especial arra ngements We are en-
abled TO offer tho following inducements
to old as well as new subscribers:
From this time henceforward We will
furnish the BOLIVAR BULLETIN and The
AMERICAN FAKMERs ADvoCATE, to all
CASH PAYING subscribers for 50 so
per annum. The AdrOcate is the official
organ of the Agricultural Congress, and
is published monthly by the Advocate
Publishing Company, Jackson, Tenn =,
and is alone worth more than double the
price asked for both papers.
To each person who sends US club Of
10 we furnish the BULLETIN and ApvccArE
free one year.
Call and see OF ecimens at this ofce.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-04-18
mo. $40, r d.

No. $40, r D.
In the Chahcery Court Of RardeHaGn
county, Tennessee.
German Hudson rs. Samuel Robinson,
col i, and the Heirs of William Rog-
ers, cold.
1t appearing from affidavit filed in this
cause that defendants, Samdal Robinson,
cold, and the Heirs Of William Rogers,
cofd, whose names are unknown aud
cannot be ascertained after diIigent in>
curry, are nonresidents of the State OF
Tennessee, Therefore, il is ordered by
the undersigned that said defendants en-
ter their appearance herein on or before
the lst Monday in June, 1873, at the
court house in Bolivar, Tennessee, and
plead, answer, or demur to eomplaiuant's
bill, or the same will be taken for con-
fessed and the cause set for hearing ex-
parUe; and that the above order be pub
iished in the Bolivar Bulletin, . neEsPa,
per printed in Bolivar, Tennessee, for
four consecutive weeks.
A copy-dttest Z B MCDOWELL,
April Is, 1873. G. d NJ.
Wood & McNeal. solicitors for cons
plainant apl8w4 pf$7
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-04-18

If a person enters church after the
service has commenced, he will notice
that the whole congregation, as a general
thing, have to turR round and see who il
is.-TTmes.
Would it not be good thing to have q
clerk to announce the name Of every arr
rival and save tFonble ?-ReDWbicdn.
. no That wouldn't work at all. The
best v ay to accommodate the eOngrega>
ton is to have the pulpit placed at the
front of the church, then the cut and jib-
boom of each craft could be seen on sn>
tering the door, thus everlastiuglY doing
away with head turning"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-04-18

RAILROAD MEETING AT PULAsKI-Last
Monday week large and enthusiastic
maeting was held in Pulaski by the
friends of several projected railroads Gov.
Brown. Coils. Cox aud Rose, Maj Sykes,
and other distinguished gentlemen were
present and made speeches in favor of
the proposed reads. The utmost en-
thusiasm prevailed, and we are glad to
announce to our readers that the Menu
phis & Knoxville road received at the
hands Of the gentlemen participating in
the meeting warm and earnest consideraN
ton. A tax of S55O,O0O or 100000 will
be submitted to the people Of Giles in
July next, and there is no doubt but What
it will b. carried by = handsome MAORI
ty. Ofccurse the NJ. & K Road will get
fair division of the sum voted, as it pas
ses directly through the center Of the
county, distance of % miles.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-04-18

right eye. Echonehi0 then shot Meaobam
In the shoulder and head bus he Is still
alive. Boston Charley and another In
dian shot and killed Dr.. Thomas. Hockey
Jim chased Disr for some distance, bat
Diar turned upon him with pistol IN
hand and Jim ran, whom an Indian
knocked Riddles squaw OF her horse and
took the horse, bat Captain Jack made
him return it, and then another Indian
chased Riddle and shot at him. This
last may be taken with g grain Of salt
The troops are now about a mile IN the
lava beds, lying on their arms, and viii
probably advance tonight under cover Of
darkness There are about six hundred
troops which can be brought into active
service, and believe they will end the
Modoc war. Meacham is not expected
to survive.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-04-18
Tho Philosophy of Plumber.

GHS EuILOSpHy OF E1uu0SE'
Frem the New Ysrk Sun.
Capt Kid Was fond of pluRdsr,
Yet pOsterity will say,
Capt Kid must have knocked under
To the claimant of Back Pay.
Who conceived and first proposal it
One or many2 He or theyf
Did be blush when be disclosed it2
Such q sWi indie as Back Pay.
Did so mean thought Cypress him
That his senses lost their sway2
Did q nightmare FIRST distress him
With the vision of Back Pay2
Did Ben Butler, fnaneisring,
Venal frolic hope to playH
Honor 3 naught to such a sneering
Soul, csjoling by Back Pay.
Did Lobbyist devise ii p
His Credit Mnb;lier-
"What though timid fools despiss it
Take or leave you your Back Pay.
If yen take it you must join US,
Join the ranks that win the day;
Let them coin abuse-but coin Us
Uumistakeable Back Pay"
IF some robber, who appFaises
All he meets with day by day,
Schem'd the fraud and drew the mazes,
Souls enticing by Back Pay,
He will prove participation
Guilt that's spread should none dis
They who represent the nation Cmay-
Voted national Back Pay"
Grew it in the Federal city,
Where Ulysses holds his sway
Ger the national banditti?
Theft of thsfts is this Back Pay.
w as it some poor wretehed devil,
Led by many debts astray?
Twas the very Prince of Evil
Matched the notion of Back Pay.
In the hamlet, town, or village
In the chamber, in the street
On the mart, where sons of pillage
In the gamblers contest meet,
'Tis the topic, still absorbing
Other topics, grave or gay;
There's no whitswash, paint OF daubing
For the stigma of Back Pay.
Toiiing millions, without power,
Struggling sOrely, plod their way,
Wait the compromising hour
Wait and hope as best they may
Wait and pray that times win alter,
Days will come for hOnor's sway
When there II be beam and batter
For the rogues that stole Back Pay