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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-03-20
Immigration Into South Carolina.

At the recent taxpayers convention
of South Carolina, Gen. Gary, chairman
of the committee on immigration, re-
ported that eight hundred Immigrants
have been introC uced into South Caro-
lima during the past four months, and
that over two thousand were introduced
during the past year. This has been
done by a subscription of lands In quar-
ter-section tracts to each head of fam
lily who viii become a permanent settler.
The vast quantity of land lying idle,
and the expectation that the quarter
sections adjoining those of the settlers
will more than double in value, have
induced liberality on the part of land
owners which we recommend to the
consideration and imitation of the peO-
pie of Louisiana. Agencies have been
established in New York and Germany,
and arrangements have been made with
the lines of steamers for transportation
at low rate. Gen. Gary has demon
strated that the south can secure emf
grants of the best class with reasonable
exertion. The first step, however, in
all such enterprises is to guarantee to
the settler farm In fee simple.-NelU
Orleans E5cQ3f7I71e. a-...Hre = Ed q. .r.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-03-20
united States RAILWAY slgnal Code.

One whistle signifies down brakes. -
Two whistles {" off brakes" Three
whistles signify "back mp" Continued
whistles signify % danger. Rapid,
short whistles ga cattle alarms. A
sweeping parting of the hands on level
of the eye signifies ego ahead. Down
ward motion of the hands With extended
arms signifies "stop." Beckoning mo-
tion of one hand signifies back. Red
flag waved upon the track signifies
Z" danger" Red flag stuck up by the
flag carried upon locomotive signifies
"an engine following" Red flag hoist
ed at a station is a signal TO " stop"
Lantern at night raised and lowered YER
tically is a signal to '' start. Lantern
swung at riglst angles across the track
means stop" Lantern. swung IN a
circle signifies " back the train. -
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-03-20
NoRAH,s VOW.

Hear what Highland Norah said:
" The carlie's son I Wilma wed;
Should a. the race o. nature dee,
And nane be left but and he,
For a. the goud, for a. the gear,
And a. the lands, bath far and near,
@ That ever Valor lost or Won,
wadna wed the carIies son."
" maidens VOWS" auld Callum spoke,
g Are lightly made, and lightly broke. 80
8 The heather the mountains height
Begins to bloom purple light;
The fFOst-Wind soon shall sweep away
That lustre deep frae glen and brae;
Yet Norah, ere its bloom be gone,
May blithely wed the caFlis's son"
80 The swan" she said 81 the loch's clear breast
May barter for the eagles nest;
The Awe's fierce stream may backward turn,
Ben-Crasban IA and crush Kilchurn;
Our Killed clans. when blude is high,
Before their foes may turn and fly;
But I, war a. these nnarvels done,
Wad never wed the carlie's son."
Still in the water-lily's shade
Her wOnted nest the wild swan made;
Ben-Crashan stands as fast as ever
Still downward fOams the Awe's fierce river,
To shun the clash o. foeman's steel,
No Highland bOurge has turned the heel
But NOrah's heart is lost and won
Shes welded to the carlie's son! . -. ~.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-03-20
FORETGM

A dispatch from Berlin states that the
condition Of the emperors health causes un-
easiness.
The steamship Glasgow has been
wrecked of Tarda, Spain. Fourteen per-
sons were drowned.
The latest dispatch from the Ashan-
tee expedition stales that the British loss in
the war was sixteen killed and S6s wounded.
1t is said that Gen. Concha will sue
ceed Jovelar as captain-general of Cuba. Sew
eral prominent Carlists have been expelled
from Madrid.
The King of the Ashantees has sent
in his first indemnity instalment of 1000
ounces of gold, and Gen. Wolseley is getting
along comparatively well.
Prince Frederick Charles, of Prussia,
viii make a tour around the world next sum
mer. He goes eastward through Russia,
Siberia, and japan, lands at San Francisco,
traverses the United States, and returns to
Berlin by way of London.
News received from Havana states
that train from Neuvitas, with volunteers
for the defeated districts, was fred into by in
surgents. Twenty seven volunteers were
killed and a large number wounded.
A dispatch from Berlin says the Ger
man Reschstag has defeated the government
proposition fixing the strengthen the army on
an effective peace footing at 401 ,557 men. The
national liberals propose to fix the minimum
strength OF the army st 800, eOe.
Stanley, the Herald correspondent,
cables from Lisbon as follows: Negotiations
between Sir Garnet Wolseley and king of the
Ashantees have been completed The king
agrees to pay $4,000 ounces in gold, and re-
nounces all claim to Adansi and other terrific
- specified. He consents to Withdraw from
Appolloms and the coast ; promises 10 keep
the road free of bushmen from Coomassie to
the river Prah; to protect commerce. prohibit
human sacrifices and keep the peace forever.
II circumstances permit, garrison win be
kept at Prahsn.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-03-20
Novel Law Question.

a novel law question has arisen IN
Iowa. The Mississippi river until re-
Gently has annually frozen over Eolld
between Prairie du 6ilien and mcGre-
zor. The ice has furnished q winter
highway from one side TO the other dur
ing several months IN the year, en-
abfing the people to dispense E5th
bridge and ferries. Recently the Mil
wauEee and ST. Paul railroad has built
a pile bridge across the river, the enect
of which, it is asserted, has Deea, oy
creating eddies and changing the cur
rent. to wholly prevent the formation
of ice. so that the stream below the
strncture remains permanently open.
q'b1 river, it is claimed, is q public
highway at ali seasons, ae much one
yyay as another, and the use OF the ice
bridge is a right Of which the public
can not be divested by any authority
It is assumed that suits for damages
would lie, and that the railroad bridge
is liable 10 be indicted and ordered
removed as a nuisance aud obstruction
to trade and intercourse between states.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-03-20
A Burglar Caught by a skeleton.

A burglar In Greensburg, Pennsyl-
vania, was recently caught in remark
able manner. Breaking into the closed
Office Of physician of that town, the
burglar opened closet (While his COM
panion, with-a dark lantern, was in an
other part OF the room, and, feeling
for clothing at about the height of
closet-hooks generally, got his hands
between the Jaws of skeleton which
being adjusted with coil spring and
kept open with thread, closed sudden
" on the intruding hand by the break
ing of the thread. A sudden thought
striking the burglar of his being caught
by skeleton IN the doctors closet, so
terrified him that he uttered g faint
shrek, and when his companion turned
his lantern toward him and he beheId
himself In the grim and CHASTITY jaws Of
Death himself, he became SO oveTpower-
ed by fear that he tainted, fell insensi-
Bile to the floor, pulliRg the skeleton
down upon him, and making SO much
noise that his companion fed immedi-
ately, and the doctor, alarmed ssat the
noise and confusion, hastened into the
Office and secured the terror-stricken
burglar, still held by the skeleton.
NEW YORK brides are introducing the
London fashion of wearing bonnets at
the ceremony when it is to be performed
IN church,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-03-20
Elder Jacob Knapp, the Revivalist.

The death is announced of Elder
Jacob Knapp, at Rockford, Illinois, at
the ripe age of seventy-four years. MIR.
Knapp was born in Otsego county, in
New York, December z, 1893. His pa
rents were members of the Episcopal
church, but when young Knapp ar
rived at about his twentieth year he
joined the Baptist church, against the
wishes of his father and friends. After
being some time engaged IN teaching
school, at Springfield, in his native
county In the spring of 1922 he joined
the ministry, and in 1926 obtained his
first pastorate in that town. In 1880
he removed to Watertown, New York,
where revival was then In progress.
During the three years of his ministra-
tion there he added 200 converts to the
church. Mr.. Knapp soon after resigned
his position, determined to start as an
independent itinerant preacher. For
many years his labors were confined to
New York, but subsequently extended
to New England and other Atlantic
states, and 1S49 found him in Chicago.
He visited st. Louis in 1858, and in
two years after returned to Boston, He
published a curious autobiographical
volume some years ago, in which he
gives some statistics OF his labors. Up
to 1867 he held about $50 protracted
meetings, many of them extending over
weeks, preached 1850 sermons, and re-
ceived during thirty-six years an aver
age compensation of little less than
$500. More than thirty years ago he
gave up counting the persons con-
verted under his ministration at that
| time they amounted to about 100, coo.
Elder Knapp was very eccentric per
son, and was celebrated as revivalist.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-03-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK
EAST.

The jury in the Ohallis libel suit
against Woodruff & Claflin returned verdict
of not guilty. Judge Sutherland character
lied the verdict as one of the most outrageous
he had ever heard
When the German mails, by the steam
ship Moseile, were opened at the postohice in
New York, it was found that at7least twenty
packages, each. containing from two hundred
to three hundred letters, were in broken and
ruinous state, nearly all damaged The let
ters were enclosed in thin, himsy envelopes,
and the packages were tied up in weak brown
paper
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-03-20
The Negro Exodus.

The emigration of negroes westward
continues to attract public attention.
The tide, 1t seems, starts with dimff-
ished volume IL Georgia, gathering i'm
mense additions in Alabama, to pour its
black food into Missispippi, LoUisiana
or Arkansas. The spiritof unrest seems
to permeate the whole race. For while
the Georgia and Alabama blacks are
moving into Mississippi and Louisiana,
a new tide starts westward from those
states to lose itself on the I'M
mense plains of Texas. In this way
it is claimed by those eOngersant
with the matter, that the blacks
of Louisiana or even Mississippi are
not increasing, at least not faster
than the white population. The move
ment, can work no injury political
IL many state, and IA one it is full Of
cheerful significance. But the hegira.
even moderately as we feel it IN Georgia,
is full of ham If we cannot gain an equiv.
alent. If We lose labor in one way, we
must acquire 1t in another or feel the
loss. And that way lies IN the esbal1-
hshment OF manufactures and in the
encouragement of white immigration.
Virginia and the Carolinas are actively
engaged IN securing white labor, and
the marked success which attend their
efforts indicate the course we Z ust IN
the end pursue. COllstit1stiO5l.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-03-20
Grange Matters.


1t is claimed that ], 900 oranges will
be established in Georgia by Jan. /,
1876. e ef .7sas-a,.s-sf.z- I
Fourteen hundred and fifty oranges
b We been formed in the state of Indiana
The Patrons of Husbandry IN Wiscon-
sin have started newspaper entitled
the Moving Machine. a~
The number of oranges in Wisconsin
is reported by the secretary of the state
grange to have increased to 30S. In jan
usry last there were 346. When the or
gsnization of those that have applied
for recognition is complete there viii be
430 oranges. - rf = BE ssa sf
The Missouri state grangels discuss
ing the utility of establishing exchange
and discount banks, to assist farmers in
holding their products, as well as man
ufacbOries of agricultural implements,
and depots and warehouses where grain
can be stors until the market justifies
a sale. 81.
The state grange of Nebraska is put
ting In machinery at Plymouth for the
manufacture of plows, cultiyators, head
ers, haryesters, and other agricultural
implements. The building is a two
story brick, 40 by lao feet. Thirty
heads of families are employed to
commence with. Steam and blast pow
er of the necessary quantity viii be fur
nished. f 1
The grangers of California demand
that the salary system for public officers,
both state and county, shall be. extended
over the whole commonwealth. In San
Francisco county the salary system was
established IN 1853, and, although the
wealthiest county in the state, its sher-
iff has a smaller income than the sher
ifs of CalaveTas and other counties,
who receive from $4,000 to $4,000 a
year in fees. ss a
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-03-20
NUMBER 81.

and not confined to Philadelphia. There
is no reason why it should not be so.
The country is wide and great, and
Oregon has as good. right to celebrate
as Pennsylvania or New England, for
the hardy pioneers of the west include
many descendants Of the men. of '76.
Let the Tejoieings and the fun be ma,
donal, and not cIaniped mp.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-03-20
GENERAL.

The snow blockade on the Central
Pacific is raised.
Oliver Ames was chosen president
E. H. Rollins secretary of the Union Pa
cifc railroad company.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-03-20

EooKI


The psneiI Aarks yes zee arsH1d tsfs
paragraph (tAHs4 neaR that ySgR sub-
EeEfpticn Is out OF wpd, sd That
you are requested to Ras up IS oAss.
Wswou1d take great p1sassrs n exsead-
ing credit to chr friends sud patrons,
bat cash aIons vii pay expenses, and
We are forced 70 sdhsrs to stEiet essh
rule. We hope you VIII conprehead
and appreciate the necessity of esoh
course, and reneB syouF sHbzcrs ptien
without delay. We solicit your favor.
- We enter no new names on car
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-03-20
Sc And the COlored Troops Fought
NObly.'

An exchange tells of a colored troop
who did not fight nebly. In fact he
ran away, and was Eeprimanded by his
lieutenant, who sneeringly asked if he
thought his company would have missed
him mueh had he have been killed
The discreet daFky replied % Not
much, boss -deY don't miss de white
folks, much less a poor nigger. But
den would hab miss myself-and dat's
de pint wild mel" This was reasoning
worthy of old Jack Falstah himself. It
was some such practical and personal
argument as was used by Peace-loging
Confederate whose story was current at
the close of the war. He belonged to
an artillery company whose guns were
captured By Federal raiders. SmaIting
under the disgrace, the commanding
officer called upon his men to recapture
those guns or perish in the attempt, 1f
any member of the company, tho cap
tain added, was not willing TO share IN
the effort to retrieve their honors and
their loss, he might step out of the
ranks "A pale, suffering reb stepped
forward, saying, 1" C-c-aptain, If ta-the
l-l-oss isn't very gr-eTeab, why can't We
t-t-ake mp COLLECTION and p7psy tor
the d--d old gans F.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-03-20
~ are "a gauares in each column. Z
ANNoUNOEAIENTs.

Announcing the OF person for county
vsriably 10 advance.
The above terms and rates win he strictly ad-
hered to- -
HelisioUs, marriage, birth and death notices so
hcteds and viii be willingly inserted free Of cIsrge
Obituaries, Masonic and other society noticssSof
deaths ETC., win be charged 10 cents per line
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-03-20

! Fnosf the fact than when the body OF
a man Of average size is reduced hter-
aIIy 70 ashes by fire, only eeouS .i beL
nonnds OF said ashes remain, lt IS siiovsn ''sli
That the human system contains seye!ity
11er cent. of water. In the feiAis'i
49,, 1,er cent. twenty is carbon, which
J;ear,ears in gas at the burning, even
as fIe waterv seventy eYaporates. Tins
vour "soIid man possesses really
about ten pounds Of solidity.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-03-20

IT is suggested that the Centennial
celebration be spread ont all over the
country like an ordinary Fourth Of July,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-03-20
BOLIVAR BULLETIN.
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PARRISH & HUBBARD,
SUBSCRIPTION q

One year. 20 "a
Six months - % ~
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:. All subscriptions must be paid In advance. and
IL not renewed promptly at the expiration, viii be
discontinued TO the address. '--- %
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RATES or ADVERTISING /:

inch, or 10 lines Of type, constitutes square.
One square, first insertion. e. n
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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-03-20
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Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-08-07
SU M MON s.

IN THE JUSTICES COURT OF SAN GA
l. briel Township, in the county Of Los An
geles, State of California. NJ. w. Chlds,
plaintiff, VS.. William Nj. Iileston, Seaman Sur
wins of themselves, and Emery, deceased,
composing the late firm of Tileston, Emery d.
Co., defendants.
The People OF the State of California send
greeting to William NJ. Tlleston and Seaman
Survins, of themselves, and Emery, deceased,
composing the late firm of Tileston, Emery &
Co., defendants: You are hereby required and
directed to appear before me, at my Office in
San Gabriel township, in the county of Los
Angeles, in an action brought against you by
the above named plaintiff, and answer the
com plant in said action, on file in my office,
on the 23d day OF July, A. ID. 1874, at O'Clock
A. NJ.
The said action is brought to recover the
sum of two hundred and forty-three 75-l00 dol
lars, United states gold coin, upon an express
contract Tor the direct payment of money, to-
wit: prOmissOry note, made by defendants
Janu lry 27, 1870, payable day after date to
pI;,lltl1f or order, for the sum of $243 70, with
Interest at the rate OF two per centum per
month from January FIRST 1870, all of
which is more fully set forth in the annexed
complaint, filed by Geo. G. Gibbs, attorney for
plainiff, tins July Is, A. d. 1874.
And you are hereby notified that if you fail
to so appear and answer said complaint, as
above required, said plaintiff will take judg-
ment for two hundred and forty-three 75-lOu
dollars and int, rest thereon at the rate of two
per cent. per month, together with costs and
accruing costs.
Make legal service and due return hereof
Given under my hand this 18th day OF Ju y,
A. u. 1874. +. II. JONES,
GEORGE e. GIBBS, Attorney for Plaintiff.
WOIn
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-08-07
SU NJ MON S.

TN THE JUSTICES COURT OF LOS
l. Angeles Township, in the county of Los
Angeles, state of CalIfOrnia-W. II. Gray, j.
=. Saml Hellman, Plaintiff, VS. Gerbosio
Ruis, defendant.
The People of the State of California send
greeting to Gerbosio Ruis, Defendant: You
are hereby required and directed to appear
before me, at my Office in Los Angti les Town
ship, IN the county of Los Angeles. in an ac-
ton brought against you by the above named
plaintiff and answer the complaint in said ao-
ton, on file in my office, on the first day of
August, a. u, 1874. at 10 O'Clock A. NJ i, If found
within this county, and if not found in this
county, then within thirty days from the date
of he first publication of this summons.
The said action is brought to recover of de-
fendant the sum OF one hundred and thirty
five 45-lG0 (Sl35 49, dollars, as principal and
ninety-six 96-l0O 1896 96) dollars interest," Ill in
U. :. gold com, alleged to be due on a certain
prOmissOry note, dated :" Los Angeles, July
81, lS70,' and bearing interest at the rate OF
one and one-half per cent interest per month
from date until paid as per original on ii in
this office.
And you are hereby notified that If you fail
to so appear and answer said complaint, as
above required, SAID plaintiff will take judg-
ment against you for said Sl25 A. as principal
and 500 96 interest, gold coin, together with
costs OF suit
Make legal service and due return hereof.
Given under my hand this Oath daysof July,
A. d. 1874. w. H. GRAY,
Justice of the Peace of said Township.
True copy. jy2S lm-5
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-08-07
Notice of Intention.

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT
IN the City of Los Angeles intends to grade
and construct Spring street in the following
manner, from Its intersection with Main
street to Fourth street:
Sidewalks of wood shall be laid down, hav
ing curbing ofredwood, 3xl2 inches fastened
to redwood posts AKA inches square. Said
posts to be set in the ground two feet, and to
be placed six Ieet apart on the inside of the
curbIng; the sidewalk shall be ten feet wide,
and shall have three additional stringerS be-
sides the curbiDg: said stringerS to be 2XS
inches squares; the planking OF the sidewalk
shall be two inches in thickness, and spiked
to the curbing and stringers; the sidewalk of
said Spring street, Sh Ill be made of plank,
from its intersection with Main street to First
street. from First to Fourth street the same
curbng shall be laid, but the walks shall be
OF gravel.
The road-bed shall be cut down or filled up
to level of eight inches below the grade of
the street. On this bottom formed, layer of
gravel five inches in thickness shall be laid;
over this a layer of broken stone or coarse
gravel shall be laid to the depth of three
inches; over this a thin layer of red cement
gravel shall be spread, the whole to be wetted
and thoroughly rolled.
The street shall have cutters of hard granite
cObble stones, as far as First street. These gut
ters shall be FIVE feet wide, and commence ten
inches below the top of the sidewalk, and
shall conform to the plan and grade of the
street. The street shall have side slope to-
wards the cutters of one foot in thirty.
BY order of the Common Council.
NJ. KREMER, City Clerk.
iy 0R. nd II
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-08-07
Notice Of Intention.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT
IN the city of Los Angeles intends to make
the following i'm provements on Commercial
street, from Its intersection with Main street
to Alameda street. Said Commercial street is
to be graded and constructed IN the following
manner, to witt The sidewalk to be seven
feet wide, and made of wood. The curbng
shall be of redwood scantling 3xl2 inches.
This curbIng shall be spiked to posts AKA
inches square, set two feet in the ground on
the inside of the curbing, and six feet apart.
The covering of the sidewalk shall be two
inch plank, or one-inch plank doubled.
The cutters shall be four feet wide, and
paved with hard cobble-stOne. The surface
of the gutter shall be ten inches below the
top of the sidewalk, and shall rise toward the
center OF the street with slope of one inch to
the foot.
The bed of the road shall be cut down or
filled up until it is eight inches below the
grade OF the street. On this bottom formed
layer of gravel, inches deep, shall be laid;
over this layer of coarse gravel or broken
stone shall be laid to the depth of three
inches. this TO be covered by layer of cement
gravel - be properly rolled.
The slIe Slope of the street shall be one foot
to thirty feet, and shall commence at the sur
face of the cutters.
The road-bed shall conform to the estab-
llShed grade of the street.
by order of the Common Council.
NJ. KKEMER, City erik.
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