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coin and 10000 silver bars. The Assistant Treas
urer paid OUT 5000 on account OF interest and
81 900 ON account OF the redemption OF fivetwenty
bonds. The customs receipts were $4,000. the
announced gold sales OF $1,000, 900 on each Thurs
day OF next month. amounting to $4,000 900, ex-
cited but little surprise. The operations OF the
Gold Exchange Bank were a. follows:-
Hold Daances.... -..............-....... $S0l 4ol
Currency balances. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 8e7, 3S7
uiooo Oi0SA auC0o lotVA<,VoV
FOREIGN EXCHANGE
Is dull and nrm, with sales OF prime bankers sixty
day bills at 48S and 400, the nominal rates being
ASSh and Adj. Continental Ii Hrm. Reicnmarks
90 and s6A. Cables, ok. Prime Paris 5.l6X
and $40.
rHE LONDON MARKET
for American securities was generally dull and
steady. Erie rather nrmer. The Bank OF England
lost f43, 900 In Dulllon withdrawn on balance, to-
day. The following were the closing prices at
4:3O P. M.:-Consols for money, oak 92X do.
account, 92K; old 1868, l07X; dve-twenty bonds,
1867, 1OsK; tenforty bonds, 1861; new fves. 1O4a<
104X; Erie, 28A. Later, In London at $50
p. M, Erie preferred was quoted at AS Paris
rentes 59f. SOC.
AMSTERDAM PRICES
were as foiows:-Union Pacific stock, "a; North
western preferred, 52%; st. Paul preferred, 5lA I;
Erie, 27h.
were generally steady without new features, going
on at the close in sympathy with the decline in the
gold premium. No order has yet been received at
the sub-Treasury for the prepayment OF the July
interest Closing prices were as follows:-
United States currency skies, 115,< 115x do. do
1881, registered, III NIX do. do, do, coupons,
l2lz 1929 do. nve-twentles, 1852, registered, la
Hay; do. do, do, coupons, ia a hay; do.
do, 1854, registered, 118k o 1l6A; 90. do, do,
coupons, 1867 1l7h; DO. DO, 1885, registered,
l16la III; do do, do, coupons, 117x q l1S; do.
do, 1885, new. registered, 11e1 11e<; do. do do,
coupons, 1907 1901; do. do. 1857, registered,
1tsA 1le1s; do do, do, coupons, 1907 121; do.
do, 1858, registered 117k 1l8; do. do, do cou-
pons, 12oA 12l do. ten-forties, registered,
1854 a ia; do do, coupons, ia q l14k; do.
ives, 1884, registered, ia 114I; do. do, do,
coupons, ia l14k.
RAILWAY MORTGAGES WERE STEADY,
with limited dealings, the following being The bids
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CITY BANK SHARES
Incr ManuIacpefy 40
MONEY ADVANCED

MONEY ADVANCED
from and per cent on call to and per cent,
as noted above. Prime mercantile paper was
quoted 511 to 6h per cent. The transactions at
the Clearing House for the past week compare as
follows with those OF the previous week.
Cearings Tor the week endng June ~ 49, $ml VIZ NY
Balances for the week ending June 90 s74.. 20 2s6O94
Balances for the week ending June u, l57i... l35 1913
The following is the Clearing House statement
for to day.
Currency exchanges. ................ $50 321, $50
Currency balances. $3.50. 749
Gold exchanges. TO- 738, S63
Gold balances. 1,439, 935
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FIN ANCIAII.

A STOCK AND GOLD PRIVILEGES; 500 FOR Il
"A. shares; 500 to $500 for double priveges $50 TO
$1,000 gold; all 80 days bought on members OF the 81
change; stocks ana gold bought on commission; el
planatory circular furnished.
HAZARD MONTAGUE No. Broad street.
, 1874-10-18

product entirely vegetable. and lie. therefore.
entnely free from acid or alcohol. 1t ii mann-
lactured from the roots Of Iris, the virtue OF
which WAS first discovered by Ill. Piver. few
drops OF tls wonderful compound III glars OF
water wbtvns aud perfumes it sufficiently for
the toilet. For producing clear. translucent
complexion, it has no equal in the rertumery
line. 1t not only perfumes the skin. but removes
all pimp!es aud other eruptlcns which foil ~ the
frequent uso OF prepal atoms containing alcohol
or vinegar. Messrs. Labor de t. Co. are rapidly
acquiring great popularity throughout the West,
their trale having more than doAbled since they
commenced busncss IN THIS city.
, 1874-10-18

Mrs. BETSY Straw. uf Wsr1er. y. H., celebrated
the 11Ct1 uuniversary Of he. bi.th Oh the lHth
lust. She d in eood health, her sight il gnod,
anu l.tr nit I'd clear Within three years sl1o l,as
kn,ttel vow .ntY-liYa pairs uf aiocksnss All her
cl..h!fon lhniI descendants i,zvs 4in atue't
.,,4 ftnsk-f {raAt. Eran1nid
, 1874-10-18
THE NEW CHARIOT CAR

State-st., from Washington to Adams, On
MONDAY, Oct. 10, from 2 to p. N.
Persons interested In Omnibus Gness either
now existing or about to be organized, arc
especially invited to examine and test this
nav invention, G. II. MURCH,
Patented.
, 1874-10-18
TO ARCHITECTS
AND BUILDERS,

The Merchants, Farmers and Me-
chanics' Savings Bank Of Chicago, in
the interests Of the Laboring Glasses
and its Building Loan Department,
will pay a reward Of One Thousand
Dollars for the best plan, with speci-
fcations and proposals for a fre~proof
or an approximately fire-proof, Cot
tage Of five rooms. 4 circular COLI
tanning full information can be OBJ
tanned by addressing note to the
UNDERSIGNED at the NJ, F. and n
Savings Bank, No. rs South Clark
st., Chicago.
SYDNEY MYERS, Manager.
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SOUTH.

TIE store of Joseph Fried, near
Shelby Station, on the Memphis and Louis
vile railroad, was burned by an ineendiary
last week. Loss, $4,000.
Chancellor Walker, of the second
ohancery conrt, has made perpetual iniunc-
ton restraining the Memphis and Paducah
railroad from collecting the $780, OOO voted by
Upton county.
The damage to the Mississippi Cen
tral railroad, by the freshet, was moro serious
than fret reported. About four hundred feet
of embanlNment at Tallahatchee river we're
swept away. The bridge also was damaged.
A dispatch from Massreck Depot,
North Carolina, says the shooting of Steve
Lowery, the last of the Schuffietown outlaws,
causes great rejoicing in Robinson county,
and that large numbers of people focked into
Lumberton where the body lay. Lowery when
shot carried rifle three pistols and knife.
The rewards offered for his body amount to
over six thousand dc1lars, all of which will be
paid to the three young men Who did the
shooting.
A dispatch from Louisville, Kentucky,
states that the stern-wheel steamers Belfast,
belonging to the Belfast transportation COM
Pany, became unmaneagable while ascending
the falls, the drift wood interfering with the
working of the rudder, and struck hidden
obstruction, breaking in the hull just foremost
of the boilers. She was run On a neighboring
bar and rapidly settled, sliding off the bar just
before going down. The officers and crew
escaped, one roustabout only being injured by
falling spar. All the books, papers and
money were saved. The Belfast had 500 tons
of pig iron, 200 tons of ship stun and 100
tons of m scel aneOus freight on board.
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BOLIVAR, HARDEMAN CO. TENNESSEE MARCH g. 1874


shop and learn something about gun
before making an ass of himself.
Here Mr.. Yeomans showed up his
shirt-sleeves and mixed a cocktail for
Judge Heming way, of Kansas, and
Judge Peter Clinton, of Salt Lake.
After the cocktails had disappeared, he
continued:
Well, just as Ira and Hackett got to
cussin' one another. John Scranton he
stepped up and sculled himself into the
row. OF course he took Hackett's side,
declaring the gun to be nothing more
than pop-gun, and wondered that a
man OF Ira's sporting reputation would
carry such a gun. Ira was wild. He
had no suspicion that the BOYS were not
In earnest. There was a Jolly row. It
lasted two or three minutes. Then
Scranton asked Ira If the gun was
loaded. Ira said she was. sTher,
said John, winking at the boys, TIL bet
you basket of wine that you can't hit
my hat on top of that barrel pointing
to barrel about forty yards distant.
At this Ira hesitated. He looked at
ScIanton's new beaver, and said that it
would be a cussed shame to ruin such
hat as that: If some one would put up
an old hat he'd take the bet. But John
Scranton insisted on putting up his hat,
and accused Ira of trying to crawl out
of it because he knew there were no old
hats on the premises. That fired Ira up
again. Put up your hat he said.
III take pop at it for a basket of
wine. ,"
Here Mr.. Yeomans showed up his
sleeves, and mixed cocktails for Bishop
Farr, of Ogden, and Col. Woolley, of
Cheyenne. They were large cocktails
After they had disappeared-th cock
tails, not the bishop and the colonel
he continued
So John Scranton went out, and put
his ffteen-dollar hat on the barrel.
When he came back he was nigh burst
ing with laughter. All the boys were
nudging each other, and had as
much as they could do to hold in. Ira
he raised the gun, took good aim, and
pumped away with both barrels. The
hat jumped into the air about ten feet,
and then fell to the ground perfectly
riddled with suot. Everybody roared
but John Scranton and Hackett."
Here MIR. Yeoman showed up his
sleeves, and mixed cocktails for War
ren Hussey and your correspondent
They were small ones-the cocktails, not
the men. After they had disappeared he
continued
'' You see, it was a job put up on
Scranton and Hackett before they came
in. There were four charges in the gun,
and Schenck only drew out two of them.
Scranton only said, holy smoke and
ordered the wine"
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Foote's Duels Mith Prentiss.

The Paris KentUckian is reminded by
the recent wordy duel between Henry
s. Foote and Jefferson Davis, of the ac-
count VIII ch the late Sargent S. Prem
tiss gave of the causes of the two duels
between him and Foote. A friend of
Prentiss was at the point of death from
an attack OF 97eza5oE-o e7otaS. For a
week his physicians had essayed every
known remedy to put their patient to
sleep, but in vain. Prentiss knew that
Foote had made visit to Texas. He
was hunting his sick friend, when a
consultation of the doctors was held,
hopeless, unless the patient could be
put to sleep, but that they would ex-
haust all means known to the profess
sion. Prentice sprang from his seat,
and said to the doctors, f" Dammit, give
him Foote'S book on Texas to read, and
I will insure its soporiic effect" The
remark of PFentiss was too good a joke
to be kept, and it reached the ears of
Foote, who challenged, and Prentice
was too much of q southern cavalier to
decline, and they met, and FOote was
wounded and the parties made friends.
It happened that the meeting was so
notorious that a very large collection
crossed the river at Vicksburg to wit
ness it, and among them a number of
boys, who were so anxious to get full
sight, that climbed up many trees about
the grounds. When the seconds had
planted the parties, Prentiss looked
around and saw the boys in the trees,
and jesEingly remarked: : "Boys, you
had better take care Foote shoots
mighty v lid" This remark was pub
lished in the papers, and annoyed Foote
] L Il !. Il
lenged Prentiss, who met him a second
time as a gentlemanly solace to Fo ote's
wounded spirit. At the meeting FCote
fred and missed, and Prentiss fred his
pistol in the air, and the parties were
again reconciled.
Foote'S Texas dropped still-born
from the press, and it is believed il
would be hard to find a copy, valuable
as it might prove as a narcotic.
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Propagation of Cholera.

NJ. Teller, one of the most acute of
French observers, adopts the theory of
the propagation of cholera by invisible
germs conveyed In the air or in water.
He places no great reliance upon the eff.
feet of antiseptics upon the air itself,
their action being, TO say the least,
doubtful and, moreover, he considers
the action of the germs unavoidably
taken in respiration as comparatively in
nocuous. because those taken into the
lungs do not reach the intestines, and
because such as are thus swallowed, be-
ing taken as it we're in small quantity
at time, the vitality of the system is
able to resist then aston, in like man
ner as it overcomes the action of poison
taken In insignificant doses. M. Teller
thioks that it is by introduction of the
germ into the alimentary canal, where
they find conditions altogether fayora-
BILE for their rapid multiplication and
development, that the disease is most
frequently and most fatally communi-
Gated. He cites fruit as being especl-
ally calculated, some by their downy
covering, as the apricot or the peach,
Others by the gummy or glutinous coat
! g which most of them possess, TO ar
rest and retain the germs carried by the
air. Fruit sbould therefore be carefully
washed, or the skins removed, in the
time Of epidemic cholera.
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FOREIGN

Late advices from Buenos Ayres have
been received. The cholera continued to rage
with undated violence.
A correspondent at Gold Coast writes
that articles OF peace have been signed by
Gen. Wolsley and the King of the Ashantees.
The Spanish army under Gen. Mari
ones has made three attacks on the Carlist
force before Bilboa, aud was repulsed each
time.
The Western Canada oil company has
shut down about fifty of their wells, throwing
seyenty-hve men out of employment, owing
to the depses ed state of the market
The trial of the Tichborne claimant
on charges of perjury, which lasted $50 days,
resulted in his conviction on all the charges,
and he was sentenced to fourteen years penal
servitude. The jury was only short time out.
A special from Calcutta says $50, 600
persons are famishing for the want of food in
the districts of Fiupool and Bogipooth. In
the presidency OF Bengal, $4,000 persons
would perish.
A terrible affair is reported to have
occurred in the state of Vera Cruz. quar-
ri between townsmen Of Quimixilan and Haus-
ealeca resulted in a fight in which seventeen
persons were killed. 1t is reported that in
furiated HuascaleeauEs afterwad went to
Quimixilan aud began an indiscriminate mas
sacre, killing children and cutting of the
heads OF women. The neighboring town of
Chalchieomula sent detachment of militia to
the scene to put stop to the atrocities.
BY the recent arrival of a steamer
from Rio de Janeiro, news is received that
Asiatic cholera is raging at Buenos Ayres with
increased intensity, claiming from thirty to
forty victims ! er day. The total number OF
deaths amount to SOT. Fifty Thousand persons
tad abandoned their homes in the city to seek
refuge in the upper country, The president
of the republic has also lied the city for a
healthier residence on the island of Carapacha
This act of saimento is unfsvorablY com
mented upon by the press.
report has reached London that a
great battle has been fought at Coomassie
between the Ashantees and the force undey
Cen Sir darnett Wolsey. The loss of tho
British troops is given at nearly 800, including
many officers. The Highlanders alone are
reported to have had $50 men killed and
wounded. Further details of tho ba' tie be
tween Sir GaTnett Wolsey's forces and the
Ashantees, Say that the latter fought desper
ateiy, the fight lasting from o'clock in th,
morning until 3 in the afternoon Seventies,
British officers were killed or wounded Th,
naval brigade 145 strong. lost 80 men tn,
rife brigade so, and the engineers SO men
The loss sustained by Others, far as known
is very heavy.
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VEST

A dispatch from Portland, Oregon,
says the horse and cattle disease has broken
out in Baker county, that state, spreading ex-
tensiveiy, and With quite fatal effects. The
Pacific Mail has reduced the price of passage
from San Francisco to Yokohoma to $3.50; to
Hong Kong, 5000.
A dispatch from Fort Sully, D. IT,,
states that the Nukapapas Indians made ra d
on herders, near Grand river agency, on the
22d inst, killing private Collins, of the 18th
infantry, and stealing several horses. They
were followed in the direction of Standing
Rock by party of soldiers, but the trail was
lost. The same dispatch states that the In.
dians intend to concentrate at the foot of the
Blackstone by the first of April preparatory
to q general war upon whites during the
summer.
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THE GHOST THAT jim SAW.
By BRET HARTE.

BY BhEI HAhIEs
why, as to that y said the engineer,
ffGEosts amt things we apt to fear.
Spirits don't fool with levers much,
And throttle-valves don't take to such;
And as for jim
What happened to him
Was one-half fact and t'other half whimi
Running ole night on the line, he saw
no seas plain as the moral law
Just by the Tnoonht bank, and thence
Came drunken man with no more sense
Than to drop on the rail,
Flat q fail,
As Jim drove by with the midnight mail
'sDown went the patents. Steam reversed.
Too late! for there came 'thud.' Jun cursed,
As the fireman, there in the cab with him,
Kinder stared in the face Of Jim,
And says What nowp p
Says Jim, what nowi
I've just run over man-that's howP
tsThe fireman stared at JIM. They ran
Back. but they never found house nor man
Nary shadow within mile.
Jim turned pale, but he tried to smile
Then on he tore
Ten mile or more,
In quicker time than he'd made afore.
would you believe it the very next night
Up rose that house in the moonlight white!
Out comes the chap and drops as before,
Down goes the br 4kes, and the rest encore
And so, in fact,
Each night that act --.rE-
Occurred, till folks swore Jim was cracked.
'HumphI Let me see; it's a year now. most,
That l met Jim, east, and says, HoWs your
ghost?'
Gone said jim; 'and more, it's plain
That ghost don't trouble me again >
I thought shook
That ghost when took
place the eastern line but look:
GsWhat should meet the first trip out.
But that very house that we talked about,
And that self-same man! fWell,' says ], Il guess
It's time TO stop this yer foolishness,
So I crammed on steam,
When there came scream
From frenan-and it broke dream
90 You've killed somebody = Says I, Not much;
I've been there often and thar amt no such,
And I'll prove it. Back we ran,
And-darn my skin !-but thar t1as a man
On the rail, dead,
Smashed in the head
Now call that neanness p That's all Jim said"
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GENERAE.

Nearly all the parties convicted un-
der the Kuklux act have been pardoned. 1t
is said to be the intention to pardon every one
convicted under the law, who has served an
average sentence of two years. At least this
seems to have been the policy of the presi-
dent thus far.
The country will hear with interest
that in order to obviate the $1,000, 900 def
cheney in the postal service it is thought best
to abolish the free delivery system and the
postal cars. Luxuries are costly; and it is
possible that those who are not willing to
walk to the postofice will have to pay the
postnan
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LooKE

The pencil marks you see around lid
paragraph (thus) mean that your sul..
seription Is ont or unpaid, and thai
you are requested to pay up st onca.
We would take great pleasure IN extend
ing credit to our friends snd patrons.
but cash alone viii pay expenses. and
we are forced TO adhere to a strict cash
rule. We hope you will comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of sach :
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.
81 We enter no new names on our
books without the money in advance
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-03-06

OMAN Asp APEs.''-Ar. Mivart, in
his book entitled Man and Apes, in
vestigates the question of the relation
of apes to man from an osteological and
anatomical point off view. He denies
the at present generally accepted notion
AZ tue gorilla is mans nearest ally,
and shows that the orang, the gibbon
and the elimpanzee can ali claim
nearer relationship, each on a different
GROUND. The recapitulation Of the
many different points Ia which man, in
some one point, resembles the various
higher and lower apes, leads the author
to think that the laws of affinity form a
network" 4" or " tangled web " rather
than " ladder" from which it Is only
possible to infer that in the course of
development there has been blood reia-
tionship established between the 9IiieE-
ent species of apes, after their diiieFen-
tiation into distinct species. when Is
hardly compatible with our notions OF
J the definition Of q species.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK,
EAST


The secretary of the treasury has in
structed the collector of customs at Baltimore
to inteEpose no further objections to the
trial trip of the steamer Edgar Stuart, pro-
viding an officer OF the revenue accompany
the steamer.
A police spy reports the number of
New York Communists at three hundred, ana
says the German and Irish organizations are
uniting with the Frenchmen. At a recent
meeting the chairman said: I" It is not only
work we want; it is also liberty and the aboli-
tion of high salaries and monopoIization. We
want the heads of some of the thieves who
are now stealing the funds of the city. We
want their hands and we shall have them. We
want to make them suffer what all are now suf-
fering There is no justice in New York city.
We will take Justice in our own hands and
administer with rifles and bayonets. We have
arms already. We will find petroleum and
use, as we did in Paris. Our German, Ameri-
can and Irish brothers will help us and we will
help them"
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Temnerance League.

The ladies of Dayton, Ohio, recently
met in session, and formed themselves
into an association to be known as the
81 Woman's Temperance Praying League
of Dayton" After a debate of some
length. they adopted the following
pIedge. thirty-eight ladies affixing their
siopstures thereto 4" We, the women
of DAYTON, seeing the growing evils OF
intemperance in our midst and the need
of active energetic work to counteract
these evils, hereby pledge ourselves to
unite our labors without regard to
church or creed TO do everything IN our
power to exterminate them. Among
the various means that we believe may
be used to benefit, we recognize First
The power of God as the disposer OF
all events and the hearer Of prayer.
Second-Private influence In our fami-
lies and among our friends, discOunten-
ancing the making or using OF domestic
wines or the use of any intoxicating
LIQUORS IN our families unless presented
by a reliable or competent physician
Thirdly using our influences as be
comes Christian wives, mothers, ..oI
daughters IN all practicable ways toi
I the election OF such men to our pubIlc
offices as will Justly and faithfully al
/ minister the laws, aud by aiding IL
/ meeting q fund to forward the interests
/ of the temperance movement toarsh
BY standing by and encouraging any
+ woman who shall prosecute the nquoi
i dealer for selling TO her husband, son.
or relative"
TaE Oldest fireman in Utica died tn.
| other dav, and he wanted TO be buFlet
/ nth HE red shirt on so as to be read