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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-10-02
EAST.

General Sherman has sold his resi-
dence on street, Washington, to ex-Mayor
Emory.
The will of Miss Mary D. Brown, of
Philadelphia distributes $4,000 to local
charitable institutions.
Two hundred Italians have arrived at
Pittsburg to take the place of the striking coal
miners along the Pan Handle railroad.
In collision at Smithton, on the Bal
timore and Ohio road. last week, postal clerk
WAS killed and a good deal of mail matter
burned.
Advices from Fall River report it is
almost decided to run the cotton mills on
short time, some reducing it to one-half and
others to one-third.
A car load of twenty-one cattle from
Buffalo we're attacked by mysterious dis
order at Washingtonville, N. Y. Eight sud
denly died and the others will die.
Tho representatives of the trans
Atlantic steamship companies having failed to
agree upon passenger rates, their late rivalries
are renewed, and tickets to Europe selling
at fifteen dollars each.
Lake Weewanafree, New Jersey, has
been bought by the Prussian government fer
three hundred thousand dollars The lake
will be divided into compartments, some for
the raising of leeches, the remainder for trout
and salmon.
The banking firm of Townsend &
Co., OF New Haven, has failed, with liabilities
OF near three million dollars, and its affairs arc
in the hands OF a receiver. The cause OF the
failure is the depreciation OF southern, state
aud railroad bonds in which tho bank has in
vested heavily. The greatest sufferers are
the laboriRg classes, Rumor says depositors
will realize about forty per cent.
Representatives of the manufacture
ing corporations having their headquarters in
Boston, have just voted that the production of
cotton mills Of New England should be re-
duced at least one-third, until the proper re-
lation betH cen the cost Of production and the
market value of goods shall be re- established,
and the true relation between supply ard de-
mand adjusted. A committee was appointed
to recommend the mode in which this result
may be reached. the committee to report at a
future meeting. At a meeting of manufac-
turers at Fall River it was voted expedient to
join the manufacturers elsewhere in running
on short time.
Further advices from the mill disas-
S0A ~ IN AN''0if -A"7soOAlu9oStS, PAaSo Ili'
total number Of killed and injured at fifty eight.
The calamity apr ears to have been the result of
criminal carelessness and ineficiency. In the
first place the mill employees attempted to ex-
tinguish the fire without calling out the depart
ment, and so allowed the flames to obtain great
headway. When the engines arrived at the
scene there seemed total lack of discipline,
aud no attempt was made to use the ladders of
the department for the rescue of the roasting
operatives. Tho fire escape attached 60 the
mills did not reach the sixth story, where it
was the most needed, and for this the propli-
otoTs are oensured. The deplorable loss OF
life might have been entirely prevented il
either OF the three causes had been provided
against.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-10-02
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
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Incidents of the Fall River Fire.

Incidents of the fire are narrated,
some of them being of the most
heartrending description. During the
height of the excitement q little girl,
scarcely in her teens, appeared at one
of the upper windows gazing upon the
horror-stricken people below. All eyes
were directed to her, in the expectation
of seeing her follow the example of
others who had jumped from the WIZ
dows at the risk of life and limb. Those
who were holding beds beneath the
windows grasped them more firmly to
receive her, while scorces of voices
shouted to her to Jump. The Light
shone full upon her face, which was
Wreathed with q beautiful smile, as
though she had caught a glimpse of the
other world already I; as the people
gazed she slowly turned around and
disappeared forever from mortal view.
Whether she became insensible from
the smoke or whether the terror of the
moment had deprived the poor child of
reason, will never be known until the
desd give up their secrets. Another
incident that has been narrated as an
actual fact, but which / have been una
BILE As yet to substantiate, is almost in
credible, though not beyond the range
of possibility. It is said that little
fellow, scarcely dozen years old, jump
ed from one of the upper windows TO
the ground, and when the spectators
rushed forward to pick up the mangled
body, they were astonished to see him
spring to his feet, apparently uninlured,
and start on a run for his home. Burst
ing into the house IN breathless haste,
he shouted to his mother, "The mill is
all on fire l'' and then he suddenly drop
ped to the floor lifeless, the fearful
sixty-foot Jump having resulted In fatal
internal injuries which the excitement
of the moment prevented his feeling.
It appears that many of the deaths and
severe injuries were caused by the peo-
pie striking upon the ladders which
were run up TO the third and fourth
stories. One littleigirl struck between
two rounds in such q manner that her
back was instantly broken, and her
head hung down swaying back and
forth, and while the body reolined IN
that position a man and a woman in turn
struck against it, bounding off again 70
the ground. All the persons who at
tempted to escape from the attic did not
make a clean jump to the ground. A
rope was thrown out OF the window by
somebody, which reached good part
of the way to the ground, and quite
number slid down this rope as far as
possible, and then dropped the rest OF
the way, thus escaping instant death;
though oil were more or less injured.
Two of the girls-Alice Stafford and
Nancy Mullen, who we're among those
who used the rope-had their hands
badly burned by the friction, and the
former had her back injured and both
ankles dislocated by the fall. The per-
SONS who availed themselves of this
rope would have escaped serious injury
had not the rope caught fire by the
flames bursting out of the windows and
burned off some forty feet from the
ground.-N. Y. HeraZd's FGU RiUeT
S37ecial,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-10-02
NEWS OF TIE WEEK
SOUTH.

Rev. Wesley Prettyman of the north
ern M. E. church and postmaster at Marietta,
Ca, has been arrested for embezzement and
other penal violations OF the postofice laws.
Major General G. Pennypacker, colo
mel sixteenth U. g. infantry, has been as
signed to the command of the Federal troops
in New Orleans, relieving Gen. Brooke, who
assumes command of his regiment, the third
infantry.
A southern bound train of six cars on
the Selma, Rome and Dalton road, went through
bridge on the Wauhatchie creek, last week.
falling sixty feet. The engineer, fireman and
several passengers were killed, and nearly all
the remaining passengers were wounded many
dangerously. Among the killed is VIM. Boyd.
ex-iudge Of the supreme court Of Alabama
AT Vioksburg, Miss, on the 22d, Al
derman D. Z. Ryan, Thomas Donavan and
Mr.. Smith, a plasterer, were suffocated by
foul air, in an old cistern, near Ryan's mill
They entered the cistern to examine it for re-
pairs. Smith entered first. Not hearing from
him, Ryan entered. Not hearing from Smith
and Ryan, Donavan entored to see what was
the matter. A negro gave the alarm, but all
three were dead before they could be taken
AIOLu sii6 ClbbGlu.
at Memphis, on the oath, the right
hue OF N. J. speers' steam cotton-gin, situated
in the vicinity of Vane and Cousey streets,
collapsed with terrible effect. The concussion
shook houses in the vicinity like an earthquake.
Both ends of the boiler were blown out. o,
II. Reckard, the engineer, was blown out Of
the cotton pen, in front of the boiler, where
he had gone to sleep. He was slightly burned
by steam and hot water. A stable near the
boiler was completely wrecked by the pieces,
which were hurled against it with great force.
Paul A. Cicalla, of Memphis, alder
man Of the sixth ward, and who acted as mayor
during the yellow fever epidemic last year. has
instituted suit in the second circuit court to
recover S50,0 900 damages against Col. Michael
Mageveny Sr for uttering and causing to be
published in the Appeal of November 4, 1873
defamatory and libelous speech and resolu-
tions adopted on the came date by the citizens
of the relief committee of that city. While
acting mayor CiclIla was charged with the
forgery Of an order for provisions, and steal
ing the same, which were entrusted to him for
a widow and eight fatherless children. At the
time Ccalla was expelled from the board of
alderman, but was reinstated by process of
law. He now seeks to recover damages.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-10-02

silver vase, as a trophy, to be subject to
annual competition, and as a memorial
of the international match. A handsome
silver badge was at the same time pre-
sented to Col. Wingate, captain of the
American team, by Capt. Leech.
Soon after two o'clock firing was re-
sumed at the 900 yard station, and the
result was in favor of the Irish team by
two points. Both teams Immediately
moved to the 1000 yard range, and the
result Of the firing here was also favor
able to the Irish by four marks, but
these latter triumphs we're not sufficient
TO overcome defeat in the short ranges.
and the Americans won the match by
three points.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-10-02
opportunity to Try an Organ before
Purchasing.

Many a person is half persuaded that
a Cabinet Organ would be a capital
thing for his family worth much more
than its cost. Yet they are not sure
that it would be permanently valued,
but fear that after few months use the
family would tire Of It, and 50 it would
prove a poor investment. The Mason &
HamIin Organ Co. now offer their ia
nous Cabinet Organs on terms which
will satisfy all such They viii rent an
organ with privilege of purchase. The
party hiring may try it as long as be
pleases, paying only the rent for it while
so doing. If he concludes to purchase
within a year, all the rent he has paid
Is allowed and deducted from the price
Of the organ.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-10-02
Chances Of Living.

A medical writer of eminence has
been collecting evidence as TO the
chances OF life which children have,
upon being born, in different countries.
Out of 1C, 900 children born it is found
from official statistics that in Norway as
many as 7,415, or roughly speaking,
three out of every four, live to be twen-
ty years of age. In England only 1927
80 live, or 786 fewer than in Norway.
In the United States boys have nearly
as coed q chance of life as in England,
while girls have not. But IN France
only 1922, or scarcely more than one
out OF two, reach twenty. While in
Ireland no more than 4, S55, or actually
less than one out of two, attain that
age. More surprising still are the sta
tistics regarding old age. Out of the
same 10, 600, for example, we learn that
in Norway 8, ,487, more than one out of
three, reach seventy in England almost
one out of four in the United States,
still men only, one out Of four-a trifie
higher than England IN France, 1,776,
or about one out of 81 and in Ireland
only S61, or one out of III. If this
table is to be depended upon, we thus
learn that of all countries IN the world
Norway offers the newborn child the
best chance of long life; Ebile Ireland
offerts tn worst. And France, univer
sally admitted to be so far as soil and
climate are concerned one of the most
favored regions of the earth, offers bat
little better chance than Ireland.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-10-02
The Georgia Gold Region.

The Atlanta News has been shown a
niece of gold ore taken from the Vine
branch mines, six miles from DAhlonega,
worth about $40, 600 per ton. He had
4 small piece weighing about one-fourth
of q pound, which contained six dollars
worth of the precious metal, the ore
being worth 500, 600 per ton. Mr..
Harrison says that there are now three
mills IN operation, two very large ones
building, and by next summer six or
eight mills Will be runniDg, employing
nearly two Thousand hands. The mine
known as the Big Acqueduct mine pur
chased by Mr.. Hand, of Ohio, viii be
one of the largest In this section of the
country. The acqueduct alone cost
about $500, 900. The power Of the
mills Will range from twenty TO forty
stamps, and each stamp can pound
twenty tons per day. One gentleman
has a mill that cost about $l5,O 900, can
round one hundred pounds Of ore per
dav. at 9 cost Of twenty dollars. The ore
of this mine averages about ono dollar
Der pound, leaving net profit OF eighty
dollars per day. Great preparations
are being made, and by next spring
Dahlonega will present as busy an ap-
pearance as our Owl city.
THERE are said 10 be more Jews in
New York than there in Jerusalem.
They have the finest synagogue in the
city, and live IN the best streets. Who
knows but New York is destined 10 be.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-10-02

An old lady with a large family, Iiv-
ing near river, was asked If she didn't
live IN constant dread that some of her
children would be drowhed. "Oh, no,''
she replied, we have only lost three or
four in that way"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-10-02

WHEN one is IN the act Of tipping his
hat to lady, whom he supposes to be
an acquaintance, is requires some tact
20 make believe he is only scratching
his head, as he discovers the lady 10 be
a stranger,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-10-02
Peter Lambs Adventure.

I see IN paragraph going around
telling of girl who fell out of q window
while listening TO e serensde. This re-
minds me of Peter Lambs adventure
down our way year or two ago. He
was serenading one of the Metcalf girls.
and she was leaning out of the window,
with shutters bowed so that he could
not see her. Lambs little tune con
tanned one high note, and be struck it
suddenly, and with such terrible force
that it made her jump. She lost her
foothold, fell out, and described half q
somersault, one foot hitting Mr.. Lamb
squarely IN the face, and the other
smashing in the top of his guitar. Sim
ply calculating "Gosh - he leaped up
from the gutter and fed, under the i'm
preston that old MetcaIf had thrown a
bedstead at him, while Lucretia picked
the cat-gut and bass-wood from her toes,
twisted up her back hair and went into
the house. Lamb stopped visiting her,
and last year he married the widow
Jones, who has four children and a cow
lick.-Mdr AdeJer.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-10-02
Remarkable movement in China.

The violent opposition of the Chinese
of Canton to Christianity has nearly
ceased, it is said and many Of them
have become earnest supporters and as
jealous in good works as the missiona-
ries themselves. & system of free
schools is being inaugurated which
takes large numbers of scholars from
mission schools. On this account
the London Missionary Society has
been compelled to relinquish the
school they had at Fatschan. The
children preferred the schools Of
their own neighborhood, taught by
men of distinction. Hospitals, too, are
erected, at which medicines are dispen-
sed gratis, and the sick receive medical
advice without charge. The poor find
support from a fund for the purpose,
and widows and orphans a home.
Preachers are being sent out in inaita-
ton of the evangelical missionaries, who
are to preach both through the city and
country adjacent. To these enterprises
public men of wealth are contributing
their thousands.
REv. DR.. WEsr, lately of Danville,
Ky, AYERS that the Rev. DR.. Swing, OF
Chicago, is Z" simply pantheistIe Arian
of the Eutychian type, q monopbyslte,
a monol helite, aud does not preach the
Apangasmal brilliaDce of Godhead's
glory, but is q Macedonian.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-10-02

on a summer tour, burglars entered the
house, sold ont all the effects at auction,
pocketed the cash, and finally sold the
house itself. Chicago enterprise.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-04-18
SHERIFF'S ELECTION NOTICE

wv HEREAS, by an Act OF the General AS
w sembly Of Maryland, passed at the Jan
uary Session, 1874, providing for submitting
to the qualified voters, in that portion of the
territory of Baltimore county, one mile East,
one mile West, and two miles North of the
present limits of the city of Baltimore, for or
against the proposed annexation of that por-
ton of the territory Of Baltimore county abov e
described TO the city Of Baltimore, notice is
hereby given tc the qualified voters in said
surveyed limits, that an election will be held in
the various Precincts aud Districts compr;s
in said limits, on
Tuesday, 5M day of May, 1874.
The Polls will be opened at o'clock A. NJ.
and closed at o'clock P. M.
The Polls will be beld at the following places
First Precinct LIST District. at LEWIS LEH-
MANS OFFICE.
First Precinct, 81 District, at HAMM EFT
HOUSE, Reisterstown Road.
First Precinct 9th District. OLD TWO MILE
HOUSE, York Road, Waverly.
Second Precinct, 9th District, at HAMPDEN
VILLAGE.
First Precinct, 18th District, at FREDERICK
ALTEVOGHTS, Canton.
Second Precinct, 18th District, at ]. HAIR.
MAN SCHONE'S, Belair Road
18th District, at JOHN FREOERICKS, An
napois Road.
SAMUEL +. BUTLER,
Sheriff of Baltimore County.
April ls.--te
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-04-18

THREE CLAssEs.-Within the prescribed lin
its for the city extension there reside three
classes of people.
The first class are the large land owners who
desire to have their real estate developed and
occupied by palatial residences and adorned
with all the improvements and conveniences
that Baltimore city can give it.
The second class are people who own COM
Portable homes with small parcels of ground
and who have located themselves there to get
out of Baltimore city.
The third class is composed of those who are
obliged to rent houses from the large owners
and who earn their bread by their daily toll.
In point of numbers the first class is much
smaller than either of the others. The third
class is numerically stronger than both the
others.
The interest Of the first class is in the drec-
ton of extension. The interest of the third
class is in opposition to extension. The second
class having moved into the county for the
purpose Of getting out Of the city will not like
ly feel much inclined to vote themselves back
into it.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-04-18
Property Sales.
TRUSTEES SALE
OF
A VALUABLE FARM, IN THE
FIFTH ELECTION DISTRICT
BALTIMORE COUNTY


DY virtue of a decree of the Circuit Court
ID for Baltimore county, sitting as Court OF
equity, passed on the 9th day of April, A. D.
1874, in q cause pending in said Court, where
in Daniel Wilhelm and others were complai
:. nants, and Thomas Curtis and 9th liz
|"@ ers were defendants, the undersgn- E45E
Led, Trustees, appointed by said de- Il
cree, will offer at public sale. on the premises,
on Monday May 4th, 1874,
at | o'clock p. M,
ALL THAT FARM UPON WHICH THOMAS
CURTIS NOW RESIDES,
situated in the 5th District of Baltimore coun-
ty, on the Falls Road, about "a miles from the
city of Baltimore, about one and half miles
from the White House and two miles from
Beckleysville, and containing
EIGHTY-TWO ACRES OF LAND,
MORE OR LESS.
This farm contains all those parts of tracts
or parcels of land situate, lying, and being in
Baltimore county aforesaid, the same being
and prehending part of tract of land called
"Britton's Range" and part of o tract called
"Addition to Britton's Range" which said
parts of tracts or parcels of land particu-
larly described by metes and bounds, courses
| and distances in deed of conveyance from
William Curtis and wife TO Thomas Curtis,
| bearing QaJe the SecOHu udy VI NOFemDeI, III
the year 1868, which said deed is recorded
| among the Land Records of Baltimore county
| in Liber J. H. L., No. 40, folio so, DC.
| ALSO,
ALL THAT OTHER LOT, PIECE OR PARCEL
OF LAND embracing parts of the following
| named tracts, to wit: "William's Lot, "Bor-
| ing's Chance" "Rocky Point, ""Pleasant Val
| ley" and "Cold Bottom" which said parts of
tracts or parcels of tracts or parcels OF land is
| particularly described in a deed from Robert
Royston and wife to Thomas Curtis, bearing
date the first day of April, in the year 1859,
which said deed is recorded among the Land
Records of Baltimore county, in Liber G. H. c.,
No. &c, folio 800, &C., as by reference thereto
will more fully and at large appear, excepting
so much thereof as has been sold by the said
| Thomas Curtis to Edward ROystOn, John A..
Price and Frederick Zeak, and about sixteen
and a-half acres thereof which the said Curtis
sold and agreed to convey to Edward C. Roys
ton, November Goth 1871.
The property is improved by
GOOD DWELLING HOUSE,
and the necessary outbuildings There is an
abundance of good water on it. Also good
Orchard. Churches, Schools and Mills are
| convenient.
The Terms of Sale as prescribed by he de-
cree are-One-half cash on the ratification of
| the sale, and the balance in two equal INSTALL
ments at six and twelve months, the deferred
payments TO bear interest from the day of sale
and to be secured by satisfactorily Endorsed
notes, or all cash, at the option Of the pur
| chaser.
Fifty Dollars of the cash payment will
be required to be paid on the day Of sale.
ROBT. R. BOARMAN,)
S. PARKER BOSLEY, Trustees
JOHN |. YELLOTT, J
GEORGE W. JORDAN, Auctioneer.
April Its.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-04-18
ito with taxation or expenditure i

ratio with taxation or expenditure These are
subjects for popular consideration
II is announced that the slung -shoi, with which
Twitehell killed his mother in-law, Mrs Hill at
Tenth and Pine streets, in 1868, is stilin posses.
sion of DR.. Maury, 10 whom it was given by
John O'Byrne, Esq TNitchell's lawyer at the
close of the trial, because Of DR.. Mauiy's main
tanning so firmly on the witness stand thai the
murder could not have ofea committed with the
poker. The filing OF q report ms week, by the
auditor appointed by the court TO scttethe estate
of Mrs. Hill, has thrown new interest on this
weapon of death, and made some Developments
in connection with the trial winch areanyihing
else than creditable to the parties concerned.
Yours, &c,