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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-07-20
Exit of Freshman Class of Colby.

The class assumed the dignity of Sopho
mores in due form Friday night, at the Mansion
House in this city. The Grafton by Looney
of Portland, history by Wyman of Livermore,
poem by Files of orham, and the Prophecy,
by Nichols of Haverill, Mass, were delivered
to the admiration of all. Appropriate odes
were sung with spirit. Supper was served by
our host in a manner to suit the most fastidi-
Gus, so say all the class of II. Toasts were
proposed by the toast-master II. w. George,
Drummond and IIallowell.
Every one was highly pleased, and we think
the courteous manner in which they were en-
tertained deserve a public expression of graf
itude. New Sophomore.
Personal.
Gov. Dingley spent the Sabbath at Squirrel
Island; he will attend the Colby commence
ment this week.
Messrs. Z. X. Folsom, S. G. Hamilton,
John Burleigh and Hon. John Hall all of
York county, started last week on trip to ex-
plore several townships of State lands in
Somerset county. to return probably this
week.
Mr.. Edwin Crowell, formerly of North Vas
.alboro', has come back to visit his old home
recently, after an absence Of about eighteen
years.
Mr.. George Eaton of Bridgewater, Mass,
who with his family has been spending few
weeks with his father, Russell Eaton, Esq,
of this city, returned home Saturday.
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Six Per Cent Bonds,
Dr9soLUTION.

The firm of WILLS Il STANLEY is this day
dissolved by mutual consent. All debts and de
mands viii be settled by either Of the late firm.
ERR WILLS,
GEO. w. STANLEY, Cd.
ERR WILLS will continue in the Grocery Bust
ness at the old stand l73 Water street, where he
will be pleased to see all who may favor him with
Il call. ERR WILLS.
Augusta Jnly l. 1874. ju,yl2w
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-07-20

The recent act Of Congress approved June
10, 1874, entitled "An Act to increase pensions
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-07-20
tMarrten.

In Thomaston, 1T inst, Dudley Spear Of Warrel
to Miss Lorinda Jones of jefferson
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-07-20
Hartford Square.

This house is pleasantly located near the centre
of business, and is also convenient for ladies OF
gentlemen who desire table board emily.
Augusta, May %, 1874. may29ttf
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DifD.

In Green Lake Wis, 3D. inst, Mrs. Jennie n.
Welcome, formerly OF Waldoboro. aged 81 years.
In Milo, 10Th inst, Mrs. Zilpha Morrill,, wife of
Capt. John Morrill, aged co years and nine days.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-07-20
First Class Board !!

A FEW gentlemen and their wives or single
n gentlemen and ladies can be accommodated
with supei for board at the
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-15

( tion to the Pail Mall Gazette Gays The re-
/ ported interview with myself, published in the
+ New York papers, is fictitious I never said
/ blood was thicker than water, that the people
of England have strong affection for their
American cousins, and that it would give me
/ great pleasure to receive silver brick. What
/ ever may be my opinion, I am no admirer of
those Engiishmen who are given to fawning
4 upon their American cousins at the expense of
their own seIf-respect.
Captain General Concha of Cuba, has
issued decree in which it is stated that the
railroad companies have now to suffer the in
evitable as do all other interests in the country
in consequence of the present financial condi.
tion Of the island. By DEGREES issued last
December, the companies were allowed to fix
their rates for each month according to the
premium of gold current on the Doth of the
month, but it is alleged they have been in the
habit Of charging much higher rates than al
lowed. Gen. Concha has interposed and fixed
the increase for May at fifty per cent. over all
their rates.
A letter from Havana says the court
martial is doing its work. and by wholesale
pronouncing the penalty of death, chain gang
perpetual Imprisonment and confscation of
property all over the Island. Nine persons
were tried for treason at Magari. one at San
tiago de Cuba, and five at Havana, who have
all been condemned to suffer the death pen
atty. Four persons at Puerto Principe, for the
same crime, have been condemned to work on
the Trocha during the continuance OF the re-
bellion. Six persons at Gauimara have been
sentenced to ten years on the chain gang, and
rom ad has bpa 70
petual chains. The approval of a decree of
the governor-general in regard to finances
appears to have arrived from Spain. The
home government hesitated long before ap-
proving of them, but Concha was firm and
telegraphed to Spain that they must be ap-
proved or he would resign.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-15

accepted a p,ofessorship in a college,
and a little house was taken and fur
nished for the home Edith craved.
The beauty that had made Edith a
star IN the most brilliant circles of socl-
etv lost nothing in her husbands eyes
when it was the home-light after his
days of college work. In her quiet
dresses, without glittering gems, Edith
was as lovely as she had ever been in
her costly ball or dinner tOilettes and
the little hands that could rest idle in
luxury, glitter with valuable rings, and
flash over the piano keys, were busy
from dawn to sunset IN the hOuse-wOrk
that women find ever waiting them.
Edward Lancaster was never very
poor. and Edith never knew again the
wants and cares of her girlhood /; but
the wealth he had lost was not restored,
and never regretted. By its loss he had
learned his wife's heart; deprived of
that. he found the treasure of happy,
domestic life, and in his new duties he
found the pleasure of making the knOwl-
edge he loved useful to others.
The professor had been two years IN
his new home, when, one evening, com
ing from the college, he found Edith
sewing busily upon cloak for year
old boy growing in his cradle.
She held up her work for inspection.
'My yachting dr. IS, Edward"
al remember it, Edward answered,
gravely.
"Do YOU? I never wore it but once
the last dav we were at Whitecliff.
"The day." her husband answered,
" when. after an hour of doubling
agony, I found my wife had married me
with the true love, for better or worse.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-15
Sheep and Wool Report.

According to the tables given in the
department report of agriculture, we
find that the states in which the greatest
increase has taken place are Kansas,
which is rated at 96 ON every 100; Cali
fornia. II; Maine and Texas, which are
each set down at 8 Michigan, set down
at an increase of 2 on the 100. Kansas
in 1870 had only II, ,569 sheep, so that
doubling her sheep would not make the
whole number more than there is In one
of our third-rate sheep growing cOun-
ties. But adding two per cent. to the
sheep in Michigan is q different affair,
as it adds "a, 600 head to the state. But
then we find that New York has shrunk
three per cent, or that during the year,
if her stock of sheep was equal in num-
her to the number reported by the cen
sus of 1870. this state has lost 7S, ,534,
or three times the amount that Michigan
has gained.
California Is reporte as having gained
seventeen per cent. on her number OF
sheep. Sheep have increased so fast
in that state since 1870 that 1t would
hardly be fair TO set her figures for 1872
by the census of 1870, which places the
number of her sheep at ], ,088, ,OO2, or
less than Michigan in that year. Her
wool being mostly sold in the unwashed
state. however, and estimated In 1872 at
10000, 600 pounds, or equal to the pro
duce of g, 900, 600 sheep, an increase of
seventeen per cent. would be equal 70
$40, 900 head, or the production OF an
increased crop of unwashed wool OF
g. .O6O. 600 pounds. The state of Ohio is
set down as making no change.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-15
Equinoctial Storms.

There is a popular delusion that
three days storm is inevitable when
the sun crosses the line in the lat
ter part of March and September
and the unsettled state of the weather
at this period, which usually eliminates
in showers of some duration, IS always
spoken of as the "equinoctlal storm
According to Professor LOOMS, OF
Yale college, however, the equinox has
vary little to do with the storms, and
excepting that the weather is generally
unsettled by the changes which are
taking place In the atmosphere, there Is
no more likelihood of a storm upon
the day that the sun crosses the line
than upon any other day OF the year.
So much for one of our popular the
ories, which, like our popular supersti-
tions. obtain q stronger hold upon
tine public mind than tie strongest
facts In the light of this truth 1t IS
rot difficult TO account for the length Of
time-centuries, perhaps - which 1t
takes TO discover a popular eErOi: or es-
fablish a scientific truth nor can We
measure our Indebtedness to the men
who devote their lives to discovering
facts IN nature and art, and establishing
them upon a scientific-that Is, real
remembered that these men are always
in q minority the mass of mankind are
content to take the world as they find i,
with all its errors, superstlEons and
preiudices. and feel no gratitude 10
those who disturb their fond end fool
iEh belief in them.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-15
SOUTH.

Nashville has collected $915 for the
benefit of the Louisiana sufferers.
The ost crop in southern Georgia has
been cut short half by bad weather, rust and
insects.
Jnc. d. Stevenson, nephew OF Gov.
Brown, was shot and killed by man named
John W. Carter, about eleven miles east of
Athens, Ala, on the 9th inst.
DIR. Jesse Boring, of Troup county,
Georgia, has been awarded $4,000 as dam
ages resulting from accident on tho West
ern railroad, whereby his leg WAS broken.
The part of the Selma, Rome and
Dalton railroad which lies in Georgia, will be
sold before the courthouse door in Rome, on
the second Tuesday in July, to the highest
bidder.
Peter O. Cox has recovered verdict
for $95, 900 damages before at Louisville jury
for the loss of leg the Louisville and
Nashville railroad. The road will apply for a
new trial
A curious fact in South Carolina econ
omics has just come to light. Twenty-seven
conviets have been psrdoned out of the pen
itentiary because the state was too poor to pro-
vide for their support
There Is to be convention of cotton
exchanges at Augusta, &C., on the S0th of
June, to consider the feasibility of improv-
ing the facilities for obtaining information
about the cotton market and the crop.
Reports from New Orleans say all
the crevasses on Plaluemine are closed. The
work OF repair and of replanting rice has COM
menced. The sugar corn the inundated
places has not been entirely DESTROYED.
@. A. Haynes, negro mail agent at
Wilmington, Delaware, and brother of the
negro secretary of state for South Carolina
has been sentenced by the United States district
court to four years in the penitentiary for
robbing the mails.
An appeal is published for the urgent
relief of sufferers by floods in the south.
1t states that over 142, 900 people have been
driven from their homes and are now without
food or shelter, and that to furnish these pro-
visions alone will cost $25, OOOa day.
The southern Baptist convention is in
session at Jefferson, Texas. About 5000 dele
gates are present. James P. Boyce, D. D., of
Louisville. presides. Drs. Burrows, of Rich
moDd Jones, of Nashville; Crane, of Texas,
and Devotio, of Georgia, are vice presidents.
The police of Atlanta have had trou-
BILE with the Federal troops stationed there.
In the melee that occurred last week one
soldier was killed, and it was feared that a
regular pitched battle would occur. It is
thought, however, that the difficulty is ended.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-15
4 Pneumatic Grain Tube.

A Minnesota man has patented a
pneumatic tube for the transport OF
grain. The machinery of propulsion is
a fan, worked by steam, revolving in an
air-chamber which consists of two dou-
BILE cones, put ba Q to base. The axle
of the fan is hollow. A tube runs
through it. pc forated at the sides and
bottom. This tube connects the two
pines which enter the apices of the
cones. The grain to be transported Is
poured into the entrance-pipe. The
revolution of the fan sucks it into the
connecting tube, and then blows it
ahead into the main pipe. At the same
time the fan of the next station, twenty
miles away, begins to whirl. Thus the
grain is hurried forward by suction
ahead and compressed air behind. The
trouble with the theory seems to be
that the grain cannot readily pass under
the influence of two directly opposed
currents of air in the same tube. At
some point they must neutrallze each
other. Still, as the inventor has secur-
ed a patent. it is fair to infer that his
model works satisfactorily, so. that he
NAV have met this difficulty. He thinks
his tube can carry 5000 bushels OF
wheat 96O miles in an hour. Mail mat
ter can make forty miles more IN the
same time. The expense of construct
ing a tube between Chicago and New
York, with carrying capacity of 4O,-
600, 600 bushels year is put at 81 OOO,--
600. A charge of twelve cents bnshel
would pay the cost of construction in a
year AMI leave $8OO,OO0 for operating
expenses. Among the calculations it is
said the saving to farmers, even when
the company got such remunerative
rates, would be great. Grain would be
TRANSPORTED from Minnesota to tide
water for fifteen cents, instead of fifty.
This would save that state alone about
SO, 600 600 a year.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-15
FOR EIGN.

Capt. Gen. Concha has issued a de-
cree ordering the formation of eight battal-
ions of colored militia.
Notwithstanding recent successes,
Madrid is threatened with another ministerial
crisis and Serrano begs few weeks for delib-
Grafton.
After the capture of Bilboa, the
Spanish government again applied to Germany
for the recognition OF the republic. Detaahed
bands of Carlists continue to harrass the
neighborhood Of Blboa.
Much joy was manifested by the cit
izens Of Lisbon over the entry into BiIboa OF
the Spanish republican troops. Crowds Of
people headed by bands of music, paraded
the streets shouting Bnboa and liberty"
DON Manuel Concha.. who is said to
have resumed the command of the spanish
republican troops, is nearly eighty years old
His BROTHER, Don Jose, who has been lately
named Governor OF Cuba, is over seventy
four.
Gen. Olio is said to have arrested four
brigadier generals in the Carlist army on a
charge Of treason. carlos will shortly issue
new proclamation to his troops. Gen. Con-
cha has been appointed general-in-chief of
the army DAklug tuG commandment OF IllDOa,
i50 citizens were killed and wounded.
The American oriental Typographical
corps have reached Jerusalem after making, a
very successful exploration in the vicinity of
Mount Sinai They report as a very remarka-
BILE fact that they were detained two days by a
heavy snow storm about Mount Sinai. The
expedition will soon leave~for Bashon and
Moab.
Additional dispatches from Bilboa
state that parties of Csrlists are surrendering
in hope Of amnesty. The main body, how
ever, is retreating in disorder in the direction
of the province of Guipuzcoa. Bilboa is re-
suming its wonted appearance and trade is re-
viving. The distinctions placed in the river
Nervian to prevent the approach of govern
meat war vessels have been removed.
Details of the fire in the town of
Savoy, philippine Islands, on the 2sth Of
January llave been received. Two children.
left to theI oselyes, set the house on fire. The
confagratiou extended so rapidly that in the
course OF four hours half OF the houses in
the town-nearly 2,OO0-were destroyed. Not
a fruit tree remained. Thousands OF weav
fnR frames were destroyed, and mulutudes OF
cattle persisted. Fifteen persons, including
six children, we're burned 70 death.
Sir Lambton Lorraine in a communica
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-15
WEST.

Woods fires are raging in Michigan.
Much lumber, timber, etc. has been de-
stroysd, and it is feared that great loss will
snsue.
The conductor of the National House
near Milwaukee, excludes the sheriff from ar
resting inmates on the ground that the state
has ceded Jurisdiction Of the institution and
it is under the articles of war.
A passenger train on the Pittsburg,
Fort Wayne aud Chicago railroad, bound east,
We thrown from the track at Summit station
Il the 4th, by misplaced switch, and all the
cars, except the refrigerator, caught fire and
were totally consumed. A large mass Of mail
and express matter, including the California
mail, was burned
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-15
If WE KkEW.

If we knew when walking thoughtless
Through the crowded, noisy way
That some pearl of wondrOus whiteness
Close beside our pathway lay
We would pause when now we hasten,
We would often look around,
Lest our careless feet should trample
Some rare jewel in the ground.
If we knew what forms were Tainting
For the shade that we should fling,
If we knew what lips were parching
For the water we should bring,
We should haste with eager footsteps,
We would work with willing hands,
Bearing cups of cooling water,
Planting rows Of shading palms.
If we knew when friends around US
Closely press to say good-0y
Which among the lips that kiss US
First should meath the daisies lie,
We would clasp our arms around them,
Looking on them thrO' our tears,
Tender words of love eternal
We would whisper in their ears.
If we knew what lives were darkened
By some thoughtless words of ours,
Which had ever lain among them
Like the frost among the flowers;
Oh with sincere repeut5ngs,
With what angui.h of regret,
While our eyes were oyerfOwing,
Would we y-forgive-forget.
If we knew, alas and do we
Ever care or seek to know.
Whether bitter herbs or roses
In our neighbours gardens grow2
God forgive US, lest hereafter,
Our hearts break to hear him say,
's Careless child, I never knew you,
From my presence flee away"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-15
LooKI


The pencil marks you see around This
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
soription Is out or unpaid, and that
you are requested to pay up at once.
We would take great pleasure In extend
ing credit to our friends and patrons,
but cash alone viii pay expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to a strict cash
rule. We hope you viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of saoh
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your faToE.
g We enter no new naTaes On cur
books without the money IN advance.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-15

to bring her to town, and the remainder of
them took the train and came back to Little
Rock. Soon after their arrival the Halle
came down and was landed at the state-house
where the wounded were taken off. Capt.
Sam. Houston died soon after the arrival of
the Halle. John Meyers, pilot, Is mOrtaly
WOTndad
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
EAST.

A joint resolution has passed both
branches of the Pennsylvania legislature, by a
unanimous vote, asking the president OF the
United States to appoint board to re-exan-
inc the proceedings in the case OF Gen. Fitz-
John PnrtAr
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-15
The Worlds Consumption Of Cotton

According to Mr.. Pechen's report,
which is highly commended by the Eu-
ropean press, the following is the pres
ent consumption of cotton in the IN
aforementioned countries, expressed In
pounds:
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-15

LAST year was bad year for cham
pagne. In 1878 thirty thousand dozen
less of the fashionable tipple were i'm
ported into the United States than
reached here in 1872. Now that the
crusaders have got to work it may be
that 1874 viii show a still larger diminu-
ton of the trade.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-15
Consumption
Silver Brick Testimonial.

The Virginia City (Nevada) Enter
prise says that, it having been proposed
to send Sir LambtOn Lorraine silver
brick as a testimonial from the people
of that city, about 800 was collected
in few minutes. Only 81 was accepted
from any one person, though several
gentlemen offered s., so and $50. and
one man was anxious TO give 800. It
was not the intention to send q brick so
large as to convey an intimation that it
is presented for its intrinsic value, but
large enough to conveniently embrace
the inscription, and to be a good, solid
little bar worth about $500. On the
bar will be engraved a short and pithy
inscription, and it will be enclosed in a
neat box manufactured of native ma
hogany. Among those who contributed
were several ladies.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-15
There are "a soparaa ~ - oo,,,,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Announcing the name Of person for county
once % state ofhce, SO; federal ofice S16 IN
vartably in advance.
The above terms ana rates viii be strictly adj
hered to. ~
- Religious, marriage, birth and death notices So
hcteds and will be willingly inserted free 81 shar1a
Oblbueries, Masonic and other society uOticosSef
deaths, ETC., viii be charged 10 csnts per line.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-15

"OH! Mary, my heart is breaking,
said an Aberdeen lover to his Highland
Mary. " Is If, indeed? So mueh [he
better for you" was her quiet rePiy' ~
Why, my idol ?" 8 Because, --t ~
you can sal the pieces for gunhInts'
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enne that "she claws her fringe too
much"
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BOLIVAR BULLETIN.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY, BIZ
PARRISH & HUBBARD,
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inch5 CT 10 lines Of type, constitutes sora,s
one square, first Insertion =, n
Each subsequent insertion = ''s.'''--''' % y
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-10-01
vanqaished By a Cat.

Mr.. STEBBINs PEER, the funambulist,
or rope-walker, who has cable stretched
across the Niagara River, just below the
new suspension bridge, and gives exhibit
tions of his skill in walking, came
near meeting with an accident the other
day, which, but for his agility, would un-
doubtedly have ended his career as a
rope walker He conceived the brilliant
idea of taking cat on the rope and
starting it on ahead of him, in order to
When about thirty feet from the shore he
set the cat on the rope, expecting, of
course, that the feline would show how
the thing was done as well as he could do
it himself. But the cat was not at all
anxious for funambulism, and, instead of
making Decline across, turned upon
Peer, climbed upon him and fastened his
teeth in his shoulder. In his efforts to
disengage the cat he missed his footing,
and had to drop his balance pole, which
fell on the rocks below and was broken
Peer himself scrambled along the rope
back to the shore the best way he could.
He succeeded in reaching terra firma,
but the exhibition of the day was brought
to close, as funambulist without a
balance-pole is of little account. The
pole was subsequently recovered and
spliced Peer will walk again, but will
not be likely to take any cats along
Kingston CAM Wing.