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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-02-19
FROM WASHINGTON

The house committee on appropria-
tions has agreed to recommend an appropria-
ton of $500, OGO to defray the expenses attend
ing a display of the several departments of
the government at the centennial exposition
The supreme court of Massachusetts
has rendered a decision in the case OF Jesse
H. Pomeroy, the boymurderer, overruling the
exceptions and rendering judgment on the
verdict. Pomeroy will therefore be sentenced
to death.
The senate has confirmed the follow
ing nominations Jno. NJ. Thayer, Nebraska,
governor of Wyoming Territory; Charles E.
Dirns, judge of the eastern district of Wiscon-
sin VIM. Fl. Clayton, United States attorney
for the western district of Arkansas; Jas. F.
Pagan, United States marshal, ditto; Thos
Reynolds, pension agent, Wisconsin. Post
masters-Alex. F. Seymour, Pine Bluff, Ark;
Charles PhiIIiPa, Waterville, Kansas: Charles
Weare, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Gov Campbell
Of Wyoming territory, just appointed third
assistant secretary OF state. was formerly on
the staff of Gen. Schofeld, and the Office 10
which he is now appointed was a voluntary
tender to him by the president.
A general order from the war DEPART
IitAlL WIN AOtSASAt-o " ing out the pro
visions OF the act Of congress approved Febru-
airy Is, 1875, to provide for the relief of persons
suffering from the ravages OF grssshoppers
pom the western frontiers, says it is ordered
by the president that the commanders OF the
departments OF the Platte the Missouri and
Dakota, shan cause 70 be made as soon as
practicable an enrolment Of the inhabitants
Of the states and territories within those de-
psrtments who have been rendered destitute
by the rsvages Aforesaid, which enrolment
will, as far as practicable group families to-
I gether, giving the name Of each person enti-
tied to relief = children under y years to be
rated seParssely. Applicants FOR supplies
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-02-19

should make statement on blanks furnished
them. of their resources convertible with ssfe-
ty to their families into a supply Of food and
the names Of such persons as may be found to
have resources so convertible, shall not be
placed on the rolls until such resources are
exhausted.
TIE committee on ways and means
have agreed upon the draft of a tariff and tax
bill. It proposes to raise about $50, 600, 900
should no modification of it take place before
it is reported. The ten per cent. taken from
the duties under the second section OF the act
OF June 1872, viii be rest tored. The articles
thus to be affected are manufactured cotton,
wool, iron and steel, paper, books, India rub
Der, gutts perche, glass, leather etc. Tea
and coffee are to remain free of duty, but
sugars of all kinds are to bear an additional
duty. The tax on whisky and tobacco Will
also be increased. The committee viii hold
another meeting to perfect the ill. The ma
jority of the committee decided that sugar
and molasses can bear an additional du'y of
twenty-five per cent, and tobacco an increase
Of four cents per pound that matches should
be relieved from tax, snd that the tax on
spirits should be increased fifteen cents a gal
lon, opera ting upon all now on hand, but that
thirty rer cent. ehould be imposed on all
spirits manufactured after the passage of the
bill; and stamps On bad checks to cease at the
end Of this year. These changes will be in
corporated il the bill.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-02-19
SOUTH,

The Austin, Texas, shoemakers have
struck for specie payment.
The Arkansas house Of Representatives
has passed a joint resolution for adjournment
sine die on the 10Th OF March.
One hundred and fifteen residents of
De Witt county Texas, have been indicted for
carrying concealed weapons.
The wheat crop is of more acreage in
northern Texas than ever before. The hopes
OF heavy harvests are induIged in.
A wo-thOusand-ton bark is TO lie
loaded at Port Royal, S. c., with cotton seed
for Europe, to be manufactured into table oil
and oil cake for feeding cattle.
9. II. Zimmerman, a well known
jewslry merchant of New Orleans, suicided
last week by blowing his brains out with a
pistoI. Cause, pecuniary embarrassment.
The sale of the Alabama and Chatta-
nooga railroad by the commissioner under the
decree of the court at Mobile, has been post
poned until Monday, March 8.
a bill has passed both houses of the
Arkansas Legislature exempting mines and
manufacturing establishments from taxation
for a number of years.
Fatty McGinEis, a noted rough Of
Memphis, recently pardoned out Of the peni-
tentiary, assaulted James a Creamer. of
Helena, Ark. and was shot in the shoulder by
Oreamer- The wound is not dangerou
John Woods, alias Hall, alias BIake-
ly, and Henry johnson, colored, two cf the
men who robbed the express messenger at
Momphis, few days since, have been arrest.
ed, and have divulged the names of their as
sociates.
General William Johnson, a veteran
OF the war OF 1912, a former member of the
Kentucky legislature, and father Of Col. T.
Jilson and Albert W. johnson, Of Louisville,
Kentucky, died at his home in Scott county.
Kentucky, Friday.
Tee board of directors of the mer-
chants exchange, st. Louis, have unanimously
adopted memorial to congress getting forth
in strong terms why, in the Improvement OF
the mouth of the Mississippi river the south
west pass should be used instead of the south
pass. 1t urges ietties for its Improvement,
and the adoption of Capt Eads' plan. The
south pass viii prove totally inadequate fo1
the commerce Of the Mississippi valley, and
while a question OF economy should be re-
garded in the matter, 1t Is believed the differ
ence in the cost the works. as between the
passes, when compared with the magnitude OF
the interests involved, is hardly worthy o1
consideration. The following resolution was
also adopted: Resolved, that the merchants
exchange of st. Louis respectfully asks the
chambers of commerce, boards of trade, aDC
kindred boards in other cities, especially OF
the Mississippi and its tributaries to ioir
without delay in our appeal to congress fol
| the construction OF permanent works for tbc
improvement OF the mouth of the Mississippi
river at the southwest pass, as being on al
sides acknowledged to be the largest, safes
and best natural outlet
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-02-19
LATE NEWS SUMMARY.
EAST,


The first train passed through Hoosac
tunnel on the 9Th inst. The passage was made
in thirty-fve minutes.
During the month of January 1894
emigrants landed at Castle Garden, being 524
less than in January, 1874; of these 679 had
been in the United States before.
The operatives in three of the largest
cotton mills at FAN River, Mass, have struck
because their wages we're reduced, and one
thousand of the weavers are going back to
Europe at the expense of the other Borkmen,
on the supposition that they can get work
there. In this they viii be mistaken, as thou
sands Of workmen are out of employment in
England. At the reduced wages they would
have been able to keep the wolf from the
door. but they want to be Independent and
starYe.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-02-19
FACTS and FANcTEs.

According to aFrench journal. there
are still living n France ard its colonies
TWEEN 'y-fye tbousaI q men who have
fought under the first NAPOLEON.
Eugene is said 10 be wasting away
with consumption, and her frien5s are
anxious that she should travel. She is
said to Rave "sged" very much the last
few months.
"A thousand years hence, Burnside
will be known to the student of history,
not as st 4tesman OF the nineteenth
century, but as the inventor of side
whiskeTs.
Texan pElaontolOPists are positive
as to the human origin OF skeleton,
twenty odd feet long, one Of whose
knee-pans fills a large carpet-bag,
while a mclar tooth measures eleven
inches in length and Sax inches across
the surface.
OF one hundred aud six deaths
from dehium tremens il the English
army IN India, eigbty-siX victims were
sergeants, and only twenty privates. -
they propose to investigate how 1t IS
that Sc geants can get liquor SO much
more freely.
-NapoIeon always carried With him
an emerald of great value which pc
Ionged to the crown jewels. He lost 1t
at Waterloo. It was found by Prus-
sian soldier, and has since been num-
bered among the Prussian crown jewels.
Queen Victoria. on recommends,
ton of her prime minister, has granted
a pension of $3.50 a year to the WIDOW
of Giovani Bactista Falcieri, the ser
want of Byron, who is celebrated IN tho
writings of his master, IS well as III
those Of Moore, Rogers and Shelley,
by the name OF "Tita."
They say that their armies are on a
s' peace footing" in Europe when they
have $50, 600 men IN the AustIo-Hun
gatian army, $50, 900 il The Russian
army, 500, COO ia the French army. Jf
it takes such armies to declare peace 1t
is scmeU hat charming to ponder the
probabilities of the " war-fOoting.
Who wouldn't be a pedsgogue,
With moral force and vim,
To trOunce all pert uuTuly boys-
That fail to wallOp him
Who wouldn't be pedagogue,
Loves gauntlet grand to run,
And win all scheolma' ans witcbius snIies-
Until be marries one
The total quantity Of anthracite
coal mined IN Pennsylvania, n LoIf,
was twenty one millions SIX huniIel
thousand tons, or ever FIVE Lundred ana
gixEv millions of cubic feet. PIsced ia
one mass. this would form solid wall
enc hundred feet high, one hunGred
feet vide, and nearly eleven Inlies ID
length. ~
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-02-19
WEST

The Cincinnati tobacco board of trade
have adopted a series of resolutions. express
ing the belief that any advance Of the existing
tax on tobacco would prove injurious to all
branches of the tobacco trade that any ad-
ditional tax would be unjust to both the pro
ducer and consumer, and that as measure to
increase the revenue, it would fail OF its pur-
pose. They also request all members of con-
gross in sympathy with the tobacco interests
to prevent, if possible, any increase in the
rate of taxation on tobacco.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-02-19
MTSoELLANEOUS.

The prospects are that the depositors
in the Freedmen's savings bank viii not receive
over 40 or As cents on the dollar.
The state supreme court of Illinois
has decided that the practice known as cham
perty, the legal practice of taking case and
dividing the profits with the client, is illegal,
and is punishable by fine and Imprisonment.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-02-19

IN vain. >"
BY the provisions of the new Hawai-
ian treaty. now made public, the Sand
wich Island people viii be permitted to
Introduce their sugars and syrups into
the United States without duty. In
turn, the producers OF our country will
be permitted to export to the domain of
Kalakaua nearly every namable article
of manufacture and growth. The treaty
is to extend through a period of seven
years.
WISCONSIN proposes to save several
thousand dollars by converting the
Soldiers Orphan Home into an institu-
tion for the blind. Ten years after the
war, bat few Of the soldiers orphans
are left, most of them being appren-
ticed out at an early age, and the Home
has become little more than salary
eating affair
AN educational reform bill, more val
liable for its sugge estiveness than any
thing else, is pending before the Hi
nois legislature. It prohibits the teach
ing Of any except plain English branches
" with no nonsense about them" and
forbids the building of school houses
costing more than 50 900.
Two hundred horses are in course of
training at New York stables for the
spring races. This number is to Re
largely re-enforced by southern stables,
especially many from Kentucky. Jerome
Park, it is said, will witnes5 a larger
number of horses at the approaching
races than ever before.
The trustees of the Cincinnati South
ern railroad have finally closed CON
tract with the Cleveland rolling mill
company for II, 600 tons of steel rail,
at $76.75 per ton, and 1000 tons iron
rails at $50. 75 per ton-the total amount
of the contract being 81, ,5O3, ,625.
THE female operatives, on the strike
at Fall River, Mass, had a mass meet
ing last Sunday night, in which they
resolved to hold out a year, or longer,
if need be, to make the manufacturers
accede TO their terms.
AMONG the institutions of Milwaukee
is a Mutual Hail Insurance company,
which paid farmers last year 50, 400
for damages to crops from hail-storms.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-02-19

CASTELAR,, and the dicta'ure of Serranr.
There is no reason why a fourth should
give me any Hneasiness. I have got
used TO it by this time. The legitimacy
is rock against which these ephemeral
governments are powerless, against
which the waves of revolution will dash
IN vain.'
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-02-19
TIMELY TOPICS.

THEsexhilaratiDg mining stock gamb-
ling on California street, San Fran
cisco, which for several weeks has been
upsetting the brains of paroxysmaI eiti.
zens, experienced a distressing douche
of coldwater.the other day, and bonanza
stocks, which had been selling like
wild fire at from $500 to $500. fell down
to 5000 and $500. So it happened that
on the brokers' board hundreds had any
quantity of stock to sell, but there was
nobody to buy. On one day last week
the favorite -Ophir stock declined S37
per share, aud consolidated Virginia
declined SlO8.. There was a good deal
OF nausea among the gamblers, of
course, and the panic was attributed to
a favOFibe -ruse of the bears in spre ad-
ing the false report that the miners had
struck porpbyry aud the bonanza of
silver had gone mp.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-02-19

HE general government, at its sal
mon breeding establishment on the
McCloud river, California, has collected,
the present season, 5,752, 500 salmon
spawn, which has been distributed as
follows: Maine, 100, 600; Massachusetts,,
100000; Rhode Island, 100, 600; Con-
necticut, 300, ,00e; New York, 525, 600 !;
New Jersey, 225,O0O Pennsylvania,
100000; Maryland, 375, GOO; Michigan,
10000; Wisconsin, 10O,O Mime
sofa, 100000; Iowa, 100000; Utah,
10000; Colorado, $4,000; Illinois,
$4,000; Virginia, $4,000; Canada, 25,-
O0O;. New Zealand, $4,000. The bal
ance We're hatched and returned to
McCloud river.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-02-19

THIS question is asked by the New
England Farmer, Can we drive a nail
legally pa It states that it has received
copy of patent granted to a man in
Indiana for securing a grape vine to a
stake by driving in a nail. Persons re-
ceiving the circular are granted per.
mission TO drive one nail, just to see
how the thing works but they are re-
minded that they will be liable to dam
ages for infringement if they drive more
than one. There is absolute danger at
the present time of a farmers being
made to pay damages for building q
panel of fence to keep cattle out of his
garden. Every farm operation from
plowing the soil to putting grain in
bag is done by means of soma patented
tool or appliance.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-02-19

The completion Of the ,great Hoosac
y tunnel is an event Of almost national
Importance. It is work that mas cost
the labor of ar immtnse number of men
since 1852, the expenditure of S13, ,OOO,- :
600, and the sacrifice of I42 lives. The
tunnel is nenly four miles long, and it
is stated that it will take q loaded
freight train forty minutes to pass
through it. Transportation companies
and ehippers:are eager to avail them
selves of its facilities for shortening the
distance between New England cities
and the west, and great expectations of
increase-o business are based thereon.
DoY CARLOS is something of wit
While talking to Herald correspondent
about "AIy poor little cousin Alfonso, +"
he remarked :-s's Oh. g7so1s DieE since
have taken the field 1 have seen three
governments ciumble before me-the
monarchy ot Amadeo, the republic OF
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-02-19

A DISPATCH from New York to the
Chicago Tribune says: In the trial of
tho Smuggling case to-day it was sworn
in the United States court that II. B..
Clahin & Co., the heavy dry goods
house, had bought smuggled silks,
knowing them to be smugglei, and had
sold them. A Tribune reporter who
applied to Mr.. Fl. D. Clafin for an ex.
planation, was told that tho report was
true, andlthat on the advice of a reve-
nue. official he had bought goods know
ing that they had been smuggled. He
stated further, that all large dry goods
houses had to do the same, and named
houses which so smuggIed goods. Ao.
cording to Mr.. Clafin the silk trade is
largely in smuggled goods.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-02-19

IHE national grange, in session at
Charleston, S. c., authorized the exec
Ut.ve committee to select location for
offices of the body and to lease the
necessary buildings. The action with
reference 10 loan OF money by the
national grange to state oranges was so
amended as TO make the loan free of
interest. Two additional members of
the executive committee were elected,
viz: d. F. Chase, of New Hampshire,
and John, L, Jones, of Arkansas, for
three years each ID. w. Aiken, of
South Carolina, was re eIectedfor three
years, aud VIM. Sanders, of Washing
ton, and L. B. Shankland, of Iowa,
held over, making the committee five in
all.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-02-19

AMONG the institutions of Milwaukee
is Mutual Hail Insurance company,
which paid farmers last year 50, 400
for damages to crops from hail-storms.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-02-19

SENATOR GoRDON, of Georgia, has an
nounced his intention to wIite letter
to Wendell Philips, inviting him per-
sonally to make an extended tour
throughout the southern states, and
give the public the benefit of his views
concerning their condition, particularly
with respect to their government. He
says he has abundant faith in Mr.. Phil
lips integrity of purpose ard ability to
correctly state the impressions the re-
suIt OF trip Of this kind might have
upon his mind. He has not yet con-
cluded whether he will make the letter
confidential communication, or give it
publicly after it shall have been written.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-02-19

THE female operatives, on the strike
at Fall River, Mass, had mass meet
ing last Sunday night, in which they
resolved to hold out year, or longer,
if need be, to make the manufacturers
accede TO their terms.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-04-24
Coal Famine.

PHILADELPHIA. April 2t-The extreme
scarcity Of coal in the northwestern section
of the city makes the existing troubles a
source of much concern i'm many hou schools
Burin" tie week stove coal has been retail
ing a. high as $50 per ton, and then great
difficulty was found in oh aiming IT, rhe
latest Information from POttSviilc indicates
determination of the miners 10 stand out
for their leTSistently asked for schedule of
prices. and as they claim TO be i'm posses
sion of sufficient funds, the prospect OF a
resumption exceedingly unSatiS factory. The
quantity sent from the Schuylkill region
last week was iN.24j tons, against HAS tons
by railroad and canal for corresponding
week las year 81 crease @6.iSS tons. The
quantity OF anthracite sent for the week
from all regions was @li.Ys4 tons. ana 81. a2.
bituminCu>: ioT tho week - 81, tons against
-. 80 tons for the corresponding week last
year; decrease IL -h1I ions. The Supplv sent
from al! regions 50 far this year is b. a.-s
tons. against $3.50. 400 tons Ia the same period
last year: decrease, l.i5>.43I tons. The de-
crease in supply Of anthracite j. I.2I1. 80
tons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-04-24
TEREIELE DIsAsrER AT New ORLEANS

TERRIBLE DISASTER AT NEW ORLEANS
ThJc, Steamers BUyHcj nipI Many LtreS Inst
y terrible disaster occurred at New Orleans
Yesterday afternoon. The stea mbOat John
Kyle, while lying at one OF the piers. took
fire. The steamers Exporter and Bodman
were lying beside her. and when the people
on the wharf supposed that they were in
danger of beng burned. they were cut loose
ana drilled out into the channel The burn
ing vessel drifted alter them and set them on
IRE. The people on board jumped into the
water, ana many were drowned. The Tx
porter was from pittsburg. The number lost
- estimated al from twenty to one hundred.
The commander Of the United States steam
or Kansas promptly sent out his boats. one
OF which rescued thirteen persons. The job
bin@ tug-bOatS made no effort To rescue those
on burning boats. There was an excursion
parry from Cincinnati or Pittsburg. many of
whom II Is feared are lost. The holman ar
rived yesterday morning and had discharged
most Of her cargo. The Exporter wa to leave
last evening, and had on board about 40D tons
OF freight. all OF which was lost. ON board
the Exporter was Capt. Reese. The Own.r.
nom PittSbUrg. who, with his family and a
number of friends from that city. were at
New Orleans on pleasure excursion. The
ladlC> of the party were all ashore except
Mrs. Reese and daughter and one other lady.
Mrs. Reese and the other lady were saved
tut the daughter was drowned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-04-24
TOG-REEsHEH SIT.
Another Witness for The neTeucc

= Nv 1ORk. April 24.-Ihe COUNSEL IN IN
TiltOn-B cecher trial are talking about al
adjournment for a week after all the tc>ti-
mony shall be in, and previous TO the sum
IN ng mp. for The purpose OF arranging their
other business which this trial. they saw, has
greatly disturbed. The restaurant keeper at
whose place Mr.. BacchCU dtu,d on the day OF
the alibi. has been found by the counsel for
the defence. He was struck by reading Mr..
BeechcrS testimony. that about the Time
mentioned Mr. and Mrs. B-echer took lunch
together in his saloon. Re had made a
memorandum Of The circumstance. AZ the
time. Dn lODklB- over his book, lac found
That the date corroSpOndUd with the one
mentioned by Beechcr. He has sent WORT
that he j willin. 10 testify.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-04-24

THE UNDERWRITERS CONVENTION. which
has been in session two days in New York
adjourned yesterday. ii. y. Oakley was
elected president, l.. !. Hendee vice -preSi-
dent, :. L. BlOg,len secretary, and j. :. Par
IRISH treasurer. Resolutions were adopted for
the organization of a statistical bureau. with
q permanent secretary: that a reduction ia
the present scale Of rates be left To the eXecu-
tive committee; that the rates on building:
be liked at two and Il half for three. and four
policy he referred to the executive commit
tee with full power 10 act. President Oakley
was authorized 70 represent the board IN
Europe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-04-24

THE LIBEL CASE against The Charleston
News and Courier, by e. &. Bowen, formerly
a member Of Congress. has occupied the cIini-
mai court in that city for two days past,
from a. IN. until after dark. The evidence
was closed last night. The cross-eNamiuu-
ton of the main witnesses is stated to have
been the most searching and prolonged that
has occurred in any trial in Charleston for
many years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-04-24

BISMARCK AND BFLGTUM.-Poor little
Belgium IS tryin" To please Bismarck by Ia k
In% proceedings against DucheSne and hi a.
socrates. These latter are hid from the eve Of
DAY, and Duchesne refuses doggedly to reveal
their names. Why not try the thUmbScrew
and the rack? Nodoubt under their perSua-
Siv" influence Stout Master Duchesne would
sax anything Prince Bismarck mi gllt desire
him TO say, and implicate any one from the
Pope TO the Emperor William. We COM
mend the idea 10 the man Of blood ana iron
" \. Hcgad