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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-01-08
FROM WASHINGTON.

-Four hundred men and women were
Saturday discharged from the Engraving and
Printing Bureau of the treasury, in conse-
quence of q large part Of the work of the
bureau having been transferred to New York.
The total amount of mutilated cur
rency received from the treasurer and comp
troller since the passage OF the set of June
80 last, is $41, ,0s6 sos, nearly the whole amount
of which has already been issued in new ma
tional bank notes.
The commissioner of Indian affairs
has received an urgent petition from Red
Cloud to be allowed to come on to Washing
ton, with some forty Sioux adherents, and
settle up all troubles about the Black Hill
reservation and hunting on the Platte river
Commissioner Smith replied that on account
of want Of funds to pay the expenses of the
would be negotiators, their proposition must
be declined.
A Cleveland detective named Gilbert
s. Perkins, has fled with the secretary Of the
treasury a claim for S5, 900 for the arrest of
Tom Ballard. He was considered the most
dangerous counterfeiter loose. It will be re-
membered that he made proposition that, if
bis crime was condoned. he would give the
government a secret which would render the
successful countelfeiting of notes impossible.
His offer was rejected by Secretary Bristow.
The receipts from internal revenue
for the month ending Dec 31st were SO. 984, =
$50. and for the fiscal year to date, S53, ,273,-
430. The amount of national bank notes
received for redemption Dec. 31st was $685.
44O. The total receipts for the six months
ending Dec. 81st are s56,O72, ,O7O. The Gus
toms receipts for the week ending Dec 26,
were as follows New York. 81, ,O81, 2O8; Bos-
ton, S165, 2O9; PhiladeIphia, 984, 992; Balti-
more, S87, 116; New Orleans, for week ending
Dec. IS, $50, 500; San Francisco, 800. 26O.
A careful canvass of the finance COM
mittee of both houses show that the passage
of the bill restoring the tax upon tea and ccf-
fee is very probable, and that consequently,
there is little prospect of any increase of the
tax on whisky. 1t is expected that the restor-
alton of the tea and coffee tax will provide
for all necessary additional revenue without
changing the whisky tax. It is the desire of
both finance committees not to change the
whisky tax if sufficient revenue can be cb-
tanned by other means. The little tariff bill,
which viii doubtless pass, will slightly increase
the revenue.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-01-08

| open boat, subsisting part Of the time on the
| flesh and blood Of others who died whilst in
the boat. The Cospair rick was burned on
November II, OF the Cape of Good Hope
The ship Cospstrick was from London for
Aukland. New Zealand. She sailed Septem-
Der II. It is now estimated that four hundred
and sixty-five lives were lost by the disaster.
Advices from Paris are to the effect
that Alfonso, son Of ex-Queen Isabella, has
been proclaimed king of Spain, and that the
event is hailed with rel oicing by the Span
iards. Isabella. in response to dispatch OF
Gen. PRIMO de Rivera, sent the following tele-
gram: "The king proceeds to Spain imme-
diately.H Alfonso has telegraphed to the
pope, asking his blessing, and promising that
he wiIl like his ancestors, defend the rights
OF the holy see. He did not pass through
Paris, but has gone to Spain direct. He viii
disembark either at Cadiz or Valencia. Addi-
tional dispatches from Spain state that Prince
Alfonso has been invited to visit the army Of
the north. The ships in the harbor of San
tander have hoisted the royal flag. Marshal
Serrano acquiesces. The minister of the in
terror has sent the following dispatch to the
governors Of provinces: alfonso XII. has
been unanimously proclaimed king by the
nation, the army and the ministry. A regency
has been formed under the presidency of
ConOvas del Castillo without portfolio. We
hope your patriotism viii induce you to firmly
maintain the great interests confded to you"
The AlfoDsoists consider that Carlism has re-
ceived its death-blow. Ex-Queen Isabella has
received the following dispatches: ''AH the
towns have responded enthusiastically to the
proclamation.
. FRI8Io DE RIVERA
'Captain-G General Of Madrid"
We pray your majesty to transmit the
news to your SON" eve congratulate you on
this grand triumph, achieved without blood
she'd" This telegram is signed by Gems.
Primo de Rivera and Conovas del Castillo.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-01-08
EAST.

Diptheria has a firm hold in New
York. For the week ending December 10,
there were 154 deaths from that disease
against 139 the week previous. Smallpox in
creased from 81 to 81 fatal cases, and scarle
fever from 36 to so.
A drought has been prevailing for
some time in New England, and large sections
are suffering serious inconvenience from the
lack OF water. Many mills have suspended,
and in some localities farmers find it quite
difficult to get water enough for their stock
Statistics of the working OF the pro
hibitory system in Maine during the past year,
show that fines to the amount of $50, 900 we're
imposed and collected for violations of the
law. There have been 276 convictions in the
supreme court for selling liquor, and forty lone
offenders nave been committed to jail;
larger number than in any previous year. It
is claimed that this rigorous enforcement of
the law has resulted in decrease of crime,
the number Of eonvicts being twenty-five per
cent. less than ten years ago
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-01-08
A Mother of Criminals.

Some of the most curious and re-
maTkable criminal statistics ever OBJ
tanned have just been given to the pub
lie by DR.. Harris of New York. His
attention was called, some time since.
TO a county on the upper Hudson which
showed q remarkable proportion of
crime and poverty to the whole popula-
tion,-4S0 of its 40, 900 inhabitants be-
ing in the alms-house, - and, upon look
ing into tbs records a little, he found
certain names continually appearing.
Becoming interested IN the subject. he
concluded to search the genealogies of
these families, and, after thorough in
vestigatioD, he discovered that from a
young girl named =" Margaret, who
was left adrift, nobody remembers how,
in village of the county, 70 years ago,
and, In the absence of an alms-house.
was left to grow up as best she could,
have descended two hundred erimi-
nails. As an illustration of this remark
able record, IN one single generation of
her unhappy line there were twenty
children Of these, three died in infan-
cy, and seventeen survived TO maturity.
OF the seventeen, nine served in the
state prisons for high crimes an aggre-
gate term OF fifty years, while the others
were frequent inmates Of jails and peni-
tentiaries and alm-houses! The whole
number of this girls descendants,
through six generations, is nine hun
dred, and besides the two hundred who
are on record as criminals, a large nun
Der have been idiots, imbeciles, drunk
ards, Iunatics, prostitutes and paupers.
A stronger argument for CAREFUL treat
ment of pauper children than these
figures could hardly be found,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-01-08
THE PEASANT BOY.
BY cHARLoTrE oUsHMAN.


There's poetry, boy, in that step of thine,
Firmly and free on the green sward pressed
And the locks that over thy temples shine
Flow wild in the wind Of the soft sou'west.
Care turks not. boy, in that laughing eye;
No frowDs o'ereast thy foreheadis snow
And the mellow tints of the morning sky
Lend to thy cheek an eloquent GLOW.
Thy heirloom is pure, unbroken health,
A cheerful heart TO endure thy toll;
And all thou needst of this worlds wealth
Thou can'st sturdiIy win from the grateful soil.
With the larks first song thou art up and away,
Brushing the dew from the glistening sod,e
And chanting the simple rOundeiay
Which innocence sings TO the ear Of God.
From the ardent sun of cloudless noon.
Thou seekest the shade of a sheltered nook,
Where the rtng-dove nurmufs its amorous tune
To the answering sound Of the gushing brook.
There, resting thy limbs on the NOISY brink,
Thou takest in peace thy poor repast,
Bending thy feverish lips to drink
From the wave that glideth so cool and fast
Then to labor AGAIN, tiIi the waning sun
Fadeth away in the western sky,
And the shades of twilight are creeping on,
While the birds nestle low in the covert high.
They are coming to meet thee, the peasant band,
The fair-bsired girl and tawny boy,
While the baby prattier clasps thy kand,
And bresthes thy name in hsping JOY.
To the cottage away ! to thy mothers knee,
To thy fathers side-thou art welcome there;
That mothers smile is ever for thee.
And that father gives thee his warmest prayer.
And thou shalt rest in slurnber sweet,
PilIcwed beneath the raftered caves,
While the summer rain-drOps gently beat,
And the night winds stirs the woodbine leaves.
There's poetry, boy, in that form of thine
And the gazer covets thy painless life;
Would that thy stormless lot were mine
Passionless, careless, and free from strife.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-01-08
FOREIGN.

A report comes from Havana that
Gen. Jordan is to return to Cuba and take
command of the insurgent forces.
Herr Pestel, counsellor of the lega-
tion at Paris, has been appointed minister for
the Netherlands at Washington.
The Mark Lane express says the
wheat crop Of Great Britain is above the
average.
The shipments Of bullion from Utah
during the past year are estimated at ST.
600, 600.
Won Arnim takes an appeal from the
decision of the lower court to the supreme
court of the empire.
Sixty thousand colliers in South
Wales are on a strike in consequence of a
reduction of wages.
An explosion occurred in BagnaI Hall
colliery, North Staffordshire. Twenty miners
were killed. Thirteen bodies have been taken
out.
Since the famine set in In Asia Minor
$4,000 persons have migrated from various
parts OF the country to the city of Adana, half
Of whom have succumbed to disease.
Owing to recent fires in Havana, for
eign insurance companies have raised their
premiums about forty per cent, and adopted
uniform rates Of premiums.
The Grand Duke Nicholas, son of the
Grand Duke Constantine, and nephew of the
emperor, has been declared insane and placed
under the guardianship of his brother. He
was associated with the diamond scandal a
few months ago.
Duchesne Po8cclet, the man who
A Ill -
ing to kill Prince Bismarck for So, 600, asserts
that the alleged conspiracy was only little
joke, and that he wrote the letter while in
toxicsted
Dispatches from Spain state that Gen.
Darregary has laid down his arms, and that
other prominent Cariist leaders are about to
give in their adhesion to the king. The re-
publican armies in Catalonia and Saragossa
have accepted Don Alfonso az king Capt,
Gen. Coneha has issued a proclamation an
nouncing the accession Of Prince Alfonso to
the Spanish crown.
A London letter says her majesty E
ship Basilisk. has just returned to England
after q commission of nearly four years, and
brings word that a large archipelago Of islands
has been discovered in the neighborhood OF
New Guinea, and that two mountains in this
region, each about eleven thousand feet high,
have been named Mount Gladstone and Mount
Disraei.
Further details of the Oospatrick dis
aster have been received. When the vessel
was discovered to be on fire, eighty persons,
mostly women, rushed into one OF the boats,
which was capszed and all in her drowned
Soon after AL the masts fell, killing many Of
the passengers. An explosion subsequently
occurred in the stern of the vessel, completing
her destruction. The total number Of lives
lost is now estimated at 474.
A telegram has been received from
Madeira stating that three OF the crew Of the
eraigrant ship Cospatrick, from London for
New York, had arrived at st. Helena, and re
ported the Cospatrick burned at sea Only
/ three persons are at present known to survive
/ namely, the second mate and two seamen-
These were picked up by the British ship
! Sceptre, after having been ten days IN an
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-01-08
ABOUT MTNKs.
a short Dip Into Natural History.

n snort Dip Into Natural History.
One sunny morning in summer, down
the pathway, still sparkling with the
dewy moisture, came stealthily moving
the long, ithe form of a mink. Her
fur looked worn and rusty when the
sunlight struck her as she skulked be-
tween the tussocks of grass. Occasion
ally she halted to look about her, alert
for anything eye could see or ear could
hear; but hearing nothing but the
sweet notes of a sOng-sparrOW and the
complaining cry of a cat-bird among the
alders, she again moved on. As she
reached the muddy edge of the brook,
she trod more daintily, then, winding
among the pickerel-weeds, swan down
stream, hardly disturbing the water,
only making long, wedge shaped wake
as she stole into the shadowy edge of
the brook. Suddenly she came up,
struggling with something that swayed
and pulled her about, disturbing the
quiet stream, and sending a muddiness
down with the current. But she bore
the almost unmanageable wriggling eel
(for this it was) to the stone wall, and
drawing herself and burden mp out of
the water on the large stone, read
iusted her hold, and seized the creature
back of the head. Then bracing her
self to suck the blood, the thrashing,
struggling eel grew gradually weaker
and weaker, until 1t looked perfectly
limp and lifeless. Then she jumped
from the wall. dragging the eel longer
than herself, up through the grass, tax
ing a different and more concealed way
than the one by which she came, and
soon disappeared altogether.
In the thick-banked wall of this barn
ova Ln hillside ha ho6 bcTs TyortTcy oy7H
after they grew large enough to require
something more substantial than natures
first provision, the mother used to bring
them fish of different kinds-eels, ducks
and like prey. So slyly and stealthily
did she keep herself, that she was not
seen until the young were half grown,
and looked like little fawn-colored wea-
sells; when she betrayed herself by
bringing this food, which impeded her
movements. By travelling the same way
so many times she grew bold.
These mink are very destructive to
fish: and when the brook is low they can
be tracked for long distance by the
dead eels, pickerel, sinners and some
times trout, lying along the bank, the
mink only sucking the blood and leav-
ing the fish unmutilated. One autumn
some small sinners, meant for bait In
pjckerel fishing through the ice, were
kept in an old tub set in the spring
near the brook, and one night all these
fish were killed by a mink, who left
them laid in a row on the ground. They
looked precisely as if some person had
so arranged them. But through the
back of each fish, near the head, were
four tOoth-marBs, this being frequently
the only mark the mink makes on his
victim.-OId and -NeaO.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-01-08
Pacious Jewels.

Lucy Hooper writes from Paris {:
Ameng the maTvels displayed in the
jewelers. windows on the Rue de la
Paix, I noticed the other day an i'm
mense pearl oyster shell, lined with
mother-ef pearl of the most exquisite
smoothness and purity, and with two
large spotlegs, lustrous pearls adhering
to its surface. The larger of the two
was about the size of a small marble,
but slightly elongated II form the
other was of somewhat smaller dimen-
sions /; 81, 500 was the price affixed to
this beautiful work of nature. A smell
ing bottle formed entirely of massed
pearls, with one large one IN the cen
ter of the side, and with hook and chain
to correspond, looked like a tasteful
gift for a millionaire to offer TO his lady
love it was valued at 81 200. Then
there was q lOcket representing a tor
tOise, the back of the animal being
formed OF a single large tOrquOise,
while the head, feet, and tail were
composed of diamonds. was
shown lately an exquisite lOaTUre
of lilies of the valley, gotten mp as a
bridal gift TO the young daughter OF an
eminent Partisan banker. Nothing more
lovely, more artistic, or more girlishly
pure and simple with all its magnlh-
cence can be imagined. The flowers
we're formed of a single pearl each, the
broad leaves being composed of small
diamonds, and considerable art had
been shown IN overcoming the natu-
rally stiff look Of the leaf. The set
comprised ear rings, brooeh-pendant,
bracelet. and a spray for the hair. The
bracelet was particularly charming, be
ing literally q small wreath Of ieweled
flowers"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-01-08
LATE NEWS SUMMARY.
WEST


Within the past twelve months Hi
ncIs railroads have killed 227 persons and
manned 4O4
There are said to be more idle min
ers among the coal regions Of Ohio now than
at any time since the panic.
4 dispatch from Tuscan saws very
rich gold mines have been discovered in Son
ora, on the San Miguel river. The cl inns
cover a surface Of two miles square.
Eight warriors, thirty-nine suuaws
and pappooses, and sixty-two ponies, belong
ing to the Medicine Water band of Chev-
ennes, surrendered Internationally at Chev-
enne agency on the goth inst Two white
women are now with Stone Golf, who is said to
have two hundred lodges on the Staked Plains.
Two messengers have arrived, asking for
peace. Word has been sent him that he can
surrender unconditionaIly, and demand was
made for the white women.
The latest newspapers received from
California represent the mining share excite
ment as increasing ia intensity under the
stimulus Of the recent discoveries of ore in
Nevada. ophir shares, which within the
month have sold for less than 500 sold on
Saturday, Dec. 10, at 1922. aud before the
board closed ON the following Monday reached
Sl9O, which is equivalent to an increase be-
tween the boards of 81. 800. 900 on the whole
capital stock. On the last named day Cali
fornia shares showed a gain OF S175, and Con-
soidated Virginia a gain OF S1O5 over the
prices Of the previous Saturday, which carries
these mines to a nominal value of $50, 900. 600
each. These are big figures, and when the
market breaks hundreds Of the spectators will
be ruined, while the large operators who have
engineered the whole thing viii in the mean
time have retired from the field with enormous
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-01-08

Truly POPULAR SCIENoE.-Spilking
has hit upon a happy ezpedieDt for pop
nlarizing science in the family circle.
For instance, at the breakfast table be
remarks: 9 Mrs. Spiikins, viii you be
kind enough to replenish my cup with
some OF the embodiment of solar in
huences shed upon the surface Of Chi
nese soil also, if you please, two
spoonsful of crystailized sunshine from
jamaica" or f" Herodotus, my sons
pass me the solid form Of sunshine alb
sorbed by the pastures Of Orange
county" With dictionary and geog-
Taphy at each plate, the idea works to
charm.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-01-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

News comes from New York that
Mullet has a successor in the person Of VIM.
A. Potter, son of Bishop Potter.
Lieut.. Frederick Collins, command
ing the United States surveying expedition,
leaves Washington to muster his forces and
equip them for the expedition. He VIII sail
in the first Pacific mali steamer in January for
Antwerp. thence to proceed in the United
States vessel Cananidigua to Atrato.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-01-08

To the above number OF tgenty-one
seats must be added several, perhaps
all. Of the Louisiana seats, snd possibly
others Of which there are, as yet, no
advices Of a contest. On The other
hand, some of the above mentionsd
contests, now spoken of IN the press,
may not be brought before the house.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-01-08

were driven for refuge into house, which
was at once surrounded and set fire to The
negroes, finding that they were about to be
burned out, surrendered, and were placed in
jail.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-01-08

DR.. Mary Walkers life IS one con-
tinual struggle to keep her pants hitch
ed mp without the aid Of suspeHders,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-01-08

Contested Seats in the House.
In the house of the forty-third con-
Rress the following are the contested
seata. so far as known:
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-01-08
RATES OF ADvERTIsING.

One column, year-....-....--... 500
Half column, 81. 10
Quarter column. one year co
AEEOUECE1IENTs.- AnnCuncing the name Of q
person for County flee, IS f; State office, SO; f;
Federal Office, SIS. Invariably in advance.
Religious, Marriage, Birth and Death Notices
cied, and viii be willingly instried free of chsrEe.
Obituaries, Masonic and other society Notices of
deaths, etc, viii be charged ten cents per line.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1875-10-07
GIVING THE WEST A SHOW.
Fast Nails Not to be Wholly Confined to
the East,

Now that Postmaster Jewell has SO simpli-
fed and spoedifed-if such word can he
coined-mail matters for the east, it 10 no
more than fair that the new west should get .
show. We notice by the kilograms in the
daily papers that the st. Louis, Kansas City
& Northern is, as usual, the first of western
reads to move in matters OF vital Importance
to this section, and the indications are encsur-
aging; it is said that the road will be made q
leading division in the new fast mail route
from the east. This is the correct thing, and
should the st. Louis, Kansas City Il Northern
succeed in its most commendable enterprise,
and thus have our mails brought to us in less
than half the time under the old dispensation,
the people out this way will not be slow in
testifying TO their appreciation. The st.
Louis, Kansas City & Northern is grand
good road in every detail, and, with its superb
track, can make any time demanded.
1t is understood that the Santa Fe road is
soon to change the time of its evening train
out Of Kansas City from five p. M. to eley N
p. m, in order, as is no doubt the case, to lie
ready to do its share in the good work ofrro-
gression in mail delivery. In the meantiiu
the Santa Te will, by its new time table, maze
sharp connection with the regular evening
tram OF the st. Louis, Kansas City g. NORTH
ere, arriving at Kansas City at 10:40 p. NJ,
thus giving us two through trains from st.
Louis and the east each day.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1875-10-07

The new water-mill Oh the Chisholm east OF
town, was started up last Thursday. We hap
pened around in about two hours after the
water had been let on TO the turbine, and eve
rything seemed to be moving of perfectly
smooth and steady without jar or a creak.
Scheetz was smiling sll over. The wing OF
the ferebay had been replaced and solid back
ing put in, and no more trouble was expect
ed from that quarter. There was but one
pair Of stones, one bolt and the shutter run
ming when we were there, and they were be-
Ing driven by iive-foot head Of water, which
was found sufficient. When all the stones are
put IN operation, together with the entire
machinery Of the mill, enough water viii be
turned in 10 maintain . seyen-foot head,
There are two turbine water wheels. one very
much smaller than the other. The body of
water being used to drive the larger wheel.
did not seem much more than ordinarily
flows in the bed OF the creek. Mr.. Scheetz
informed MS that the mill viii do custom work,
which will be great advantage. When the
new mill gets fully under Roadway, and all its
machinery in motion, we shall 20 over and
get The data for fuller account Of the enter
prise.