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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-22
The PuR-Adder,

Among the numerous pests Of the
south African bush, Cne OF the most for
nidable is the puff-adder, 50 called from
its habit of initiating its head and neck
Just before striking its prey. It's mode
of attack is TO throw back It's head and
strike downward with the two hooked
teeth that project from the upper jaw,
inficting a wound which IS almost in
variably fatal. It's fondness foT p eyiBg
upou mice, which are It's chief ioOd, fre.
ouently leads it into the houses ot the
eolonists, who find it ve.y Troublesome
guest, inasmuch as its body is 20 tough
and elastic as to defy almost any weapon
except q charge Of shot. o. one Occa-
sion lie wife Of 8 missionary in one Of
the remoter settlements of Cape Colony
noticed on the floor of the TOon in which
she was sitting the empty skin OF q
mouse, out Of which the flesh had been
sucked as clean as could have been the
inside OF an orange. Detecting At once
the well-known trace Of the puh-adder,
she cautiously searched the whole room
and at length lifting s corner OF the
mating upon which her baby lying
asleep, found the snake cOiled UP under
meath. With great presence Of mind,
she Iefrained from disturbing it, and,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-22
A Strange story.

That truth Is stranger than fiction the
Dubuuue Times demonstrates in its
local columns. a wealthy couple had
live d together in perfect peace for forty
one wears. While sitting in the parlOr
one evening not long ago, the husband
surprised his wife by saying " an
going to tell you a secret you never
heard before" There was a brief pause
"a the lady and q near relative who
CHANGED to be present awaited the dis
closure, and the husband continued
% Yes. YOU will be surprised to hear that
had another wife before / married you"
Startled and aghast the wife clasped her
hands in suspense, and asked Am l,
then not your lawful wife = You are
nv loved and lawful wife," was the
prompt reply my first wife died four
years before / came to Dubuque, and
met YOU" Then the husband related
how ne had married his first wife and
been summoned to his home to find her
dead IN childbirth. Then he went west
and settled IN Dubuque, where the Sec
ond romance of his life came about. Six
years ago he bad received a letter from
the woman who had nursed his hrst
wife. She wrote that she was on her
deathbed. and could not rest until she
mao CDulE65Eu nGE ntAf@tC IL q Df-'S Na@A--~a
Cbe wife had died. but the son bad sur
viged, and through a large brib +, Prof~
eled by the dead Womsn's father, the
nurses lips had been sealed and the hus>
bsud told that the child had died with
its mother. This man, the father-in-
law. was wealthy, but his daughters
death left him without an heir. and he
took this means of supplying what fate
had denied. With her last breath the
nurse informed her employer that she
had divulged the truth to the gentleman
in ubuque, and Immediately upon her
death the iather-in>lsw went west and
offered bribe. This was refused, but
the secret was kept. The son was mil
lionaire in the city of p, and his father
was anxious TO see him. The second
wife was thus told the truth for the
first time, and asked to go east aud pay
the first wile's son S visit. when the
story was told the wife announced In ioW
tones: '' Since you kept it from me- so
long, I would rather you lad never
repeated it." The excitement caused by
the recital proved fatal. IN two days the
lady was dead.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-22
The YeIlOw-Fever Bill.

The yelloW>fever bill has, for the
present, received its quietus, probably
its deathblow. After nearly a week of
desultory debate in the senate to fill the
gap caused by the hitch in the approe
priation bills, the measure was to-day
recommitted to the committee in which
it originated by a vote Of thirty to rine>
teen. One of the chief objections to the
bill which was urged by Senators Conk-
ling, Herman and others, was that it
vested an immense power in the national
board of health to be created by it.
This power would actually enable the
board to entirely override all local regu-
lations with which its regulations might
conflict. Some of the state sanitary
rules, particularly those OF New York,
were as good as have ever been devised.
To overthrow them new, just at the be-
ginning of the hot term, might result
disastrously. Senstor Harris, of Ten
nessee, who has had charge of the bill
was bitterly disappointed, and protested
against the recommitment, saying the
committee could do nothing more than
TO report the bill backin the same shape
as they had already done all in theil
"ower 20 render its provisions unObjeC
O5abie.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-22
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

There is smallpox in San Antonio.
Small grain crops are promising in all
sections of Georgia.
The colored Bsptists OF Atlanta are
organizing a seminary.
A vein of pure stone coal has been
discovered in COnecuh county, Ala.
A soldier has arrived in Atlanta under
sentence to he shot for a murder committed
fourteen years ago.
Recently there have been deposited in
the streams of North Carolina 100000
young shad.
On May two tobacco firms in PEI
tersburg, Va, bought, the one s56,OOO and
the other $4,000 worth of stamps.
The trsmps are fleeing Texas, having
got the idea that bill to put them to work
had passed the state legislature.
No wonder our lawyers are poverty.
stricken. One legal gentleman received
only $4,000 for his services in the Wander
bilt will case.
Dsnville (Vs Times: Tobacco plants
plentiful and doing well. In two weeks
2.279,660 pounds of tobacco were sold IN
Danville. The cash paid for it amounted to
$242, ,S22.
A petition asking that equal political
rights be conferred on women was prese nted
to the Louisiana constitutional convention
Saturday. 1t is numerously signed by the
most prominent men and women of New
Orleans
Michael Propst, of North Carolina
was married to Nancy Angel before he vol
unteered IS a soldier in the war of 1912
They had eleven children, and all are living
to-day. The Oldest is seventy-two years O
age and the youngest fifty.
Register: Fifteen carloads of tobacco
passed through Columbia vesterdav On tb,
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta railroad
on their way to Savannah and other south
ern cities, the cause of the large shipmen
being the reduction OF the tobacco tax.
A correspondent of the News apt
Courier says an exodus Of negroes from tn
other South Carolina counties has begui
into the county Of Beaufort, some 500 hay
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-22

is in the mines of Freyburg, in Saxony. A
series of galleries, which were begun in the
welfth century, reached in 1885 length of
123 miles, and had yielded an immense
quantity Of silver. In 1888 a new gallery
was commenced, which was finished a year
ago, and is eight miles long.
The Dutch are at last approaching
the end of their war in Acheen. and have
met no such overwhelming disasters as the
British forces. The leading chief of the
natives has sent in his submission, another
great tribal power has taken to fight and a
number of others have opened up negotia~
tons for peace. The cessation of warfare
comes not moment too soon, as the rains
have set in and made the roads impracti-
cable, and the health of the Dutch troops is
most precarious
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-22
What Became Of a Man Who Was
Hanged.

DR.. Lambert, on a visit to the New
York Evening Post Cffice, was asked if
he ever saw a msn who had been hanged
brought to life. His reply is given as
follows:
"a young fellow wss condemned to
be executed. During his iucaIceration
be promised his body TO the prison ply
sician in return for the Il b8cco that he
used. When he was dead the physician
determined to try an electrical machine
on him, and never having handled one,
called me in TO help. l went. We az
piled electricity % various psTts OF the
/ body, and wherever it was applied the
/ body moved. At length We cent 2 cur
rent along the sPiDe from end to end.
! The fellow was lying on ? long table as
long as-well Cooking around the rOOm)
rather longer than any you've got here.
He sat up; opened his eyes slowly shut
them; then opened them wide. The
physician who owned the body and two
young men who were helping him, started
afrighted for the door"
" Did the man come round all right p
inquired the reporter, earnestly.
q" II diaa't lie down again In bali
an hour he spoke-esked where he was
and 7hat we were doing to him. In q
couple OF hours he was on his way out OF
the village SIS fast as his legs could carry
him"
g Did they catch him again %
&" ho The inhabitants 10 this day
think that he was dissected."
% Oaght be to have been hanged if he
had been caught7'
8 Well, there's a difference of opinion
about that Certainly the physician
owned him-had bought and paid for
him"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-22

The pale moon rushed 81 ng the stormy sky,
Now hid, now seen, like come beated bark,
Tlist drives among the breakCrs aimlessly,
Their white erests cleaning silver through The
dark.
Pale as the moon. beneath the iigbt-hOuse COW
cred
The silent watcher on the great stone pier;
She raw how black the gathering cloud wrAck low
cred,
She heard the gales hoarse warning mutteling
near;
She felt the kindred tulnult in her breast,
With Nature's angry mood vas prompt TO blend
Yet the sea answered, stilling her unrest,
The hardest hap comes ever to an end"
Though the great wsves roll laundering to the
shore,
And Ger the reel the cruel surf-elouds foam,
Though fierce and high the crashing breakers roar,
Between the weary fishermen and home:
Calm 10 its depths the tide will ebb at night
The waves creep whispering backward from the
Scar,
And as the cottage hearth shows welcome light,
The laden coble leaps the harbor bar,
Ears that hear, hearts that can understand,
Now ocean tells us, like staunch old friend,
" God holds the future in Eis loving hand,
The hardest hap comes ever 10 an end"
The Teed-roofed hoases piled beneath the Head,
In silent sepaI ate lines begin to shine,
! he struggling moon her fearful radiance shed
On the grand beauty the ruined shrine,
From the quay SIDE laugh, snatch of Bong and call
Came itful 10 the pier upon the breeze,
And, regular pulEe's Tite and fail,
bloomed the long echo of the b. eaking seas,
And Sill the watcher on the great stone pier
fingered above the eternal waves to bend,
Taking their snsE Eer home TO hush and cheer,
" The hardest hap comes ever to an end"
All the Year Round.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-22
MISCELLANEOUS.

More frogs legs are now eaten in
America than in France.
A Massachusetts paper alleges that
the farmers turned out by the state agriculs
tural college cost $1S. 900 apiece.
a Texas jury arose after the evidence
was in, and requested that the case 90 to
them without any " lawyers speeches" and
it did.
The United States supreme court viii
be 700 cases, or two years, behind when il
adjourns, and things are getting no better
very fast.
The three tallest trees in the world
are believed to be a seqUoia near Stockton
Cal, which is 325 feet high, ana two euca,
/ lyp.i in Victoria, Australia, estimated to be
4S5 and $50 teet high, respectively.
The longest subteTranean construction
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-22

JUDGING from the energetic progress
OF The work of redeemiDg Jerusalem,
reported from the Holy City, one would
say that Daniel Deronda had got down
10 real hard work. In ten years the
Jews have bought up all the land they
could in the ancient city, and have built
outside the walls in some cases entire
streets of houses. Synsgogues and Jew
ish hospitals have multiplied and the
GeTmsn Jews lave no fewer than sixteen
charity associations and twenty-eight
Congregations religieuses." Building is
going en- night and day. The new
c0mers are from all countries, but chiefly
from Russia. Baron Rothschild holds a
mortgage on the whole of Palestine as
security for his loan of 2OO, 10000 francs
to the Turkish government. So there is
prospect of better days in store for the
grard old Jewish capital.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-22

LEADvILLE, the new Eldorado in
Colorado, is built exclusively of wood,
and prediction is current in the, citv
that it will soon be burnt in or,,er to let
the carpenters and lumbersrs build it
over again. Two attempI.s have already
been made to burn j.; a guest of the
drand hotel, coming up from dinner,
found some shav inrs in a blaze under his
ped' and To-. of boxes and kindling in
the rear ot a restaurant were alighted,
Dut ext nguished by the cook, who hap>
pence to step out that way. Still new
hoV ses are run up as If by magic.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-22

TIE jewels of Nine. Bopaparte were
appraised, at the request of the execua
tors, by Joseph Gale, jeweler. Gale ex-
presses the opinion. that while the Jewels
cost about $40 goo, they would not sell
tor that. Tie most expensive article is
a necklace and pendant composed OF five
hundred diamonds. One of the greatest
curiIsities in the lot is a bracelet made
iFom gold I1o LV'l 7It ar of a skels
eton discovered in the ruins of Pompeii.
The jewels win be reserved in the family.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-22

a HAUNTED clock is mystifying the
inhabitants of Huntsville and Falls VIII
lage, n. Fl. About midway between
those places lives Mr.. w. II. Blodgett,
who has two clocks, and while one is in
good rUnning order, the other has not
run or been wound up in twenty years,
and for few weeks past, just as the
Aands of the running clock point to ten
minutes past seven in the evening. the
old clock strikes one. The family being
somewhat alarmed at the strange phen
omenozi had the works taken out, but still
the sound of one bell is heard in the old
iraTe at the same hour and minute-ten
mU .utes past seven in the evening.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-22

thies were never deaf to the cries of SUI
feTing humanity, and, with supreme
pity. and gentleness, he un olded the
story he wished her to hear-a story OF
wrong-doing that had met it's Just
reward-then, when she could bear it,
took her to the room where the dying
friend lay.
[ found him alone, utterly alone, and
Ill, he said, in conclusion OF his nara
tive; there was no one near to care for
him, and I brought him here to my
home. He needs only you now and he
lett her alone in the death h-chamber.
She bent over the pillow Of the sick
man, over the face of the only man she
had loved, and his feeble arms, reaching
upward, clasped her trembling to his
bosom. He was true, true to her to the
last, and a throb of almost overwhelming
JOY thrilled through the clinging shroud
of despair numbing her heart st the
thought. She took her place by the
bedside to wait the coming of that other
visitant, whose cold hands were even
now stretched toward her idol. The
long night vigil was scarcely broken by
words. the sick man could not talk.
There was only a murmured prayer OF
forgiveness, which was answered by the
tendeTest, truest assurances of love
there were no reproaches, no unavailing
utteTauces of repentance, and the wife's
tears of anguish fell in silence.
Darling !" he whispered, when the
darkness was giving place to dawn.
She laid her white face on the pillow
beside his.
Darling, the moment is at hand.
You will be happier when l am gone.
did not know till it was too late to 90
back, that had left the one true love Oi
my life; but 1 was always unworthy Of
you, my darling, and God is merciful tC
you and me in letting me die. By and
by, when you forget, you will be hap
pier"
And quietly, with her hand in his, his
last breath on her lips, he died.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-22

No grimmer satire could ever be
achieved than that perpetrated by Mime,
Bonsparte. She was desantly proud Of
her imperial name during life, and yet
at her eeath tbe cofin bore plate read.
ing, Elizabeth Patterson" Only that
and nothing more. The dead threw
Dack the insult upon the fsmily that
had ingAlted.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-22

LoTTIE FOWLER, Bridgeport spirits
ualist, preached several years ego that
an explosion would occur in a certain
carriage factory, and the building was
soon shattered. Lately she said that a
boiler in a brsfs foundry was going to
burst, and the female employees have
since e'used to work.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-22
THERE are people in New York whose
sole business is arranging goods in shop
windows.

A NEW industry in the United States
is the production of fruit Syrups into
competition with Fnrch manufactures
which have hitherto had the markets of
the world
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-22

Miss MARY AEDERsoS is a doomed
Girl. The moment sac SLOWED the world
10 know that she had $50 900 shesd It
'-ecsme simply q que-tion as to what
masculine institution she should endOE.
There IS 10 escape. An actress with
$50 OCO has TO foF1wesr lapsdOgs and
pOodles and keep n husband.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-22

stepping to the door, cslled in one of her
Dutch servants, who speedily msde an
end of the intruder with his gun.
, 1879-06-13
a Rival 1Iotltfl.lseaoFt


The st. Louis Courier u .leltcas has invent
eli y l,socrss by which tho s!clslcst placo eau ha
uroyutI 10 be Eootl !,raattl-rcsurt. lht lnycn.
Hon IL for st. Lutlls, Int II VIII 1elb0nstrato Tho
sulnc ttng lur Vlcksburg Now Orleans, ur Cit
eat,o, 1t Ii u procuss OF nrlthMntlc which takes
lis nlmbyr Ut deaths reported, ail4 tI,rf, o.
tiu,atrs te population, ulrl thereby cI,lIers out
tic t]eatl,.ratc. 'tio higher the eatlisutu vi
population, thy lower Tho .lcath'sasc. And, In
Comparing Wita utt!er places, se 1t. Luu,s t,-
yciltor has the ,ulyantugu Ut estimating their
population ut IL low ll4urc. An editorial In tElu
Cincinnati .uts,cas Nraa illustrates thlo inuihsl
Tho Iuyentur estimates thu u0pulatlul, IT st,
Louis At 800, ,10u, Tbs Icaths fur Anrfl bcny
MI, thIs tllnEra thu lcatll-ratn pur l,ulo lp.es
II ho mud estimated tho population III i,0tfvGxIl,
fhu ttpath.ratv would be only half VI ntel1,
Thus st. Louia, which has y generous share Of
thn diseases Which fasb tlcopln ult, i,
mnde healthier tUwn Ihan Cincinnati,
whosp population tho Courier estimates ~ NJ.
GaL ant sYtloss reported deaths lur -tpsIl were
ais. which n,aIc tllt lcnll,.ratG lD43; which
wn,1atI alluw thur Cincinnati, rs to bt. louts, is
not u health resort. Ti.v inventors cstIuntu u
1t. Louis population carefully uYolls any actual
count. II IL ull u PROCESS uf capurlig lu WHICH
tbs result Ia governed by use power VI stating
tho principal factor.
rjIns, tl!e Eeur,lr says tllr census 1f lS7u null
tho civ directory ut that year eaoSch ouo nat1le
in ms directory to four und oua-I,alf persons
iu thu censuy. Thsrstoro, taking the number oi
, 1879-06-13

ott.k!rts OF Scranton, Pa. a crowd hatt gnth-
srctl around him, n,nonR them mine iahoIes
named Draidy. Suddenly the, piper ceosed INC
n1llslct md, stepping from the cro"u ae'asa r..
Brndy By tho shoulder, anil nnuotfncea ti,n. @ ~
lnborsr was hla prisoner. At thu same ttn,e no
produced papcre which lie said '*ere his autuos'
ity for unktnE the arrcst. Brady seemeu c..
ttrcly overwhelmed by thu nrrrst, AMI hh0e no
op,,psltton to tho authorities when y was ~
yeulcd that tic rtncr whs dcteetife. f4r
tTO years 1e hal beou Oh the track q hls
nrisotlcr, who IA charged with having murdered
n wealthy Iusi, named Fludlas III scptla1tt. ~
JaMuary, ISL. Brady was In the employ oi
FintJlay, Early unn morning tho latter was
found dead BY the roadside, his sknl, crt,snea
with n club. Hraitly had bccn dtsellarTvl tto
morning pcforo for drunkenneSs. He tau neoa
heard to mako q threat TINT he would got oven
will, rindlay. lIo was nowtcro to ba foand,
but WAS traced 10 Glasgow, where It was ~, ""
l,cyed lie had taken vessel for America. VIII
lam stale detective was employed oy tue rcla'
ttyes Of the murdered Nun 10 come to this co'afl-
try ,tl search for Brady, whU, It was tl0tiHht,
w1utd bring up In t!u PelnsYlvaNih coal re.
r{n,,s, where he had frlGnls working. One of
Hraitr's pee,1larltica was bis lore for the bae,
plpe, ~ the detective. being piper, a!'opteH
ic disguise of Scotcl, piper. aud played aunt
III the cual TOWN IN the hppc OF some way a.
tracltng the attention uY thu ulan tie "as seek"
jng, he being sura ftom Information !ic hstt re-
cctvet1 that brady rcnllT was somewhere IN f',e
coal regions. 1hu rl,se aurcfcacd alter tNo
yeura OF patsent trial. Atale Is now on Ills way
10 Scotland With thr alleged murderer.
, 1879-06-13
Southern f1rntnry.

Harfforti Gnprant tHsp.>.
Fow men make more pleasant 6duhu WHn
their ,noull, than Wade Hampton. Ills pror'liscs
for Justice a,,d fair treatment to tho negroes
were almlsahtc When he wanted to prevent
their nominating MI opposition Candidate l'1't
whnt lla3 he done 10 fulnlt hfs prom'scat
Hundreds OF murdered ncRroea arc rloldcrlng III
their graves In South Carolina, md no who
ham, hns ever been raised to bg!ng tlsetr mur1cr-
era t., Justice. Under Wade Hampton rs Co..
error, II Ii true Tint the shotgun policy was
somewhat n,Nltlcd. II wuR discovered thht lt
VIVA cheaper to cheat the nrgro voter than 70
ki.i him, t,,sl the last election was hsreiaccd
farco nipl fraud. Wade Hampton hAs nevar
hccn known IL protest arafrst II, but, On no
contrary, psults by be!tr aeE,t to thu Srtlatc:
AnI w}et. tic Feleeal Government attempted
to punish known ofTenucts, It was 50 hnlnpcret
mI ueya. strung bs the Stata officials thai tue
attempt Ind TO be abandoned. II fa for snclt
reasous as ti,se thnt there Is no great desire in
The North at thu prcscnt to I!stcn to men whose
words mean uothing. We ran whit until t!!Str
nets at homo tally with their tlnc speeclics Wo
can walt until for thu hMmblest of tiod'a
creatures there Ia law and Justice. we eau
walt until Waldo Ila1nrton, Or hen lin, Or
Lamar, or sollle other Southern s.ateh1nan, has
tile courage 10 acknowledge the wrnng tint ttlu
whole world secs, md r!ace hitnsclf mantully
at lie lead Of movement 10 give to the South
frect'otn that Is soulethtug moro than m
e{nrtf tAnta.
, 1879-06-13


In 1870, 10 Ter crIs Ut Inc tscrnan-AmcrL-
cars iu Now York hcliGyctl III fillcu anA ~
form, no chilled, and vo.o'l th" 1'sthocratlc tick"
1t. Now thcy atn4.a by TIC n(atfotm of INA.
tloua, authority IL aa Nns!ema! matters. aud
lie hoacst performances Of tte pliEhtcd faHh III
tno Natton.n The German RtpuNikaakf de-
rlnrs its belief Tint Copper cent nf Thy G1rnaal!s
of New York md The Whole Union viii IBIS year
support the Republican Ticket. " H,e mar,
QUESTIONS OF lie supremacy u tsle Nht'9nal
uoycr,t,ncnt n,ul Tie payn,e ont OF lust debts.
| TIC uotunlls !,are noYer wavtred'