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The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1879-12-30

OWVS VeA kSCCtcus oHc Wv uhu uss
time Z" cnll-ct her thoughts by IN.
way. and there is ever a true courage
in innoce, &c that makes the weak
strong. aud inspires the timid with
lnldnses.
will you he good enough to tell
me, sir. whv ! have been brought
herer Mabel asked. in a voice So
gentle and musical. and with a 6u.h
IN her face 81 far from hetaken guilt.
that his Honor forgot the prisoner,
and remembered only the lady.
.You presented a check s"me time
since, Miss Gleason. for five hundred
doIlsrs. Purporting to be drawn by
Mr.. Wentworth on the--bank, on
which you drew the money
4 did, Mabel said; it was
Christmas present from NJ. Went
worth himself. He gave it to me
with his own hand said Mabel, as
tonished at charge 50 unaccount-
able.
mr.. Wentworth has been sent for
and will be here presently the Judge
answered. 'Ah! here he comes.'
Al the little old gentleman hustled
bis way to the front. and bis ewes fell
o" Mabel he started with astorish-
ment.
You here he exclaimed. What is
the meaning of this?
That is the person who presented .
check. said the judge.
'Impossible r cried the little old
gentleman.
She has admitted it,
Mr.. Wentworth WAS dumbfounded.
The whole affair wss involved iu
The written part Of the
cherk, had be not known the contrary,
he would have sworn to be in his Own
hand. Hn check bnok. too. vas mise
INK, though how could It have been
distracted from the saie in bic room,
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1879-12-30
18th:

Isflc.i.,d By tic Commonwealth Of k.niseI
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1879-12-30
MEXICAN

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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24


The circus business hss decidedly
waned from what it was twenty years
ago, and for the coming season the tray
cling concerns win be very few COM
pared with former times. Many of the
names once familiar on the flaming bills
are not seen now in connection with
circuses. DR.. Spaulding is living on his
money in Saugertiea, New York. Yam
kee Robinson is an actor in western
theaters. Ben Maginley, Tony Pastor
and Frank Pastor, formerly clowns, are
also en- the theatrical stage. Andrew
Haight, once owner of the Great East
ern Circus, is keeping hotel in Ghica-
go. OF other proprietors. Joseph Cush-
ing is farming in New Hampshire, J.
M. Nixon is managing q theatsr in Chi
cago, Montgomery Queen is interested
in Brooklyn street railroads, Levi North
is also living in Brooklyn, " J.. Met
chear keeps q hotel in Providence.
George K. Goodwin runs two theaters
and dollar store in Philadelphia, Ea-
ton and Daniel Stone sre farming in New
Jersey, R. E. J. Miles owns a Cincinnati
theater. Burr Robbins is lecturing IN
the west on temperance, and the Cooper
of Cooper & Bailey keeps a horse MARI
in Philadelphia Dan Rice, after many
ups and downs, is building q floating
theater to run on the Mississippi. Bar
mum, FerePsugh, Robinson, and Lent
are about the only old proprietors still
in the business.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24
CaIifOrnia's Strong Man.
sao-amento Record .Unioa.

The death of Charles Bennett, for.
merly superintendent of the san Fran
cisco Olympic club, appears destined to
reopen the discussion concerning the
effects of muscular training upen vital
ity. In eEder to reach any intelligent
conclusions, however, it is necessary 10
state the case correctly in the beginning.
The facts are briefly these: Several
years ago Mr.. Bennett found himself
affected with symptoms of pulmonary
disease. At that time he had never
practiced gymnastics, and was slender
and weakly. Acting upon the advice of
friends, he Joined the Olympic club,
and went into something like regular
training. In few mcnths all his alarm
ing symptoms had disappeared, and
under the new regime he rapidly devel-
Oped great muscular power. He became
eventually a remarkable athlete anu
active gymnast. His strength was TO
great that he could put up $50 pound
dumb-bell with one hand, and $50 with
the other. He was an expert boxer,
and q daring acrobat. On one occasion,
when the Olympic club gave an exhibi-
tion at the old Metropolitan theater, a
member named Ward, a very daring
gymnast and a weli-known cOmpOsito-,
was performing what Is called the Ma
CARA leap, and tell from the trapez 4,
some twenty-five or thirty ieet above
the stage Bennett was standing di~
rectly underneath, and as the falling
man approached he clssped him In his
arms, and by the exertion of his great
strength saved his life, though the shock
strained him severely. When Mace, the
pugilist, came 10 California, Bennett
put on the gloves with hin, and the
champion was astOnished to fnd an an
1 tagonist who could knock him clear of
his Ieat at every blow. We believe that
Mr.. Bennet tt practically relinquished
gymnastics FIVE or six years ago. Wheth-
er his death of consumption can be at
| tributed to oveT-exertion is e question
which certainly cannot be answered
either way confidently until q much
more careful examination Of all the cir
cumstances has been had.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24
MISCELLANEOUS.


The heading of an account in a San
Francisco newspaper of a mining accident,
" One Man and Twelve Chinese Killed, j" is
an indication Of the ruling prejudice on the
Pacific coast.
Ono-third of Chicago's population is
German, and a nearly equal proportion of
the public school teRching is done in the
German language. The board of education
proposes to exclude all languages except
English from the schools, unless taught
simply ss accomplishments, and the Ger
mans are holding public meetings in oppOsi>
ton to the measure.
From the time the average minister is
ordained until he dies he breaches, it is esti-
mated, two thousand sermons.
The Misr, a newspaper published in
Egypt, says of the origin of the Afghang
The Persians style these people "Aighsns "
because, when they were carried away caps
tive by NebuehadnezzaT, they were full of
lamentatIon, and the word afghan, in Per-
sian, has primarily that Specification. Others
say that Afghan was the usnae of one Of
SsuPs grandchiid, en-, and thar the present
people sscribe their origin to him.
Ostrich feathers are down. At Grs-
Jamestown, in South Africa, perfect white
feathers can be had for S725 a pound, fine
white plumes for $500, black ones for about
SO, and drab and fancy colors for $50.
Sporting men Ia connecticut are
alarmed at the discovery that there is upon
the statute books g provision that every
horse used in races upon which any wager il
TO be laid, or any purse or stake offered
shall be forfeited to the state.
FRANK FRAYNE, who calls himself 8
shooting star " actor, has devised way Of
endsngering two lives at once in his stage
Gre fests. BE shoots an apple Of his Eife'I
head, and the bullet hits mechanism at
taehed TO the trigger of another rife, from
which is shot a bullet piercing an appl.
suspended close over his own Eesd. Mrs
! Frayne has only one thumb. The other wa
/ popped of by her husband last winter.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24

" PLIAisOLL's mark " is round white
marx which every British ship captain
IL obliged to bave painted on the side Of
his vessel, smidship, in order to indicate
the depeh TO which his vessel may be
safely loaded. It generally has hori>
zoroal line drawn across its center, which
hne shows the depth to which the vessel
ray be loaded in summer, and is called
the GUNNER draft" the limit of thief
winter draft " being the lower edge o
the white ball. 1t is called 4" Plimsoll's
mark " from the fact that the act of
parliament which prescribed it was intro>
duced and energetically advocated by
Sir Samuel Plimsoll for the purpose of
leSaening the dangers incident to the
overlooking Of vessels
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24
Murders I'm a Month.

The following list is sent as PartiaI
memoranda of those uDjustifabiy killed
in Texas the past month
l. Cummings gets MGLath, HOUSTON
2. Doran kills Gibson, BRENNAN:
8. Sam Cranley kills Thos. a. dsnks'
TexaTkana.
4. Jones kills Morse, Calvert
< Hoyt kills Powers, Pilot Point.
6 Rogers kills Thompson, near whites
Z. Andy Cooper kills johnson, Elm
8 g. Edwards kills Oliver Adams,
WeatherfeTd.
Q. Barlow kills his vile near Corsica"
10. James Currie kills B. @. Porter,
Marshall
12. Frank Connor kills a convict, Mid
wsy.
Is. John billiard and
IA. Henry Jones were killed IN gem
eral shooting scraPe near ClsIksvilie.
Is. Alexander syitt killr Armstrong
16 Dick Thurman kills Henry Eli
IL. Lewis kills Joseph schunath, near
18. Weir kills K. c. Ayres, Whites-
boro. u..,-
ish Fort - t.,5.
90. Walter BaTnes's murdered pooy
found in Shelby county.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24
TWoAF THEss.


IN tEe-faTJn-heuss FoTch the farmer fat,
Bithslzzs daughter having = cs5y chat
Shs5vzps,h - 0Eif@ child, aE.d- NJ .
? Jhou ght her SIS fsir as giTl eOtf.d be.
wee BIT 5sat0us, the old man grew,
u hsiane1sd any might come to WOO
his oIlesEt1 Ian b and her loving care
BE wished With nobody else to share.
TheFesherld be two OF you, 5b.ld," !" said hb-
IEeEs should be tRO TO welcome me
W hen X come nome from the field at night;
Two -TeIJd make the old homestead bright.
J heres Seighbrr Grey, With his children four,
To be sEiad 1ognther Had one more,
= proud old iatheF I'd be, my dear,
= II b two good children 10 greet me hereP i-
Down BY the gate, meath the old elm tres
Aonaid waited alone and she
EOr whom he waited his 1ove-cau heard
Add on either cheek the blushes stirred.
g EatheT,f' said che, and knelt her down,
And kissed the hand that was old and brown
sc Father, ,there may be two, if YOU will,
And I-youT only daughter still.
IS Two to welcome you holne at night;
Two to make the old homestead bright;
Land somebody else" " see"
Said the faTDeF; and Wham may tsont UOiy' bs?'
On, tts dtalples IN Esssie'a cheek,
Tbas2r leyfd with the bIushes at hids-sud seek
AwsS fIRm his gszs she turned her head,
q One Of Neighbor t1Tey's children" she said.
IS HIM I" said the farmer; - make it plain;
Is If susan, Alice, or Mary Jsne?"
Another kiss on the sged hand,
To help the farmer to understand (f),
90 q N =" said the TmeT; Is ye=; see;
It Is two for yourself and one for mel
Sut Bessie said " There can be but one
For me and my heart ii life is dOne.''
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24

IN tho Russian empire there are alto
gether only about fifteen hundred regu-
ls:ly licensed physicians, or one physi-
clan to every fifty Thousand people, while
IN the United States there is cne ply 81
clan to each five hundred inhabitants.
The Russian government is not doing
any thing to advance medical education.
There are but eight Russian medical cOl~
leges, and the students are reauiIed to
prosecute their professional studies for
five years and such persons only are
admitted to these colleges SIS have sue
cessfully undergone an examination in
some OF the literary colleges, which have
n seven years course. Under these cir.
oumstances. it is not surprising that the
number of medical graduates is small
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24
Twenty.Sfx towards.
LonIsvIIle Coarier.Jeurnal.

Tom Buiord, who recently assassi-
mated Judge Elliott, in the streets of
Frankfort, Is one OF the mOgt reckless
and daring men IN Kentucky. Hs does
not care for anybody or anything, nor is
he afraid Of anything. Ons of his late
desperate acts wa to draw 6 double
barreled shot gun on the sheriff and g
posse who came to levy on some OF his
property. Wheu the men arrived at the
gate he walked to ths door and pointed
the gun at the first man, and told them
that he would kill the first man that
entered the gate. He then invited sew
ersl Of them into dinner, saying that IS
friends he was glad to see them, but ss
officers they could not come on his place.
When dinner vas finished he told them
they must leave now he had extended
the hospitalities of his farm, and he was
done with them. Not one of those
twenty-six men had the pluck to disObey
or disregard what Ton Buford ssid, thus
showing that he was regarded as dam
gerous nan By his neighbors- They did
not levy on the land or offer to do 20
after his threat, but retired gracefully
sDd IN order.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24

The following is a list of those who
served In the Union army during the
late war, House and Senate messrs Lo.
gan, Burnside, Mitchell. White (Pa.) },
Joyce, Hawley, Hawk, Fort. FOIsythe.
Brown, McCOrd, Carpenter Ga }, Ryan,
Valentine, Keichum, Miller, Plumb,
Bingham, Yoeum, Dick, BOuch, Davis,
Henderson, Boyd, Morrison, Myers,
Weaver, Anderson, McGoWan. FRrr,
Bailey, Richardson, Kellogg, OgeFton,
Shallenberger, Houk, SherWin, Bragg,
HAYES, Marsh, Thomas, Calkins, Sapp,
DunneII, McCOok, Hammond, Van ar
mum. Young (O.), Finley (O), McKin
lev. Kiefer, Garfield, Warner, LeFeyre
Ewing. Total ex- Union soldiers IA the
Forty sixth Congress, 55.
The following is a list of the ex>ConN
fedefztes in the Forty sixth Congress,
House aud Senate: Messrs- Morgan
fAla-), Call, Lamar. Ransom, Hampton,
Maxey, Johnston (Va), Sanford, For
ney, Slemous, Davidson, Smith (Gs.) },
Garland, Gordon, COekTell, Vance, Coke,
Herndon, Shelley, Lowe, Crsvens, Hull,
Cook (Ta }, Walker, Wi Iiams (Ky.),
Vest, Butler, Harris, Wi h sTs. Herbert
Lewis. Dunn. Gunther, Nichols, Parsons,
Blount. Blackburn, Robertson, Muldrow
Chalmers, Hatch, Scales, Vance, Dib
brelI. WhitthOrne. Young Glenn. }, Jones
fTexas), joe Johnston, Richmond, Eel
ton, Gibsor, King. King. Manning
Clordy, Kitchen, Steele, Richardson
Evins. McBiiIlen { Term. j, Atkins, Cul
bertsou. Beale, Cabeli, Kenna, Caldwell
Ellis. Talbot, Hooker, Clarke, Davis
Ofmfeld, Tillman, House, SimoBton
Mills and Hunton. Total ex~cOnleder
| ates in the Forty-sixth Congress. a
This DOES not include the late Vice
President of the ConfedeTacy, or the feE
| who served IN The Confederate Congress
but simply the ex-soldier'-
Summed up, we find the following:
Union soldiers in
j Union sol dieTa II 2euse o.
Il Confedelate soldieEs Ia Senate- ~
Confederate soldiers in D.
The Confederate Brigadiers hzy
considerable majority, bat less than ger
orally supposed. There is q smart spriDt
/ ling Of Brigadiers on the other sid'
u j. the Senate and not the House tha
has the overwhelming Confederate ml
iorilY.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24

IN the early winter a singular phe>
nomenon was reported to have occurred
in the port off Smyrna. The salt water
in the harbor froze, while the fresh Wa
ter in the city showed ne trace of ice
The fact was the more extraordinary,
because the former requires a much
greater degree of cold to CONCEAL it than
the later. A similar event recently hap
pene,l at Havre. There had been white
frost in the morning, but the thermom-
eter had fallen so little that the pools of
rain water about the streets had barely
trace of ice on their edges. BY an ab>
solutely inexplicable contradiction, the
sea-water in the commercial basin was
entirely covered with thick layer OF
ice, a circumstance which has not &C.
CURED even during the severest cold oi
The past season.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24

A FUNNY scene was witnessed few
days ago in the federal court at Dant~
vile, Va, the judge of which (Rives) it
will be recollected, recently instructed
his grand jury to indict number OF
county judges for not putting colored
men on the juries. A cOlored man named
Gravely was indicted for selling liquor
without license. When he saw the jury
before which he was to be tried, about
equally divided between white and
black, he exclaimed, For Gods sake,
don't let them niggers try me !" Efforts
were made to pacify him, but he insisted
that niggers would hang man just to
see him kick
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24
Death In Thirty MInutes.
Jaekson Tribune u san


On Friday OF week before last, Chick
Coppaoe. a young son of John Coppage,
while blowing in q field near Fineon'
turned up what be guPposed TO be ange,,
I;ca Toot He ate q quantity Of i, and
in 4 few minutes he felt sick. But the
srst spas1n passing Of, he started on With with
his work. II q few moments ne sAs"
SICK again, and walked to the fence' II,
tendinp to climb on it and rest He had
bsT3Iv seated himself n the fence ere
he fell of in a spasn and died IN lev
noomepts. The unhappy youth had
sstep hemIoek, s deadly poison. famous
"a history for its quick fatality, and
eIsssic as having been used By Socrates,
the philosopher, as the sSlltest, suEess
and rnost painless of means for journey
ing through the dark and dread valley
tbet lies between humar life aud inn
uertai beatitude Young CoPpsee
hardly lived thirty minutes aitef esew.
ing the fatal roots. and died With little
pain. He Vas an industrious and prom
sing boy, the idol Of hspPy home.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24

The Empress of Austria was filled with
wonder on meeting Mr.. Kayansgh, NJ.
P. for County of Carlow, with the Kill
dare hounds. He WAS born without legs
or arms. In place of legs he has six
inches of muscular thigh stumps, one
being about an inch shorter than its fell
low while his arms are dwaried to per-
haps four inches of the upper portion
OF these essential members, and are
unfinished with any termination
approaching to hands. Yet he is beau
t'ful caligrsphist, dashing huntsmau,
an artistic dTsughtsman, an unerring
shot, an expert yachtman, and drives
four-in~hsnd In writing he holds the
pen or pencil it his mouth and guides
its coure by the the arm stumps, which
are sufficiently long across the chest,
When hunting he sits in kind of sad
ble-basket, and his reins are managed
with surprising expertpess and ease.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24

TIE law library at Washington is the
best in the country, and one of the best
in the world. It contains copies of sll
the famous triala, that OF the Tlchborns
claimant being the longest, and the
Beecher trial ranking second. Aaron
Burf'g has considerable space among the
noted cases, aud McGarrshsn shelf all
to himself. The Newsgte collection is
interesting, sDd the record OF French
causes celebre ini's style quite character.
istic Of that nation they have put their
trials in the form of Tomspces, illustrst-
ing them freely ard making of court
records very pathetic tales. In small
roem opening from the library sre kept
the 450 volumes bound in green Russisn
leather ard presented 10 our government
by the Emperor Nioholss. To the 1ner-
gy Of woman is Russia indebted for
tAis compilation Of the laws of all the
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE

In the senate, on the 7th, the army
appropriation bill was received from the
house and referred to the committee on
appropriations. Mr.. Booth introduced a
bili to epeal the Atlantic and Pacific rails
road grant The bin provides for the imme-
date repeal of the grant, except so far as
the road shall be completed by the 4th Of
July next, aud for restoration to the market
Of All lands along the line Of the nncom-
Pleted road to he disposed Of IN the same
msBner as other pubic lands..... Mr. Ingalls,
introduced s. bill FOR the ceutysl branch OF
the Union Pacific railroad 90. a resolution
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24

TIE anti Chinefe party in the CaIiior,
mia constitutional convention failed to
secure the insertion into the new ccnsti-
tuition Of the proposed two sections
which prohibit the residence OF persons
an. that state who are ineligible to be.
come citizens, and prohibiting pereons
ineligible 70 citizeEshipp to fab In Cal
ifornia rivers, and hold, lease or pure
chase real property. -f
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24

In Poughkeepsie. n. Y, when child.
dies of diptheria or scarlet fever the au-
thorities will not permit public funer-
al. No children and but few adulR may.
attend. The body must be enclosed in a
tight case with glass cover. It is alto
prohibited to carry the remains to the
grave in a public hack or livery carriage,
and underta1ers are held responsible for
the enforcement of this nice sanitary
ordinances.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24

IT is an interesting fact that every
loot of our eastern seaboard. from the
northern coast Of Mainetos Florida. is
now lighted. There are a few miles Of
uninhabited coast IN Flonda not yet
illuminated, but siong the whole coast
Gorth of FLORIDA there is not q spot
which does rot come within the lighted
circle Of which some lighthouse is
the cey4tre.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24

OF Elihu BHrTitt- an acquaintance and
old pupil ssys that he never questioned
bis ability to understand almost any
thing, and what he could not on did not
understand he honestly thought was not
worth knowing. HIS cardinal doctrine
was that gsnius Is q creature Of thewill
and not an accident Of birth.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24

provinces of that powerful empire.
Catherine II. of Russia sent emisssries
nto tie different provinces ef her Goun-
try, with authority to inform Themselves
OF the laws peculiar to each section, and
when each had accomplished his work
the laws were bound n their present
shape.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24
WHO is IN CONGRESS-.
zV7utou and Confederate soldiers One
Ticket Agent In the Crowd.
Cincinnati Com mercial.

Exclusive of vacancies, there are three
hundred and sixty-two members of the
present Congress, including, of course,
the Senate. Professionally, they are di-
yided as follows:
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24

A PRISONER arraigned at the bar of
the Castle CVa.) court knocked the
Judge over with his fist, and then felled
the Clerk with brickbat.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24

q KENsNeToN IN. H apple tree, 200
years old, fifty feet tall, and seventeen
feet four inches in circumference four
feet from the ground, has just been cut
down.