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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-04-18

Old lady" How warm this room is /!
DO open the door," Daughter" No
ma, the room is not too warm the
thermometer stands at seventy. 1t
would be better to take off your shawl"
Old lady-"No, shall not take off my
shawl / know when the room is too
warm" daughter" But ma, the
Thermometer stands at seventy" OLD
lady" Well, then, I'd put the thing
out and go by my feelings"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-04-18

At Folkestone, England. an extra.
ordinary person calling himself Eli.
jah the Prophet" has been astonishing
the people of that town. He goes
about dressed in sheepskins. and car
ries above his head a printed placard
bearing the words Z" I am Elijsh, the
Prophet" and quoting from Malachi
as his authority" Behold, will send
you Elijah, the Prophet. before the
coming Of the great and dreadful day
of the Lord" He has addressed sew
eral gatherings, and has notion. that
England has some connection with the
Ten Lost Tribes. An attempt has been
made to punish him for causing an
obstruction in the streets. but the mag.
istrstes dismissed the charge.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-04-18

Who wants to buy a Detroit AID errnsu
for 81 500.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-29
BOLIVAR TENN. THURSDAY MAY 49, 1879

last week it was discovered that sink>hole
had formed on the telegraph road between
here and Fort Meade, about ten miles from
here. The road ran near about through the
center Of the sink, which is about forty feet
in diameter and as rouB as a circle. pine
tree, fully seventy feet tall, that stood by
the road, went do IN, and its top is a few
feet below the surface of the ground. The
sink has filed up to within six or seven feet
of the surface of the surrounding ground
with water, out Of which the tree top stands
some three feet. There seems to have been
a shifting also of the surrounding ground
for distance OF fifty yards all around the
margin OF the hole. The water which has
appeared in the sink is of a deep azure
color and very clear. his is not the first
sink that has occurred in this region, which
is noted for the number of its beautiful
lakes, within the Inst few years, another one
having formed a few years ago, about
mile from this oEe.. On account of the light
rainfall since last autumn the lakes in that
region are getting low, and it is supposed
that the water support to the vault of some
subterTanean passage from the nearest lake
being no longer present, the earth gave way
and dropped into the snbterranean vacuum.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-29
Sentenced for Life,

The jury in the Cox case were out all
the night and came in at noon to-day to
be recharged in full. At 3:45 they came
in and announced that they had agreed
upon 8 verdict. It was detained to cor
rect an informality and was then read as
follows: " We, the jury, find the pris-
ner guilty, and recommend that he be
punished by imprisonment for life in the
penitentiary." Cox received the verdict
with calmness, having evidently nerved
himself for the worst. His wife on
hearing the words 30 fatal to her hopes
sat for a moment trembling with emo>
tion, and then rushed for sn open window
near by, with the purpose to throw her
self TO the ground below. She was wild
with grief, and reached the window
where she was caught by Cox, who held
her fast. She threw her arms around
his neck and cluDg to him wildly ex
claiming, "Oh, my God Oh, my poor
darlingP' Her shFieks were hesFtreDd~
ing, and the occupants of the crowded
court room could not restrain tears OF
pity. Judge Hillyer sentenced Cox TO
be confined in the penitentiaTy or such
other place as The governor may direct
at hard labor for and during his natural
life. General GstIell gave notice that
the defence would make a motion for s
new trial, aud prayed a writ of super
sedeas. Execution of sentence was
thereupon stayed twenty days. TIE pen
atty is virtually the extreme of the Law
in this state, as "a law passed with AL
ston's aid by the legislature, giving iUrie.
the right to recommend life impris3n
ment IN all cases of murder as they see
ht, IN effect ab0iishes the death penalty
Cox is the first man convicted since tn
| passage of the act.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-29
A Fair ImpostOr.

Every day on the Via Toledo, the
finest and most frequented street IN
Naples, might have been seen an old
woman, bent under the weight of years,
clad in wretched mourning, creeping
past the line of shops, like q moving
bas~relief, and sometimes hating at a
corner. She wore tattered bonnet on
her head, black veil over her features,
and a pair Of ragged gloves on her fingers.
She never spoke, che never pu' out her
hand or charity, but with kind Of growl
accepted whatever small coin the passen-
gers would vouchssfe her. That old Wo~
mans gains were 20 francs per diem but
who was she2 Ne one could tell, and che
never answered questions. She seemed
spectre in the thrOBg Of Vanity Fair,
an uncomfortable intruder, whom the
butterflies of fashion were only too glad
10 pay and get rid of. The other day
couple of municipal guards laid hands
on her, and, bundling her into cab,
took her of TO the medicant's home
One of the female attendants stripped
her, when suddenly from the filthy, fetId
envelope of rags emerged, Cinderella
| ike, lusty young woman, considerably
on this side of thirty, fresh~coiored, fat
and progressing. Her makeup was q
marvel of effect. Her curved spine was
ssrranged" with a cord which passed
round her neck and was fastened ct her
knees. Her hump was manufactured
from q ball of rags; her wFinkled and
dirtv white face was managed with imi-
| tstion parchment. On Inquiry it WIS
| found that this young woman was OF 3
good family, and that the gains she 50
clevelly earned were brought regularly
home 10 her parents, Who kept a night
house, where scenes of the most Unhais
lowed Tevelry were kept up till all hours
In the morning.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-29
CampbeIIs and MacdOnalds.
Halifax. n. s., Herald.


A good story is told of the Marquis of
LOrne and two Glengerry Highlanders
who called on him the other day. Ever
since the massacre at Glencoe, in which
the Campbells did the bloody work of
the crown, the clan Camp bells have
been in bad odor with the clan WacdonS
aids, and Campbells "canna eat oot o.
the same kail-pot" The Glengarry men,
Macdonalds to the backbone, were in
Ottawa on business, and after much de-
bate resolved to pay their respect to the
Marquis of Lorne as the governor general,
not as the son of the Callum Nor. On
their way to the hau they talked the
matter over again, and one of them sugs
gested that perhaps the marquis, being
Campbell, would refuse to see a Mac
donald, in which case their position
would be humilisting. at the gate
they met the marquis with Maj. de
Winton, and taking them for servants
the Highlandmen asked If the marquis
would care to meet "twa MacdoDalds'
to call on the marquis His excellency
replied that the marquis bore no malice
to the Macdonalds and that Sir John
Macdonald being his first minister it was
clear the MacdonElds hRd forgiven the
Campbells. 70 Forgiven the Campbeils
cried one of the visitors, forgotten Glen
coeI Sir John is paid for that, mon h
has eight thousan dollars a year for it
but the diel take me gin we forgie os
forget I" and with this the.choleric Gael
turned their faces toward Ottawa. The
marquis, however, disclosed himself, and
after a hearty hand-shaking the feud was
temporarily healed. The visitors were
turned over to the ArglyeshiIe piper,
who is prominent member ef the house
hold, and by him treated so Handsomely
that on their departure they frankly
acquitted the marquis of all responsible
| lity of the massacre.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-29
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

A FELoN on the thumb is worse than
two in the penitentiary.
GREEN TURTLEs-Those that allow
themselves to be caught.
LAST words of the czsr to date
'' Why, see here stih live"
A LITTLE knowledge may be danger
Gus, but little widow is moro SO.
MONEY that bank officers get away
with is charged to running expenses
THE weather has been pretty rough
on spring chickens, and they show it.
THE success of a church choir singer
is, after all, largely matter of chants.
AT last accounts the Ohilisn army
had the Bolivian army down and was
sitting on him.
AN Irish sailor visited a city, where,
he said, they copperebottomed the tops
of the houses with sheet lead.
WAGNER, the composer, is reporte d
hopelessly insane, and no wonder. He
has probably heard more of Wagner's
music than any man living.
AN Irish-gentleman the other day res
ceived 8 letter the address of which he
could not decipher. Handing it to his
clerk, he said, in all innocence; Send
that back to the man and tell him to
WElL6 MS uAulo 50 NLdb We Can A0d0 ASs
IAGo was an undertaken, for did he
not induce Roderigo to attempt Cassio's
life, and then say:
''Now, whether he kills Cassio,
Or Casio him. or each do kin the 9th r
Every way makes my gain"
AFTER the manner of Walt Whitman:
o tablet o chairI big ehairl little chairI
o three legged stooll towel, basin and pewter
II adore anything, 1t is you coal -seuttIe......
and the coal of the coal-scuttle...-.-and
particularly the house-maid who emPtias
the coal-seuttle on the fire."
SCENE (group of medical students anis
matedly discussing the difficulties of
diagnosis): Young doctor attached to
the service of hospital: am never
at fault l discover the nature of the
complaints of all my patients, without
exception" After the autopsy" MUIR
INJURED an old college companion who
knew him well.
QUOTH q wise man TO youth day:
'' len me your Elm in life, pray!"
mighty general IL Oe,
Replied the youth ambtsOusly.
Then auoth the STRIPPING to the sage:
' Tell me- your aim in old sge."'
Then said the sage, little tired,
" Aim2 On 4! have no aim, I've fred"
ONE of the school directors of San
Francisco lately celebrated his golden
wedding. One of the morning papers,
in describing the gifts presented on the
occasion. made particular mention of an
elegant set of spoons and forks of solid
gold, accompanied by testimonial from
four hundred teachers and scholars eigh-
teen feet long.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-29
TuEER4SH ECLIPSE.

In WatherfOrd. Eanst, lived Profssorr Aaeshsns
The foines g astronomer fver was sane
For long before nOight, wid the scoince he Knew
WheriTer wan shtar was, sure he could see two
Quote plain.
Could Professor MacShane.
More power to him iv'ry claaTe noight as would
He'd sit By the windy, a-shoving his EIass-
poke at the Upper, that plaised him the iaist,
But punch IN the milky way suited his taste.-
Small blame,
To his sOWl for that same.
Now wan tonne in watherford, not long ago,
They had what the loike was not heard of, know,
Since Erin was undher Ouid Bryan Bori hoime;
The sun was aycipsed for three days at van tonne
Ia thrue
As tell It TO you.
> twas sunroise long ago, yet the sun never rose,
And iv'ry wan axed, " What's the matther, God
The next day, aud nsxt, was the verv same way
The noight was 50 long 1t was lasting aii day.
As the coat on yer back.
The rufpJs wint hunting Prcfi ssOrr Macshane,
To thrv u he'd know what this WOhdheS could
he sns2efed se thin hack; ais that rOr Are ys
lis i0ftd lot Of most niEsnt gOmm'oe%. ys air
For the PlaineSt OF taetsi
3 Ye're part Of an impoire. yea mustn't forget
Upon which the suns niVeT able 10 SET
Fhen why viii IL give yer iTnpoire surproise
Il Wanst, for a change, It refuses to roise,
Siz he,
" That is aizy to seel''
-IrsSia RusSsH, ta STfoaeT'
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-29
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

Charlie Ross father is hunting him in
South Can olina.
All the Georgia four per cents have
been sold.
Wheat harvesting bas begun in south
ern Texas.
Over $l1.O0O,O 900 back taxes are due
the state of Louisiana.
The food damaged Houston, Texas.
TO the extent of $l25,OOO.
Tame deer stroll at will through the
streets of Terrell, Texas.
There are twenty-three daily newspa.
pers published in Texas.
Nstchez claims that she is the clean.
est city in the United States.
1t is stated that 100000 pounds of
rice are produced in Florida
A deposit of potash and gypsum has
been found on lake Jesup, Texas.
A frost in the vicinity of Atlanta has
seriously injured the cotton crop.
The Texas bone trade has suddenly
loomed up into great importance.
The Nashville and Tuscaloosa narrow
gauge railroad wiz soon be in operation.
More cattle are passing over the Texas
snd Kansas trail this spring than ever before
A Tennessee couple who married in
1858 now have fifteen children-one every
year without fail.
1t seems the experiment of making
paper from palmetto powder, at Feruan
dina, is a success.
The Macon and Augusta railroad is tc
be sold by the Georgia railroad, under q
trustee.
The acreage of. the cotton crop in
western Texas is fifty per cent. greater thi.
year than last.
The whole sea-coast of Texas is quar-
antined against vessels coming from south
of latitude 25 degrees.
A colored woman in Mississippi caught
the Kansas fever last week, but her husband
whipped it out of her.
The Louisiana constitutional conven
tion has been petitioned by women to allow
them the right Of suffrage.
The internal revenue collections i,
the Petersburg district during the first ter
days IN May aggregated S141 600.
In Tallahassee there are colored emf
grafton agents endeavoring to induce tn
negro people to leave their homes.
The dredging fleet, which is to dredg
twelve.fOOt channel through Galveston
bay, has arrived at Galveston from Mort
Carolina.
DR.. ]. II. Heath, of Boston, a dis
unguished student of American antiquitie
end relics, is in Dallas with the skeletons Q
thirty famous Indian warriors.
The government placed salmon spawI
IN the Colorado river two years ago, an
this year salmon nine inches long are bein
caught in that river, near Austin, Texas
A North Carolina paper says: Tn
wheat crop is better than It has been for 81,
eral years The fruit crop viii be almost
entire failure, owing TO the recent cold snal
The negroes of Washington count,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-29

THE homeopathic report on the yell
low fever epidemic has been made by an
investigating committee to the Indians
apolis institute. Information was re-
ceived from homo opathic physicians
throughout the infected region. 1t was
found that the useful remedies used
were as follows: For the frat period,
aconite belladonna, bryonia, and gelse-
MUM; second period, crotalus, or, in
the suppression of urine, cantharis, stra-
monium aud apis; third period, arseni>
cum, arguntum nictricum, carbo vege-
talus, china and cuprun. The death
rate is given as about six per cent.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-29

THE missionary assessments of the
Methodist Episcopal church, south, for
next year will be twenty per cent. in
crease to each annual conference over
those of 1879, which was 800, 900.
The appropriations for next year are
For China, $4,000; Mexico, $14 600 +;
Brazil, $4,000; border Mexican work,
$4,000; German mission, $4,000 +;
indian mission, SO, 300; Florida, 81 600;
western, 1880; Los Angeles, $1,7OO;
Denver, $1,000; Montana, 81 ,OOc /; Col
umbia, $500; Office expenses, $4,000
treasurer 5000; travelling expenses OF
bishop to Arizona, $500; tota,, $40, 900.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-29

A BUSINESS letter from New Orleans
to firm in Providence says 4" We are
now organizing citizens sanitary corps
that just means business, and if we-ean>
not keep yellow fever out of here this
coming season then we will give it up.
1t is a very popular movement, and will
be pushed right ahead. We wish to get
it circulated through the north that we
are going to bury the dead, clean the
streets, fill the bottom holes, and en-
desvor to make New Orleans what it
should be-a healthy city"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-29
MISCELLANEOUS.

Every speech in congress costs the
country about $4,000. not including the
trouble of reading it.
A well dressed young man and a
young woman very richly attlred have
terror towns of Pennsylvania. They repre-
sent themselves as a runaway match, give
the names of prominent Pittsburg lawyers
as friends, and under the pretense that they
want money to reach home and be forgiven
have raised considerable funds. The richly
attired young lady is beardless youth and
the wellsdressed young man swindler.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-29

TWELVE paper-making establishments
in England have become bankrupt since
the beginning of last Dec, mber. Scarce
ly any American paper factories have
been reported insolvent within that
period. Much paper for writing, for
books and for newspapers has Of late
been exported from this country to
South America, and there is a growing
demand from Germany Tor coarse Amer
ican paper.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-29
:. guEN TTEE COWS ComE HOmF.r

When hlingle, klingle klipgle,
Far down the dusty dingle,
The COWS are coming home.
Now sweet and clear, now faint and low,
The airy tiRklings come and go,
Like chimings rom the fsI-off tOW,T,
Or gatherings of an priI shower,
That makes the daisies grow.
Ko-hng, ko-lang. kolingle-liDgle,
Way down the ds' keniDg oingle,
The cows come slowly home
And old time friends, and twilight plays,
And starry nights and sunny days,
Come trooFing up the misty wayP,
When the COWS come home.
With jingle, jangle, jingle,
Soft tones that sWeetly mingle,
1hs COWS ara coming home.
Malvine and Pearl and FlOrimei,
DeKamp, Redrose AID Gretchen scheI.
Queen Bess and SylPh, and ePangled sue,
AeEoss the fields hear her & loO-Oo,'
And elang her silver bell
Go-ling, gO-lang, golingle, dlDgle.
With faint, far sounds that mingle,
The COWS come slowly home
And mether-songs of l1ng-gone years,
And baby joys and childish fears.
and youthful hopes ard YOUTH tears,
When the COWS tome home.
With ringle, rangle, ringle,
With twos and thTees and single,
The COWS are e7mins home.
Through violet air we see the towr,
and the summer sun a-slipDing down,
And the map e in ths hszl glade
Throws down the path longer shade,
And the hills are growing brown
Io-ring. to-raDg, tOringle, ingle,
Ey threes and fOurs and single,
Tn COWS come slowly home
The sweet sound Of WOrdtess psalm
The same sweet June day rest and calm
The same ct smell of buds and balm,
When the COWS come home.
With tinkle, tankle, tinkIe,
Through fern aud psriWinkle,
The cows are coming home
a lettering in the checkeTed stream,
HnoTe the sun rays glance and gieam,
G arine, PeachblOom and Phebe Phillts,
ktand knee deep IN the creamy lilies,
In q droWsy dream
TO-Iink, to-lank tolinkle, linkIe
Ger banks with buttercups a-twinkle
The cows come slowly home
And up through memory deep ravine
Come the brooks old song and IL Old-Uime shee
And the crescent Of The silver queen,
When the COWS come home.
With khngle, klangle, klingle,
With oo-Oo, and moo-Oo, and jingla,
The COWS coming home
And over there on Merlin Hill,
Hear the plaintiye cry of the whip-poor-will
And the dewdTeps lie on the tangled vines,
And over the poplar Venus shines,
md over the silent mill -
Ko-ABg, k0-lsng, kohngie-lingle,
With ting-R-iIng and jingle,
lhe COWS come slowly home.
Let down the bsrs; let in the train
Of iong-gone songs, and flowers and rain
For dear old times come back again
When the COWS come home.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-29

soME of the country doctors in Eng
land are employing bicycles or tricycles,
instead of horses, as a means of locomo-
tion. The bicycles used by them are of
iron, the rim of the wheel is covered
with rubber, and they can move over
tolerably rough roads and up quite
steep grades, making from eight to ten
miles or more in an hour. There are
many places in this country where a
doctor could advantageously keep this
vehicle instead of horse, especially in
view of the hard times aud the compe-
tition among the disciples of Escula-
Plus.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-29

"WHKRE to strike an attacking dog
is thus told by Land and Water: "WheI
you have the good fortune TO be armed
with 8 shillelah, do not, says General
Hutchinson, hit him across the head and
eyes bear in mind that the front part Of
his forelegs is a far more vulnerable and
sensitive spot. One or two well applied
blows upon that unprotected place vii
generally disable the strongest dog"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-29

THERE are thousands acres of un-
titled land in the United States well
adapted to raising fbrous plants, such as
hemp, fax and iute, and there are thou.
sands of men standing around with their
hands in their pockets looking for some
thing to do. Still we import annually
more than s6 900 600 worth of these
fibers from foreign countries
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-29

THE locomotives OF the northern rail-
way of France now carry small clocks in
front of the smoke stacks to enable the
engineers and station masters to know
the exact hour of the arrival of a train
These clocks are all regulated by Paris
time. The trains are so frequent on the
northern line that a delay of a few min
utes even is enough to disarrange the
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-29

PORTABLE gas is sold and delivered in
England like milk. People in the coun-
try and in villages receive it in copper
vessels from large cities. This method
is additionally popular from the fact
that it dispenses with the erTatic and
depraYed meter.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-29

The Scotch preachers illustration CT
q miracle is said still to have considers bl :
force. It would be a miracle" he re-
marked, ''if a coo were to fly up tree
and whistle ike q maVis."