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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-17
A Dramatic Court. Room Scene.

In the trial of Bishop Burton, st Salt
Lake, Utsh, on the 24th, for the Nor
1isite mas acre, Philip Hewitt, the eye
witness of the affair, testified as follows !:
81 was in the M0rTisite camp on the 18th
l4th, and 18th of June, 1862 The sur
render was made On the 18Th. l knew
Burton at that time and had known him
before. I worked for him at the court
house. I knew Mrs. Bowman and Mrs.
SWaney. The MOrIisi;es were gathered
together in front nj the schOOl-hOuse.
He raised his head and shouted: Joseph
Morris, where are you p Morris step~
ped forward and asked: Gentlemen,
what do you want?' Then Burton
said: Will you give up, give up, give
up pat the same time firing three
shots at him. Morris replied: = I viii
never give up my principles; they are
eternal truth and that is what he
ms ant when ne said he would not give up.
Burton could have taken Morris with
out firing a shot if he had pleased, The
arms of the Horrisites we're stacked be
hind the school house, and a body Of
Burton's troops were guarding them
A tier he had shot Morris three times,
Burton cried out, Where is your pro-
phet now /? Just then MIS-. Swaney
cqme rom the crowd, saving, Ia this
going TO be another Mountain Meadows
mas acre p Burton shot her also. Mrs.
Bowman ran up and cried, You blood
thirsty wretchI' Burton said that no
one could call him that, and then shot
her too. I went little distance away
and saw John anks lying on the gr.und
wounded. lie knew noe and waved his
hand to me I knew that il was Burt y
who shot Morris and the two women, t'T
was sequaintsd with him | dOn,1
know wbe ther could rec7gn;zs him now
or not, iot 1t has been seventeen years
since the event"
The prosecution asked the witDess to
look about the court room and pick out
the man The witness left the stand
and peered Into the faces of the defend
ants counsel, one after another, until he
came TO Burton, when he said: " If that
man will stand up l can tell whether he
is Burton or not" BY direction Of the
prost cution the defendant arose, tall and
erect, whereupoG witness recognized Bur
ton, and in an excited voice pronounced
him the man whom he saw shoot Joseph
Kforris and the two women, Mrs. Bow
man and Mrs. Swsnsy.
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Cause known to be hogs snd dogs. During
the same visit we learned that the sheep in
the COl9uitt range are dying at q fearful
rate with species Of dIstemper. Mr.. VIII
liam Hurst told US on Saturday that, on
good authority, he had it that enc stock
owner in the range mentioned has alresdy
lost 600 out Of 1870 head by distemper.
We learn that over so 900 tons OF
guano have been regularly inspected and
sold in Georgia during the present season.
This amount is absolutely enormous. The
cash value OF it is not much less than three
million five hundred thousand dollars. This
is total that will make the farmers shudS
der. 1t is estimated that fully tWo>thirds OF
the amount might have been kept within the
limits OF the state If its natural resources
had been developed and that one-half of the
total amount mipht have been saved to the
farmers themselves if they had only utilized
the natural resources of their farms. The
inspection f. es for this vast quantity of fer
tilizers amount to over $40 O0O-the fee being
fifty cents for ton. This viii prove very
handsome reve- ue for the state, and will
much more than support the agricultural
bureau, under whose auspices it is made.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-17
4 SEEatoa ron THE sIAEsAA.
81 1RT7IE RUssEtL.


1 nebber breaEs a ovlt efo-s he's old enough to
I nsbbeI digs my laters ,eiI dsy plenty big to
An VIXEN you sees NE risin' UP to struvtiiy in
ms etin'
spPie-eattn'.
1 sees some sistahs pruzint mighty proud o what
It's ven you isn't arplo-, nov. you better be de-
For when ych'd hesrd yO' tharkit-price, 'rd hart
You soGidn't foteh dime peck Tor aI1 20 Ianey
pc I'm 6.
sisiahs leetle apples uOr you're rally mighty
luos de d time russeis, dough it's seldom kin
An 50 iubs you, 81 tabs Tor o gsoe. an not yo
I don't EeeE how my apple looks. but On'y how it
Ia es
Is dey saBbaf-sehOlar heahP Den let him firm
How J4cob-in-de-bible's boys played OF upon dey
Dey sol him to trader an at last he struck d,
Dat .co@sd Of Joseph's struttin' in dat streaked
coat OBJ hisn.
My hfistiap frisn's. dis story pro66s, dat cher
He ! hsd dGZsn fancy coats ei he'd "a been
De cGssidness OBJ shOwin' of. he iOun out all abou
An yit he wuz Christian man, IS good as eyel
shouted
1t laTned him An bet you when he come to gi
his riches
Dey Oidn t go for stylish coats Philadelphy
breS cheS;
he don't vase his money when experunce taugb
him better,
But went aToun' s-look1n' like he's waitin' for
letterl
Now, sistahs, won't you copy him Say, wonr
you take lesson,
An mind dis solIum wahnin' bout de sin OBJ fancy
dressin'
How much yO' spen' upon yO'se'i2 I wish yoJ
might remember
YO' preacher amt been paid cent since somewhsl
in November. ,
better close sees some gals dis sahinon's kirds
hitt.n'
A-#hisperin'. an 'sturbin' sn dat's near wha
dey's al -sittin':
10 look at dem am listen at dey onrespec'fuI iat
ber,
1t turEs de milk OBJ human kineness mighty 81
to ella Der
A-A-A-BEEI
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81 so PER ANNUM.
The Last ARROW.

Daring the expedition Of the French
against the con rdeISte five nations IN
New York, in 1886 She following iuci-
dent occurred kiOds o, a Mohawk
cifief. had or his wife beautiful half
breed girl, whose fAther was kaid to be
no less q ptr7onace than the governor
general o New France, the veteran
Count de FfontenSc A small force OF
French n usSeteets and pikemen sur
prise d the summer ca1fP of KiodagO's
band at what is now called trenton
Falls, Just before daylight, when, not
dreaming Uf ~ attack, they were wrsp-
ped in slumber Hand glenades set
their lodges on FIRE, and s GnHTderous
assault was made upon the ks'f awakened
natiVss Some peTished IN the 6sEes !;
come N57e cHt down IN the combat, and
others sJiIl. among = bOm was Kiodagn
and his wi e, escsped TO the bills. A
small party of sevsn, marking the cObrse
J pursued by Kiodsgo, followed. The
valiant chief had ,ost both his tOma>
1 hawk ard war club IL the strife, but he
still carried his trusty bow and there
remained in the quiver just three ar
rOws. The warrior determined that a
4 life must tell for the loss OF each srrow.
| Two arrows were sent whistling from
/ LQS DOHs Carrying USslIuCLlOu WIN
| them; but just as he was drawing the
bow for the last time shot from q mus
ket carried away his thumb The war
rior betook himself to fight, now bound
ing over the rugged crsgs, now crossing
and recrossing the mountain torrent to
misl6ad his pursueTs, and finally re-
/ Joined his wife st tie entrance of a cav
ern, where she had sunk down in utter
exhaustion, pressing her babe to her
bosom SON, however, voices were
heard, and looking Gown they discovered
a party OF three, led by renegade scout,
pressing forward in the direction of their
rocky fastness. TIE chief gTasped his
remaining arrow with his bleeding fin
! gers, and aimed it 1t the leading one of
the pursuing pArtv- It struck the steel
/ cuirass 0f the fl GER, and glanced off
harmlessiy, but Iransfzsd the heart Of
the scout, who, in his.dyin9 fall, grasped
the sword chain OF the chevalieT, and the
two vent rolling down the glen to-
gether. The third man abandoned the
pursuit. KiodsgO and his beautiful
wife escaped, and many of thei- descen-
dants are still living to tell the tale Of
| the last arrow.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-17
wonderful Things in Leather.

The Mckay Sewing Machine company,
which is now having q fight in congress,
sewed 10, ,0G0,0 pairs of shoes LAST year,
aud there were pegged upon the peggiDg
machines 55,000,000 pairs last year.
And those machines have entirely reVo-
lutionizeG the business. There are 49,
600 bushels OF loose pegs made in New
England, and those pegs sell from sixty
FIVE to seventy-five cents per bushel /;
yet q patented pegsWOod Ga strip or rib
bon Of wood cut against the grain. and
OF width just equal to the lers tn of a
peg) has so superseded the loose pegs
that last yesr there were 55, 600, 600 pairs
of boots and shoes Pegged with it. The
whole expense OF this peg-woOd averages
about one-fourth of q cent per pair.
Nearly one thousand OF these pegs are
driven into the shoe in minu te, and
there are about four to six pegs to an
inch, or about twenty-five inches of peg.
ging TO q shoe. Over two hundred
varieties of shoe machines are now In
the market. The man who invented this
peg-wcod had to borrow money to enable
him to perfect his device and pay the
fees OF the solicitor and patent Office,
besides having borrowed 500, 900 to in-
troduce it into the market. 1t cost the
parties who invested and introduced
into the shoe shops the "csbIe screw
wire machine" $500, 600 Six hundred
pairs of pegged shoes can now be made
in day by a gaTg of ten men. Where
before shoe shops existed throughout
New England, now shops hsve become
large, labor is classified, and receives 8
larger compensation (strikes TO the con-
trsry Notwithstanding wages have ad-
vanced 90 to 100 per cent. to the lSbOTer,
aud the shoe IN quality is % per cent.
better than twenty, five years ago.
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No Windows i'm He'll.

He'll was described in detail in Norris
town, PenDsy lvanis- by r y J. I HAys-
lett. pastor OF the Mount Il Or \. n +
chu ch. He compared il Ia red hot iuT-
naces burning prslirs, AMI river GOV
tssd with bizziug petroleum from the
wreck oi al oii-traiu. H4viHg Tecitsd
the parable OF Lszatu- and the rich
mans vain petitioH Or dru.' OF water,
he cried Not even a drop Of water /!
Not in q silver cupl Not IN q china
cup! "a voice, "Nol ~. Ot in a
gourd gr a calabash But from the tip
of his finger! You call this foor cirty
nov when We ak you to get down on it.
but Ia hell you would sake drop o
water from the toOs OF any saint IN glory
if you could get II. Think OF it. The
smallest prayer can not 10 answered
there Ia couclusioB, hs said " There
are no c0nveniences there fer guests 90
teats, no cushioned chairs, 10 carPeted
raoms, onlsa fiery lake OF leTy waves
no wiB,isws there, no floor u the prison
hon p OF the damned He urged i
hesIeIs not TO 80 there.
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Mrs. Enerson,s rrrnIy liens.

A pleasant story is told of ThOTeau,
who could unbend occasionally, although
il is conceded that as a rule, he was any
thing but q pleasant person" " TO those
who did not know hina familiarly. A
writer in the Boston Herald ssys: n,
D. Tboreau was once called upon by
Mrs r. w. Emerson, whose flower gar
den WIS being scratched up by the hens,
to help her devise some plan to prevent
further damsge. After a consideration
Of the ways and means, Mrs. Emerson
hit upon the expedient of putting linen
gloves upon the ieet of the gsllinsceous
vandals. Th0yeAu, who had keen sense
of humor, restrained the laughter which
was nearly choking him. and gravely,
under Mr. EmeIsen's direction, ban
daged the Claws of tie assembled barns
yard in stout linen cloth For an hour
or so The fowls dji no harm, and the
Emerson household were greatly pleased.
Finally there vas heard an exultant
crow. The rooster had scratched through
his bandsges and wss tTiumphing over
mis- exploit Cae hens folio sed suit and
Mrs. Emerson was reduced TO despSir,
while TaOreau went 10 the woods, where
be could let his laughter have vent.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-17
lie Pie-Eating Championship,


Mr.. 7. J. McNulty, who claims to be
the cham pion pie>eater of 4 ueric8, pub
gished q challenge last week in the New
York Sun, to which there have been
several respon.es. Mr.. John j. Weeks.
of the United States Bung Factory, who
sions himself the Champion sponge
cake eater" accepts Mr.. MCNulty s
challenge to eat pies for the champion
ship OF the United States. Mr. Alfred
WaltziDger, champion plum-Pudding
eater also accepts, provided the pies
shall be apple pies of the prescribed size,
the prizs to be the championship snd
5000. The champion pie eater of New
Jersey, who fails to give his other name,
is anxious TO enter the ring, as is also
Mr.. George o. Striker, champion dough
nut eater, who is "dot over II years old,
tall and ieaa." He stipulates that the
pies shall be hot and homemade. Mr..
?. ]. Maloney, who, 20 ar IS heard from,
is not a champion OF anything, will wager
from FIVE dollars to five hundred dollars
that he can win the pie eating champion
skip from Mr.. McNulty; and Mr.
Richard Dumphy, champion S4ratUgs
American pie-eater, will bet from one
hundred dollars TO one thousand dollars
that ne can consume iaoEe pie IN thirty
minutes than Mr.. McNulty can. Last
is Mr. Charles McClennOH, VINO accepts
"with the following proviso, viz: In@t
the pies SHALL b. OF yOu- dimensions IS
to size, material, etc but four pies must
be placed one on top Of the other, each
bite to be through our pies Mr.. Nc
Ciennon Is sixteen years ct age
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and sen,ible, they should be led into
adopti Of the folly. But il spiritual
ism is merely REGULAR mental action,
investigation will Only lesd TO good
results"
" How do yea account for materislizsd
spirits ?"
81 have never seen any, and have
never known any one who has. / cain
that the faces which some honest ones
pufport to see are brought Re ore tbs N
solely by the p0t7e' Of imsgiBstie and
that such hallUcinstim i II a'pS more
strange thsn any oti vagsry u irg a
diseased condition OF the brain. Simu
Ia2ts bring strange visions in their waE !;
why may not an imagination, highly
wrought upon, see ghosts and N)wt Is,
after having gene through q cGuTse U
training 30 that very end In both IN
stances, the mind is in an natural.
unhesllhy stase. This is my theory, sir .
We can not convert tseh other,
see."
Here our talk ended. take pleasure
in adding that the lady mentioned came
over 10 my side OF the argument and
warmly thanked me for my efforts in her
behalf and my success IL leading her
back to agreeable skepticism
As I Believed then, I believe now,
basing that opinioh upon long observa-
ton and study of what ] hola to be &
very pleasant and agreeable subject,
when detached from the gross trickery
OF professionals who make. capital out oi
a widespread credulity. With regard 10
NJ IS Fancher's ability to live without
eating, I have nothing to say. 1t is
easily tested. Concerning the keenness
of her mental perceptiofIs and the sub
tlety OF her grasp upon objects inVisi lie
to a. remote from her. hold that she
simply possesses to a remarkable degree
the same power which belongs, to lees
extent, to five out of every ten whom we
meet daily, but who are too absorbed in
the busy wbirl of life to ray much heed
to irI1DressiOIs and nTenOnitiOns.
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An Old Story RetoId.

It is limited that Madame Anderson
accomplishes her prodigious walking
feats without any signs of exhaustion
by a simple stratagem. Somebody
looking and dressed like her takes her
place while she rests and sleeps. A man
In Cincinnati walked 1000 miles IN
1000 Iours by means of a double"
who finally undid him, for he be-
trayed him just at the close of the walk.
The trick is a very old one. 1t Is found
among Hindoo legends of the hedge
hog and the fox, a version of the hare
and the tortoise. The fox challenged
the hedgehog to race, and the hedge
hog agreed. The fox started, but when
he arrived at the end of the path
through the woods, there was the hedge
hog. Then he proposed running it
right over again to the starting point.
The hedgehog agreed and the fox
found him ahead of him as before.
This contest was continued until the
fox could go no more, and paid the for
felt. The hedgehog merely stationed
his wife, wno looked so like her hus-
band the fox did not know them apart,
at one end of the route while he stayed
at the other. Neither Of them moved
and the fox ran back and forth from
one TO the other until he drooped from
fatigue.-DetTOit Free Press.
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st0rm on the Central Pacific.
Republican.


Saturday night was the ierSest &no
stormiest ever known On the Sierra Ne
vadas since the completion o. the rail-
road. The wind blew hurricane--tbe
now was light and dry, and the air was
20 filed with the storm-driYen part cLess
that il was impossible Oftentimes 10 see
IN object ten feet distant. Ihe vino
tore the branches fIom the trees. started
avalanche rolling down the mountains,
and howled and shrieked aud rayed Ike
thousand demon The storm piled a
drift thirty~five deep by the side o. Gard
Wells house at the summit " mere
yer there was a crack or crevioe IN the
SIDES of gncw-sheds the snow would soon
~ sifted in to the hight of six or eight
set across the track. In places the top
= the snow sheds were bsre in places
he posts and upTights gEosned beneath
mass forty feet deep Harder work
vas never performed By railroad men.
Relief train men and the suoS-gloW crew
re out in the storm for iour nights
81 three days. During all this hsht
Il \ the storm, the ni5n nat scarcely
go consecutive hours OF sleep. hs
s,rekade WIS crushed tarouga on sun
4av morning, and soou aitetwsra fAa
sky cleared Of.
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Total
sAlso supported by Democrats.

No Greenback nominations, either
State or Congressional, we're made in
Florida, Georgia, Nevada, South Caro-
lima, or Virginia In California no gen
eral election was held. In the Third
Minnesota district, Donnelly, Democrat,
was also nominated by the Greenback-
ers. In the First and Second districts
of Louisiana, and the Fourth and Sixth
of Maryland, Greenback candidates
were nominated, but we have no returns
IS to their vote.-Detroit Tribune.
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one who had previously so addressed
him." Politeness, added the court, costs
nothing, bat the want of it had cost the
plaintiff the loss Of his situation. The
complaint was dismissed with costs.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-17
The Greenhack Yote Of 1s7s.

We have carefully compiled from the
Tribune almanac for 1879, which
gives returns from all State and Con-
gressional elections held in 1878. the
following tables showing the complete
Greenback vote of that year. In ths
States where a Greenback State ticket
was nominated we give the vote of the
head of that ticket; where q State
ticket was not run we give the Green
back vote for Congress:
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IN the government of Cherson, Rus
sia in the bed of = river, peasant found
an egg of unusual size. 1t is equal to
3orty hens eggs, whereas the ostrich egg
is equal only to twenty-four. 1t is OF a
yellowish color, and, being found be-
tween the clay and gypsum layers is
supposed to belong to the tertiary for
nation. The purchaser OF this egg
offered it to the Imperial Academy of
Science, st. Petersburg, for one thousand
roubles. The academy failed TO buy it
on account of lack of means, but asked
permission to take mould from it. The
British museum has now bought tRis
unique egg, Co the grief OF the Russian
students ct natural science.
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CALEoREIANs are told by the San
Francisco Call that, il they want five
cent pieces, they must get over their
prejudice against the nickel, as there are
not enough silver pieces to answer the
demand.
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REV. JOHN BRADY is now a Pfesby-
terian missionary in Alaska. Only few
years ago he was street vsgabond in
New York, sleeping wherever he could
find a shelter. Alter spending term on
BlackwelPs island he was sent to e farm,
where he both worked and studied.
Then he became bell ringer at Yale col.
lege, and was in due time graduated
with highly creditable record. Then
his friends paid hia way through the
New York theological seminary. On en-
tering the ministry he chose the Alaska
field as one where there WIS plenty OF
hard work, TIE Rev. John Brady will
succeed.
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IT viii plass4 many Of his admirers to
tn1R shst Dan Rics will have I'VE OF his
sa-ry- around the country this season,
and tl.ev viii all he " original and each
wI.i have TIE only" Dan Rice with H.
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SAILS are recovering somewhat Of the
estimation that ten years ago they
threatened to lose entirely. It is found
that all the advantages are not on the
side of steam. In freightsge of the
heavi er, coarser Kind, cheapness is mora
OF an element than speed.
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DR. I. I. HAYES has introduced in the
New York legislature a bill to establish
at the lower end OF Manhattan Island
grand underground railroad depot and
to tunnel the Hudson river SO that the
great trunk lines could enter New York.
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PAuFO coast whaiers set forth from
their winter Gu arters early in the spring,
provisioned for r cruise OF at least six
months. The crews number ahcut thirty
five men, torce sufi cient to man four
or five bosts. The number of boats car.
ried depends on the locality of the hunt.
ing ground and the nature ot the whales
TO be captured. IN the extreme north
whales never attack boat, bat in the
south they do so frequently. The best
ot the weapons ctrried is the patent har-
poon gun, which is dsrted from the hand.
and exPlodes after striking the whale,
causing instant death when it enters Il
vital part.
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NEw York World: at viii probably
be found that the principal stockhold-
ers IN the companies for introducing the
electric light are also heavily interested
IN gas stocks, so that it is not likely that
sny change which may be made viii be
ct . ruinously evolutionary character =
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OTTo MCNANNY Is q ST. Louis man OF
middle age and sedate manners. Mary
Engelbrecht Is young, with q shapely
figure and pretty face, aud she dresses
with artistic neatness. Otto saw Mary
in the street. for the first time, and was
overcome with admiTatiaB. He threw
one arm around her waist, drew her to
him. exclaimed, o, girly. girly." and
kissed her three times before she could
bresk away. He subsequently paid
fifteen dollars fine in police eonrt.
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Do 'Possums play 'possum7 is the
question asked by = scientific journal. Ii
then goes on to show that they do net.
Thus do the cherished delusions of our
childhood days vanish before the search.
ing light of investigation. It has been
generally believed that to serve its pur-
pose an opossum would feign death
only TO escape when a fitting opportu.
nifty offered. Tue opo4sum got a great
deal Of praise and admiration for this
cunning dev &c, and now it seems that
the WHY animal has been taking all this
IN on talse pretenses, by not being IS
willy IS it pretended. An vestigatoI
gives 10 "a his opinion that the 'possum
really fsints instead % feints It'seems
that the little animal is 50 timid that it
is easily frightened into temporary
death, and, of course, when it wakes up
1t makes of As quickly as possible.