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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-01-22
CRInIEs AND CAsUALrTrs.

-Four negroes, charged with murder, were
taken from the Jail at Amite, Tangipahoa
Parish, La, on the night of the 2Sth ult., by
a mob of 50 men, and shot to death.
Dave Hall, John Gallagher and a man
known as "MissOuri," were found on the
oath, near Young Mans Butte, 100 miles
west of Bismarck, frozen to death.
At Boston, on the morning of the 30th ult
Mrs. Helen Josephine Ward, widow of 81
was shot and killed by her daughter of the
same name, aged II. The mother and daugh-
ter lived by themselves in apartments in
Hamilton Place, and kept a loaded revolver
in bed with them for their protection. The
daughter says she dreamed Of burglars in
the night, and was first awakened by the re-
port of the pistol which she held in her hand,
and upon trying to awaken her mother found
her speechless and shot through the head.
The daughter was arrested, and there are
circumstances in the case that warrant a
suspicion that her story is not in all respects
true.
Charles II. Addicks, at one time a success
full journalist and until recently Treasurer of
the Grand Opera-hOuse at New Orleans.
blew out his brains on the 30th at Water
Valley, Miss, while en- route to st. Louis.
He had been for some time in an impover-
ished and melancholy condition. He leaves
wife and two children.
1t was reported from Deadwood on the
30th that the Bismarck stage had been stop
ped and robbed by road agents near An
teIope Station, and that the only passenger
in the coach, Mr.. Oates, had been shot and
killed, presumably while resisting the rob-
bers.
An express train on the Iowa and Mime
sofa Division of the Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul Railroad was thrown from the
track by broken rail near st. Paul, on the
S1st. One of the sleepers broke its coupling:
and rolled down an embankment to the
river, distance of 90 feet, The car wa.
smashed TO pieces and the six passengers il
it were all taken up in an insensible condi
ton. They were all seriously, but it wa
thought none fatally, injured.
At Burlington, Iowa, on the 31st, J. r
Woodward, son of ex-Msyor Woodward
shot and instantly killed his brother -in-law
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-01-22
Nevada NuptialS.

Sam Chung and Annie Youck, says q
Nevada paper, were united last evening
in the holy bonds of wedlOck by his
honor Justice Nicholson. The ceremony
took place at the Justices Office, land was
attended by n number of Celestial friends
of the bride and groom, by MIR. Jesse
Leach, and the reporter of The Times
ReUte1O The bride was elegantly attired
in pair of blue gingham pantaloons,
cut flowing from the waistband down, u
josie of the same material trimmed with
circus spangles, pair OF rocking chair
slippers, and a silver hairpin. The
grOom's makeup differed but little from
the ordinary apparel of the average
Oriental gentleman, excepting that he
wore pair of long-handled buckskin
gloves, and brace of india rubber
overshOes. Judge Nicholson was gor-
geously arrayed in a spotted necktie,
and the reporter was dressed in a calico
shirt, cut bias and pair of alligator skin
boots. His honor prOpounded the usu-
al questions in a dignified and Impress
i've manner, and they were responded TO
most solemnly by the groom, when
prompted by the reporter, who acted in
the capacity of - best man, The bride
Clipped in regularly at the appropriate
times, and in a few minutes the twain
were one flesh His honor was the first
to carom on the brides countenance,
with his bill hitting her smack in the
mouth. The pencil shower, however,
made -nislick and carried away the
major portion of the india ink which
composed her sinister eyebrow. The
balance of the company waived their
osculatory privilege, ,and, latter the groom
had tipped his honor the usual fee, and
treated the crowd to cigars, the Celestial
portion of the bridal party bid their
Caucasian friends adieu, and disappeared
i'm the gloaming.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-01-22
A Farmer Who Sold Himself.

They tell a good story of a COrrec-
tiOnville farmer, who sold load of corn
at that town the other day. When it
was weighed be slyly stepped on the
scales, and then drove off to unload.
When the wagon was weighed he took
good care not to be in it, and congratU-
lated himself that ne had played it on
the buyer in good shape. The grain
dealer called him in, and after figuring
up the load paid him in fun. As he
buttoned up his coat to go out, the buyer
kindly asked him to smoke with him,
and then talked over the crops, and the
price of hogs, and the likelihood Of the
I Maple Valley Railroad building up that
way. till the farmer fairly squirmed in
/ his chair with uneasiness about his
/ chores at home At last he could stand
! II no longer, and said he must 60. The
dealer quietly said that it was not TO be
thought of, that he had bought the farm
er at full weight and paid him his own
price. and that he would insist on doing
/ as he pleased with his own property.
4 The raiser of corn saw that he had in
deed sold himself, in one sense at least.
/ He acknowledged the eorn-as it were
and compromised the affair. Now
when he markets grain ke don't stand
on the scales.-iSi0uJ City Journal.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-01-22
An Unfortunate Ram.

A few weeks since some miners dis
covered a very singular curiosity in the
mountains near Bonanza City, Idaho
nothing less than the mammoth head
and horns of a mountain ram grown
into a pine tree. The skull was found
firmly imbedded in the growing pine,
the trunk of the latter being some eight
cen inches in diameter, with the horns
protruding, and one in its natural curve
re-entering the wood eight inches. Mr..
Fred Meyers, of the Challis and Bonanza
stage line, soon heard of the 4" find, :"
had the tree felled, and the section con-
tanning the ram S head neatly sawed off.
Mr.. Meyers has expressed the unique
specimen to Thomas l.. Kimball, gene
raj passenger and ticket agent of the
Union Pacific, in whose office it is now
on exhibition.
It was source OF much surmislng
yesterday upon the part of dozens of visit
ors at the Union Pacific headquarters
as to how the horns became thus fast
ened, and how many years this lord OF
the sheep tribe has been impaled in the
lonely mountains of Idaho. Some are
of the opinion that the animal, in
! search of food, was caught in the forks
of the tree scores of years ago, when ii
was a mere sapling, and unable to eX-
tricate itself, there died, the tree grad
ually growing over the skull. Such in
stances in the case of deer are very
common, but none has ever been chron-
icled, or at least not reported, in which
the wonderfully muscular mountain ram
has met such fate.
Another theory is that some Indian
or old-time employee of the great ful
companies received straight-away hit
from the ram; and in a fit of revenge
hung his ramship up to recall the Incl
dent of the unfortunate affair and IL
dulge in remOrse, but forgot to take hin
down. Another is that in one of those
/ terrific battles in which mountain rams
often indulge each other, this one wa:
'dodged' by his antagonist at a very
critical period, and a forked saplins
received the onslaught, never after Civ
/ ing up its embrace. Certain it is tn,
ram got in very bad fix, is dead. anC
is one of the most valuable and curiou
specimens ever sent to Mr.. KlmbaIl'
Office Omaha Republican.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-01-22

Eleven survivors of the wrecked steamer
Borussia were picked up by an Italian bark
and taken to Baltimore. They suffered
greatly from exposure in an open boat before
being rescued.
An immense meeting was held at the Mad
ison Square Garden, New York, on Sunday
night, Jan. 4, at which Charles Stewart Par
nell spoke in behalf Of the Irish people. At
the conclusion of his address it was resolved
that g formal and earnest appeal be made
to aid in the grand achievement of giving this
ancient people living in their own land,
realizing the idea given Utterance to by Mr..
Parnell, on his arrival, of giving Ireland a
place among the nations of the earth; in
other words, ireland for the Irish and the
Irish for Ireland.'"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-01-22
MY sHEAHEs.

The time for toll Is past, and night has come,
The last and saddest Of the harvest ewes;
Worn out with labor long and wearisome,
Dropping and faint the reapers hasten home,
Each laden with his sheaves.
Last of the laborers, Thy feet gain,
Lord of the harvesti and my spirit gr1eVes
That am burdened not SO much with grain
A. with the heaviness of heart and brain:
Master, behold my sheavcs?'
Full well know have more tares than wheat,
Brambles and flowers, dry stalks, and with
cred leaves;
wherefore blush and weep, as at Thy feet
j kneel down rcVerently and repeat:
Master, behold my sheaves!'
Few, light and worthless, yet their trihing
weight
Through all my frame weary aching leaves
For long struggled with my helpless fate,
And stayed and toiled till il was dark and late
Yet these are all my sheaves.
And yet gathered strength and hope anew
For well / know Thy patient love perceives
Not what did, but what j strOve to do;
And though the fun, ripe ears be sadly few,
Thou wilt accept my sheavesl
Public Opinion
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-01-22
COMMERCE. AND INDUSTRY.

Gen. Walker, Superintendent of the Cen
sus, expresses the opinion that the coming
census will show the population of this
country to be between fOrty-seven millions
and forty eight millions. Without attempt
ing to go into details, he said there would be
found to be quite large increase of popu-
lation in the Western States, particularly in
Kansas, Iowa and Minnesota. The South
ern States, he said, would also show an in
crease in population. The largest relative
increase, perhaps, in any State in the Union,
would be found in Texas, while Missouri,
Tennessee and Northern Alabama would
also show decided increase. He did not
believe that there would be any actual de-
cline in the population of any of the States,
North or South.
The Postmaster General has issued an or
der directing the Postmaster at New York
City to refuse payment Of postal-orders OF
delivery of registered letters to certain al
legged swindling firms of so-called bankers
and brokers, purporting to do business on
the 4" stock combination system.''
The December report of the Department
of Agriculture indicates large increase OF
the area sOwn in winter wheat, especially in
Missouri, Illinois, Oregon, Kansas and In
diana, ranging from IA to 20 per cent. There
is decline in Alabama, Mississippi and Ar
kansas. The average increase, taking all the
wheat States, is about u per cent.
The Grocers' Bank of New York, one oi
the oldest banks in the city, has suspended
payment on account of some recent heavy
failures affecting its resources.
The public debt statement, Issued Janua-
ry ., shows the decrease Of debt for Decem-
Der to be 81, PSI PIT; cash in Treasury, 1907,
| 9S3, ,903; certificates of deposit outstanding
$40, ,245, 900; legal tenders outstanding, $}46,-
S2,O14; fractional currency outstanding
S15,674, ,303
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-01-22
NEWS SUMMARY.
PERsONAI. I'D POLITICAL.

Right Rev. Bishop p. A. Feehan, of the
Nashville Diocese, has been selected by the
Vatican as successor to the late Bishop Foley
of Chicago. Bishop Feehan was born in
County Tipperary, Ireland, and is about 30
years of age. He was for several years a
pastor in St. Louis, and was created Bishop
of Nashville in 1865.
Gov. Van Zandt Of Rhode Island has been
rendered the Russian Mission, but declined
to accept.
George, the Count Joannes, a well known
character in New York City-lawyer, author
and tragedian-is dead.
Gen. Grant and suite left Washington on
the 30th for Fernandina, Fla, via Richmond,
Charleston and Savannah. At Fernandina
they were to take steamer for Havana, Cuba.
Gen. Sheridan and wife were of the party.
The Pennsylvania Republican State Con-
YentiOn will be held at Harrisburg, Feb. 4.
The Indiana Republican State Convention
will be held at indianapolis, June II.
Hon. George S. Houston, United States
Senator from Alabama, died at his home at
Athens on the 31st ult. Senator Houston
was a native of Tennessee, born in 1911, but
removed to Alabama when boy. He served
several terms in the House of Representa-
tiyes; was elected Governor of his State in
1867, and entered upon his term of Senator
in March, 1879.
The Kentucky Legislature met on the 31st
ult.
Charles Stewart Parnell, NJ. p, the Irish
landrefOrm agitatOr, arrived in New York
on the ID. He was met down the bay by q
committee of citizens and given a formal re-
eeption. Mr.. Dillon accompanied Mr.. Par
nell, and the two will visit the principal cities
Of I,o
Land League and Irish relief fund.
The Maine Supreme Court was called to-
gether at Bangor, on the I'd, to consider ques-
tions in reference to the late election in that
State submitted by Gov. Garcelon. Some eX-
citement was caused at Augusta, On-accOunt
of an armed guard having been placed in the
State-hOuse.
An official call has been issued for the Ma
tional Republican Convention, to meet at
Chicago on Wednesday, the I'd day of June
next, for the nomination of candidates for
President and Vice-President.
Alonzo Cornell was formally inaugurated
as Governor of New York on New Years
Day.
Ferdinand De Lesseps, the eminent French
engineer, accompanied by a number of his
countrymen, capitalists, engineers and saw
ants, arrived at Aspinwall on the 31st ult
Nj. De Lesseps' object is to look over the
ground of his proposed Inter oceanic Canal
The Maine Supreme Court on the Sd pub
lished an opinion upon the points arising in
the canvass in that State as submitted by
Gov. GarcelOn. The opinion, which is
signed by all the seven Judges, is in nearly
every particular adverse to the action takeT
by the GOvern6r and Council.
Bishop Gilbert Haven, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, died at the residence ol
his mother in Maiden, Mass, on the Sd, after
an illness of several weeks duration. IL,
was born in Maiden, September 10, 1921.
Governor Smith of Wisconsin was inau.
gIIrated with much ceremony on the 9TH.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-01-22

A FRENCH peasant halts before the
showcase of a photographer and gazes
upon a reproduction of Rauch's famous
group of - The Three Graces." ''Oh,
those women those women,' sighs the
honest man; 81 they were too poor to
buy a stitch of clothing, but they could
find the money TO get their pictures
takeuin
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-01-22

NOTWITHSTANDING the competition
of American companies, 400, 900 sewing
machines were made in Germany last
year, and probably many more have
been made this year.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-01-22

Professor in English Literature
- I will now show you some exceptional
feet. Mr. s., win you please come
forward Cornell Era.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-01-22

BLUE EARTH County, Mimi, has
paid 81, ,286 in bounties for wolf scalps
the past season.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-01-22

To Mrs. Langdon of New Hampshire,
whose husband was member Of Con-
gress, are the ladies indebted for per-
mission to listen to the debates and pro
ceedings of that body. They had been
originally excluded from the galleries,
but when the famous Jay treaty was
brought home, there We're heated de-
bates in the House for and against its
ratification. One night at a party Mrs.
Langdon expressed her regret to Fisher
Ames of Massachusetts, that she could
not hear the arguments, especially his
speeches. Mr.. Ames gallantly replied
that he knew of no reason why ladies
should not be permitted to hear the de-
bates. "Then," " said Mrs. Langdon,
- if You viii let me know when you next
intend to speak, 1 viii make up a party
of ladies, and we viii 90 and hear you. y
II was done, and the galleries have al
ways since been graced by their presence.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-01-22

SOME one says: Gas soon as a man
swears off smoking, every one he meets
offers him a cigar" 1t is the same way
with drinking Old topers have been
known to travel with blue ribbons in
their button-holes, for the purpose of
getting themselves asked to take some
thing twenty times a day.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-07-31

Colonel Chamb. Jones, of Big
Greek, has become connected with
the we'll known and popular wholesale
grocery and cotton house of Taylor
& Arnold, general commission mer-
chants, at Z2 Front street. Colonel
Jones has long been we'll and favora-
bly, known to a large majority of our
best people. He came here about
forty years ago. which was very soon
after his first appearance anywhere,
and a more popular man or better fell
low, to use a common term, cannot be
found anywhere. He has a wide &C.
quaintance, and can utilize it to great
advantage in a business way. In con-
Meeting himself with the excellent
house Of Taylor & Arnold, he has
doubtless perfected an arrangement
that will be materially advantageous.
This is one of the live progressive
firms, which does a large, sue.
cessful business, and commands
the respect and good will of a large
range of patrons and friends. Colonel
Jones, for the present, will travel fol
the house, and we commend him as
a worthy representative of one Of the
best houses in Memphis.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-07-31

asaw Guards we're nearly solid for
Powell. Upon a careful canvass it
leaks out that not more than four or
five will vote for him. One of these
has been heard to say he is satisfied
the vote will be thrown away, but it
will be cast through personal friend
ship only. The Chicks" eschew
politics and religion in toto, and
while this is not official, it is SO.
Our insurance companies suffered
about $1,000 by the loss of freight on
board the City of Vicksburg. The
value of the cargo consigned to this
point exceeded $4,000, but it was
mainly covered on the open policies
Of shippers at st. Louis. The -four,
1900 bbls, and meal, $50 bbls, con-
signed to various merchants, was
about all insured by shippers, having
been purchased on orders to be deliv-
cred at the landing.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-07-31
Onr Weather.

The temperature ranged from p to
SO yesterday, and opened at 70 this
morning, in the shade of course, and
a gentle southeast wind prevailed.
Increasing cloudiness and possibly
rains are predicted by the signal ser
vice kilograms for the Ohio and Ten
nessee valleys, but no ahowers are
predicted for the lower Missouri val
ley. Rains are probable il the upper
Mississippi and upper lake regions
and the north Pacific country. No
rains are indicated in the gulf states,
or anywhere else in the country to-
day, and the temperature here is not
likely to change much.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-07-31

Mr.. w. O. Haskins, of the house
of Friedman Bros, has a fancy for
gnpe growing, and at his place on
Brinkley avenue, near Poplar street,
he has, by a little attention, produced
surprising results. On a small bit Of
ground set apart as a grapery, he has
gathered many bushels of very fine
grapes this year, mostly of the Concord
variety, and has quite a crop still on
the vines. The size of the leaves is
remarkable, many Of them measuring
fourteen inches in length and breadth,
The berries are well developed, and
seem to ripen with great uniformity
An acre thus cultivated would pro-
duce several hundred bushels. This
glorious climate Of ours" will produce
almost anything that grows above OF
in the ground
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-07-31
Police Points.

Charley Mead was mulcted in a
6ve-dollar fine this forenoon for pitch
ing into another Charley.
The colored larcenist, from Wythe
Depot, Harry Alexander, will have a
hearing befor Esquire Quigley.
A negro roustabout, named Jim
Roberts, was fined ten dollars this
morning for being drunk and particu-
larly obstreperous.
A little. darky was caught sleeping
peacefully in the park at high noon
yesterday, with the Dummies" playing
hide and seek between his extended
knees. He will serve the city twenty
days.
One of the inmates of Miss Mollie
Clark's establishment gave a servant
a five dollar bill yesterday with which
to purchase refreshments, and still
waits with parched lips for the cool
ing cream and refreshing lager.
Ed. Robertson, colored, vas ac-
quilted of a charge of cruelty to ami
mails before DR.. Porter this morning.
Seventeen cases, for failing to make
connections with sewers, will DO heard
on the sixth.
Adams street is being plowed, pre-
paratory to grading opposite the sta
ton house, the stone layers being only
a short distance behind. The street
will probably be finished in two weeks.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-07-31
a RensonabIe Reaneat.

EDITOR PUBLIC LEDGER II write
on behalf Of suffering humanity, to ask
you to permit many over-worked boys
to speak through the channel Of your
valuable columns to their employers.
Business is at a stand still, and now
they wish to ask their employers for
at least an hour in the middle Of the
day for recreation. Of course the
employer is able to go to his club any
time during the day and enjoy him
self, while the honest boy is t~oiline
faithfully to advance his business,
and they ask only the small hour-say
from u o'clock M, to ! p H., in which
they can partake Of a midday meal at
home. Yours Respectfully,
MANY OFFICE Boys.
MEMPHIS, July 81, 1880.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-07-31
Nonresident Notice.

No. 3577-In the Chancery Court Of Shelby
coanty, Tennessee-John W Voegeli We.
Ohas. Hippel ct al
TT appearing from affidavit in this cause
chat the defendants, August Maurer,
Berths Nnurer. Otto Manner and Amelia
nessee: L Il therefore ordered that they make
their appearance herein. at the courthouse, OF
Shelby county, ia Memphis, Tenn, on o. be,
fore the frst MoRdsg in October, 1850, and
plead, answer or demHF to complainant
Tessed as 10 them and set for hearing
ex-parte, aud that q copy Of this order be
published once 3 week, for four successive
weeks. In the Public Ledger.
This the 9th day Of July, 1880.
A copy-Httest:
RI HACK, clerk and master.
By Z. B. MoHRSRY, d. G. and M.
Neatherford x E.tes, Solicitors for com
plAinant. IN ~ l3o l4t