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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-04-14
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vXTILT, bn offered at ito same titno and place
w the THkEE STORY BHlCN u WILL
ING No. g. south Royal street The house is
in good order, and has al the modern improve
ments located on the east side OF Eso9sl street,
between Prince snd Duke. Tarms st sale.
NH 26-eots GREEN s. WISE. for owners.
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1850 GREAT 1880
PENNsYLYANIA ROUTE
70 TIE NORTH, W EST & SOUTHWEST
DOUBLE TRACK,
STEEL RAILS, SPLENDID SCENERY
&AGNIEICENT EQUIPMEEI.
January 6. $780,
TIMORE s pOT5MAC &AILRCAD, CO...
uer Of Sixth end stl ,ats, ss follows:
70; PhilAdelphia. Now York and tho Esst.8 -
An. and l.Sv M. daily, except Sunday, acI
tied Express Of Pullman psrlor Cars sS0 =.
an. dsily, except Sunday. For Philsde'~1..
~ Am. except Sunday, aud $50 p. N. daily.
Fo! Pittsburg andtae " est lC40 a. m. daily, Wi.
Psrlof Cars 70 pit!sbuEg; 10 p. N. dsiv
with Palace Car 10 Chicago.
For CanandsiguS and the North, % a. uI
excspt, Sunday end i.1J =. %. daily, except
Saturday, with HsiAca CIR - Uanandslxu,
For Watkins. lO.4o p, W. daily escsp: SIA-
For Baltimore, & ", g. u, D.3o and 1O.40 L. H..
1.30, 10. 40, $50, 71D aa1 9.45 p. u.
On Sunday, 10 10 3. m; $50, 7.4u and 9.45
For Popos Creek Lire 6 % 9. n. and 4 70 p I'll.
daily except Sunday.
For Annapolis, IL u "a. sad ~ .. m. duly
except cun4sy
!.:(:jAL TRAINS.
sos AlelaEC.ih ! ~ > End Ii n. ru. and i2'
= %, nd 81 p -. ouiiay st I, a.: Il
q. H. and s t. III
Trsias leavs AeS.cdv;:, for a Washington, ST.,
8.u3 I'd 10 y. IA, a't j, :, aud p. N. /
y night.
On Suatay 3! Sc .i.J io l.. ii. and and "a
p. r..
rAECUGH TEAM FOB TIE SOUTH,
Quantiro ani sichmont, Will loaye Ales..
;iria ~ 7.2.J Il: IA. daily sGd 90 o. M. daly
except GuGd3y.
Tjcke.a anj into.n.a.:C2 Gan he procursI .
principal railroad t.4tiols aud ticket or Is
Southeast. l.. I. FARMEE,
Gsnl. Passenger (. 90,
FEaNK * TiiUMSu&
!5ea%r4l ManAxIr nov2l
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Inland & Seaboard Coasting Co.

Steamers Of this line will run as follows:
FOR NORFOLK,
Connecting with Merchants and Miners Line
for Boston, steamer
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AUCTION SALES.
Rv Grann & Wian

(Real Estate Agents and AUctioneers.j
WASHABLE pkOPE ERTY AT AUCTION.
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pE1Mt s. Z. SHOULDERS, received to.
l. Cay BY [maI3Cl j. MILBURN.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-02-19

Bills passed removing the political disabili-
ties of VIM. B. TalliaferO and John Owens,
both of Virginia.
JAN. SeHdte-Not in session. House
After the transaction of some unimportant
business, eulOgistic addresses were made in
memory of Rush Clark ofIowa, and the House
then adjourned.
FEB. 2.-iSenate-Mr. Thurman, from the
Committee on Judiciary, reported a bin for
revlving and continuing the Court of Com
missioners of Alabama Claims and for the
distribution of unapnrODriated money of the
Edmunds wished it understood that the
port was not unanimous He and sundry
other members of the committee dtC Lot
agree to it The credentials of Randall Lee
Gibson, senator from Louisiana, were pre-
were reported, after which the Senate
went into executive session. House
a large number of bills were introduced
among them the following: by Mr.. Phelps %,
Conn. .)-ApprOpT1ating SlO0 600 for the relief
OF sufferers in Ireland; by Mr. Bland %, Mo-
For the free coinage OF the silver dollar; BY
Mr.. Thompson ID, ky.)-FOr the benefit of
citizens OF States which did not go into rebel
eminent; by Mr.. Fort (S., H-)-TO put
certain articles imported and used in
the manufacture of paper, glass and
wooden fabrics on the free list, and
to reduce the duty on printing paper used by
books pamphlets. magazines and mewsBa-
pers; by Mr.. Robertson ID, La.)-Repealing
clause p of the Texas Pacific bill, which
grants land to the New Orleans and Baton
in favor of the New Orleans Pacific Railroad
Company. Mr.. Wells, from the Appropriation
Committee reported the Indian Appropriation
bill. Printed and recOmmitted. An evening
session was held, for the purpose of listening
to address from Charles Stewart PaTnen.
The House was called to order ut O'Clock,
the floor and galleries being closely packed
with spectators. The Speaker direct
ed the resolution of the 18th of
January last to be read, and stated
that in conformity with that resolution
he had now the honor and pleasure of intro
ducing Charles Stewart ParnCu of ireland
clapping of handsl, who came among them
to speak of the distresses of his country Mr..
Parnell then delivered his address from the
Clerks desk, being frequently applauded
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-02-19

The Maine Supreme Court, on the 9th,
rendered an opinion in response to the
questions submitted by the Fusion Legisla-
ture, although expressly disclaiming any
recognition of that body, even by implica
ton, as a legally organized legislative
body. The Court declares that the Fusion
House was never legally organized, mas
much as some of the persons who assumed to
act as members thereof and were necessary
to make a quorum did not appear to be
elected on the face of the returns and were
not in fact elected. The same objection eX-
lists as to the Fusion Senate. Regarding the
Republican organizations, the Court say,
that, ''although there may be irregularities
in the manner in which such organizations
were formed, the voice of the people is not
on that account to be stifed or the true Gov
ernment to fail to be maintained. No essen
tiaI defects anywhere exist, but only suTh
departures from the ordinary forms as cir
cumstances compelled"
The Fusion Legislature, after a pro-
longed secret session on the 2Sth, adjourned
to meet on the first Wednesday of August
next.
In the Republican Senate, on the Doth, sew
en- Fusionists took their seats, and - Flu
sionists took places in the Republican House
Every body seemed willing to accept the sit
uation, and absolute quite reigned.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-02-19
How Stuart Finished a Picture.

The late Henry Shaw (the father OF
81 Josh Billings'0 of LanesbOro, when a
Young lawyer in New York City, was
very intimate with Gilbert Stuart and
used to pass much time with him.
Those who were acquainted with Mr.
Shaw can easily imagine how gentle
man with the painters gifts would be-
come attached to Mr.. Shaw, who was a
man of rare genius and one Of the most
accomplished and fascinating converse
tionists that this or any other country
ever produced. Stuart painted the por-
trait of IA lady in New York who was
fussy, critical, over-exacting and nice TO
a degree that tried in the extreme ms
rather excitable temperament. The
portrait was changed again and again,
the shade of the hair, the color OF the
eyes, the expression of the mouth, the
pose of the head, the arrangements OF
the drapery, etc, were repeatedly al
tered at the suggestion OF the lady. One
dav Madam came in with several
friends to see the portrait, and as usual
she began to criticise, and said, 8" / do
not think, Mr.. Stuart, you have given my
eyes the right expression The pa
tience Of the artist was exhausted, he
could endure no more. Walking up TO
the portrait and drawing back his fist he
thrust it through the canvas, and ex-
claimed, in plain, blunt but vigorous
AnglO-Saxon, g Madam, - your
eyesi" Throwing the canvas aside
the portrait was finished. He had given
it the last touch.-Neao York Tribune.
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$1.5O per AnnUm.
Jan. 30.

WASHTNGTON, Jan. 80
to-day examined Gov. Pitkin of Colorado
on the Ute question He stated that the
chafed under the restraints OF the
enforced influences of civilization eNerted by
the agency: that jack and other Indians had
appealed to him to have them relieved of the
presence of Agent MeeSer; that they did not
care for farming, but preferred to lead the
same nOmadic life their fathers had followed.
He Governor Pitl0in) believed the Utes were
actuated by malicious intent in the recent Ute
outbreak, and desired. if possible, to drive
ont the whites from Colorado. He related
the incidents OF his interviews with Jack
ray had gradually lost his influence
over the younger Utes, and that the feel
ing of disafectiOn and the war spirit had for
some time past been gaming an aScendency
with them. He said some of the scouts had,
previous to ThOrnburgh's fight, been warned
that the Indians would attack the troops at or
near Bear River, and that the general opinion
among the people of Colorado was that the
outbreak was premeditated-
WASHINGTON, Jan. 81.
Governor Pitlzin of Colorado TO-DAY com
pleted his testimony before the House Com
mlttee ON Indian Affairs. 1t related to fires
SET anu uepreuatlons committed by the In
dams in southwestern Colorado and to the
injurious effects upon mining settlements
along the borders of reservation OccasiOned
by the changed relations between the
whites and Indians since the recent
outbreak. He was also examined as
to the character of the late Agent Meeker,
and gave it as his opinion that Mr. Meeker
was a very excellent man. but that he did not
know much about Indian human nature. In
reply to inquiries, Governor Pitl1in said he IA
yored giving the land IN severalty to the In
dians in Eastern Utah, throwing open
the Colorado reservation to settlement
by the whites, and giving the Indians every
thing realized from the sale of the lands of
their reservation, unless some satisfactory
sum could be agreed upon to be paid them bV
theGoyernment for the reliquishment of their
rights to the reservation.
Mai. j. b. Thompson, timber agent of the
Government gave an account of the fires start
cd by the Utes IN Northwestern Colorado last
May and June.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-02-19
Not a Panorama.

An old man with u sachel and cane
yesterday stood in front of the Detroit
Opera House for a long haf-hour, sur
veying the building with curious eye,
and he finally entered, walked up to the
boX-office and asked:
whats the regular price TO go imp -
Well, about six shillings,'' answered
Shaw.
III give you ten centst -
The Treasurer hesitated for a while,
but finally took the money and told him
to 90 up. The old man went upstairs
to find every thing dark and deserted.
He took a seat, fixed his gaze on the
drop-curtain and didn't get tired out
for about half an hour. Then he
walked downstairs with slow and dig
nified step, put his head into the box
Office and said:
If you call that a panorama then
you don't know what a panorama is,
and if folks come along and pay six
shillings to see it, there's a heap of fools
in this country! Good day!"-DetrOtt
Free Press.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-02-19
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

WARM seed, fresh water and a good
house for poultry helps to ''shel out the
eggs"
VARIOUS plants affect milk. Horse
radish has a tendency to prevent cOagu-
lation, while Canada thistle and wood
sorrel hasten it.
CALCTNED plaster is the best article
ever used to stop the bleeding of grape
vines. Put on the dry powder little
at time till the sap ceases to come
through it; it viii take but few min
utes, and can be bought of any marble
worker.
f. j. COBLE writes to the Indiana
Farmer that he has sold in eight months,
from two cows, 537 pounds of butter,
besides the amount used in his family.
This is a good yield, but the amount of
money received, $3.50, does not show
profitable business.
w. A. ARMSTRONG, of the Elmira On
W Farmers Club, remarks that as
rule it is better to sell what are called
finished products-thOse into which the
raw products are transformed-than to
carry off the grain, hay and other coarse
fodder, where the object Is TO maintain
fertility. Thus the sale of butter and
cheese can be kept up with profit much
| longer than the sale of the grass, hay
and grain that enter into these products.
| In the one case there are annual stores
| of manure to put back on the land, but
| in the other there is nothing to cOmpen-
safe the loss of fertility inseparable from
/ plant growth.
| In a recent number of the Husband
/ men VIM. H Van Sickle speaks of his
| experience in drilling corn, saying: 81
have drilled corn for number of years,
and l find that it yields better than
when planted, if not drilled too
/ thick. | drilled from 1S to 20 acres
last spring on good ground, pastured
/ last year; one half acre, or nearly an
| acre, / manured. One man drilled all,
/ l think, in a day and a half, and drilled
! plaster with the corn. One attended 1t.
! Two men husked it all except five days
work. The crop was about 2,4OO
| bushels of ears; it was common thing
to find three or four ears on stalk, and
several stalks were found with five ears
each"
SAVE! SAvEI SAVE! the often vast
| ed fertility. The farmers savings bank
is the compost heap, and it never fails,
as do the savings banks of cities. The
sign on its doors is, ''Always open for
| deposits or drafts. - Fallen leaves, dead
animals, slops from the house often lost
in the drain, dry muck, the urine of the
stables, night soil, turf, leaves from
hedge rows, are all matter for deposit
in the compost heap which passes them
through its laboratory, and converts
them into what is as good as ready
money for use in the field and garden.
All of these should-be-deposits are Otter
wasted, and the farmer in place of then
spends his hard-earned income for chem
ical fertilizers, which are well enough
in their place, but not economical unit
all the home resources are exhausted
Land and Home.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-02-19
COMMERCE. AND INDUSTRY,

The Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad
has been Incorporated into the Wabash sys-
tenn, of which Jay Gould is the moving
spirit. The NJ, K. & T. has been operated
since July, 1879, by the Union Trust Com
pany of New York, in behalf OF the bond
holders. The control of the road was secured
by the purchase of stock. At a special meet
ing of the Directors, held on the 9th, eight
members "a majority of the old Board
handed in their designations, and their
places were supplied by the election of eight
of the Wabash Directory. Jay Gould was
then chosen President, F. S. Bond, First
Vice-President, n. L. McCready, Second
Vice President, and H. b. Henson was re-
elected Secretary. 1t is said the NJ, X and
T. will be at once consolidated with the
Missouri Pacific.
The American Union Telegraph Company,
jay Gould's new line, commenced doing
business on the 26th. The lines extend from
Boston and New York to Chicago, st. Louis,
Kansas City, ,and other principal points North
and West.
The telephone was recently successfully
worked between st. Louis and Omaha, dis
! tance of 40 miles. Singing and conversa-
tion were distinctly heard at either end.
The public debt statement issued Feb. ?
SHOWS uScTease Ol ueDG Iof January OF
| $11,O14, ,263; gold certificates outstanding,
$40, Al 100; silver certificates, Sc, ,052, ,910;
certificates of deposit, S12, ,6S5, 900; legal-ten-
der notes, S346, ,742, 1856; fractional currency,
S15,66S, ,729. Total debt, 81, ,1s8, 199 .391. De-
/ crease of debt since June 80, $50, ,423, ,O15.
/ The st. Louis morning papers recently
advanced their subscription rates, and now
the Chicago dailies have done likewise The
! great increase in the price of paper and
/ other material necessitates the advance.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-02-19
d" ACCEP1ED AND WILL APPEAR.'

One evening while reclining
In my easy chair, repining
over the lack of true religion and the dearth
of common sense,
a solemn visaged lady,
Who was surely on the shady
Side of thirty, entered proudly and to crush
me did commence:
" / sent a poem here, sir"
said the lady, growing fiercer,
" And the subject which I'd chosen, you re-
member sir, was spring.
But although Ive scanned your paper,
Sir, by sunlight, gas and taper,
I've discovered of that poem not solitary
thing"
She was muscular and why,
And her temper sure was fiery,
And knew TO pacify her would have to-fib
like fun.
SO i told her that her verses,
Which were great, had come tO-biess us,
Wed received just sixty two on "spring," of
which we'd printed one.
And / added, we've decided
That they'd better be divided
Among the years that folow-one to each sue
ceeding sprihg.
So your work, Pun pleased to mention,
Will receive our best attention
In the years of nineteen-forty when the birds
begin to sing.
IA. ". Dett, IN Big Lick Vd.) NeloS.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-02-19
CONGREssIONAL.

Jan. 97.-iSenate-The Fitz John Porter
relief bill was reported from the Committee
on Military Affairs, BTr. Logan making
minority report Consideration was then re-
sumed of the joint resolution, introduced by
Mr.. Bayard, to withdraw the legal tender
power of greenbacks, and My Bayard spoke
in favor of the resolutiOn......- HOUSe-A
bill was reported apprOpriating SlOO,
O0O for a monument at Yorktown and
$50, 600 to aid in appropriately celebrating the
coming centennial anniversary of the surren-
der. Mr.. Ryan (R-, Kan-) from the Committee
of certain actual settlers on Kansas Trust and
Diminished Reserved lands in Kansas. Passed.
The House then went into Committee OF the
Whole on revision of the rules, debate being
carried on under the five minute rule.
JAN. 2S.-iSenGte-The Vice-President an
nounced that this day had been set apart for
delivery of commentaries upon the life and
character of the late Senator Chandler
Appropriate resolutions were then passed,
and eulOgies delivered by Messrs. Fer
Cameron and Others. The Senate then
adjourned out of respect to his memory
Ho1lse-BiIIs passed arTantiner a pension to the
widow of Lieut. Hiram H. Benner, and appro-
pTiating 81 100 for the erection OF "A monument
to Gen. Herkimer. The report of the Commit
tee on Rules was further considered in Com
mittee of the Whole, after which the remain
der OF the session was devoted to eulog1es on
Senator Chandler
JAN. 9.-Sendte-The House Fortifica-
ton Appropriation bin was reported and
placed on the Calendar. Mr.. Herman intro
duced a bill to provide for celebrating the
and Illilr enngnifiog 0l Of fio American inde
pendence by an exhibition of arts, manutac-
| lures and products of mines in New York IN
1888. Mr.. Gordon submitted a resolution that
a committee of nine Senators be appointed TO
/ take into consideration the subject OF the con
/ struction of canal to connect the Atlantic
and Pacific Oceans, and that all papers, dOcu-
ments and information relating to said sub
/ ject be referred to said committee and II be
authorized to confer and act cOncurrentiy
with any similar committee OF the
/ House and be authorized to employ clerk
I absence pf
clared the resolution adopted Ad1Ourncd
| till Monday. HOuse--The bill declaring ali
/ public roads and highways post routes
| passed. After the transaction OF some further
| business the House went into Committee ol
| the Whole to consider the report of the Com
| mittee on Rules.
JAN. lSeRdte-Not in session..
House-The session was largely devoted &c
consideration of bills OF a private nature
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-02-19
ORnIEs AID CAsUALTIEs.

Charles Ponder, aged so, a local preacher
Of the n. E. Church, committed suicide by
hanging himself on his farm, four miles
west Of New Albany, Ind, on the 9th.
Cause, insanity produced by religious ex-
citement in relation to sanctifieation.
a fire damp explosion occurred in col
liery at Mussen, Saxony, causing ID deaths.
Charles Taing, Chinaman, was hanged at
Colusa, Cal, on the SOth, for the murder Of
a Chinawoman in December, 1873.
Rev. J. NJ. Tower committed suicide at
Farfbauit, AIinn., on the 18th, by shooting.
He leaves wife and six children.
Joe Gillespie, colOred, was hanged at Tay-
] lorvilIe, Alexander County, n. c., on the
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-02-19
AFTERGLOW.

Grandmother PAGES with stately tread
Forward and back through the quaint old
room,
out OF the frcIight, dancing and red.
Into the gathering dusk and gloom,
Forward and back, in her silken dress
With its falling Iufiies OF frost like lace;
a look of the deepest tenderness
In the faded lines of her fine old face.
Warm on her breast in his red night gown
Like "A scarlet lily the baby lies,
While softly the tired lids droOp down
over the little sleepy eyes.
Grandmother sings to him sweet and low,
And memories come with the cradle song
OF the days when she sang il long ago,
when her life was young and her heart was
strong.
GrandmOther's children have left her now;
The large old house is a shadOwed place;
But shining out in the sunset glow
OF her life, like Il star, comes the baby :
face.
He lies where of old his father lay;
Softly she sings him the same sweet strain
And the JOY of life's morning is hers again.
GrandmOthcF's gray head is bending low
over the dear little dOwny one;
The steps of her pathway are few to go;
The baby's Journey Is Just begun.
Yet the rosy dawn of his childish love
Brightens the evening that else were dim,
And In after years, from the home above,
The light of her blessing Will rest on him.
Caroline Leslie, IN Christian Union.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-02-19

An elephant constituted the great at
traction of a travelling menagerie that
arrived IN Amsterdam few weeks ago,
and was permitted to camp out in one OF
the public gardens there. An old gem
tleman, inspired by the elephants amia-
bic expression of countenance, with the
conviction that he would stand any
amount of teasing, proceeded to offer a
temDtino lump OF bread to the animal,
deity Withdrawing it, however, beyond
the reach of the elephants trunk each
time that receptacle was thrust forth TO
grasp it. This jocular performance
having been repeated several times, the
elephant suddenly stepped forward close
to his side of the railing, seized his tor
menter's body in his trunk, lifted him
clean over rthebarTierint posingbetyeen
them, and hurled him to the ground. Hav-
ing got his enemy down, he trOd upon him
with such vindictive vehemence, that
when the old gentleman was finally got
out of the inclosure he was dead.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-02-19
The Ute Outbreak.

WASHINGTON, Jan -.
Miss Josie Meeker was before the House In
dian Committee to day, and told the story OF
the massacre of her father and Of the causes
which led to il. She said the Indians were in
cited to the deed By their intense native aver
sion to take on civilized modes of lie. Thorn
burgh's advance in her opinion, was the I'M
Tnediase cause of the trouble. There was no
trouble with the White River Utes on account
of supplies since her father had been Agent,
and the outbreak was not OccasiOned by any
treaty negotiations. It appears further from
her statement that the Indians had set IRE TO
the country ON aud off the reservation partly
that in case of an outbreak the soldiers could
not follow them.
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The Ingalls, investigation.

WASHINGTON, Jan. ..
o. NJ FouIks, T. S. Stambaugh, a. a. Thorn
as and d. r. Anthony were called as wit
nesses in the ingalls, case, but their testimony
was unimpOrtant This virtually closed the ev-
idence in the case and the committee decided
to allow counsel on both sides one week in
which to prepare written arguments to be
submitted to the committee.