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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-02-25

The reception at the Executive mansion
was well attended last evening.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-02-25
THE LEGISLATURE

FIFTY.TH1RD DAY TENTH SESSION
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-02-25

gro WEEK. So day at home easily made. Costly
VI Il Outfit }rse address True Co. Augusta, Maine
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-01
LETTERS FROM DAVID A. WELLS,
THE APOSTLE OF FREE TRADE, AND
PROF. W. C. SUMNER, OF YALE
COLLEGE.

YALE COLLEGE, New HAVEN, Conn.
am very glad to hear that you are
about TO enter into the struggle for
free trade, and especially that you are
to work in the South. Your people
seem to be assiduously urging TO the
Southerners. You used always to say
that the tariff was a swindle. Now
you want to &C me inside the ring and
get some of the profits of the swindle,
therefore, you ought now, to go in for
the swindle, and Geo. Wager oppose
it." The constant improvements
which are being made in transporta-
tion, are bringing this country and
EUROPE nearer together every year.
The consequence is that the agricultu-
raj products of this country admit of
constant extension and variation, and
they win more and more command of
the worlds markets.
Just the same forces, however, for
just the same reasons, give advanta-
ges in manufacturing and commerce to
the countries where population is
/ great and capital plentiful. There is
double action tending to greater
/ and stricter international division of
( labor. The tariff need to be built
/ higher and higher every year in order
to'prcve a barrier to the consequences
which the cheapened and quickened
transportation is producing. The bar
rier viii constantly break down, ex-
4 posing TO destruction the interests
which owe their existence to its pro-
/ lection, and it win be forcing the in
/ dustry of the United States into more
unnatural distortion. When it be-
comes impossible TO go any further
with the protective system, we shall
be forced to come to freedom through
a convulsion. The land entries are
the ones which will be favored in the
future in this county by all the forces
which are at work, and man who is
working under national advantages
can afford to look down on any petty
and delusive advantages from protec-
ton boxes.
From beginning to end it will be
found that the forced possible rela-
ton of exchange of the whole world
is a condition of gain of the greatest
advantage from the existing indus
trial powers of the South.
Yours Very Truly,
G. w, SUMNER.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-01
A Wierd Land.
THE YELLowsroNE GEYsrRs.

lHE ElLOM , 4ONE NrE EIhSs
A correspondent of the St. Louis
GIO6e-Democrat thus describes the
great wonder: AS the tourist lies
rolled up i'll his robes at the dead hour
of night in this romantic region, he
may feel the earth tremble, hear the
rushing of water and the kissing of
steam, and, if he will look out of his
tent, he may see near by, or in the dim
distance, as the case may be, limned
in shadowy outline against the star-lit
sky, a column of water from 5 to 10
feet in circumference and from 200 to
300 feet in height, throwing off dense
volumes of steam. This phenomena
will continue for ten or fifteen min
utes, and then all will be compare
lively calm, with nothing to break the
solemn stiffness but the roar of the re-
ceding waters as they rush down the
steaming crater back to the deep-seat-
ed chambers, from which, in due
course of time, they viii again be
forced above the surface by another
column of steam, generated at the
source of heat. The problem for
scientific solution is whether this
steam is generated by chemical action
or internal fire. 1t is only the pur-
pose of this paper to describe the phe-
nOmena. A geyser in action is tho
grandest spectacle to be seen on this
continent. Your correspondent will
take the Giant as a sample geyser in
action-day exhibition-and it is one
of the grandcst in the basin, de-
scription of which will suffice for all
of the cone varieties. By the side of
the main cone is a small fissure, which
! performs the functions of an escape
pipe to a monster boiler. When the
chambers of the main crater become
fully charged, short puffs of steam
come kissing through this fitsure, fol-
lowed in a few minutes by tremen-
dous movement of the hollow forma-
| ton under your feat, if you happen to
be standing near the geyser, and a
! volume of steam forces itself through
| the orifice of the mann Greater with de-
donations, and an ominOus stiffness
ensues for a second, which the tourist
improves by beating precipitate re-
treat from the brink. Finally the ele-
ments of disturbance seem to combine
their forces for final convulsive eff
fort. simultaneously with stunning g
shock, caused by pent-up volume of
steam, a column of water.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-01
How il Works.

The following, showing how the Ii
cense system works in Danville and
the surrounding country, we copy
from Saturday Opinion, published in
that city:
GA gentleman residing from twelve
to fifteen miles in the country, whose
name is a synonym for honesty and
integrity, and who is in no wise given
to exaggeratiOn, in a conversation with
the editor few weeks ago, alluded to
the deplorable state of morals in his
section, the resulC almost whOlely of
the traffic in Intoxicating drinks at
DanvilIe.
''He said the young men and boys
are actually growing up a race of
drunkards. They go to Danville as
often as about once a week, coming
home at evening on Saturdays driving
like Jehu, yelling like yahoos, terrify-
ing everybody and everything they
meet, and rendering themselves gem
orally obnoxious to everything respect
able and decent, and carrying sorrow
and moaning into the homes of their
parents, who, in their agony of de-
spair, cry out, 90, Lord, how long"
will DanVille be permitted TO destroy
our homes and make drunkards ofOur
BOYS? These young candidates for
drUnkards' graves carry home with
them jugs and flasks filled with the
deadly beverage, and they keep up a
continual round of dissipation night
after night, disturbing religious as
semblies, and frequently committing
such breaches of the peace as require
the Intervention of the Justices of the
courts.
eve were surprised at this state
ment, and still moro when he said
with words of serious sOberness that
carried conviction Of their truth, that
no less than five-sixths of the popula-
ton of his neighborhoOd between the
ages of sixteen and twenty-five years
were drunkards. This is a sad state
of affairs, indeed. 1t is one of tho
most serious features OF the Danvilie
liquor traffic, that it affects not only
those who are responsible for its exist
ence, but it sets TO running a stream
that flows to the Femotest bounds Of
our beautiful country, carrying heart
aches, tears, decentralization, misery
and ruin everywhere in its path. Is
it not about time that the principle OF
prohibition was applied to this ac-
cursed traffic in our midst" PrOhi6-
r1F
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-01
Too poer to Take a Papel..

Christian Mirror: An editor was
sitting in his Office one afternoon,
when a farmer friend Of his came in
"Mr. Editor, like your paper, but
the times are so hard can't pay for
it."
'Ts that so, friend Jones I'm very
sorry that you are so hard up. I win
give you my paper"
"Ob, no! can't take it as a gift."
''Well, then, let me see how we can
fix il. You raise chickens, believe p
Eyes, few; but they don't bring
anything hardly"
@Don't they? Neither does my pa
per cost anything hardly. Now ! have
a proposition to make TO you. / will
continue your paper, and when you
ego home you may select from yOurlot
one chicken and call her mine. Take
good care Of her, and bring me the
proceeds, whether in eggs or chickens,
and I win call it square"
"All rightI" and the farmer chuck
led as ne went out at what he thought
a clever bargain. He kept the contract
strictly, and at the end Of the year
found that he had paid about four
prices for his paper. He often tells
the joke on himself, and says that he
has never had the cheek 10 say that
he is too poor to take a paper since.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-01

port his family. She had five children
who were compelled to live with her
in two small rooms, while her hus-
band was off spending his money and
generally enjoying life. He had re-
fused 10 support her ever since she
had refused to consent to his marrying
more wives. She had married him
in the States, and coming out here and
bearing two children she discovered
that ne had a wife and nine children
in England and another wife and sew
eral children in the States. On sever
al occasions, when he was broke, he
would come home TO sleep, lying on
the floor rolled up in a couple of
blankets.
At this point David o. Calder, one
of the High Council, remarked: "If
you would sleep on the floor and al
low him to sleep on the bed, you
might possibly gain his sympathy"
eyes" retorted the woman, who did
not fear to speak even before so august
body as the Council, ''if fed him
cream for year or two about half an
inch thick, he might some day take a
notion to give me sip of skinned
milk"
The Council then proceeded to re-
primand Mrs. Graves for her Obdu-
rate conduct, while Mr.. Graves talked
meekly about doing everything which
the Council would direct, for, said he,
Il am as good a Latter-Day Saint as
lives in Salt Lake" The fact that he
had a miscellaneous assortment of
wives in various parts of the world
and wanted some more in Salt Lake,
had its proper weight with the Coun-
ell, and they stood by the "goOd Lat
ter-Day Saint" and granted the wO-
man no redress. Angus Cannon read
her lecture on her duties as sub
missive and obedient wife, and gave
her to understand that she must do ex-
actly as her husband wanted her.
Mrs. Graves replied that she had ful-
/ filed in all respects, all of the duties
/ she owed to her husband, but that
when he refused to support her and
wanted to become q pOlygamist, it
was little more than she proposed to
stand, and she would have nothing
more to do with her fraud of a hus-
band, backed up by a fraud of a
church. Notwithstanding her bold
stand in defence of the rights of her
wOmanhOOd, she passed through the
ordeal of the Council citation, got out
of the place alive, and snaps her fin
gers in the face of the church doctrine
of polygamy-a doctrine which she
never heard of until she reached Salt
Lake. She is now living i'm the ninth
ward, trying to support five children,
while her husband, who is a most ex-
cellent Latter-Day Saint, absolutely
refuses to take any hand in assisting
his family.-SGlt Lake Tribune.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-01
skeleton in a Hollow Tree.

n Little Rock special says: Curtis
who lives in the vicinity, found in a
hollow stump about seventy
yards from the Bayou Meto section
house on the Memphis 81 Little Rock
Railroad, the skeleton of Il man. The
coroner was notified, and, with jury,
repaired to the spot and viewed the
remains. The jury's verdict was, in
substance, that the skeleton was that
of small or medium sized man, who
came to his death by cause unknown
TO them. The opinion is that the
party was killed and hidden in this
novel manner, as his thigh bones
were chopped or broken just above
his knees, and the remains show that
they had been severed about the hips
and shoulders in order, doubtless, TO
moro easily crowd them into the cav
ity of the stump. Upon the whole
body was found lime, placed there, il
is supposed, to aid decomposition and
to prevent any odor, and then a layer
Of earth. About three years ago a
man by the name Of DennisOn disap-
peared rather mysteriously from this
section house. The circumstances
point 10 him as the victim. His wife
several weeks after he was missed
went to Lonoke and left Ter only
child, little girl, with Mrs. league
until she could go TO Memphis, and
Mrs. league never saw her afterward
1t is supposed that she died from vel
low fever, as it was about the time OF
the fever in 1873.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-01
ODDITIES OF INTERMENT.
SOME CURIOUS HAPPENINGS AT RECENT
LY REPORTED FUNERALS.

SOME CURIOUS HAPPENINGS AT RECENT
LY REPORTED FUNERALS.
a widower, blinded with tears, fell
into his wife's grave at Decatur, H.,
and on being pulled out used such Ian
guagc that the clergyman had to re-
prove him.
A Constable in Franklin county.
Pa, served "a writ on a man as, with
other members ofthe family, the debt
or was standing by his fathers open
grave.
New attractions are lent to ones fu-
neral by Baltimore undertaken who
by the use Of chemical agents makes
the cheeks of the corpse to bloom like
the rose.
At the funeral of a resident Of East
Prussia recently, his wife caused the
coffin to be filled with pipes, tobacco,
cabbage, bread, salt and other articles
of food and luxury.
On the tomb of Brillat-Savarin, at
Pere Lachaise, an enthusiastic reader
of the "Physiologie du Gout," deposi-
ted on the Day Of the Dead last year
not a wreath but pate de foie gras
At the funeral Of Robert j. Smith
of Pittsburg, Pa, his divorced wife
pleaded, with bitter tears, to be per-
mittcd to look upon the face of the
face of the corpse, but was replused
by the family and clergyman.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-01
IN MORMONDON.

WOMAN BEFORE THE "HIGH COUNCIL y
Last Friday evening, Mrs. Robert
Graves, a Mormon woman, living in
Salt Lake, was cited to appear before
the High Council TO answer certain
vague and ill-defined charges made
against her by her husband. MIR.
Graves had the Council well in hand,
and, although the poor woman made
a gallant defense, she had no more
show Of justice than a sheep tried by
a jury Of Siberian wolves. On enter
ing the Council Chamber she was con-
fronted by twelve grizzly bearded old
fathers Of the church, whose duties,
while IL the session, consist of locking
wise and terrible
Mr.. Graves was also present, cited
to appear on cOunteF-charges, prefer
red by his wife.
The substance of the matter was
that Mr.. Grave was tired of his wife,
with whom he had lived seventeen
years and who had borne him five
children, and was anxious to take
other wives into the family, younger
and more comely than the present Mrs.
Graves. The woman stated to the
Council that for some time past her
husband had utterly neglected to sup
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-01
FOREIGN.

General Diaz has gone to Oaxaca to as
sumo the Goyernorship.
The Valparaiso cotton house was burned
November 18th. Loss, 82OO,OOO.
Two strong shocks Of earthquake were
felt at Bonn, Germany, Friday night.
The steamer Niagara, from Havana for
New York, carries $-SS, $50 in specie.
Missionaries Pierson and Tichfield, have
arrived at Marseilles, France, from Zanzi-
bar.
King Alfonso will pay return visit to
King Luis at Lisbon about the middle of
December.
A violent shock of earthquake of short
| duration occurred at Cologne Friday night,
and slight tremors were felt for hours after
it.
1t is stated in semi-onical form that
Cardinal HohenlOhe's presence in Berlin is
not connected with the ecclesiastical ques-
ton,
| Friday and Saturday 1000 sailors of the
Turkish navy were dismissed to their
homes, and several iron-clads will de dis
mantled.
Seven men have been arrested at Dun
more, county Galway, for Illegal drilling
! A large sum has been subscribed for their
defense.
| The cholera at Djeddah, in Egypt, is de-
creasing, but has made its appearance at
Yembo, on the Red Sea, 100 miles from the
/ North.
The Ballymena Ireland Land Commission
Saturday, reduced the rents of twelve ten
ants on two estates, the reductions aggre-
| eating f3S2 and 427S respectively.
! \ man, supposed to be Irish, has been
arrested when leaving Burneburg, where
he had purchased a clock work similar to
that of Thomassen's Internal machine.
The Whitehall Recielo is responsible for
| the rumor that the Marquis of Lorne and
his Illustrious spouse may shortly replace
| Earl Cowper and his Countess at Dublin.
/ The Porte is examining plan for a har-
! Dor at Tripoli, and will construct it if the
! powers agree that the vessels Of their re-
! spective countries entering shall pay port
| dues.
Gen. Japy has caused Ali Bey's army to
return to Tunis to be disbanded, because
the eXtOrtiOn of the troops in the ZaghOman
District brought the population to the point
| of revolt.
1t Is feared Kaiser Wilhem's health is
declining seriously. The non-delivery of
his speech at the opening of the Prussian
Parliament entirely unexpected, is much
commented upon.
The imperial speech to the German Reich
stag produced "A most profound impression
at Vienna by its eurnestness and decision,
and the mastery style in which the task OF
Legislation is set before the Reichstag.
A French and Arab acrobat troupe is
performing at Constantinople, in which
there are twelve English children virtually
retained as slaves and horribly ill-treated
1t is understood that Lord Granville has
ordered the Consul G GeneraI to recover pos
session of the children and forward them
to England.
Mgr. Termase, prelate of the household
of Pope Leo III, is in Montreal. He ex.
presses his opinion that his Holiness will
ere long change his residence to Malta OF
Salisbury from the opposition he receive.
in the Holy City. The Pope forsees his de
parture and has made a catalogue Of al
the objects OF value in the Vatican.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-01
TOO MUCH DINE NOVEL.

WHILE SOME BOYS ARE PLAYING DEs-
PERADOEs ONE IS SHOT DEAD.
SPRISGFIELD, Mass, Nov. 15-The
dime novel mania was the cause OF
fearful tragedy this afternoon. James
Morrisey, aged sixteen, was shot dead
by Fred Markham, one Of his oompan-
ions. The two boys, in company with
a third, John Brennan, thoroughly
imbued with Buffalo Bill's spirit, from
constantly reading dime novels, cheap
story papers, and occasionally a visit
to the Opera-house to witness some
blood-curdling play, were engaged in
miniature gambling at Markham's
house. They had extemporized money
out Of bits Of paper. Morrissey had
two shoe-horns for revolvers, and
Markham had resurected a rusty
revolver belonging to his father, which
lay OH the table beside him.
Finally Morrissey shouted that the
Others were cheating and that he had
got the drop on them, at the same
time raising his shOe-horns- Mark
ham spurned the imputation and
raised the revolver and fired, not
knowing it was loaded, and Morrissey
fell mortally wounded. One of the
barge men ran for doctor and the
other for priest, and OH their return
were arrested. Not having had time
10 arrange the story, they each, sepa-
rately, gave an account of the affair in
accordance with the above facts. The
shooting occurred about p. M, and
at o'clock MOFrissey was dead The
affair has caused great excitement.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-01
MOrmOnism and the South.

-AOA AAOAAStA anu VIZ OO0Nna
A reporter of the Nashville Banner
has been interviewing DR.. o. p. Fitz-
gerald with regard TO the Mormon
prOpagands in the South. That gen
tleman said the MOrmOns chose Nash
vile because of its advantages as a
geographical centre.
We quote a part of the interview.
'EReporter-'Why have they come
South?'
CDR Fitzgerald-'FOr the same
reason that they have gone to Eng
land, Denmark and Sweden. In the
remote agricultural districts of the
South there is population uncultured,
unsuspicious and with strong relig-
ious susceptibility. To efforts, James
Anthony Froude has somewhere
made the subtitle suggestion that the
very atmosphere Of a fervent religion
ism keeps the religiOusnature alive in
the masses Of the people, and thus
were evangelical Christianity is
strongest, superstition and fanaticism
find the richest soil and the quickest
growth. In France, Germany and
Italy error runs into infidelity and
crime: in superstitiOns and fanati-
cisms that may happen to be current
III liiGiI IlilNASls
"Reporter-EDo you think these
Mormons will achieve much success
in the South p
'Dr. Fitzgerald-'NO. There is a
conservative, commOn-sense quality
in the Southern mind that will pro-
tect our people from an impOsture so
gross and abominable. The men and
women they viii carry off as prose-
lytes will be just so many subtracted
from our criminal class, with here and
there exceptions. When the Mormon
prosclyters begin to talk of invading
the marriage relation practically III
the South, they travel on dangerous
| ground. The man who invades the
| sanctity of his neighb boris home is an
| outlaw, though he may offer forty
Mormon Bibles in justification. When
| Mclean shot Farley p. Pratt, who had
/ seduced his wife, it was taken as a
matter of course. Mormon missiona-
| ries came to grief in the same way in
upper Georgia last year. One was
shot, another whipped, and volunteers
for that field have not been numer-
Gus since them
'RepOrter.-'DO you think the Uni
! ted States Government will undertake
seriously the extirpation of Mormon
| ism p
CDR. Fitzgerald.-'Yes; it is bound
| to do it. When that which sends s
man to the penitentiary in one part of
| the country would be no bar to his go
ing to congress from anOther,the sltua-
| ton is evidently untena BILE. The soon
er our Government moves in this mat
ter earnestly aud firmly, the less dan
ger there will be of bloody solution
of the Mormon question.