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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-09-08
The EIephant MYTH.

The elephant of our childhood no
longer exists. Like behemoth and levi
nthnn aud other IN ythical creatures in
whom we once implicitly believed. he
has been proved to be Il Pigment of the
Oriental Imagination. The authority
Mpon which we make this unwelcome
announcement is no other than Mr..
SInderson, who has for many wears
filled the post of Superintendent of Ele-
uhants 10 the Government Of India. and
who stands in the same relation to these
animals that Sir Joseph Fayrer occupies
toward hgers and venOmous snakes. In
IL lecture recently delivered to the Unit
cd Service Institution Mt Simla he
roundly calls the elephant positively
ldiouc IN its attempts to escape when
captupcd," and talks Of its want of or
iginality and its positive stupidity in
many things In short, 90 III the facul-
ty of reasoning it is far below the dog
and many other animals Nor will Mr..
Sunderson allow the estimates of its
great height Out of many hundreds
lac has measured in Southern India and
Bengal, he has not found one reaching
ten feet at the shoulder. Yet one di.il-
lslsion more. The elephant-huuters in
both Ceylon and India corroborate Sin
lads st.ry thst elephants, when they
feel the approach Of death, retro to a
solitary and inaccessible valley and there
die il peace. But Mr.. Sunderson,
though 10 admits that no living man
has come Scross the corpse of n wild Gle
l,hant that mas died natural death, at
tributes this rather to their extreme
longevity, which he is disposed to place
rs high as 200 years. This explanation,
however, seems to rs to violate that
rule of scientific hypothesis which re-
CURES that the cause should be adequate
to account for the result.-PaU AIaH
Gazette.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-09-08

He was from tho mountain side, and
was buying his first glass OF soda. u
wish you'd skim of that slIum, boss !;
1 amt paying for no froth, you bet.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-09-08

A SCHENECTADY lawyer charged 81 Tor
bin Of s., bu5 as it was
against another lawyer the court held
tLas the services were woEth the money,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-09-08

to E-yspa pr Subsesihrs.
,,t,,f-,-, ~ r.,f md practical -aire. The laiics
viii is delighted ,iga 30. Make sH year st.scTl e.
lions nov. li yoRr nri-ila'fs tt'n tS- fHe
l,ftv,4 Bf-rrt4s tell i5-is ol this oiier hey ll
want the uIpcr AND tHa le-sS- lea Ert i',f
Ncvr.4r,I and q a. .i;1l practicsis useful book VI
100 ia-,-., iHr the price o. iia former
Now is Youv Opportunity.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-09-08

TIVE Oldest house in the United States
is supposed 20 loo at Pembroke. EIass.
Ia 1922 Mr. Poleg Bankers ancestors
EUIt fort OF stone and mortar as a de-
fensc against tho Indians, and it has
been used as dining-room for years.
The main building is only 10 years
younger.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-09-08
Advance II Prizes
OF PIANOS.
Didn't we tell you so? And it
is not high water yet.

Piano manufacturers have raised prices on us three
times in many months but We have nevcrt heleSs
AciB old selling tcs through j. ell. We in
tended ia fight IL out on that line, but the last
ditch is close Gy-its deep une-Gsf haze sur
Tcn,'sref. Five large manufacturers have to-day
notified Us of fourth advance AID another likely
to follew April I. They claim the following ad-
vance In cost Of production:
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-27
LATEST TELraRAMs CONDENSED.

An additional forgery of Sll 900 has been
discovered IN the accounts of Newburgh
the Ohio Assistant Secretary of tho Board
of Public Works.
1t is now supposed that S. r. Pierce, who
was found dead recently in hotel in Du-
buque, Iowa, was the victim Of foul play,
and was robbed OF 500.
William lIart2ook, conductor between
LoganSport, Indiana, and Chicago, was run
over by the cars in the Panhandle freight.
yards Friday morning when about to start
out with his train. lie died shortly after.
James Collins, who was arrested in Ken.
tucky and taken on December 9th to Ere
donna, Kansas, for trial on the charge of
breaking Jail, larceny and forgery, again
made his escape Saturday night and is still
at large,
Oscar Byrncs, who burglarized Kiddcr &
Co., of Grand Rapids, Michigan, of 5000
worth of seal skin saques, was arrested in
New York couple Of days arc and the
property found among his baggage.
The store of ]. ii. and j. II. Prince, at
Green Plain, Virginia was fred Friday
night last and two clerks named Glover and
Muryell persisted in the flames. II is sup.
posed the men were murdered before the
house was fired
William Il. Gray, convicted in New York
IN 1879 of forgery has been released. The
Distrlet-Attorncy admitting that II would
be impossible to obtain conviction. GRAY
was arrested in England and much difficulty
was experienced in securing his return.
Malone Grayson, a young brother Of the
two most prominent men among the Creeks,
was killed at Eulaula, Indian Territory,
Saturday, by man named Wear. A sec.
fs..t, A Ia.tf IL A.
killed by the constable, who mistook him,
as he ran, for Wear,
Jesse @. alias, '-secsnd mate of the
American ship David Crockett, which ar.
rived in New York from San Francisco ON
Thursday last, was arrcstcd'Saturdny on n
charge Ol cruel and unusual treatment of the
crew, and was committed 10 Ludlow street
jail by United States Commissioner Shields,
IN default Of 5000 bail for examination ON
Tuesday.
The lurid flames licked from Darlington,
q small town seven miles southwest of Full.
ton, Missouri, storehouse aud all its con.
tents, belonging TO James 7. Wood, on
Saturday night. The torch was undoubt-
edly guided by the hand of an incendiary,
and when the FIRE was discovered some
time after midnight the building and goods
were too far gone to save anything. The
loss Is about $1,000 insured for $250l.
Hart Premier, n German, ~ years OF age,
IN the employ of DIR. Il. r. Hanly, at his
drug store, on McLain and Pavilion streets,
Cincinnati. was found dead In his bed
the other morning, with a bullet hole In
his right temple. The deceased had wife
and two children living In Germany.
and recently had received letter
FROM his family asking for
money, saying that they were in distress.
An old.fashioncd, six.ohambered pistol was
found ut the loot Of his bed which contained
i've cartridges, one chamber being empty,
He had been suffering from rheumatism for
about week, and had asked for money
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-27
The Next Governor.

To the Editor of the Dallas Herald;
SIR:-rm an old soldier of tho political
cross of Texas, have retired from politics,
and only rejuvenate with my children and
nephews, to prevent them running off after
strange gods. We older men, who still feel
as boys. sometimes like to talk with the
young bloods and so feeling, desire to tell
orr sons and nephews what we think
1t is not necessary 10 repeat the old adage,
old folks know that young folks are oh,
well, let that 60
Stop right there. No more foolishness.
Average man of Texas who do You want
for the next Governor? A wise villain, a
wise nincompoop, wise valetudinarian,
or a man of fine average sense and honest
heart, clever and sympathizing with the
toiIers of the land? Which do you want?
Ifyoe want sensible and true man who is
not ashamed because his mother was born
reared and trained on the frontier, and
reared family refined and pure, on the
outer wilds of Texas, and who, after coming
home from college at nineteen years of age,
commanded Indians against Indians, and,
before he was twenty, recaptured an Hi
nois girl who had been twenty-five years a
prisoner among the lndians-the same
who, in the latewar rose from private to
be Brigadier- General, and went home to
his honored parents and his youthful
BRIDE and quietly, peacefully seized the
pillow handles to make living-drank no
whisky, wore no six.sbooter, took
no ironclad oath, minded his own business,
kicked aside every imported official entray,
telling him pously to go to Hades, Herodo-
Is. Herovoniary, Herenlaneum, HindCo-
stan, Hispanipla county, Texas, or any
other convenient locality, no, he didn't
come with his double distilled hypoc-
rsy and thieving prOpensities on his little
reclaimed and resumed dOmicil in the sub
urbs of Waco, little territory he and his
brother Pete and their father before them
had helped to rescue from a savage foe,
where bullets, arrows, and starvation
while our Puritan brethren live d
on the fatted lamb. Wendell Phillips in
Boston, and Henry Ward Beecher in Brool-
lyn-neither of whom ever knew what
me mt frontier, savage life, poverty, or the
difference between u fricassee cooked in q
palace and marrow gut fried on a stick
for son of Adam who had been four days
without mOuthful to eat.
Now put, Boss of Waco,
ex-boy soldier, ex-Maor, ex-Lieuten-
ant Colonel, eX-Colonel, ex-Briga-
der General in the Confederate army, eI-
Sheriff of McLennan county, eX-member
Of the Constitutional Convention of 1873
and present Senator from McLennan, Hill
and Johnson, this Sol Ross, college bred
hundred battles, the most refined, elegant
md Christian-like gentleman-how would
ne do for Governor ofthe State of Texas?
if amy ohipCtiOnS rise and pyplain
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-27

THE San Antonio Express has n good
deal to say about Texas newspapers, and
very properly remarks that in no other re-
spect has there been greater progress made
in Texas than in connection with her news.
papers Continuing with reference to tho
Jolly OF attempting in our small cities to
publish two or three daily papers the Ey-
press says: They have asccrtaned that no
newspaper can exist alone upon the
strength of meagre supply of editorials
day, no matter how ably written, or the
popularity of an individual. The editorial
colomns ola paper carry great weight, if
conducted with ability and integrity, but
they must be backed by news to make the
paper succeed A realization OF this fact
was followed by a realization of another
important fact-that when a community
possess barely sufficient population and
business to support one paper and
enable it to progress with its sur
roundings, it was folly to attempt to
meet the demands of the readers of
either when two or three daily papers were
published, all of the same politics and gem
eral policy. About two years ago, Dallas
u live and growing town, had two morning
papers, the HERELp and Commercial and
neither was or could be made, profitable
with the patronage the people could afford
to give, or what the town and county de-
mandcd in the way of a newspaper, They
might have struggled on TO this day in a
sort of cut-throat manner and neither
reached the degree Of excellence demanded,
but their proprietors wisely consolidated
the two int one, and the result has been
fine paper the people Of that section have
good reason to he proud of"
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-27

THE following is taken from the Globe.
Democrat of Saturday, and calls attention
to matter of the greatest future promise
to us: "While the various Isthmus pas
sage schemes ask for liberal appropriations,
or comprehensive guarantees from the
United States, a hardly less important work
Is in progress in that part Of the globe
which asks nothing from our Government.
Two steamers are on their way out from
England with telegraph cables oh boad that
are to be used In establishing direct com.
munication between this country and the
Western coast of South America. one
end of the line will skirt the southern shore
OF the Gulf of Mexico, from Vera Cruz 10
Tehuantepec, while the other will run from
Valparaiso along the coast northto Panama
and up the southern coast OF Central
America 10 an overland wire across the
lsthmus Of Tchuantepec, TO connect with
the other section. The Pacific naval
squadron will keep an eye on the cable lay
ing, which ought to prevent further misun.
dersthndlngs With our South American
neighbors."
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-27

The following itom, taken from an cx-
change, gives expression toa very disagree
able truth TO those of Americas citizens.
who have been laboring long aud earne tlv
for reform in the matter Of the tariff anu
revenues of the country American
manufactures, which commenced seventy.
five years ago c'amorlng for protection to
nurture them through their infancy never
TIL now seized the national House of Repre-.
sentasatiyes so entirely. The subsidy beg.
gars were never half as | old and ayaricious
in their demands as to-day under rampant
Republication AT the head of the WAYS
and Means Committee of the House
they have put that bowling dervish of pro.
lection, the unreasoning, uncomfortable
Kelley. He isa Greenbacker, which means
with respect to finance what Proteotonist
means with respect 10 intudry and com.
merce. Both ideas are the crudites Of NV
balanced, unphilosophical minds. Green.
naekiam and protection arc twin surers,i.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-27

To The Editer Of the Herald.

To The Editor Of the Herald
CoRsIoAxA, Misunderstanding a notice
in the HERALD of the DIST inst. to the effect
that Mr.. John T.. Hogan, of your city, is
anxious to make a match with me at finger
billiards, and also to match Mr.. Edgas to
walk heel and toe six days against me for
500 side, do hereby state that will
play Mr., Hogan any game Inc may please
finger billiards, cushion and caroms, q four
or three ball game, or carom on the same
ball twiCe-for 500 side, after | get
through my race against the horse here in
Corsicana, | will walk Mr.. Edgss from one
mile to six days for 800 to $500 a side
Hoping You will make room for this in
your valuable paper | remain yours re.
specially, w. II. GRAY.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-27

which was given to him. His intention
was to send it TO his family for Christmas.
The case was evidently one of suicide, in
duced by dependency and longing TO re-
turn home To help his family, as the de-
ceased had emisrsted from Germany only
six months ago.
Tha recent dssertion of some thirty boys
from the training ship New Hampshire
has developed the fact that life on these
shipsis not so roseate as it has been painted.
IL really looks as though discipline might
be maintained without the display of so
much cruelty as is alleged against the off
GERS.
Frank Briggs, aged SO years, employed on
tue farm of VIM. Clary, three miles from
Wabash, Indiana, Friday night attempted
to commit suicide, by cutting his throat
with corn-knife. Brigg. was found in bed
this morning, covered with blood and yerv
weak. 1t is supposed that he cut his throat
while laborlng under fit of temporary in
sanity, as he now remembers nothing of
the occurrence. His windpipe is sawed
nearly in two, and the physicians say he
will die.
Friday night Esom Bolin, carpenter
living at Rogers, Arkansas, was shot while
lying in bed asleep. The ball entered the
back of his head and lodged over the left
eye. Death ensued almost instantly. At
the Coroner's inquest Saturday his wife
confessed to having fired the shot and
claims that she did it in self-defense. She
says B9lln threatened her life and that he
was a desperate character and had been
guilty Of robbery and murder in their for
mer home. They were from Wayne
county, Kentucky. They have been at
Rogers several months, and Bolin was re-
garded as quiet, industrious mechanic v
his associates.
quite sensation was created in Freder.
teton, n. D., the other afternoon by the
arrest of W. A. Oliver, who is 45 years old,
went to Fredericton early last Spring from
Bangor, Maine. Soon after his arrival he
med the acquaintance of Miss l.. Ger
November, greatly against the wishes of
the girls parents, the couple were married.
The girls father, who from the beginning
had suspicioned that all was not right, be-
gan an investigation and soon discovered
that Oliver had wife and family in Lynn,
Massachusetts,.
Charles Wagstaff, night track walker on
The Troy ~ Greenfield Railroad between
Williamstown and Pawnsl, Mass, was
assaulted while on duty near the latter
place Friday night by three men, who
prang from the rear ola pile of ties near
the railroad track and beat him terribly
with stones. Wagstaff says that they fred
at him with revovers, but his body shows
no bullet wounds. He was nsensible for
some time after the assault, but recovered
and dragged himself to Pawnal Station,
where he was cared for. Wagstaff was the
only man who knew aught about the Will
Jamestown robbery Wednesday night, as he
passed the depot while the robbers were
entering the safe, and it is reasonably GER
tam that his assailants were the Williams
town robbers, who desired to remove him.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-27

PENNSYLVANIA fares very well in Chair.
manships of the House committees, Mr..
Kelley is at the head of the Ways and
Means; Mr., Fisher OF the Committee on
Coinage; Mr.. Bingham of Post-oiliccs - a
subject with which he is probably more ia
miliar than any other member of the
House; and Mr.. Caml.b Of Manufactures.
Ex'Speoker Randall, whose politics pre-
vented him from receiving place proper
Tomato to his capacity is put down MS
Chairman Of the merely formal Committed
on House Expenditures, which, however,
he may bring into prominence.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-27

PisToLs and liquor have added another
chapter to their records OF crime in Knox
vile, Tennessee One of the best known
young men in that city, win Mabry, son of
a prominent citizen, was shot and killed
Saturday afternoon by another young man
named Iusbv.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-27

TIE keen business instincts which ale
said to govern General Grant in his pecu.
mary affairs should admonish him to cry a
mercy to his foolish friends. Two bills to
put money IN his purse, log-rolling in Con
gress at the same time, is just the least bit
too strong.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-27
TUESDAY MORNING, DECEM8ER o1

also greatly gratifed at this new and close
connection with our neighbor, and trust the
relations between Dallas and Alvarado in
the future, both socially and in a business
sense, may be of the most agreeable charac-
ter Imaginable.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-27

A CONTEMPORARY very properly and truth
fully remarks that one of the most impu-
dent dcfianccs of public sentiment in tho
arrangement of Speaker Keiiers commit
tees was the appointment of Venezuela
0rth as Chairman of the Committee on
Civil Service Reform,
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-27

j. c BANCROFT DAVIS, who has been ap.
pointed Assistant Secretary of State, began
his career in diplomacy as Secretary of the
Legation in London, in 1870. lie became
Assistant Secretary Of state under Mr.. Fish
in 1863. In 1874 he was appointed Minister
to Berlin. lie is at present Judge OF the
Court OF Claims
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-27

THE smallpox continues TO increase
throughout the country, and the predicted
cold wave we are to have this week is not
looked upon as by any means beneficial to
the disease.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-27

THE dispatches note a serious family row
at fleetwood, Tennessee, in which six men
were shot, three Of whom are fatally in
iured. This is n family episode that islikely
to be remembered for some time.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-27

AK exchange says that Secretary Ere.
linghuysen's dispatch to the Charge d'AE
fairs at st. Petersburg to umke immediate
provision Tor the reierard return of the OIL
GERS and men Of the Jeanette, and promis.
ing all the credit required, represented
c'mmcndable action on the part of the
Government Of the United States.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-27

A MICHIGAN soldier comes to the front
with the story that JEFF. Davis saddle bags
were full of gold when the ex-Confederate
was captured From the amount OF tcsti-
mony on this subject there was evidently
mysterious disappearance offunds, whether
Mr.. Davis got the benefit of it or not
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-27

IT is reported that the meaGrc telcgraphic
report in the HERALD Sunday morning
arose from too much Christmas at the die
tributing Western Union Office in Gal
Nestnn
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-27

THE Cincinnati Enquirer thinks that
Hunt will be allowed to remain in the
Cabinet, but that the distinguished gen
tleman is harmless in or out of the Cabinet
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-27

1T Is to Mr.. Jefferson Davis credit that
he has never been Newark bank cashier
or a POughkeepsie teller.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-27

FRox dspach sent us by tho editors Of
the Alvarado Bulletin, Il will be seen that
the Chicago, Texas & Mexican Central was
yesterday completed 10 Alvarsdo, and that
town sends greetings 10 Dallas. We are
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-27

A SAINT LOUIS paper very cruelty re-
marks that the fashionable Christmas gift
in Chicago this year is bundle of vaccine
points,
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-27

WILMINGTON IS not dead as shipping
point by good deal. Five vessels cleared
from her port Saturday with cargoes valued
al S3UD 600
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-27
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 81. 1871
INDICATIONS.

For the Middle Atlantic States increasing
cloulaes., followed By rains; Southerly winds,
generally to Northeast; stationary or low tenn
peratuIe ana pressure.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-27

Tus Emperor of Austria proposes toerect
hospiialon the site of the lately burned
Ring Theatre in Vienna
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-27

put .calicn, hul wants one hundred dollars
for H.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-27

BARONESS BuRDETT-CoULTs lost S450,000 a
year only by her marriage. The old lady
was evidently terribly mashed.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-27

THE interesting fact is telegraphed out
from Washington that Guiteau spent
Christmas very quietly in Jail.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-27

Nh JEWErf has just conveyed nearly a
million dollars worth Of property in New
York city 10 Jay Gould,
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-27

Ar last arrangcm ants hare been made for
match between Hanlan and Boyd at an
early day for $500 side.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-27

THEE expeditions were sent cut to look
aficr tie Jeannc'tc.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-27

VIZ had bright Christmas.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-27

THE eminent divine, DR.. Leonard Bacon,
is no more.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-27
THE DALLAS DAILY HERALD.

$500 tracts Peters Colony" or T, E. & L. Co,
ands in Montague, Clay Archer, Jack Young,
Palo Pinto, stephens, Eastland, Callahan and
Shaokelford countes-sec county maps, Va
rious sized tracts in same and other counties
Lot of coss and farm lands of 1900 acres in
Stephens: 90 acres in Young. A healthy
region; har early promise Of several more rail
roads. Eats inspection invited Come, via
I. & P. RyAsto Woathoriord For sale by
T. S. GRAHAM,
Graham. Young, county. Texas.