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CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

Mrs. LUCINDA TUCKLEY, aged 81, q
respected widow lady residing near Albany,
Athens County, o., was horribly maltrcated
by Il negro. Her skull was fractured and
she received other injuries which it was
thought might prove fatal. Her assailant
was captured and locked up, and the neigh
bors threatened to lynch him.
A STEAM boiler connected with a
threshing machine exploded at Marlvile, n.
Y, on the 2Sth. Frank Millman was killed
and eight others injured. NIilman was
completely disemboweed, and died in half
an hour.
AT Halifax, N. S., while Mrs. Bethane
was attending to stove her dress caught
fire. She rolled herself on the floor, at
tempting to eXtinsuish the flames. A child
crawling toward her caught fire from the
burning carpet. Both were burned to
death.
SAMUEL KENYON, a well-to-do farmer
residing near Black River Falls, Wis, was
shot down the other night while returning
from the well with pail of water. There is
no clew to the assassin.
REV. j. M. SPARGRAvE, of Pitts
burgh, committed suicide in the State Hos
piIal on account OF financial troubles.
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COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.

NINE Governors were in attendance
upon the Atlanta Cotton Exposition on the
9th. The feature Of the day was making
two suits of clothes, one for Governor Col
quit, of Georgia, and one for Governor
Bigelow, of Connecticut, from seed cotton
picked at in the morning The suits were
worn at the reception in the evening.
ONE of the most stupendous bank
failures on record is that OF the Mechanics
National Bank of Newark, n. j., which on
the 30th of October was rated as the strong
est financial institution in the State, with a
large surplus capital and unimpaired credit,
and the 31st was declared insolvent, with
liabilities exceeding by over $1,000, =
600 its available assets. The history
Of this astounding financial collapse
is briefly this, according to the state
ment Of Cashier o. L. Baldwin, the actual
manager of the institution, who has made a
full confession: Several years ago he began
making loans to C. Nugent & Co., avery eX-
tensive morocco manufacturing firm, with
out the knowledge OF the directors and with
out proper security. Having, as he says,
thus gradually placed himself in their
power, he continued to supply their
inOrdnate demands for money-hoping
all the while they would ultimately repay
the loans-until their total Indebtedness
reached the enormous sum of $1,000, 900.
BY means of false entries he succeeded in
escaping suspicion, which was not so diff
cult, he being implicitly trusted and having
the entire management of the banks affairs.
Finding himself unable longer to carry on
the scheme of Justification, he called a meet
ing of the Board of Directors and made a
full confession Baldwin is under arrest, as
is also Christopher Nugent, the latter
charged with being an accessory. Joseph
A. Halsey is President OF the bank, but as
stated did not perform any Of the actual du-
ties pertaining to the position.
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

TYNER, First Assistant Postmaster
General, has finally rendered his resigna-
tion, in accordance, it is understood, with
the clearly expressed wish of the President
and Postmaster General. He at the same
time furnished the press with a statement
declaring his innocence Of any COM
plicitly, directly or indirectly, in the STAR
route frauds. He says his sup
pressed report was read by both Presi-
dent Garfield and Postmaster General
James, who cOncurred in the opinion it had
better not be made public; that it had been
kept from the files of the Department by
Keys order, and was private paper. Post
master General James, in letter to Judge
Tyner acknowledging receipt of his resigna-
tion, says: "The request for your resigna-
tion was not based upon any reflection upon
your personal or official integrity"
THE King and Queen of Italy were
royalty received at Vienna on the 27th, They
were met at the railway station by the EN-
peror and Crown Prince Rudolph, aud es-
corted to the royal palace at Hofburg,
where grand court supper was partaken of.
In explanation of the denomination of
Postmaster General James, it is said some
doubt existed rs to his legal status under
the Tenure Of office law, and the President
thought best to remove this by having him
Teappointed. 1t is understood Mr.. James
will continue at the head Of the Post-office
Department long enough to close up the
6tar-route prosecutions.
/ IT is reported that Judge Folger was
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only induced TO accept the position OF Secre-
tary Of the Treasury on condition., or with
the understanding, that he shall be appoint
ed to the United States Supreme Bench, to
succeed Hunt, who, it Is confidently believed,
WIN be retired by Congress- on account OF
physical disability. Folger did not really
want the Secretaryship, but is ambitious to
go upon the Supreme Bench. It is still as
serted by those who assume TO know that
ConSling will succeed Folger 10 the Treasq
~ before Arthur's Administration grows
very old.
THE nomination of Stratham, a Re-
adjuster of Democratic antecedents, for
Postmaster at Lynchburg, Va, in the place
of Wilson, a Republican, who has opposed
Malone, is taken as indicating that Presi-
dent Arthur is in hearty sympathy with Ma
hone and will support him. Senator Johns
ton says he will oppose the confirmation of
Stratham, and that he will have the support
OF all the Democratic Senators in his oppo-
sition.
GEN. MERRIwETHER LEWIS CLARK,
a soldier in the Blackhawk War, the Next
can War, and the late civil war, died at his
home in Frankfort, Ky, on the 2Sth, aged
II. The deceased served under Lee during
the whole of the late war, holding the rank
Of General at its close.
IN the Washington Criminal Court
on the 2Sth, Capt. Howgate was arraigned,
and pleaded not guilty TO the indictment for
forgery. He was then formally surrendered
by his boudsmen.
A PROCESSION in Buenos Ayres in
honor of the memory of President Garfield
numbered over 10000 persons. All along
the west coast the demonstrations were SOL
emn ana profound.
GARFIELD memorial services were
held in the Town Hall at Berlin on Sunday
the Both ult. Prof. Gneist delivered an
Grafton before a colossal bust Of the dead
President. A distinguished audience was
present.
The delegates of the Wcman's Chris
tian Temperance Convention called on the
President on the 29th. Mrs. Willard, Presi-
dent Of the Convention, made a short adj
dress, asking the political and moral aid of
the President to the object of the conven-
ton The President replied briefly that he
was in earnest sympathy with the movement
to rescue men from evil habits.
IMMEDIATELY following the adjourn
ment of the Senate the President appoint ed
| Stratham Postmaster at Lynchburg, Va, in
| place Of Wilson, suspended.
The Government has been defeated in
the recent German elections. In Berlin the
Progressists gained complete victory. The
most remarkable feature Of the election is q
triumph Of those Liberals who are specially
| obnoxious to Prince Bismarck, viz, Eugene
Richter, Karl Mayer and Count Won Arnim
! Bsmarck's son William was defeated fol
reelection at Mulhausen by the Liberia
| cnndihntn.
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The Camel Of the North.

In chapter on the reindeer Mr..
Vincent, in his book, entitled Morse,
Lapp and Finn" gives his personal
Observat ons of this useful animal,
which has appropriately been termed
the camel of the North. He tells us
that most of them are of a dark slate
color, though a few are brown, and
some quite white. They are hardly
three feet in height, and perhaps four
or five in length. The great size of
their antlers presents a striking con-
trast with their comparatively small
bodies. The antlers of a buck are often
as much as four feet in length, with
branches called brow antlers projecting
far forward from their bases, and with
spurs spread out fanwise at their upper
ends. Small as he is, reindeer is
able to carry for long distances about
$50 pounds, or he can draw over the
glazed snow, when hanessed to a
sledge, 250 pounds Its hoof is as adj
mirably adapted for travel in the snow
and morasses of the frigid zone as the
hoof of the camel is for the sand and
hillocks of the torrid belt. In Lapland
a reindeer will readily travel ten miles
an hour all day, and there IS an instance
]
made in single hour as attest of speed.
In 1899 reindeer drew an officer, with
important dispatches, 800 miles in two
days, or an average of l63 miles an
hour. This astounding feat ended in
the death of the deer, whose portrait,
we are told, is still preserved in the
SIMMER palace of Drottningholm,
near Stockholm. All that we derive
from the horse, the OK and the sheep,
this wonderful little animal fur
nishes the Laplander. Much of the
meat, in its fresh state, is cooked
and used for food. but some after being
cut into thin slices is dried or smoked,
and then takes the place of bread
| The pemmican which the Arctic explor-
ers use is made from reindeer flesh.
/ The milk, which is excessively rich, is
drunk fresh, or made into a rank and
unctuous cheese and a kind of butter
that tastes like suet. From the cheese
an oil is made which is the sovereign
/ specific for frozen feet. The whey is
used Tor drink, and is sometimes con-
verted INTO termented be erage anal
OgOus to koumiss. The skins of the
deer furnish the winter tents of the
! Laplanders, their blankets, and articles
. VI ilOJhlNR, anu, III SnDll, serve almost
every purpose to VIII Oh we apply cloth
or leather The women prepare from
the eudons, by rolling them with heir
hands upon their checks, a thread
which smpasses all other, in rength
and durability. The ant ers supply the
requisites Of their household and cult
nary apparatus. The reindeer, with
out which the Lapps could not exist,
are very precurious possession, owing
to the difficulty of procuring their sub
sistence during winter. The moss, or
lchen, on which they feed i, often bur
led beneath as much as six weeks of
snow, which the deer themselves have
to remove with their feet and follow
their nose. Mr., Vincent tells us that
the reindeer moss is capable of being
used for human food; its nutrtlve prop
critics are derived from the starch
which it contains, and the taste is not
unpleasant when the moss is boiled
with reindeer milk.-M Y. san.
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A ChlId's Long, Free Ride.

An odd story comes from the Stock Yards.
A young and intelligent little boy named
John Steinberg, who is only eleven years Of
age, and is now tenderly cared for by the
police, tells a strange story OF travel and
suffering. His parents live at Beaver Falls,
Pa. Last week the little boy was with some
companions playing "hide and seek' at his
home in Beaver Falls. So as to hide secure.
ly from his companions he entered
a box railroad car and lay down in
the corner. The door was suddenly
closed on him, and all was dark. He
cried and shouted to be released but
all in vain, as no one heard him. The
train moved, and continued on its course
westward, The boy, without food or water,
was confined in the car for three days and
two nights. When the door Of the car was
opened at Fifty-lirst street the train men
were surprised to discover a young boy,
who Immediately jumped out. He related
his adventure to them, and he says they
told him to "skip." He was taken in charge
by the police, and Captain Gahan tele-
graphed his father. A dispatch was re-
ceived from the father yesterday, stating
that he had sent money to pay his boy fare
home. The young traveller will be sent to
Beaver Falls Tonight Chicago Htter Ooeaa.
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Cleveland happened to have a
thoroughfare named Guiteau Street.
The name has been changed to Abram
Street
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"A tall man having rallied a friend
on the shortness OF his legs, the friend
replied; MY legs reach the ground
what more can yours doP"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-09-15
WISDOM.


Envy shooteth at others and woun
deth herself.
An idle reason lessons the weigh.
of the good ones you gave before.
One reason weall grow wise 50 slow
ly is because we nurseour mistakes toe
mildly.
They that experience the benefits oi
settled ministry should not grudge
the expense oft.
Affections are rough touches and
hard rubs that we get to polish us for
use and for shining.
Look on ISLANDERS as direct enemies
to civil society; as persons without hon
or, honesty or humanity.
We do not become righteous, by do
ing what ID righteous, but having be-
come righteous We do what is righteous.
Luther.
People are led by their brains. If
lie in the head, they study; if in the
stomach, they cat, if in the heels, they
dance etc.
Words are things; and small drop
of ink, falling like dew upou thought
produces thai which makes thousands,
perhaps millions, think.
Beyond all credulity is the ere du-
lousness Of atheists, who believe that
chance could make the world, when it
cannot build a house.
1 never listen to calumnies, because
if they are untrue, I run the risk of be-
ing deceived, and if they be true, Of
hating persons not worth thinking
about.
I have found by a strict and diligent
observation that a due observance of
the duty of Sunday has ever had joined
to it a blessing upon the rest Of my
time.
Every step Of true progress brings
new courage and skill for the warfare,
a better success to God in prayer,
lter victory over temptation,
more steady peace aud a richer JOY.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-09-15
.lE Put His Money in the wrong Box.

The papers are circulating funny sto-
ry about man who was found sitting
upon curb-stone late at night and
shouting, Drive on, drive on old
coachman!"
whats the matter" askei a police
man, who was attracted by the noise,
and raised the man to his feet by his
coat collar.
whats the matter?, " repeated the
fellow, who was stupid drunk, ''why.
this is the matter. put my fare in
the box, and here I have been waiting
this half an hour for the old coach to
drive on-thats what the matter with
me-"
The man had mistaken the sidewalk
for coach and lamp-post letter box
for the till for the money, and after
putting in his fare sat there on the
curb-stone, satisfied that he was home
ward bound.
We may smile at this drunkard's
mistake; but he is not the only man
that has taken the wrong seat, and
put his money in the wrong box.
Hundreds do it every day, and they
are not all drunkards either; not yet,
though they may possibly search that
condition. The man who spends his
time, or any oft, in a drinking saloon,
his money for alcoholic drinks, takes
a wrong seat and puts his money in
the wrong box,
When you see young men, red in
eyes, sAucy in looks, seedy in clothes,
hanging around rum-shops and beer
saloons, and locking as though they
and looking as though they were pinch
for food, and grim poverty stares them
IN. the face, you can conclude that they
took the wrong scat, spent their hours
in the wrong place, and put tneir mon
ey in the wrong box. Not long since
a gentleman of a certain city. who has
retired from business with a liberal
competency, was called upon by an
old schoOl-fellow, and business ac-
cquaintance for little help IN the
shape of money to help through the
winter. The relief was cordially given
together with a few words of kindly
advice
Here were two men. of equal age
and brought up under similar circum
stances, learning the same business
and pursuing it for a time successfully
but now one is independent, and tn,
other dependent. Why the differ
enceg
The first man spent his leisure hour
at home with his family, or with then
enjoyed the refined social circle an,
! Christian exercises and companionship
what money he accumulated above Iii
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-09-15
Advice to a Young Man.

Hawkeye.
James G. Fair is worth $40, 900, 900.
And the whole forty two millions oft
my dear boy, can't make him as hap
py as you are, with the dew of youth
in your heart, when you hold the hand
ofthe girl you love, and walk with her
in a path that is only wide enough for
one, with the rustling branches whis-
pering above your head, so happy you
cannot speak with anything but your
eyes. nyou envy him, Telemachus,
ifyou, with your brown hands and
your bright young face, with the down
just shading your lip, with not a gray
hair in your head or a gnawing care in
your heart, with the morningsun shin
ing upon your upturned face, with the
velvet turf under your feet and the
bI1e heavens above your head, with the
blood coursing through your veins like
wine, with fifty or sixty years of life
before you, with mirage after mirage
of bright dreams and beautiful illusions
and pleasant vanities making the
landscape beautiful around you, if you
envy this man his forty-two millions of
dollars, and his spectacles, and his
gray hair, and his wrinkles, and his
old heart, you are fool, my boy, and
you are scattering ashes on the roses
that grow in-the morning. There is
lightness in your step, my son, and col
or in your blood, and dreams in you
heart, and all the love and beauty and
freshness of the sunrise the forty-two
millions cannot buy, and don't you for
get it. You don't want fortY-two mil
lions anyhow, Telemachus; two millions
are plenty, that viii keep both of US.
And if you want couple of millions,
why go ahead and getiJ. "Seest thou
man diligent in his businss? He
shall stand before kings. He shall not
stand before men,"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-09-15

Till thought heard the angels striking
all their harps Of gold.
My deafness seemed to melt away, my spirit
caught the fire,
I Joined my feeble, tremblingvoice with that
melodious choir,
And sung as in youthful days, "Let angels
PROSTATE fall,
Bring forth the royal diadem and crown him
Lord of all +"
1 tell you wife, it did me good to sing that
hymn once more;
felt like some wrecked mariner who gets
glimpse of shore.
almost want to lay aside this weather-beat-
en- form,
And anchor in the blessed port, forever from
the storm,
The preachin' well, can't just tell all
that the preacher said;
know it wasn't written, know it wasn't
read;
He hadn't time to read it, for the Hghtnin'
of his eye,
Went passing by from pew to pew, nor pass'd
sinner by.
The sermon wasn't Aoy'ry, twas simple gos-
peltrutl;
1t fitted poor old men like me; it fitted hope
full youth;
'Twas full of consolation fOr weary hearts
that bleed;
1t bade them look away to Christ, not to a
man-made creed.
The preacher made sin hideous in Gentiles
and in Jews;
Hesho the golden sentence down upon the
finest pews;
And though 1 can't see very well, saw the
falling tear,
That told me hell was some way off and
heaven very near
How swift the golden moments fed within
that holy place!
How brightly beamed the light of heaven
from every happy facel
Again longed for that sweet time when
friend shall meet with friend,
Where congregations ne'er break up and sab
baths have no end.
hope to meet that minis;er-the congre-
CATION, too,
In the dear old home beyond the skies that
shine from heavens blue.
doubt not I'll remember, beyond life's eve
ming gray,
The face Of Gods dear servant who preached
his word to-day.
Dear wife, the fight viii soon be fought, the
victory be won;
The shining goal is just ahead, the race is
nearly run;
Ger the river we are nearin', they are tl,ron-
GIN to the shore,
To shout cur safe arribal where the weary
weep no more.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-09-15

necessary expenses, he put at interest
for future use, and now he is enjoying
the results Of his investments. He
took the right seat and placed his mon
ey in the right box.
The second man lived sumptuousIy
in his youth. drank champagne in fash
iOnable saloons, found the chain of his
club-room more attractive than the
stool in his counting room. and put his
money into the rum sellers till instead
of his own strong box. ne took the
wrong seat and put his money in the
wrong box.
Reader, pause and consider whether
you are taking the right seat and put
ting your money in the right box
Elk.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-09-15
Please Forgive.

A ten year old boy, whose legs were
recently cut off by train of cars at
Dubuque, was TOGO plucky { make any
fnss oven the incident When the lit
tie fellow was taken home his legs hung
limp; but he did not complain. Not
tear stood in his eyes, but the tender
look he gave to those who stood by his
side told plainly that he was suffering
great agony. After the doctor dress
ed his wounds he called his parents,
sisters and brothers to his bedside,
kissed one and all farewell, and left
tear upon their cheeks. A second
time he called his mother to his side,
placed his little arms about her neck,
and said, Mother, I am going to die
in a few moments. Please forgive me
for not minding you" With this the
little boy fell back; and as the mother
said. Eyes, my angel. and took anoth-
er look at bis face, she found him dead
and beyond all pain and suffer
ing.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-09-15
Why!

Young man, why viii you continue
to indulge in strong drink? Why bar
ter your earnings, your health, your
hopes for time and for eternity-your
all, for such vile stuff? 1t can impov-
er'sh. but it cannot make you rich; it
can weaken, but it cannot make you
strong; it can make you sorrowful, but
it cannot comfort you in sorrow; it can
rob you of your manhood, but st can
not clothe you with virtue and fit you
for heaven.
Why, then, persist to indulge in it,
against reason, and everything that
ought to influence you as q man!
The day wilt come, if you continue
on in this way of death and destruc-
ton, when a haggard, penniIess, hope
less wretch in rags and misery, your
health destroyed, your character losi
your friends all passing you by, yor
shall stand amid a miserable home ano
look upon heart broken wife and starv
ing children, and curse yourself fol
the folly you practice to-day. P
II. IN Tx.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-09-15
Secret Of Large Crops.

One of the strongest points in En-
lish farming was recently emphasized,
as follows, by Prof. Roberts of Cornell
University.
Herein, / am satisfied, les the Sc
cret of Eagland's success in raising
large crops.
It would take away the breath of a
prairie farmer to hear even an En- l sl~
mans enumeration of the .spuddings,
the 'grubbings' and 'twitchings,' the
'harrowings' the cross harrowlngs, the
rollings and crushings that clay field
is subject to before it is considered read
y for wheat. What is all this for?
Simply to unlock the full store house
Of nature. That It IS full has been
proven time and again. By actual
analysis it has been found that an ay-
erage soil contains, in the first six in
ches, plant food enough for from fifty
to one hundred and fifty full crops of
grain. I do hot desire to discourage
the purchase and use offertilizers, but
what I sIo protest against Is, purchas-
ing on time commercial manures atfor
ty dollars per ton, which are really
worth twenty FIVE, to enrich cloddy
fields already fairly rich in plant food
locked up it is true, but there Eone
the less, only waiting a little judicious
application Of brain and muscle to set
it free"