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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1881-04-13

Good Friday this week. Hot cross buns
at Kestens, Eagle Bakery Leave your or
der, as there will he great rush for them.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1881-04-13

We are pleased to state that a new
dry goods store will be opened in this
city about the first of May. Phil. D.
Shook, for many years in the employ
of C. r. Hawley g. CO., and his broth
or Harvey Shook, have rented the brick
store next south of the store of John
rowe 81 Donnelly, and will soon stock
the same with their goods.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1881-04-13
THEIR TELEPHONE.
Notice.

Notice.
For a good timer, get the Elgin or Wal
than movement, as they are the standard
movements of the United States and Europe.
Don't be inyeigled into buying any other.
$. S. Lewenberg, the practical Matchmaker
and ieweler, sells them.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1881-04-13

IF you want a railroad to Alpcna,
subscribe to the donation. If you do
not subscribe, don't grumble if there is
no railroad, and do not expect that ten
or fifteen business men should give the
whole amount to be donated. The as
sessment allotted this county is about
four dollars per head.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1881-04-13

About five o'clock yesterday after
noon w. !. Evans, who was under the
influence of liquor, went to the resi-
dence of j. B. Cole, where Mrs. Evans
was at work, struck, bruised and cut
her severely about the head and face,
using his fist as weapon. Evans and
his wife have not lived together for
some time. If Evans has not already
been arrested, he probably will be.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1881-04-13

The Life Saving station on Thunder
Bay Island has taken to the island the
crew for the summer.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1881-04-13

John b. Cole was made happy OIL
Thursday morning last. It is a son.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1881-04-13

There will be Il social for the church
and parish at the residence of Rev. A.
w. Westgate, this evening.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1881-04-13

~ n N Outfit furnished free, with full instructions
ls Nor conducting tho most profitable BUSH
I'M ness that anyone can engage in. The BUSH
.v Nv ness is so easy TO learn, and our instruc-
~ Vtions are 30 simple aud plain that any one
can make great profits from the very start
No ono can fail who is willing 20 work. Women are
as successful mon Boys and girls can earn large
sums Many have made at the business over ono hum
dred dollars in n single week. Nothing like IL ever
I tnown before All who engage arc surprised at the
use and rapidly with which they are able 20 make
m ,ney You can engage in this business during your
ana We time ut great profit You do not have 10 invest
oanisal in t. We take all the risk Those who need
rcadv money should write 20 us at once. All furn-
ished free Address True Co, Augusta, Maine 4s9yi
AGENTS WANTED for the best and fastest
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-17
A Thrilling Story.

'Myrtle's Luck" by Henry Himber
Myrtle had grown up to be beauti-
full woman-a flower OF beauty that
men stopped to look at as she passed
along the street. Everything that
wealth could purchase was lavished
upon her. Why, then, did she stand
in the conservatory with the Wistful
look in her eyes and nerVously pull to
pieces the rose ?
This we will explain later.
From her position at the window
Myrtle sees through the falling snow
the figure of a man. "Its papa" she
cries joyfully to herself, clapping her
shapsly white hands together in chill J.
ish glee.
She was right. The old man was
coming home TO supper.
Presently the man, who came along
through the snow with d sturdy stride,
reached the house and ascended the
front steps. Myrtle was waiting in
the hallway, and as he entered the
door threw her arms around his neck
and kissed him.
"Papa," she cried, "did you get it p
Get what, my darling 2"
'Why, what told you about this
morning"
Silas J. Bowen thought for mo-
ment- ''Well, I'll be dum-swizzled to
Cohosh, Myrt but clean forgot that
drafted candy"
He had broken his vow.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-17

CASUALTIES occur as epidemics some
times. 1t is particularly true of the
incidents Of the last two days. A train
of cars on the Cincinnati Southern was
wrecked Tuesday, near Lexington,
Ky. The same evening a locomotive
was wrecked on the same road. On
Wednesday a train crossing the bridge
on the White river at Bedford, Indi-
ana, was precipitated into the stream
by a span Of the bridge giving way.
Nearly all on board the train were in
jured, and one man killed. The same
day an old German lady was killed by
a passing train on the Evansville &
TeIrc Hautc railroad. An open switch
at Danville, KY, caused the wrecking
of three cars. The steamer viii Kyle
bound down the Ohio river, struck an
obstruction and sunk, Tuesday. All
Trade Water station an old gentleman
named Menser was killed by his SON
in-law, named Townsend. In various
other sections of the country persons
lost their lives by accidents, and quar-
rels, and the chapter of horrors was
completed yesterday morning by the
crash of tenement building in New
York
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-17

There is to be another portrait of
Mrs. Langtry. Sir Frederick Leigh
ton, Mr.. Poynter, Hr. Millais and an
army Of smaller painters, have done
their best or their worst for her, ana
now the Jersey Lily is to be used as
raw material for a symphony" or
an arrangement" or a ''nOcturne,"
by Mr.. Whistler.
The Philosophical Society, of Chi
cago, is beginning its session in a
most auspicious manner. It's meet
ings are held in the Club room, on the
parlor floor of the Palmer House.
Several lectures are already an
neunced for the season, from Prof.
VIM. Z. Harris, and others of promi-
nence in this school Of thought.
A widow applied to the Mayor of
Allegheny for aid. She had not a
morsel of food in her house, and was
about to be elected for nOn-payment
Of rent. Her distress was not the re-
suit of poverty, she explained, for she
was very wealthy; and she showed
His Honor the deed of 10000 acres of
Kentucky land, worth 500 an acre,
but now unproductive.
Jacob Ropp, of Pine City, Minn.,
went out for a walk with Annie Ry-
der, the daughter of his employer, and
Induced her to elope. The groOm's
capital amounted to four cents, and
they lived for two days in an empty
boX-car OH three cents worth of
crackers, when he obtained work in a
brickyard, and they were getting along
quite comfortably when the brides
parents found them, and, after a
stormy scene, relented and took them
| home.
We were handed the following
clipping by Rev. III. L. Helm:
And this was the story we told the
Chicago editor: eyes, sir; there's a
man in New York who was born
drunk. Both his parents were hard
drinkers. His mother was drunk
when he was born. And from the
moment he came into the wsrld he
has been in a state of beastIy intoxica-
ton, though he has never touched a
drop of liquor" The Chicago man
had listened with great interest.
''Does he feel drunk and act drunk all
the time 2" he eagerly asked. ''He
does," we replied. There was a sad,
chastened, far-aWay look in the Clica-
go mans eyed as he murmured &:
Some men have sead loads of luck"
Boston Post.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-17

INDICATIONS arc that affairs in
Mexico, gravitate toward internal po-
litical complications of very grave
character. EX-President Portirio
Diaz is accused Of being affected by
the Same mental disorder that led
Caesar to receive the vcugeful dagger
of Brutus. Already Y three times a
widower, arrangements for a fourth
espousal to take place to-day have
been made. The lady of his choice is
Sanorita Rubis, daughter of Romeo
Rubis, young lady of many accom-
plishments, very beautiful, and only
eighteen years Of age. Rubis is a
blue blooded Spanish aristocrat, q
member of the Senate, and is known
to entertain no very exalted opinion
Of Republican institutions. Diaz Is
by nature and training a diplomat
and revolutionist. By this alliance
with the Rubis family, he gains spe.
cial positions and influence, and he il
believed te be scheming to succeed
Gonzales, who is merely his tool
When once firmly III the seat oi
power, it is believed he will never
Vacate it.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-17
FOREIGN.

The steamer Montreal, from Montreal to
Liverpool, lost 200 sheep in a gale.
The number of applications to the Irish
land commission to fix the fair rent is is,
600.
In India the deaths from the epidemic
choleric fever amount to 5000, or ten times
the normal rate of mortality for the past
few years.
The statue OF Lord Byron has been un-
yelled at Missalonghi, where he died. The
ceremony was attended with great popular
enthusiasm.
4 correspondent of the London Nelcs
says: The Pope expressed himself strongly
in condemnation of the proceedings OF the
Irish land league.
Bismarck has brought action for slander
against Won Bunsen for secession arising
from the speech of Won Bunsen to his con-
stituents at Dargerling,
a manifesto signed by Patrick CAV, pri-
yately circulated throughout ireland, adj
vises farmers to pay no rent, avoid the land
court and hold harvest,
At Wellington, New Zealand, T. e. White
and two other chiefs have arrived. They
offered no resistance. They have been con-
veyed to New Plymouth.
Here, j. Won Shoeffer, at present DipIo-
matte Agent and Consul General of Aus
tria, at Alexandria, has been appointed
Austrian Minister at Washington.
Advices from Mecca to the end Of Octo-
Der are to the effect that the number OF
cases of cholera averaged fifteen daily
the number Of pilgrims in the city, how
ever, are 10000.
With view to prevent any misunder-
standing in regard to King Humberts visit
to Vienna, Austria has issued a circular
notice to her representatives abroad, ex-
planning the meaning OF the visit, which is
still causing excitement in Russia.
The Russian local commissions are ex-
amining into the Jewish question now being
about to expire. A special committee has
been appointed. Gen. Ignatieff, Minister
of the Interior, has instructed the commit
tee to friendly consider the whole subject,
and an elaborate project for dealing with it
to be submitted for legal sanction.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-17

THE destruction of the fine Upper
Mississippi steamboat, War Eagle, on
ole Of the piers of the Keokuk bridge,
was one of those disasters growing
out ofthe impolitic course of Congress
half a generation ago. 1t was a mis-
take to grant charters to companies to
construct the sort of bridges which
span the Ohio, Upper Mississippi, Hi
nois and Missouri rivers. Scarcely
one Of tie numerous bridges which
span these rivers are built in COM
formity with the specific terms of their
charters. The spans are too short and
the superstructures too low. Every
year witnesses a large destruction of
property, and great loss of life by
these impediments to the navigability
of the great rivers of the northwest
AT seasons Of high water the danger
is greatly increased and it becomes
almost impossible TO manage a steam
er in the rapid current. A few years ago
the steamer, st. Luke, with a valuable
cargo of freight, struck one of the
piers of the St. Charles bridge across
the Missouri river, and was torn into
fragments, the freight was lost, and
twenty valuable lives to their friends
and their respective communities,
were sacrificed. The bridges across
the Upper Mississippi have proved to
be equally dangerous Instructions to
navigation. Every year not thousands,
but millions of dollars worth of prop
erty disappears on account of these
licensed distractions to the navigable
highways. Now,wc believe that engi-
neering skill could overcome, in a
large measure, the danger to naviga-
ton by lengthening the spans and
raising the superstructures of the
bridges.
! In the case of the Jennie B. Gil
christ it is probable that there was
not that care in tho management of
the craft, which entirely exonerates
the officers. But it is manifest that
the horrible catastrophe was directly
the result of an accideut to the boats
machinery which no forethnught
could provide against. The presence
of the pier caused the destruction OF
the boat, its valuable freight and the
precious lives which were extinguish-
ed in the surging river.
In the case of the War Eagle there is
no evidence of want of care on the
part Of the officers. On the contrary,
it appears that those in charge of the
steamer behaved with great caution
and courage, and it was mainly due
to this fact that so few lives were lost
The truth is, nearly every bridge
which spans the Mississippi, Missouri
Illinois and Ohio rivers is an Obstruc-
ton TO the navigation of those rivers
The Government of the United States
ought to compel the companies which
own and operate these bridges tC
modify. or tear down and rebuild, as
the case may require, every impeding
bridge across the peoples free high
WAYS of trade.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-17
RHETORICAL BOB.
THE sTAR-RoUTE oouxsELs PLEA.

The Washington correspondent of
the Cincinnati Commercial thus char
acterizes Bob Ingersoll's speech made
last Saturday in the Criminal Court:
"BOb Ingersoll finished his argument
in the Star-roUte cases to-day to the
pleasing music of applaudinE hands.
It was Of course an eloquent, enter
tanning effort, being in his best style,
but it contained more of anecdote than
authority, more oratOrical PyrOtech-
mics than legal principles and pre-
cedents. His theis was that process
by information is unconstitutional.
1t is in conflict with the genius Of our
institutions and with the rights Of
American citizens. He insisted that
the crime laid at the door of his client
was infamous, and Jha hencehe
could only be tried upon by a grand
jury. He was listened to with great
attention by the crowded audience,
but his eloquence had less effect upon
the clear-mindsd, coOl-headed Judge
than the arguments that preceded it
or that which followed. The latter,
that of jeff Chandler, Of St Louis,
was heard with respectful attention
by the same crowd which Ingersoil
had held for hours, despite the fact
it was rich, not in rhetorical figures,
but in legal eruditiOn.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Summary of the Most Important Events.
DOME STIC.

Rufus Mcpherson suiced at Atlanta.
Jesse Rice killed by cars at Newark, o.
Small Brothers mill burned near Plain
City, o.
Hon. William Kennon died at st. Clairs-
vile, o.
Pittstown, Pa, is severely smitten with
smallpox.
Kings oil refinery, St. Louis, damaged
$4,000 by fire.
The Emory Block burned at Bradford,
Penn. Loss, $4,000.
Samuel Dalzel drowned in an clubhouse
vault at Louisville.
Phoenix Planning Mill burned at St.
Louis. Loss, $4,000.
John Pendegrast killed by fall from a
window at Maysville, Ky.
Several men were burned by boiler ex-
plosion at the Columbus (O.) rolling mill.
One Davis, colored, outraged and proba-
bly, murdered the widow Leckey, near Lee,
Ohio.
At Atlanta, Georgia, Rufus Mcpherson
killed himself in the bar-room of the Kim
ball House.
Eastern and foreign capitalists are max
ing extensive arrangements to develop the
Ohio coal field.
John Davis killed and David Grifiths IA
tally wounded by boiler expulsion at Coal
ton near jackson, Ohio.
At San Antonio, Texas, jury convicted
VIM. Petty of stage robbery, and fixed the
penalty at ninety-nine years in the peniten-
tiary.
Commissioner of Agriculture LOring dc
livered an address on the advancement of
Agriculture in America at Atlanta, Ga :,
on the ID inst.
John HalIoran, section foreman on the
Louisville, Cincinnati & Lexington Rail-
road, was run over and killed by switching
engine at Louisville.
The anniversary OF the battle OF Men tana
was celebrated at Milan and Montana.
Two speakers at Milan and one at Montana
were silenced by the public.
At Boston, the captain of the steamer
Victoria, from Liverpool recently, handed
to the police Michael Regan, OF RoscommOn,
Ireland, who probably fatally shot David
Turner, an Englishman, both steerage pas
sengers. On Regan's person they found n
murderous jack-kmfe and large number
OF cartridges. 1t is thought that he is
insane
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-17

THE assassination of Col. w. D..
Smith, Clerk of the United States Dis
trict Court, of Nebraska, at Omaha,
on Saturday, illustrates the desperate
resorts to which lawlessness may go,
III order to carry on an illegal COM
merce. Smith was Appointment leader
in the temperance movement, and had
been extremely active in having what
is known as the Slocumb Law against
liquor dealers enforced. In his zeal
for the enforcement of the law, he
caused many saloon-keepers TO be
arrested and heavily fined. 1t is be-
lieved that some Of those persons who
had become embittered against him
on that account, had something to do
with his tragical death.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-17
Hits and Hints.

The latest theory al yanced is that
Hamlet was a woman, but the New
York Commercial AdCertiSer refuses
TO accept it. ''If Hamlet would have
been a woman" it remarks, "she
would have screamed wheH she saw
the ghost"
4 well educated lady, living almost
under the walls of Harvard Univer-
sity, and giving instruction in the
higher branches, said to a friend last
week, in serious earnest, she thought
it shame that Jefferson Davis was
elected President of the Senate.
Il can't find a place in the city to
suit me-" despairingly remarked a
house-hunting lady to her husband.
"Why, SO, my dear p "Why, be-
causc-because, well if you must
know, l can't find n mantel long
enough for the crewed lambrequin !
made last winter.
A number of coupon bonds were
received at the Treasury Department
in Washington for registry a few days
ago. All the numbers of the bonds
were cut out. The Treasury Depart
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-17

IT is not alone in the South that
lynch law prevails. There was a
notable case ofmob violence at Bloom
imgton, Illinois, in the very seat of
assumed superior enlightenment.
Now we see another manifestation of
the mob spirit, away up in Wisconsin,
this time at Durand. The Sheriff was
compelled to call upon the Governor
for the means Of protecting his pris-
oncr, Lon Williams, the desperate.
Mobs arc not organized alone in the
South. There is as much lawlessncss
In the Northwest as in the South
west.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-17

THE evidence collected by Major II.
r. Sergeant Captains Lincoln and
Dolan, who were sent down to in
vestigate the charges Of bad conduct
on tkc part of the Ninth Massachu-
sets Regiment while in Virginia at
tending the Yorktown Centennial,
shows that the behavior Of this mill
tia command was disgraccful in the
extreme. The conduct of the men was
such as might be expected from ruff
ans Of the lowest order. Massachu-
sets ought to be ashamed of them
and disband the regiment.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-17
Icebergs Coming SOuth,

Two vast islands Of ice are visible
in the offings near St. Johns, n. F.,
driving rapidly southward. Their
great drift rate may be deduced from
he fact that about half an hour before
sunset they bore, the one southeast by
south from the north head of the har-
bOr of St. Johns, and the other south
southeast. They were then distant
thirty and thirty-two miles respec-
lively, the northern one being most
distant from the land. This berg is
about l 800 feet in length, about 120
feet in average height, and has two
spires surmounting it that soar not
less than $50 above the general level
of the ice island. The more southern
berg is about 500 feet in length, and
its general front elevation is some
what under 100 feet. One portion
rises 120 above the main body Of the
berg. The place from which the above
observation was made is located 527
feet above the sea level. The approx
innate drift of these icebergs is two
and a quarter miles per hour.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-17

ADvICEs received from British
Honduras are to the effect that the
country has been visited by the most
destructive rain storms ever known,
even in that land of tropical deluges.
1t is reported that more than five
thousand persons have been drowned ;
that streams have overflowcd their
banks, and spread devastation
throughout their valleys. Thousands
of the people are rendered homeless
and destitute by this terrible vista
tion. Appeals for aid have been
made through the foreign Consuls
resident i'll Honduras. tits estimated
that the value of property destroyed
will amount to at least S6,OO0,OOO.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-17

TIE average Hubite "chant be-
lieve" the members of the Ninth Mas
sachusetts could be guilty Of such in
delicate conduct, and therefore he is
disposed to defend them. Well,
suppose Richmond regiment should
go through Boston, and "the boys"
should kiss all the wealthy married
aides and hug all the handsome girls
they met on the street? How would
the ordinary Hubite like that?
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-17

this year for grapes sold, $1,000. The
Chattanooga Times, from which we
take the item, adds:
"For peaches, strawberries and
small fruits generally, all.the hillsides
and mouuta.a slopes of Lower East
Tennessee, North Georgia and North
Alabama, are not excelled in the
world. A single crop Of peaches from
a thirty-fve acre orchard within two
miles of Chattanooga, the orchard be-
ing out but four years, yielded its
owner $500 net. The fruit culIurists
on Missionary Ridge have made as
good records for several years as any
fruit-growing region can show, North
or South.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-17
Rnfter EnsIIY SpolIed.

We have frequently shown how
easily butter becomes bad when 1t Is
reached by any bad odors. In an ex-
change is recorded the following facts !;
Our people laid some veal in The cell
lar, from which little blood hoWed
ont and was neglected until It had
commenced to smell. The result was
that a lar Of butter we were packing
smelled and tasted like spoiled beef
we know a pond of filthy, stagnant
water a few hundred feet from tho
house, from which an offensive efilu-
vium would be borne on the breeze
directly 90 the milk-rOom when tho
wind was in a certain direction, the
result Of which was that the cream
and butter would taste of the disa
greeable Odor coming from the ponS
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-17

A FEW years ago a Montreal clerk
embszzled $4,000 Of his employers
money and departed from the place
Monday the entire amount with ac-
crued interest was returned by the
embezzler who is prospering in South
America. Surely the end Of the world
draweth nigh.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-17

Col. a. K. Fisher, general land COM
missioner of the Iron fountain and
Helena railroad company, spent a
portion of last week here. He is still
in the city. Col. Fisher planted the
first German colony in East Arkansas
one year ago. The name of the town
is Fisherville, and it is in a very pros
porous state. The headquarters Of the
department is at Helena.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-17

THE Confederate bond craze seems
to have passed its climax, and its vio-
lence is evidently subsiding. The
United States Government holds about
$2,000,000 Of these bonds, and $4,000
600 in bills. But these bonds and
bills are not for sale. They are kept
as souvenirs of tire times that have
,a-so1