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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-20
ParneH in Prison.

A Dublin cablegram of the 18th
says: Charles S. Parnell was arrest
ed at MOrrison's Hotel while on his
way to attend the Kildare Convention.
1t is not yet known with what offense
he is charged.
Parnell was arrested on two war
rants, signed by Forster, Chief Score
rotary for Ireland, charging him with
imtic1ng people to intimidate others
from paying their just rents, and with
intimidating tenants from taking the
benefit of the Land act. ParneIl was
taken to Kilmainham jail.
A London dispatch says: at is
understood that the determination to
arrest Parnell was only reached al
yesterdays Cabinet council. The
warrant for his arrest was issued to
the detectives OfDublin on the arrival
there of the Chief Secretary for Ire
land. Forster, who left London i'm
mediately after the close OF the Cabi-
net council"
Parnell was arrested to-day at Nor
rison's Hotel, where he was stopping
previous to starting for the Kildare
Convention at Mas. Inspector Nal
Ion called at the hotel at 9 o'clock this
forenoon, and sent up word to the
Land League leader, who was still in
bed, that he would like to see him
The hotel porter returned word that
he would be happy to see the Inspoc-
tor as soon as he was dressed.
Soon after he sent for Mallon, who,
with Detective Sheridan, went up
stairs. Parnell met him pleasantly,
and asked: "Dou you intend to arrest
me ?" EYES," replied Mallon. handing
him the warrant, still wet with For
ster's signature, for the Chief Secre-
rotary only returned from London by
the morning mail at s o'clock. ParneIl
then glanced over the warrant and
said, cali right" He put on his hat
and walked down stairs with the two
policemen. a cab was waiting at the
door, and the three men entered it.
"Kilmainham Prison." cried Mallon
to the driver, and they drove off.
There were four other policemen in
citizens clothes in another carriage.
On arriving at Kilmainham, Parnell
was at once assigned to a cell. There
was no demonstration, as no one
knew about the arrest beyond the
parties concerned.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-20
The Christlancy Scandal.

In the hearing before the examiner
to-day of the Christiancy divorce
suit, the direct testimony of Mrs.
Christiancy was continued. She tes-
titled that when Christiancy took her
TO his home in Michigan, in the sum
mer of 1876, the family consisted of
himself and five sons-four grown
and the other thirteen years of age.
About two years of her married life
was spent in Michigan; during that
time she had charge of the house, and,
with the exception of the services OF
an inexperienced servant girl fifteen
years old, she performed her house
hold duties, including the mending of
the mems clothes. The youngest son,
George, was very kind to her, and
they grew quite fond of each other.
The others were kind enough when
sober, but were all addicted &c drink
ing. When intoxicated they would
quarrel among themselves and with
their father, use low language, and
have frequent brawls. She protested
against being compelled TO endure
that kind of life, and would have
parted from her husbands sons if she
had had the means, which he prom
ised to provide, but never did.
She never said she would get a
divorce, and as there. were no grounds,
she would get up some, unless at
time when she was indignant at the
treatment she received. She did not
believe in divorce. When she left
Peru, she did not intend to apply for
a divorce, although Christiancy re-
fused to provide for her. She did not
think of doing so until after he APP
piled for a divorce from her on the
ground of adultery. After she re-
turned home from Peru, she said
nothing whatever about it except to
her own family. She kept from the
public the fact that they had sePa-
rated, and the cause Of it, and would
not have made it public until COM
PEELED to do so by his petition for
divorce, even if he continued to refuse
to support her.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-20

Public opiniou ia London has come
10 regard wood pavement rs the per-
fiction of highways. Wefher Il be
that the preparation aud laying down
are more scientifically done or whether
the material be better, there is no
question that LondOn's wood pave
ment presents the final solution of
covering streets. The enormous traf-
tic of the Strand, so incessant that the
noise of it goes up like the roar OF the
Niagara, does not make as much noise
as one of the comparatively trafiickless
side streets of New York or Phiiadel-
phia A curious point about wood
pavement in London is that rents 90
up five or ten per cent SO soon as the
streets are paved. Eastern London
that is, the bank region, or what is
known as the city-is paved largely
with asphalt; but, curious enough,
this is not so much relished as the
wood, and there is general clamor
for Parliament to take the conuol of
the vast district comprising the city
into its own hands, that legislation
may be uniform. Il Is calculated
that within the Eext five years every
foot of London viii be paved with
wOOd.-PhjI0delphja Times.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-20
schOOl-Boy's Composition On Hens.

H. II. Stoddard, Sir:-A hen is
bird that lives on the ground. She
has two legs and two wings and all
the rest of the things that belong to a
bird. Sue sometimes gets her living by
what is called scratching and when
hen is scratching, i'll mans garden,
he will forget his religion quicker
than an Italian rag-picker can Dor
row a mans shirt off the clothes line,
or a boy steal a watermelon.
All hens brothers are called roOs-
tiers, and they are the hens bosses
and head of the house. There are no
hen-pecked husbands in their families.
When hens brothers are happy, they
make noise which we call growing
a hen will sometimes crow, and it Is
said by old people when a hen crows
some one in the family will soon
have a wooden overcoat. But a roos-
ter crows every night, if he is well,
and when he crows on Sunday night
a fellow had better bid his girl good
bye and git, for the young lady's
father will soon be around to see if all
is well.
Hens produce fruit which we call
eggs, and they must be eaten before
they are ripe, for when they are very
ripe they are not healthful. Ripe eggs
should always be laid to one side, so
they can be handy to present book
agents, machine and ightning-rod
men with.
All people think a great deal of
hens. But the people of Africa think
the most of a hen, for one of those
men will walk ten miles to help a hen
down of a rOost on a stormy night,
so she will not slip and fall in the
morning. But if he helps her down
she will never get up on that rOOst
again.
When hen lays an egg she makes
lot of noise, for about fifteen min
utes, and it makes a man think she is
like his mOther-in-laW-Wi never
run down. But she will in time.
But then sometimes she will go and
tell her brother, and he will come and
make a lot of noise. But he is like
grandfather's clock, he will stop and
walk off, and perhaps will come
around again next day.
A hen has about thirteen children
year. But the most of them die
young and go home to grandfath err s
| A good many die with the gapes. When
a chicken has the gapes it opens its
mouth a good many times, just like
a girl who has the gapes. The girl
never dies of it, but the chicken
will.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-20
At the Stamp window.

Cincinnati Saturday Night: Muel-
Ter, who presides at the post office
stamp window, dispensing miniature
portraits of Washington, Jackson,
Franklin and others, in lots to suit
purchasers, was at his post the other
day, when a queer old specimen of
humanity presented himself and the
following dialogue ensued:
"Any discount on three cent stamps
where a man buys more than one?"
mo"
cant you sell a bunch of 'em at
reduction same's they do street car
tickets ?"
'No."
II buy a good many in the course
of year, and you can have my hull
custom jes' wells not, eff you'll do the
fair thing"
''The law don't allow any discount"
Haven't you got some where you
hain't put the sticken on yet, that
you could sell for less? 1 can put on
the gum myself"
Haven't any that way"
''Mebbe you've got 'em without the
pictures. My gal, Susan Jane, can
paint WashingtOn's portrait so nat'r raj
that Martha herself would be fooled
by it."
"If you don't want to buy any
| stamps make way for others who
do"
''But I do want some. Ought to
knock off little when Teller takes a
big quantity. I could get 'em up to
our village, but thought 1 could buy
'em cheaper down here where they're
made"
"Jesso. No stamp scalpers in the
city ?"
'.None that know Of"
'YOu might know of some one who
is stuck with lot on hand that would
go cheap-selling out below cost to
make room for a new stock Of fall
stamps-man going out of business,
terrific sacrifices of stamps, or some
thing like that, heh?"
! mo"
"P'raps you've got one or two of
| your own, a little s'iled but good
enough to make the rifle, that you'd
take about two cents apiece for"
Nothing of the kind"
"Well, them" with sigh), ''here's
three cents; gimme one stamp and
Twill see how it goes. If it suits me
1 may buy all my stamps Of you"
"Thank you. Reckon they'll give
satisfaction. We aim to please"
Good day."
"GoOd day."
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-20
A Horrible Sacrifice in a Burning MILL

A fire at Landenberger's mill, I'LL
Randolph street, Philadelphia, was
very disastrous to life and property.
1t originated in the finishing room,
second floor, and spread with amazing
rapidity. About forty-five hands,
twelve of whom were girls, were at
work on this floor. but the majority
were engaged in the spinning and
weaving departments on the upper
floors. The wooden stairWays at
either end of the building were soon
ablaze. The bridge connecting the
building with another mill was shut
off from approach by fire proof doors.
and in the absence of any fire escape a
panic instantly ensued within the
building. They rushed to the win
dOws, crying frantically to the crowd
below to save them.
1t was proposed by the crowd to
form squares in the street and catch
the men and girls as they leaped out,
but before anything could be done a
ycnng lady leaped from the fifth story.
1t seemed that every bone in her body
was broken, for she never breathed
after striking the pavement. After
this the imprisoned people seemed TO
become frenzied, and, though the
crowd outside sought to encourage
them by shouting help would shortly
be there, they began jumping from
the windows like sheep.
A man apparently bereft of reason
flung himself headlong into the street,
and while his body was still in the
air others followed-now a man, then
woman, or half grown girl, until in
few minutes eleven human beings,
one and all conscious, with fractured
skulls and broken limbs, were being
carried by tender hands to a neighbOr-
ing saloon, on the floor of which body
after body was laid in row until We
| hicles were procured to carry them
to the hospital.
When the fremen were able to enter
the building they found on the third
floor the bodies of two females burned
almost to a crisp, and a man badly
scorched and dead. But before they
| could examine further the fourth
floor, with its heavy machinery, came
crashing through, aud they barely es-
| capped with their lives.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-20
Mortality Among Circus Employees.

This hasSeen a bad season for the
employees of circuses. Rarely has
there been a time when more Of
them come to grief. In May, Eliza
beth Dazene, a trapeze performer, died
inNew York from the effects of fall
received in one of her performances.
There has been several railroad acct
dents to circus trains, in which per-
formers were killed and MANNED. In
Kentucky, last week, two men were
killed in a collision, and Louisa Mon
tague, better known as the $4,000
beauty" was severely injured, her
face being badly laeerated on Mon
day, ROsina Richardson, Barnum's
fat woman, died, and that same night
in Tennessee, Kinkade, a famous cir
Gus tumbler, "missed his tips" in
turning a sOmersault, broke his head,
and was killed. These are but a few
Of the many recent mishaps.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-20
The RIonde Rroncho.

ssDid you ever see them buckskin
bronchOs of mine that / used to drive
named Yeller and Yaller ?" asked
Buck Bramel the other day of Gsn.
Worth, while he looked out across the
green biIlowy divide toward the eteI-
nal whiteness of the snowy range.
'sWhy, no never heard of 'em."
"WelI," said Buck, as tender light
came in his blue eyes, and three
cornered nugget of tin-tag tobacco
was slowed away in his cheek, ''both
of them same cayuse plugs could
scoot over more mountain road be-
tween sun and sun than anything in
the shape of boss / ever see.
sYelIer was pretty middlin' rapid,
but Yaller was an imported terror.
You ought to see him gather up his
limbs in q wad and vanish. One day
was out on board of Yaller, irwin
to round up an American COW that
strayed from the corral, and over west
of the divide l worked up long-leg-
ged black antelope.
II made little shassy over toward
the antelope to see him light out, but
he first pranced along kind of careless
like, as much as to say. 81 guess
won't give you no 2:13 gait this
morning. Life is too brief. can't
run tnat way just to amuze every
snoozer that comes this way on a
blonde plug like that.
al touched mp old YaIler with the
quirt, and sailed over toward the an
telOpe, thinkin' I'd stir him up a little.
'"The antelope trotted along a few
rods, and then looked back over his
shoulder and smiled a sardonic smile
that made old Yaller as mad as a wet
hen.
"Then he got up and got. Jewhili-
kins, how he paved the gravel! Oc-
casionally the antelope would look
around and snort, and jump stiff-leg-
ged, and laugh. Then old Yaller
would consume some more space.
"The antelope turned himself loose,
and for awhile all I could see was
little cloud of dust and tie white
spot that is always behind this anus
in little animal.
CATER while, however, I could
see that the white patch got bigger.
Yaller was gainin.' 1 jabbed the Next
can spurs into him to encourage him.
His tongue hung out so that he step
| ped on it every little while.
"He didn't laugh any more then.
It was was a terrible reality. He
seemed to think we had imposed on
him somehow. Every little while
he'd look at old Yaller kind of re-
proachful, as if we'd taken advantage
of him.
"By'n' by I reached over and took
him by the ears and laid him across
the saddle ahead of me and took him
he me. 1 kept him for years, but he
never rallied.
"He seemed to lose all hope, and
would walk around the corral like an
old billy goat that had been betrayed
some time. Life for him seemed to
be nothing but wide, shoreless waste
| of bitter disappointment and regret
81 tell you, General, it takes the
hope and joy and pride all out OF
antelope to be scoOped by SIS buck
skin broncho."
eyes," said the General, 81 should
| think il would. If l was broken
legged antelope, with a foot done up
in a gum oYershoe, and couldn't out
/ run any buckskin boss I ever saw
I'd go away to some lonely spot and
stick my head into a prairie-dOg's
hole and die of remOrse.- Virginia
! CITY Enterprise.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-20
A Crank In Court.

While Guiteau was being arraigned
a large size man approached some Of
the officers in court, and asked for the
loan of pistol. His inquiries, caus-
ing suspicion, he was taken to police
headquarters where he gave his name
as George H. Bothard, and showed
his diploma as lawyer, issued to him
June %, in Columbus, Ohio. He said
that he fought in Garfeld's regiment,
and showed two gunshot wounds on
his legs, and a bayonet wound on the
side of his head, which he said he re-
ceived at the battle Of Shiloh. He had
been doing clerical work for lawyer
in this city. He heard that Guiteau
was to be arraigned to-day, and in
tended to get Bull Dog" pistol and
shoot him at the city hall. He took
his diploma with him to insure get
ting into the courtroom, as a member
of the bar. He had evidently been
drinking.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-20
4 Terrible Combat.

A perpendicular old rock which
rises In the middle of Lake Cham
plain, near Pittsburg, is called Little
Independence, in reference to the be-
lief that during the struggle for indie
pendence the British squadron passed
close to the old rock. Mistaking it
for a vessel the commander hailed it,
but received no reply. He hailed it
again, louder than before still the
oil rock was silent. ''Hang the
Yankee" muttered the Commander ;
''give him q broadside." The broad
side was fired accordingly, but the
shot poured back from its side among
his own men. ''Thafs your game, is
it ?" said the Commander. "Give
them another" which they did and
again the old rock hurled back the
British shot. IT was only as the light
grew stronger that the Commander
recognized the nature of his antago-
mist, and then he withdrew to St
Johns to refit.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-20
GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES.

Turtles and shrimps are new hat or
naments.
New Orleans ladies are said to have
the prettiest feet of any ladies in the
land.
Marriage" said an unfortunate
husband, SIS the cLurchyard of love-"
''And you men" replied the wife, ''are
the grave-diggers."
"a babe" says a writer, ais a moth
er's anchor" We have often heard
that the first thing she does is to
weigh it.
Women BARRIERS are multiplying. If
they have plenty of mugs, they will, no
doubt, keep their customers in hot
water all the time.
"Can there be happiness where
there is no love ?" solemnly queries am
author in a book of marriage. No
much happiness, perhaps, but if the
girl is awfully rich there can be lots
of fun.
A short metre wedding A young
clergyman in Iowa recently married
couple in the following brief man
ner: 'Do you want one another p
Both replied yes. ''Wel, then, have
one another"
The bashful young man who asked
lady on the beach if he "could see
her home," was much surprised to
hear her reply ''that he could go up
and see it if he wanted to, but she
didn't think her father wanted to
sell ;" then she coolly walked off with
the man of her choice.
Consolation: Mime. Z. paris OF
course), lost her husband and would
not be comforted. For days and days
after the funeral she wept floods OF
tears. Suddenly a thought struck
her. 81 have one little consolation,
she said 81 will know where he is al
nipht.N
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-20
RRFT SUGAR.

English farmers are not lacking IN
enterprise. They are ready to take
hold of any new thing that promises
to be remuneratiYe. AS ii Is hard for
them to compete with the farmers Of
the United States in the production
of corn, beef, pork and mutton, they
are considering the advisability of en-
gaging in the production of sugar
from beets. A few years ago the ex-
pertinent was very thoroughly tried,
and it was then demonstrated that the
rent of land, the cost of labor and
living, and the price Of fertilizers
would prevent successful competition
With the producers of beet sugar on
the continent and the manufacturers
of cane sugar elsewhere. Since then,
however, rents have declined, money
can be obtained at a lower rate of in
terest, and the manufacture of fertiliz-
ers has been improved, and it is now
thought by many that the manufac-
ture of beet sugar can be made
moderately profitable. Experiments
show that a larger yield of beets in
tons can be obtained in England than
in any country on the continent where
the manufacture of sugar has been
profitable. The climate, however, is
very unfavorable to developing sac
charine qualities in beets, and a ton of
them yields less sugar than the same
amount.raised in France and Germany
where there is more sunshine. Labor
is higher in England than on the coll
tinent, as is the cost of living, and it
is stated that the leaves and pulp of
the beets are worth more in most
places on the continent than they
would be i'm England. Beet sugar
enjoys the benefit of protection in
France, but it would have no similar
advantage in Great Britain. On the
whole the prospect of making beet
sugar in England does not appear
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-20
GOOd-By.

It is hard word to speak. Some
may laugh that it should be, but let
them. Icy hearts are never kind. 1t
is a word that has choked many an
utterance, and started many a tear.
The hand is clasped, the word is
spoken, we part. and are out upon the
ocean of tine-we go to meet again,
where, God only knows. 1t may be
soon: it may be never. Take care
that your "good-by" is not cold one
it may be the last that you can give
Ere you may meet your friend again,
deaths cold hand may have closed his
eyes and chained his lips forever. An,
he may have died in thinking you
loved him not. Again it may be a
long separation. Friends crowd on
ward and give you their hand. How
do you detect in each ''good-by" the
love that fingers there and how you
bear away with you the memory of
those parting words many, many
days. We must often separate. Tear
not yourself away with a careless
boldness that defies all love, but make
your last words linger-give the heart
its full utterance-and if tears fall,
what Of that2 Tears are not nu-
manly.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-20

dat mean man, John Williams patch,
damn him, I axes your pardon. He's
got a plenty, an so has I, but he
wouldn't pay me for my work, so
good Lord overlook dis little trans
gress and keep dem from finding it
out, for I wants to steal some more.
and when I goes to steal help me TO
get something nice like YOU did dem
children of Isralum when you stole
dem from the bondage of Egyptium,
and III be mighty glad. And, oh,
Lordy God, if dey find out dat [ stole
dis corn help me TO prove Tom Con-
nally, dat black rascal, sold it to me,
for Christ's sake. Amen"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-20
A WEDDING.

Inc happy morn has smiling come:
Before Gods altar man and wife.
Hand ciaeped in hand, all silent stand.
One flesh, one life:
All me! an me
Is it for JOY or miseryY
The parting words with friends are said.
The slippers and the rice are cast.
And to new life new man and wife
Have gayly passed:
All me an me!
Is it for JOY or misery?
Is tito live as God has wilied,
In bonds Of love and sympathyP
Is II to share or JOY or care
Co equally?
Islife to be
One grand soul-stirring harmonyP
Or lie il rather day by day
TO waken to their cruel fate?
With icy hearts to drift apart,
And learn too late
That life must be
A dali dead waste Of misery?
Nay, God forbid but let them go
To such sweet life Of perfect love,
That hand in hand at length they'll stand
In heaven above,
And 50 may be
One life through all eternity.