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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-10
A MISSING CHILD.
ETAILs OF A LITTLE BOYS SUDDEN
DISAPPEARANCE.

ETAILs OF LITTLE BOYS SUDDEN
DISAPPEARANCE.
Asheville On. c. Cor. Atlanta Constitutional
There is now going on in the north
ern part OF this, Buncombe county, a
search for a child whose mysterious
disappearance battles all conjecture.
The universal interest manifested by
the neighbors of the missing boy. ard
the extent and thorOughness of the
search make it an incident likely to
arrest the attention of every one sup
piled with a fellow feeling for unfor-
tunate humanity. The circumstances
of the loss, as stated to your CORES
pondent by one of the searchers, are
substantially as follows:
On Tuesday morning, the 18th inst,
David Ballew, his wife and child
the latter a boy about four years of
age-went out into the woods one
! quarter of a mile distant from their
cabin-the parents for the purpose OF
irving" boards, and the child because
there was no one at the house to keep
it company.
At about IL o'clock am. the wife
suggested that she must go home and
prepare dinner. The husband assent
ed. Mrs. B. started in the direction OF
the house to which leads an undevia-
ting country road. She had proceed
ed only some fifty or seventy yards
when the boy began crying to 90 with
her. The father, after an effort to pac,
ify him, told him to go with his moth
er. just then as the child started OF
in the direction of his mother and
home, Mr.. Ballew halloed to his wife
to come back and help him turn a log
! Mrs. B., who had ethen gotten HUI
, red yards or NOR e away, returned Il
the place where they had been al
work and passed the child OH the way
| still sobbing as it walked homewar
Having spent some minutes in aid
ing her husband, Mrs. Ballew again
started towards home, expecting tC
ovcrtake the child. She reached the
| cabin, however, without seeing the
child, and asked two neighbors who
had just come over to see her husband
if they had seen it. On receiving q
negative response the mother rushed
back to look for the missing boy. Such
is the story as told by the parents
Then it was that the search began il
earnest, and among others the infOr'
mant Of your correspondent came tC
aid his troubled friends.
He says that they prosecuted the
search until nightfail, their numbers
being constantly augmented by fresh
arrivals Of interested neighbors. As
the darkness of the mountains night
closed in upon the anxious searchers
they gathered fagots and lightwood
with which for miles around the hill.
sides were bespangled like the dark
sky above with its thousands of trem,
bling chandeliers. For the subsequent
days and nights has the weary search
continued. But no trace of the los
boy has yet been found save the little
tracks made by his bare feet in the
road towards home. How long the
search win continue we cannot tell
The sleepless parents listen like the
mother and father of Charlie Ross
but like them, seemed doomed to heal
naught of their loved lost one. Any
further particulars that may come t.
light will be given you.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-10
HoOp Iron Fences.

a writer in the Ohio Farmer after
mentioning some of the disadvantages
Of barbed wire fences, recommends a
substitute in the form of hoop iron.
He says: zone and one-halfinch hoop
will only cost 50 90 per 100 pounds,
can be bought up cheaper and quicker,
and makes as durable fence as any
kind of wire, and if tarred will last
a lifetime; if paintedwhite it makes a
beautiful light fence, besides harm
less one for any kind Of stock, and as
a scarcity of good fences is seen all
over the country, the hoop fence,
above all others, fills the bill. Old
sound rails would be good for sup
ports or standards.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-10

Him? Why, dar he air." responded
auntiS, pointing over Viola's shoulder,
EFF ne ben snake he bit ye. honey,
sure"
And auntie's fat sides shook with en-
joyment.
Viola turned around. Tom Briggs stood
behind her.
WELCOME to Pinkdale, Miss Perry"
he said, politely. but coldly.
"Indeedl And who are you, pray2" de-
manded Viola sharply, to rebuke his in
science.
"Me? On, I'm your cousin, Joe Fer,
ris, at your service!" said the supposed
Tom Briggs. atom sent me a telegram
that he could not leave the city at pres
ent, so l concluded to go and escort you
myself. And as I did not wish to buy
the favor of my relatives, determined
to personate Tom, and see if l could win
some friendship for myself alone"
Here he tried to see Bab's eyes; but
she had turned them away in much con
fusion.
ode dinners a~waitin," announced
auntie.
And as there was nothing else to be
done, they all took seats around the well
sprt ad table, and matters were smooth
ed over for the time.
But after dinner, Bah slipped away by
herself to The old apple orchard on the
north hillside.
"What will he think2" she said cover
| fng her face with both hands. "He-ht
must have seen that liked him; but
never dreamed he was Cousin joe"
But swift footsteps had followed hers
and strong hands drew her own away
/ from the blushing cheeks.
you shan't run away from me again
little Bah" he said, drawing her to him
And the next mornings train carrie,
Mrs. Perry and her two daughters bach
TO the city, in spite of Joe's polite invi
tatlon to stay for the wedding.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-10
The Presidents sagacity.

President Arthur can apparently
get on with less than half the advice
that has been lately given him as to
what he should do in making up a
new cabinet. He bids fair TO become
distinguished in our annals for the
possession of two somewhat different
sorts of talent, each of which has dis
tinguished a remarkable President.
He possesses the reticence-the well
considered acknowledgement distin-
guished General Grant III the days
before, in his foreign travels, he had
discovered how freely the Kings and
great men abroad conversed with
everybody abroad without noticing
that they could talk a great deal and
not say very much. In addition to
this sagacity in keeping his own cOun-
sci President Arthur possesses that
skill and tact in dealing with party
men that was so notable in President
Lincoln. No man ever came Into
high place under more difficult cir
cumstancss than those In which he
succeeded to the great Office he now
holds; nor was ever any mans aces
sion to that dignity watched with
more jealous scrutiny or deprecated in
less considerate words. 1t was all
occasion that would have tempted the
average politician into a lavish elo-
quence of promise and profession
But the Presidents happy silence has
not been less remarkable than the sue
cess with which in so short a time he
has overcome the difficulties that con-
frouted him.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-10
From This to That.

eve don't know much about it, of
course" says the editor of the Bur
lington HdDkeye, "but we should
think, after man has been Secretary
of the Treasury for three or four
years, and had occasionally dumped
$50,000,000' into Wall street to relieve
the money market, and had called in
$2O,OOO.OOO skies at one time, and
bought 100000 of bonds every
week, and disbursed $lI,000000 one
week and $1S,OOO,OOO the next, we
should think it would gravel him
awfully to go back into his law Office
when the administration changed,
and make out an abstract of a farm
away out IN Buckshaw county and
sell it for an old woman down in Kick
apOo township to an old fellow out in
Waukindaw Settlement, and only get
a fee of $50, and have to wait four
months for that, and then have to take
a sOrrel colt for 1t. Perhaps the ex-
Secretaries of the Treasury don't
mind it much, but we Just say wa
don't like TO get used to it.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-10
VENGEANCE IS NINE, SAITH THE
LORD.
A STARTLING REPORT OF SUPERNATURAL
RBTRIBUTION.

RBTRIBUTION.
A Little Rock special to the Gin
cinnati IimeS-Stdr, gives the follow
startling Oecount OF an occurrence In
Arkansas: "A report comes from
Union county that three young men
were discussing the probabilities of
rain from a cloud which just then
was raising in the west. The youngest
of the group, John Freeman, referrc |
to the drought and remarked that a
God who would allow his people to
suffer thus could not amount to much.
Instantly a bolt of lightning flashed
from the cloud overhead, and the
young man fell dead. Nearly every
bone in his body was mashed into
jelly, while his boots were torn from
his feet, and his clothing from his
lower eXtremities.
The body presented horrible APP
pearaHce, being blackened and man
gled mass of humanity. His COM
panions were stunned and thrown en-
the grCund, but not seriously injured.
The funeral of the youBg man Oc-
CURED next day and attracted large
crowd, the larger portion of whom
were drawn thither by the rumOr of
the strange events preceding the death
of the deceased.
When the body was deposited in
the grave and the loose earth had
been thrown in until the aperture was
filled, and while the friends of the
dead man yet fingered in the ceme-
terry, bolt of lightning descended
from cloud directly over the burial
place and struck the grave, thro wiug
the dirt as if a pillow had passed
through it. No one was injured, but
those present scattered almost para
lived with terror.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-10

We would bring 10 the notice of our
friends, as the season approaches for re-
turn OF the dreaded disorder of 'Chilis and
Fever a remedy which come to us with
highest recommendations of merit; We re-
fer to s'HUGHES' TONIC" It is prepared
hv Messrs. r. \. Robinson Il Co., Louisville,
Ky. and is composed Of such ingredients as
will often when taken separately and alone
give relief: when combined they are almost
sure to prove a certain cure, the many IA
vorable results bear testimony TO this opln-
ion, and the remedy is steadily growing in
favor. We advise you to get it at once and
make Q trial Of IL
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-10

The railroads have endeavored to
blockade the rivers. The steamer
Jennie Gilchrist was destroyed few
DAYS ago against bridge pier, at
Davenport, Iowa; and now comes re-
ports of another horror in the destruc-
ton of the War Eagle, at the Hanui-
bal bridge. The annual destruction
of property caused by the bridges on
the Mississippi, Missouri, Illinois and
Ohio rivers, amounts to more than
$2,200,000, and yet the railroad COM
panies are not satisfied.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-10
A Portable Garden.

Here is some advice from the ScbOI-
0T'S Companion about cultiVating the
kind of garden that young people and
old carry around with them:
Every enc has q gardeR called Con-
versation. If the unpleasant words
which blossom into thoughts are kept
out, the garden becomes beautiful and
interesting. There are a few kind of
weeds which unconsciOusiy creep into
this garden, and unless they are put
down, or, better, pulled out, they III
jure and spoil the good flowers.
l. URhUth. This is dark-leaved,
and so small at first that it is hardly
noticeable. In its early stages it is
called eXaggeration. You are not
things, and you say four. The next
time the number becomes larger, and
so the weed grows until it is strong
and hardy. Be sure and pull it up.
2. Slang. This spoils many gar
den of choice flowers. Il ls some
times overlooked by boys, but is not
considered TO have any beauty.
8. Bad Grammar. This is q COM
mon weed found in the garden of un-
educated and careless persons. 1t
grows SLOWLY put SJeauily, ana HnuS
place beside the incest looking flow
ers. There are a number of varieties
and among them are 81 seen," which
chokes up Il saw" or Il have seen :;
''it's her'n," which grows out lit is
hers" and cit is me-" which grows
close to the little plant cit is l."
4. Gossip. Every one knows this
ugly weed which works mischief
wherever it appears. 1t is one of the
worst varieties, and has been known
TO completely overrun aad spoil the
gardens in which it was allowed to
grow.
These are the principal weeds
which find their way into the garden
of conversation. Examine the one
belonging TO you and see what weed:
are gaining Roadway.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-10

A remarkable stampede is in pro-
gress toward the Benz River, in Boil
ivia, unexplOred until last winter,
when DR.. f. r. Heath assembled it,
and discovered vast forests of chince-
ma and caoutchOuc. Fully 10000 men
have since gone there, and the export
of rubber alone has risen from 1900
pounds to $1,000, W it'll promises of g.
100000 next year. DR.. Heath is san
guine of finding rich deposits of pre-
cious metals and medicinal plants
along the Madre de Dios.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-10
Strange Freak of a Providence Woman.

'SA hA5C AACGlA VI q AAOfAdCAC0 UOAlhH'
Providence Journal: At No. 10
Hammond street lives an elderly
widow named Mrs. Mathewson, who
lives with her daughter. She in some
manner got the idea into her head
that there are treasures of gold and
diamonds buried in the yard adjOin-
ing the house where she resides. She
accordingly, early in the summer,
hired a cOlored man, Albert Jones, to
work for her, and the two have since
been actively engaged in digging up
the yard and sitting the sand. They
have taken several carloads of small
stones from the yard and there are
several piles now to be carried away.
Every stone, big or little, is carefully
picked up, examined, and is then
placed in tin pail or coal bod, and
afterwards deposited on the pile. The
cOlored man is not allowed to use a
shovel, but a trowel. He takes up the
dirt and then with his hands picks
out all the stones Mrs. MathewsOn
works near him and keeps a sharp
lookout on all his movements. The
neighbors say that the two work in
the garden together early and late,
and are always digging. The yard,
which is about forty by thirty feet, has
been pretty much dug over. Mrs.
Mathewson was asked by the reporter
yesterday if she had found any valu-
ables, but she was very reticent, and
said that she had only found ring.
1t is an i'll wind that blows nobody
good" and the colored man, as he
receives his $1.25 per day, no doubt
chuckles over his ''soft snap" The
police have observed the proceedings
but see no reason to interfere.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-10

period in the past, how many thous-
ands of years ago none can tell, eie-
phants lived and died on this CONT
nent; and that long before that, per-
haps other thousands OF years, there
lived people capable of manuiactur-
ing rush mating. These people and
tie mound builders constituted the
real first families of America.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-10
In ireland the butter trade is regu-

In ireland the butter trade is regu-
lated by act of Parliament. The farm
ers assemble IN the morning and have
all their casks arranged in the market
place When the authorized eoOpers
proceed o take out the head Of each
cask, and the inspectors follow, with
ont knowing to whom the packages
belong, and mark the quality OF each
with proper distinguishing characters.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-10
AIucky Accident.

The latest crush" in Idaho is to the
North Fork, about fifteen miles above
Ketchum, where ledge ~ feet wide
of milling ore that assays up IN the
thousands was discovered about ten
days ago. The discovery was purely
accidental. A prospector slipped from
a ledge of overnanging rock into the
water. In crawling on the bank he
saw native silver and copper stains
proIuding from a creviee. A few
minutes work proved the existence
of q ledge.-SaR Francisco Bulletin
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-10

mlLi q FACTORY SUPPLIES
or ALL KINDS. BETTING, HOSE
and PACKING, OILS, PUMPS ALL
KINDS, IRON PIPE, FITTINGS,
BRASS GOODS, STEAM GAUGES,
ENGINE GOVERNORS, &c. Send for
Prlce-Iist. w. n. DILLINGHAM; & CO.
As Main Street. LOUISVILLE. KY.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-10

The first fast train over the Penn
sylYania road made the run from New
York to Chicago ten hours quicker
than the regular time.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-10

A new postOffice has been established
at Mt. Vernon, in Morgan county, and
also one in the southwestern portion
of Fentress county, called Ramsey.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-10

The tents and camps for the Irish
laborers employed on the Rosedale
levee present another addition to the
looks of the lower part OF town.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-10

came rich through an accident which
he at first thought had ruined him.
The Ade0Rce.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-10

The type 9p which this paper Il printed is
from the above Foundry.-ED.
New-York tribune., 1881-09-13
A BULL IN A DRY GOODS STORE.

A medium-sized red bull turned the corner of
Twenty-fourth ST. and Eighth-ave. yesterday fore
noon between 10 and IL O'clock "A dead rum
followed by a hooting crowd, and made directly for
McNulty, No. 27l Eighth-ave., which it entered.
Changing its manner suddenly it passed down
about twenty feet, inspecting or two counters
narrowly, but finding nothing there worthy of its
attention. nen coming o a stop, 1t switched its
tail pensively and looked around The sudden
appearance of the animal in the store caused "a
panic. The girls behind the counters fled for their
ened to run tainted. Among the latter were Misses
halen, McDermOtt, Crosby and Dillon. Miss
Nhaen was so much affected that il became ne
cessary subsequently, to take her home in a carnage
he custom eTs in the store also fled i'll terrified
dlsnay, and the bull speedily left in undls-
commit any dcpredatIon but surveyed its sur
roundlngs calmly and with a critical air, without
moving. 1t stood thus for nearly three quarters of
an hour. when Venturcsomo floor walker, who
had run for the police, returned with Roundslnan
Darke and Policeman Murray, of the Sixteenth
Precinct. They were hardly able to make their
way through the crowd of persons who had gath
cred IN the street, but having gained entrance to
the store they dragged the unrcs sistiug bull out hv
means OF rope tied about its bOrnS Iashcd If TO a
post III the street, and shot ii. hence the bull
mad come no one knew for certain. 1t was first
seen at Twenty eight hist. and Seventh-ave., and
next at Twenty -fourth-St, where 1t tossed "A man
did no damage in the store.
IN the morning steer that was being driven
into the slaughter house of We'll N MAYER at No
So First-ave., turned upon Henry Sonnenkamp
age forty-one, Il butcher who was urging it along
aud gOred him in the back. lie was seriously in
ambu The steer was secured and promptly
killed,
New-York tribune., 1881-09-13

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st Steamer City of Atlanta report. pas,oa ,o.,, g..
Of Frying Pan shoals sehr 5r INST n ~
by steamer semp pDsndonec her crew having been
nH MOVEMENTS oP srEAMERs
FOREIGN PORTS
OBJ Hsdiey rom NerYod OF the JAzardsteamer FaDOs
seps FrI Basone5s MI ith ns steamer Ferdinand de
zoIo from sept l2-Arrived steamer Bavarian ~
ouEKSsTows. sept l2-sailed steamer pa,,,s. IN.
la1a from Liverpool hence for New-York i" tbrl Mou.
York direct passed Roces Point al 20 @ for New
ham from Montreal Quebec on her war Sss'an ma sr Gr
s;,h L;asN A sept l2-saed steamer stat Of isergSo
HhLPAx, Sept l2saled. steamer A1sfrsBI ,gIh E ms
ceednn ~ sceaner worcester Hedge, from B,sio
NsIYnA NaAyHSA sep sept l2sailed, steamer Saratoga cn
AMERICAN PORTS
~, BOSTON, Sept 12-Arrived, steamers Caleaon,. m
Malt MIlght hha,,faS Neptune Berry, Johns Sarr
FaRTass F2llSa steamer Gen Whitney Haeti NewYoy
Mss doNko5 sept l2-Passed ont sfea-,@Is
Ho1S kn ktmaScLsc9 & sept i2Afrived. steamer Gaelic
I3,isS Bns6wAGs 0 BREAKwATER Sept l2-Passod inar
rdII dIhITtADELPA' T sept l2-Arrved, steamer san,co
fSenTfa SSHTaosf steamer 9sr, ssimers Warren Ssyor
snerendig, Rotterdam; WIn Lawrence Msrrs sld e,ew
Nieaieu' slesueI Ocioiara. Reynolds Yof. sok'
FOREIGN SHIPPING
n LONDON Sept 12Sailed-6 inst AntelIo r so,a,o,.
max, the Delaware Sids ee Le later for Nl ksr
hss i BTe@@en "a Fawn he last two Tor New Yor CaEaA 0A
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ventura Ednard Pens Grsnviile BcIe D9aSSn i9g Bgena,
nor 10Th INST 's. ALE & nSro 1t Robert CHAPMAN Trcn-
Of Dol MS AIDssoa Beta Gaupers Haavund The laftsr
with mzenmast mainopmas gone hepe'to the latter
lFor 'aer shipping Nc0s II any, Eyrut Pagel
New-York tribune., 1881-09-13
MANY MILK DEALERS FINED

Justices Smith, Bixby and Gardner, in the Court
OF Special Sessions yesterday, mainly occupied
in investigating nfraciOns of the Sanitary Code IN
selling adulterated milk, some Of which were of n
fragrant character. On the complaint of Sanitary
Inspector lsham, Louis ECkardt fined 81 80 for
selling, at No. 1SS Sprng-st.. milk from which one
third of the cream bad been removed, and to which
IL per cent of water had been added
William Webb and Seaman 5. Potter,
of the Lake Milk Company, at No. 81 Sixth-ave
each fined $3.50. 1t was charged against Potter
that one-tifth OF the cream removed from milk
which he sold. On the complaint of Inspector Mum
sll, Mary Young, of No. III PerTyst., fined SI0
and John E. Hegemen of Brooklyn, who drives
around the city, WIS fined 800. 1t was alleged
OF water. Henry Miller, of No. 269 Spring-st from
whose milk 45 per cent of cream removed, was
fined $3.50.
The following named were arraigned on complaint
OF Sanitary Inspector Martin:
Rudolph BOehmer fined 800 for selling
two-thirds OF the cream had been removed. Samuel
Gibson, of No. 1,379 Second-ave. was fined $40 for
selling adulterated milk. John d. Lyons, of No.
1,152 seGond-aaye. was fined $50 for similar
fined so. Charles II. Haslop, Of No. $50
Prison for ten days and fined $40
1T stated that 30 per cent of the cream had been
removed from his milk, John Jaeg der, of No 81
Second-aye., was fined 80 for selling aduleraed
milk. John t. King. of No. ], $40 Second-ave., was
fined 500 for the same offence. Henry Miner, of
No. 334 East Forty-sevcnth-st., was fined 5O Mau-
rice Manke OF No. S31 East Forty ty-scventh-st $25
Andrew Metnetens, of No. OIL Third-ave., 500
Dedrich Ruter. of No. 277 Bleecler-st., 500
George StrasSer, of No. 20S East-Fifty min h-st
$50; Michael FTombeTger, of No 922 Thrd-ave.
80, and John Dmsmore of No. 503 Green wich-st.
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