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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-20
Pacific Coast MilI,onaries-

The supplemental personal proper
ty assessment roll, filed on Monday
with the auditor, foots up $50, 100. .920.
of which SIS, ,46S, $50 is of money. It
is prOpable that collections can lee
made on about SI00,O00,000. The riches
IF some of our citizens are given in
the roll.
Charles CrOeker's assessment sums
up $l9, ,1S7 600. Some of the items arr
as follows: Eleven thousand seven
hundred and thirty-seven shares of
Central Pacific Railroad COmpany's
stock, $10,000,O00; 94750 shares of
Southern Pacific Railroad Company's
stock, $5,000.000; assorted railroad
bonds. $2,OO0,OOO.
Peter DonOhue is assessed on 500
000in money, on 100000 in North
ern Pacific railroad stock, 100000
San Francisco gaslight stock, $1,000
600 in Omnibus railroad stock.
James @. Fair is assessed for $42,-
100000: Nevada Bank, $I,450,000; !;
mining stocks, $40,000.000.
James Flood has $50, 100000 person
al property and $250,000 in money.
j. @. Flood & Co, trustees of j. w.
Mackey, are assessed on $20.572, 500 in
personal property and $4,000 in
money.
Leland Stanford is assessed for
about $20,OO0,OOO; of this, $35O,OOO is
in diamonds of self and family. 9th
er items are as follows: 14,737 shares
Central Pacific railroad stock, $4,000,
600; S4,750 shares of Southern Pacific
stock $5,000,O00; bonds of various
railroad companies in which he is in
vested, $2,OO0,OOO.
Mrs. Mary f. S. Hopkins is rated
for $l7,2l1, 600. She has 81, 100000 in
railroad bonds, 1875 shares Western
Development Company stock, $l0,0O0,
coo; 495 shares Mission Bay Ridge
Company stock, 100000, and quanti-
ties of bank, insuranc, railroad and
other stocks of lesser value.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-20
Garfleld,s Energy and Perception.

There was one grand thing about
President Garfield, and that was he
never felt ashamed to work, no matter
what position he filled. He was al
ways engaged in something, and l
have never seen him alone when his
thoughts were not deeply engaged in
something. One great thing that was
no doubt the greatest secret of his
success was his constant desire to be
elevated to a higher position. He was
always reaching for something, and
never gave up until he received that
for which he was working. Again,
he never was ashamed of his low con-
dition or poverty, and l have often
heard him say, during the course OF
conversations, that there never was q
grander thing to see than a man Oh
woman III earnest in anything they
undertook. No matter whether they
may be right or wrong, to see them in
dead earnest and working for dear
life for the object of their desires, is a
noble sight to witness" I'n call
vour attention to another fact: He
always went along with his eyes and
ears open, catching up every Oppor.
tunity to learn something. He would
walk dlouS luS SIICtJ anu 10 luCTGll
glance at a stranger would not satisfy
him, but he would watch a person
aud try to discover something in hi.
countenance, and he couldn't look a
a lady without being able to tell you
the color of every ribbon on her hat
He has often told me that the grea
keenness of his Perceptive facultie
were often painful to him. If trav
cling on railroad train, and the car
by chance would stop a short Time
he was out inquiring the cause of tht
/ delay, and while walking leisurely
along some highway he would meet
i German or Irishman working h
would stop and interrOgate them, an,
then tell his friends what he la,
learned. He was always determine
to learn something.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-20
REMARKABLE EYES.
GIRL, ONE OF WHOSE EYES IS TELE
SCOPE AND THB OTHER A MI
CROSCOPE.

Last winter a gentleman living
near Litch field took his daughter, six
teen years of age, on a sleigh-ride.
The day was cold, but very sunny.
On their return the girl complained
of her eyes. The trouble grew worse,
and finally the girl was kept in
dark room, and there remained with
no light until few days ago, when
she experienced a peculiar sensation +,
which she described as follows: at
seemed as if my eyes were running
out, or part of them. Putting my
hand to my eyes l could feel some
thing coming out over my lower eye
lids. which / took hold of and pulled
out. 1t gave me some pain to do so,
but almost Immediately my eyes felt
better. Instead of a smarting sensa-
ton when l wincked, they felt cool
and natural, and it was a pleasure to
wink them. Then came the thought,
why, my eyes are better. and 1 be-
lieve l could bear the light which
was determined to try. Hesltatingly
1 opened the door, when to my great
joy found that 1 was able to bear
| the light as well as ever could. The
| feeling that came over me at the mo-
ment that / found out that I could
once more leave the dark, dismal
| room and see the glorious sunlight
/ again was so Overpowering that
| gave one scream for joy and then
tainted away.
Now comes the strangest part of
! the story. Six months ago the girls
| eyes were straight and natural now
the girl is crOss-eyed, but she pays no
attention to that. She sees things
just the same as she always did, but
let her close her right eye and look
out of only her left eye, and she can
see a distance of eight or ten miles
and distinguish things as well as al
ordinary person can only sixty yards
away. She is able to look clear tC
the lake, a distance of three and q
half miles, and identify any one, des
cribing their dressseven. The distant
hills are brought close to her, and sh'
can see the farmers gathering in theil
hay, even counting the number o
heaps, which, in an air line, are sever
miles from her. To test her, a field
glass was used, and her sight would
: far outreach any object that COuid b'
seen with the glass. If she closes he
left eye and looks out of the right
then she cannot see anything eXcep
close to her, but that eye is 8 perfec
microscope. She is able TO distin
guish things that the natural eye can
not see. The point Of a needle look
l as blunt as a crow bar, and 1t IS won
I derfui to hear her describe the beau
tiful colors of flies and other insects
To her the hair on a persons heal
look as large as darning needles, an
in the finest of linen she can coun
= the threads as easy as any one ca
g count beanpOles. The moment sh
opens both eyes they assume th
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-20
TENNESSEE.

A woman has been fined $1,000 in
Nashville for habitual drunkenness.
ALI E. Howell, of Nashville, is the
champion byciclist of the State.
The new Fair Grounds at Knoxville
are nearly completed. The Fair opens
Oct 25th.
East Nashville is troubled with ty-
phoid fever, which in most cases is
fatal.
A farmer in Shelby county made
$500 last summer out of three acres OF
wstermelons.
James Poe, who lost three toes, cut
off in a planing-mill at GraysVille,
died of his injuries recently.
The Porter Rifles, of Nashville, con-
template giving a series of concerts
for the benefit of the poor of that city
Commissioner Hawkins reports &
| large number of immigrants coming
! into East Tennessee. Mostly laborers
A bald eagle was killed near Camar
| go, recently, which measured sever
feet from tip of one wing to tip of the
! other.
The Shelbyvi.le Commercial say
the apple trees in that section ar
in bloom. Something remarkable 70
| this season of the year,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-20
MISSISSIPPI.

Natchez expects to be put in tele-
phonic communication with Jackson
at an early day.
The ice factory at Natchez is a fixed
fact. A company has been organized
with a capitol stock of $4,000. Work
will begin at once.
Mr.. John Murdoch was killed on
Monday, on the Tallahatchie river, by
a man named Whitworth, a nephew
of the deceased. Murdoch snapped a
pistol at him twice, when WhitwOrth
fired, killing him instantly.
Vicksburg Herald, IL: The river
is rising rapidly, and the lake in front
of the city is filling up. Some of the
river fraternity are of the opinion
that the old bed Of the river in front
of the city will be navigable in a short
time.
N. l. Falcon, prominent planter
on the Yazoo river, was killed by Nc
Carly on Tuesdry last, near the head
of Honey Island. The parties had q
difficulty regarding land. McCarty
fired upon Falcon, who returned il
and jumped into the river. McCarty
pursued him to the bank and fired
again. Falcon sank and was seen nc
more.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-20
General Foreign Notes.

Victor Hugo has given 10000 francs
to the Paris poor.
The Dublin Land League received
e2160 sterling the past week, includ-
ing 1888 from America.
Eight students at the military col
lege at Moscow and two at st. Peters
burg have been arrested for nihilism.
The Times telegram says: Partial
ly successful movements in the North
will make necessary fresh reinforce
ments from France.
Parnell says that in a few days the
league viii be ready to file applica-
tions for reference to the Land Court
of 100 test cases.
Another land-sIip threatens Elm,
Switzerland. The inhabitants, who
returned after the recent catastrophe,
have been warned to quit their homes
| again.
A Paris correspondent says he is as
sured President Grevy states that he
would not incur the responsibility OF
delayingGambetta's accession to Office
A Berlin correspondent says he has
a communication from st. Petersburg
announcing that the headquarters of
! the Nihilists has been discovered and
! six arrests made.
Two hundred Russian Jews, whom
the Austrian police stopped at Brody
/ in Galicia, while emigrating to Amer
| lea, have been permitted to resume
/ their journey and viii embark at Ant
| WerD,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-20
A River Mail Agent Arrested.

Vicksburg Commercial, 18th: For
several weeks past there has been
complaints made to the postoffice de-
partment, stating that valuable letters
mailed at different points OH the river
never reached their destination. The
special officers of the postoffice depart
ment were at once set to work to fer
ret out the guilty. A few days ago a
decoy letter was mailed at Brunswick
landing, Miss, containing $500 in
currency, which was marked. The
letter was directed to Green Parker,
Co Hays City, Arkansas. The letter
was regularly mailed OH the steamer
Gold Dust. The boat arrived at this
point with the down mail but no let
ter was found in it for Parker. Special
agent Boyd made an affidavit before
commissioner Lowenberg chargiHg
Hogan with the robbery. A warrant
was issued and placed in the hands OF
Deputy United States Marshal Little
who arrested Hogan at the ferry
landing al o'clock yesterday evening
Hogan was arraigned before the com
misoner and plead guilty to the
charge. and was placed under a bond
of $1,000 for his appearance before the
next term of the United States court
at Jackson. Hogan in default of q
bond was committed to the county
Jail. Hogan has made Memphis his
home for the last two years, but states
that he was formerly from Holly
| Springs, Miss. He has been running
| the river mail service about one year
and has always borne good reputa
/ ton. and was always considered ;
/ faithful officer. There was fOunC
/ $l60 on his person at the time of hi
/ arrest
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-20

DAVID DAVIS, just promoted to the
exalted Office of Vice-President of the
United States. and who, in the event
of the death of President Arthur,
would succeed to the Presidency, was
born in Cecil county, Maryland, Mch.
8, 1915, and was educated at Kenyon
college, Ohio. He studied law with
Judge Bishop in LennOx, Mass, and
in the law school at New Haven, Conn.
In 1886 he settled in Bloomington, Ill,
where he still resides, and where he
has long exercised great influence,
both socially and politically. In 1915
he was elected to the lower house of
the Illinois legislature to the consti-
tutional convention, which framed a
new constitution for the State in 1S47 !;
was elected Judge of the eighth judi
cial circuit of IliiWeisssin- 1S4S;4 was
reelected in 1855, and again in 1861,
and appointed by President Lincoln
an associate justice OF the supreme
court of the United States in 1862.
In 1877 he resigned his judgeshiP
and was elected to the United States
senate for full term ending 1888.
In 1872 he was nominated by the
labor reform party as a candidate for
the presidency, with what result need
not Of course be mentioned here.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-20
AHome In The Evening.

Nothing concerning the future well
fare and happiness Of the young, re-
marks a contemporary, is so neglect
ed by parents and guardians, as the
manner In which their evenings are
spent. Darknes is temptation to evil
and suffering young men and boys 10
be absent from their family hearth,
when the light of day does not re-
strain them from misconduct, Is real
ly training them to It, and produc-
ing incalculable mischief and ruin.
All the riots, disturbances Of any kin1,
and crimes, are the result Of running
in the streets after nightfall. III the
home something more is needed than
the mere command, and parents
should endeavOr by their own exam
pIes. TO show the importance OF spend
mo the hours Of darkness with their
family. for if heads Of households can
not exDerience the truth of the asseF-
ton that "there is no place like home"
how can they expect their offspring
to b.. domestic? {? Evening recreation
and employment in the family circle
are infinitely more agreeable than any
amusement or dissipation abroad and
honorable and learned men are the
products of the one, while miserable
and dissipated specimens Of the hu-
man race are the results of the Other
Let home be the place il should be,
and let the same facinatiOns and IN
| ducemeHts be offered at the household
as abroad, and a more exalted ana
creditable class OF citizens would peo-
pie the world.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-20
TEE SOUTHERN STATES.


ARKANSAS.
A number of White county farmers
are sowing wheat.
Arkansas City received 500 bales of
cotton on one train a few days ago.
The Little Rock Gazette says the
Railroad Land Office at that place is
doing an active business.
John w. Willett, a brakesman on
the Fort Smith railroad, was killed at
Conway a few days ago.
Helena has eighteen saloons, three
hotels, four white and colored
churches, a first-class opera house,
two oil mills, two saw mills, a freight
elevator and three railroads.
Fred Meyers, of Little Rock, is un-
der arrest charged with grand larce-
ny, stealing postage stamps and two
counterfeit bills from Sheriff Oliver,
and $1,000 worth of Pulaski county
bond coupons from Judge Kimball.
Frank Hall was sentenced to be
hung at Little Rock on the 9th OF De-
cember. He killed Paul Sanders in
June, 1879, shooting at another color
ed man in a crowd on the Badgett
place.
w. B Lofin, a worthy citizen of
Arkans as City, died in that town last
Sunday. He was formerly United
States Commissioner at that point,
and while there are more brilliant
men there are few who have more of
the milk of human kindness than had
Mr.. Lofiin.
II. j. Dennis, S.ate Librarian of
Il IL.
| State Frolich "Let me make this pre-
diction: If the Eads jetties prove a
| permanent success, in ten years Ar
kansas will touch elbows with the
whole Northwest by means of at least
four great lines of railway"
Tobacco is becoming an important
| factor in the agricultural products of
! Northwestern Arkansas. A crop of
White Burley sold in Van Buren the
other day for 15c a pound, the product
of four acres bringing the prod ucer
! 5000. One man and three little boys
raised the crop, fifty acres of corn,
twenty acres of wheat and fifteen of
hay, besides taking care of a large
amount of young stock.
Cox, SteEhens and Delaney, the Iron
Mountain train-rObbers, plead guilty
in the Hampstead Circuit Court, and
were sentenced to the penitentiary
for the term of seventy years each.
The sentences are cumulative, four
teen years being the limit laid for
robbery. The robbery occurred on the
22d of September, and they were
captured on the 28th. a special term
of the Court was held to try them.
A terrible tragedy is reported to
have occurred at a saw-mil near
Grand Lake small town on the Mis-
sisslppi river. w. NJ. Brooks, propri-
etor of the saw-mill, was beating ali
employe, when a fellow workman
named William Yountze iPterferred
Brooks, exasperated, turned upon
YOuntze, when the latter drew a re-
volver and fired, the ball striking
Brooks in the head, killing him in
stantly. YOuntze was arrested, and
after preliminary examination, dis.
charged.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-20
FOREIGN.

The Gear and Czarina have gone to Cat
selma.
The waterspOut which passed over the
district of Milah, Algeria, few days ago,
killed siXty-five persons.
John II. Beeman, of the Cork branch of
the Land League, who was recently releas-
ed, has been re-arrested and conveyed to
the Limerick Jail.
James j. O'Kelly, member of Parliament,
and William O'Brien, editor of the Land
League organ United Ireland, have been
arrested. Also John Dillon, NJ. p, charged
with reasonable practices, and lodged in
Kilmainham Jail.
Details of the recent hurricane in Eng
land show that it has been the most disas-
trous for years. Upwards OF fifty Berwick
shire fishing smacks were at sea during
the storm, and it is feared that the most OF
them are lost. 1t is reported that twenty
five fishermen were drowned at Dunbar
and three pilots drowned in the Tyne. The
gale inflicted severe damage to property in
all parts of the csuntry. Several persons
were killed and many injured, houses were
unroofed and unGnished buildings collaps-
ed. it is reported that forty-five fishermen
we're lost at Barnmouth and Eyemouth.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-20
NEWS OF The WEEK.
summary Of the Most Important Eyents
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Henry Mcdonald was hanged at Silver
City, Colorado, for the murder of George
Mayer for money.
Frost has damaged the cranberry crop of
two counties in New Jersey a hundred
thousand dollars.
Portland, Oregon, has sent $500 to the
GARFIELD monument fund, the largest sum
yet subscribed outside of Cleveland.
The State of Pennsylvania has brought
suit against the Standard Oil Company for
three million dollars taxes and penalties.
The 'pinkeye," a disease peculiar to
horses, is spreading in Denver. About a
hundred horses are said to be suffering
from it.
Thomas w. Robinson, of Iowa, has been
awarded $4,000 damages for injuries receiv-
ed in 1878 on the New York Central rail-
road.
Hon. Charles G. Wintersmlth, agdd 50
years, died at his home in Elizabethtown,
KY, on the 14th. He was speaker of the
House Of Representatives and Grand Mas
ter Of the Kentucky lodge of MasOns.
Senator Dawes has appointed James Z.
| Harvey, for several years past editorial cor
respondent OF the New York San at Wash
/ ington, his private secretary. Mr.. Harvey
is lifelong Democrat, and has been prom
inent in party politics.
Lewis Biggs and John Nantz quarreled
| in a saloon in CarlinviIle, ILL.,, about who
should pay for the drinks. Nantz knocked
Biggs down. The barkeeper interferFed,
and Biggs whipped out his revolver and
shot Nantz through the heart, killing him
instantly. Biggs gave himself up.
Two fish boats left Erie, Pa, on Tuesday
| for Ashatabula where they belonged. That
evening severe gale occurred and they
were all given up for lost, not being heard
from afterwards, but on Friday night Nick
| Eggers returned in the Fairy in famish-
| ed condition. The storm tore his sails and
| broke his rudder. He made an anchor by
filling his oil skin psntaloons with stones
and dragged far out into the lake. For two
days and nights he tasted. Finally he rig
ged a temporary sail and worked into port
with pole for a rudder The other boat
containing two men is still missing.
The New York Post says that it was dis
| covered by broadway National Bank that
commercial paper bearing the signature Of
Henstis & Hamilton, Fort Wayne, Indiana
was forged. This paper came to the bank
through Haag & Luddington, note brokers
They received it from John Stevens, jr., q
mercbandise broker, No. 1918 Front street
1t has since been discovered that paper o
J. X. Mcintyre, & Co., of Dayton, Ohio, ant
Stevens, Wood S Thacker, Of Columbus
Ohio, has been forged and sold in this mar
ket These various forgeries amount Il
about 500, coo, and the paper is distributed
in small lots. 1t is believed that the extern
of these forgeries has not been ascertained
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-20

New Orleans Times: The oyster
strike has weakened; it's back is
broken, and oysters at thirty cents a
dozen will soon be thing of the past.
When the oyster aristocracy, the BIZ
valvular nobility, the mOlluscous mag
mates put up the price from twenty to
thirty cents a dozen the people cried
aloud with distress and Indignation.
The rank and file of the oyster dealers
sympathized with the public in this
straight and continued to supply de-
licious oysters at the old price, and so
greatly did they profit by this right
eous and reasonable behavior that
they did all the business while the
selfish shellfish Oystercrats suffered
accordingly. AS result, the strikers
for higher prices have weakened, and
now, at aristocEatic oyster stands that
had stuck out for style and thirty
cents, are seen placards offering the
succulent sOOther of stirred-up stom-
achs at fifteen cents a dozen. The
people are willing to pay twenty cents
for good oysters, and it is evident the
strike is over.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-20

DETROIT Free Press: The recent
rise in Confederate bonds in the Eng
lish market created some surprise, be-
cause the belief was general that they
were absolutely worthless. AT the
South they have long been so consid-
cred. A few of the holders have clung
to them as men do TO anything which
has once represented a value. But
even with these the hope of realizing
anything has long since passed away,
while the vast majority, being nom
holders, have no disposition for the
taxation which any project of payment
would involve. Under these circum-
stances the announcement that the
bonds had any market value any
where was remarkable, while the state
ment that the market value had ris-
en- was indeed surprise. 1t is claim
ed, however, that some $1I,OO0,OOC
was deposited by the Confederacy in
l S63, in the Bank of England, and
that the bondholders expect to secure
that sum. The announcement of suel
a fact would very probably initiate the
bonds; but if the fact is as stated they
are still worthless. The LOUisUiIE,
Cowier-JOUrRdt very properly says
the money 'belongs to our govern
ment, and as it has been drawing in
terest for about eighteen years, i
would be well for the Secretary o
State to look after it. The none,
would doubtless be handed over.