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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-13
WASHINGTON.

Minister Morton, ofParis, writes to the
Secretary of State upon the haryests of
France and Algeria, and says: This ear
ly in the season the figures are necessarily
approximate estimates; yet it clearly ap-
pears that this years harvest will be con-
siderabIy i'll advance of 1SIS-79.'
j. Stanley Brown states it is President
Arthur's expressed intention to continue
ut the residence or Senator Jones for some
time, The President thinks the extra ses-
sion of the Senate will be of brief duration,
and until that is over he will remain in his
present quarters. After that it is probable
he will remove to the soldiers home until
the white house repairs are completed.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-13
The Month Of Red River.

New Orleans Times: Congress
man-Elect Blanchard, in letter from
Shreveport, dated September 10th, to
one of our prominent steamboat cap
tains, with reference 70 the Govern
ment work at the mouth Of Red river,
says:
Criminal negligence seems to have
characterized the conduct of affairs as
regards not only keeping open the
mouth of Red river, but also the i'm
provement OF its navigation. As for
Tones bayou, there has never been
anything more than frittering away
of public money iX feeble and aboFtive
efforts to accomplish what appears by
no means a difficult feat of engineer
ing. In nv opinion, the three ques-
tions in which the people Of Louisiana
are most deeply concerned at this
time, are:
First-The success of the jetties at
the mouth of the Mississippi.
Second-The preventing Of the Mis-
sissippi from going down the Atty
chafalaya.
Third-The keeping open Of the
mouth Of Red river and Improvement
of its navigation.
In Congress my efforts shall a.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-13

MEMPHIS Appeal President Lin
coin in his inaugural address, prephe-
sied that the mystic cord of memo
ry' would one day respond to a new
touch in swelling the chorus of the
Union. This prophesy has been full
filled, for the American people are
now united by a fresh bond of svm
pathy. The Southern people are no
longer mistrusted and misrepresented
and the 'mystic cords of memory"
have inspired a new devotion to the
Union and affection for the people of
all sections. a common sorrow is of
ten the medium of forgiveness and
peace. The death of the loved mem
Der of ia nily long estrangcd often
unites the jarring household into a
new and stronger bond of love and
sympathy. 1t is one of the common
est devices of romance to make a great
loss the occasion of reconciliation, but
in this case facts outrun fiction The
tears shed over the grave of the late
President have blotted out the fire of
hate. In rejoicing over this era of
good feeling which has dawned upon
the country, the St Paul Pioneer
Press, one of the ablest Republican
newspapers in the West, says: "a
President belongs not to his party but
to the country. And nowhere was
there more Indignation at the coward
~ blow that struck him, q deeper in
terest in his struggle, and larger
hope for his recovery; nowhere is
there moro unfeigned mourning for
his melancholy fate to-day than
among the people of the South. He
was their undisputed chief, and they
could not deny that he was one OF
natures nobRmen, and in the COM
mon voice of lamentatiOn that is heard
around this great mans bier, they
join as sincerely as those whose homes
were nearer his. No event since the
curtain of the war went down has
drawn together all the people as does
this. The grief.of the South is new ev-
idence that they acknowledge a
stronger tie of union than mere force.
As brothers with brothers th9y
mourn a brothers fall. And with
this borne rishtfully in remember
ance, the chasm between the sections
can never yawn so wide again. y
These kind words will sink deep into
the hearts of the Southern people. In
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-13

AMONG the important census
schedules is the actual cost for build
ing and repairing farm fences. In
eleven States where the results have
been tabulated, the outlay amounts to
over Sl3,5O0000. With three or four
exceptions, these arc in old and COM
paratively settled States. 1t is esti-
mated that the cost of fences is greater
than that of the live stock for whose
sake they built; and the fence tax i'm
the State of New York is several
times greater than all other taxes
combined. As timber grows scarcer
and dearcr, this tax, instead ofdimin-
iShing, will Increase, although the
"wire barb" and other substitutes
will partially meet the difficulty.
Even then the cost offencing will con-
tinue to be burden, until as a matter
of necessity it will become the habit,
as in some other countries, to fence the
live stock IN, instead of out. The eff
feet of such a tax upon the cost of
production is too serious to be over
looked.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-13

a free government there will be and
ought to be parties and partisans.
But one thing is certain, that hereaf-
ter it will be impossible for even the
most reckless partisan to stir up old
sectional hatreds. AS the broken bone
when once firmly set is stronger than
before, so will the Union be made
stronger by the assassination, suffer
ing and death of President Garfield.
This calamity has brought out theno-
blest traits of the American people,
and it will work out an exalted Re-
public cemented together by the af-
fectiOns of homogeneous people.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-13

ways be actively exerted toward Sc
curing the necessary legislation and
appropriations looking TO the consum-
nation of those ends. Bet il is not
enough to merely secure the appro-
priations. We must also see to it
that intelligent and timely application
and expenditure of the appropriation
Is made. 1 viii be always glad to
hear from my river friends as to their
wishes and wants ia regard to the inn
prOvement and navigation of our riv-
ers, and will esteem it a favor if you
and your associates will keep me
posted as to same.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-13

The Cleveland Plum Dealer deals
plainly with facts when it calls atten-
ton to Hancock's, Gar.feld's political
RIVALS, attendance at the funeral, and
the dignity and chivalric conduct
which ELECTED from the bitterest Re-
Publicans respect and admiration. On
Il G otlier hand Grant and Conkling
were both cOnspicuously absent from
tire funeral, and have shown little re-
spect for Garfield or little sorrow for
his DEATH
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-13

The people Of a Georgia town struck
a square solution of the Mormon
problem the first time they
attempted it. A party of missiona-
ries from Utah were holding a meet
ing at Brooks mills, in that State, and
were putting forth their powers of ell
oquence TO induce the people to start
for Salt Lake City, when they were
fired upon by the citizens and driven
away. No one was hurt, but the
cause of polygamy received a decided
setback
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-13
MIsCELLANEOUe.

Work on the St. Louis aud San
Francisco road is advancing steadily.
The tunnel work is found to be much
heavier than was expected, and it is
now understood that the company
will run zizag over Ozark mountain
and complete the work south as rap
idly as possible, without regard TO the
tunnel. The programme now Is TO have
the entire line completed to Dallas,
Texas, III time to move the next cotton
crop.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-13
TENNESSEE.

TENNESSEE.
A gentleman of CIarksville caught
opossum in his pantry a few nights
ago.
Mayor Kercheval, of Nashville, was
reelected last Saturday by majority
of 500.
The little town of Kenton has sur
rendered its charter to stop the tip
ping business.
The State Conference of the
Northern Methodist Church meets at
Franklin November 18th.
The Warren county Grand Jury
has found an Indictment against G.
G.. Meadows for the murder Of his
father.
The farmers of Fayette county are
preparing to SOW wheat, not very
largely, but almost every one expects
to sow some.
r. H. Bell, of Nashville, and Julian
Spence, of Murfreesboro, won the
prizes at the bicycle contest at the
Columbia fair.
The city council of Knoxville have
contracted for the building of water
works in that city, to be complete.
by June next.
OO1lL NJ tAtNiOil1N Va A1ODsA4iOiig II II
from the second-story window of his
clearinghouse III Nashville, Sunday
night, receiving injuries which caused
death next day.
1t is understood that the true bill
has been found by the Grand jury of
Davidson county against Kinley,
alias Mckinley, and Kearney, for the
murder of McMillin at the peniten-
tiary last Tuesday.
The most delightful seasons of rain
have prevailed in the vicinity near Nc
Minnville the past two weeks, and the
ground is in fine order for plowing,
aud pastures and turnip patches are
showing up handsomely.
An Emigration Convention viii be
held at TullahOma, Coffee county, on
the 18th of OctOber-Several surround
ing counties will be represented.
Commissioner Hawkins and several
other able speakers will address the
Convention.
a shooting affray occurred Satur-
day at the Limestone Baptist Associa-
ton, at Ball Camp, Knox county, be-
tween DR.. johnson and Gus Gallo
way, in which the latter received two
painful but not dangerous wounds.
johnson made his escape.
George w. Caldwell and James
Rudder were at work digging a well
near Sunbright. station en- the Gin
cinnati Southern Railway, in Morgan
county, last Saturday. They were
using dynamite powder for blasting
purposes, and a blast went off before
they got out of the well, killing both
Instantly. Both men were formerly
from Jefferson county.
Two little Cherokee Indians, named
Mollie and Emma French, aged
respectively twelve and ten years, ar
rived in Chattanooga last Saturday
from Talequa, Indian Territory, hav-
ing come via Cincinnati without an
escort. They were en- route to Mary
( Vile, Tennessee, where they viii at
tend school. The little girls were ex-
/ tremely bright and intelligent. and
are abundantly able to travel alone
over the continent
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-13

John Bunt and Annie Peters were
to have been married in Pulaski coun-
ty last week, near the Lincoln line.
The preacher and invited guests had
arrived. There was storm coming.
During a pause in the wind the eN-
pectant bride went to the door TO well
come the groom. She gave laugh
of recognition and ran to meet him at
the gate, but at that moment bolt of
thunder shook the hills and the bride
fell dead from stroke oflightning.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-13

THE Hour, New York journal, has
been "ciphering' little, ana presents
as d result some strange figures re-
garding the cost of stopping the
wheels Of progress for a day on such
occasions as the late funeral of Presi
dent Garfield. There are, according
to the HON, "10,OOO,OOO working peo-
pie IN the country who average at
least 81 day, which makes $4,000
600, and then there is the interruption
, to commerce and financial TT ansa
tions and the loss of profit on labor.
An unexpected stoppage of week
days work must cost $50OOO,OOO."
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-13
a Modern StOry.

"She was a magnificent creature.
Her eyes were as blue and as glowing
as the sky when the sun is in his
glory, and her cheeks were as rosy as
the sky when the sun smiles and sets
behind a cloudless horizon. This
magnificent girl had never been in
love" Such is the glowing description
of Miss Lucy Swizell, as furnished by
the Little Rock (Ark.) Gazette. That
journal further informs its readers
that Miss Swizell had been teaching
school on the river below the city =;
that she boarded at the house of Henry
Muckle, a widower, and the leading
citizen Of the neighborhOOd, and that
both George and John Muckle, sons
Of the old man, were rivals for her
hand Last week both Of the young
men, who graduated together at a
Northern college in June, proposed
marriage TO Miss SWizell. She told
each TO appear before her at noon on
Monday. They Obeyed. She said that
she loved John and adored George, so
they must enter into some contest for
the prize. Would they walk twenty
miles In ten hours? The lover who
could make the better time was to
have her. Neither would win unless
the specified ground should becOvered
in the specified time. The lane al
the house was half-mile long. The
young men started. At the expira-
ton Of three hours Mr.. Mucklc ap-
preached, with the fair teacher OH his
arm.
wait minute, my devoted sons"
said the old man, leach of you have
shown your affection for your step
mother"
''Step-mother" exclaimed George.
"Step-motherI echoed John.
''Yes step-mother, for while you
were walking | married her."
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-13
MISSISSIPPI

Greenvllle has a tax levy of sixteen
mills.
Picking cotton by starlight has
caused some colored people about
Enterprise 10 Ianguish in jail.
Colonel w. w. Troup, of Monroe
county, viii SOW this fall fifty acres
in wheat and one hundred in oats. ex-
elusive of crops of grain put in by
tenants.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-13

YENNoR, the Canadian alleged
weather prophet, claims that one reas-
on why his prophecies have in some
instances failed, is because the news
papers failed to print them correctly.
He never denied the correctness Of
the published prognostications until
long after their beautiful inaccuracy
was made manifesf
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-13
NUrES AND CONTENTS.

The money raised for Mrs. Garfield
through the timely and energetic ac-
ton of Mr.. Cyrus w. Field is enough
to purchase 100000 face value Of four
per cent United States bonds. The
cash is being invested for her in that
form. This secures her an income of
$4,000 4 year from the field fund
alone
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-13

Hon. L. E. Houston, of Monroe
county, will put forty acres down i'm
red clover this fall, III addition to
thirty-five acres he now has in this
valuable forage crop.
a boiler explosion occurred recent
ly at Crystal Springs. One white
man and a colOred man were killed.
parts Of the latter's body being blown
over 200 yards.
At Gray's Mill, a boy aged nine
years, named Freeman, being offended
at a little daughter of Allen Harris.
aged two years, blindfolded her and
threw her into well, where she was
afterward found, dead.
rThehog ordinance of Yazoo CITY is
causiag quite a commotion in that
town Until lately the porcine species
has enjoyed the freedom of the city,
and 1sa4ed up about everything that
was movable. Now there is much
trouble experienced in carrying out
the provisions of the ordinance.
Here is a tough story, for which the
YazoO City Herald is responsible !:
eve are informed of a rather novel
incident in hunting, that occurred on
Daybreak plantation the early part of
the week. 4 deer was being pursued
by hounds, when a negro, hearing
them, got behind a tree, holding a
piece of a fence-rail in his hands. just
as the deer was passing the tree, the
darkey struck it on the head, killing
it instantly. 1t was fine large
buck.
The Liquor Dealers Convention,
which met on the 10Th uItimo, passed
the following resolution:
ReSOICed, That we recommend to
the Liquor Dealers Association IN
every county where such organization
exists. that they appoint committee
to wait upon each candidate in their
respective counties offering himself to
represent the people in the next Legis-
lature, and ascertain his views
on the subject of prohibition, either
by constitutional amendments or 9th
erwise, and IN the case of every per-
son who answers in favor of such
prohibition that the organization in
his county use all lawful and hOnOra-
bic means in their power to elect some
other person in his stead who faYOrs
the laws remaining unmolested.
Mr.. L. G. Culkin, familiarly known
as "Charley Culkin," who two years
ago mysteriously disappeared from
Vicksburg, has turned up in New Or
leans. The Vicksburg Herald says
Many and various were the surmis-
es on the part Of his friends regarding
his prOtracted absence. He was re-
puted TO be citizen of good standing,
a hard worker, possessed of unques-
toned integrity, and man of domes-
lie habits, and around his sudden de-
parture there lowered mystery over
which time and a succession of years
promised to throw only deeper and
darker gloom. Some thought that he
had committed suicide; others were
of the opinion that he had been rob-
bed of large sum ofmOEey which he
carried in his pocket at the time and
murdered, and his body desposited in
the recesses of some dark lagoon,
around which silence was doomed to
repose until the resurrection mOrn."
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-13
A YOUNG WOMAN ORDAINED FOR THE
MINISTRY.

MINISTRY.
EImira AdUertiSer: On Thursday
last your correspondent attended the
ordination service held at Sheshequin,
WI ereby Miss Myra Kingsbury was
''set apart by the laying on Of hands"
for the Gospel ministry in the Univer-
salist Church. The ancient hall was
beautifully and profusely decorated
with flowers and plants. There were
wreaths and festoons of eveTgreens,
and the quaint, high, old-fashioned
pulpit was literally smothered in
baskets and bouquets of brilliant
blossoms. Req. 5. g. HayfOrd, of
Vermont, Rev. S. c.. Chandler, of
Connecticut, and DR.. William TAYLOR,
of Towanda, performed the solemn
and impressive rites. AS the young
woman Knelt on the platform in
front of the bank of flowers, her eyes
suffused with tears and her sweet
lips trembled with emotion. While
the hands Of Gods ministers were
laid on her bowed head, it seemed as
if the spirit of conservation filled the
place and shOwH in her pure and ex-
pressivc face. For year past she has
had charge of church in Vermont,
and given great comfort and satisfac-
tiUn to her flock.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-13

Hon. Frank Morgan, Senator from
Sequoyan District Cherokee Nation,
was married last Wednesday TO Miss
Matte Belle, a charming young lady
of Sequoyan. The ceremony was per-
formed at the residence of Mr.. Gid
Morgan, at Walnut Grove, in the Sc
quoyan District
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-13
Terms of Advert1sing.

One square of eight lines, sI.5O for the
first insertion, and 20 cents for each subse-
quent insertion.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-13
GOSSIP FOB THE LADIES.

A pretty woman was dangerously
i'll at Rising Sun, Indiana, and the
physician promised to cure her if she
would desert her husband and elOpe
with him. The bargain has been car
ried out on both sides.
''DO you reside in this city p asked
a masked man of a masked lady at
masked party the other evening. He
felt sick when she said to him, in a
low voice: Don't be a fool, John; I
know you bv the wart on your thumb. -
1t was his wife.
The annual entertainment of the
Chicago Press Club will be held in
Central Music Hall, one week from to-
day. Among thosewhO will participate
in the exercises are Miss Mary Ander
sou, john Mccullough, Charles r.
Therne and Thomas w. Keene.
Miss Sara Mclean, the author of
the successful book Cape Cod Folks"
is said to have kept the completed MS.
for a year before submitting it to
publisher, and having at last offered
it with much doubt and hesitation,
has been greatly surprised at its
popularity.
Sir James Well Hogg made for
tune IN India, and his wife, holding a
distinguished place in London fash
ionable circles, gave splendid parties.
1t is said that a young blood, meeting
one of the Misses HOgg at a ball, and
not knowing her name, asked her if
she was going to a certain party at
the "Piggery." Her naive reply was
ooh! 1 am one of the litterT'
Mrs. Cooper, a cousin of Bob Inger-
soil, has been pronounced hereto by
a vote of the Presbytery of San
Francisco because she announced her
disbelief in the story of Jonah and the
whale. During the trial, which was
long and exciting Mrs. Cooper remark
ed that she would rather have her
cousin Ingersol's society In hell than
that of her former pastor in heaven.
Two young ladies have done all the
work on the Guadalupe (Cal.) I'eLe-
graph. They have been writing the
editorial articles and the local reports,
preparing the general news and mis-
cellaneous reading matter, setting the
type, making up the forms, lifting
them from the stone to the press, doing
the presswOrk on a No. Z Washington
hand press, and mailing and distribu-
ting the papers.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-08-17

1910 one society for 1857; in 1880, one
for 1927 inhabitants, or only one-third
as many in proportion to the population
as forty years before. The Roman
Catholics had in 1850 one church for
1897; in 1870, one for 1O,13O inhabi-
tants; in 1850, one priest for 1882 in
1880, one for 1874 inhabitants; in 1850,
one in 14.3S of the population; in 1880,
one in 7.9S. The greatest gain was be-
tween 1850 and 1870. Since the last
date the relative gain has been very
small. The increase of 1854 churches,
which the Roman Catholics reported for
the twenty years between 1850 and
1870 is small in face Of the increase of
21,617 evangelical churches in the same
period "The percentage of the increase
of Roman Catholic priests for 1850 to
1880 is much greater than that of evan
gelical ministers, but the actual increase
of 300 priests is small offset to an in
crease of 44.315 Evangelical ministers. I"
In the period of the largest Roman
Catholic immigration-from 1850 to 1870
the increase of the enrolled communi-
cants of the evangelical churches was
l57, 4O0 larger than the increase of the
whole Roman Catholic population; in
the last ten years (l87O to 1SSO) it was
l,625,237 greater, and in the whole
thirty years from 1850 to 1880 it was L.
785, 655 greater. The increase of single
classes OF Protestant churches, notably
that OF the Baptists and Methodists, has
far exceeded the whole increase of Roman
Catholicism.
The evangelical population was in
1900, 24.06 per cent; in 1880, 7o,oO3
per cent of the whole population; the
Roman Catholic population has risen in
the same time from 90 per cent to 1858
per cent of the whole population, and
the non-evangelical population, includ-
ing Roman Catholics, liberals and people
of no church, has fallen from 1894 per
cent to 80 per cent. Atheism can hardly
be regarded as positive force anywhere
and is therefore left out of these com
parisons.-N Y. Herald.