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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-24


WEST Tennessee, North Mississippi,
and Eastern Arkansas. needs immi-
grants. But instead of the newly ar
rived emigrants from Eastern and
Western Europe, seeking homes i'm
this vast and fertile region, they avoid
II, and push their way into Arkansas,
Texas and New Mexico, far from mar
kets, and in regions unsupplied with
the cOnveniences of civilized COM
munities. Not only do the foreign
cmigrants avoid this section. but there
is constant emigration taking place,
and those who leave are not ALWAYS
the least useful of citizens. Why is
This? This must be a cause adequate
to the explanation of the phenomenon.
Here is undoubtedly fruitful land
! it Is convenient to markets, roads al
ready traverse it, streams have been
! bridged churches have been built.
! school houses are already found, and
! indeed, all the appliances of a civilized
! society. But the Hebrews from Ro-
mania seek homes in Texas the Ger
| mans from the Weser and the Elbe.
| 90 to Northwestern Arkansas, and to
| the far away valley of the Neuces
/ and this wealth which the industry
of all this Drawn will produce is lost
to the trade of Memphis. viii moth
ing arouse our people? Surely it is a
blunder equivalent to a crime to ne
glect existing opportunities TO make
adjacent regions, populous and pros
/ DerOus
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-24
1'hey Go TO Texas.

Four families Of Bohemian immi-
grants, numbering about twenty per-
sons, arrived at the Union Depot yes
terday morning over the Wabash.
They were bound for Texas, and were
to take the Missouri Pacific to Seda-
liza, and the NJ, X. 81 T. branch of that
road the rest of the way. The Wabash
was so far behind time that thGimmi-
grants only had a few minutes in
which TO check their baggage and get
on the train, The. checks were jut
placed in their hands when the train
started. They ran after it, and the
men caught it ard jumped on, leaving
their wives and children running af-
ter it, with their bundles on their and
and the children screaming and crying
most piteously. Through the efforts
of Officer Mundinger, the train was
brought to halt just the other side
Of the Twelfth street bridge, and the
women and children were taken on,
and the immigrants left, rejoicing, for
their new homes.-IHdidRdP0tfs Pa
fgpF
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-24
The Railroad Problem.

In discussing railroad confedera-
tiOns or "pooIs," and the practicability
of exercising some control over rail
road corporations by means of legisla-
tive enactments, Mr. Nimmo says {:
'"The current history Of railroad trans
portation in this country clearly indi-
Gates that there are evils connected
with it which call for a public remedy
evils which affect not only the COM
mercial and industrial interests of the
country, but which also affect the rail
roads. Hence arouscs the demand for
some sort of a government interven-
ton, either through the enforcement
of specific provisions of law, or
through the moral influence eXerted
by a well-grOunded apprehension of
such Intervention, as a result ef the
scrutiny exercised by intelligent and
faithful boards of railroad commits
sioners. Probably at no previous pc
riod in the history Of the country has
the importance Of an intelligent and
thorough investigation Of this ques-
ten been more urgent than at the
present time. In order that such an
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-24
The North American Review and Jere
Black,

DtACAa
The Hon. Jere Black and the editor
of the North American Review are
just now engaged in bitter war Of
words. It seems last year. that the
editor of the Review invited Col. In
gersOll to avail himself of that period
ical as a medium through which he
would proceed to chew up Moses and
the apostles, as well as the whole BIZ
bic. Col. Ingersoll accepted the invi-
tation, stipulating in advance that if
there was reply he should have
space in future issue to chew up the
reply. The editor of the Review then
invited the Hon. Jere Black to sharpen
his legal razor and go for Mr.. Inger-
soil. This he did with a vengeance
making no stipulations about space
for answer to any future article. The
two were turned loose on each other,
and proceeded to do their walloping in
the same number of the Review. In
gersoll rather labored under the inn
preston that Black took "foul" hold
and it was 'dOg-fall," j" so he claimed
his right to new deal. The right
was granted, so he took ''foul" hold
by absorbing so much of the space in
the Review that the editor found it
impossible to let the Hon. jeremiah
get in the ring at all, without giving
the whole paper to the pugilists. Col.
Ingersoll therefore had the whole field
to himself and his antagonist did not
get in his work. The editor, however,
proposed Mr.. Black should come in the
next issue; this, however, did not suit
the irate Jere, so he has gone into the
newspapers and while fighting Inger-
soil he occasionally stops to club the
editor of the Review over the head,
urging that he prefers to spread inf.
deity rather than christianity in the
world. He also reminds him that it
is not the first time that he has been
badly treated by the Review. He
published his essay on the electoral
commission, reaping profit of $1O,-
900, and then allowed every Republi-
can that wanted to, to answer it with
out giving Mr.. Black chance to re-
ply. 1t is a wicked war, but no
blood is likely to be spilled. Nash
UtILe World.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-24

A COLUMBUS, o., correspondent of
the Cincinnati Enquirer sends this
curious item to that paper: "The in
mate who has served the longest con-
tinuOus term of any enc imprisoned
in the Ohio penitentiary is Horace
Brooks. A third of a century ago,
Brooks owned farm which has since
become a part of the city of Cleve-
land. A railway crossed it, and one
day train ran into q flock of his
sheep and killed a number of them.
In revenge he placed distractions on
the track, threw off train and killed
five people. He was convicted of
murder in the second degree, and re-
ceived at the penitentiary Nov. 10th,
1850. 1t will be seen that he will
celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of
his life in prison on Thursday next.
Brooks was 43 years old when he
first stepped within the gloomy prison
portals, and is now seventy-fOur. He
is still hale and hearty, nOtwithstand-
ing his thirty-one years in a prison
cell, and bids fair to live ten years
longer. When indicted he was quite
wealthy, and had he been able to
manage the property he then had, he
would now, in all probability, have
been a millionaire from the natural
increase in its value. Like all pris-
oners, he has hope of once more re-
cOvarinO his Freedom -
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-24
Stanley Mathews.

A Columbia, Tenn, letter contains
this bit of personal gossip:
STANLEY Mathews, recently appoint
ed Supreme Court Judge, lived in this
town, as lawyer, in 1874, and was a
partner of @. J. DickersOn, Esq, in the
practice of law. lie was then a James
X. Polk Democrat, a brother-im-law
OF Harvey Watterson, father of Henry
Wattersou, of the COurier-,JougnGL
Mathews left the next year and went
back to Ohio, whence he came. His
wife was the daughter Of James Black,
well known 10 all the old citizens oi
Maury."
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-24

TT now appears that the speculation
of Capt Howgate scarcely had bounds.
An additional embezzlement amount
ing TO $4,000 has been discovered.
The career of this man affords an ex-
ample of the extent to which charla-
tanry may be successful. It has been
no more than four years, since his pre-
tentious theories of the Arctic regions
was a subject for discussion in all the
public journals, and the name of How
gate was heralded far and wide, as that
belonging to man of vast scientific
eruditiOn. All this time he was plum
dering the Government which had
trusted him. There was never much
but pretence belonging TO the man.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-24

SPEAKING Of small fruits, a siugle
vineyard at Gruetli Che Swiss colony
in Grundy county, Tenn.), consisting
of twelve acres, realized its proprietor
this year for grapes sold, $4,000. The
Chattanooga Times, from which we
take tho item, adds:
"For peaches, Strawberries and
small fruits generally, all'the hillsides
and mountain slopes of Lower East
Tennessee, North Georgia and North
Alabama, ale not excelled in the
world. a single crop of peaches from
II thirty-tive acre orchard within two
miles of Chattanooga, the orchard be-
ing out but four years, yielded its
owner $500 net. The fruit cullurists
on Missionary Ridge have made as
good. records for several years as any
fruit-growing region can show, North
or South.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-24

Tile King Of Ashantee might be OF
some service to the parents of seven
ugly girls without dowers. We snp-
pose such girls would furnish materi-
al for mOrtar-making as well as the
pretty ones. This king has recently
distinguished himself in the line OF
maiden-killimg. Advices from Cape
Coast Castle report that he has killed
two hundred young girls, for the pur-
pose of using their blood for mixing
mortar for repair of one of the State
buildings. The report of the massa-
Gle was received from a refugee
chosen for one of the victims. Such
wholesale massacres arc known to be
custom with the King.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-24

investigation may be properly con-
Quoted and lead to practical results, it
should be conducted by a commission
of experts fully competent 10 pass up
on such subjects as the beariug Of the
transportation question upon the agri-
cultural, industrial and commercial
interests of the country, the economic
aud practical questions connected
with the actual conduct of the traffic
interests of railroads, and the legal
and constitutional questions involved
in the solution of this complex and
difficult problem"
Mr.. Nimmo's report makes a closely
printed pamphlet of thirty-nine pages.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-24

IT Is said that Mr.. Edward Atkin-
son, the New England capitalist and
manufactures, went to Atlanta to ''spy
out the nakedness of the Southern
land" and dissuade the Southern pco-
pie from engaging in manufactures
He found the Atlanta Exposition a fan
more gigantic affair than he had dream
ed of, and the Georgia metropolis a
busy, active, energetic trade center, re-
minding him of New England OF
Pennsylvania manufacturing town.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-24

AMONG other Yankee innovation
taking place in Mexico, the introduce
tion of pennies and nickels will prove
not the least valuable. Their circula-
tion will greatly assist the mujeres in
carrying on their trade in tortillas,
frijoles, jacotes, and such like edibles.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-24

JUsT on the eve OF probably cold
and bitter winter comes the announce
ment Of a twenty-five per cent. ad-
vance in the price of diamonds. Ev-
erything seems TO initiate against thu
interests of the poor.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-24
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

WEALTH's penalties are almost as
disagrceablc as poverty's rubs. When
jay Gould was a specnlator in cows
no one tried to blackmaiI him, or
threatened to kill him.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-24

THE Hon. LIONEL SACKvILLE-W WEST,
the new British Minister TO the Unit
ed States, formally presented his ere
dentials TO President Arthur yester-
day. The usual formalities customary
OH such occasions were observed.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-24

AMONG other projects to stimulate
manufacturing industries in Mcml. his,
one to establish a filIeture, to real
and prepare silk, will probamy be ac-
complished before the end of the sum
mer. The silk cocoons of Tennessee
are the best in the market and the cul-
tiVation of the mulberry, and rearing
silk worms, will probably become a
most important industry in this coun-
try. The profit derived from this
species Of labor are very large.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-24

THE Yorktown Centennial was a
comparatively cheap affair after all.
to raise such a large amount of noise
about. According TO the statement Of
Col. Corbin, Master Of ceremonies on
that occasion, the entire expenses will
not exceed fory thousand dollars.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-24

The Heathen Chihee makes progress
rapidly. The other day Mr.. ALI Kim
a student in Marietta College, Ohio.
committed suicide because a Miss Hoff
a pleasant-fdced servant girl, who
lived inCincinuati, was believed by him
to be untrue to her plighted faith to
him. And now pair of high-toned
Celestials, Rev. Walter Chin Young
and Miss All Tim, have been getting
married in San Francisco according
TO the forms of the Episcopal church
Right Rev. Bishop Kip, himself, Off
ciatinp.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-24
AFTER MANY YEARS.
THE RoMATIC HISTORY OF A YOUNG
COUPLE WHO WERE MARRIED AFTER
TEN YEARS WAITING.

COUPLE WHO WERE MARRIED AFTER
TEN YEARS WAITING.
About ten years ago there lived in
this city a family named Sinclair,
consisting of a father, mother and two
daughters. With them there was q
young gentleman named Edward Fee.
The family. had been well-to-do at
one time, but luck had changed, and
at the time mentioned they had just
enough to live well.
One of the young ladies, Miss Kit
tie, was but thirteen years Of age, and
was a dashing little brunette. Her
sister, Maggie, was fair of face and
soft of speech, and between her and
young Fee there soon sprang up a
very close attachment. He was twenty
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-24
Gnod % Widom.

The Chicago Inter Ocean pays this
tribute: "Under the wise and ecG-
nomieai management of Secretary
Window it cost the Government only
$4,000 to refund nearly six hundred
million bonds, and over tWO-thirds OF
this amount was paid for the labor of
printing the new bonds. and the ex-
pensiVe paper Oh which they are
printed. Mr.. WINDOWS career as
Secretary Of the Treasury was brief,
but brilliant"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-24

The Laura L. Davis is loading at
Dubuque for New Orleans. She viii
put off 5000 sacks of grain on an
English steamer at New Orleans,
bound for Liverpool, thus making one
handling between Dubuque and Liv-
erpOol. She takes 5000 sacks from
points below.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-24

Whitelaw Reid, the newIy-married editor
Of the New York Tribune, is thus don up
in the society column Of Vienna "a yer:
The correspondent ofthe New York ENG Cssd,
Mr.. Reid, has married Miss Mills, with a
dowry of $125. .OOO.O .OO0-''
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-24

Charles Sumner was a great admirer
of long and beautiful hair in women
When his sister was in falling health
he wrote to his early and lifelong
friend, the late DR.. s. G. Howe, as
follows: II have had a dear letter
from my sister Mary, in which sho
tells me she has been obliged 10 part
with her beautiful hair. It touch.
me to the soul"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-24
The Water Problem in Great cities.

Water, warranted pure, is brought
to Boston from a distance and sold at
from fifteen to twenty-five cents gall
lon. It Is purchased by all who can af-
ford Il, and by no means luxury con-
fined to the rich. There is reason for
this. Every water tank has its bottom
covered with a gelatiBgous sediment to
the depth Of an inch or two, IL left long.
This deposit, the doctors assert, Is
principal cause Of the typhoid fever
which is epidemic in the city. The
corruption is further r-betrayed by the
yellow hue Of the water when drawn
from the hydrant. An adequate and
heaithful water supply is the great
lack Of more than one of our cities.
THE Choctaws and the Creeks joint
IN fighting the building Of railroads
through their territory, and they have
good reason to fear the influence Of
civilization if they want to control
the savages and keep them subject to
the rule Of the cunning ones Of the
tribes. Too much development of the
country Is death on the Indian, as the
Indian is death on sparsely-settied
frontiers where there are no railroads,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-24

Women now vote in Austrian Croatia at
municipal elections. The other day over
500 OF them turned out at a gram and tossed
their ballots into the urn.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-24
CURRENT TOPICS.

SOME of the Kentucky counties have
already nominated tickets for the election
in August, 1882.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-24
The Brutal Murder Of Sick Wife near
SanbOrn, Indiana.

The most devilish crime that has
been committed in this vicinity re-
Gently is the murder of Mrs. Lee, of
Elmore Township, Daviess county, by
her husband, Harrison Lee. Particu-
lars of the murder are meager, but the
causes are we'll known. On the 9TH
inst, child was born to Mrs. Lee,
she being the second wife Of Lee. Her
husband treated her with great cruel
ty, beating her while she lay in bed.
He was inordinately jealous of the
woman, and for days after the birth
of the baby tried, by beatings, to
make her sign a statement that one
George WOodsmall, a neighbor, was
its father. The child died last Mon
day, and the woman was about to sign
the outrageous document charging
herself with lasting infamy, but the
neighbors interfered and prevented it.
This put Lee in rage, and the sequel
is told in a few words: Harry Lee,
living four miles east of Sanborn,
Ind, in Daviess county, killed his
wife during a fit of jealousy. A war
rant for his arrest has been placed in
the hands of Sheriff Ward, who is
after the demon.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-24
Terms of Advertising.

One square Of eight lines, s1.5O for the
first Insertion, and 70 cents for each subse-
quent insertion.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-24
The Champion Robbers Ways.

A New York special to the Cincin-
natl Enquirer, thus discloses Bald
wins methods:
"Under the white light of legal i'm
vestigatiOn, the causes of Baldwin's
100000 defalcation at Newark came
to light. A. F. r Martin, of Martin
& Runyan, Wall street brokers, testi-
fed that Cashier Baldwin's transac-
tiOns were small, but that Mr.. Bald
win and Mr.. F. Baldwin, teller of the
bank, had been interested, holding at
one time 100000 worth in coal
stocks on margin. The average of
the account was profitable, and it was
finally closed out by the brokers be-
cause they did not like to have deal
ings on so extensive a scale with those
holding responsible relations with a
bank like the Mechanics. The testi-
mony will develope how much was
won or lost there. The fact that the
teller of the bank was hand-in-hand
with the cashier caused the old
fashioned Directors to open their
sleepy eyes yet wider.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-24

The italian Government has at length
delivered blow at the lotteries of the king
dom, which are the procuring causes o
limitless crimes and wretchedness The
owners of the Naples lottery have all been
arrested for swindling with their wheels.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-24

The Evansville sports have been treating
themselves to 4 dog fight equal in loathe-
someness to that which took place near this
city short time ago; yet after ali the i'm
precautions heaped on Louisville by the
Evansville newspapers, the authorities of
the Indiana city did not lift hand TO pre-
vent the b-utal display; nor have the par
ties who held the dogs been mOlested since
the fight by the Evansville mOralists.
Glass houses-stoncs
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-24

A guest at one OF the IasnlonabIe hotels
took his seat at the dinner table recently,
but no one appearing to wait upon him, he
remarked, "HaYe they any walters in the
hotelp' EYES," responded person on the
opposite side OF the table. The bOarders
are the Waiters.',
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-24

A FEW months ago the electric light
was introduced into the Philadelphia Post
office. The bill for October has just been
presented to the POstoffice Department. 1t
shows that in last October, when gas was
used, the bill was $1,1S4, while for this
month, with the electric light, the bill is
S354, or net saving i'll one month of $3.50.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-24

JESSE JAMES, the notorious Ontlaw
is six feet tail, has broad shoulders, a
broad, straight back, without the slightest
INCLINATION to stOOp, and tapering toward
the waist, a high forehead, blue eyes,
prominent brows and cheek bones, and a
nose like an eagles beak
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-24

1HeIt Is SUI 4 ItdIIuI pOssIDIIIIy OI 4 To
ligiOus war growing out Of French or Eng
lish aggressions on Mohammedan terriotry
fearful, because no other conceivable
event would result in such horrible sac
rifice of human liie. The desperation Of
Eastern fanaticism knows no bound s, when
once aroused, as is evidenced by many a
bloody page OF history. The natienalities
of Islamism, as computed by careful
writer in the Fortnightly Rertet0. number
IQ5 600 600
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-24

The extreme Radicals in Paris ''impeach-
ed'' the Government at meeting the other
day, at which Gambetta was denounced as
"a dictator who commenced with nothing
but the skin on his bones, and who is to-day
with his clothes sewn full OF gold pieces
and with his hide so stuffed with fat as to
have plenty to dispense to the charcutiers."
But Gamhetta can stand such compliments.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-24

THE Salt Lake Tribune disCloses the.
fact that Confederate bonds are manulac-
tured NY the millions in Utah from newly
made Confederate plates. Somebody, it is
said, has been paying the owner of the
plates 50 a thousand for the notes. He had
them made in Chicago. OF course there is
nobody to punish him for cOuhterfeiting.
The daily gazette., 1881-12-15
sale Of Pullman Cars.

Mr.. Robert T. Baldwin, as re.
ceiver, announces the sale by auc.
ton on January 8 of twenty mine
Pullman sleeping cars, three parlor
cars, besides the mattresses, blan-
kets and other equipments of the
same. These cars were built and
equipped by the Pullman Palace
Car Company and the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad Company, and they
are owned by those corporations.
Pending the litigation growing out
Of the introduction of Baltimore &
Ohio sleepers by the railroad COM
pany, the Pullman cars were side.
tracked near Mt. Clare about two
years ago, and are there still. 1t is
said neither of the parties in own.
ership would let the other use the
cars, and the sale is made so that
the costly property may be put into
service. Parlor cars may be estl.
mated as worth about $4,000 a
piece, bat the ones in litigation
show the effects Of their long idle.
ness and exposure to weather. etc.
AS sleeping coaches are among the
needful things for railroads, it is not
likely they will be sacrificed.