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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-02-09

Merino ewes that have been bred 10 Cots
void bucks will bring forth lambs dat will
require copious nourishmcnt. The Meriho
mother il a small sheep. Such cross needs
the watchful eye Of the farmer.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-02-09
BOLIVAR BULLETIN.
TERMS or ADVERTISING

One square of eight ines 81 10 for the nfe tnser
toii, Ad p eeHts4er each sHlsetti. nt insertion.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-02-09

Oats grown on clay land maker The bcst
meal, keep Longest aud bring the highest
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-02-09

The Mayyile Eagle says Richard Gal
ther, Of Mason county Ky, has sixty acres
Of corn that yield sixty bnshelf q The acre
which at 90 cents per bRshcl viii bring him
$4.l6O, or $50 per acre.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-01-25
Failed.

The panic on the Paris bourse continued on
the 21st inst, and the branch of the Union
Generate Bank, at Lyons, was besieged. Many
noblemen of Rome have suffered in the crisis,
and it is reported that a considerable portion of
the Papal fund is invested in shares of the i'm
periled clearinghouse. A Paris dispatch says
that thousands of families have been ruined by
the panic on the bourse, and the news comes
from Vienna that many persons have become
insane over their losses.
The failure of the peoples bank at Tecumseh,
Mich, infiicts loss of about $500 on poor
clerks, women, mechanics and farmers. Reck-
less speculatlons in pork and grain involved the
concern. The president slipped out to Mexico.
leaving the cashier to face the small army of
victims.
A sudden drop in securities created a panic
on the bourse at Paris and Lyons, France. on
the 10Th inst. At the latter point the failures
aggregated 100000.
The following suspensions were announced on
the 10th inst: Alphons Narcotic, dry goods,
McGivern, Tucker & Mcdonnell lumber and
VIM. McLaren & Co., boots aud shoes, all at
Montreal; total liabilities 54OO. 900. At New
Orleans, Seymour & Stevens, with liabilities of
800, 200. At Baltimore, Eccles & Thomas, SUI
gar re6ners, with liabilities of S67, 900. The
assets in all the above cases were quite large.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-01-25
MOrtUarY.

The Rev. DR.. Enooh Pond, president Of the
Bangor, Me-, Theological Seminary, is dead.
Henry E. Rockwell, secretary of the United
States fish commission, dropped dead, at Wash
ington, on the 22d inst, aged II.
Gen. Sllas Casey, U. S. A., died at Brooklyn,
N. Y, on the 22d inst.
E. R. Cannon, secretary of the Railroad Cou-
ductors' Life Association of the United States
and Canada, and conductor on the Little
Miami road for thirty years. died at Columbus,
o. on the 21st inst.
Lieutenant VIM. Kendrick, Of the Milwaukee
police department., died on the 10Th inst.
Ex-Gov. Bullock, of Massachusetts, fell dead
of apoplexy in the street at Worcester, on the
18th.
Ex-Congressman A. A. Pettingill, died at
Bridgeport, Conn.,, on the 18th.
The death is announced of Lord Lurgan,
aged 81. He sat as liberal in the house of
peers. and was prominent in sporting circles.
Ex-Judge Mckenzie, the man who sent Gen.
Shermans famous signal " Hold the fort; "
are coming" died at Marshalltown, Iowa, on
the 10Th.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-01-25
ShipwreCk.

The bark F. L. Carney. from the West Indies,
for Baltimore, with cargo of guano was lost
off Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina. on the Odd
inst. Eight lives were lost. G. G. Carlson, a
Swede, and a colored man named Frank Bhkely
were saved.
The ocean steamship City of London, of the
Centaur line, has not been heard from since
November 18th, and is supposed to have been
lost at sea. The steamers Henry Edge and the
Constantine are also reported lost. The loss
of these three vessels involves about one hun
dred lives.
The steamer City of Dallas, from Balize,
brings news of the loss of the British schooner
Weather Gauge of Colron's point in a squat.
She was loaded with twenty-five mules and ten
passengers, and on her way from Omoa for
Balize. She was running under light breeze
at II o'clock at night, December 81, With all
sails set, when she was struck by a whirlwind
The vessel was lifted by the stern and went
down by the bow and sank. Eight lives were
lost, and two of the crew managed to get
ashore.
The American whaling bark Pacific capsized
and sunk in Panama harbor, recently All on
board ESCAPED
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-01-25
AN OCEANIC HIGHWAY.

The continued increase of ocean traf-
fc between America and Great Britain,
and the consequent increasing danger Of
collision at night, and during fogs, and
the desirability of keeping steamers be-
tween certain parallels of latitude SO
that aid could be sent in case of disabll-
ity, has again brought into prominence
the question of Atlantic elaine routes ="
for steamers. For sailing vessels, of
course, the laying out of a route would
be useless, as their courses are entirely
dependent on wind and tide, and there
fore irregular and uncertain. In letter
10 the Nautical Gazette, steamship
commander presents new scheme which
he thinks will serve all desired ends. He
proposes to lay down lane or " neutral
ground" across the Atlantic-saY lane
thirty miles wide-andl etthe east bound
steamers track lay south of the southern
edge of the lane, and the west bound
steamers north of the northern edge of
the lane, then each line can instruct its
commanders the distance to be kept from
the borders of the lane" According to
this plan every steamship line can have
a wide margin within which to select the
tracks its vessels shall pursue, but never
within the lane of neutral ground. The
plan, though incomplete, certainly de-
serves careful consideration, as obviating
the chief objection urged against the
fixed routes hitherto prescribed, which
is that they are arbitrary and confne all
lines to single route each way. 1t fully
admits of the exercise of variant judg
ment on the part of steamship command
ers as to the most eligible paths across
the ocean, and it provides that the class
of frail steamers of the "ocean tramp
species, sailing vessels and disabled
steamers may be found within the lane,
and will know which way to steer if they
want assistance or towage, as they are
near the American or European shore"
The New York Herald commends the
plan for some of its points, but prefers
the plan recently presented by Captain
Mckay by which Atlantic steamers would
follow two "lanes " thus forming almost
continuous lines across the ocean. Ship
masters as class are too independent to
be governed by regulations of this kind,
and while the benefits of mutual agree
ment concerning regular eastward and
westward routes are plainly apparent. it
must be said the hope of thorough
adoption by them of any given plan is
vague and ethereal.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-01-25
EatinQ Wheat.

"How is it," asked reporter of a
Stockton (Cal.) paper of prominent
wheat buyer, "that you wheat men al
ways eject the wheat you sample p"
''That Is easy enough to explain, " said
the man of cereal proclivities. "Do
you know that many man has ruined
his constitution, and in lots of instances
consumption has been brought ON, by
acquiring the habit of eating wheat?
The reason is this: The husk of the
wheat, somehow or other, finds it's way
into or affects the lungs. In Mark Lane
it is the custom to fine any man eating
wheat one shilling"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-01-25
Minor MiShaDSs

VIM. Elliff and A. P. Sultan, of Purdy, Tenn.
bows, went to sleep on railroad track, at
Mckenzie, Tenn and were run over by a train.
The former was instantly killed and Sultan had
Both legs taken off.
B. Hawkins, night clerk in the Indianapolis
Daily Sentinel Office. early on the morning of
the Goth inst. Death was instantaneous.
A horrible accident shocked the employees of
the car shops at Pullman, H., on the Goth inst
n Radley and Ed Wilson in some manner got
caught in the betting and were fatally mangled.
BY the falling of bridge in course of con-
struction at Lebanon, KY, on the 18th inst, A.
HAYDEN was killed and several others seriously
wounded.
AT Bradford, Pa, on the 18th inst. four
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-01-25
LOSSES BY FIRE,

A series of comparative statistics rela-
tive to the damage done by fires during
last year was prepared recently by the
New York Commercial Bulletin. 1t
gives some interesting and instructive
figures of the extent of destruction
wrought during the year by fires, the re-
ported damage by which was over $780,
600. The loss entailed by fires of lesser
extent, which were more numerous than
in 1880, was $10,000,00 more than in
the latter year, and, with the exception
of the year 1777, the figures exceeded
those recorded any year since 1872, when
the memorable Boston fire broke out.
Of fires causing over $4,000 damage
there were $50 in the United States, and
they inflicted an aggregate loss of $685.
0OO, 900, or an average of $4,000 for
each fire. In seven instances the damage
exceeded 81, 100000, and in % cases it
was between $4,000 and 100000. In
81 cases it was between the latter figure
and double that amount. In 80 cases
the loss was between 5000, and $780,
600: in II cases between $500, 900 and
$500, 00O,' and IN 6 fires the amount of
damage done ranged between $500, 600
and 100000. Thus by Is fires alone
SIS, 100000 worth of property were
wiped out of existence, leaving $40,
900 as the result of the destruction done
by the remainder of the $50 Charge"
fires.
The Boston Commercial Bulletin SAYS
that one authority has placed the annual
total of fires, large and small, in the
United States at from so, 900 to 10000,
but this total it deems open to the ques-
ton of being somewhat exaggerated, and
concludes that S1OO, 100000 would cover
the amount of annual loss. All this ex-
tent Of damage is just as much of an
absolute loss, although insurance will
enable the burden to be more evenly dis
tributed, and thus apparently ightened,
as though this vast amount of money
were gathered together In bulk in bank
notes and surrendered to extinction by
the flames. Further than this, the list
OF causes OF these numerous fires proves
that nine tenths of all of them are to be
attributed to carelessness. And, not
withstanding the repetition of costly
warning that such carelessness should be
avoided, the fire records continue to
show that the same absence of proper
precaution against the spread of the
flames, the same lack of care in the
handling and slowing away of inhamma-
BILE stuff, and the same negligence in
throwing aside articles that are liable, at
any moment, to cause an outbreak of the
flames.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-01-25
The Fire Record.

A fire which originated in the candy factory
of F. E. Black, at Atlanta, Ca, on the 21st
inst, destroyed many valuable buildings, on
which the loss is estimeted at $4,000 John
o. Wickham, an employe of Norvell, Leak &
Co., railroad contractors Of Richmond, Va, lost
his life in room in the Wilson House. Sew
eral persons were injured by falling walls. One
lady barely saved her life by jumping from her
room into the mud below.
disastrous fire occurred at Belle Plains,
Iowa, on the forenoon of the 10Th inst, de-
stroying seven business houses and causing a
very heavy loss. The entire town was in dan
ger of being destroyed at one time.
A large coal breaking establishment at Jeans
vile, Pa, burned on the night of the 18th.
Loss 5000, 000 partly insured
The soap works near Glasgow, Scotland,
burned on the 18th inst. Damage 925 600.
On thes same day the Finneston steamship works
belonging to the Anchor Line, were damaged
to the extent of 100000
Nine buildings, at Abilene, Kan, including
the courthouse and postofice, were destroyed
by fire Tuesday morning. Total loss $4,000;
insurance $50 000
Hilliard & Stewards foundry, three-story
iron-clad structure. 250x50 feet, and ten three
story tenements were destroyed by fire at
Pittsburg Pa, on the 18th inst. Loss heavy.
Chambers glass works, Pittburg, Pa, were
partly destroyed by fire on the 10th inst. Loss
$50 900.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-01-25
TRAGEDIES.

At Dallas. Tex, on the night of the Dist inst,
III. A. Little attempted to rob the safe of the st.
Charles Hotel, when he was shot dead by the
night clerk.
On the goth inst, Robert G. Bailey, school
teacher in Monroe County, Illinois, undertook
to chastlse pupil named Emmett Mcbride, who
stabbed him to the heart.
A boy named w. III Mclaughlin, at Boston,
was shot dead by a police officer, on the 22d
inst. The officer was endeavoring to arrest the
boy for beating his sister, when he attacked the
officer and met bis death.
Michael Rourke murdered an old man named
Mayer and his daughter at Cumminsville, Can
ada, on the 21st inst. The murderer boarded
with his victims.
Miss Betsy Bland, residing near Lancaster,
KY, was murdered by a dissolute nephew
named VIM. Austin. Robbery was the motive
A mob took Henry Wagner, who murdered
DIR. Beynes paymaster Of the Ironton, o., iron
works, from Jail at that point on the goth inst,
and hung him.
Seattle, Washington Territory, had a sensa-
ton, on the 10Th inst, when mob took BENZ.
Payne accused with murder, from the officers
and hung him.
Mrs. VIM. Smith, a crazy woman, shot her
husband, at Mt. Joy, N. j., on the night of the
18th inst, killing Ohm instantly.
James A. Wilmot, a farmer, living near
Louisville, KY, in moment of insanity, on the
night of the 18th inst, killed his aged mother,
his wife and two daughters and then hanged
himself. His Oldest son had terrible struggle
with his father and barely escaped with his life.
In a shooting affray at Jackson, Texas. on
the 18th inst, Lester Upham was instantly
killed and P. Walworth, seriously wounded.
During saloon row at Rayville, La, on the
18th inst, VIM. T. Little. white man. blew off
the head of a colored man named Milus Mat
theus, with shotgun.
pawnbroker named Frank Semops was
found murdered in his store at Kansas City, on
the morning of the 18th inst.
Daniel Smith, of Richmond Ind, has con-
fessed that he murdered his father and threw
the body into the well.
William Brocksmit. of Cedar Rapids. Ia,
aged 49, was murdered on his sheep rancho, in
New Mexico, on the 18th inst, by unknown
parties.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-01-25

At Lewis, near Clinton, Mo-. on the night of
the 10Th inst, mother and four of her chill
dren-one of the latter being young lady, an
other young man and two little ones-perished
in the flames of their burning house. The
father and two other children narrowly escaped
with their lives.
A fire broke out in the Circus KrenBer, at
Bucharest, on the 10Th inst, spreading so
rapidly that the occupants escaped with great
difficulty. The beasts in the enclosure opposite
the hippodrome received severe searching
and their struggles were fearful. Several men
and horses were roasted to death. The loss of
property was heavy.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-01-25
Railway Wrecks.

On the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, on
the 10Th inst, freight train ran into the
caboose of another freight, resulting in fatal
injuries to three men-Conductor Fred. Easters
~, Fireman Albert Phillips and Brakeman
Timothy Farley.
A passenger train On the Dubuque division of
the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad met with
an accident about five miles from New Albion
Ia, on the 18th inst. A wheel on the forward
truck of the smoklng-car broke, precipitating the
smoker and the ladies' car down twenty foot
embankment A child Of Mrs. Cavanaugh, of
Warren Mills, Wis, was killed, and twenty pas
sengers injured. Three of the latter it is
thought will die.
Near Tabor's Mills, Va, on the night of the
18th inst, passenger train ran into land
slide, killing John Minton, the engineer, and
seriously iniuring the fireman.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-01-25

A TEXAS cattle-ranger, owning about
5000 head, asked Morgan, the New York
banker, to lend him some money on them
so that he might increase his stock. He
told the banker how much the cattle
were worth; how ley doubled in value
every five years, and made large annual
profit; but when he told Morgan they
didn't have any fences in Texas. he ex-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-01-25

pounds of nitro-glycerine exploded, killing
Charles Barry.
Two fatal railroad accidents happened, on the
14th inst, in Michigan, Leman Small, we'll
known resident of Alma, being killed at st.
Sheridan.
young Mexican girl while making balloon
ascension at Cuantla Mex, on the 18th inst.
fell from the trapeze when the balloon was
three-fourths of mile high, and was crushed
to death.
Ark, on the 18th inst, while crossing creek
in fiat boat.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-01-25
AMERICAN VS.. GERMAN FARMERS.

An interesting comparison between the
German and American husbandmen is
drawn by the German author, Heinrich
Senior, in volume on theinsignifcance
of North American competition in agri-
culture. The fact is strongly noticeable
that the American farmer always comes
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-01-25
npaEI-DDX.

Smallpox is now epidemic in sixteen of the
states of the union. and is spreading rapidly,
especially in the east and south.
A curiously complicated case is reported from
Ludlow, Ky. A convict there, who is under
sentence of death for murder, has been stricken
with smallpox. The governor of the state
says that this tact must not interfere with his
execution, and the prison officials are afraid to
approach the criminal for fear of contracting
the disease with which he is affected. Added
to this, the physicians say that he cannot live
until the day appointed for his hanging
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-01-25
NaShyiIIe's BAPTISM.

The flood at Nashville, Tenn, gathers force
every hour, and already surpasses anything
ever seen there. Ten thousand persons have
fled from their homes, and two thousand work
men are unemployed. North Nashville is cut
off, and the breaking of the gas-pipes left
South Nashville in darkness.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-01-25
Suicidal.

Samuel FL. Ward prominent and wealthy
citizen of Port Huron, Mich, ended his life on
the 7th inst, by taking strychnine. No cause
is assigned for the rash deed.
At Bradford, Pa, on the 7th inst, J. Fl.
Smedley, aged 81, member of an oil-producing
firm blew his head off with a shot gun. The
deceased was single man and in good circum-
stances.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-01-25

claimed in tone of holy horror: "No
fences Why good Lord, young man,
la as soon take mortgage on a school
OF Goldfish off the banks OF Newfound-
land"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-01-25
Found

The balloon which carried Walter Powell to
sea from England in December was found near
Marsellles. France, with the aeronaut's corpse
in the basket.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-01-25

By the explosion of boiler at East Liberty
o., on the 10th inst, Albert Grouse was killer
and several other persons seriously wounded.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-01-25
NEWS IN BRIEF.
heath i'm n, Wine.
Fatal Explosions

An explosion in Cross Keys colliery, Eng
land, recently, killed four men and fifty horses.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-01-25

THE lame chimney swallow has de-
fective fue.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-01-25

THE cremationists of New York are
raising money to build a furnace.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1882-12-07
G. r. FREIGHTs.

Under the appropriate head
of 1856 65" the Salt Lake 7ri-
Dune has the following:
The above figures are what
are troubling a respected citizen
of this city. He was able few!
days since to do a favor in be-
half Of a gentleman who resides
in San Francisco. The gentle
man in kindly remembrance
concluded to send the citizen a
gallon of cordial Bourbon, and
that it might reach its destina-
ton without extraordinary ex-
pense, he marked it slow
freight" The package came
yesterday, and its railroad
freight charge was represented
by the cabalistic characters
which head this article. The
expressman who brought the
package up charged half dol
lar, SO that the final freight
charge was $6 Is. Some of the
merchants who deal in that line
of goods gathered around and
sampled the article, and told the
citizen that it would give them
great pleasure to furnish the
same article delivered at his
house for S. so. The package
weighed twenty pounds, and
the freight on it was something
over thirty cents per pound, or
at the rate of 5000 per ton, or
$4,000 per car load from San
Francisco.
Yet when Mr.. Steve Gage
rises up and tells the Nevada
Legislature. that the freight
charges on the c. p. are not ex-
cessive, they appear to labor
under the impressisn that the
question is sufficiently settled
and there is no necessity of any
further discussion on the sub
ject. The Legislature has the
power to regulate fares and
freights within the State lines
of Nevada, and the people de-
mand that it should be done.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1882-12-07
DIR. BLISS AND HIS BILL.

The bill put in by DIR. Bliss for
his services in doctoring the late
President Garfield has been cut
down from $4,000 to $1,000.
At this Bliss is very indignant,
alleging that he left practice
of $4,000 a month, etc. No one
asked Bliss to do this. He
wormed himselfin upon the Pres
ident's sick chamber unlimited.
boorishly thrusting the family
physicians out of the way in
doing so, and then with the in
surmOuntable cheek of ply
sicians of his class, took charge
of everything, selecting such
doctors as he wanted and dis
missing the rest without the
slightest shadow of authority.
In addition to this he speculated
in Wall street upon the f1uctu-
ations Of the Presidents pulse.
and as the sick mans fever rose
and fell Bliss held the thermom-
eter with one hand and sent
cypher dispatches with the other.
1t was disgusting vanity and
greed that caused Bliss to
wedge himself into the place he
did. Circumstances showed
that he was an incompetent ply
sician and mistook a pus cavity
formed by malpractice for
wound. His antiseptic treat
ment was denounced by nearly
every physician in the country.
Bliss played for big stake,
wagering the Presidents life
against the big reputation which
a successful treatment would
have given him. He has lost
both and has earned only the
contempt of his countrymen.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1882-12-07

For information of some who
are under the wrong impression
as to the time for the next Leg
islature to meet at Carson, we
will again state that it was the
intention to have the time of
meeting changed to the first
Monday in February. Owing,
however, to the failure of the
last Legislature to provide for a
vote of the people at the recent
general election on the amend
ment of the Constitution as to
the time Of the regular meeting
Of the Legislature, the next
meeting will have to be the first
Monday in January as hereto
fore.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1882-12-07

The APPEAL and Enterprise
published simultaneously a yarn
on Pat Holland and curiOusly
enough the stories referred to
the same subject. The APPEAL
of course gave the fullest par
ticulars, and yesterday morning
the Enterprise had the assurance
to deneunce such portions of the
APPEALS narrative as was not
contained in the Enterprise as
pure fiction. This is cooler talk
than this journal has put up
with for a long time.