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river, Just opposite Eleventh street. Upon
being taken from the water the body was
found to be that Of a young man, twenty
or thirty years oiage. about 5 feet 5 inches
in height, clean shaven, and wearing A
wontcd suit OF blush black, with Vide
diagonal binding. lie wore q broad band
gold ring on the little finger Of his lett hand.
Squire Thomas Sweeney held an inquest on
the body and verdict was returned In nc.
cordance with the foregoing facts. In his
LETT vest pocket were found three one dollar
bills, and forty.tive cents In change in his
pants pocket. He also had q shoe buttouer.
a bullet watch.key and large sleeve
button In his pockets. -l'' - /
The body was removed 10 Mendel's fur.
niturc factory on EoT street ia an express
wagon. the crowd following, and gathering
about the door when the body disappeared
from view. Here It was placed in a neat
pine coffin, 70 await shipment to friends up
the river. This process was repeated Ma
each oil the thirteen bodies recovered were
relinQuished by the coroner, the crowd
each time swarminy up Twelfth street
about the wagon. The bodies recovered
here and n. points above and below were
those oil the following named petsons:
7i wELIsviLLI.
C. b. ARMSTRONG. a-
I.orrA SMITH.
CHARLIE DAVIDSON. .ro.,-
SAMUEL HUNTER, Jr. s..t .s.l .ts5
DENNis SHANNON.
WESLEY CRoSs.
AcGrSrrs REDMAy. ~sii. gI7T
JouS MARSH. f{l Y: \
GEoHGE GRouSps.
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TItC WuOt. MARKET.
,.rna.e. nj 10 Gent. 1" Hancock
''.,,,,..Jhc Eastern WOOL Market.

t..,L 70 lhe lgielligehtSf' HNi.
yrs CUMBERLAND, July s.-To-lay, Mr.
r. rrshwater, oil ,his county, took in a,
Il. pyoplt', Store about ten thousand
,.-,5. Of vol, bought in this county at
:, s.,. Nr. F. thinks the bulk Of the
'.a Nib moved at this price, which he
%%toS.;. ,ly minimum price OF the season.
T,1 ~. l,esi, sl17; 10000 pounds last year.
rlE EAsTEES MAEHEr.
y.,Io.s Dslh:tu Of Saturday.
,ov,li1c TO the average run Of reports
a sr condition Of business, very little
,fnv hAs taken place since our last. A
h, number Of customers have appeared
Dn,a lhe natke, and some mail inquiries
,,r received, but all governed BY the
ii CAUTIOUS spirit, and the amount oi
..ck sc.ualiy handled proved quite limited
a, r1n,ared with the offerings. The dis.
r.s, oi samples, TO le sure, does not cover
yryy large assortment, but the woods are
,crac,iyc Of their kind, and in many cases
available at prices which seem to leave alb
.oaleiy no margin over the cost at the
,tjuarv point; yet there is failure to in.
iace manufacturers 10 take hold, and hold
trs are not well pleased with the situation.
AdyiceS from the interior do not show
much change, sellers appearing to ask
shout ioIDer rates, but not rs yet exhibit
iat any anxiety to force business freely.
Compared with opening views, Ohio is
rlthtr easier, hut Michigan and this State
abDll steady. California reports are rather
tame, and Texas also slightly in buyers
IIroS. IN foreign wOols, the trade is light
and values somewhat nominal.
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Che gntdliaettftr.
=, ,.., .5 aud u fourteenth street,

orr regular correspondent at llarrisville,
ps,bje county, writes tha, the wheat crop
ia ,,h, county is something immense. He
1,,l,i, NAV reach 10000 bushels.
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CHOP kEt'GRrh.
4 Comprehensive Report Upon the Situ.
alton = E"iiicr "Discouras'ns M Re-
Cards Corn, Eut Very Gon.l oi iherw Ice.

A Coihpreh" nsivc Krport Upon the Situ.
Hii"n = Eniicr -Dtscourns'ns nv Re.
gsrtis Corn, Eut Very Go".l otherwise
CHICAGO, July S.-Several columns Of
crop reports in the 7i0les this morning arc
summarized as follows; They show thai
corn will not be I'm average c,on
anywhere. aud that in consid-
erablc I number OF dis,ric.s the
farmers do not now expect more than half
an average crop, although the warm
weather, at this late day, would materially
reduce the loss. In the Southern portion
OF the corn and wheat belt, The loss ia l..,s
severe than in the Northern portion, and
in the latter corn is doing tolerably well on
upland ground, or where the ground hau.
pens TO be we'll drained, In a few locaii.
ties the reports are favorable, but these
are rare exceptions. '=s,al ~
coES CROPS OF so ASp 'Sl.
The corn crop Of the United States In
1850 vas 1881, ,5S5, $40 bushels, which was
a slight reduction from the crop OF tLe
previous year. In 1851 the crop feIl IN
l,l94,sl6,0o0 bushels, a reduction OF one.
fourth, and dispatches now indicate lin,
the reduction upon last year may be fully
as much this year. This would cnt ,hc
corn down TO 100000, 900 bushels. but Il
may not not be 80 bad as this. In Mi
Localities, however, corn Is very backward,
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AFoiiticSi Dinner at the White sulphur.
C&,a.;oaIence OF the New York Herald,
Flying trips have been made here al
ready by several distinguished politicians,
aHoDg them bon Cameron, Senator But
lei, OI South Carolina, and others; but it
is ssadertood that The first notable event
this year will be Il big political dinner on
the i!h Of August. The entertainment,
which will be private, will Ire given by ex.
Governor Mathews, OF West Virginia, and
he mtm will be gotten up in tue best style
d su excellent Frencl, cook. Not more
taaH ti!;een or twenty persons will be pres
enI. and these will include Senators Davis
aud Camden, OF West Virginia; Hampton
and Butler, OF South Carol.un; Vest, OF
Missouri; Ransom, CT North Carolina; and
perhaps Voorhees,, Of Indiana, and Repre-
sentative Tucker, OF Virginia; ". H. Bar.
aEm, Oi Connecticut; Gen. Roger Pryor.
Of New York, and n number OF unofficial
celebrities are also spoken OF in connec.
tlol with the affair II is surmised that
The Democratic situation III Virginia, North
and South Carolina and Mississippi, where
il is regarded as critical, will be discussed,
Sld important results may follow IRON the
meeting. It is known that the pending
Congressional con,es, next fall is m object
nj the gravest interest 10 Southern Demo.
cratic politicians.
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RYE, OATS AND POTATOES.

In III these places. these crops will be
large than ever before. In Kansas the
wheat harvest is nearly over, aud the crop
is estimated at o,0o0,0 020 bushels, or more
than so pei cent iu excess OF the crop OF
two years ago.
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but in many OF them It is progressing
fairly after all, and with fine weather viii
not show great reduction from last year.
sui, the TACT remains tha. last years crop
has large reduction from that OF two
years ago, and It Is certain that this years
crop will not come up to that Of last year.
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e Capt. Davis, Of the Nail City, is "a good
man 10 have around when work is 10 be
done. SI5 q
Cap,s. Prince and EauSherty, with their
boats aud crews did everything that good
cool heads could suggest to relieve the
wants OF Capt Booth, ss..!i g ii
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O' 'e1teu 70 tIIt Crtult Of Nj.
Hoge that his first amendment, which was
ruled out on point OF order, was prepared,
by the Secretary OF the Treasury himself
in order to facilitate his disposition Of this
now valueless property, the retention of
which blythe United States, said Mr.. IIose,
would be to keep Harper's Ferry in the
condition OF deserted village for all time
to come.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-06-01
FACTS AND FIGURES.


Boiler explosions last year, i'm this
country, caused the death of 250 per-
sons, and 328 were injured.
DIR. Norman Kerr, of London, re-
GENTLY estimated the annual mortality
caused. directly and indirectly, from
drinking, at I20, 600. Htsi9'l 'F
Hiram Sibley, the wealthy seeds
man of Rochester, n. Y, has sent So
900 worth Of seeds to the sufferers by
the Mississippi Hoods.
"A well known journalist died re-
Gently at New York. HIS effects were
and brought nine dollars and sixty
three. cents. IA. I. GfGphsc.
1t is the opinion of the PetrOleatna
sa1ge that over q, 600, 600 barrels of
crude oil will be required to satisfy the
demand of 1882, or 200, 900, 900 more
gallons than were consumed last year.
-George Urban & Son have built and
equipped with rollers a mill in Buffalo,
N. Y, costing $50, 900. They don't t
have a stone in the building. 1t is the
first Touring mill of the kind in the city.
-Female candidates for the study of
medicines in Russia are constantly in
creasing. The total number admitted
within ten wears is $50. ( Of these 281
have finished their studies, and 1872 are
now practicihg. tS6 AN@A@
Among the valuable minerals found
in Arizona it is said that the Importance
Of the opal has been overlooked. In
Yuma County, especially, are these
gems found in great abundance. They
usually have a lime coating and are oval
in shape.
A Pittsburgh iron manufacturers enl-
pioys nearly 800 girls of ages ranging
from fifteen to twenty years, as black
smiths and iron workers. The labor
they perform is not heavy, and the
wages run from 70 cents to $3.50 a day
each. Detroit Post. s.ff. Ga 4a fesr
Much anxiety is felt i'm Jamaica
lest the plantations of pimento should
be entirely destroyedto supply sticks
for umbrellas. Each bundle of sticks
contains from 800 to 800, and last year
nearly 5000 bundles were exported.
Each stick represents young bearing
pimento tree.
The sum of $S 67, which remained
of the fund used in celebrating in Ports
mouth, N H., on the 22d of February,
1882, the centenary of Washington s
birth, was deposited in the local savings
bank against the bicentennial celebTa-
ton, and now, at the expiration of half
the time, amounts to S143.5S. .a
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-06-01
WIT AND WISDOM.

why is a locomotive like beef
steak? Because it is good for nothing
without its tender.
The hardest rocks are made of the
softest mud Just as the biggest swells
arc made from the smallest men. a0
The adventurer is generally a good
melodist. Atleast, he always seeks for
tune. This tune is generally written in
bank-notes. .-Musieal Herald
-. Some people, p says AIphonse
Karr, . are always finding fault with
nature for putting thorns on roses; / al
ways thank her for having put roses on
thorns.''
If a man could only take out his
brains and have them revised, he might
frequently start business on a more sat
isfactory basis. His handspring may
be all right; the works only want little
cleaning. --DenUer Tribune.
"A prominent writer of a eulogy
on connubial bliss says it is often the
case when you see great man, like a
ship, sailing proudly along the current
of renown, that there is a little tug-his
wife-whom you can not see, but who Is
directing his movements and supplying
the motive power.
ae--'sSo you enjoyed your visit to the
Museum, did you? inquired young
man of his adored ones little sister.
:. Oh yes! and do you know that we
saw camel there chat screwed its
mouth and eyes around awfullY; and
sister said it look exactly like you when
you are reciting poetry at evening
parties.
"A Maine grocer. who had just tex
peTienced religion acknowledged in
meeting that he had been a hard sinner,
cheated customers by adulterating his
goods, etc, but, being converted, would
repay anv one he had wronged Late
that night he was aAEalzened by a ring at
his door bell. Looking cut he saw a
man. .'Who are you. and what do you
wantPP he asked. q II M Bill Jones'
You said tc-night you would repay
those you had cheated. Give me that
500 YOU We owed me so long. tsCa91tt
you wait till mon1ing ?''# no; i amt
going to wait and stand in line all day y
He was paid ABost0ss Globe M
Dana Krum, one of the conductors
on the Erie Railway. was approached be-
fore train time by an unknown man, who
spoke to him as though he had known
him for years. Il say, Dana, have
forgotten my pass, and want to go to
Susquehanna. j am a fireman on the
road, you know;n but the conductor
told him he ought to, have a pass with
him; it was the safest way Pretty
soon Dana came along to collect tickets.
Seeing his man. he spoke when he
reached him: a.Say, my friend, have
you the time with you2' Yes, - said
he, as he pulled out watch, .'it is
twenty minutes past nine. - .ss9h, it is,
is itp' Now, if you doh't show me
your pass or fare win stop The train.
There is no railway man that ever saw
that would say twenty minutes past
nine He would say s9:20. - He set
tIed.=ChicnQO Itnles. -.
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CONDENSED TELEGRAMs.


In the Senate, May 26, Mr.. Bayard
reported a modification Of the substitute for
the bonded spirits bill. Ordered printed.
In the House, the usual diatOry maneuYer.
ing was occasioned by calling up the elec-
tion contest. After scene Of some confu-
sion, Mr.. Blackburn moved for committee
to investigate alleged Irregularities in ham
ding the testimony.
Hon. RUSSELL ERR TT, of Pennsyl-
vania, met with serious accident in Wash
ingtOn, May %. He was about alighting
from coach at the entrance to the House,
when the horses suddenly started and he
was thrown head first against the granite
steps.
THE Jury in the case of Gen. Curtiss,
Special Treasury Agent at New York, rem
dered a verdict of guilty on the first and
eighth counts, which charged the defendant
with receiving, while in the employ of the
United States, money or other things Of val-
ne for political purposes.
THERE was duel on horseback near
Mount Sterling, Ky., on the 26th. Bush
Hampton and John Henry met, an old feud
was stirred up, and both drew and COM
menced firing. After both were wounded
they clinched and dubbed pistols, fighting
till both were exhausted Hampton died in
half an hour, and Henry was seriously
wounded.
E.V. CLAD, on trial at Philadelphia.
Pa, for mutilating gold coin, has been con-
victed. He made 500 out of $5-pieees and
s. ont of $40, substituting platinum for the
gold taken.
THE frequent loss of valuable letters
in the Stock-yards district of Chicago forced
an investigation, which ended in the cap
ture of Owen Sweeney, well-known car
Tier. He saw the officer approaching his
residence, and ran to the stove with apsck-
age of plunder.
FATHER CUDDIHY, of Milford, Mass,
has forbidden the Grand Army of the Re-
public to enter the Catholic Cemetery on
Decoration Day.
A BOILER explosion at Bradfordville,
Fla, May 25, killed Mac Richardson, the
miller, and a little negro boy. Abraham
Footman and a woman were fatally injured,
and others were badly hurt.
THE new tunnel for the New York,
Ontario & Western Railway, at Union Hill,
n, j., fell in, May %, killing three laborers.
AT Albany, n. Y, on the 25th, Meyer
schreber, wholesale liquor dealer, killed
himself on account OF financial difficulties.
A RECENT number of the Tucson
(Arizona) Citizen published certain letters
OF G. D. Pastor and criticised him sharply.
on the 25th Pastor met j. A. Whitmore,
the editor, and without s-ying a word drew
a revolver and fred at him, missing him.
PASTOR was srrested-
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Uncle David's snake-story.

Do you want to hear a real snake
storyP | saw this myself, and did not
read it in the newspapers, M
A large watcr-s1ake was coiled up,
half in, half ont of the water. watching
the fish darling about and around IL. It
was a large striped snake, called a
water moccasin. This kind of snake
sometimes strikes It's fangs into dogs that
attack it. ...... .I. Il.
Z / once had little terrier, which used
TO fly at snakes of every kind with fury.
and shake them to pieces. But one
day she came home with her head
swollen as large as two heads. She
dropped and died after few days of
sickness. ..-
But am forgetting my story. While
the fish were playing around their dan
gerous foe. all at once the poisonous
fangs were darted out and a large cat
fish was stopped in its sport. The snake
had him fast, and stetched itself out to
swallow its prey. He was, however, too
greedy, for ne began to swallow the
head of the fish whilst il was still flut-
tering, and not quite dead. Ono of the
strong, sharp fms pierced ike "a needle
through the neck Of the reptile, and he
could not get the fish an inch further
down his throat. There they lay when
/ found them, stretched out on the sand
among the rushes by the swamp, both
quite dead, The greater part Of the fish
was out Of the snakes mouth, but the
head was inside, and one fin sticking
through the scaly neck of the water
snake. --OIAr Lille ones. 1900 81.
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Hanging for Six Hours.


A Mexican By the name Of Senobio
Martinez was brought to this city from
the Medina, in Bexar County, who had
thrilling tale Of terror 10 tell. riyaling
some of the desperate acts Of the Bexar
County Vigilant Committee in its palm
lest days, when Mexican horse-thieves
might be seen hanging from the limbs
of adjacent trees on almost any day in
the week. During those times, too,
several well-known gentlemen were
even accused of going 10 church on
Sunday with hangman' ropes in their
pockets. He lives on the Medina, and
for a long time past has incurred the
displeasure of his neighbors from the
fact that Senobio has been suspected Of
appropriating other peoples horseaesh
to his own use and disPosing Of the same
for private gain.
On Tuesday night a mob Of unknown
men went to the house Of MARTINEZ,
took him away, and hung him up to a
tree, leaving him shortly after for dead.
The mob, however. neglected to tie f1e
mans hands behind bis back, aud bY
holding the rope around his neck with
both hands for six hours, Dc. succeeded
IN saving his life and was cat down the
next day by friends. The poor fellow
cannot tell who the parties were who
committed the outrageous act, nor how
many there were in the gang. He only
knows that he went through the hor-
rors Of death, and is still much bruised
about the face and neck. San AHtonto
Express.
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

AN investigating committee of the
Arkansas Senate has reported that the books
or Gov. Churchill as Treasurer OF the State
fail to balance by Sl39, 400, from which he is
entitled to credit for S24 500 for scrip turned
over to his Successor.
A POSTAL card threatening the assas-
sination Of President Arthur by the FenIans
unless he recalls Lowell was dropped in the
New York Post-ofiice on the Dist.
TIE WOman's Christian Temperance
Union OF Michigan, in convention at Detroit,
voted in favor OF action looking toward fe-
male suffrage by Go to AZ, after spirited
discussion.
THE regulations agreed upon by the
committee OF Russian Ministers and ap-
proved by the Emperor provide that Jews
hencefOrth shall be prohibited from settling
in outside towns and villages except where
Jewish settlements already exist. They are
prohibited from trading on Sundays or
Christian holidays. These regulations only
apply TO governments where Jews are per-
manently settled. All contracts OF pur-
chase or tenancy are provisionally sus-
pended.
1t is reported that five of the Tariff
Commissioners have been agreed upon,
viz: Ex-Vice- President Wheeler, OF New
York; Alex. Mitchell, of Wisconsin, former
Democratic Representative in Congress,
now President OF the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul Railroad; John l.. Hayes, of
Massachusetts, formerly President OF the
National WOOlen Association; Henry w.
oliver, Of Pittsburg, a leading iron manu-
facturer, and r, b. Porter, formerly in
charge OF the Statistical Bureau Of the Cen
Gus Office.
that Payne and twenty other colonists,
while attempting TO invade the Indian Ter
rtory, were captured by troops sent from
Fort Reno and taken 70 Kansas.
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CRIMEs Al OAsuALTIEs.

Mrs. HIRAM WILLIAMS, of Young
Hickory, Ohio, was drowned in Lake Erie,
May u. She was visiting relatives IN Cleye-
land, and her brother in law, named Ernst,
took her out fishing. The skiff capsized, and
Ernst was found clinging 60 tho keel.
PRICE, the Englishman who was
serving life sentence for the murder OF a
felIow-countryman named Neaves, died in
the Canon City (Colo.) Penitentiary the 9TH
er night. He committed suicide by starving
himself 10 death. He had not partaken OF
solid food for three weeks. He drank
water, but resisted all attempts to force him
10 eat. He claimed to be an English noble
man. Price was an expert knife-thrower,
and had killed five men in this manner.
AT Cleveland, Ohio, May "a, Alfred
Robinson, aged "a, shot his wife, aged so,
from whom he had been separated since last
September. The wound may prove fatal.
Jealousy was the cause.
HARRIET w. DARE, a teacher at the
Ohio Institute for Deaf and Dumb, fell dead
the other evening while gathering flowers
near Shadeville. ApopleNy was the sup
posed cause.
A LARGE crowd gathered at Schuetz-
en- Park, Davenport, Iowa, on the 21st. 10
witness the children's annual shooting con-
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Youths Departments.
WHAT TEDDY DID.

II Il
You ought to 60 10 the barber
said Edith. that is plain;
For You look ike n Shetland pony, Ted.
with all that bristling mane,
a Or more like shaggy terrier
ft Whose eyes are hid in hair
Ted only laughed at bciflx teascd,
And said he didn't care.
But to himself he wondered
- If. indeed, he looked Ike that;
And down in front OF a looking glass q
ar Refectively he sat.
A pair of his mothers scissors
Lay on the EnaDtehsheif. f&sH
And be thought: hate a barber chair
can cut tor myself
So, shipping, sniPpings shipping,
The cold Keen scissors sped,
Till one whole side of his little pate
was bald as the baby bead.
just then the tea bell ringing
Its CHEEKY call. he heard; ist
And he glanced at the uncut side, and said
- can do that afterward-3
Think what a funny top-knot
For company to see - .--
Brown elf-ioeks covering half, and half
4E As bare as bare could be! -s4as4 f-.'f
As he seated himself atstable,ss ..f.E
Merriiy laughed each one;
; HY And mamma cried, in droH dismay: 7
My boy, what have you doneY
MIS-. Clara D0tu Bates, in our Ltttl6 Ones.
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COMMERCE AM GNDUsTRY.

nj. DE LEssEPs states that contract
has been signed by San Francisco firm to
exeavate the Atlantic end Of the Panama
Canal, and he hopes to finish the enterprise
by 1888. -r rrsrar a
SAMUEL MAY 4 CO.., of Boston, Mass !,
the largest iron-hoiise in the couatry. have
made an assignments 20 sNvilliam r. Jones.
Ample assets are claimed, but the concern
owes $500, 600 or mOrosH ma.
THE House Committee on Commerce
have buried the Reagan interstate COM
merce bill by vote OF two 10 twelve. This
result has been expected from the begin
ming OF the session.. Itis nos at AL probable
that this committees win report any measure
seriously antagOnized by the railroads.