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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-06-22
STARVATION

The Inhabitants of Patrick County, Va, in
Starving Conditional Terrible story of
Suffering and Want Anything to Eat
for MY Starving Wife and ChiEdrenv''-
Raw Corn Greedily Eaten by Hungry
Men, Women and Children.
A courier arrived here to-day in great dis
tress from Patrick County. situated in one of
the most remote districts of the State. He
gives terrible account Of the sufferings of
the people there, and reports no less than
5000 men, women and children actually starv-
ing, some already dead, and others dying for
want of food. This sickening state of affairs
was brought about by the total failure of the
crops in that county last summer, ana, while
the people have been sorely pressed for many
months, il is only within the last two months
that their meager supplies have been abso-
Iutely exhausted and themselves brought to
starvation. Patrick County is situated in one
of the most mountainous and inaccessible
regions of the State. The courier came to the
city to-day, presenting an appearance of
suffering and want that told his sad story be-
fore he opened his mouth. He begged that the
people of the city goto work at once to send
the starving families meal and flour. They
did not ask for money. The suffering there
has been terrible A Well-tO-do farmer Thurs
day offered 500 cash for a barrel of -four, and
could not buy it for twice that amount Fri
day the frst wagon-load of shelled corn went
to the county from this vicinity. The people
along the roads heard of its coming, and as
soon as it entered the county men, women and
children crouched around it and fought raw
enously for every grain of corn they could
get, which they ate greedHly, without waiting
to cook it Attempts are being made to at
once organize relief committees, with the aim
of getting meal and flour to the starving hun
dreds in the county.
Additional particulars state that In many in
stances women bearing infants in their arms
have walked fifteen miles over the rugged
mountain roads and through the wild deiles
searching for something to eat. Whole fami-
lies have left their homesteads and are getting
out of The county in their efforts to reach
some section of the country in which they can
get corn or flour. In some instances families
have kept alive by boiling weeds and actUI-
ally eating leaves from the trees. Some
of the sturdy mountaineers, who had
an idea that the starvation district was
limited to an area of about twelve miles, have
walked twenty miles, only to be met on all
sides by the piteous appeals for bread" Any
thing to eat for my starving W ife and chill
dren!" Men who we been through battles
and stood all sorts of hardships have been
seen on the crossroads weeping as they real
ized the terrible situation in which their fami-
lies have been placed. Remote as the district
is, reports are coming in giving sickening de-
tails of the condition of affairs. The appeals
come: " We don't want any money, but send
us meal and flour."-DdnUHIe, Va, June 10)
Spec al to Chicago Tribune.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-06-22
Garibaldi Dead.


With the death of Giuseppe Garibaldl
disappears a heroic figure which has
long filled place of unchallenged pre-
eminence in the affections of his coun-
trymen. He deserved their love and
admiration, for he was not only high
minded and single-hearted patriot, but
a successful liberator, and what Mazzini
planned he, more than any other son OF
Italy, carried into triumphant execution
To find a parallel to the influence ex-
ercised by Garibaldfs personality in the
shaping of events we must look not to
Kossuth or Bolivar or any leading spirit
of the French revolution, for the move
ments with which those men were assO-
ciated had acquired an impetus to which
the contributions of individuals seemed
relatively insignificant. But Garibaldi
may be said to have revived the tradi-
tions Of Italian valor, and in the victory
he won over great odds in 1849 under
the walls of Rome he taught his coun-
4rymen a lesson OF self-respect and
self-confidenee which was never after
ward forgotten. When Garibaldi, with
French army, he wiped out the
contumely of four centuries, reversed
the triumphs of Charles VIII, and con-
vinced the world that Italy was at last
worthy to be free. Nor is it doubtful
to those who appreciate the difficulties
of Cavour' position in 1860 that Italy
owes her unity to the famous expedition
of the One Thousand against Sicily,
feat of arms whose equal must be sought
in the exploits of the Vikings or of the
Norman adventurers who conquered
the same island eight centuries before.
There are few finer things in history
than Garibaldi's willing resignation of
a dictatorship which he had won by his
sword, in order that the historic king
dom of the Two Sicilies, after an age
long severance, might be merged in q
united Italy. And even his two unsuc-
cessful attempts to recover Rome in
1862 and 1867 served to fortify his
countrymen in the resolve not TO rest
until the Holy City had become the
Italian capital.
Garibaldi was something more and
larger than a patriot. His sympathies
were not bounded by a single race or
country. He was animated by noble
passion of emancipation, and proclaimed
himself citizen and soldier of every
land struggling 70 be free. Before he
was forty years of age he had twice
nearly lost his life fighting for the inde-
pendence of Uruguay, and at the age
Of sixty-three he offered his sword to
France in the hour Of her death Crap
PIE with Germany. In Hungary, in
Poland, in Servia. in Spain, in every
part of Europe where men have striven
to throw off the CALLING yoke of despOt-
ism, Garibaldfs example was a beacon,
and his name was the watchword of
revolution. OF all contemporary great
men who have been associated with the
uprising for freedom, not one has had a
stronger hold on the public heart, and
not one has rendered more brilliant and
substantial services to the progress Of
humanity. Y San.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-06-22
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

Mrs. FLARES, of Los Gatos, Cal, was
killed on the street the other evening. The
assassination is charged upon her divorced
husband, who was recently released from
the penitentiary.
PUGILIsrs of Providence, named
James Murray and Benjamin Green, went
10 Coney Island to contend for $500 and the
lightweight championship OF Rhode Island.
Three rounds had been fought in hotel
when the metropolitan police captured
Murray and his second. the others escaping.
MARY CoNNoRs, residing in New
York, has been placed in the Tombs on
charge Of deliberately starving a small boy.
MONTREAL, Cana, lost a million dol
lars by fre, June Is. Texarkana, Ark.
lost S175, 200 the day before.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-06-22
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PRESIDENT ARTHUR has received an
invitation from the Union League Club OF
Chicago to visit that city this summer. 1t
Is understood that the President thinks
favorably Of the proposition to visit the
West, and VIII probably go to Chicago soon
after the adjournment OF Congress.
THE Irish Bishops have issued an ad-
dress Offering support to the people in
peaceful agitation, and appealing TO them
TO oppose secret societies as hostile to relig-
ion and to freedom. Evictions are pro-
nounced permanently provocative OF crime.
MIR. ANTHONY has been reelected
United States Senator from Rhode Island.
MEXICAN officials think that the OBJ
ject Of the visit OF the President Of Guate-
mala to the United States, is to bring about
n consolidation OF the five Central American
republics, with himself at the head.
THREE MormOns have started for
Washington to present to Congress the new
State Constitution for Utah. Ex-Delegate
Hooper declined to make the trip.
THE number of suspects still impris-
oned in Ireland is 263. Secretary Trevelyan
stated in the House of Commons that John
Cannon refused to accept a release on con-
dition that he 90 to the United States.
THE Gar of Russia has approved the
resolution OF the Imperial Council in favor
OF the foundation OF a bank for the purpose
OF facilitating the acquisition of land by
peasants.
THE Maine Republicans want prOtec-
tion, gold and silver dollars OF equal intrin-
sic value, national banks, debt reductions,
taxation OF liquors, liberal pensions, and a
prohibition amendment to the Constitution.
WIN. DENNIsoN, Ex-Governor of Ohio,
died June 10, aged 81.
GEN. RosECRANs has been inter-
viewed in regard to the letters from General
Garfield 10 Secretary Chase, recently pub
lished. He stated that his information OF
the actual incidents connected with the con-
ference between Stanton and Garfield al
Louisville came from General Anson Stager,
who was present, who says that Garfield lit
orally reversed the facts Of the interview,
ID. II. PINNEY, of Joliet, H., has been
appointed Associate Justice OF the Supreme
Court Of Arizona.
THE President has approved the SEN
teuce Of the court-martial dismIssing Lieut..
Flipper from the service.
THE Republican State Convention OF
North Carolina indorsed the nominees OF
the liberal movement, and passed a resolu-
tion requesting members OF the Legislature
10 vote against prohibitory liquor laws.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-06-22

How innocent and sweet children
are, TO be sure. Johnnie. you must
have your face washed before you go to
bed, as the angels won stay and watch
such dirty boy" said his mother, as
she played peek-a-boo while slipping his
night-dress over his head. {" Dom care.
What's angels watching me forP'' " So
was the assuring reply. Guess I'm
big 'nuiT to take care Of my own self,
now. See them pants He had worn
them Just one day, and the confidence
they had begat in his soul was truly
marvellous. -Net0 HayeR Register.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-06-22

Chicago is talking of extending
call to Moody and Sankey. The Elin-
listers are almost unanimous for their re-
turn, although some doubts aye ex-
pressed about the permanency Of their
work. and one divine thinks that the in
vitation . is a humiliating confession Of
the failure of the established agencies
of the church, so far as aggressive work
is concerned" All agree that Chicago
was never SO wicked as at present. We
are not envious. and hope that the Chi
cagoans viii be saved. ''-BoStOll Globe
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-06-22

Mutton is made to look plumper and
fatter in New York by being blown
that is, the sIaughterer makes an in
cision through the skin of each quarter
when warDl. and initiates the cellular
tissue with air from his own lungs. Such
mutton rapidly deeomposes. Chicago
butchers. do you - blow" your muttons
VIII you say: Wen be blowed if we
doP''-C CHICAGO Nei0S
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-06-22
Sheen in the united States.

The following advanced figures were fur
nished by the Superintendent of the Census
for the information of Congressman in recent
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-06-22

Special rates given on application
n7-An business letters must be addressed 20
GEORGE w. ARMISTEAD.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-06-22
TERMS OF ADVERTISING.

One square OF eight lines. s1.50 for the hrss
Insertion, and IS cents for each subseqnenS
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1882-09-02
Arab ". Den.

Most Arab women tattoo: the oli wo
men dye their hair dull rel color. AID
frizzl. aud pull it down over their face.
Nothing can IN NOR. bii-oualv ugi.
than AL old Aral woman. bu; | caLl4o.
imagine any thing mo. beautiful than q
young Arab g1rl. a. from tLirt.,n IL
sixteen years u age. all Who ha- been
hrough, mp II IL" houae. The have
beautiful forru', small fe.. AID hands.
large black eyes. round ciius, -,na! s,,sy
lif-, whi'e teeth. and v.rs taaoo'l. good
complexion They war IL /. lair plat
II and thrown back 20 hang dow. o.o.
their shoulders and kack, They coon
fade. however, AMI become Al ugls. a.
,hev ver- before beautiful IL tosIls
III. .oru-Il cover taelr iac.-s when Oh
the street - the sight Il .u.n, but they
| like - have Christians 80 them, ai..l
| Will uncover ;ilrir faces II 10 Ml.sul-
man Is looking. /
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1882-09-02

without specifying the direction
They soon stood in front of the house
in which he desired her 10 live.
"Wouidn't you like to 90 in?' she
asked.
"Yes. It's pity We haven't the key"
Il have the key" said his wife, aud
forthwith she walked up the steps aud
proceeded to open the door.
when did you get the key OF
Squire Bent 2 asked her husband.
Yesterday when bought the house, !"
SAID his wife, quietly.
Mr.. Newton gazed on his wife in pro-
found astonishment.
What do you mean?''
Just what l sav-this house Is mine,
aud what Is mine is yours. SO this
house Is yours, Ezra
Where, III the name of goodness, did
you raise the money! asked her hhs-
band. In amazement as great as ever
II haven't been managing wife TO,
ten years for nothing" SAID Mrs. New
ton, smiling.
With some difficulty MH. Newton
persuaded her husband that the price
of the house was really the result of hel
savings. He felt, when he surveyed
the commodious arrangements of tht
house, that he had reason to be CRATE
ful for the prudence of his managing
wife. ~
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1882-09-02

4 correspondent SAYS a, the ,ason of
huidinc Is m hau,i. call attention t,the
Importance ~ preserving shnsle roofs
i'"oi decay. aha IN measure from taxing
IRE hy sparks from chmucvs. Nv hrs,
experience On this line WAS nearly sixty
years asn. oud II did MT prove sai:sfac-
tory. Next, three gallons o. pine tar 10
one Of cheap tish oil. tsuch as tanners use.
put large kettle aud brought to b ,il
say, two thirds the butt ends of the shin
g.es were put III, rema,nn27a minute, and
then thrown INTO a loose pile 10 dry before
usiu,. On one of my visits to INV home,
when this roof had been on twenty years,
went Upon II with my knife IN baud. cut
the shingles and found them hard and
smooth, sla;c like aud impcrvlous 10 WA.
ter. no chance tor sparks 10 klndle ns they
1Au before on the sahc roof and came near
destroying large range of buildings.
They were about one third worn III
thickness, consequently many years TO do
eHgf soivice, saw thirty Years or more.
The third trial was 10y putting The bum
dies oi Shingles cIscwise hall their length
I'D Strong lime Water and IN a day or Two
changing ends. These were lall on three
summer days boiling h-t coal tar was nut
or pienlifully with whitcwash< brush,
rubbing on hard To get as much npdtr tho
wood Ms possible. After tWeuly years
they We're sound and likely To be for q
long tim. To come.
Iwenty-thrce years ago myself and sous
built the warehouses on what is now the
galvanized iron works in Salem, oak
shingles were used aud hot tar put on.
Fifteen years after | heard the roof was in
good condition. 4 noted lumber dealer
whose office was in full view said 10 me
that he had often thought what could be
the cause Of these roofs being smooth, the
shingles not curling as that Kind of til Der
usually does.
1t IS we'll known that lime is u great
preserva'lve OF wood, an instance OF which
comes to our mind A wood-shed. shlu-
gled with most perishable wood, end at
the time saw it part that had been
whitcwashed with lime appeared to be
sound, and the other which had not, was
entirely bare. Twelve years since We had
oak shingles put on roof and tarred,
which remains sound and tight; neigh
Dor used from the same pile without tar
and had to renew ten years after. II
some OF these cheap methods should he ca,
RED out hundreds, if not thousands Of dol
lars, might he savei III Salem. Is my be-
lief. | fear That many will be d,sappont-
ed with tin roofs unless put on bv honest,
skilled workmen with the best tin, and
often painted they will rust out IN few
years; at any rate they did before moved
| from Maine
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1882-09-02
Romance OF q Waif.

Not long ago, a highly sensational
suit was commenced in the Knox, Ohio,
Common Pleas Court, to determine
the parental origin of lady formely of
Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and thereby involv-
ing the title to about $4,000 worth of
property. The history of the case,
strange and eventful, and in many
places interspersed with romance,
is briefly as follows: In the year
1888, near the town of Worthington,
Franklin county, Ohio, there was
born to poor, unmarr ed girl, Nancy
J. Elliot, a daughter. About two years
after james E. Woodbridge, then one
of Mt. Vernon's most prominent and
wealthy merchants, and his wife be-
sought Miss Elliot to give them her
child, they having no children, promis-
ing her that they would rear and edu-
cate her as their own, and upon their
oecease the little girl should be their
sole heir. The mother after much So
icltation consented Another part of
the agreement was that the child should
never know but that Mr.. and Mrs.
Woodbridge we're her true parents.
The little girl was brought to her
new home, was taught to love her fos-
ter parents. to call them father and
mother, was introduced into society as
their daughter and always know as Mary
Woodbridge. In 1870 she was married
| to one 6. E..Swan, NJ. ID. At the time
of the marriage 1t was not suspected by
DR.. Swan but that he was marrying the
daughter of Mr.. and Mr.. Woodbridge
and for o number of years they visited
their supposed parents. strangers to the
secret. In 1874 Mr.. Woodbridge died,
and Immediately after his death Mrs.
Swan, who was then, and is now, resid-
ing at Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, with
her husband, was informed by Mrs.
Woodbridge that she was not THEN
laughter. Mrs. Woodbridge took
possession of her husbands estate,
valued at $4,000. In 1875 she died,
leaving a will and naming her brother
Il. w. Silanan, of Iiffin, Ohio, rs ex
ecutor. Mrs. Swan was unable t,
fathom the deep mystery surrounding
her birth, until in March, 1882, Will.
on visit to Mount Vernon with he
husband she obtained clue that placed
her in possession of the secret of he
ludtcEull v. Die HOW lcAIllS ttldt ut
mother on several occasions visited a
the home of Woodbridge and wife whll
her little girl was there, but that
pursuant to her agreement made at th
earnest request Of Mr.. Woodbridge, sh
did not disclose to her child that sh
was her mother Suit has now bee
commenced to recover the whole of til
estate
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1882-09-02

There are, according to the estimate Of
one good authority, about thirty profess
siOnal boxers deserying~of the name. who
60 about New York and receive pay for
public exhibitions OF their skill IN spar
ring. Another good authority places their
number as high as fifty, but his estinlats
probably includes Iome whom the Oth-r
authority would reject and classify as
'duffcrs." Then there are about dozen
women who in like manner make living
by sparrlng in public III variety shows. hs
rule they are variety performers, who
either dance or sing once in the course If
an evenings entertainment, and put on
the gloves for single bout only. a
club man is SAID TO be backing, or ready t.
back, one of these woman for 5000 or
less To whip any other woman IN .hc
United states or Canada in fair, har l.
glove fight he salaries Of the female
boxers vary all the way from SO to ~
per week.
Another class dcrIvln. iivclitr,d from
pugIlism arc the teachers Of 1t. There arc
fewer just noH III New York than otdt-
| nar'ly o! the regular Professional teachers
When one has named the veteran Ben ' Al
| lessor q Neil, the tutor oi tic Ru4lct
Club. ani Jonn WosIs II The | went, :
eighth street gymnasium, about All OF
prominence outside tn: prlZe lighters hsyc
been mentioned. Colonel Monastery Is
temporarily out of the business. Mcclellan
has gone to-kecping q down town sa'oJn
Ostignon IS dead and others have vanished
mvaterlous!y. Nearly all the priz~
| fighters who have ever made any hsurt IN
the ring have Sc, themselves up as ns,ruc-
tors OF private pupils. and have charged
| according 10 ther fame ard what The pI-
| pills would stand. Rc.Hiar teachers lraccs
| are low. For a course 0! dozen lessons,
Tor instance, Van Slyck wouli charge 81
| and either Wp,ds Or . Nefii SO. But The
same course from Billy Edwards, Ar,hu,
Cnainbers or any other pngiist u esiab
| liahed reputation wou.d cJs. anywhere
from $2o II siop- Pug.is,s ~us hay.
| Gear heads sui god habits, when they
have once gained standing. acculnu u ~.
money rapidly. Et~arts and Chamber:
are probably auloug the richest
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1882-09-02

The wife IT Ens,ueor Mel.v vilic, the
gallant officer ci the IuckIess Arctic eA-
pIor'n- steamer Jeanneite, who ls now
searching fNr his lost comrades around the
lce-hrind coast of Northern Siberia &c
cuples picturesque little cottage einhow-
cred amid tNiniug honey -suckles and
fragrant hlossomng lilacs at Sharon Hill,
near Ph'ladel phla. Although it has been
more than three years since George left Us
all here, said sue recently, land went
out on that ill-fated voyage. aud although
oceans oi cruel waters and leagues of land
have separated him from us, have seen
HIM twice within a year. Startling a.
this statement was Mrs Melville WAS
evidently in earnest. On the 10th OF une"
she con'inuci Il retired to my room la:e
at nigift. Days Of anxious waiting for
some news OF the Jeanette without
bringing ray OF hope had almost causei
me to despair of ever agaiu seeing my
husband. had fallen into an uneasy
sleep, from which one of the children
aroused Lie. 1t was, perhaps, more than
an hour after this, and whi e was wide
awake, that | became conscious of a
strange presence in the room, and YOU
may well Imagine with what mingled
feelings OF joy and fear l heard Georges
voice, and, looking up. saw him stanGing
by the bedside. Saw him as plainly Us |
now see you. He was SAYING: Count
the bells: Count the bells!' and, as he
smoke, distinctly heard the bell of ship
striking, two by tWo the stroke OF the
hour. Count them, continued my hus-
band, and said 5: Yes, George | re-
member that when the seventh stroke
sounded thought that if it was a ships
bell there could be but one more, and, as
the last sound died away, my husband
said: Eight bells; the Jeanette Is lost ,
and vanished from the room. At that
moment the sittlng-room clock struck the
hour of I, and it was the morning of the
lth of June. At that very hour on that
very morning the Jeanette went down
into the fathomless depths of the Arctic
Ocean, and the Ice foe closed over her
grave. am no Spirituallst,' continued
| Mrs. Melville, NOR do believe in spirits.
| do not attempt to explain what | have
just told you. but it Is. every word of it,
true. l never expected after that to hear
Of the safety of the crew Jeanette. A
few weeks after the occurrence which |
nave narrated, anu at the same nOur IN
the morning. had arisen for the day, and
was in the hall which you see there.
Again | saw my husband, nay, l even felt
| his breadth in my face. was dreadfuly
| startled. bit had sufficient courage to call
out George, Is that your when The
figure disappeared as if swallowed up in
| the air."
And did you never speak Of this be-
fore r. said the astonished reporter.
''Fiequently," said Mrs Melville:
'frcquently to our little household, and
once to Mrs. De Long, tho unfortunate
wife of the poor commander OF the. Jesn
| ncttt.