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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-27
Che gulirar gnIIrtiu.
TERMS or ADVERTISING !.
One square Of eight lines, $50 for the frst
Insertion, and 70 cents for each subsequept
FACTS AND FIGURES.

r. +. Beckwith, Of New London
Conn, has occupied the same store fifty
years.
The wealth of Massachusetts, as
assessed for tax purposes, is Sl,73l,-
297. .O6l. an increase of 1000, eco on
the valuation of 1SS2.-B0stOR Post
The total assessed valuation of the
Territory of Dakota is 500, 154, 600.
against S47, 600, 600 in ! SS2. This gives
an increase of over $22, ,o0O,O 600 in one
year.
The water-supply of Brooklyn is
increased 100000 gallons n day by
systems of driven wells in the suburbs
sunk to a depth Of forty-seven to nine-
ty-six feet. Brooklyn Eagle.
The four buildings for the Worlds
Industrial and Cotton Exposition in
New Orleans are to have 1000, 900
square feet Of exhibition space, and are
to cost in the aggregate only S255,0OO-
N. o. Picdy19e.
A syndicate of New York capital
fists has purchased the franchises and
completed portion of the Kansas City
& Southern Railroad. This road starts
from a point near Blue River on tho
Chicago q Alton, about four miles
from Kansas City, and runs directly
south through the Missouri coal fields
to the Arkansas River. - Chicago Jour
nal.
"A recently published statement Of
the yield of pre- sious metal shows That
in 1882 the output of gold in the entirc
world was valued at S11S, coo, 900, and
of silver mt S9i, 900, 600. 1t is a fact
not generally understood that Russia is
the third greatest producer of gold, the
yield of that country being So, 600;
only S21. .400,0 600 less than the United
States, and 50, 900, 900 less than Austria
lia.-N y. Herald.
Few people reflect upon the fact
that the Indians are the richest land
holders in the United States. We have
237, ,066 of them, exclusive of the Alaska
Indians, holding ISL, 397. 76S acres of
land. Some of the tribes own 5000
acres per Indian. The average is about
one square mile TO each Indian, while n
white man is not all we'd To pre-empt
more than 16O acres of the public land.
Chicago TtnlcS.
The sale of animals of menagcrie
at Armenia, n. Y, recently drew
large number of uriosity-huntcrs, and
the bidding was spirited A white deer
brought S4S, and a black one only S25.
A cinnamon bear was sold for $40, and
an Abyssinian ipex brought $1,000. A
pair Of striped hyenas were sold for
$40, and prairie wolf for 50. A sacred
COW was struck off for S25, and n zebra
brought SlO5. Three monkeys were
sold for $50, Rocky Mountain badger,
SO; two Minnesota coons, -; white
crane from Iowa, S14; two white cock
atoos, $40; Rose cockatoO, 50;
green parrot, 81; an African leopard,
500; four large badgers, S2S; two
prairie dogs, 50, forty Guinea pigs, $500.
and an African boa snake, S76.-Iroy
Times
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-27
A FEARFUL ACCUSATION.
A Father Indicted for Setting Fire to His
Own Home and Burning to Death His
Two Invalid Children. s.

Father Indicted for Setting Fire to His
Own Home and Burning to Death His
Two Invalid Children.
VINCENNEs, IND, Dec. 49,
On the night of February 7, 1888, most
horrible and lamentcd affair occurred a
Middletown, a small village on the border
of Owen and Greene Counties, thirty-f
miles north of this place. Two children of
Mr.. James Dyer were burned to death, and
the father has been indicted by the oven
County Grand Jury, and yesterday was
lodged in Jail for the alleged murder. The
particulars of the affair are as follows: On
the night in question Mr.. James Dyer's
house was burned with everything in j.,
including two of his children. The family
consisted of Mr.. Dyer and four children,
his wife having died a year ago of con.
sumption. The oldest of his children is an
intelligent, active girl of eleven years. The
next two were still younger. One was a
paralytic, almost helpless and had never
been able to walk. The other was afflicted
duce dementia bordering on total idiOcy.
The youngest was healthy and intelligent
child. The night the house was burned
Dyer took the Youngest child and went to
MiddletOwn to buy some soda. The house
was log cabin, with a board partition
separating the bedroom from the main
room. The children went to bed early,
i'm the bedroom, and about nine
by the fire in the front room.
She rushed out and opened the outside
door, which let in draugbt and instantly
filed the bedroom with fame and smoke,
which she says prevented her from return
ing to aid the other children. Although she
heard them calling to her to come and take
them out, "Oh, take me out! Pm burning
up. Oh, take me outi" she could do moth
ing for them, and ran screaming to a neigh
boris house and alarmed them. A number
of people soon gathered, when Dyer made
his appearance, but his actions aroused the
suspicious of many of those present. The
house was nearly consumed, but in the cor
ner where the bed on which the children
slept had been could be plainly seen their
forms. When the fire had gone out the
bones of the two children were found inter
laced if they had in their last agony
clasped each other in their arms and died
in close embrace. 1t was looked upon by
the neighbors as a most singular occur
renee, and the twelve-yeaT-old daughter
says that when she went to the outside
door she found il barred on the outside.
Her frantic efforts, however, were success
fui in bursting it open and saving herself
When she rushed out of the flaming build
ing the girl saws she saw her father stand
ing at a short distance from the fire watch.
iug the flames.
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WIT AED WIaDom.

If we had no defects we should not
take so much pleasure in discovering
those Of oUhers.-Ld Rochet0ucaUid
A medical writer says that girls are.
so constructed that they can not jump,
Just make one of them an offer of mar
riage and see.
"A Toronto man waited until he was
eighty-three years old before he got
married That's like running three
miles to get a good start for a fourteen
inch jump.
At the banquet: "Fcllow-Irishmeu,
! am glad to be with you here. / hope
we shall meet often. Gentlemen. YOU
may nave supposed it, but / am myself
something Of an Irishman. have a cork
leg. - CHtcn1o IincS.
Why is the tramp like servant
girl? Because he lives out by the month.
Any minstrel show or circus desiring
jokes like the above should send in their
orders Immediately, as we are just clear
ing out our fall stock at a great sacri-
flee. Detroit POST
-" No, Joseph, the Steam Heating
Company was not formed for the pur-
pose of heating steam. Steam is heated
before it is made that is 10 say, when
YOU heat the stcam-no, when Won make
AHG 6ANdil iAO NtAis NOlAONliN NbMY
don t YOU know steam is hot any way,
and doesn't have 10 be heated by n COM
pany?" Scientific AmcTican.
"A short time ago at school in tho
North of England during a lesson on
the animal kingdom the teacher put tho
following question: "Can any boy name
tn me an animal of the order ind Dtata;
that is, front tooth, tOothlcss ami
malP" A boy, whose face bcamed with
pleasure at the prospect of good mark,
replied: - can!' We'll, what Is tho
animal?'' "My grandmother" replied
the boy in great glee.
-" Yes" said Sylvia, Hats tho
meanest girl / ever did seei She knows
/ think young Mr.. Tawmus is just too
lovely for anything, and / think She Of
the same opinion. Well, / was leaning
out of the window the other day, and
Mr. Tawmus passed, and ] smiled.
Would you believe it? Hat had n set Of
her aInt's false teeth in her pocket, and
just as ] smiled, she dropped them out
Of the window. Mr.. Tawmus didn't sec
her, as she was behind me, and what
could he have thoughtY Y'-B Boston Post.
"A rare relic: What's this?" in
quired an Austin sporting man who was
rumaging among the pistols and amuni-
ton in Petmecky's gun-store. THAT"
said Petmecky, "is real rarity, j is
a pistol that once belong to the Em-
peror Charlemagne." You don't say
sol" calculated the sporting man.
"Why, man, in the time Of Charlie
magne there were no pistols. " "Well,
of course" replied Petmecky, "that' 5
just the reason it is such a rarity. II
Charlie had kept'a gun-shop full Of Der
ringers everybody would have had one"
-IeIas Stfttnqs.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-27
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

In the Senate, on the 18th, a message was
received from the House announcing the
death of Mr. Haskell of Kansas. A fter apprO-
pirate remark and the appointment Of Messrs.
Plumb, Coc&rcll and Dawes a committee to
attend tho obsequic5, the Senate, as mark of
respect, adjourned ........ In the House, Mr..
Anthony. Of Kansas, announced the death of
his colleague, Hon. D. 9. Haskell Mr.. Ander-
son oHeredthe customary resolutions, which
were unanimously adopted, and the House, as
a tribute of respect to the memory Of the de-
ceased, adjourned until Wednesday.
is the Senate, on the 18th, bills were in
truducrd. For civil government for Alaska
and in regard to the election of President
ot the senate was taken up. Auson J. McCoOk
was chosen Secretary; Chas. W. johnson,
chief Clerk; James r. Young Executive
ticIl: Rev. n. d. Huntl2y, Chaplain; w. =.
Canaday, Sergeant at Arms. A long debate
took place on the proposed rule giving the
point senator to hold his place for three
days in case OF his absence.
I'm the Senate, on the 18th, bills were in.
troduccd: For the acceptance by the United
States Of the Illinois Michigan Canal; re-
spectinE artcsian Wells; to create a commits
sion to investigate railroad transportation; re-
pafding judge advocates of the army. a bill
creating new standard time i'm District of Co
iumbia passed A resolution respecting railroad
tund5 was presented. Mr.. Mcmillan pres snt-
rd resolutions of the Legislature of Minnesota,
asking erection Of sheer hOOms at railroad
bridges Tho new rules were debated at length
without reaching a conclusion. The House
resolution respecting holidays was amended
AAlns |anunly as the time for the reas
kCmh.inE Of Congress. ........I In the House. Mr.
Blackburu reported a resolution creating Sow
Cral special committees. An amendment q
was adopted. The Speaker appointed com
lnittce ON the centennial of Wa shingtOn's sur
render of his commission. The House con
currad ia the Senate amendment to the holl
day adjournment resolution,
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A Lava Bed District.

About one hundred miles from the
Town OF Santa Barnardino and forty
miles to the southeast of Calico, the
Mammoth ledge was discovered by 5
A. Clark, who is now visiting Santa
Barbara. The ledge crops out on the
ground and ranges from six to fifty
feet in height and from six to eighty
feet in width. Standing on a spur Of
the hill opposite the ledge, it can plain
ly be seen for more than a mile break
ing out on the surface. On this ledge
there are now six mines in operation,
all in line, occupying ] 800 feet each;
not to mention numberless extensions
in all directions. The principal mine,
the Mammoth Chief, is represented by
specimens in Mr.. Clark's possession Of
remarkably rich ore, assaying from
81 900 to II, 100 per ton in silver. The
Morning Star mine, OF the same ledge,
has also fine showing Of rich ore,
specimens assaying $500 to the ton.
This mine has just been sold by Mr..
Clark for $40, ,OOO, and the fortunate own
ers are now engaged in developing the
same. The direction in which this ar
gentiferous ledge lies, upon a mount
ain side broken by canyons, renders il
pecuniarily accessible, as tunnels may
be easily run into the heart of all this
richness. Beside the huge percentage
of SILVER, the ore OF different claims
contains from So to S143 in gold per
ton; which is worth the working for
its own sake. Other metals are found
in abundance. The galena ore, as is
generally known. contains a large per-
centage of lead, which shows itself
very plainly in the specimens from
the Desert Queen, the same being also
rich in horn silver. Santa Barbara tq-
dependeHt
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-27
LATE NEWS ITEMS

IN the Senate, on the 20th, bills were
introduced: To authorize the Secretary of
War to erect a monument to General War
ren; to authorize distillatiOn of fruit with
out federal tax, leaving taxation to States;
to establish a board of railroad com
missioners to regulate Interstate COM
merce, to be appointed by the President;
to repeal the law allowing use of alcO-
bOlic vapOrs in the manufacture of vine
gar, except by duly authorized distillers.
A large number of postmasters were con-
frmed. Mr.. Van Wyck's preamble to in
quiry respecting railroad land grants was
amended and agreed to. The new rules
were laid over till after the holidays. The
House resolution respecting the centennial
of Washington's surrender of his commits
sion was agreed to.......In the House
joint resolution passed requesting the Pres
ident to issue a proclamation to secure OBJ
servance Of the surrender by General
Wa shington of his commission as Com
mander-in-C Chief of the Colonial armies.
The House refused to create a committee
on male suffrage. A committee on rivers
and harbors was created.
! SECRETARY FRELINGHUYsEN in a let
ter to Minister Lowell respecting the Clay
/ ton Bulwer treaty, contends that the treaty
I - NotudDles DuJ lulllhS bL6 TWO idJlOllS W III
reach an amcabIe understanding.
! Four more Mexican train robbers
We're captured at Villadama ON the 2Jth.
THE strike in the third pool coal
mines in Pennsylvania is said to be a fail
ure.
THE Washington, Cincinnati & st.
Louis Railroad has been sold to syndi-
cate.
LONDON advices of the goth say tho
South Australian wheat crop is much above
the average.
REV. Mr.. GALLAGHER, of Ontario, is
\ to be disciplined for marrying man to his
| deceased wife's sister.
I Mrs A. THUR 8ER was entenced on tho
goth to ten years in She Penitentiary Of
Massachusetts for attempt to kill her hus-
band.
THE French captured the outworks of
Sontay on the 10th. The Chinese s;il hold
the fort.
/ The merchants of San Francisco
complain that the opening of the Northern
Pacific Railroad has ruined their trade
with the Northwest.
EDWARD DUCHE9IN, young hus-
band at Cincinnati Oh the 10Th, supposed
he had killed his wife, got his breakfast
and then went to a polite station and gave
himself up, showing the knife he Lad used.
TIE United States Consul at Odessa
informs the State Department that it is ro-
ported that petroleum has been discovered
/ In Russia in greater volume and more val
liable than that found in tlis country.
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DECATUR, Ala, Dec. Is.
An old and we'll known man named Geo.
Gibson, living near this place, was taken
suddenly and violently Ill yesterday. His
wife stepped across to a neighbours to pro-
cure help, and while there was stricken
down in the same sudden and violent man.
ner as had been her husband a short time
before. She was carried home, and
died last night. A colored woman, near
neighbor to Gibson, was attacked in the
same manner and her life was despaired
of. The neighbOrs say Gibson owned a hog
which was suffering from cholera, and
Gibson, for fear Of losing IL, slaughtered the
hog, and every one who ate Of the animal
was seized as above.
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On the NIGHT of the 18th Mrs. Peter

On the night of the 18th Mrs. Peter
Burns, aged seventy years, residing at
Struthers, near Youngstown, o., was
burned to death by her clothes taking fire
from CRATE. Her husband was away on a
drunken spree. When neighbors opened
the door she was burned to a crisp.
Ok the 18th a stage-coach was run
into at Kingston, Ont, by an express train
and number of people were killed.
ON the 18th a large schooner of Ev-
anston, near Chicago, was supposed to
have gone down with all on board.
On the 18th what was left of the town
of Rat Portage, Manitoba, by the recent
fire was wiped out by similar confagra-
ton; loss about S1O1, 900.
OK the night of the 10th at Durango,
Col, Bruce Hunt, son Of Ex-Governor Hunt,
was shot and killed by big Ike" a negro
desperate, who was in the act of robbing
the Bank of Durango. Hunt was one of a
party who had been waiting for the robbers.
The murderer escaped.
THE morning OF the 18th robbers en-
tered the house o S. =. Creasinger at Maple
Rapids, Mich, chloroformed Mr.. c., ran
sacked the premises, securing $500 in
money and a quantity of other valuables,
and then set fire to the house. Mr.. Crea-
singer recovered his faculties in time to
make his escape from the burning building.
OK the 18th a fire at Fortville, Ind, g,
destroyed 49, 800 worth of property.
On the 18th a number Of vessels were
lost with all on board in a great storm in
the Mediterranean.
On the 18th by the explosion of the
boilers of an oil refinery at sburgh,
Pa, several persons lost their lives.
AT Farmland, near Muncie, Ind, a
seventeen ousand- dollar fire occurred on
the 18Th.
AN explosion of three hundred pounds
Of giant powder, which miners were warm
! ing around a steve in Lion Mountain, Clin-
I ton County, Mich, occurred on the 18th,
and considerably damaged the company
| buildings. The miners narrowly escaped.
OK the 10Th heavy loss was sustained
/ by fire in the burning of cotton warehouses
! at Baltimore, Md
/ On the night of the 18th w. J. Little,
of Indianapolis, Ind, freight conductor
on the l. & st. L. Road, was killed at Terre
Haute
AT Cheshire, Conn, Peck, Stow 6
Wilson'S edge tool factory burned on the
10Th; loss, $25,C0). A large number of men
are thrown out of employment.
On the 18th James Weaver, aged
sixty, laborer in Hussey & Howe's Steel
works at Pittsburgh, Pa, was caught in
the betting and was torn limb from limb
Portions of his body were scattered a dis
tance of hundred feet.
THE entire business portion of Med
ford, Mimi, was destroyed by fire on the
10Th. Loss very heavy.
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Shocking Fate of a Colorado NJ ner.

GEORGETOWN, Col, Dec. Is.
The discovery was made this morning OF
the horrible death of John E. Emerson, a
miner on Douglass Mountain. The sur
roundings of the dead body, when found,
showed that the man had had the lower
portion of his body buried by cave in the
tunnel he was drifting, and that, after re-
naming hopelessIy pinioned for several
hours by the rocks, his legs being horribly
mangled, be had taken a jack-knife from
his pocket and cut his throat to end his
misery. Emerson was an old miner in this
section, and universally known. He lett
town on Saturday morning to work alone
in his tunnel. As he did not return as usual
a searching party went to the mine to
look for him. Within fifteen feet of the
entrance to the tunnel Emerson was seen
standing. 1t was dark in the tunnel and
the searchers did not notice the man was
dead until they touched him. They then
saw that his throat was cut, and supposing
that murder had been committed has
tened for the Coroner. This official found
that Emerson came to his death as de-
scribed. The body was covered to the waist
with loose dirt and rocks, which held him
in his upright position. The knife with
which he cut his throat must have been in
his breast pocket. The cave in the tunnel
crushed his legs and piniOned him beyond
hone of escape by his own exertiOn. How
long he remained in that position before
putting an end TO his own sufferings Is not
known, but it must have been alter he had
exhausted his energy in trying to make
clutched in his fingers. The number of ugly
gashes in his throat show how persistent he
must have been in taking his life with the
dull knife.
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Another st. Louis Girl.

A rich Chicago girl was visiting n
poor friend who was teaching school in
St. Louis, and the two girls were talk
ing over their respective situations in
life.
"You have TO work very hard, don't
you?' asked the Chicago girl.
Yes, was the answer, but 1 find n
great deal to interest and entertain
me-"
Il don's do anything, but have a
good time, and enjoy il thoroughly"
Il should think you would
Lets change for awhile. How
would you like to be in my shoes?
"Well." said the ST. Louis girl,
looking at the foot of the other one,
there only one thing against it. ~
Whats that, pray2'
"Why. dear. i'll got into your shoes
to-day, the papers all over the country
would come out tomorrow morning
with daring headlines. Mysterious
Disappearance of Another 81. Louis
Girl and don't want any unpleasant
notoriety. ~ Merchant IraUeicr
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For ne Cotton Centennlnl.

CHARLEsTON. s. C.. Dec. 1s
The bill appropriating $4,000 to a State
exhibit at the Worlds Exposition and Cot
ton Centennial, at New Orleans, passed the
Senate. The cotton centennial feature Of
the Exposition is peculiarly interesting to
South Carolina and Charleston, because
the eight bags of cotton constituting the
first shipment from America were grown
near the capital and exported from Charles
ton. Commissioner General Morehead is
urging the authorities and citizens Of
Cbarleston to have q special exhibit. Presi-
dent Clyde, Of the Clyde system Of rail-
roads, says that system viii join any gem
eral plan for cheap passenger and freight
rates to the Exposition,
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Kansas HOn0ring Her Dead.

LAWhENJEs ME-, DEC. "
The body of Hon. D. G. Haskell and
party in charge arrived here at noon to-
day. Massachusetts street is for two miles
strung in black. Governor Click, the en-
tire State Board of officers, and represent
ative leading men Of fully half the counties
in the State are here tonight to take part
in the procession tomorrow. Delegations
from Topeka, Leavenworth, AtchisOn,
Paola and Fort Scott will come in on the
night trains. The funeral will be the larg-
est and most honOred ever held in the State.
The body lay in state at Plymouth Church
from one to five p. m, and was visited by
an unbroken line of people.
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Romance in Real Life-3Iarried, Divorced
and Re-1Iarrfed.

DALION, IA DEC. 70.
On the 10th of April, 1881, Mr.. g. W. Pate
of Murray County, wooed and won Miss
Sallie F. Williams, neighboring country
lass. For a while love reigned supreme in
the home of the Hewly-wedded pair. But
after time jealousy crept in and the hus-
band sought release by suit for total di-
vorce, which was granted last February.
A few days ago the pair met by chance IN
a neighbours house, and agreed it was not
we'll TO follow divergent paths, and the re-
suit was one weeks courtship, followed by
a renewal of their marriage VOWS.
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CnInrEs AND cAsUALrIEs.

On the 18th the trestle used in erect
ing the new canal bridge at Crescent, Sara
toga County, n. Y, fell, preciPitating five
men twenty feet to the canal bottom. All
were injured, Santa Fonda and Frank Sill
vernail probably fatally.
OK the night of the 18th a Commits
Bary of the Police named Heubeck was
murdered by anarchists in Vienna, The
tnurderer has been arrested
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Meeting of Irishmen and Irish SymFa.
thizers at the National Capital-OpiniOns
OF congressman Robinson, CaIkins, Fin
erty and BelfOrd upon the Trial and
Execution of the Murderer of Informer
fsnrar