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The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1883-03-08
The Voyage Of Life-An AIIegory.

To be given by the Library Association. at the
Court House, on Thursday evening, March 18th.
This entertainment will conclude with the world
renowned Mrs. farley and her wax-works.
Admission, % cents; reserved seats, IS cents
For sale at post Office
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II Townsend Richardson have just received :
beautiful line of embroidery
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II The best Spring medicine known /. that won
derful tonic, Browns Iron Bitter..
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~ 1t IL stated Democratic authority. that the
GrrenbaekeTs and Prohibifionists will combine in
Iowa. and run Gen. Weaver for Governor.
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The Thomas Deverea1 farm. Enquire OF e. lie
land. Jr.
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II Try the Pro-pectcr Cigar, if You want a good
smoke. ID. c. SIScIaIR & BRo
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~ The place to get native luurcr. Is :, Palu.,
4 ortons. White Cland.
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- TGe temperance eaHse in Iowa has been clear
the top Of the ladder. IL i- nov at the bottom-
fs~a Siaie Registsr
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VA! negotiate leans Tor parties wishing 10 harm,
money. aGl-e
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~ should jag Gould ON his travels meet = PR
ate. il wonii he bad far the Pira;e.-Psi'adefPA'e
TiBass.
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jos. PEvEOD T. sec.
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money To Loan.
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Troy, Kansas
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y Tom. Evans became pap to IOpound hoy.
last Friday
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-04-19
Is the White House Haunted!

''Yes, this building is haunted, - sai0
an attache of the Presidential mansion
to the Critic this morning, s'and it is
said that supernatural sights are not
unfrequently witnessed in these large,
Old-fashiOned rooms and airy halls Sew
eral weeks ago the President changed
the location of his bed-chamber by re-
moving from the east to the north room,
and it was vaguely whispered then that
his slumbers had been disturbed by the
nocturnal and wierd visitor, the same
that one of our chambermaids said she
had seen walking stately and erect
through the upstairs Railways on sew
eral occasions.
Yes, the ghostly visitor is man.
continued the attache, "because | re-
member well of hearing the chamber
maid say that he had long, flowing
white hair and beard, and very much
resembled the statesmen of long ago,
whose pictures we see printed on the
pages of history. At any rate, sir, /
know that the President rest is often
disturbed at night, because | have heard
him time and time again moving about
long after midnight, and sometimes |
have listened to his steady and cOntin-
ued pacing across the floor when every
one else in the house was slumbering,
and wondered whatwas disturbing him.
" His great responsibility OF dyspepsia
might have been the agent" suggested
the Critic.
ooh, no." quickly rejoined the at
tache, "neither of them, I'm sure. 1t
was the White House ghost, and I'll be;
on it. This ghost is the same one that
made Gen. Grants nights here Sc
scarce, and suggested his frequent trips
through the country, as l have heard
the attendants who were here with hin
frequently say, and [ will tell you can.
idly that I think the ghost frequen.
appearance of late have put the notion
into President Arthur's head of goin;
off on his proposed trip" Concluding
the Presidential individual left to an
swer a call from upstairs.
/ The Critic subsequently got the fol
! lowing description from one who claims
/ to have seen the white spirit of the
/ White House. He is an aged and
bent-back man, with long, phosphores-
/ cent, white beard and hair, ghastly and
wavy. bright and glaring eyes, and long,
/ scrawny fingers. His walk is noiseless
but stately, and his presence is always
/ indicated by peculiar electric sensation
1 which pervades the surrounding air.
/ The electricity is what breaks the Presi-
1 1ent up, and NAL him perambulate. :"
/ - Washington Critic.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-04-19
WIT AND WISDOM.

Dishonest people are most sus-
picious.
Children of wealth-The Rothschil-
1ren.-LVe.
Interesting to married men-An
eastern firm has just ordered one million
broom-handles.
1t is worth a thousand pounds a
year to have the habit of looking on
the bright side of things.-Dr. johnson.
The object of all ambition should be
to be happy at home. If we are not
happy there, we surely cannot be happy
elsewhere.
Happened to meP'' he said. Il
should think something, had! I'm
heart-broken! I've been beaten, hold
. ing four kings
= never complained of my condi-
ton but once" said an old man
'.when my feet were bare, and / had
no money to buy shoes; but / met a
man without feet, and became con-
tented"
"A prominent merchant says when
he is tired and wants rest, he don't 90
off on a tour and spend money, but he
Just takes his ad. out of the paper. 1t
has the same effect a red flag hung in
front of his place wOuld.-Grip.
At town meeting a large tax
payer rose up to protest against the
building of a new school-house in a
certain part of the town. whats the
good of it?'' asked he. ''They are an
ignorant set down there, anyhow"
Pooh, . remarked the wise concert
goer, as the performer of a piano solo
was leaving the stage, ''that fellow can t
play. Why, be don't wriggle his body,
nor throw back his head, nor stick out
his tongue bit. FbtldteiptjG Ne10s.
Mamma said little girl who
had been reading a fish tale, Does a
whale eat like pig?" Mamma hesi-
tated moment and then replied: "Oh,
[ guess so.'' ''Therer' exclaimed the
child, turning with triumphant air to
her brother: Il told you they fed whales
in the trough of the sea"
"A man uptown made a wager with
a lady that he could thread a needle
quicker than she could sharpen a lead
pencil. The man won. Time, fourteen
minutes and forty seconds. 1t is thought
the result would have been different il
the woman had not run out Of lead
pencil inside of fve minutes.-NOrTis-
lo10p Herald.
Twelve thousand shOYels are man
ufactured in the United States every
week And vet every time a man wants
his own individual shovel after dark, be
has to paw anil claw around over two
tons of soft coal feeling for it, making
/ remarks in the meantime that are
1 enough to blister any coal shovel that
/ ever hid itself between the end Of the
she'd and an empty barrel.-Hal0keye.
While eating Blue Point oysters on
/ the half-shell in one of the Main street
/ restaurants the other night, a young
mana stranger in the city-felt s@me
/ hard substance in one of the biyalves
4 Not dreaming Of such good fortune, he
/ carelessly removed the intruder from
I his mouth, and was about to lay il
down by the side of his plate, when be
1 discovered it was pearl of unusual size
/ "a pearl shit button. It had dropped
from the cooks cuff Us he was serving
4 the oysters. Bradford Sunday Nail
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-04-19
IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
rEnsONAL AND POLITICAL.

IT is reported from London, Eng,
that it is probable two Judges will accom-
pany Lord Chief-Justice Colcridge on the
lattcr's forthcoming visit TO this country.
HCGH GLADSTONE, a cousin of the
British Prime Minister, committed suicide
in Liverpool ON the 9th inst.
The death of Rev. DR. Alfred H.
Partridge, for twenty-sevcn years rector Of
Christ Church, Brooklyn, y. Y, occurred
few days ago.
PRoF. H. w. WILEY, of Perdue Uni
versity, Lafayette, Ind, has been APP
pointed Chief Chemist Of the Department
of Agriculture.
SECRETARY FOLGER was at the Treas
ury Department on the 9th inst, the first
time in about two months. His left eye
was still somewhat iuhamed, but other
wise he was in pretty good health. He had
not determined whether he would take
trip for his health or not.
PRESIDENT Arthur has been petit
toned To call a special session of Congress
to consider the relations between labor and
capital.
THE Georgia Democratic State Con
veution met at Atlanta on the 10Th and or
ganized by electing Charles Tiersip Per
manent Chairman. Five ballots were taken
for Governor but no choice made.
A ROYAL message giving assent to
the bill relating TO the possession of explo-
sives has been read in the British Parlia-
ment.
PosTHAsTER-GENERALGR GRESHAM quail
iied and took charge of the Post-ofIice De
purtmcut on the 18th.
THE Treasury Department at Wash
iugton has decided to accept the proposal
of the Hawaiian Government for the coin
age of silver for the insular kingdom at the
San Francisco mint.
MINISTER WEST has laid before Sec
rctary Frcliughuvscn "a communication
from the British Government to the effect
that English agents or detectives had been
sent to this country to watch the move
mouts of Irish agitators, and to discover,
If possible, whatever shipments of explo-
sivc materials may be made from Ameri-
can ports to England.
TIE United States steamer Talla-
poosa has been ordered to st. Augustine
Fla, TO receive President Arthur and
party.
The Irish members Of the British Par
lament have agreed that ParneI should
remain to attend 10 his official duties in
stead OF, coming to America.
THE Georgia Democratic Convention
has nominated Henry ID. McDaniels, of
Walton County for Governor of that State.
MINISTER Lowell presided the other
evening at the annual meeting in London,
Eng, Of the Society for Relief of Distressed
Foreigners.
john WALSH, who Informer Carey
sworc initiated him into the Invincibles,
and who was arrested i'm France upon that
charge recently at the request of the Brit
ish Government, but not held, arrived in
New y ork few days ago.
a BILL has been introduced i'm the
Pennsylvania Senate to prohibit the manu-
facturc and Sule Of Internal machines and
devices TO destroy life and injure prop
erty.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-04-19

MoRTTz WADELHAN, of Chicago, Ill,
shot two constables a few days ago who at
tempted TO arrest him for murderous as
sault on his wife.
WILLIAM NJ. CROCKETT, who it was
alleged murdered J. F. Hunt in Wytheville,
Va, was lynched the other day by one
hundred masked men.
Two boiler explosions occurred the
other morning with dreadful effect. At
Ashtabula, o., the boilers of Hitchcock &
Bradley exploded, killing James Graham
instantly and totally wrecking the build
ing. Eighty men were thrown out of em-
ployment. In the Hudson CWis.) Chair
Factory an explosion burned William
Paaska so severely that he died soon after.
Superintendent Fisher was seriously hurt
by flying debris, and a man named Reilly
was injured slightly. The bull ling was
completely demolished, pieces being carried
a quarter of a mile. Fifty men in neigh
boring room miraculously escaped without
injury.
THE steamer Wylly struck the bridge
at Fort Gaines, Ga, the other day and sunk
Immediately. Ten persons were reported
missing.
A HORRIBLE accident occurred at a
saw-min three miles north of Armada, Ma
comb County, Mich, the other day. Philip
Short, while oiling a buzz-saw, was caught
by the sleeve and had his right arm and leg
cut entirely Off the saw ran the entire
length of the other leg from the thigh to the
foot and then threw him six feet away,
striking his head on "a bolt, making a frac-
ture three inches deep. He lived three
hours after the accident.
WHILE Nicholas SherOn, of Milan,
o., was putting on a tin roof at Chicago
Junction the other day he was blown off
the building by the wind, the fall breaking
his neck.
One of the most destructive fires in
the history of Denver, Colo, occurred in
that place the other night in the total de-
struction of the Continental Oil and Trans
portation Company's Works. Two hundred
thousand gallons of oil and the extensive
tankage bRildings were consumed, involv-
ing a loss Of 100000. Incendiarism was
suspected.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-04-19
God In Nature.

In recent scientific lecture Profcs-
sor G. A. Young, the astronomer, Of
Princeton College, used the. following
language: do not understand me a.
all as saying that there is no mystery
about the planets motions. There is
just the one single mystery gravita-
tion-and it is a very profound one.
How it is that an atom Of matter can
attract another atom, no matter how
great the disturbance, no matter what
Intervening substance there may be;
how it will act upon il, or at least be
have a. if>it acted upon il, j do not
know, / can not tell. Whether they
are pushed together by means Of An
intervening ether, or what is the ac-
ton, can not understand. IL stands
with me along with the fact that when
/ will that my arm shall rise, IL rises
II is inscrutable. All the eXplana-
tions that have been given Of il seem
10 me merely TO darken counsel with
words and no understanding. Tley
do not remove the difficulty at all.
If were to say what really believe, u
would be that the motions Of the spheres
Of the material universe stand in some
such relation to Him in whom all
things exist, the ever-present and ONT
nipOtent God, as the motions Of my
body do to my will do not know how,
and never expect 10 know
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-04-19
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

1t is said that the Congregational
Church at Henniker, N. H., has had
but eleven deacons during its career of
ia years.
The principal Roman Catholic
newspaper organ of Dublin gives full
and fair reports of D. l.. MoOdy's dis
courses in that city, during his late
visit.
The Chicago public schools were
this year closed, for the first time, on
Good Friday A Chicago paper says
that half of the children do not know
what Good Friday is, and perhaps some
of them could not learn by asking their
pa9ents.
The law library of the late Justice
Clifford, of the United States Supreme
Court, is now offered for sale at Port
land, Me, and an effort is being made
to have it itpurchased as a whole and kept
in that city as a public ibarary. 1t is
said to be the largest law library in New
England except one in Boston.
Investigation shows that in Utah
the Mormon Church has about 120, 900
members; in the Western States and
Territories about $4,000, and in the
Sandwich Islands about 1000. 1t has
about ninety churches in Great Britain,
anu UI1C RECOMMENDATION Is one Ol JIlG ldIA-
est in the southern part of Wales.
1t has been decided to close the
Presbyterian theological seminary at
Danville, Ky, at least temporarily, be-
cause of a lack of funds, its endowment
not being sufficient to maintain even
four professorships. The seminary was
opened in 1858, and has instructed
about 260 students, over 100 pursuing
the full course.
There are 5000 places of religious
worship in England and Wales, having
about 100000 sittings. The average
attendance on Sundays is about 10, 0O0,-
000 The ministers number $4,000, of
whom $4,000 belong to the Estab-
lished Church. On every Sunday there
are delivered $4,000 sermons, or 4,0O0,-
600 every year. There are 5000, 900
children in the Sunday-schools, for
whom there are 500, 900 teachers.
"A medical commission was ap-
pointed some time ago in Germany to
study and investigate certain questions
relating to the construction of school
buildings. In the matter of ventilation
the commission states that each pupil
in a school ought to have 2,120 cubic
feet of fresh air each hour, at the least.
1t is stated also that light from the rear
is admissible, but it is not recon-
mended, and windows facing the
pupils are prohibited.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-04-19
Aphorisms from the Quarters.

Some pocket-knifes mus "a beer
made to len out.
A man dat kin make libin' playin
de fiddle amt ap' to pester de hoe-han.
die
'Casionally, a man wild right smart
edication can't find his knife when it git
in de wrong pocket.
A long spell o rOomatiz is APP to p int
out your bes' friends.
De rainbow might be better lookin' ef
'twan' { sech cheap show.
De bottom O. de meal-box make
mighty pO' music.
BIG blaze O. fire can't roas' your
'taters.
De bes' seed amt bound to make big
water-milions.
It's mighty rotten old house dat
won't make kmdlin' wood.
Bresh-fire soon gone.
Heap o. wummy scaly-barks come orr
de top limbs.
De crawfish gifts into trouble by build
in too fine chimley to a little house.
You can't take de twis out de gra' =
vine by cultervatin' it.
Peacock can't hide his fOOts by spread
in his tail.
Green simmons amt 'fraid o no
body.
Edication don't come by bumpin'
gin de school-'ouse
When de morkin' bird try to mork
eb'rything, he boun' to let out some
music dat aint wuf much.
It's a mighty lazy nigger dat don't
keep his ak sharp.
A hole under de garden palms is a
hard secret to keep
See whar you gwine to bit 10 you
lif your hoe.
Sas' 'fus-root tea won't hut your spec
terbility when de crap come out short.
Too much trabblin' on de railroad
make some folks lose de right lick for de
ootton-patch.-J 4. Macon, y, Century.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-04-19
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

THE businesss failures for the seven
days ended on the 18Th inst. numbered 1S9,
as against 1877 for the week previous, of
which number ffty-four occurred in the
Western States.
ROBERT MASSEY was executed at Fort
Smith. Ark, on the 18th for the murder of
Edwin p. Clark in the Chicl5asaw Nation,
December a, 1881. James E. Robinson was
also hanged ON the same day for murder at
Adair, Miss.
UNDER the new postal law it is said
salaries of postmasters in the small
offices will be greatly changed, the Govern
ment getting less and the postmasters more.
The receipts from sales of stamps viii be
reduced twenty per cent.
DIR, II. r. PALMER's International
Normal Music School begins July 2 at Mead
vile, Pa, and continues four weeks.
The design for the new two-cent
postage stamps has been approved by Post
master-General Gresham.
JoE BRADY was convicted at Dublin,
Ireland, on the 18th and sentenced to be
hanged May IA for the Phoenix Park muir
dcrs.
TIE London Eng.) Board of Public
Works was taking precautions against the
introduction of explosives into the sewers
on the 18th.
IN the trial of Scheller on the charge
Of setting fire to the NewhalI House in Mil
waukee, Wis, the chief engineer testified
that Scheller's attorney tried to get him to
swear that the fire started from a gas-jet.
The Union Trust Company of St.
Louis, Mo-, has been blacklisted by the
Post-office Department.
AT Lake City, Colo, Alfred g. Packer
has been convicted of numbering five men
in San Juan County in 1872.
The wages-question involved in the
Cincinnati, O., cigar-makers' strike had
been settled on the 18th, but other demands
of the men had not been conceded, and
work was still interrupted.
CHARLES SMITH, living near Earl
vile. Iowa, killed his wife and two sons
few days ago and then committed suicide.
The Iroquois Club banquet took
place in Chicago, H., on the 18th. Among
the speakers were Hons. Thomas F. Bayard,
James O. Broadhead, w. F. Villas, W. G.
/ P. Breckenridge, Everett p. Wheeler, Ly
man Trumbun, John NJ. Palmer, VIM.
/ Springer, VIM. H. Hurlbert and Mayor
Harrison, Of Chicago.
THE jury in the case of ex-Alayor
Debevoise, Long Island City, n. Y, who
was tried for the wrongful conversion of
city bonds, has found verdict against de-
fendant for Sl0o, 200. A motion for a new
trial was denied, as was also q motion for
stay of proceedings.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-04-19
Youths Department,
4 NEW MOTHER HUBBARD.


Miss Polly Betscy Patterson,
In Mother Hubbard cloak
And a Mother Hubbard bonnet
With a most bewitching poke,
One morning met a curly dog.
He was of medium size
His ears were dropped, his tail was limp,
And the tears stood in his eyes.
Said Polly to the curly dog;
" Why do you look so sadY''
Because" replied he, with sniff,
The times are very bad"
You sce," said he, 'the streets are full
OF little Mother Hubbards
But though I've wagged my tail most or
They never speak of cupbOards."
Said Polly Betsey: "COmc with me.
'Twould melt a heart of stone!
I'll give you lots of bread and milk,
And juicy mutton-bone."
She took him home and fed him well;
His tears were turned to laughter;
And now, wherever Polly goes,
The curly dog trOts after.
-E'ednor 4. Hunter, i1t 81. NtchOlds.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-04-19

Special rates given on application.
nE-Au business letters must be addressed TO
GEORGE w. ARMISTEAD.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-04-19

The outs in a pedigree should not
count against poor but honest young
man. He is not responsible for his an
cestors. 90 No one Is 10 be blamed. 90
says a Southern paper, because his
grandfather had so much money that he
could afford 10 be loafer.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-04-19

Minnesota will have 2, ,45O, 900 acres
$ eeded TO wheat this spring
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-04-19
TERMS OF ADVERTISING.

one square Of eight lines. S1.50 for the first
Insertion, and 70 cents for each subsequens
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1883-10-24
Unusually Young Mothers.

4 remarkable feature of case in an
Indiana court was the youthfulness of
n mo her present who had, az the age Of
only 10, gwen birth to two healthy
twins. Youthful maturity seems 10
have been inherited, for this mother
was erself born when her mother was
-. she in turn having. been born when
her mother was Ii. In court was the
remarkable spectacle of a great-grand-
mother, grandmother and mother Of
twins, the great-grandmothcr now be-
ing 40 years old, the grandmother u,
and the mother l4.-Cincinnati Conn
DerGtdl Gazette.