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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-05-24
LATE NEWS ITEMS.


THE dreadful cyclone was still at
work on the 18th. This time Racine,
Wis, caught the brunt of the damage, it
being reported that fully twenty people
were killed and one hundred injured and
one hundred and fifty houses demolished.
Great damage was done in the country and
to several towns in northern Illinois.
A DECISION has been rendered adj
versely to John II. Moore who sought to To-
cate lands on what is known as the Valen-
tine scrip, arising out of a Mexican grant
in California.
THE Kentucky State Democratic Con-
vention closed jts session at Louisville on
the 18th, after nominating the present in
cumbents, General Fayette Hewett, for
Auditor; James w. Tate, for Treasurer: J..
Desh, for Superintendent of Public In
struction, and z. w. Hardin for Attorney
General. J. c. Cecil was nominated for
Register of the Land Office.
IT was reported Mt New York on the
18th that a warrant for the arrest of P. J.
Sheridan had been forwarded from Wash
ington at the request of the British Govern
mont
The business failures throughout the
United States and Canada during the sew
en- days ended on the 18th numbered III, as
against l56 the seven days previous, dis
tributed as follows: Now England States,
%; Middle States "a; Southern States, 80;
Western States, 56; Pacific States and Ter
ritories, l.; Canada and New York, a.
TwENTY-SEvEN persons were injured
the other day by the explosion of the boil
ers of a steamer on the river Volga.
ROBERT b. MORRILL,, ex-Audit0r of
the Philadelphia (Pa.) Gas Trust, has been
arrested for embeEzlement.
The trial of Jerre Dunn, for the muir
der of Elliott, the pugilist, at Chicago III,
has resulted in a verdict of acquittal
Two murderers were executed on the
18th. c. Jones, the wife-murderer, at
Lexington, Ca, and Henry Knight, colored,
at Waycross, Ca, for the murder of Ed
ward Hunter, coiored bandmaster, near that
place, in July, 1882.
THE steamer Granite State, which
piled between New York and Hartford,
Conn, was destroyed by fire at Goodspeed's
Landing the other morning and two lives
were known to be lost and three other per
sons were missing.
A RUSSIAN officer under arrest has
disclosed the existence of a military revo-
lutionary society.
THE prohibition amendment has been
finally defeated in the Pennsylvania Legis-
lature.
! DANIEL CURLEY, the second man con-
victed OF the murder of Cavendish and
Burke, was hanged at Kilmainham Jail,
Dublin, ireland, on the 18th.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-05-24

The jury in the case of Rev. Henry
Smith, a Baptist Minister, on trial at Can
ton, Van Zandt County, Tex, for the muir
der Of Deputy Sheriff b. II. Day, returned a
verdict on the 10Th Of murder in the first
degree, and assessed the punishment at life
imprisonment in the Penitentiary.
IT was reported from Monterey,
Mex, on the 10th that Psausland and Mudd,
two Americans in Jail for the murder OF
WickIand, a wealthy contractor, few
days ago, had been taken out and hanged
by a mob.
AN engine and eighteen freight cars
were thrown down an enbankment on the
Reading g. Columbia Railroad near Ephra-
Ia, Pa, the other day George w. Hahn,
Master Mechanic Of the road, was killed.
The disaster was caused by a plank mali
ciously placed across the track.
During popular fete and fireworks
in a village adjacent to Lisbon, Portugal,
the other day, dynamite bomb exploded,
killing four persons and wounding twenty
others.
WHILE a number of workmen were
digging a trench at Allegheny City, Pa,
the other morning the ground caved in, in
stautly killing John Smith and seriously
injuring Matthew Golden and James
Hughes.
a TORNADO fell upon Denison, Tex,
on the morning of the 18th, destroying the
baptist Church, damaging the public school
and demolishing several other buildings.
Mrs. Lee McMurtry was killed.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-05-24
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The Holy Scriptures are published
in two hundred and fifty languages or
| dialects.
-Prestonburg, in Floyd County, al
| though one of the oldest towns in Ken
lucky, has,never had a church.
Miss Margaret Whalen, a Pennsyl-
vania school teacher, whaled one of her
| big boys until she dislocated his shoul-
der. Margaret, being interpreted, sig
nifies " a daisy. Philadelphia Press.
In Bohemia Spiritualism is taking
such alarming dimensions that the
Bishop has caused a declaration to be
made from the pulpits placing it on a
par with heresy, and stating that who
ever persists in it will be refused abso-
luton after confession Chicago ITib-
une.
The Trustees of Columbia College,
New York, have prepared a plan to re-
ceive young women for a four-years'
course outside of but under the super
vision of the college, graduates to be
entitled to the same honors as young
men who have taken the regular course.
N. Y. Times.
The Christian AdUOcate announces
for the benefit of pessimists, agnostics
and unbelievers of every kind and de-
gree, that the past winter has been the
most extraordinary for conversions,
payment of church debts, erection of
new churches, and gifts for benevolent
and distinctively Christian enterprise
on record for long time.
The new Sloane Laboratory at
Yale has now advanced so far toward
completion as to make it's architectural
excellence conspicuous. 1t is ninety
feet wide, one hundred and two
feet deep and seventy feet high, with a
tower thirty feet higher than the main
roof. The interior, admirably adapted
to its purpose, will he finished during
the summer, and the building will be
ready for use next fall.
The city of Buffalo has been using
the same textbooks in its schools for
the past twenty years; but now there is
movement on foot to make an entire
change. 1t would seem to be high
time. To teach geography, for instance,
out of books published twenty years
ago is a little worse than not to teach
it at all. To change textbooks too
often is a serious evil, but not to change
them at all is intellectual death
Buffalo (N. " Express.
The Herald and Presbyter says:
"At the next meeting of our general
assembly, we suppose another foreign
synod win be added to its roll The
Synod of Syria was organized by Ameri-
can Presbyterian missionaries in De-
cember of 1882. 1t has five pres6y-
teries, bearing the names, respectively,
of Beirut, Sidon, Mt. Lebanon, Tripoli,
and Zahleh, consisting of American
Presbyterian missionaries at their sew
eral stations, with other Presbyterian
missionaries who may desire to unite
with them.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-05-24
The Founder Of Harvard College.

Very little has been left us concern
ing John Harvard life in this country;
still less of it is known i'm the mother
land, and we are driven to the scanty
records of what he did that we may
CLEAN few points at least in regard to
his character. The only facts known
about him are that he was a member of
Emanuel College, Cambridge; that in
1886 he received his degree; that after
ward, in 1887, he obtained the higher
one of A. M. In the latter part Of this
year he set sail for this country and be-
came a freeman of the Puritan settle
ment In 1888 he died.
These form what we actually know of
his life. Where he was born and in
what condition of life he was reared we
do not know, and we can only conject-
ure. But, though he was but year in
America, we find that he received
the epithets of "godly gentleman y
and "lover of learning" and he seems
indeed to have deserved them. His
estate shows that he had Il competency
in England, his library that he was a
scholar and a man of some culture; yet,
for either moral or religious principles,
he left everything that could have been
dear to him TO plunge into comPara-
tive wilderness.
While he lived here he had charge Of
the church at Charlestown, but Of his
success as "A minister nothing is said.
He could not have been great
preacher; we Judge that he was only a
man with an earnest purpose and fair
ability. That he was generous IS OBJ
vious, for when, after a year, he died,
he left directions in his will that half Of
his estate, about $500, and all his
library should be devoted to the found
ing of a "schoale or colledge," to rear up
both white and Indian boys ''in knowl-
edge ande godlynes. This was more
than generosity, in the state Of affairs
mt that time-it was the greatest liber-
ality. In 1857, the year previous, the
court had appointed twelve men Ito
take order for a colledge at Newe-
towne," but the poverty and unsettled
condition of the times were such that 1t
would have been impossible for those
appointed to have succeeded in their
design had not this humble stranger,
out Of his scanty resources, given twice
the grant made by the Government TO
his "schOale;'' and so it is to him that
we owe the present university.--Har-
Cdrd Daily Herald.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-05-24
FACTS AND FIGURES.

in 1882 the surplus wheat for ex-
port was nearly S,0O0,000 bushels.
Texas win net S13, 500, 600 from the
increase to her sheep farms this spring
The murders in the United States
last year averaged two day, the execu-
tions two a week. Chicago Journal.
The amount which, by the Supreme
Court decision, New Orleans viii have
S85' s. pay Nyr' Clark Gaines Is 81 49,
England total of postal areas are
but about 122, 600 square miles, while
ours are not far from 100000 square
miles.
In Italy 499 new operas were pro-
dHced between 1851 and 1860, and 534
between 1868 and 1881, making a total
of 1,033 operas in thirty years.
The aggregate value of the property
of colored people throughout Tennessee
is set down at So, ,478, 951, being an in
crease of S671,179 over the preceding
year.
Baby alligators are sold by thou
sands annually to tourists in Florida, at
about a dollar each. A two year older
is worth $15, but an adult of IA feet in
length costs $50.-Dctr0i Post
In Somers. Conn, there are five
persons living in one house whose
united ages amount to 400 years. and
four others whose united ages amount to
315 years. BOSTON Post
james Gordon Bennett estimates
the value of the New York Herald at
S10,000,000, and says it is paying six
per cent. per annum interest ON that
amount Chicago Herald.
The official returns give the value
of the tobacco consumed in France in
1882 at 363, 800, 900 francs. Cigars show
a total of 60,5O0,00O francs; cigarettes,
10000, 900, and chewing tobacco,
100000. The heaviest amount, 278,-
600, 600 francs, was for ordinary smOk-
ing tobacco.
Out of total population of about
100000 in this country there were in
1880 little over 250, 600 people insane,
idiotic, blind, and deaf and dumb. In
every 1000, 600 of population there
were 1854 victims of insanity, 1,533 i'd
lots, 976 blind, and 675 deaf and dumb
Chicago Times.
The cigar trade of the Island of
Cuba is concentrated at Havana, from
which port there were shipped to the
United States in 1882 cigars of the de-
CIdEeu NdIue OI %, OIL, II, IL. ne
great bulk of the shipments was to New
York, the value being 81, 387, 648.99.
The shipments to Boston amounted to
$144, 603,61.
"A return up to the end of February
shows that 92,781 applications to have
fair rents fixed in courts were made
under the Irish Land act. OF these 32,-
$40 were disposed Of The agreements
out of court fixing fair rent numbered
80, ,137. The number of appeals lodged
was 6,372, of which 2, 276 were disposed
of. Fifteen hundred applications were
made to have leases declared void; 104
were declared void; 678 were dismissed,
and 403 were withdrawn, making 1875
disposed of.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-05-24
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

THE President has appointed Norman
II. Camp Superintendent Of the Assay
OUce at Boise City, Idaho, vice William
Walters, suspended.
TIE Canadian Parliament was pro-
roglod on the 18th after a session of one
hundred and seven days.
THE District Court at Virginia, New,
has granted a decree Of divorce on the suit
Of Theresa Fair against United States Sen
ator James q. Fair There was no contest,
aud Mr.. Fair settles upon Mrs. Fair 1920
600 in money and United States bonds and
the family residence in San Francisco.
THE Duke of Connaught, third son Of
Qucen Victoria, has been appointed to the
command of a brigade in India, in order to
give him an opportunity to qualify himself
for the Office Of Niceroy Of India, which the
Queen desires to see him occupy.
LONDON (Eng.) dispatches report that
the ministerial party in Parliament is
steadily losing strength, and that much Of
the abstention in the House of Commons is
deliberately planned to weaken the Min
istry.
SECRETARY FOLGER has informed the
Pre- ident that special inspectors will have
70 be appointed TO enforce the law against
importation Of adulteruted tea.
THE President has appointeu the fol
lowing United States Consuls: Francis
Haughuot, of New Y ork, at Naples; B.OdeH
Duncan, South Carolina, at Catina, and
James Fletcher, Iowa, at Genoa.
THE President has recognized George
Edward StanIeyns Consul of her Britannia
Majesty for the States Of California and
Oregon and for Washington Territory, to
reside in California.
LEWIS MEER Y. TEKAN, the man
who as Governor Of Vera Cruz had a
number of Masons brutally shot, has been
made Major General.
JEFFERSON DAVIS has recently been
seriously I'M with bronchitis but was CON
sidcred outof danger ON the 10Th.
TIE wife Of General Absalom Baird
died suddenly at Washington, D. c., the
other evening from stroke Of apoplexy.
She was a ultive Of New York, and niece
IF the late Garrett Smith, the Abolitionist.
CHARLES Il. KRING, who killed Dora
Broemser at St. Louis, Mo, for which he
spout eight years in Jail, was FIVE times
tried for his life and was twice sentenced
20 death, died at st. Johns Hospital in that
city on tho 18th, OF consumption.
TIE Sultan has agreed to convoke
the Turkish Parliament, which will resem-
ble the Assembly Of 1876. II will be com
posed of representatives Of all religions,
and win meet in October.
THE Kentucky Democratic State Con
vention on the 18th nominated j. Proctor
Kuntt for Governor and Captain James r.
HIudman for Lieutenant-G
p1srATCnEs received from Wheeling
ON the 18th indicated that it would take an
official count 20 decide the contest between
Brown and Snyder for Congress from tho
Third West Virginia District. The formers
election was claimed by Republicans by
fty majority.
TIE death Of Bishop Jesse T. Peck, at
Syracuse, N. y, has been announced.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-05-24
WIT AND WISDOM.

Government pastry-a mint spy
NJ Y. AdUertiSer.
Learn your business thoroughly.
Keep at one thing-in no wise change.
Any raw recruit can write about
face by preparing an essay on Check
~ T. Net0S.
Earn money before you spend it;
never buy what you do not want-adopt
the 'pay-as-you-go" principle, and
never deviate from it.
Buy, subscribe to, and read all that
is necessary to fully inform yourself on
the doings, discoveries and reforms of
the age in which you live.
If you ask bald-headed man how
he would prefer to be upholstered, he'll
likely express a desire for mo'-hair on
top of his head YOnkerS Gazette.
"A man in the central office of the
Telephone Company says that the noise
there is different from young lady at
a party, for one is a ballroom belle
and the other is a bell-rOom hawl.-
Pittsburgh Telegraph.
Troops have just been ordered to
arrest and disband the belligerent
Greeks in the Indian Territory. If they
succeed in arresting the Greeks, they
should be called upon to put down the
destructive rivers in the Ohio Valley the
next time they get on a rampage
Norrtstoa0n Herald.
-Housemaid-" Tt does my heart
good to see you and the baby together.
It's a pretty picture. Sure, and he's
the image Of you.' Fond mother
. But they all say that he looks like his
father, Mary" Housemaid-" Bless
your soul, mum, he's not half good
looking enough for that. Life.
A Plattsburg IN. Y dentist recent
ly received by mail an order for a set of
teeth, which reads as follows: My
mouth is three inches across and five
eighths of an inch through the jaw.
Sum hummOcks on the edge. Shaped
like a horse shoe, toe forward. If wish
me to be more particlar l shall bay TO
come thar"
The following good story is told of
the Secretary of the San Francisco
Philharmonic Society: A gentleman
rang his door bell one evening recent
ly, and asked if Mr.. -- lived there.
:. No." said the intensely musical
Henry, pointing up the street, 9 he
lives about an octaye-I mean eight
doors-higher. San Francisco NelOS
Letter.
Plantation Philosophy: We never
feel so mad arter we shed tears. De
cloud ain nigh so dark arter the rain
falls. Many a oman what won't wash
her chillun at home delights in washin'
dishes at church fair. De worst sort
Of boastfulness is showed by de man
what thinks dat he can entertain you
wild long story. Oar is many a rule
what won t work both ways. No man
should be looked on as a fool on ac-
count OBJ what he doan belebe, but on
account oh what he does belebe. A too
oasiness oh conviction ter strange ideas
is caused mighty heap oh trouble in
dis world d.-ArknUsas YYnce{Ler
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-05-24
A Queer Scheme.

The Able Moigno has written a pref
ace to NJ. Lecointre's Champagne de
Mois pour la sortie d Egypte," in which
he advocates the formation of a joint
company with the view Of exploring
the bottom Of the Red Sea, and espe-
cially the bitter-water lakes. In Ger
man account Of the project it is de-
scribed as lone of the boldest." ut
is nothing less continues the writer,
than to search the bottom of the Red
Sea to discover there the proof of that
great event narrated BY Moses 5000
years ago. Buried in the masses of
salt Of the Bitter Lakes, concealed at
different places by thick beds of salt,
these historical remains are perhaps in
a state of preservation unexpected by
US" The Able estimates the cost Of
the excavations at 300, 900 francs.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-05-24
Youths Department.
4 KANSAS NURSERY.

" The baby?" we asked, as with mop and
broom
It's mother came to the ranch one day.
- Oh, she's picIfeted ont across the wayl
/ dare not leave her alone in the ROOM"
And the busy mother looked for a tub,
While we saddled our horses and rode to sec
How the lonely baby Jared, while
Had stolen its mother to sweep and scrub.
For the babies we were accustomed to
Could never have kept their silk and lace
And little be-ribboned hats in place,
With only tree for their nurse, we knew
But this Kansas baby had no hat;
And il laughed as if il thought silk and lace
Would have been entirely out of place
On prairie-or, for the matter of that,
Anywhere else. 1t could only go
The length of the rope; but its little feet
Pattered about where the grass was sweet,
Just as It pleased; and that, you know,
Is more than the city babies do;
For, trundled under the city trees,
They are carried just where the nurses
please,
Which / shouldn't like at all; should you?
AS / thought il over, it seemed to me
That a city darling has less to hope,
"Picketed out" with invisible rope
To a somewhat less reliable treei
Alice WctteringtOn Rollins, In st. NicIOlds.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-05-24

A parrot that had been stolen and
recovered was taken TO the police head
quarters at New York the other day,
and opened the interview by telling Su-
perinfeDdent Walling to pull down his
vest.-N. y. Nct0s.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-05-24

"A section hand came so near being
run over by an engine that his hair was
cut off by the wheels at Bryan, Tex, q
few days ago
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-05-24
Che 8olirar 8nlletiu.
TEnMs oE InNERTIsING |.

One square Of eight lines, sI.50 for the hrst
insertion, and IS cents for each subsequent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-11-14

GOVERNMENT SUITS AGAINST VETERANs.-When
tents We're loaned by the War department 10 the
societies of veterans In northwestern Missouri and
southwestern Iowa last summer they gave bonds TO
return them in as good condition as when received
by them. The tents. when returned. were found 10
be damaged to the extent OF St;6 and the Secretary
OF War has requested the Department OF Justice TO
bring suit against the societies TO recover the
amount OF damage
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-11-14
ARCTIC INVESTIGATION.
TIE PICKED Up CREW OF ruk rRorkrs

The examination OF Lieut. Darlington before the
Proteus court OF inquiry was resumed this morning
In reply to inquiries by Judge Advocate Good.
fellow. the witness said the OF the Prote,Is
was - men 'Were they shipped from the class az
men usually going sealing from New fountand
They We're not shipped nom the best class Of New
lonndland SealerS. The vessel was secured 80 lais
that all sealers had made their arrangements Tor
the cod fishing, and these men were picked up
about 81. Johns"
Lieut.. Darlington saii Capt. Pike stated 10 him
after the wreck that the crew WAS not the KIND
that he would select lot Arci!ve service. The char
acler OF The men. however. did ilot interfere with
llt results or the expedition. Had they been more
efficient larger amount OF stores could have been
gotten out on The Ice, but they could have been
LIEUT.. GARLINGroN's UNDERSTANDINGS WITH CAPT
wILDES
In respect to the agreement between Capt WudeS
and himself, Lieut. Darlington said he was not
present when the agreement WAS reduced 10
writing. He had, however, talked the matters over
at great length with Capt WiideS on the way nuin
New York 10 st. Johns The written agr1ement
was a correct embodiment OF the underStand,p.g
mus arrived at IL was the only arrangement that
Lieut.: harrington thought could love carried out.
by the COuTt--"Nr. Darlington. BY yOur In rl,r-
tons YOU considered IL your duty not TO stop on
Your way up but go as far YOU could and max
a depot OF supplies, IL You didn't get TO Lieut.
Greely s-to make the depot OF supplies rs you
came back. not as you Went up?"
A-.'Ihat Is what understand in my instruc-
lions"
Q-"Then you say that you went south in your
boats. honfng 10 meet the Yantic and come back IN
ORDER 10 make depot there, AMI leave yourself
and some OF your men 10 spend the winter?H
Ayes, sir
Yantic?'
Al always had In view the chance OF her get
ting through Melville bay, and II sin. had got
through Melville bay Ice and entered the north
water she would have had difficulty in getting TO
LfttletOn island"
Lieut. Darlington said he expected the Yantic to
FURNISH provisions upon hearing he circumstances
vi The loss W the IroteuS an0 her supplies and TO
carry them with himself and men back 10 Littleton
island.
Questl0hed ABOUT his understanding OF lieut.
Greelys letter OF August 2 1885, as TO Whether de-
pots should be eStab iShed on the way north or on
the return, he said that the Neptune going under
the same Instructions, established her depot at
cape Sabine only after her comm ander had deter
mined IL was Impossible 10 go further north. The
Idea was that the expedition OF 1852 was TO
establish depot as far north az possible.
Gen Hazen, chief signal officer, was examined
this afternoon
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-11-14

LONDON. Nov. 14.-A Berlin dispatch to the Et
changr !ticgrlph company says the political cii-
III bulgaria has been settled by mutual concessions
on the points ut issue between Russia and Blu
gaIii.