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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-04-26
Water Pollution.

The effect of water pollution upon
the health has been repeatedly pub
fished Goitre is caused by drinking
water impregnated with animal matter,
and disappears when pure water is Sub-
stituted In Great Britain 164 epidem-
les Of enteric fever were traced in fous
wears to impure air or water-usually
both-and 6,897 deaths occurred i'm "A
single year from these causes. In the
historic outbreak at Over Darwin 2, 900
cases of sickness and 100 deaths result
ed from a polluted water supply. A
simple test for pure water, such as
might be used by ordinary household
ers, is very desirable; but none exists,
and it requires much skill to prove that
water is absolutely pure. Chemical
tests are uncertain. The taste is not 10
be depended upon, as the most palata-
bic water is often the most impure. In
India examination of some of the wells
used by the pilgrims showed that the
so-called holy water consisted of almost
pure sewage. The frequent outbreaks
of cholera among these visitors is there
fore explained. So difficult has il be-
come TO obtain pure water on the Con-
tinent of Europe that the eminent En-
glish physician, Sir Henry Thompson,
in letter to the London Times, warns
travellers never TO touch drop ~ any
place, or under any circumstances, un.
less il can be boiled before using. -
North american ReUtetO,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-04-26
A High-Priced Stamp.


A-private sale of Brattleboro stamp
was recently made in this city for a
price which may or may not be the
largest ever given for a piece of paper
an inch square, but which was certain
ly without any warrant in reason. The
story is one which will appeal to all
collectors. In 1916 the post masters of
certain cities issued stamps by authOri-
ty while waiting a supply from the de-
partment. OF the BrattlebOrO issue
eight hundred were printed, and half
were burned. Considering the nature
and uses of postage-stamps it would
seem nearly as hopeless to raise the
dead as to find one of those four hun
dred after the lapse of quarter Of a
century. No sane man would attempt
it, and the problem is enough to destroy
the last distinction between "a collector
and a lunatic. While others searched
for the stamps, one shrewder than the
rest looked for the engrayer. He found
him alive in Springfield. He had still
seven of the precious squares, and he
parted with them for his own price of
seventy-five cents each, besides furnish
ing indisputable proof of the genuine
ness of an issue the very existence OF
which was doubted. The fact was heard
of, and dealer offered a dollar apiece
for six. The purchaser demanded five
times that sum, and before the money
reached him-though it was promptly
sent-he had an offer of ten dollars
apiece. But he was honest, and parted
with six for thirty dollars. The most
precious, bearing the engraver's name,
he kept, and has now sold it for one
hundred dollars, or for five times the val
ne of double eagle, and perhaps thou
sand times, more or less, the weight of
the stamp in gold. Regarded purely rs
a speculation, we do not know Of any
neater operation than this, showing as
it does a clear profit of several thousand
per cent. Most people will think the
giving of such price for such thing
sufficient proof Of monomania, but the
task which the purchaser is supposed 10
have set himself leaves no possible room
for doubt. These Brattleboro stamps
were printed in sets of ten, we believe,
and each of the set, Of course, differed
to an extent appreciable with the mi
croscope. No ordinary collection Is
complete without BrattlebOrO stamp;
but this quite too altogether priceless col
lection has now three, and may yet
have a complete set of the BrattlebOro
issue. A collector of this sort is either
a stark Iunatic or is filled with a holy
rage which none of the common herd
are capable of aPpreciating.-M T.
Times.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-04-26
A Singular Romance.
BALTIMORE, April 1e.

BALTIMORE, April lG.
It seldom happens in real life that young
lady three years after being envelOped in
her burial shroud and placed in coffin as
dead becomes a bright and happy bride, yet
such a singular romance has just been de
velOped here.
A few evenings ago occurred the marriage
of Miss Mary Griffith, daughter of the late
John A. Griffith, former prominent mer-
chant of this city, and Mr.. Vivian Neal.
The bride is beautiful young lady of
about twenty-One summers, and for the last
two seasons a belle in Baltimore society.
Three years ago when the young lady was
residing in Cincinnati she had terrible fall
down a flight of stairs and received injuries
which were considered fatal. Several prom
inent physicians called to see her, and
pronounced her case hopeless. One
day the young girl grew much worse, fell
into a comatose state, and, as it was thought,
died. The body was prepared for burial and
exposed for two days in casket to the view
of friends. The day Of the funeral arrived,
and, at the appointed time, the carriages and
hearse drove up to the door. just as the
coffin was being closed it was noticed that
the life-like appearance of the supposed
corpse became more pronounced, and there
were slight signs of returning vitality. A
physician was called, and after an hour or
so Miss Griffith returned to consciousness
The solemn gathering was turned into one of
Joy. The young girl recovered rapidly, and
has since been in better health than ever
before.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-04-26
A Cannibal Convicted Of Murder.

LAKE CITY, Col, April 10.
The jury in the case of Alfred G. Packer,
charged with numbering five companions in
the San Juan country in 1872, returned
verdict of guilty. A motion for new trial
on the ground that the murder was commit
ted on an Indian reservation, and that there
fore this court has no jurisdiction, has been
made.
A party of six men organized in Utah in
1872 to prospect for gold and silver in South
ern Colorado. While in the vicinity of the
present site of Lake City, binding storms
coming on, they lost their way and the food
gave out For days together they lived on
rosobuds. The men became desperate and
some crazed. While his companions were
in this condition Packer deliberately fell
upon and butchered the whole party, and
for several weeks lived on flesh cut from
their bodies.
Packer, in the course of the trial, related
the experiences of the party from their set
ting out in Utah, closing with the most sick
ening details of the murder, and subsequent
feasting on human flesh, claiming the killing
was done in self-defense. The evidence
shows that each member of the party, ex-
cept Packer, possessed quite large amount
Of money, upon which the ghoul has since
been living. After nine years wandering,
he was captured a few weeks since near
Fort Fetterman, Wyoming.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-04-26
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

Recent discoveries of very ancient
copies of the Old Testament Scriptures
in Hebrew and Hebro-Russian have been
made at Yemen, in Arabia.
Notwithstanding Texas has a mag
nificent school fund and a surplus of
50, 800, 600 in the treasury, her public
schools are in session only five or six
months of the year.
The receipts of the Presbyterian
Hospital in Philadelphia for the past
year amounted to $50, S97 90, including
interest on the John A. Brown fund.
The disbursements were 500, 1914.
The Ladies Aid Society of the hospital
received during the year S2,l67. 40.
There have been 666 patients treated at
the institution.
The excellent painting of st. Paul
in Chains, by Murillo, which was placed
in St. Pauls Cathedral in Cincinnati,
many years ago, at a cost of $50, 900,
has been ruined The sexton, in trying
to place a screen over it on Saturday,
slipped from the scaffolding which he
had erected, and fell through the pic
ture to the floor, fifteen feet below.
The new Compulsory Education
law of Rhode Island requires that every
child between the ages of seven and tif-
teen years shall have sixteen weeks of
schooling each year. No child under
twelve is to be allowed to work in any
mandatory, and no one under four
teen who cannot write his name, age
and place of residence, or read some
part of the State Constitution.
-" Away then" said Prof Parish to
the twenty-five young women to whom
he was giving diplomas as graduates of
the Philadelphia Woman's Medical Col
lege, "with the fallacious reasoning
that a woman may with propriety
devote her capabilities to the study Of
the lily or the rose, the spider or the
beetle, but cannot study man, the noblest
work of Cod
About two years ago, one native
Chinaman in the village of Kokei,
China, was the solitary follower of the
Christian religion among the dwellers
in that place. Through his influence
and that of the ministers, neat little
chapel has been built, which now has
thirty church members and over fifty
regular attendants on worship. The
native Christians have contributed two
thirds of what the building cost. They
now carry on their Sunday services
themselves, and provide for the ex-
penses.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
has decided in a certain suit that a
Catholic priest cannot recover salary
from his bishop. a religious organi-
zation which forbids its priests to do
secular work. the Judge remarked,
. ought to provide for their support; but
when the attempt is made to enforce
the payment of a salary, a contract has
to be shown. If the priest relies upon
the church to give him living, he must
invoke its aid, rather than the court 5,
if he seeks redress"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-04-26
FACTS AND FIGURES.

The total estimated supply Of red
wood timber in California Is 29,S23'"
900, 600 feet.
There are PIP periodicals published
in St Petersburg, ~ being dailies. The
largest circulation of all is a 900 copies.
Seems as if they did nothing but
declare semi-annual dividends in Boston,
where they announce total of IS S'l44,-
776 for April.
The March fires represent 81, 25O.-
900. The New York Commercial Bul-
letiB says that this is 81 900, 900 more
than the March record of last year.
There are 10000 square miles of
almost unbroken forests in North Caro-
lima, comprising pine, chestnut, OAK
maple, beech and hickory timber
The New Jersey law prohibiting
the employment of children under four
teen years of age, will result in the dis
charge of between 5000 and 1000 Of
them at Paterson alone.
1t is mentioned as an interesting
detail of the recent grand costumes ball
at Berlin that 10000 wax candles, cor
/ 700 pounds of wax, were burned IN
various chandeliers throughout the cas-
tic.
The countries of England and Wales
spend SO, 200, 600; a third of il for pO-
lice, and 81 400, 900 for roads About
half the entire receipts are from local
taxation, nearly all the rest being from
the imperial treasury.
"A prize type-setting contest took
place recently in Berlin. where the win
ming compositor set 9,4lj letters in the
course of three hours, an average of
about fifty-three words per minute IN
/ ordinary newspaper type.
Buffalo is rapidly becoming one OF
the most important coal-distribuung
points in the country. More than
4 1000, 600 tons were received there last
year, and the receipts of anthracite
were fifty per cent. greater than for the
previous year.
Antwerp, city of 20O,O had rD
water supply but wells and canals, and
in 1879 works were built to filter the
water of the Nethe by passing them
+ through filters of sand and Spongy iron
and gravel. The plan has proved sue
cessful, but the supply is very small
4 according TO American ideas, being re-
/ ceived in a tank of only $40, 900 gallons
No fewer than thirty-seven British
/ pecrages, or not very short of Onc-tonth
/ Of the entire number, became extinct or
! dormant in the fifteen years lS6S-s2.
/ The number of deaths of peers during
1 the same period was 300: of pccrcsscs,
/ 234 These figures are exclusive of two
/ Archbishops and eleven Bishops. Alto
/ gether, the Baronctcies which became
/ extinct or dormant during the fifteen
4 years amount to sixty
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-04-26
A Heavy Failure.

PITTsBURGH, Pa, April II.
Great excitement was created here yes
ter,;ay over the announcement that the we'll
known and generally supposed to be finan-
cially solid iron-pipe manufacturing firm of
James Marshall e. Co. had made an
assignment for the benefit of their
creditors to George J. Whitney,
of this city, and that their liza,
bilities would reach fully 81 500, 900, while
their assets would fall short Of this about
S25O,OOO. The news that the assignment had
had been made spread like wildfre, and
short time thereafter was the whole topic
of conversation in commercial and financial
circles. The cause of the failure was a too
reckless speculation in pig-iron. -Four years
ago James Marshall, the senior member OF
the firm, became imbued with the idea
that a heavy advance in pig-iTOn would
take place in the near future, and he com
menced purchasing extensively Of that aTti-
Gle. Higher prices did not come, but he
continued to buy heavily, thoroughly conf
dent that he would soon realize largely, but
IN this he was wOfully disappointed. Just
when the market began to look up the long
strike of last year set in, and this
was followed by period of dulineSs, which
was augmented by the uncertainty in regard
to the action Congress would take on the
tariff question. The passage Of the bill did
not improve trade, and for months the con
Germ has been borrowing money on the i'm
mense stock of iron it had in the warehouse
of the Union Storage Company. Finding
that failure was inevitable, and that the
best they could do they could only stave off
the crash for time, they concluded yesteT-
day to make an assignment, and the deeds
were placed on record in the Recorders
office
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-04-26
LATE NEWS ITEMS.


AT a fire in Sacramento, Cal, the
other morning several persons were killed
and twelve wounded by the fall of roof.
A LONDON syndicate is reported to
have bought 100000 acres of land in Ia
catecas, Mexico.
THE London (Eng) Standard thinks
the day will come when miscreants like
O'Donovan Rosa will be hunted from both
continents.
TIE American Express Company's
Agents at Milwaukee, Wis, discovered
that a package shipped from Newark, N.
j.. a few days ago contained twenty-five
rounds of dynamite. The package bore no
mark to indicate its contents.
IL the trial of Kelly, at Dublin, Ire
land, on the 2Oth, for the Phoenix Park
murders, the defense endeavOred to estab-
lish an alabi. The case was given to the
jury and they failed to agree. A new trial
would be had.
A PARTY of tramps took possession OF
the bridge at Brainard, Mimi, the other
day, and extracted toll from all who passed.
The Sheriff and posse took the field and
captured eight. Two officers and one
tramp were wounded in the fight.
AIuwAUKEE's only female lawyer
was fined fifty dollars few days ago for
thro wing a glass of water in the judges
face.
STEAMERS from Liverpool, Eng, on
the 2Oth for the United States and Canada
carried nearly 5000 emigrants.
The body of Maggie Henneke, who
mysteriously disappeared from Milwaukee,
Wis, October path, and for whom diligent
search had been made in different parts of
the country since, was found in the river
at Milwaukee, a few days ago.
FIRE on the 2Oth burned out three
wholesale firms at New Orleans, La, Caus-
ing a loss Of 5000 and lumber mill a
few miles from Texarkana, Tex, valued at
$4,000
The constitutional prohibitOry amend
ment has been defeated by the Pennsyl-
vania House of Representatives.
EDWARD Nook, the first man in the
United States to puddle iron, died at
/ Youngstown, o., the other afternoon Of
/ paralysis, aged eighty-one years.
/ THE business failures throughout the
+ United States and Canada for the seven
/ DAYS ended on the 20th numbered 205, as
compared with 1S9 for the week previous.
T AN extensive conhagration was raging
4 at Delhi. India, on the goth. Two thousand
1 houses had been destroyed and great
/ homeless. At Hamburg, Germany, on the
/ same day, three of the largest oil ware
/ houses in the city were burned, fifteen
1 thousand hundred weight of oil being CON
| sumed
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-04-26
WIT AND WISDOM.

One soweth and another reapcth.
is a verify that applies TO evil as well as
good george EiiOL
The agnostic IS one who knows
nothing certain, and doesn't caro-
whether he does or not.-N, q. Iica-
yl11c.
A man is known by the company
he keeps, but a woman is known bN the
company her neighbor cntcrtaius.
Boston Transcript
1t is the favor Of man which gives
the beauty and cOmclincss to women,
as the stream glittcrs no longer when
the sun ceaseth to shine -Idit1Jt0l1.
A young man, about to marry, asks
a priest for absolution of his youthful
errors. When he has finished his story,
he retires perfectly absolved. An in
slant after he returns and says tO the
priest; "You have forgotten 10 give mo
pcnance.n - "That is useless" :" replied
the priest, ''sincc you arc about 70
marry
The hair Of "a girl employed IN nm
Eastern cotton mill was caught ina th"
machinery, torn oil her head, and
ground into bits But the girl didn
mind it much She kept right on at
her work, simply remarking that itonly
cost four dollars, anyhow. This is on"
Of the advantages of art over Nature
NoryiStOoon Heraid.
Tragic: Was it q small, white
curly dorg with blue ribbin round his
neck, yer wa lookin' for miss?''
Eyes" gasped the young lady, in
anxious suspense. Wen, Jack
Adams Newfoundland purp, he's 70
gone an swallcrcd him. They car
Il l.
Chicago Eyc.
"A witty nobleman once asked 20
clerical gentleman at the bottom Of the
table why the goose, when there was
one, was always placed next TO the
parson Really my lord, said the
clergyman, "yOur question is some
what difficult to answer and Is 80 re-
markably odd, that vow ! shall never
see goose again without being re-
minded Of your lOrdship.
Use of the corset: "lts "a lonely
road You have to take coming home to-
night, John" said his wife, with au
anxious expression. Yes, he replied,
''very lonely" And you might De-
attacked bY assassins, She added. clasp
ing her arms around his mock as IL she
were loath to let him go. Il might,
said John. 'Ihcn,' she continued,
you had better put on one Of fny cor
sets before you start. '--Brooblyli E.ugir
What they do not say: lie Your
father must be worth az least a million
and you would enable me to go through
life in style never cOuldhope for with
out you. j do not love you, 10 is true,
but--one can not expect everything. 80
let US marry. If your father fails / can
crawl out Of il somehow She VERY
we'll! You will never amount 10 any
thing, but you are good enough as FAR
ie YOU 90 / have trifled with % many
men that most Of them hate mc and
may not get a better offer. II d0 can
break the engagement. "-Lgc
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-04-26

Compiled from Various Sources.
prnsonA1 AND PoL1r1oA1..

TUE death, at Circleville, o., Of Mrs.
Lucy Cook Boggs, aunt of Mrs. ex-Presi-'
dent Hayes, has been announced.
PARNELL has announced that if the
projectors of the Irish Convention, to he
held at Philadelphia, Pa, would postpone
it until autumn ne might be able to attend.
PROH1BITION constitutional amend
ments have been defeated in the Connecti-
cut Senate and the New Jersey House Of
Representatives.
QUEEN VICTORIA has gone to Osborne.
Owing to the trouble with her knee she was
unable co. walk and had to be lifted into
the carriage. The route was carefully
guarded.
MUNICIPAL elections were held in
many cities and towns in Illinois on the
nth, the contests being mainly on local
issues.
TIE New York Senate has rejected n
motion to pay $4,000 to Mrs. Martha Wash
ington, widow of Or. Lawrence A. Wash
ington, of Denison City, Tex, for the pur-
chase Of certain relics Of George Washing
PRINCESS LOUISE and her husband,
the Marquis Of Lorne, left Boston the other
evening for Ottawa, Cana, which city they
reacbcd-the next day. The police force of
the Dominion capital had been strength
ened by detectives from Toronto, in view
of the alleged possibility of Fenian con-
spiracies against the Queens daughter.
EMPERoR WILLIAMS recent message
to the German Rcichstag calling for legisla-
tion in the interest of the working classes
is said to cover a military programme i'm
spired by distrust Of France.
SECRETARY FREITNGHTYSEN has eX-
changed with the Spanish Minister ratid.
cations of the trademark and cxtraditior
treaties between the United Strtes and
Spain. .f
LILLE DEvEREAUX BLAKE has been
elected president of the New York Woman
Suffrage Association.
THE Ohio Democratic State Central
Committee has decided to hold the next
State Convention at Columbus, June n.
LIE Ohio Legislature adjourned sine
die oHsthe 10Th.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-04-26
The Town Of ZumbrOta Falls, Minn.,
Partially Destroyed by a Cyclone.
ST. PAUL, April II

ST. PAUL, April 10.
A cyclone struck Zumbrota Falls, Waba-
sha County, Friday night, totally wrecking
the following named structures: A new
bridge which cost the county about $4,000
1.-THE previous one having been destroyed by
hurricane) Andrew Schrader's barn, John w.
DaIlis' wagon shop and contiguous black
smith shop, and a harness store in which the
pOst-Oflice was located. The front windows
Of the Suggs House were smashed and the
kitchen unroOfed From the Suggs to
the river the fronts of the houses on both
sides of the street were crushed In. The
store of DR.. II. n. Logers was badly dam
aged and the goods somewhat injured, as
were also J. Cars restaurant and Hyde's
Hall The school-house of District No.
ninety-twO was unrOofed and moved some
FIVE feet from its foundation. A wagon
box was blown from Dale's shop through the
side of HaradOn's house, smashing every
thing in the room, and Mrs. Haradon was
slightly injured by a cupboard falling on
her. Moving north, the storm played havoc
with some stacks of hay on the farm Of N.
c. Radabaugh, and moved from its fOunda-
ton new building on the old Radabaugh
homestead
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-04-26
Southern Lumber Resources.

1t Is computed that the forests Of
Texas will supply the whole country
with timber for one hundred years.
North Carolina has an acreage of
growing timber amounting 70 about -
per cent. Of her territory.
The yellow pine forests Of Florida
extend over three-iifths Of the six cOun-
t1es Of Putnam, Marion, sumter, Polk,
fernando and Hillsborough.
Louisiana timber lands COVER 1000
600 acres II in said that the lumber
business of Maine and Michigan will
ultimately be- transferred 20 Florida and
Louisiana.
A great pine belt stretches across
Southern Georgia and Alabama to the
rivers that flow into Mobile Bay The
pine forests Of Georgia alone cover an
area Of about ! 500, 900 acres
There are immense tracts az cotton
woods along tho Mississippi aud it,
tributaries. The cottonwood tree
reaches the height of seventy feet, and
planks from four 10 six feet wide are
easily cut from II. II is perfectly FREQ
from knots and pitch