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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-04-24
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

IN the Senate on the 18th the newspaper
/ copyright bill was reported adversely and
I placed on the calendar. A bill was intro
! duced requiring money order receipts Il
| be paid into the Treasury. The Post,office
! appropriation bill passed. 1t appropriates
$40, 725, 400, being 50, 1890 more than as it
came from the House. Eulogies upon the
late Representative Herndon were pro
nounced and the Senate adjourned to Mon
day......In the House the bill passed to
bridge the Missouri at Sibley, Mo. The
bll limiting to two years the time for be.
ginning prosecutions under the internal
revenue law also passed. A night session
was held for consideration of pension
bills.
ANOTHER French victory in Tonquin is
reported.
THERE were 257 deaths from cholera at
Calcutta last week.
Ell MAHDI has been sending proclama-
tions into Mohammedan India.
ANOTHER gold excitement has broken out
in the vicinity of Pixies Peak.
THE export of dynamite from Havre to
England continues unchecked.
THE Northern Pacific Company expects
to earn SI3,0OJ, 900 in the present fiscal year.
TREvELYAN, Chief Secretary for ireland,
travels with guard of detectives.
a POSSE OF revenue OIuCerS captured ten
mOonshiners in Casey and Green Counties,
KY, on the Is, b.
GOVERNOR HoADLY of Ohio is to deliver
the commencement oratIon before the Yale
Law School.
THE Kilkenny convention of the Irish
National League has reaffirmed its allie
glance to Parnen.
A TELEGRAPH operators neglect caused a
collision ON the Panhandle Road near
Wheeling, w. Va, on the 18th.
AN order has been issued at Rome ex-
empting from sale the property of the
American College.
The Huntsville (Ala.) Court rules that
Dick Liddil is a competent witness to tes-
tify against Frank James.
A BREAK in the San Joaquin levee at
Lathrop, Cal, threatened 10000 acres of
growing wheat.
ZEBEHR PAsHA is willing to go to the
Soudan under authority of the Khedive,
but not subject to General Gordon
THE New York Excise Board has refused
to license Harry HIPS thea5er, which has
been running thirty years.
THEODORE HOFFMAN was hanged on the
18th at White Plains, n. Y. Willis Hodges
was hanged at Eastman, Ga.
THERE were I6O failures in the United
States in the seven days ending the 18th,
and sixteen in Canada, being thirty y-eight
less than during the preceding week.
CHAS. A. SPAULDING having been ar
rested for theft in New Haven, Conn, shot
himself five times on the 18th, inficting
fatal wounds.
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JOHN BROWNS SCAFFOLD.
An Eastern Yankee Thought There was
" Millions In It," But it Proves to BE AN
other Speculation Busted"-The DISPOSE
tiOn of the Original Structure.

An Eastern Yankee Thought There was
millions In It," But it Proves to BE AN
other Speculation Busted"-The DISPOSE
tiOn of the Original Structure.
FOND DU LAC, WIS. April Is.
An article in an eastern paper, stating
that the scaffold upon which John Brown
was hanged has been purchased by an East
ern speculatOr, has created considerable
more interest in Fond du Lac than in
some parts of the Union, though wher-
ever there are survivors of General
PattersOns command of 10000 men
there the same interest in the specu-
lator's purpose obtains. 1t is given out
that the purpose of the alleged
purchaser of the John Brown scat
fold is to cut it up into very diminutive
pieces and sell the same as relics. A
very interesting enterprise this is, to be
sure, to people generally, butts especially
engaging to survivors of PattersOns di-
vision, who remembered that between the
18th and 2lst of July, 1861, they were
participants in raid on the only original
John Brown scaffOId, and that as a scat
fold it was then demolished root and
branch. The soldiers of this command
were years ducdu VI JlG SCucIHCI bLC pa
per refers to in cutting the scaffold into
fragments for relics. The pur-
pose was so strong to have a
piece of the timbers, and the pur-
suit so searching, that when PattersOn's
division marched away not splinter of
the dimensions of a very much abbrevi-
ated lead-pencil was left of that scaffold
which the eastern fraud is to sell so fast.
Colonel G. X. Pier, Colonel T. H. Green,
Captain Milt. Even, David BabcOck, and
T. +. Strong, Jr., are among the Fond du
Lac boys who can testify to the truth of
this report, and the two first named gen.
tlemen have recounted the history of that
raid on the John Brown scaffOld very
graphically in recent conversation. Each
of these gentlemen and other soldiers of
Company / of the First Wisconsin, display
relics of the early visit to Charleston,
from which PattersOn's command carried
the scaffold piecemeal, but entire.
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ON the 18th Mrs. Adeline Green, Of North
Carolina, died at Bloomington, Ill, at the
residence of her piece, the wife OF the Hon.
David Davis.
UNDER instructions Of the Court, Sheriff
Davidson of New York, on trial for frauds.
was acquitted.
THE departure of Emperor William for
Wiesbaden has been deferred on account
Of the Empress Illness.
MINISTER LOWELL and NJ. De Lesseps re-
ceived the degree LII. D. at the Edinburgh
University tercentenary.
4. A CONSULTATION has been held by Gen
eral Terry and General Sheridan regard
ing the proposed concentration Of military
posts in Dakota.
THE Democratic Association of Indiana
in Washington, d. c., formally announces
McDonald's candidacy for the Presidential
nomination.
MILE CoLoMBrER, the writer of the book
Sarah Barnum," has been committed for
trial in Paris on charge of outraging pub
lie morals.
THOUGH the Star-route trial resulted in
an acquittal, Attorney General Brewster
thinks it was not without its usefulness in
soaring the jobbers away from the Post
office Department.
ON the 18th the House Committee on For
eign Affairs took up the claim of John E.
Wheelock for redress for outrages perpe-
trated by an officer of Venezuela, and the
opinion is expressed that measures more
vigorous than diplomatic correspondence
will be necessary to secure justice.
THE Republicans of Tennessee on the
18th indorsed President Arthur's admins
tration, but gave no instructions to the Ma
tional delegates.
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Checkmating the Dynamiters.

TAHIHt hpIU %.
In spite of Colonel Majendie's
report it is now declared that the
dynamite used at Victoria Station
was made at factory between
Amiens and Boulogue. Rumors are afOat
that an attempt will shortly be made to
blow up one of the public buildings in
London. The activity of the dynam-
tiers continues unabated They meet
twice every week for the purpose Of max
ing plans and preparations for future
outrages. 1t is believed that the English
and French police are fully acquainted
with their movements, and that every ei-
tort viii be made TO counteract their
plots.
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ceedingIy Strained Condition of Affairs
-BIOOdshed Liable to Result Between
Friends of the Murderers and the Lynch
ers.
LEXINGTON, KY, April Is.
Fears are entertained of a serious out
break and civil war in Breathitt County
consequent upon the lynching early last
Wednesday morning at Jackson, the
County seat, of Henry Kilburn and Ben
Strong, colOred, accused of assassinating
VIM. ThOrp in January last. Just before
his death ThOrp declared Kilburn shot
him, and was accompanied by another
white man and a negro. Kilburn and
Strong had an examining trial and were
held for murder at the April term of the
Circuit Court now in session An or
gauizcd party from the country broke into
the jail shortly after midnight, brought
out Kilburn and Strong and hanged
them to the Courthouse porticO, pinnlng
to the bodies a notice fOrbidding their re-
mOval till nine O'Clock. The whole affair
was over in less than half an hour. Strong
was little more than boy, but KIIburn
was a man of fifty years and leaves wife
and family. He is credited with the death
of eight men. He has numerous friends
in the county, who uniting with those OF
Strong have organized and armed them
selves for vengeance upon the lynchers
and in utter defiance of the officers OF
the law i'll general. A bloody fight may
break out at any moment between the two
forces, both Of which are composed of
determined and dauntleSs men.
The latest information is that Judge
Riddle will probably not be able to take
his seat, owing to the excitement in and
around Jackson, when the opposing fac
tiOns are liable to meet during court
at any hour and open battle. Breathitt
has never yet had hanging and the popu-
lar feeling over this disgraceful mode of
removing Kilburn and Strong is intense,
and is, of course, being fomented as
much as possible by Kilburn's friends in
order to gather strength to their own
side, and increase the detestatiOn of the
people against the lynchers; but they,
too, are upheld by an opposing sentiment
of rude justice. and there is no knowing
at present how far the trouble will spread
or how it will end. The chances point
strongly to the shedding of more blood,
and the general upheaval of the whole
county.
Word was received last night that the
excitement in Breathitt County over the
lYnching of Henry Kilburn and Ben
Strong is increasing. Kilburn's friends
are gatheringI in large numbers and
threatening vengeance against the lynch
ers, and an outbreak is expected. 1t is
thought that Judge Riddle will not be per.
mitted to hold court.
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Fatal Mining Accident.

JOPLIN, Mo, April %.
News came this morning of an ac-
cident at Lehigh, mining camp eight
miles west, late yesterday evening. Min
ers named Jones and Brown were coming
out of the mine together on the rope.
The machinery got out of order and the
men took a shoot at rapid rate. The at
tendant at the top of the shaft applied the
brake and the machinery was checked
with q sudden jerk, throwing the men
from the rope TO the bottom of the shaft,
about fifty feet below. They were sooV
brought to the top, but fatally injured.
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MT. CARMEL, PA, April ~.
An explosion took place late last even
Ing in the Pennsylvania colliery, a. Green
Ridge. While the men were hard at work
the accumulated gas ignlted from a naked
lamp, and a terrific explosion occurred,
fatally burning John Drakosky. Peter
Entrix, Michael Mexeval, laborcrs. and
seriously injuring John Graham and
Samuel Menken, contractors. The res
cuers found the men in total darkness
Mexeval and Entrlx were found creeping
up the slope so badly burned that the
flesh was hanging from them in shreds.
All Of the victims were unmarried
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DOWN IN THE WASHOUT.
Two Trains on the Western & Atlantic Rail.
road Wreck ed by WashOuts Caused by the
Recent StOrms-SeveraI Lives Lost and
Many Persons IDjured.
CHATTANOOGA, TENN, April IS.

Many Persons Injured.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, April IS.
Heavy rains Monday caused two accl.
dents on the Western & Atlantic Railroad
early yesterday morning. The first oc-
CURED about three O'Clock at Moon Sta
ton. One of the fills had washed out for
about 100 yards near the station, and the
passenger train which left at 10 :55 O'Clock
ran into the washout. The engine turned
over as it plunged headlOng down the em-
bankment, followed by the passenger
coaches. The mail car took fire and
burned rapidly, the flames spreading to
the Other cars and every coach except
the sIeepers were wrapped in flames
The scene was appalling. The cries of
the wounded could be heard I'm appeals
for aid. Those who had escaped unhurt
from the flames did what they
could to save those unable to extricate
themselves from the ruins The sleepers
were saved by the continued exertion on
the part of the passengers and train men.
The wires being down it is impossible to
obtain full details. The following is the
list of killed and wounded so far as
learned.
Mail Agent Ed Ware, burned to death
in the car.
Engineer James Everett, fatally in
iured.
Fireman, name not learned, killed.
Baggage-master T. I. Harkins, badly
bruised and mashed; will recover.
James Gillespie, mail agent, badly
bruised on the head and burned; will
die.
Besides these there were some ten or
fifteen passengers injured more or less,
none of them, however, seriously. 1t was
reported that Conductor James was
killed, but that is doubtless a mistake.
The porter on the sleeper, name unknown,
was seriously injured
The train was running little slower than
its regular time, but it was impossible to
see the washOut on the curve until the
train was right into it. Special trains
went out at once to the scene of the acci-
dent, and those who were injured were
brought in.
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Teroeutenary Of Edinburgh University

EDINBURGH. April a..
The celebration Of the tcrcentonury
and foundation OF Edinburgh University,
which began on Tuesday, continued un-
I'll to-day. A large number Of prominent
gentlemen were present, among whom
were Minister Lowell, who represents
Harvard, Yale and Cornell Universities
and the Smithsonian Institutes Profes
sor Green, Of Princeton, n. J.; NJ. De
Lesseps, Principal Dawson of McGlll
University, Montreal; Prof. Brl ggs, OF
the Union Theological Seminary, N T.,
aud Prof. Venable. of Virginia.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-04-24
The Rocky FORK Murder.

ALTON, Ill, April II.
Felix Henry, the self-confessed Rocky
Fork murderer, was arraigned for
trial in the Circuit Court at Edwards
vile to-day. An immense crowd Of
coloTed people from ali parts of the
country was present. Henry's counsel
read an affidavit to the effect that the
principal witness for the prisoner, sol
der named Morris, now stationed at Fort
Hayes, Kan, by whom It Is expected 10
prove an alibi, cannot now be secured.
They moved a continuance until the next
term Of court. The motion was granted.
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bTKLLNILLE, MO, ApFlI D.
On Saturday the dead body of VIM. G.
Whitehouse was found in the Meramcc
bottoms, in Crawford County, riddled
with buck-shot. He was to all
appearances killed by Oliver
L. Bell, with whom he had fought a few
days before. The men were partners in
the ownership of Wilson's mills, on the
Salem & Little Rock Road. Whitehouse
had been to Sligo Furnace. On his way
home he was waylaid by Bell, who
concealed himself behind a large
tree and riddled Whitehouse with buck
shot,
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LONDON, April Is.
The greatest CONSERVATION and ex-
element prevails throughout China, and
a general levy of Chinese troops has been
ordered. The Empress has ordered the
commander of the Chinese troops at Bac
Mini, together with the officers of his
staff and leading line officers to be be-
headed for disobeying the orders of the
War Department in not fortifying their
rear so as to prevent a flank movement,
and in not communicating to the depart
ment that their force was not sufficient to
cope with the French troops.
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HUNTsyGLLE, ALA, April H..
Promptly upon opening ofcourt the case
against Frank James was called. Defendant
came into court accompanied by his wife
and two children, one six and the other
four years old. When witnesses for Gov
ernment were called eight answered.
-Four absentees are on the way, to be ex-
anined upon arrival. When defendants
Witnesses were called all eleven we're
present. Witnesses were put under
the rule. There was considerable
wrangling between attorneys. The jury
Is being examined.
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DESTRUCTIVE STORMS.
Portions of Georgia and S9iEsissippI Visited
by Destructive Wind StOrms-HOuses and
Other Property Destroyed and Many Per-
sons Seriously Injnted.

sons seriously Angut cd
COLUMBUS, GA, April Is.
A violent wind and rain storm passed
over the city Monday night Rain fell 81
inches in three hours. Lands were badly
washed, but there is no serious loss of
property and no lives lost. Much$iamage
to property is reported from Auburn,
Alabama.
special from Chipley, Ga, says dis.
astrOus cyclone swept over Harris
County Monday night The wind storm
struck Chipley about 2:3O 3. IN. The
first damage done was at the residences of
George Williams and Mrs. Babbs, three
miles southwest of Chipley, and from
there to Mr.. Culpepper's and T. J.
Jenkins places, where houses were
blown down. Lee Afford was instantly
killed at the latter place and his wife and
three children badly hurt. Affords body
was found $50 yards from the house.
Outhouses on Samuel Goodman's and
JnO. B. Hastey's places were demolished.
John Langford and son were badly hurt,
and wife and child killed.
Mrs. Mary Davis residence was de-
molished.
In the town of Chipley the residences
of J. M. Rees, E. F. McGee, DIR. J. Z.
Thornton, A. j. Irwin, B. d. Waylor, r.
A, Berner, A. p. Hampton and Layfield
were blown down or badly damaged.
Thomas Champion was badly wounded
and Mrs. Champion slightly.
Eff. MCGEE received severe internal
Injury and his son was fatally wounded.
Mrs. Layfield and sister were slightly
hurt.
A. J. Irwin received severe internal in
juries.
Mrs. Langford was badly hurt.
DIR. J. E. Thornton was slightly hurt.
Ben Powell and son are reported killed.
The storm passed in northeast direc-
ton from Chipley, and outhouses and
part of Joe Dumas residence were blown
down.
r. S. Parkman's place was demolished.
lake POwell's place was wrecked.
Outhouses and residences on Rev. Jas.
2. Jones' and Thos. L. Bowden's places
were badly damaged. The last named
places are near Warm Springs, where
BOwden and wife were slightly wounded.
The destruction of property can hardly be
estimated. The cyclone swept everything
in its path, and many miraculous escapes
are reported.
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CRIMES AND CAUsUAIr1Es.

THE United States and Brazil Mail Steam
ship Company's steamer, Reliance, is re-
ported lost.
AT Naples, Italy, drunken soldier on
the l4th killed five of his comrades and
wounded three others by shooting them in
their. dormitory.
On the 14th a fre-damp explosion oc-
Cured in a cOlliery near Elizabeth, Pa,
killing two men and injuring others.
THE conference of Osman Digna with
the sheiks friendly to the British failed to
produce any pacific result.
A DOUBLE lynching occurred in Breathitt
County, KY, on the 14th, and more blood
she'd is likely to follow.
ON the 18th train ran into a washout
near Ackworth, Ga, killing the mail
weigher, engineer and fireman.
THE West Virginia squatters who re-
Gently fired on a surveying party have
served the County Assessor in the same
way and killed his horse. force will be
sent into the mountains to subdue the re-
beIlion.
WADswORTH, New, was totally de-
stroyed by fire on the 15sh.
AT Grand Rapids, Mich, the wall of
Hubbard's hardware store, recently
burned, fell on the 10th, during a heavy
gale, and crushed adjoining dwelling
occupied by Daniel Affeldt. Mrs. Afeldt,
a three-year-old daughter and boarder
named Murphy were killed.
On the 18th, a great cOnfagration was re-
ported at Rangoou, British Burmah.
NEAR Newark, Pa, on the 18th, a freight
wreck resulted in the death of man who
was stealing a ride.
LORENZO DBIM1CK, Of the firm Of Crosby
& Dimmck, Buffalo, N Y, is under three
charges of larceny. The amount involved
IS over 100000.
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A SECOND DISASTER.

Another terrible accident occurred to
freight train No. about the same hour
on the Western & Atlantic Railway,
south of Big Shahty. This acci-
dent was also caused by the wash
ing out of an embankment by the
heavy rains. The trains, making the
usual time, had come upon the
point where the track had been washed
away, and before it could be stopped the
engine plunged in and the cars
were derailed and turned over.
Engineer Mcdonald was instantly
killed, was the fireman, whose name
could not be learned. No one on the
freight train was injured. The wreckers
have not been able to recover the bodies
of Mcdonald and his fireman, they being
buried beneath the ruins and debris.
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NEW ORLEANS, LA, April ID

NEW OHIEANss La h pIl AO
A Times Democrats Walden (MiSs.)
special says: Blackhawk, eighteen
miles west of here, was struck by cy-
clone Monday. w. w. Brewers and f.
Chippen's dwellings and out-hOuses were
totally destroyed. Brewers daughter
was seriously hurt. DIR. Ben +. Kttrelps
Office was demolished. J. B. StreatOr's
dwelling and saw-mill were unroOfed
and his stables and out-houses de-
stroyed. J. Jones' house and
J. ID. Purcell's shops were de-
stroyed. The residence and shops of
d. II. Jordan, the Methodist District
High School buildings and Methodist
Church were considerably damaged. Mrs.
Hutchinson's house was destroyed and
her collar-bOne broken. Much other
property was destroyed, and a number
of other persons were also seriously in.
iured, but names are not gwen
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Raid on the Bears in the wheat Iit and
Get Away with Huge "ScaIp'- clever
CudRhy.
CHICAGO, I'll, April H.
Have the Milwaukee and the IIobb,
crowd sold their wheat? everybody iu.
qUired yesterday. Al first tho little
traders thought they had; on Wednesday
they were sure they bad. Yesterday most
people admitted that they knew nothing
about it. There were some very strong
buyers in tie wheat pit in the morn
ing The opening was weak. May
wheat at one time selling
down TO cighty-three and seven-eighths
cents. The weather was fine and the
feeling decidedly bearish all at once
there was metamorphosis The scalp
ers, who had been disputIng over eighths
and quarters, suddenly dropped their
hagglng. They all turned buyers, and
anxious buyers, too. They did not stand
on small fractions, but In a twinkllug bid
the price up from cighty-three and seven
cights cents for May TO eighty-nvc and o
half cents.
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ALL WANTED IT.

From being very uncertain and even a
little bcarish the temper 1T once became
very bullish. Everybody wanted wheat
The shorts became frightened. The feI-
lows who hays been persistent bulls dur
ing the thirty-cent decline, aud who were
on the point Of giving mp hope, whlrlcd
about and acted as If now finally the ad-
vance had begun, and that unless the ut
most speed was used the stuff would ad.
vance too fast and get away from them
The cause for this sudden conversion was
a scalp successfully made by a provision
crowd presumably acting under the
direction Of Cudahy When wheat was
at It's lowest early IN the morning a
crowd Of provision brokers made their
appearance and quietly picked up about
one million bushels Of wheat The hg-
urcs advanced under this buying, and
continued 70 advance long after the buy
ing ceased, under the influence Of the
purchasing of the shorts, who had
taken fright. The theory last night was
that the wheat bought by the provI.-
ion traders in the forenoon at Sic.
and thercabOuts was all sold out
at above s5c. IL is set down
as huge, successful scalp by that
very clever operator, Cudahy..
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Tte 8otirar 8nlletiu.
TERMS OF ADVERTISING:

One square Of eight lines, EI.hO for the 6rst
Insertion and 20 cents for each subsequept
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CURIOUS PROCEEDINGS.

One of the Berner Jury Relates the Suspio.
iOus Tactics Employed to Bring About n
Verdict of MRnslaughter-Forem shaw
And Three Others Placed In an URenvi.
able Light.