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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-04-03
A SAD ExPERIENCE.

The History of a Family From Henderson
KY, Once Wen-tO-dO-FrOm Wealth to
Poverty in Two Years.
Chicago Times.
A very peculiar case Of restitution was
developed yesterday afternoon in the
rooms of the county board. A woman
named Mrs. R. Miller presented q letter
in which she stated that she was lady
by birth and education, and that she had
passed through terrible misfortune and
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-02-14
"A DESPERATE. COWBOY.
An Exciting Fight on the Streets OF MONT
rose, Col.,s with a Cowboy DesperadO-
Two Prominent Citizens Shot.

An Exciting Fight on the Streets OF MONT
rose, Col.,. with a Cowboy Despersdo-
Two Prominent Citizens shot.
MoNTRosE, COL, Feb. 7.
There is great excitement in town tonight
over the shooting of City Marshal G. B,
Murphy and Judge Edwards, Justice Of
the Peace and Police Judge, by a cowboy
named Watson, who was bound over in
July to the District Court for splitting in
the Judges face. He was fined $40 and
costs, which amounted to about S1I5. About
dark the Marshal was attacked and shot in
the ankle or just above. The man being on
his horse. he fired at him, but missed. Sew
eraI shots were fred by citizens. Return
ing in about half an hour, the desperate
drew his pistol on Frank Mason, when
Judge Edwards came up and drew his pis-
tol on Watson, commanding him to throw up
his hands. Watson spurred, his horse, went
a few feet, reined up took deliberate aim
at the Judge and fired four shots, one ball
entering about three inches below the left
nipple. The town is in arms after the man
Watson, who has had more than hundred
shots fired at him. At a corner his horse
fell, and persons, thinking he was hurbg ran
to pick him up, but before they could get 70
him he was up and on his horse again. The
Marshal, Bob Murphy, started in pursuit,
but did not overtake him.
Not only did he threaten 10 XIII gAlS bhA -
men already named, but he swore he would
burn the town, and it is feared by some
persons that he may return here yet To-
night and undertake it. 1t is now nearly
twelve O'Clock and Sheriff Johnson has Just
called to see your correspondent to give an
account of the first attempt 10 catch wat
son tonight. The Sheriff was returning
from CoIorow, a town between here and
Delta, and when about four miles north
west from here he met his deputy, Mr..
LOTUS, with the other officers. They had
followed Watson across the Uncompaghre
River. hut he eluded them. Five armed
and mounted men were sent TO Baldwin's
Cowcamp to look out for Watson, and ~ II
expected that If he goes there he will be
captured, las there is but one man there
The camp is twenty-five miles to the north
east of here, where he could get fresh
horse and a supply Of cartridges for which
purpose it is expected he VIII go there, a.
he has doubtless made up his mind by this
time to fight long hard, and desperate
fight. Watson is probably thirty-eigh
years old, stout built man with heavy
black whiskers, determined looking face
such a man as others would fear.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-02-14
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

In the Senate, on the 8th, Mr.. Rid
dleberger offered a resolution for joint
committee to inquire into the causes of re-
movals of employees of both houses of Con-
Eress. Among new bills introduced was
one by Logan for a commission to inquire
into the condition and progress of the col
ored race. The land grant titles bill passed.
An effort to call up the Greely relief mat
ter led TO some speech-malzing in which the
Navy Department was severely criticised.
Adjourned to Monday. 49,. In the House, a
resolution inquiring il any United States
Consuls are behind ntheir accounts was re-
ferred; also, resolution inquiring as to the
power Of CongressIto regulate importation OF
foreign goods by inspection laws. Mr.. Fin
erty offered a resolution eulogizing Wen
dell Phillips. A bill was introduced re-
pealing internal taxes ON tobacco. Report
of the conference committee on the Greedy
relief bill announcing further disagreement
was adopted. The elections committee re-
port on the ChaImers-Manning contest,
recommending that neither be seated, was
ordered printed. The naval appropriation
bill was reported. With various amend
ments, the report of the committee on rules
was adopted. Adjourned to Monday.
THE Ohio River was reported falling
was rising below. The Lower Mississippi
had great volumes of water coming down
and prospects were still dubious. At
Wheeling, W. Va, the bakeries and gro
ceries were drowned out and all sorts of
provisions were nearly exhausted, except
ing salt meat. Several points in Ohio re-
+ port the highest water ever known.
/ THERE is a strike of 5000 ship-build-
I ars at Belfast ireland.
Four naval cadets at Annapolis, Md,
/ are to be &C urt-martialed for hazng.
/ GOVERNOR OvERToN of the Chicka-
saw Nation died the night of the 9TH.
/ PARNELL offered his amendment in
the House of Commons on the Sth con
demning the government policy in Ire
land.
! ASSEMBLYNIAND DONAHUE of New York
has been arrested III Canada for completely
in Fenian operations.
THE business failures in the United
States and Canada tor the week ended the
Sth were 27S, nearly 100 less than the weeh
before.
ELEVEN hundred liquor dealers ot
New York, convicted of violating the ex
else law. have bad their licenses revoked
THE Pope has sent a cornerstone
and an altar slab Tor the O'Connell memo
rial chapel to be erected in County Kerry
Ireland.
DIPLOMATIC correspondence between
England and America, relating to the sen
ltence Of Patrick O'Donnell, was presented
Ito Parliament on the sth,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-02-14
WTr AND WISDOM.


After all, the mighty forces which
move humanity are the forces which
come from the affections rather than
from the cool intellect.-HpPcr's Week
EU ..,.,. ......... .....
Says an experienced bachelor: ".The
best thing. to taKe when you go TO kiss
a pretty girl-take time. Tho more you
take the better she likes it."-M T.
Mail.
An Indiana Jail bird recently
scraped off the back of a mirror and
swallowed it.. 1t was very cold day
for him when the mercury went down.
r-BurltugtoN Free Press. .F..
Heard on the lake: "Can that girl
skate?' Il think not" "Then YOU 4
better escort somebody else. ~ . Bot
what shall do with her?'' "Oh, just
let her slide. ''-C Chicago Tttbu,1e.
NO" said Fogg, in reply TO tho
person on the doorstep, "the lady of
the house is not in. It Is her evening
out. But my wife is in; perhaps she
might do as well. ."-BOston Transcript
-"O, Professor" exclaimed senti-
mental old Mrs. Fishwhacker, during a
private organ recital in her new music
room, "dO pull out that sweet nuN
vomica stop once moren'T-M X, Lnae-
pCItNCfets I'D
-"But You know, pa" said the
farmers daughter, iwhen he spoke tO
her about the addresses OF neighbor's.
son, "you know, pa, that ma wants me
TO marry man Of culture. - $50 do
/, my dear, so do Il; and ther0stis no
better culture than agriculture. ''-5Liurat
New Yorker.
-" Charles" said Mr.. Smith. you
shouldn't stay 80 late at the 0onways.'
- But you must remember, father that
there are two young ladies who have
Just made their appearance there
s'Oh, well, that alters the ca e.; Ot
course you do right TO keep up appear
ances. F--IrOy Times.
AT a recent party; Anxious Young
Man Miss b., may l have the sixth
| dance with youp'' Miss B.-''As we
have no pencil can not mark it, A..
Y. NJ Obi well, leave a space there,
aud you'll understand. Miss B..
avery well, then; when / see vacant
/ spot shall know IL is you.2 Exit
anxious young man. -,Dctron Post.
"A T'rtbtl,le attache yesterday heard
skilled vocalist sing ''NRait til tho
i clouds roll by.'' She rendered IL; m
1 wah tab the claw raw baw, Jawy;
| .-ttt Wah. tab the claw rifw baw; A
Jawy, ma aw traw law wRh a.
/ ff Wah taw the claw raw baw.''
And then she smiled sJfbweetly and
broadly over the well-meritcd applause
that the corners Of her mouth held a
sociable on tle back of hcrneck. - Bis
7laTck Tribune. f..
4 ~" What's become of Pettyfog that
uster live herep' asked a visitor Of
| Gilpin at the store Saturday night
"Ol he's located in a Western town,
| practicing law. -
"How does he get alongP Is he sue
cessful?'' o. Fl.
"Not very. lie has never won suit
yet"
What Not a suitl7 Hfu
/" No. That is, not whole one, He
won hat on Ohio last fall and pair
of boots on New York. But that's AZ
near suit as he ever got. "--4MaTathO1I
IpdependeHt.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-02-14
TIr 9ulirar gullrtiu.
TERMS OF ADVERTISING
rnrrs Am FTGUREs!


Twelve million clocks were manu-
,factured last .year.-rN. y. He1utT
Ohio has 55, 900 business men with
aggregate capital of $3.50. 100000, an aY-
erage of $4,000 each. Cgerctafla Leda-
er. fu --,..............,.
There. were but three deaths in tho
town of Newcastle, n. H., in 1883.
The population of the town Is b3O.-BeS-
ton journal -t.- I gi
The census of 1880 showed that
there were 6, ,632, ,549 colored persons IN
this country. and 6,679, 943 persons OF
foreign birth Chicago Journal. sf p.
In 1888 the Connecticut River gave
mp III, 30S shad against 35l, 61o IN lo3l.
The criminal destruction OF the young
fish is the cause Of the decline. Hart
ford Post. III
chihuahua alone last year yielded
nearly $50, 600, 600 in bullion-moro by
s., 900, 900 than the whole Mexican Rs
public has averaged during the last six
,ty years The yield for Mexico for the
year approximate SS0,0000 000--the re-
suit of American enterprise--1rtzond
Journal.
of the six largest sugar-prodhcine
countries of Europe, Germany this year
carries off the palm, with 500, 600 tons.
or 80 per cent. of the whole. Next
come Austria with 40, 0O0tons, Frahee
with 425. 0o0, Russia with. Boo, 900, Bel
lsgium with "a, 900 and Holland with 2i,-
| 900. Germany has not only the great
7 est number of refneries, 557a cut OF l..
204, but the largest also.
h The growth Of the, Western Union
Telegraph Company Is enormous ana
steady. I'm 1874 it owned III 6a3 miles
4 of wires, transmitted l6, 329, 256 mes
| \ 4
| 253 In 1879 these figures increased to-
81, 937 miles of wire, 25,o70,l06 mes
\ sages, and $lO,960, 940 receipts; while
! in 1888 they were i43, 452 miles, 40,5Si,-
Il 9z7 messages, and receipts Sl9, 454, ,9O2-s
Chicago Herald.
\ The business of the manufacture
and sale Of beer has reached enormous
proportions,in in this country, The 4fcWr
erS' Journal shows that the ale and beer
sold last year, in six states uone'
amounted to tile following: NclHtY orl2r'
5,843, 254 barrels; Pennsylvania, l,5Q6,-,
946 barrels Ohio, l,5S5, S52 barrels
Wisconsin, ,298, 189 barrolsi Illinois,
| 1,e7l, ,403 barrels, aud Missouri, J, ,O22,-
-b 659 barrels. New York City alone shows
sales of 9,23g, 90S barrels; Philadelphia,
! 1,023, III barrels. .rf s..
The fish supply of Russian lakes
4 and rivers is enormous. Recent statis-
tics show how great is the catch- Dur
ing the past year 3, 100000 hundred
weight of fish were caught in The Cas-
plan Sea In the Sea Of AZof ami the
rivers Don and Kuban more than 4,OOO.-
600 hundred-weight were caught ln
the Black Sea, about 5000, 600 hundred
weight; in the White Sea and the
Frozen Ocean, 500 600 hqndred-Weighti
in the Baltic, not less than 100000
hundred-weight, the total Of these mum
bers being so, 600 tons of fish.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-02-14
A Block of Houses sink Into a CoiIery.

WILKESBARREs PA, feD- 2.
The Borough of Hazleton, IN the lower
end of tins county, a town of 5000 inhabi-
tants, was this afternoon thrown into a
fearful state Of excitement by the caving
in of an entire square i'm the central part
of the borough. The drop was about three
feet, caused by the giving way Of the tim
bers in Sugar Loaf CeIlieTy underneath.
Three OF four houses, including q hotel,
were entirely wrecked, while numbers
Of others were more or less injured. The
residence Of Master Mechanic Clark Of the
Lehfgh Valley Railroad shop, was utterly
demolished. Fortmnafely no lives were
sacrificed or anybody injured. 1t Is report
ed here tonight that grave apprehension
exists in Hazleton concerning further set
tling Of the surface, and much anxiety ex-
lists. This is the first town known 70 have
suffered from cavern directly in its busi-
ness center, and it naturally gives rise 20
much curiosity among residents OF other
undermined towns to know the exact causes
that operated in bringing about the disas'
ter of TODAY.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-02-14

sPn1sarrELp. No. Z.


Ike Pruitt, the most noted Of the Illicit
whisky distillers Of Texas County, this
State, Yesterday voluntarily surrendered
himself TO Deputy United States MaThal
Gum Roper, at Basket1s store, Texas
County, and was brought TO this city where,
before the United States Commissioners, he
stated that he had been operating an Illicit
distiliery and that be still owned the still,
but did not know where Il was. In default
of bond he was sent TO the Cole County jail
20 await trial at the March term Of the
United States District Court at Jefferson
CITY. Pruitt says that be is heartily tired
Of running an Illicit distillery and that be
will devote himself TO isoIne other occuPa-
patton In tie tutaEes
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-02-14

MEMPHIS TENN feb. ~
The jury in the case OF Pat Haley, the
young Irishman charge with killing Alex.
Dunlap, an aged negro, last summer, Dy
cutting his throat with butcher knife, re-
turned a verdict at noon to-day Of not gull
tv. This was the second trial, he having
been convicted OF murder in the first de-
gree, but new trial granted on techni-
calfty. When the jury announced the YER
dict to-day Judge Greer remarked that It
was perfect surprise 10 the court and q
disgrace and insult to any civilized CON-
munity. He had the jury polled and their
names spread upon ths minutes, with in
structions never to again be summoned as
Jurors In his court.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-02-14
InterruptInr Business.

The absence of the telephone was
appreciated by some people In Boston.
One man said
About once in three rings / get
something like this"
Hello, George, dearW
Well, hellOw ..
Baby just said GOO GOO four
times, and know he wants you 70
come home To supper"
i" Baby? Who in thunder do you
think / amp"
81 Aren't you No. 11,70lP'
" Certainly mott Good day. ..
Now YOU see that is an interruption
70 business. Boston Globe
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-02-14

ANDREW JOHNSON, a dissipated Dane
murdered Bertha Brassman and committed
suicide at Racine. Wis, on the 4th, because
the girl would have nothing to do with him.
a SERIES of mysterious explosions oc-
Cured on the 5th in the bar-roOm of Swans
ssstaurant, Detroit, Mich. Flames in
ftantly broke out and the building burned.
Swan had recently made an assignment.
OK the 5th a German farm laborer
near Marengo, Iowa, shot his sweetheart
and then committed suicide.
OK the 9th five men were killed and
fifteen wounded by an accident on the
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, near More
head, XIV. Fourteen men were also injured
/ o.. the L., n. D. & T. Road near Port Glib
son, Miss. All were railroad construction
hands.
OK the night of the 9th Crossman &
4 Kluenter's furniture factory at Allentown,
/ Pa, burned. Four men are known to have
been killed by, falling walls, number in
/ iured, and it was feared tho.e were others
1 buried in the ruins.
AT Leipsic. German two letter
pouches containing 50, ,000nlarks were stoleI
from mail cart on the 7th.
On the 9TH two Baltimore q Ohio
passenger trains collided near FRllsburg, .
No one was fatally. hurt, but several sus
| tained ugly bruises.
4 On the night of the 9th Samuel Nor
man, of Dayton, o., finding two barlSars il
his house, shot one dead and secured thu
arrest of the other.
Oh the 7th gang of young rufian
at Minneapolis, Mimi, took.a lad name'
- Johnny Nolan to. neighbOr's barn AM
hanged him, where he was struggling Il
the death throes when found and cut down
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-02-14

A Cincinnati Judge, before whom
a man was arraigned for cruelty to ami
mails, decided that mules had no rights
in Cincinnati courts. - Chicago Herald
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-11-27
Yellowstone National Park.

The impression left on the mind OF
ninety-fve out Of every hundred visi-
tors will be, that the park is a great,
gloomy and somewhat desolate region
"a sort of weird volcanic wilderness.
Apart from the grand canon of the
Yellowstone, and the great falls, there
is little of the majestically beautiful
there-the boiling springs, the mud
volcanos, the geysers and the hot sui
phur pits belong rather to the realm of
the supernatural, the phenomenal.
The one will arouse an ecstacy of de-
light in the beautiful; the other ava
kens only the sense Of the terrible, a
horrible admiration. Tho mountain
scenery is little If anything superior
to that of the White Mountains, for
though these peaks are 1000 to 5000
feet higher, above sea level, than the
great New Hampshire peaks. it is to be
remembered that the mountains in the
park spring from a table-land already
5000 to 1000 feet above the New
Hampshire level.
But leaving out, therefore, the
mountains, rivers, lakes and valleys,
as not entitled to pre-eminent atten-
ton, there is more than enough left to
Justify the title of wonderland"
which has been applied to the Yellow
stone country. There are gloomier
and deeper canons than the grand
canon of the Yellowstone; but thereis
none that can approach it in the fan
tastic structure of its cliffs and pima
cles and towers, or the brilliancy and
variety, yet harmonious beauty, of the
colors that adorn the walls and tur-
rets. There are great geysers and hot
springs of Iceland and New Zealand;
but the geysers and hot springs Of the
Yellowstone surpass them in volume,
power and variety of action as well as
il beauty of form AMI color
Add to these the great cliffs of gilt
tering obsidian, the varicolored boiling
mud-springs, innumerable lovely cas-
cades, three or four minor canons, each
more than thousand feet deep, fos-
silized forest where the trees have been
transformed into agate, mountains and
pits and springs of sulphur and soda,
river Of scalding water, natural
bridges, eroded towers and goblin fig
ures, and it may be fairly assumed
that this is the most weird and Won
derful region Of the globe.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-11-27
Saved by q Dog.

Some time since blind gentleman,
well known in the north of England,
went for walk of several mil S, ac-
companied by his dog. lie knew the
read so we'll that he did not strap up
the dog, but Let it run loose. He had
gone nearly five miles on his way, and
was crossing some fields by footpath,
when his dog gave peculiar whine in
front of him. He was about to climb
a stile when another whine was heard.
This startled him SO he crossed the
stile as cart fully as he could, feeling
every step. Just as he got over the
sti.e, the dog gave louder whine of
alarm, placed his forefeet upon his
breast, and held him fast against the
stile. He tried to push the dog aside
but it would not let him proceed. The
strap was therefore put around his
neck, and the wise creature at once led
its master by a roundabout way quite
out of the ordinary path. 1t appeared
that port of the footpath which led
past a stream had been entirely wash
ed aw..y by flood so that, had the
gentleman continued upon the old
path he must lave met with most
serious accident.
What made the sagacity Of the dog
mere conspicuous on this occasion was
the fact that it had not been with its
master for eighteen months-he having
been laid up for the whole of that
period, and the dog living with a
friend during the time.-Ltttle Folks
MQgdzine,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-11-27
A Sinpular Road Red,

There is vast bed of rock salt in
the Colorado Desert. near Idaho; and
the Southern Pacific railroad in laying
the track to the salt mime have been
Obliged to grade the road for twelve
hundred feet with blocks of these
beautiful Jumps of salt crystals. This
is the first instance of a railroad road
bed being laid and ballasted on salt, OF
which we have any knowledge. The
sea that once rolled over this place
dried up, and left a vast bed of salt
about fifty miles in length. The
quality is superb, and the supply in.
exhaustible Grasshoppers of enor
nous size and giant centipedes have
been picked in this chloride of sodi-
um. and are to-day, after the lapse OF
centuries. in full size and perfection OF
shane. This vast salt bed will be valu.
alls to the reducers of ores in Califor.
MIA, Arizona and New Mexico and can
upplied in boundless quantities.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-11-27
Natural Fly Cages.

In describing certain "Queer Flow
ers," in the Popular Science Monthly"
Grant Allen mentions several which
temporarily detain the flies that enter
them. One of the most remarkable of
these is the wild arum, or cuckoo pint,
a flower allied to the calla: "This
familiar big spring flower exhales
disagreeable, fleshy odor, which, by its
meat-like flavor, attracts tiny midge
with beautiful irridescent wings and a
very poetical name, Psychoda. As in
most other cases where flies are specially
invited, the color of the cuckoo-pint is
usually a dull and somewhat livid
purple. A ralisade of hairs closes the
neck of the funnel-shaped blossom,
and repeats the lobster-pot tactics of
the entirely unconnected South
European birchwort. The little flies,
entering by this narrow and stockaded
door, fertilize the future red berries
with pollen brought from their last
prison, and are then rewarded for their
pains by tiny drop of honey, which
Slowly oozes from the middle of each
embryo fruit as soon as it is duly i'm
pregnated. Afterward, the pollen is
shed upon their backs by the bursting
of the pollen-bags; the hairs wither
up, and open the previously barricaded
exit, and the midges issue forth in
search of new prison and Il second
drop of honey. This is all strange
enough; but stranger still, l strongly
suspect the arum of deliberately
hocusing its nectar have often seen
dozens of these tiny flies rolling
together in an advanced stage of
apparent intoxication upon the pollen
covered floor Of an arum chamber; and
the evidences cf drunkenness are so
clear and numerous that incline to
believe the plant actually makes them
drunk in order to insure their stagger-
ing about in the pollen and carrying a
good supply of it to the next blossom
visited. 1t is a curious fact that these
two totally unrelated plants (birchwort
and arum) should have hit upon the
very same device to attract insects of
the same class (though not the same
spscies.) The trap must have been
independently developed in the two
cases, and could only have succeeded
with such very stupid, unintelligent
creatures as the flies and midges."