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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-07-10
A PLTCKY GIRL.
Who Took "A Man Who Had Insulted Her
at His Word, and Shot Him-A Case for
Public Sympathy.

at His Word, and Shot Him-A Case for
Public Sympathy.
BRADFORD. PA, July 2.
Three men entered the bar-room of dis
reputable house on Globe street, in a sec
tion of the city known as "Pig Island"
The house is kept by Frank Meadows,
who has a daughter about twenty years
of age, OF whom he is very proud. She
is a beautiful girl of modest demeanor,
and has always been kept from inter-
course with the people visiting the
saloon. AS it happened, however,
she was in the bar-room yesterday
when the men entered, and one of them,
Jacob Head, aged thirty-fve years, began
to use insulting language to her. Miss
Meadows at first broke into tears, over
come with shame and anger: But recOv-
eTing her self-possessiOn she ordered the
men to leave the place. Head repeated
his insulting expressions and closed by
saying in way of jest that if
the girl felt her honor wounded
she could revenge herself by shoot
ing him. Quick as thought the girl
sprang behind the bar, seized a revolver,
which was i'll drawer, and pointing it
at Head pulled the trigger. The bullet
struck the man in the left side, penetrat-
ing a lung. He threw up his hands, stag
gercd out on the sidewalk and fell dead.
The girl was arrested, although public
sympathy is entirely with her. Head
formerly lived in Middletown, n. Y.
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The Fate Of the EarIr Worm.

II was the witching hour of 4.30 II
m. A witching hour for sleep. The
thrifty Alarm Clock on the mantcl lifted
up its CHEEKY voice and badc the Slug
gard rouse him from his lazy couch.
The Sluggard, who vas making about
fifteen knots of solid sleep with both
bow ports wide open, merely shut off his
busy snore long enough to say:
"Cheese that untimely racket!'
And straightway went to sleep again.
But the thrifty Alarm Clock shrank
never from its duty. 1t cried aloud
''How long wilt thou sleep, o Slug
gardP When wilt thou arise out of thy
sleep?"
Read the tenth verse of the same
chapter, Proverbs six," growled the
Sluggard, plunging his head yet deeper
among the pillows.
1.-The way of the slothfuI man is as
a hedge of Thorns," shouted the Alarm
Clock.
''I'll make your way like the track IF
a cyclone if YOU continue the mathis
much longer" snarlcd the weary Slug
gard.
He that is slothful is brother to
him that is great waster," ratified the
Alarm Clock.
You're wastor of precious time
when you talk to me in the night" re-
piled the Sluggard. "Call in during
Office hours.
''As vinegar to the teeth and as
smoke to the eyes, SO is the Sluggard
to them that send him." caroled the
Alarm Clock, with a perfect hurI ah.
"Ill send you up the chimney in an
other minute, if l don't hear some
silence in this room," said the Sluggard,
pulling the sheet over his head and get
ting ready TO smother.
"Upr' shouted the Alarm Clock,
with prodigious clamor; up and be
stirring! Up! Bless you, this won't do!
Have an aim in lifen
And then the Slu0gard, enduring no
longer, stood up his elbow and aimed a
boot at the Alarm Clock with such fatal
precision that the air was full of brass
wheels, steel springs, striking hammers,
fractured bells, broken brass. and a
bruised and battered dial. One brief
moment the Sluggard gazed at the rem
nants of what but few moments be-
fore was n good four dollar alarm
clock, and then settling himself down
for a snOoze that could be broken only
by the eight-o' clock breakfast-bell, he
said:
He that blesseth his friend with a
loud voice, rising early in the morning,
it shall he counted a curse to him. Sec
Proverbs, twenty-seven, fourteen. -
BurCtette, IN brooklyn Eagle.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-07-10
Snake Stories.


The following seasonable tales are
from the snake department of Puck:
While Letitia Grimsby was lying asleep
in hammock on the front porch among
the honey-suckles one day last week,
snake came out Of an adjoining field,
crawled up into the hammock, and
braided her hair. When the young lady
awOke she was greatly aslonished to
find her hair braided. but supposed il
the act Of her sister, as the snaKe bad
disappeared The following day the
same thing occurred again, and her sis
ter, having seen it, aroused the young
lady after the snake had gone, and told
her what had happened. At the present
time the girls in the Grimsby family
never braid their hair at all. When
they want It braided they simply lie in
the hammock and pretend they are
asleep. and the snake does the business
for them.
w alter j. Blum was riding on his BIZ
cycle along the turnpike out at Verona,
n. j., one day last week, when the ruo-
Der tire suddenly flew off the front
wheel. Before the rider could stop the
machine, large black-snake that was
lying in the road suddenly placed its
body in the groove Of the wheel, which
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-07-10
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

IN the Senate on the 81 the message of
the President vetoing the Fitz-John Porter
bill was received, and at the conclusion
of its reading, on the question: "Shall the
bill pass Notwithstanding the objections Of
the PresidentY' it was defeated by a vote
of y to y, two-thirds of the members not
voting in the affirmative. The fortifica-
tion bill was reported with amendments.
The bill to legalize trades unions was IA
vorably reported. The anti-CAinese bill
was called up and passed, yeas, 43; nays,
l.. The amendments to the sundry civil
bill were insisted upon. The bill to forfeit
the unearned lands granted the Atlantic
q Pacific Railroad was passed.
The amendments to the fortification bill
were insisted upOn......In the House the Sc
. lect committee to inquire whether any ex
members bad violated the privileges of the
House, reported sustaining the charges
against VIM. II. English, and after some
debate the matter was tabled. The con-
ference report on the Fourth OF July claims
bill was agreed to. The House resumed
consideration of the Mexican pension bill.
Senate amendments to the fortification
bill were non-concurred in and confer
ence committee appointed.
In the Senate on the Fourth the Declara-
tion of Independence was read. The Sem
ate further insisted on its amendments to
the deficiency bill. A bill was passed
granting pension to the widow of General
Ord, and increasing the pension to Mrs.
Frank Z. Blair. At the evening session
the postal telegraph bill was called up,
but final consideration was post
poned until December......In the House
the conference report on the bill to con-
solidate the bureau of military justice and
the corps of judge-advocates was agreed
to. The deficiency bill was called up,
and n motion to Tecede from dis
agreement to the amendments in
controver y appropriating small sums
foT paving streets around public
buildings in Des Moines, St. Louis and
other cities was lost; also, the amendment
to reimburse ex-President Hayes for the
amount paid for expenses of the commits
sion appointed to go to Louisiana in 1877
The conference report on the river and
harbor bill was agreed to. Filibustering
On the Mexican pension bill was INDUCED
in and these tactics were kept up until late
in the night.
THE anti-Slavery Society had its semi
centennial celebration in New York on the
4th.
PATRICK CoNNELLY, of Clarendon, Pa,
was blown into minute pieces by the ex-
plosion of nitro-glycerine on the 4th.
WNSU1NGT0N's statue iu Riverside Park.
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WIT AND WISDOM.

The wise man avenges injuries by
benefits.
With the strong desire to do right
comes the strength to act.
"A big proboscis is indicative of in
telligence. In other words the bigger
it is the more a man nose. BfjktOdubce
Sentinel
Truths are first clouds, then rain,
then harvests and food. The philoso-
ply of one century is the common sense
of the next.
"A Georgia man cOmpels his daugh-
ter to eat onions every night for supp
per, and at ten p. m. that household is
sleeping peacefully. Chicago Tribune.
And in one word is not work the
true secret of happiness for every one,
and is not the lack of il the greatest
hindrance to perfection of womanly
achievement and characterP-Mrs. l.. 5.
BroJon, IN Chicago Week.
Queen Victoria postponed her six
ty-fifth birthday from May "a TO June
%. IL is wonder il did not occur TO
her years ago to defer her twenty fifth
birthday until 1890. 1t is too late now.
NOrTTStOtOR Herald.
Out of Business:
A sturdy old son of tho plough
Had a genuine creamery kouRh,
But she took a bad cough
Which carried her Ough,
And she don't run a creamery nougb.
IT, Bismarck Tribune.
-''How do you like it?" asked q
yachtsman of a young lady, as the boat
went up and down in the trough of tho
waves. "Oh, I-I-it's too awfullY
swclln' was the distressed reply Bur.
LingjoH free Press.
What would you rather have. ar
auction near or an engine near? It
makes but precious little difference so
far as the "biOwlng Off is concerned
You'll do well to keep an eye on either
one when the flag flies and the bell
rings. - ChtcGgo San.
u understand that Spokeland
couldn't make a living down on the bot
tomsP" said n man meeting an ac-
quaintance NO; had to move away"
'.Wasn't the land good?" "First-rate,
but the trouble with him was laziness
He was too lazy to live in that country.
That's no place for a lazy man, let me
tell you. Why, sir, that fellow had
chill one day and was too lazy TO shake.
In that country it is necessary for a
man 10 shake when he has a chill. IL
amt right TO buck against nature. -
ArknHsdlO TraUeIer
My dear" said young wife to
her husband, who had already fallen
into the habit of going to the lodge in
the evening, and who was just pre-
pairing to 90 out: Il am going up
street 10 interview the Superintendent
of the Post-office this evening .'Ah!
indeed; on what business, pray''' Il
want to SEQ if he can give me any ad-
vice in regard 20 getting an habitually
late male in on time.' The husband
blushed, pretended he was looking for
a newspaper instead of his hat, and
there was a member absent from the
lodge that night--M T. Morning
JoHT1ld !
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-07-10
FrfrhtfnIIv nIaneIed.

LEXINGTON, KY. July z.
While freight train on the Kentucky
Central was waiting at Cunningham Sta
ton at p m. yesterday for the passen-
ger train, stock train telescoped with
it. The cars were badly wrecked. Mr..
Gillian, aged sixty, of Berea, Ky, was
killed outright, being horribly mangied
and crushed. His granddaughter, Mrs.
MoIlie Hastings, was wieh him on the
way to Lexington TO see her husband, to
whom she had been married only one
month. She was frightfully wounded
and died in an hour and half.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-07-10
To BE Lynohed without Delay.

NEW ORLEANS, LA, July l.
News was received here this afternoon
of the cowardly assassination in
st. Bernard Parish of a young man named
Maipers. He was called out of his bed
by a crowd of armed men during the
night and shot. He was buried yesterday
afternoon. He belonged to one of the
ancient Creole families, and his death
has caused great excitement. 1t was re-
ported last night that two of the assassins
had been captured. If this is so and the
crime is fastened upon them, they will be
Iynched without delay.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-07-10
The Lntest Charley Ross.


The latest Charley Ross turned up yes
terday in the mysterious boy who created
a sensation in Quincy, Ill, a few days ago.
He reached the Broad Street Station at
three O'Clock yesterday morning. Arriv-
ing in this city the boy was at a loss to
know what to do, and was found by an
officer about $3.50 O'Clock wandering in
the street The policeman directed him
to the Central Station, where Mr.. Ross IS
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-07-10

On the I'd Colonel Robert NJ. Goodwin,
confined in prison at Jeffersonville, Ind,
committed suicide.
NINE. CHRISTINE NILSSON, Theo. Thomas
and other musical celebrities sailed for Eu-
rope on the 2d.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has nominated j. E.
ID. Couzins, of St. Louis, Marshal of the
United States for the Eastern District of
Missouri.
OK the 81 Attorney Bre wster
submitted an opinion TO show that the
Fitz John Porter bill was unconstitu-
tional.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, United States
Minister to England, has improved in
health, but he hadto give up his Fourth
of July dinner.
On the ID the Illinois Democratic State
Convention met at Peoria and elected
as eIegates-at-large to Chicago William
r. Morrison, John NJ. Palmer, j. c. Block
and Lambert Tree. The following State
ticket was nominated; For Governor,
Carter Harrison, of Chicago; for LieUten-
ant-Governor, Henry Setter, of st. Clair
County; for Secretary of State, Michael j..
Dougherty, of Knox County; for State
Treasurer, Alfred Orendorf of SangamOn
County; for State Auditor, Walter b. Car
lin, OF Jersey County.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-07-10
Food for science.
MOBILE, A

lustful brute of a negro at
tempted an assault upon a white woman
at Georgiana, Ala, on June "a, and when
arrested confessed. Next day, while
waiting transportation to Jail at Green
vile, the man strangely disappeared from
the custody of the guards. His body
was found yesterday buried in the woods,
with his head sawed of. The body was
cut onen. and the brains and bowels We're
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-07-10
THE NATIONAL FINANCES.
The Condition OF the National Treasury at
the Close of the Fiscal Year-Vyhat the
Vaults Contradictory Falling off in
Revenues and Decreased Expenditures.


Vaults Contradictory Falling off in
Revenues and Decreased Expenditures.
WASHINGTON, d. c., July 2
The reduction in the public debt dur
Ing June, ds shown in the monthly state
ment of the Treasury is $9,2l7,256, and
for the fiscal year just ended, SO, ,040, ,971,
against $l8,O98,2OI and Sl37, ,S23, ,253
respectively for the two corresponding
periods of the preceding fiscal year. The
total debt now, less cash in the Treasury,
is 81 ,450, ,050, ,235, of which 81 ,226, ,563, $50
is Understanding debt, against about ST.
25O,0OO, 900 outstanding a month ago.
The cash in the Treasury to-day is $391,-
9S5, ,928, with current liabilities amount
ing to 1882, ,O98, ,4S9, leaving an available
cash balance of $I39, 867, ,439. The Treas
urer's statement shows $98, 800, 600 gold
certificates outstanding decrease of
less than half million dollars during the
month. OF silver certificates outstand-
ing there are about $I20, 600, ,000-an in
crease of So, 500, 900 since May 3Ist.
Gold assets have decreased about IS, 000,
600 during the month, and the TAeasury
now holds about $I34, 900, ,0O6 not
covered by outstanding certificates.
Standard silver dollars are steadily accU-
treasury uOW uOIUlLS
$l35, $50, ,9I6 of that coin, or about $3,-
100000 more than a month ago. Gus
toms receipts for June amounted to
SI4, ,76I, ,145, and internal revenue receipts
were $40, ,l04, 161. The revenue of the Gov
ernment for the fiscal year ended yester-
day, from all sources, is fully up to the
estimates and expectations of Treasur,
officials.
CUSTOM RECEIPTS
for the year were $I95, ,627, ,291, against
$2l4, 706, 496 during the preceding fiscal
year. Internal revenue receipts ran up
to $122, 0O4, ,498, against $144, ,720, 368 the
previous year. Receipts from misceIla-
neous sources were $50, ,557, ,944, or S.
600, 900 less than the year before, making
the net revenue for the year $348, l66, 734,
against $398, ,287, ,582 in 1SS2-83.
This shows a falling off, compared with
the preceding year, of about SO, 100000
in custom receipts, $23, 200, 900 in inter-
nal revenue and $8,0O0,O0O in receipts
from miscellaneous sources, or altogether
$50, 900, 900 less revenue than in the pre-
ceding year. While revenues have de-
creased, expenditures for the year were
about 500, 900 less than for
l882-S3. The ordinary expenditures de-
creased from $40, ZOO, 900 to $I35, 000,-
900; pension charge from $66, 900, 900 to
S56, 900, 900, and the interest charge
from $50 900 to $50, 500,0 900. The
large decrease in expenditures will offset
in great measure the falling off of $780,
900, 900 in receipts and gave the Govern
mcnt a surplus revenue of nearly $I0,-
800, ,OOO against about $l3,390, 900 in
| SS2-83
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-07-10
Had a Long Memory.

"Well, john" said old man Jordan.
to his young friend. you have just been
married, / hear?''
Yes, sir he answered. with
spring morning smile, ''iust a month
ago, and l want you TO 60 up to dinner
with me to-day"
"Have you got a cookg'
NO"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-07-10
The 8Olirar gnlIetiu.
TERMS OF ADVERTISING: {:

One square of eight lines, $50 for the first
insertion, and IS cents for each subsequent
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-07-10

.'Weu my boy. s'posowc go TO a res
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-07-10

o crops, cotton and cora Is grow
St. Landry democrat., 1884-08-23
Judge Barringer ON Cholera.
HOW lie RESISTED IT IN ALEXANDRIA,
EGYPT.

| Judge Barringer, of the international
| Tribunal, arrived in this city on Sun.
day, after long residence in Egypt
| He was seen at the Gilsey House yes
terday by a Tribune reporter, and said
Il have been absent from Egypt now
tor several months, so my opinion upon
the state OF affairs would be of little
value. On my way home was attacked
| oy a severe illness, and compelled to
stop Tor nearly two months at Aix-les-
Bains.n
| ''Did you not share in the prevalent
cholera scare ~
by no means. / was in Alexandria
through the whole of the terrible chol-
era year and am thoroughly seasoned
DO YOU think that the cholera will
spread 2"
II assuredly do. I think it will grad
uaIly run through Europe, and toward
next spring, unless extraordinary pre-
cautions are taken, will reach this CON
tInent also. am further convinced
that the only thing to prevent the
spread OF the disease is to pay the strict
est attention 10 the sanitary condition
OF the city. FumigatioD is absolutely
useless III my opinion. Extreme clean
illness and careful diet are the only pre-
yentlVe measpTes.n
tion ?7
NO sir. l have seen more than
enough to convince me that cholera is
never conveyed by personal contact.
While was in Alexandria there were
deaths all around me, but and my
family remained unharmed. We re-
ceived almost daily visits from our phy-
sIcian, who often came to us straight
from the bedside of a dying or dead per-
son. Neither he nor we ever caught IT,
we We're careful, particularly in our
diet. We never ate uncooked food of
any description, such as fruits or salads.
Even our water we boiled, while some
OF our neighbors drank nothing but tea,
the. water for which was first filtered
and then boiled. No one who used
these simple precautions was attacked,
think these two facts will agree with.
Dr. ,kOch's theory as to the propagation
OF the disease, and these are the safe
guards which should be used by every
one should cholera visit these shores, as
10 all human probability it will do.
While III Alexandria we lived in house
containing thirty families; what you
would here call an apartment house.
Since the burning of the city there are
only two houses which are occupied by
one family alone. Despite&shis aggre-
cation of human beings we we've all
free from the slightest attack of the
disease. New York Tribune.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-08-23
Morphine.

The pitiful story from Baltimore of a
lady whose life was wrecked by the
opium habit, and who was found in o
vile den by her husband, calls to mind
the warnings that have been given by
the medical profession many times
within few years against what may be
called the ethereal form of the opium
habit-that is, the use of morphine.
It is now known that since the intro
duction of the hypodermic syringe in
the use of anHstletics, the morphine
habit has snread to an alarming extent
among the nervous and highly Organiz-
ed class of American women. How far
the medical profession is responsible for
a lamentable result that is seen and ac-
knowledged by that profession, it is not
possible for us to speak with accuracy.
But that it is in a great measure respon-
sible there can be no doubt. Many
practitioners yield to the solicitations
of weak women and furnish the NOR
phine as an alienation for either men
tai or physical pain that ordinary brav
cry could bear, and thus the habit is
formed of resOrting to this drug at the
most trivial nervous shock.
1t is said, and we suspect it is true
that the rayageS of this form of opium
are very great among the women Of the
theatrical profession. There are sever
al eases well known not only to the
medical fraternity but to the public,
and it has been asserted by a we'll
known neurologist that at least thirty
per cent of the actresses are addicted to,
the habit.
This is most wTetehed state Of af-
fairs when one considers that not two
per cent Of the victims ever succeed in
Tescuing themselves from the slavery.
If the medical profession would stern
ly array itself against the evil great
deal might be done to remedy it, or at
least to arrest its speed and until the
doctors do so array themselves we may
as well rest in the sad conclusion that
many of the weak, nervous and useless
women of our civilization will continue
to seek escape from the ordinary shocks
of life in the nepenthe that leads to
moral and physical wreck.