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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-01-03


ON. the night of the 24th Pullmanl
trqin from Boston to Portland, Me-, met
with an accident at Greenland, N. III. The
mail car afrI two. baggage cars were
wrecked. One man was slightly injured.
AT Chippewa Falls. Wis, the Lafay-
cite Mill, warehouse and other buildings
burned the morning Of the 18th. Loss, 49,,
aeQs 9hsuranoe, $4,000. ttE -
AN 5arie. Railway mail train jumped
tIie5tfacl1 at Sunburys, Pa, on the 18th and
dashed through several freight cars stand
ing on a siding, uncoinfortably shaking up
the passengers, demolishing several bex'
cars and two passenger coaches, and dis
abling the engine. James Wheeler, fire
man, was severely hurt.
On the 25th Louis Johnston was
crushed at Vincennes, Ind, by the fall of a
tree he had chopped down.
Ulysses $. GRANT, a relative Of Gen
eral Grant, has been arrested at Dallas,
Tex, for burglary.
ON the night of the oath, in Yazoo
County, Miss, three men were shot dead
and others fatally woundedin difficulty
with negroes.
OK the 25th' five men were SHOT, two
fatally, in promiscuous ARRAY at atnrkey
shoot in Paris. Ky.
Oh the path terrible explosiQn sup
posed to have been caused by an inf4rnal
machine, occurred at Birkenhead, Eng.
Nobody was killed. A lamplighter OBJ
served two men watching the canister
burning from an opposite dwelling-house.
Approaching the canister he kicked it q
few yards, when suddenly it exploded,
breaking windows in all houses in she vi
entity. The two men disappeared.
A DISPATCH of the 18th from Paris
says passenger train met with an acci-
dent on the railroad between Avincourt and
Paris, and many passengers were killed
and injured.
On the goth a fireman was killed in a
collision between two trains at Louisa
Courthouse, Va. - f.
AT PinneO, n. j., q Long Branch
train was derailed by a drift on the 10Th
and the engineer killed. &C.,
FOURTEEN men were carried away by
recent snow slide at Telluride, Col, of
whom eight were killed anHF four badly
hurt.
On the 2Gth an officer was killed and
several persons injured in a riot at Ida,
ussia, growing out of trouble between
scontractors and workingmen, Fl. 80 ,: 9 :,
NINE persons comprising one family
we're drowned a few nights ago by the
freshet in fTardes Greek, KY, across from
Madison, Ind.
AN escaped convict from the Michi-
gan Penitentiary, who was. recaptured at
Malone. N. Y, on the 18th, stabbed the
Sheriff and SheriR's son andwife in a fruit
less attempt to escape. 81.
A DISPATCH from st. Johns N. F.. of
the 2Gth, says: ''The Orangemen process.
sion at Harbor Grace was attaclIe by a
mob. Three men were instantly killed and
several moEtaHy'wounded. Detachments
of infantry, cavalry, and police are being
dispatched by train and steamer to the
scene.O . . 49,. o. .-=-t-.- -- -
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-01-03
It Was in There Though.

A drummer on his first trip was seated
In the same car with an old experienced
knight of the road, and their CONVERSE
ton turned on their relative daily ex-
penses.
Il always manage to include.in my
expenses said the elder, that's, boots,
Overcoats, etc, and every drummer who
has any respect for his noble calling
ought to do the same. Make the firm
stand en-"
The younger man thought that very
good idea, and on his return from his
trip he included among other items Of
expense one pair of boots, twelve
dollars.
His employers expressed themselves
as well pleased with his success as a
salesman, but objected to pay for the
boots.
On his next trip ne was fortunate
enough to meet his former acquaint-
ance.
How is it?'' he asked, .ethat your
firm will stand oYercoats as legitimate
expense when mine kicked on pair of
boots?''
You didn't put boots down in your
expense account. did youP''
T" Certainly" said the young man.
Well, you are chump. You should
have dovetaiIed the price of the boots
into the postage stamps and sundries. "
When the young man again submitted
his account his firm remarked.
We don't see any memorandum for
boots. or anything Of that nature, Mr.
So-and-so''
80 No" Mr. So-and-so said. softly, 20
himself eYou don't see it. but there
is forty-dollar overcoat there just the
same. philadelphia cub
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-01-03
WIT AND WISDOM.

Many young fop imagines that q
girl takes an interest in his Detfdre,
when in truth she is only eager for his
fqTesoeH.- Chicago Tribune.
Now, children" she continued,
t'what Is the meal you eat in the morn
ing called?" Oatmeal promptly re-
piled member of the class.
There is a difference between the
lips of young man and the lips Of q
young lady-but sometimes II IL
mighty small one--DetrO1 Post.
-"Overcome by gas . is the headline
on daily paper. We knew these tre-
mendous gas bills would kill somebody
sooner or later Boston Commercial BnL-
Iettn. n.f
when your friend is married put
your good wishes into the shape Of an
old English saying: zone year of Joy.
another of comfort, and all the rest of
content. N j. Herald
Extract from letter from Angeli-
"a. 'I)ear Henry, you ask II / return
your love. Yes, Henry, ] have 30 use
for it, and return IL with many thanks.
By-by, Henry. IN y. Graphic.
The man who can thoroughly en-
Joy himself at a fashionable reception
after discovering the bow Of his white
tie is under his left ear is superior TO tho
pomps and vanities Of this wicked world.
= Chicago Times.
1t is a sight worthy Of an artists
crayon to see woman, while talking
through a telephone to her grocer three
miles away, stamping her little foot and
shaking her fist as though the poor man
was quRiling right before her.- YonIterS
Statesman.
~ - &
you,' says Emerson. We showed this
60 respectable grocer. He grew livid
with rage, seized a club. and wanted to
know where that Emerson fellow lived.
There was mischief in that grOcer's
eye. We did not tell him. - Burltnqto1t
HdaOkeye.
washington Irving once said to a
lady; "D0n't be anxious about the ed
ucation Of your daughters; they will do
very well: don't teach them so many
things; teach them one thing" What
Is that, Mr/Irvingp' she asked. Teach
Them" he said, ''to be easily pleased. "
IN " Graphic.
Amy thing that is worth doing is
worth doing we'll" Remember this,
young man, when you are counting a
girl, and don't sit looking at her with
your thumb i'm your mouth when she
feels faint and needs your strong arm TO
support her. Waist no time, but seize
the opportunity the girl.--Detr0tt
Free Press.
The little boy who in his compost
ton recommended a few drops OF pane
gyric for the infant stomach, and in
former examination in spelling defined
''chicanery' as "a place to rear chick
ems, had not quite the strength given
him TO spell pioneer" but he "knowed
well enough IL meant them fellers as
plays on the Pianner. "-Brooktys
Eagle.
GOOD morning. children said an
Austin physician, as he met three or
four little children on their way TO
school, land how are you this MORN
ingP' eve darsn't tell YOU" replied
the oldest of the crowd. boy Of eight.
"Dare not tell mel" exclaimed the phy-
stefan, and why notP" Cause, papa
said that last year il cost him over ,hity
dollars TO have you come in and ask as
how we were. - eras SifttHgs,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-01-03
A FRIGHTFUL EXPERIENCES.
The Sufffrings of the Crew of the Bark
Mohawk in Long Island sound During a
Recent Blizzard.

Mohawk in Long Island sound During a
Recent Blizzard.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, Dec. 20.
= The crew of the bark Mohawk, of Quebec,
Captain Grassland, met with terrible ex-
peTience while passing through Long
Island Sound. The vessel sailed from New
York Saturday night, bound for Calcutta,
daden with choice cargo of merchandise,
and while-passing through the sound was
in chage of Pilot John O'Brien. The crew
consisted of Captain, Grassland, three
mates, two stewards and. thirteen sailors,
made UP of 1rishmen, Norwegians and
japanese. To-day nine of these men lie in
New Haven Hospital, suffering from the
effects of frozen feet, hands, ears and faces.
The injuries of three are so severe that it is
feared amputation win be necessary. Sun
day was terribly bitter day, and Pilot
O'Brien says that during his thirty years
experience he never saw anything like it.
The wind was north, and an icy blizzard
set in. The pilot lost his reckoning from
the steam mingling with the ice and snow,
which converted the atmosphere into an
impenetfabte m st. An effort was made to
reach this port The ship was covered
with ice and snow None among the crew
escaped drost-A ties, and Some of Them were
so badly frozen that their limbs refused to
respond to duty. Several of the crew were
sent aloft to loosen sail, They crowded up
the slippery 5T1ggfng onto the long
arms -fof the +stifOreyard. The work
was nearly. completed when, with
wild shrek which chilled the frozen
veins of all, one of them Slipped
from the icy rope on which he was stand
ing and fell headlong to the deck, thirty
feet below. He. died three hours afterwa I'd 6
from broken back, The suffering of the
crew was terrible. When the weather
moderated yesterday, the frost began to
Ooze from the bodies of the Jnfortunates
As the frost worked out the frozen skin
would puff up and fill underneath, so
that their hands and feet looked like great
bags of water Their agony was such
that they were unable to sleep, and there
was nothing ON board to relieve their pain.
Owing to the storm Of Monday an anchor
age was impossible, and it was found when /.
an attempt made to clear away a boat
that there were not enough able-bodied men
to man The boat. The Mohawk finally
reached New Haven haTbor yesterday, and
after a pepilOus trip in a light boat, Pilot
OBrien reached there and notified Health
Officer Lindsay Of the distress on board,
and reached the vessel this morning, and
the disabled sailors were taken to the hos.
pital. Coroner Boltman visited the vessel
on a tug, and viewed the remains ofSonita
Ogete, who was killed by the fall. He is a
Phillipian, and will be buried here. Those
injured are John Kimbe, Japanese; Toma
Diy, Japanese: Frank Silva, Portuguese;
James j. Hoped, Dane; Charles Fortune,
French; Henry Bache, German; Joseph
Husta, German, and Peter Flores, Domin-
go. No such terrible experience in Long
Island Sound has been equalled for fifty
years.
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RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

London Bible societies have given
away 1889, 600 copies Of. the Scriptures
this year.
The largest donation for education
al purposes ever made in Canada was
that recently made by Mr.. Gooderman,
of Toronto 81, 900, 900 for a Methodist
university.
r.. 1 would rather crack stones on
the road than be.a pastor where / can
not speak my mind" was the farewell
of Congregational minister in En-
gland who was prosecuted by his con-
gregation for his temperance principles.
Neghboring ministers gave him purse
to express their approval. l. Chicago
Journal.
1t appears that in Russia there are
four hundred and forty-two monster
les. counting over ten thousand monks,
and one hundred and sixty-seven con
vents, with about seven thousand nuns.
The cost of these converts annually to
the Government alone is over one mill
ion roubles. The Minister of the FL
nances is of the oT Mon that that mill
Jon might as well be saved TO the treas
ury.
An experienced educator is of the
opinion that the college newspaper has
done more to improve the students in
the writing Of a plain and direct style
than any other one cause. Amateur
journalism is not a bad preparation for
professional journalism, and has been
proved in numerous cases during the
last ten years, since the college paper
became an institution in nearly 'ev4.
cry college.-M y Tribune
The Church of England Purity So
ciety is one of the Interesting new
movements in that powerful ecclesi-
astical body. The objects are to pro-
mote purity among men, a chivalrous
respect for women, rescue work, and q
higher tone of public opinion. The OBJ
iects are certainly commendable, and
the work has begun with very encOur-
. aging results for its extension and use
fulness. Chicago Tribune.
A good story is told of divinity
student who, one day at an exam
ination being deficient in Hebrew,
saw with alarm a difficult verse APP
preaching. In desperation he seized
ON youth beside him who was subject
to epilepsy, and, although he was that
day quite well, carried him out as if he
were at the last gasp. but did not return
till the sederunt was over and ''the
dread verse was pastp'-- Boston Post
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-01-03
The PersimmOn.


r What's them things, mister?' asked
"a countryman of a Fulton market fruit
dealer, pointing to a peculiar looking
fruit about two inches in diameter, of a
terra-ootta color, closely resembling AN
apple in shape, and having a needle
like point at one end and something
like an acorh-cup at the other. There
was a malicious twinkle in the DEALER
eye rs he said: '.-
s'Wby, these are the celebrated Ten
nessee. persimnonst Haven you ever
tasted them? Try one
It was not mellow but it looked
tempting, and the countryman teeth
soon met beyond piece the size of a
silver dollar. The one piece satisfied
him, evidently, for all tie astringent
qualities of a green persimmon began
TO take immediate effect upon his
tongue, his teeth and his lips. His
mouth was growing smaller by degrees,
he could not laugh with grace, he could
not be angry, he could not artichlate;
yet all the time he had the mortifica-
ton of seeing the dealer and his neigh
bors well-nigh c0nvulsed with laughter.
With. smothered oath he went out,
and, mounting bis wagon, drove away.
'fThese persimmons, says the
dealer, ''came from n farmer near
Nashville, Tenn, who makes specially
of growing them.7, lie finds it a profit
able business, and has brought tie
hitherto almost worthless fruit tO'a high
state of perfection. These specimens
are green, Of course, and were sent to
me for comparison with the Japanese
persimmon. / find them larger, but
can not Judge of their flavor till they
are ripe, which they are not till they arc
Ill
them and removes all their stringency,
makes them as sweet as sugar and Of
delicious flavor.
THE persimmon, indigenous to the
South, grows upon small trees seldom
exceeding fifty feet in height. and in a
wild state the fruit is small and unat-
tractive, though extremely sweet after
frost. Children are fond of the persim-
mon, but they are most popular with
the 'possum, who walks forth nightly to.
regale himself and become victim of
the boys and dogs who know Just where
to find him. A persimmon tree is a
'possums Delmonico. 49, Some people
have experimental with persimmons in
various ways, and / have Known them
to be dried and pressed, in which con-
dition they eat as we'll as the dates of
Arabia The farmer from whom these
CtlilC ldS IbdllNCu 40 AAluCl do ten dbl-
lars a bushel for his cultivated variety
and, l understand, he has devoted a
goodly portion of his land to persim-
mon orchard, with the intention Of show
ing the American people inst what can
be done with product which grows in
every old field in the Southern and Cen
trial States and has heretofore been
looked upon as little else than a nui-
sance.-M y. Tribune.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-01-03
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

IN Montreal, Can, the night of the
22d, tire destroyed $4,000 worth Of property
belonging to the Montreal Printing Com
pany. - -'-
BY the burning of a Jewish Syna-
Eogue and school at ConstantinoPle on the
23d fifteen students lost their lives.
NEAR Salem, Ind, q train ram into a
washout ON the oath, several passengers
being killed or seriously hurt g
In Pittsburgh, Pa, on the oath, sta
bic was wrecked aad six drauSht animals
killed by an explosioRs& natural gas
Is st. Louis, Mo-, two large fires oc-
CURED Christmas eve, in which over $780,
goo worth of property was destroyed and
two brave firemen lost their lives.
On the night of the 23d, at Peters
burg, Ind, Charles Harvey was taken from
Jail and lynched for the murder of Henry
Custin, Jr., few nights previous.
On the New York, New Haven &
Hartford Road a locomotive stuck fast in a
snow-drid and exploded on the Path, Killing
the engineer and fireman. ..
OK the evening, of the oath d. G.
Gibsonse5bpsfet5the boarding-house kept by
his wia88arIsGs1ES Mo-, and shot John +.
Burlington and Arthur Mulholland, wound
ing boFlIa ID ~ " fie, then SHOT himself
throught head aht has since died.
OK thsnight 6fthe 24th, at McDade,
Tex, the tizens lyIichsd three men, and
in a fight qwiRg out of this action several
o osssos -llsd More 'r'p'l' was 'F-
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-01-03
LATE NEWS ITEMS.


Six stores burned at Saranac, Mich,
on the 9th; boss $I5, 900.
THE Egyptian, rebels are said to be
growing, more aggressive. ..T $500
GENERAL GRANT was severely in
jured on the oath by a fall on a slippery
sidewalk.
A COMMUNIST newspaper office
in Paris was mobbed by students on the
26th.
/. THtETEEN hundred Egyptian troops
bad reached Khartoun on the 26th and the
garrison numbered 1000. e.it
FIFTY-THREE men of the wrecked
steamer Plantyn have been landed at
OPorto by the brig G., d. T.
~ ADMIRAL COUBET has been instructed
to follow up hissuecess in Sontay with the
utmost vigor.
The Spiechees party of the Creek Ma
tiQn viii send a delegation to Washington
to talk over their troubles.
THE Canadian Trades Congress has
adopted Resolutions declaring against
Chinese immigration.
THE American Fire Insurance Com
pany of New York win close its business,
Transferring its risks to the Home.
IT is reported that Henry r. Rath-
bone, of Albany, N. Y, killed his wife and
committed suicide in Hanover, Germany.
PENNSYLVANIA wOrkingmen are petit
tiOning Congress to prev ent the importh-
ton of .laborers under contracts made
abroad. Es
A PATENT decision has been rendered
which. stops the machinery of nine of the
largest glucose factories in the country.
FRANCE proposes to exact security for
the discharge of peculiarly liabilities in
CURED by reason Of the hostile attitude of
China. =
IN'therBond trial at HillsborO. Ill, on
the 9th the defense put a witness on the
stand who materially weakened their case
as to Montgomery's alibi.
A PARTIAL prohibition against Amer
lean saltsd meats will be enforced by the
French Government until the Chambers
pass on a bill to be introduced.
KING HUMBERT of Italy accedes to
the Pope's wish that the monument to Vic
tor En1antiel be erected inside the chapel
instead of in the center of the Pantheon.
INSPECTOR DETNAR, of Chicago, shows
the falsity of the statement made by
French official that his report indicated
that diseased hogs are slaughtered for for
eign shipment.
The Spanish Government has an
nulIed the tariff regulations which required
that goods from the United States should
paw the same duty when arriving in Cuba
by Spanish ships as when carried by for
cign vessels.
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UNDER SHROUDs OF SNOW.
Twenty-Seven Lives -LOst~amd Immense
Damage Done to Mining Property In Col
OraiO by Avalanches of Snow.

TWenty-Seven Lives LOst-and Immense
Damage Done to Mining Property In Col
OradO by AvaIanches of Snow.
DENVER, COL, Dec &c.
A special dispatch from Telluride, Col,
dated the oath, via Montrose 2GJh, states
that about noon on Monday a snow-slide
came down in the Marshall basin and car
fled off the shaft-house of the Mendoza
Mine, which at the time of the accident
contained fourteen men. Eight of the oc-
cupants were killed outright. Four sue
ceeded in. digging themselves oct, and
these four subsequently rescued the two
r naming men in badly injured condi-
ton. As the telephone wires from the
mine to the camp were in a damaged con
dition the news was not received in the
camp until five O'Clock that afternoon, and
then only these few meagre details were
given. A large number of men immedi-
ately left for the scene of the disaster. But
as yet they have not been heard from. 1t
has been showing for a week, and it is now
over four feet deep on the level. The pres
ent storm is the most extensive and dam
aging of any ever known in that region. A
stage-driver who had made his way on
foot over the surrounding country reports
that twenty-seven men have lost their lives
by snow-slides within the last few days,
while the damage to mining proper
ty is enormous. Two men named
Gunter and Peck were killed
by snow-slide at the Nevada mine, also
at Telluride. Fhe,latest information from
Ophir and Ames, neighboring towns, re-
ports that the mail-carrier from Silverton,
who was due on Friday, had not been
heard from and he is. supposed. to have
been lost and persisted in making at
tempt to cross the range. The Mendoza
mine is the most promising in fthe San
Miguel mining district of the San Juan. 1t
employed the largest force of men, and was
one of the few mines which continued work
during the winter months. There is the
greatest interest here to learn the names of
the unfortunate miners, as some of them
have families living in Denver.
A special received at one o'clock this
morning gives the names of killed at the
Mendoza mine as follows J, Fl. Bond, G.
5. Herrick, Thomas Dunnegaa, VIM. Tay-
Tor, John Davis, VIM. Applewhite, II. Sla-
ter and Lewis Hutcfins. The latter lived
about twelve hours after being rescued.
Thomas Wheatly was found about twelve
feet under the snow, with his leg broken,
but still alive, and it is expected that he
will recover. He buried forty-six
hours. Two,men, Joseph Frelinghuysen,
and James Burns, were found dead to-day
by George Pohivarr in the Goldbug cabin.
A slide struck this cabin on Friday and
moved the cabin about 100 feet. Many
more accidents are known to have occur
red, and an excited crowd is around the
telephone office, the only means of com
u1lTTjeatfOn. all dnW.
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' HoUsTON, Tex, Dec. &c.
This afternoon z. T. Lewis, conductor,
had a hand-car and three men on the Inter
national and Great Northern Road, return
ing to town, having been repairing a wire
fence. While near Old Summit, a work
train, consisting of an engine and caboose,
ran into them, killing one white man, badly
wounding a negro and another white man,
and seriously injuripg Lewis. A passen-
ger-train brought the victims to town, and
the wounded were sent to the hospital. The
negro recovered consciousness momentarf-
ly,-and gave his name as Henry Bentley.
The wounded white man died soon after he
1rrived at the hospital. = y
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A Fiery visitant During Mass.

DpBUQUE.LA, Doc. %
While Rt. Rev. Bishop Hennessy was
celebrating pontiica1 high mass Christmas
morning the lighted candles on the altar in
some mysterious manner set fire to some of
the fabrics, and in few moments the altar
was in flames, projecting to the height OF
about ten feet. For a time it seemed that
the whole cathedral would be enveloped in
the flames. The janitor and attending
priests quickly removed the burning fabrics
and after much difficulty and labor the
flames were extinguished and disastrous
panic averted. The church was crowded.
Mass was proceeded with after the blaze
was extinguished.
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JOLIET, III, Dec. ..
Mrs. Fl. C. Goodrich, prominent resi-
dent Of Brentwood, was killed this morning
IN Gardner by the early north bound Gas
senger train. She was walking with her
husband on one of the tracks north OF the
station as the train approached. She
thought she was on the wrong track, and
stepping over upon the one On which the
train was approaching was struck and
knocked TO one side. She died almost in
stantly in the arms or her husband, who
was the only witness. Mr.. Goodrica is a
prominent merchant, and the tragic death
Of his wife has cast gloom over the com
munity. No blame is attached to the corn
pany,