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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-02-07
Dead Among Strangers.

ROWLING GREEN, Mo, Jan, o.
At the request of parties here is sent
description of young man, supposed to
be John O'Leary, who was killed by the
Chicago and Alton passenger train at this
place yesterday at ? p. NJ. HIS clothing was
marked "O'Leary," and piece of a letter,
supposed to have been written by a sister,
calling him Johnnie, was found on the
body. He looks to be about nineteen years
of age, smooth face, auburn hair, dark
eyes, with heavy eyebrows and lashes.
He wore a light checked cap, dark blue
wooden coat and vest, gray striped pants,
blue flannel overshirt and red flannel
undershirt, white knit drawers, lead col
Ored homemade socks and congress gaiter
shoes. He had silver ring on the third
finger of his right hand; had a silver
watch, with Bartlett movement, and silver
chain attached; had a pocket-book (no
money!, two-blade knife, pocket looking
glass and comb, and two keys and shoe
buttoner on ring. There is nothing to
indicate where he is from. He did not seem
to heed the signals given by the engineer.
His head was badly crushed, killing him
almost instantly. An inquest was held
and he win receive decent burial.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-02-07

WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. %.
The new code of Senate rules creates two
new standing committees and enlarges
several old ones. A committee of the Sen
ate Republican caucus is engaged in max
ing selections for membership on the new
committees and filing new places upon
old ones. 1t is understood that Senator
Lapham has been selected as Chairman Of
the Committee on Fisheries, and Senator
Wilson Chairman OF Committee on Expen-
ditures of Public Moneys. Senators Har-
risOn, Plumb and Platt have been selected
as Republican members of this committee.
Senator Wilson is now Chairman of the
Committee on Mines and Mining, and Sen
atOF Lapham of that on Woman Suffrage.
Their acceptance of the Chairmanships
leaves their present positions vacant. Sen
ator Bowen has been selected for the
Craftsmanship of Mines and Mining. No
selection as vet has been made for the
Craftsmanship of the Committee on Woman
Suffrage.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-02-07
A ROCK ON THR Rail
Causes "A Serious Wreck and the Severe
Injury of Two Men.

Causes "A Serious Wreck and the Severe
Injury of Two Men.
SEDABIA, Mo, Jan. 10.
The passenger train which left s.. Louis
at 9:2O this morning encountered large
rock one mile east ST the Gasconade river,
and did not reach here until l2:4j. The en-
gine, tender, baggage car and mail car
were wrecked, and the engineer, known a
Stonewall Jackson and the fireman, James
Brooks, scalded and otherwise seriously
injured. Wm. Roberts, postal clerk, who
was on the wrecked train, made the follow
ing statement: ''The train was on time.
The first thing l noticed was that the car
was i'll received a severe jolt and a cantius
forward. / looked out and tue mail car
was standing cross wise Of the track and
the locomotive down the bank about Thirty
feet and very near the ice in the river. The
engineer, StOnewall Jackson, was in the
CAB fast, with his hand on the throttle and
lever reversed. The 81 cam was coming out
in such volume that / was unable to see
the fireman, Jim Brooks, who was fast uH-
der the cab. Jackson was soon gotten out
and found to be badly scalded, and it is
feared that he inhaled the steam. Brooks
was not so badly scaldad, but had many
bruises; but it is quite probable that he has
no bones broken. Brooks refused TO re-
ceive any stimulants, and he also refused
morphine. Jackson told me he saw the
rock coming down the bill, but be as pow
erless TO get either one way or the other to
miss it. The rock was about five or six
feet in diameter. jackson and Brooks re-
side i'm St. Louis. The trains transferred
at the wreck and proceeded on their way.
The wounded were taken to st. Louis.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-02-07
National Ala for Education.


The executive committee appointed by
the National Educational Convention, held
a Louisville last year, has prepared a bill
which has been placed in the hands ofRep-
resent 1tive Willis of Kentucky, TO intro
duce in the House. 1t provides for an ap-
preparation Of about sixty-six millions, TO
be distributed among the States during the
next twelve years according to the litter
ate population between ten and twenty
wears of age. The dill contains a table Of
distribution on this basis which gives the
New England and Middle States 100000;
the Western States, 81, ,0000 600; the Southern
States, So, ,000, 900, and the Territories, 81
100000.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-02-07
A CowardIy Murder.

CARTHAGE, Mo, Jan. %.
One of the most cOwardly and dastardIy
murders ever committed in the county was
perpeUrated yesterday afternoon on Jones'
Greek, ten miles south of Carthage. News
of the murder did not reach this city until
to-day. The victim is James Cherry, aged
about seventy years, and the murderer is
Wilson Hall, about twenty years old. The
cause Of the murder arose from lawsuit
over some. land, in which Hall was worst
ed. For revenge he resOrted to the horrible
crime Of numbering old man Cherry. Hall
concealed himself behind some brush, quite
a distance from where Cherry was at WORK
piling brush, and when he was STOPPING
over his assassin shot him with a rifle, the
ball entering the back of his head and COM
ing out at the forehead, killing him almost
instantly. The murderer ran away, but
was recognized by Cherry's children as
Wilson Hall, son of J.. ID. Hall, an old resi-
dent of this county. The alarm was given
and the neighbOrs pursued the murderer to
his home, but did net arrest him, as it was
dark. They guarded the house all night
He was arrested this morning by the con
stable of Union Township and VIII have q
hearing tomorrow.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-02-07
wim They Nsver Learn1

DALLAS. TEX, Jan 80.
W. 7. Vaughn, Of Goliad, Tex, returning
from visit 70 Illinois, was to-day wiudled
by confidence crooks out Of 500 One rep
resented himself ns an old acquaintance
named Steward, telling Vaughn he had
been East and purchased big stock ot
goods to engage in business at Victoria
Tex. third party with the words Xxx
press Agent" on the front Of bis cap came
up and presented a bill Of charges amount
ING To 81 coo against the alleged stock of
goods. VAUGHN took 81, 900 bond Of tho
Butte CITY, Mont, Gold and Silver Mining
Company and advanced SJlO on 10. lhe
bond is worthless and the swiudlers are
gone.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-02-07
Fatal PowdeT-Hin E1plosion.

PORTLAND, NE, Jan. -.
A terrible explosion demolished the pow.
der-mill at Gambo Station, Windham, this
forenoon. Reuben d. Kennedy was at work
in the mill at the time mixing "cake," and
it was supposed he would be found terribly
mangled. Search was made in the ruins Of
the building without success, and the un-
fortunate man was found on the ice some
300 feet from the mill. He lived about one
hour. He was badly burned, and sus-
tanned internal injuries by the shock. He
talked almost TO the last moment Of his
life, and said that grit must have got into
the 'cake," and caused the explosion. For
tunately, most Of the men employed in the
mill were away at dinner when the mill
was blown 70 atoms.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-02-07
Cnnnterfeiters Arrested.


SALT LAKE, Z. T., Jan. %.
A month ago one Of gang of counter
feiters here began writing to persons with
in easy reach that they would furnish the
queer at favorable rates. One of the per-
sons written to sent the letter to the Trib-
une here for publication, but it was instead
used as decoy, and letters have been pass
ing to and fro ever since till to-day, when
two Of the showers OF the queer were taken
IN. One is named James Stewart, alias
Starr, alias Sabin; the other a VIM. Devoe,
alias II. W. Davis. The arrests were very
bunglingly done, ample chances being
given to destroy or hide whatever might
have been compromising.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-02-07
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

OK the morning of the 26th the Min
nesota Penitentiary at Saltwater burned.
One life was lost.
on the 26th a number of business
houses burned out at Xenia, o. VIM. Pow
ers was killed by falling wall.
On the 26th the ship Simla was sunk
in the English Channel by collision with
the ship City of Lucknow. Twenty-Five
persons were missing.
On the 9th an explosion in a mine in
Rhondda Valley, Wales, killed eleven
miners. rescuing party of three, in
cluding the manager of the mine, were also
killed.
A LONG list of wrecks is reported by
the recent great storm on the coasts Of
Great Britain and France.
On the 2Sth a train of the Nash
Vile, Chattanooga & st. Louis Railroad
was derailed near Chattanooga, Tenn, and
the engineer and firemen were fatally in
jured.
FIRE destroyed the Phoenix Glass
Works at Phillippsburg, Pa, on the 30th;
/ loss, S125,0oO
AT Rome, n. Y, during a fire on the
4 30th, an explosion occurred by which two
men were killed.
! AT Southwick, Mass, by an accident
! on the New Haven & North Hampton Road
on the 30Jh, several trainmen and passen-
! gers were badly injured.
A TENEMENT on Sixth avenue, New
York, burned the morning of the 3)th, the
occupants escaping by way of the roof.
Two women were fatally burned and others
were seriously injured.
AT Dubuque, la, on the 3Oth, Fret
Schubert, an old man seventy years of age,
was struck by a train of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St Paul Railroad. He clung to
the cow-catcher and was dragged several
hundred yards, receiving injuries from
which he viii die.
/ IN Hamilton, Canada, four dwellings
were crushed by weight of accumulated
/ snow on the 31st.
On the 31st the Monon passenger
! train ran into White River, seven miles
! from indianapolis, Ind, where the bridge
1 gave way. Seven persons are reported
killed.
On the 3lst a train struck a boulder
near Chattanooga, Tenn, and was wrecked,
several train hands being injured. A sim
liar accident occurred near the same place
/ three days previously.
OK the 31st n twO-vear-old child
killed its baby brother, aged three months
in East St. Louis, ILL.,, by blow with a
nursing bottle.
OK the 31st Harry Lee, clerk fo1
Woodrough & McParlin, Cincinnati, wa-
arrested in Toronto, Ont, charged with
forging the firms name for $4,000.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-02-07

San fHASCfHCO, CAL Jam. dI-
A number Of whisky, hot coffee and
doughnut sellers, beaded by Dennis kclr-
ney, recently Jumped" a strip Of land ly-
ing between the confines Of theGOldcn Cato
Park and high-water mark Tiny built
shanties, and began plying their trades.
Quiet efforts 20 evict them failed, the sqaut-
ters claiming they were on Unitcl States
land, beyond the city or State authority.
EARLY this morning the Par Cgr-uissiou-
ers, with twenty-five mcu aud siE police
men, proceeded to ."Hoodlumvillc" and
quietly "wiped the town out" The own
ers. on the alarm being given, rushed Co
the spot, but were too late 10 prevent tho
dpmOli4iOu.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-02-07
Confdenee operators captured.


P. Rosenbury and two confederates,
named VIM. Ayers and Jacob Zimmitt, have
been arrested at Youngstown for extensive
confidence operations the past few years in
Pennsylvania and Ohio. Their scheme was
10 take orders and advance payment for
counterfeit money and Illicit whisky. but
never to deliver the goods. The nature of
the swindIe was such that the victims were
afraid to prosecute, and they have been
able TO carry on lucrative industry. RO-
senbury was the chief operator, the others
being cappers, paid two dollars head for
victims. Zimmitt confessed the whole
game.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-02-07
An American in a Mexican Prison.

LAREDO, TEX, Jan. %.
Mr.. Sutton, United States Consul-Gen-
erai for Northern Mexico, has just returned
from an official visit TO Monterey and Sal
tillo. He reports that young American
named Mudde, said to be an accomplice Of
one Leggett in the murder Of Contractor
Wickland, near Garcia Station, has been
confined in a Mexican prison over a year
without any charges being preferred against
him, and that the Mexican authorities an /
American Consul at Monterey were labor
ing under the opinion that Mudde escaped
from prison eight months ago along with
I,eRgetf.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-02-07

A COMPLAINT is made by Attorney
General Brewster that his clerical force is
too srnall to supply the papers called for
by Congress.
THE Senate Postal Committee was
addressed by Dr. Norvin Green on the 3Ist
in opposition to Government control Of tele-
graph lines.
IT has been all but proved that Rugg,
the Long Island muIatto now in custody, is
the assassin Of the Maybecs and the assail-
ant of the Townsends as well the
Spragues.
EDWARD II. FUNSTON was nominated
by the Republicans of the Second Kansas
District on the 31st to succeed Dudley c.
Haskell, deceased, as Representative in
Congress
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-02-07
Che golirat 9nlletiu.
TERMS OF ADVERTISING :

One square of eight lines. $3.50 for the first
insertion, and 75 cents for each subsequent
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-02-07
A PLUNGE TO DEATH.

A Passenger Trnin on the Monon Route
PIunges Through n Bridge over Nhlt"
River, Near Indianapolts-SiX Ierso"s
Roasted to Death in the Burning cars ana
TufnreH-
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-02-07
DOWN WITH THE TIDE.

The Merchants and Mechanics Bank of
LeadyiiIe, Colorado, Unable to stand the
Pressure of n Determined Run, Closes its
DOOrs-OnIy One Bank Left-SeriOus Fail
uras AutiCinafed
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-02-28
save the House Stops.

A CORES ondent Of the Germdntopn
Telegraph writes as follows from Columbia,
Conn: eoause no absorbing material is
at hand to be employed as an absorbent
of house slops they need not 60 to waste.
A good sound economy requires that all
that possesses manurial value should
either be hos anded for future use or
else applied where it at once becomes
available as plant food. 1t Is question.
abls whether it is advisable to plow into
the soil manure that is not to be made
available by the immediate planting of
the crop. II the generation of ammonia
by the decomposition It deoayed turf
land causes its loss il no crop is growing
would not the same thing cur In the
de imposition of manuref Or, again, de-
scending water carries with 1t the
iertilizing sslts that are dissolved and 80
are going deeper and deeper into ths soil
when plowed under, for which reason it
is hetter to spread manure on cultiEatable
land at rest upon or at least very near
the surface.
An application OF slops that becomes at
once available is valuable, either to the
| growing crops in summer, or upon the
surface of the garden or moving land in
winter. 1t is surpri5,ng what al
invigorsting eject results from throwing
the slops OF the wash tub upon plants IL
the summer season. An ordinary fowel
garden may be kept in the most thrifty
condition by this means alone aud 8,
too may the products of the vegetable
garden be made to flourish by weekl,
watering from the wash tub.
A farmer wAe grows quantity o
onions every year, has patcu of grouot
near HIS house which he devotes to oniol
raising, and it is almost entirely fertilizs'
by the throwing upon 1t during tn
winter season the slops and urine fror
the chambers. Instances of this kim
serve an important purpose in shown
the value of products of the houss tina
are pretty generally thrown away as c
no value and so useless. But let farmer
try an experiment and they will be satis
fed OF the value hidden there
Chamber lye is a great invigoran
about pear trees, its use resulting i
abundant and improved fruit when with
out it the crop has been light and scrubby
Other fruits would probably be benefte
by its use
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-02-28
i ERSDR5L.

ThOmaF Davis, Esq., who has been re-
cuperating from recent illness at his
home near Milford for several DAYS, re-
turned TO this city Tuesday tand, having
regained his health, has resumed his
professional duties.
Sister Antoinette, a member OF the
Order OF Sisters of Charity, died at the
mother home, in Altoona, Pa, on Satur.
day night, aged % years. In the world
she was known as Maggie Flynn. Her
field OF labor WAS principally iu Pittsburg.
Ex-Governor Samuel Prizes of Lewis.
burg, West Virginia, died Tuesday,
sged 79 years Governor Price was
appointed United States senator by
Governor Matthews to fill portion OF the
unexpired term of Senator Caperton, who
died shortly after his election.
Samuel Donsghy, once we'll known
politician and warm personal friend Of
Martin Van Bureu and ames Buchanan,
died in the state lunatio asylum at
Weston, West Va, on Friday, at the age
Of so years. He had been an inmate OF
the asylum for 40 years.
The Rev. William Wilson, prominent
oolored preacher of the Methodist Prot
estant Church, and president of the dis
ttict that includes Baltimore city and
county, hiss been suspended frem his
psatorate and from his presidency on the
ground of immortality. The charges wers
preferred sg aipst him by the trustees Of
his church, which ia located in Baltimore
county, near Towson. The trial was
appointed for last Friday, and on that
day committee of five colored clergy.
men went to the church, but found it
locked, and the pastor was not about.
They then returned to the city, heard the
eyidence of witnesses on both sides,
declared the pastor guilty Of the charges
and officially suspended him. They
declared bis pulpit vacant and appointed
the Rev. W. H. Lee. pastor of the church.
Wilson refuses to give up the church.
Miss McNulty, one of the chorus
singers of the Bijou Opera House, New
YORK, 1t is said, has captured the heart
OF Chester A. Arthur, Jr. Mr.. Arthur
expressed to one of the principals OF the
company with whom he is well acquainted
desire to meet Miss MoNulty, and an
introduction was accordingly brought
eb,ut. Since then Mr.. Arthur has ofien
visited the Bijou. The President has
heard lately, 1t is said, of the attachment
OF his son to Miss McNulty, and has
caused inquiries to be made, so as to find
out whether there was any probability
that young Arthur was sincerely enough
attacked to make her an offer Of mar
riage. The President has communicated
with the son about it, and has had sssur-
snce that there ia no present danger in
that quarter. About the stage of the
Bijou Theatre there is good deal Of
gossip over the frequent visits Of the dis
tinguished young man to the back door
| of the theatre.
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-02-28
BOOK NOTICES.

rHELVHM NrHS IN AN ENGLISH PRISON.
BY susan Willis Fletcher, ~ WAS sick, and ye
visited ne l was In prison, and ye csine uuto
nIo. MA. .Ih ,w NXv., 33. Boston Lee 4 onel-
s'd. Publishers sew Y9ik: Cna. ies 4. ID
hngham 1854.
This is an effort in behalf of spiritualism
abounding in manifestations" of differing
kinds and degrees. On page 263, is given a
list of full or partial adherents, to which, as
We imagine, great exception could be taken.
The adhesion, i'll most cases, was probably
merely a confessed inability at present. to
precisely explain all the phenomena, or at
most, an expression Of wondering curiosity.
Bulwer's case doubtless, rests on the tictional
frame work of "Strange Story" and ''Zanoni, y
the like OF which may often serve similar
purposes
The prison experiences are the least part
Of the volume. The lady was certainly not
condemned unheard but may have been 3d.
unjustly. To decide this point, requires 8
severe amount OF reading
The structures upon prison life, as detailed
are eminently just and bespeak the thought
ful interest of the humane. Nothing coulC
better repay amelioraton. Received througl
the kindness of Porter Il Co.
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-02-28
wheat and Cntinn.

In an article headed, SIS cotton kingf"
the American Grocer discusses the future
of this important staple as related to the
wheat crop of the United States. In the
days OF slavery cotton wss indlsputsbly
king in the sense of being our chief ex
port but grain growing has since gone
to the front. Now India and Australia
are looming up as promising competitors
IN grain products. In the two years
closing with 1883, the Indian exports of
wheat reached s0,000,O00 bushels, The
only problem to be solved in India,
in regard to exports OF wheat and
corn, is that of inland transpor alton.
Time and British capital will attend to
this, and, when that period arrives,
cheap transportation and cheap labor,
together with genial climate, fertile
soil and improved facilities for cultivation
will enable the l5O,0 900 square miles Of
wheat-growing land in British India to
contest with the United States for
supremacy in food staples. Indian cotton,
however, cannot maintain similar com.
petition because OF ita iufsriority to the
American staple. May I. not happen,
therefore, in the future history of our ex
ports that cotton will once more be king
The American cotton belt is enlars.
ing both in srsa and in pro
duetive capacity. The crop o
1853 reached nearly 1000, 900 bales. Til,
time is not far distant when home con
sumption and foreign demand will reqpif,
an annual product Of 10000, 600 bales
This amount can, under improved oulti
vation, be easily grown or the old srei
denominated the cotton states" TIL,
south is pulsating with new life su,
energy, Manufacturing industries ar
rapidly multiplying, capital % Increasing
and worn-out cotton lsnda are being re
claimed and brought under cultivation
The consumption of cotton is -tsadil
enlarging at home and abroad sad til
world can find no perfect substitnte 10
the American article.
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-02-28
EARLY work for the Roller.

TIE Sc OF the roller in the ring
upon mo ling gr uads before 1t become
too dry, ia to be mmeaded as it wi |
make moother work Tor the moving ma
chine. The smaller stones will be pressed
into the earth out, t,of the way and the, larger
should he ones gathered up at the anne
time The Germantoun Telegraph poi ts
out another val1e attaching to an early
use of the roller upon the growing
wheat, rye aud grass crops. The freezing
and thaw; ng OF Febr Il sry and early March
tend to raise those crops from their
natural bed and leave the roots more or
less ex osed, weakening their support
and their powers Of sustenanoe. The
roller remedies this by pressing them
back into the beds.