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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-03-13
Prohibition in Iowa.

DEs MONS, Ia. March 5.
The Prohibition bill which passed the
House on Saturday went through the Sen
ate yesterday afternoon by a vote of thirty
two to eleven, was signed by the Governor
and will 20 into effect July f. II is seldom
that an act, except in the latter
days of the session, has been so
expeditiously enrolled and signed by the
necessary officers. The Secretary of the
State Temperance Alliance says that eff
forts will be made to enforce the law, and
is of the opinion that they will be success
full in the rural districts.
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NEW 1 oitks Hhrch o.
William Treadwell Rhodes, a brother Of
Lieutenant John A. Rhodes, the hero Of
the Cav Head disaster, and Miss
Lottie Redfeld, the youngest daughter
of Mr. Samuel Redhcld, a wealthy
farmer, have eloped from North
Madison, Conn. Young Rhodes, IS now
twenty-five years old. Miss Lottie Red
field has long been the belle of North
Madison. She is some two or three years
younger than her husband and is very
pretty Young Rhodes has long been her
devoted swain, but his suit was bitterly
opposed by the young lady's parents.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

IT is said that the seces lion party in
Manitoba is gaining strength.
THE Committee on Lands of the SEN
ate will recommend the forfeiture of the
Texas Pacific grant by an almost unani-
nous vote.
THE police of London, Eng, are hay-
ing an uphill job trying to locate the dyna-
mitees. A reward of $1,000 is offered for
their arrest and conviction.
N the streets of Montreal, Can, half
clad immigrants, shivering and penniless.
are sufficiently numerous to arouse indig-
nation against the emigration agencies.
TIE Supreme Court of the United
States has decided the legal tender case of
Juillard against Greenman. 1t establishes
the validity of notes reissued under the act
of May 81, 1873
ONE of the principal glass-bottle fac
tories at Pittsburgh, Pa, which has been
closed since last June, viii soon resume
work, the proprietOrs agreeing to pay the
old wages. The strike was against twen-
ty per cent. reduction
IN California the raisin-growers have
signed and forwarded petition to Congress
asking an advance of two to three cents
duty ON imported raisins.
On the SOth the Boston Board of
Trade passed resolutions protesting against
the excessive coinage of silver money and
rise of silver certificates.
THE larger furnace of the South Bos-
ton Iron " orks, after seven years of idle
ness, has been lighted up for the casting of
twelve-inch rifle mortars for the United
Sta.es Ordnance Department. This will
be the first of IA lot of five heavy expert
mental guns authorized by the last Con-
gress.
II was reported on the 4th that col
lision between Chinese soldiers and Euro
means. in which two of the latter were
wounded with bayonets, had occurred in
Hong Kong.
NOTICE was given in the British
House of Commons on the 4th of motion
to withhold supplies from the Government
till full explanation of the Egyptian
policy is given.
OK the 4th Jesse Stephens was ju-
dicially strangled at West TO Miss, Tor
/ the murder of Porch Westbrooks.
OK the 9Th John MEG miss was eX-
ecuted at the Moyamsnsing Prison, Phila-
delphia, Pa, for the murder of his mother
/ in-law, Mary Read.
A REWARD Of 5000 has been offered
/ 10y Governor McEnery OF Louisiana for the
/ arrest and conv .ction of fence cutters.
TIE gross earnings of the Union Pa
4 ciic show decrease of 81, so, 900 as com.
/ pared with last years report.
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CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

AT Utica, N. Y. a cOnfagratiOn Oc-
Cured on the I'd which is reported as the
most destructive in the history of the city.
The loss is placed at nearly million dol
lars.
ON the Sd boiler explosion in a saw
mill at Wukesbarre, Pa, demolished the
building and killed three men.
By a collision OF two passenger trains
near Juliette, Ga, on the 4th, two train
men were killed and several persons badly
injured.
WHILE in a fit of ,ea!ous passion John
Glascock murdered his wife and three chill
dren, set fire to his house and then killed
himself in Fauquier County, Va, a few
days since.
BY collision between the Norwegian
bark Amalia and the steamer Bertha off
Gibralter, nine persons were drowned on the
4th.
On the 4th Charles Lownsbeck, aged
sixteen, an employe of the Green knitting
Company at Am sterdam, n. Y, was fatal
ly injured by being caught in the shafting.
His arms and one leg were torn from his
body.
A FEW days ago John Barnes, col
ored brutality whipped to death the orphan
son of his sister, near Townville, S. c., be-
| cause the little fellow, exhausted by over
work and brutal treatment, could not com.
| ply with the demands upon his endurance.
The fend narrowly escaped lynching.
| UNITED STATES LUMBER INSPECTION
| JOHN w. HAWKINS, at Buffalo, N. Y, is
J charged with the embezzlement of $4,000
! from Nelson Holland, lumber dealer, to
whom he was also private secretary. Wheat
margins swallowed the funds,
OK the night of the 4th Richard &
Burk's livery stable with seventeen horses
and three adjoining buildings burned at
/ North Auburn, Ncb.
On the tn Morton Stapp, an en-
/ pIoye in Hasselman 81 Co.'s printing house
in Ind annapolis, Ind, fell down an elevator
shaft from the fourth story and was in
stantly killed.
BY the us ing of a boilerin J. Tree s
! dycing establishment at Lawrence, Mass.
on the 9Th, John Trees, Jr., William More
| land and Michael Cronin were killed and
/ others injured.
On the 9th the extensive Oil cloth
! Works of George w. Blabon & Sons, al
Nicetown, Pa, burned. Over five hundred
men are thrown out Of employment. Loss
I over 500, 900, insured for $4,000.
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HELENA, ARK, March 6.-The rainfall
here in the past thirty-six hours amounted
to nearly two inches, which has assisted
materially the one-inch rise in the river.
Reports from Madison yesterday in
dicate a continuation of the rise
in st. Francis Bottoms which leaves
no hope of a decline here for some days
to come. This prolonged rise in the St
Francis basin after nearly five feet fall at
Cairo is unaccountable, unless it be at
tributed to rain, and is another evidence
of the mysterious workings of this great
river at food tide. The levees are hold
ing still by virtue of unremitting labor on
the part Of the people. A heavy storm
prevailed Tuesday night which created
something of a panic, but the night
passed without disaster. The feeling is
generally better now, though much
anxiety is still manifested as to the re-
suit of the present high water.
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ARKANsAs FARMS FLOODED.

LITTLE ROCK, ARK, March 6.-RepOrts
received from Southeast Arkansas repre-
sent sad condition of affairs in the
counties bordering along the Arkansas
and Mississippi Rivers. The water has
broken the levecs and a large tract of
country is inundated. In Lincoln and
Arkansas Counties the loss is very great
The Arkansas in Arkansas County was
four inches above the marks of 1877, the
highest within eighteen years. 1t is
slowly falling. The loss from crops still
in the field is small, but the loss in hogs,
cattle and mules will be considerable.
There is an average of one break in the
levee to every five miles on the north side
from Swan Lake to the mouth of the Big
BAYOU MetO
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THE FLoODS IN THE SOuTH.

The Leyees Along the Lower Mississippi,
Arkansas, White and Other Rivers Giving
Way and the Consequent Floods Result
ing in Great Damage-GOvernment Aid
Being Provided For
VIcKsBURG. MISS, March6.
News from the Sunfiower River is to
the effect that a general overflow of the
section is almost certain. The water
which comes through the break in the
Hughes Ievee at Beuleh Lake in Bolivar
County has not yet reached the Sunfower
River through the Boguephalia, in addi-
ton to the water coming through the
Lewis swamps already in the river, win
cause a general overflow. kilograms
were sent from here yesterday notifying
Governor Lowry of the impending dan
ger up the Sunflower River.
GOVERNMENT AID.
A telegram was received by Captain
Marshall, United Stated engineer in
charge of this district, from the Chief of
Engineers at Washington, asking what
steamers and barges belonging to the
Government were in his charge that could
render assistance to the citizens of this
district, which extends from the mouth
of White River to Warrenton, twelve
miles below this city. The steamers
Vidalia and Jno G.. Fisher and some
thirty barges are at Wilson'S Point and
in readiness If it becomes necessary to
use them for that purpose. Mr.. Copple,
United States Assistant Engineer, goes
up by the Anchor line steamer in the
morning to inspect and direct the neces-
sary repairs to levees in the vicinity of
Omega, Madison Parish, La.
The State levee at LOngwOod, La, six
miles above Lake Providence, is caving
fast and washing badly. The caving has
reached the crown of the levee. This
will be revetted with plank; also the new
levee at Omega, which is wave-washed
for three hundred feet, will be protected.
The State 1evee, between the Government
levce in the same vicinity, is too low, and
viii be raised Immediately. These levees
are now safe, but viii be made secure
against an anticipated rise of eighteen
inches, which is expected from the Yazoo
basin in the next three weeks.
TRACKS UNDER WATER.
Information yesterday from the Gener-
al Managers office, in this city, of the
Louisville, New Orleans & Texas Railway,
is to the effect that all work on the line
of the road from Memphis south is sus-
pended and some eleven miles of track is
overfiowed. Work is also suspended from
the Yazoo River north. No track has
been laid since the twenty third of last
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Chr 4Olirar 8nlIetiu.
TERMS OF ADVERTISING ;

One square Of eight lines, $3.50 for the frse
Insertion, and Is cents for each Bubscquepg
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THE ST. LOUIS EXPRESS ROBBERY.

The RObber Thus Far Success 'uI In Ecluding
Capture-The Express Company OhiciaIs
Confident of Running Him Down-They
win 'F Never Let Up on Him'-S5, 900 Re-
-
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DYNAMITE.

Discovery OF Dynamite Laboratories In
Vienna-Foreign Ambassadors Instruct
ed to Confer with a View to Demanding
IsepressiVe Measures by the United States
Against DynamIters-A Dig at Brother
John.
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The Levees Along the Lower Mississippi,
Arkansas, White and Other Rivers Giving
Way and the Consequent Floods Result
ing in Great Damage-GOvernment Aid
Being Provided For
Helena weekly herald., 1884-09-04
Congressional Nomination.

PETERSBURG, Va, August 80. - The
Brady convention at 2 o'clock this morn
ing, by unanimous vote, nominated Col.
J. b. Brady for the 49th Congress from the
4th Congressional District of Virginia.
Brady is the u S. Internal Revenue Col
lector for the I'd district of Virginia, with
headquarters in Petersburg. The anti
Brady convention nominated }. +. Evans,
colored, for Congress from the 4th district.
After COL Brady was nominated by the
regular Republican convention, he was
waited upon by committee and informed
of his nomination. He came into the con-
vention at 2:3O this morning amid storm
of applause. In accepting the nomination
Brady wanted it distinctly understood that
he was personal friend of Malone and
wanted no man to vote for him Brady
unless he was a friend of Malone. Brady
said the men who raised the cry of "pOliti-
cal machine methods" were those who
were indebted to Malone for all they had
There is a man, who holds high posi-
ton in this State, but whose name he
would not call, who raised the cry of Boss
rule" and political machine methods,
who was indebted to Malone for all ht
was worth.
The party ne referred to was Governor
Cameron.
Helena weekly herald., 1884-09-04
The Great Labor Parade.

NEW YORK, September 1.-Broadway
was lined this morning from the City Hall
to Fourteenth street with people assembled
to witness the labor parade. The first
division was composed of printers, building
trades unions. and hricklayers unions. The
I'd division was made up of cigar makers
and workmen from furniture and clothing
trades. The third division WAS composed
of butchers, coopers, and other trades
unions. The fourth division was made up
of number of workingmen not attached
to any organization. Fully 10000 were in
line. Each body of men in the procession
wore some distinctive badge, cap, apron, or
other symbol of their trade, to give uniform
appearance Many of the trades gave illus
trations of their occupations. The butchers
intended to illustrate their trade by killing
innumerable cattle as they went along the
streets, but Henry Berg with squad OF
police interfered with that portion of the
programme At Printing House Square
speeches on the review were made by
Patrick Ford, Henry George, John Swim
burn, Louis F. Post, and number of
Others After the procession had been dis
missed the men attended large number
of picnics given in honor of the holiday.
Helena weekly herald., 1884-09-04
Buffers Tour.

New YORK, August 31.-General Butler
left here at p. m. this evening on an ex-
tended tour through the Northwestern
States via n Y. Central and Michigan Cen
trail roads. He will arrive at Detroit at $50
a. m. Monday and will speak there in the
evening On Tuesday he will speak at
Grand Rapids in theafternOon and at Mus
kegon in the evening. From Muskegon he
will 90 to Chicago and speak on Wednes-
day evening. Leaving Chicago on Thurs
day morning he will reach Minneapolis on
Friday and deliver an address at the State
fair in the afternoon, and on Saturday will
speak at Northfeld. On Monday evening,
September 8, he will speak at DesMoines
Tuesday at Omaha; Wednesday at Topeka
Returning he will probably speak at vari-
Gus places along his route, reaching New
York, September 18th.
DETROIT, September 1.-Gen. Butler
arrived in the city this afternoon from
New York. He was met at the depot by
committee of twenty members OF all
parties. He spoke at Grand Circus Park
to an audience of 10000 people.
GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, Sept. 2.-Gen
Butler addressed one of the largest meet
ings ever held in the western part OF the
State here this afternoon. There were II,
600 people present.
Helena weekly herald., 1884-09-04
Terrible Accident.

DENVER, Col, August .29.-At II o'clock
last night a train belonging to the Anglo
American Circus, Miles Orton proprietor,
left Fort Collins for Golden via Greeley,
Salt Lake and the Pacific road. Forty
minutes later, when near Greeley sleep
ing car in which there were seventy-fve
men, employed as rousabouts of the circus,
were asleep, caught fire and was wholly
consumed. Ten men perished. Two men
were seriously and five slightly burned.
The fire was communicated from an open
torch, with which the car was lighted, to
quantity of gasolene, which was being
carried in the same car, causing an ex
plosion. 1t is impossible to learn the
names of the burned men at present. 1t is
believed the employees OF the circus are en-
tirely responsible for the accident.
Helena weekly herald., 1884-09-04
industrial Economy.

WASHINGTON, September 1.-Prof j. K.
Dodge, statistician of the Agricultural De-
partment, has issued small book upon the
industrial economy of the United States,
in which he presents some striking results
of his investigation of his statistics of the
manufacturing and agricultural production
of this country for the past twenty years.
Within that period, owing to labor saving
machinery, agriculture has more than
doubled its production, with smaller
proportion of farm labor, and there now
threatens glut in farm products unless
this proportion shall be further reduced.
The question of outlet to foreign markets
is discussed, and the fact is shown that
the surplus of food products merely pays
for the imported food and beverages, and
that trade cannot be extended without a
ruinous reduction in price. The distrl-
button of labor in occupations is shown
with reference to comparative thrift and
progress. 1t is found invariably that in
equality of distribution of industries re-
tards development and that exclusively
agricultural nations aie always poor. The
phenomenal progress of the Central West
is presented in deductions from statistics
showing that half the cultivated area OF
the United States lies in fourth of its
territory producing more than three
fourths of some of the principal crops
The fact is shown that the Ohie valley is
the most fully occupied body of land
Ohio has So per cent of her surface IN
farms, Indiana $50, Illinois e0-4, Ken
tucky S4 and no other State as much. 1t
is shown that already three-tenths OF the
manufactures of the United States are
produced in the Central West"-in less
than three -tenths of the area of the coun
trv. and within half a century from Us
rettlement.
Helena weekly herald., 1884-09-04
Relief for the PieganS.

WASHINGTON, September 2. = Indian
Commissioner Price has taken measures
for the immediate relief of the starving
Indians at the Blackfoot Agency, in Mon
tana. The following telegram was sent to
Governor Crosby, of Montana, to-day In
answer to your telegram to the Secretary
| beg to inform you that l have ordered
additional supplies to the Blackfoot Agency,
and ordered the Agent to make them last
until March 31st next, by which time
hope Congress will have made provisions
for additional supplies.
(Signed) I'll. II. fhicE.
TO secure the money necessary for the
purchase of these supplies the Commits
sioner has been forced to have recourse to
the provision of the law allowing him to
apply to the relief of distressed Indians OF
one tibe any money that may remain un-
expended of the sum appropriated for the
maintenance of another tribe. Under this
law, however, it was necessary to secure
the approval Of the President before the
money could be so applied, and letter
upon the subject was addressed to Presl-
dent Arthur last week before the receipt
of Gov Crosby's telegram.
Helena weekly herald., 1884-09-04
Live Stock.

CHICAGO, August 27.-CATTLE-Re
ceipts, 6,4O0; birsk, firm; good to choice
shipping, ,6OO@660 common to medium,
425@5.75; stockers, 3OO@41O; feeders,
425ea AGO; range, firm at 2.05; grass
Texans, 300@3.40; Americans, 4OO@5.25.
SHEEP-Receipts, 2,400; steady in
ferior to fair, 2@3; Texas sheep, 225@ $50.
CHICAGO, August 28.-CATTLE-Re
ceipts. 1000; brisk, firm; good to choice
shipping, 59OG660; common to medium,
4.00G5.S0; stockers, 300@410; feeders,
4.2O946O; range cattle, brisk and
stronger; 2,S0S head Montana, LAS
pounds, $50; 16 head Montana Texas,
995 pounds, AIS; 316 head Montana Texas,
997 pounds, 4.722; 256 head, Wyoming,
1851 pounds, 4.50; 291 head Wyoming,
1862 pounds, 4.5O 169 head Montana
cows, 1,046 pounds, $50; 652 head
Wyoming Texas, $40 pounds, 400; 100
head Wyoming, 1,131 pounds, 450; 81
head Wyoming Texas, 976 pounds, 400;
grass Texans, 700 to 1000 pounds,
33O@475; wintered Texans 4OO@475;
Americans, 4.5O@54O.
SHEEP-Receipts, 2,0O0 steady; in
ferior to fair, 2.0092.75 per cwt; medium
to good, 3.0O@3.50; choice to extra,
350@430; Texas sheep, 2.25@350.
CHICAGO, August -Cattle-Receipts
5000; good to choice shipping $5@6.4O !;
common to medium $4.50@580; stockers
S35O@410; feeders $4.10@4.6O; range
firm; grass, Texas, $500 4.6O; Wyoming
Texas $4; Montana-Texas S4.35@4.6O.
Sheep-Receipts 1000; choice inferior te
fair S2@3 per cwt; medium to good $50
$50; choice to extra S3.7504.25.
CHICAGO, Sept. L. -Cattle-receipts g.
900 supply mostly range stock; natives
steady; good to choice shipping S6@6.6O ;
common to medium S430M550; stockers
and feeders S3.25@45O; range 1Oc lower.
Wyoming S4.50@515; Wyoming Texas
$46O@4SO; Montana $435.
Sheep-Recipts. 400 STEADY; common
to fair 2.5O@3OO; medium to good
325@42O; Texans, 25O@340
Liverpool special to the Journal re-
ports brisker market Best American
cattle, cent higher than last, at 159 cents
per pound dressed sheep steady best, Ii
cents.
CHICAGO, September 2.-CATTLE-Re-
ceipts, $500; good natives and range cat
tie 10 higher; common, weaker good to
choice, 5SO@660; common to fair
43O@5S5 stockers, 3.20@410; feeders
39O@46O; Western cattle firm; Texans
$50 to 1000 pounds, 375@475; 375 heaC
Wyoming, 1000 pounds 500; 800 head
Montana Texas, 1,051 pounds, 40; Isl
head Wyoming, 1,109 pounds, 4.5O.
SHEEP-Receipts 1,300; dull and weak
on inferior common to medium, 2.25(d $50
good to choice 375(G425.
Helena weekly herald., 1884-09-04
Terrible Hurricane.

EVANSVILLE, Ind, August 29.-At y
o'clock this morning a most destructive
hurricane broke upon Evansville, doing
damage to the amount of not less than
$25O,OOO in this city and vicinity. Houses
were blown down, roofs carried away, three
or four steamers badly wrecked, thousands
of shade trees torn up by the roots, and
other injury. 1t is impossible at this hour
to give the amount of damage done. The
steamers Josh Throop and Silver Thorn
were badly damaged, the former badly
wrecked. Several churches suffered severe
ly, as also new school house.
CHICAGO, August 29-The Ne,rs special
from Evansville says: The steamer Bel
mont, transfer boat which leaves here at
o'clock every morning, was struck by the
storm about three miles this side of Hen
derson, KY, sinking her barge and cars to
the bottom, blowing the chimney off and
sinking her almost instantly. 1t is re-
ported that there were thirty persons on
board and only three are reported saved-a
newsboy named Panga, the cook, and the
pilot, who swan ashore. This information
was received from man who came up by
land. All the wires are down and most of
| the steamers crippled so as to be unable to
| 90 10 the SCene Ol tHe WTcCk. lie lOSS VI
the Belmont is not generally credited.
! EVANSVILLE, Ind, August 30.-The de-
tails of the great storm are coming in very
slow There was great destruction OF
property near Harmony, Carmi, GRANVILLE.
Mt. Vernon, Uniontown and Henderson,
where houses, timber and crops were de-
stroyed throughout all this section, but
| only one loss OF life has been reported
The damage here to shipping was light
except the capsizing of the Belmont. 1t is
| still thought that there are fifteen bodies
in the wreck at UniontOwn. The Com
mercial hotel and opera house at Hender-
son were unroofed, and many buildings in
jured The loss in this city was very
heavy and in the country to barns and
crops. The heavy hail has injured the
corn crops. The steamers damaged at the
landing are being repaired.
EVANSVILLE, August 31.-A tug has ar
rived from the wreck of the Belmont
Five bodies were taken out to-day, making
eleven in all Those taken out are all
white. There aGe still cclOred woman
and a colored child in the wreck.
Helena weekly herald., 1884-09-04
Greenback-Labor Convention.

NEw f6sa, August 30.-The State Con-
ventidn 81 the Greenback- Labor party
Hsened at the Masonic Temple this morri-
ing. G. A. Jones, chairman of the State
Central Committee, called the meeting to
order. About 100 delegates and half as
many spectators were present. In his ad-
dress. Jones said: time is dissolvlDg the
old parties, and the time is coming when
a party is to be placed in power that will
put in circulation money enough to enable
a man to be his own master. Both the
Democratic and Republican parties made
the workingmen slaves. The National
party represents the advancing civilization
of the age"
Alden Spencer was made temporary
chairman. and the usual committees were
annninted