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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-10-09
TIE MIGHTY FALLEN.

Mental and Physical Collapse of John Nc
CuIIough, the Great Tragedian-AlI En'
gagements Cancelled and tho Company
Disbanded.
CHICAGO, ILL. October i.
Hu dreds wended tn -ir way to Nc Wick
er's TEeater last night for the purp sc OF
witnessing Jt hn McCullough's imperson-
alton of the Gladiator, only to find the
.fcors /, cked and the theater in darkness.
Yes erday afternoon Messrs. Brooks,
McCulough's manag r, and Pr ce, his
press az Mt, waited upon Nr. McVicker
for the purpose of suggesting that the
engagement be cancelled. They found
the veteran manager in the same frame
OF mind and in few moments it was
decided to cancel all Gates and
send The company to New
York. Notices were accordingly
sent at once to the theaters Interested
and to the rinters, newspapers and Dill
posters All this was done without con
suItation with Mccullough, and it was
decided not to br ak the news too sud
d nIy to him. An hour or two lat r,
Mr. Keene, the tragedian who had been
taken into the confid nee of Messrs.
Br oks and Pr ce, met Mr.. McCul ough
on the corner of State and Monroe
streets standing in the shade under
big umbrella and seemingly having no
purpose in view. There was no rain
nor sign of any. The couple greeted
each other cordially. Mccullough said
he was goirg to rehearsal; that he had
made a terrible break the night before;
that he was infp rnal,y ervous, and that
everybody was bounding him.
"They say Pm dying man." he said
bitterly. "Bahl why don't they let me
alone?''
Mr.. Keene tried to soothe him, and
| locking arm, the two p Oc eded toward
| the theatre When the bui ding was
reached McCul ough turned back, in
sisting that they were going the wrong
| way.
you're going toward the dives" said
| Keen.
Yes replied Mccullough, bitterly
| ''It seems me that dive is just Where
| I ought to make for"
Fin lly e wa. per uaded to enter the
| { eater, and the rehearsal commenced. 1t
| was soon seen tn the act r was totally
| unt oval t. the lie OF the Gl diator
| Then Richei, IL was trie with the same
result At this point Mr.. McVicker came
on the stage and with Mr.. Brooks dell
cateiy announced to Mr.. Mccullough the
| deter ination which had been arrived at.
| To their surprise he heaved sigh, and
| said he was not well enough to play, and
| that nobody concerned should lose a cent
! he could prevent it. They went to the
| hotel, and Mr.. Mccullough allowed him
self to be put to bed. Many of his frien. 8
say that those who saw him on the
| stage Monday night had the last look
at John McCul ough as an actor. Mr..
Keene says that to have. cont nued the
seas n would have been to threaten his
sanity and his life. 1t is admitted 10y
tn attending physic ans and a ew In
innate friends, though the latter only
breathe it in a whisper, that h is suffer
ing from paresis, or progressive paraly
| sis. Cthe same afiliction which has over
taken Mr.. S orey, of tn Chicago Times,
and that the possibilities of successful
ire atment are rendered tn more Difficult
by h self-wil aud his determination to
follow indulgen es which can only az
ravata the complaint.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-10-09
LATE NEWS ITEMS

EX-MAYOB DONAHUE of Davenport, Ia,
died suddenly on the |.
A TERRIBLE aud disastrous hurricane is
reported from Iceland. Much shipping
was destroyed.
CAPTAIN DAVE KENYON, Acting Fire
Chief of Chicago, was fatally injured on
the 81 by being thrown from his buggy
while going 10 a fire.
FIFTEEN thousand msn have been sent
to reinforce the Chinese troops at Ke-Lung
and Tamusi.
TIE assessed value of property in Texas
has increased $50 100000 over last year.
IT is officially denied that Francs aske1
the United States to act as mediator in the
Chinese difficulty.
IT was so warm at st. Paul, Mimi, tho
night of the 2d that people feared some
impending danger.
LATEST reports from Egypt are that
General Gordon bombarded and recap
tured Berber from the rebels.
GEO. WOOD, a farmer living near Sedan,
Ia, was shot and killed by some unknown
person on the night of the 2d.
THERE were s34 fresh cases of cholera
reported in Italy on the Sd, and ia deaths,
a small decrease as compared with the
previous day.
TIE bucket-shop men of Chicago have
assumed the aggressive in the war with
the Board OF Trade.
| THE VIII of Private Henry, who was
with the Greedy party in the Arctic re-
gions, was probated at Chicago on the 3 4.
FURTHER Information from Salinas City,
Mexico, confirms the report of the recent
! battle between the officers and bandits, in
which many psople were killed.
/ News comes from London that a com
miJtee of the United Kingdom Alliao &C
Temperance o, ganization has adopted g
resolution of congFatulatiOn to Neal Dow
and the State of Maine over the recent
/ Prob bition victory.
NEAR Fullerton, Vance County, Neb
on the 3rd, J. G. Percival, his wife and
child and Hugh Meyer were murdered by
unknown parties.
IT is thought the employees of the Oliver
Iron Works, at Pittsburgh, Pa, will strike
in preference to accept ng the 12h pei
cent. reduction in wages.
WASH FLETCHER, colored, who was
hanged at Paducab, KY, on the 81, fol-
the murder Of Amanda jackson, spoke foI
an hour, protesting his innocence.
PIERRE LoRHLARD has brought suit
against the managing editor of the New
York Star on a charge of criminal libel, in
THAT the paper accused him of making
lpresents to a pretty married woman, etc
BRADsTREET's cotton report for Septem
lber indicates that the condition is not 81
lgood as reported for August when tbs
general average was not above fair. This
lis due to prolonged drought in many sec
ltions.
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FACTS AND FIGURES.

The area Of Philadelphia IS I'D
square miles. The area OF London Is
122 squares mules.
Paris has Just taken a census 1t
shows a population of 2,239.928' OF
whom 10, 7S5 are English and 5,9S1
Americans.
There are $40 Young Mems Chris
tan Associations, with lOS, l3f mem
bers, owning SO, ,956, ,675 worth of real
estate. N Z. SUn.
The total area of the seas in the
world is 23l, 915, 905 square miles whlis
that of all the continents and islands u
only 81, 354, $50 square miles.
Nearly all of the crops are big this
year, sugar and rice being the most
notable exceptions. The Florida
orange crop is estimated at l,OOO,OOO
boxes $50, 900 more than last year
Chicago Herald.
in 1880 there were % miles of rail
road in operation in this country; IN
1910, 2,Sl8; in 1850. 5000; in 1860, So
600; in 1870, $4,000; in 1880, $4,000,
and in 1884 10000.
The Eureka Leader, in an article
showing how well foreign capital has
| succeeded in Nevada, says: ''Ot the
amount invested in this district by for
eign capitalists about S9OO,OOO has
come from England and about S6OO.O5U
| from the United States Since the open
ing of the district less than $2,OO0o oOu
| in assessments has been levied IN our
mines, while over $4,000, 900 has been
paid in dividends, showing an excess OF
| dividends over assessments OF more
than SO, 100000.
OF the 600, 600, 900 pounds of tobacco
| grown in this country this season BOO
| 600, 600 will be manufactured into chew
! ing and smoking tobacco and snuh.
| The tobacco manufactures proper are
about l, 200, but of cigar manutactorles
the number reaches more than l6,OOO
New York and Pennsylvania have each
about 1000; Illinois and Ohio about
1,5OO each, none of the other States
reaching in number as high as l,O0O,
These cigar manufactures made over
5000, 100000 cigars in the fiscal year
Just ended and about $50, COO,OO cigar
ettes.-M 7. Herald.
From the days of Cortez, in 1921
down to the beginning of this century,
and even to the present time, except
when interrupted by revolution, the
Mexican silver mines have poured fortl
an unceasing stream of silver, such a'
the world has never seen. IL is est
mated that the value of the silver coit
and bullion produced in that country
since the conquest is over 50, OOO,oOo'
600, and it is we'll known that some o
the mines have been prOlitably worket
almost without interruption from tina
dav to this, and that one OF them a
least is still running out silver at Lh
rate of over IS, 100000 per year
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-10-09
WIT AND WISDOM.

Somebody has said that the most
direct way TO a mans pocket is through
his stomach. The most direct way to
woman's pocket has never been discov-
crek Burlington Free Press.
Young farmer: care YOU fond o.
beasts, Miss Gusherton" ''Miss
GushertOn: "Oh, really, Mr.. Pawker,
if you mean this rs declaration you
must speak to mamma. Anon.
-Arabella: 'Oh, Bridget! a mouse,
n mouse! Come and catch il, quick
Bridget: 'Sure, mum, there's no hur-
ry If this one gets away ] can catch
plenty more for yer, mum. "-HarPeT's
Bazdr.
The little one, being guest of her
grandma, had been literally feastod.
When a second dish of pudding came
along. Looking ut the steaming dish.
she cxcla med, with sigh: "Say,
gran ma, | wish was twins"
Reading the evening newspaper Mt
the tea-table often brings out the real
tendencies of the family. 'Hello''
said Mr.. Job Shuttle. "The Chinese
have beaten the French" What S the
scoreP'' eagerly cried the youthful base
ball enthusiast of the Shuttle family.
Hartford Post.
On the Train
He from the window looked TO 500
The landscape rushing by;
1t came along-he picked ~ up
He caught II in his eye.
wrathfully he jerked in his head
To dig for the singing cinder-
But who shall print the words he said,
--Batrdette. y
There was really nothing the mat
ter with the young orator but nervous
ness: nevertheless, when he opened his
speech by saving: "My cello htizens,
rumthing is soften in the Den of State
mark" his friends led him of the plat
form, aud next morning published a
physicians certificate to the effect that
he was suffering from an acute attack
of "malarial cerebration. - Chicago
Tribune.
What do you thinkP" said Clara;
sthat horrid Tom Brown proposed to
me last evening. He hummed and
hawed a long time, but finally spunked
up courage to ask for my hand :
''And what did you say, dearP' asked
Della. Sayp Why, / told him I
couldn't be so cruel as TO burden him
with a third hand, when he did mt know
what to do with the two he already had
the awkward boobYr'-BO Gt0be.
At the Pont des Arts. in Paris, is q
| blind man, who carries q board around
| his neck with sign: 'Blind by birth
and by accident" 4" "See here, my good
man." said passer-by, "can you tell
us how YOU happened to be blind by
birth and by accident at the same
timeP'' Easy enough" said the old
man. 'You see Pm blind by birth my
self, and I've bought out blind man
who did business on the other side oi
the bridge. He was blind by acci'
dent"
A young minister and his wife
visited the congregation where his faith
er was previously the pastor He
preached on the Sunday; and, after
service, one of the venerable elders
speaking with the young minister F..
wife, said: Your husband preached
from the same text that his father hao
the last time nc was in the pulpit
''Indeed!' replied the lady: Il hope
it was not the same sermon. too. 'Oh
no, - said the good elder, !" his fathe
was dreadful smart man."
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-10-09
FATAL EXPLOSION.
One Man Killed and Many Injured by an
Explosion of Powder.
IERsEY CITY. N j. October B.

One Man Killed and Many Injured by an
Explosion of Powder.
JERSEY CITY, NJ J., October 3.
A casualty resulting In the de 18th OF one
man aud the manning and the probably
fatal injuring of ten Others, hap
ened at the Excelsior mine, five
miles south of this city,
Wednesday night about ten O'Clock.
VIM. Harrison and about a dozen others,
mostly Swedish miners, were in the sa-
loon of Michael Fox. Harrison was
smoking, and, noticing can of p wder,
which he mistook for fruit or jelly,
he was about TO help himself,
when coal dropped from his
pipe and ignited the powder. The eX-
pIosion which ensued was terrific. Har-
rison as blown TO pieces. The sa oon
was d moli,hed and ten of the by
standers, mostly Swedish miners, were
badly injured, some Of them fatally. The
report OF the explosion was distif city
heard in this city The following is a
a partial list of the victims.
william Harrison, killed.
Jno Sars, very badly injured.
Harry McFadden, very seri 1usly hurt.
Walter Patterson, dangerously III
jure 2. MI,
Am. Patterson, brother OF walter,
severely injured.
Chas Brom1eld, blown through the
| roof and badly bruised.
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Close of the September Corn Corner--A
Gigantic Deal By Which 81 500, 900 WaI
Netted-The Bears Unmeresfuuy Gored
by the Buns-Jay Gould Behind the
Clique With So, 500, 900 to Protect Them.
CHICAGO, Ill. September 80.
To-day winds up the September corn
deal At opening this morning numer.
Gus pairs of "Short" eyes were glued to
the commission Office bulletin boards,
and as the suspense OF thelE owners grew
more and more difficult to disguise, the
many attitudes seemed to illustrate am
inward prayer for 'sBlucher or right"
The only Butcher hoped for seemed to be
sufficiently large receipts to break the
corners back. But Butcher tarried on
the way. Instead of the two thousand
carloads of corn for the corner to alb
sorb at eighty three cents or more, as an
ticipated, only 972 arrived. October
corn opened at 81 Lie; but for ten or
fifteen minutes there was no tidings of
September. Finally the tickers clicked
off eighty five for the deal. Then it was
reported that McHenry for the corner
was Offering to buy or sell a that figure
giving >horts an opportunity to step up
and settle at that figure.
One of the most exciting scenes ever
known on the Board of Trade occurred at
the one O'Clock close. Ninety cent bids
were made for half mil ion lots of Sep
tember corn by the Clique, while actual
sales were made as high as eighty-seyCn
on smaller lots. Pandemonian prevailed,
and the din of voices was terrible. 1t is
reported that eight cars sold at ninety
cents delivered at the p. N. session, and
nirc cars were sold about the same time
on the other sideaef the pit at eighty three
cents. Cash corn sold low as fifty eight
cents on one side of the pit, while on the
other frightened shorts Were bidding as
! high as eighty-three cents. Some heavy
| failures are looked for before the day
ceases.
| The EUening Mail says Z. B. .Weare was the
| head broker of the September corn deal,
and T. w. Simmons, ,X-Pre>ident of the
| Northwestern Telegraph Comp ny, the
| power ehind the thrO e. Last night af
| te the directors of the Board of Trade
| had fixed the margina price of corn al
fifty five cents, Simmons, Weare aud
| others of the clique held a conference to
| consider what should be done in case
| they ere called upon for margins beyond
| their power to put up. The result wa
| Simmons wired Gould for fu ds, and the
| latter responded in an ordcr upon h
| strongest bank in Chicago to allow the
| CLIQUE to draw on his account $2,2 0,0O0
AS it happened, however, margins were
not called. 1t is understood that thu
iques reaized 81, ,5O0,0 600 net, and tina
the deaf will be carried into October, OF
which dealers are already several mi liol
bushe.s short.
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Rn.slnn shIpping Burned.

ST PETERSBURG, October 2.
A steamer plying the Volga RIVER took
ire yesterday at Kostroma and broke
loose from the dock and foated down
the stream setting fire to other vessels.
Being loaded with oil she burned hercely,
and as the oil foated on the + yer the
vicinity was soon an immense sea OF
fame which consumed everything within
its each The excitement was intense.
The firemen, sailors and others worked
herolcally Several ships and two steamers
were burned, and dozen persons were
killed or injured before the fire was con-
trolled. The loss VIII reach several
million roubles,
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QUEBEC CAN-3 CepJGLnDeE o.
Early this morning fire declared
itsef in the borough of Louise Vile,
situated about fifty miles from MOntre al,
and at last accounts over twenty houses
had been destroyed and the fire was still
rag ng. Assistance had been telegraphed
for to Three Rivers. The fire is supposed
to have originated in the vicinity of the
public market, and the building being
nearly all wooden, with sh.ng.e roots, 1t
spread rapidly. There was a strong
wind blowing, which famed the fire,
and unless it subsidized down there was
nothing could save the whole town from
being laid IN ashes,
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Seriously Injured.

NASHVILLE, TENN, October I.
Randall Cole, son of Colonel +. W.
Cole, the railroad king, while boarding a
train in motion at Antioch Station, on
the Nashville, Chattanooga & st. Louis
Railway. Yesterday, fell under the caboOse
and had his right arm 50 badly crushed
that it will have to be amputated. lie Is
suffering so much from the shock that 1t
is thought he viii die. Young Cole was
to marry a beautiful and popular young
belle of this city next month, and his
father had Just built him beautiful resi-
dence in anticipation of this event.
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AN OLD ACTOR GONE.
The Death of exit, the Arkansas Ira
eIPr.D

The Death of ext, the Arkansas Trav'
eler."
DIES MONIES, IA, October 3.
Francis S. Chanfrau's sudden death has
snapped another link in the dramatic
chain that binds the present generation
of thea er goers to the last. "Wednesday
evening Chanfrau sat in Taylor's Hotel
discussing With party of friends the sad
calamity that mad befallen John McCul-
Tough, when the hand of death struck
him down. He had just remarked wi. n
a sigh: "Ah, well, boys, my tuin Will
come next" and it was the voice OF
prophecy. The stroke of paralysis was
mortal. Around the death bed stood his
two sorrowing sons, Henry an Frank,
and his sister-in-law, Miss Baker. The
best medical skill proved of no avail, and
at 5:I5 ye sterday morning the veteran
actor passed away in gentle sic p.
The rem ins will be inferred In the
family burial vault in the Long Branch
Cemetery, and the funeral services wi II
be held on Sunday. The season will be
interrupted for week or more, when IL
will be resumed with Henry I. Chantrau,
the dead comedians son, in the role ol
exit, the Arkansas Traveller" Chantrau
leaves fortune of some 5000, ,0O0.'
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The nrongolian Moon Feast.

New York, September 30.
On Thursday every Chinaman who
gets chance will gaze at the moon foI
an instant and then celebrate the event
by as many festivities as his pock t-book
Will permit The chief festivity is the
making and eating of cakes. These re-
semble a London pork-pie, but are cakes
filed with a mixture of fwatermelon-seed, /,
almonds, walnuts and Chinese nut
called gesma, all made into thick paste
with ounce Jelly. Moon feasts will be
given on Thursday evening by the lead
ing merchants and traders in Mott street.
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A Popular Brand.

Man with business air drives up to the
gate and calls the farmer.
Glow are YOU. sirp want to buy q
large quantity of first-rate fodder.
f'Tve got plenty OF IL. "
bright and well curedP'
Yes. sir. ="
.4Neyer been rained on, ehg''
'.Never has been damaged.
..WeH, I'll take all you've got III
send after it tomorrow.
.'He must own big livery stable in
town." says the farmer when the man
drives away.
'sOh, no. replies bystander. lie
is'the nanufactuney of popular brand
of smoking tobacco, "-ArkansaV IraP'
ELleT.
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MONTREAL, CAN, October 2.
A merchant named Westgate, whose
firm of Westgate Bros. had failed, after
compounding with his creditors for thirty
cents and getting his release, has mys-
teriously disappear across the border
,vithout having any one. Most Of the
large Gre ditors have taken out seizures
an what il left behind. An insurance
agent moving in the highest circles here
has also taken his sudden departure
without notifying his creditors, some Of
whom have seized his luxurious furniture
and sold it for debt.
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nTIsCELLANEOua.


TRADE throughout Spain has been para
Iyzed by cholera epidem:cs and heavy
rains.
THE foundation walls to the new State
house at Charleston, w. Va, have fallen
in, and the structure has been damaged in
a large sum.
For the week ended September 27th the
issue of silver dollars was SI55,SSj For
the corresponding period last year, S67i,
400
SUIT has been entered by the District
Attorney at Washington, ID. ., TO recover
900 sureties on the bond of Howgate,
late dishursing officer of the United States
Signal Corps.
IT was reported on the 30th that the
German steamer Martha, bound for New
York with 159 passengers, was disabled
off Liscomb.
THE Navy Department issued orders on
the Goth, directing the commander ~ the
New York Navy Yard to put the Nan
tucket and Alarm out of commission, and
to send the Passaic to Norfolk. These
vessels arrived at New York on the 295h.
IT is reported that six French passen-
] gers from Cochin China, on the steamer
| Abdul Kadir, which put in at Bona, Al
! giers, for quarantine, died of cholera after
/ having been landed and placed in the hos
| pital.
! ON the 10Th the steamer Ocean King,
! from Montreal with the Canadian contin-
| gent for the Gordon relief expedition, ar
/ rived at Gibraltar. The men were in good
/ condition.
| A NATIONAL convention of news dealers
was in session at New York on the 50th.
THE DAYS Of the coal miners strike IN
the Monongahela Valley, it is thought
! are numbered.
on the 30th there were six deaths from
cholera in the different provinces oi
| France.
A PROCLAMATION has been issued by the
/ Vicerov at Canton urging the Chinese t,
resist the French.
on the 30th there were 421 fresh cases o
cholera report ed in Italy, and 20 deaths
including 81 deaths at Naples and 81 a
Genoa
A HALF interest in the track of the Pitts
burgh & Western from Plum Greek Valley
to Woods Run in Allegheny City, has-beeI
purchased by the Lehigh Valley Rail
road.
The Ohio Supreme Court on the 50t
granted leave to file petitions in error i
the Scott liquor tax laws aud advance
them on the docket by fixing the time @
hearing October 22d.
OK the 39th the great Septembe
"squeezs" IN corn at chicago closed, th
4 Exchange floor presenting the wildes
scenes. The ruling prices were fror
eighty-five to ninety cents, at whic
figures the unf ortunate ''shorts" will hav
| to settle.
AT Peters burg, Va, on the Soth, tn
thermometer registered ninety-nve de
grees in the shade--the hottest dav Of tn
year there,
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A CeIestlaI scheme.
NEW YORK, OctC

NEW YORK, October ].
Twenty Cinnamon arrived yesterday
from Havana on thei way to China. They
we're asked il they had any trouble with
the custom-h e authorities on account
of the law prohibiting the entrance OF
Chinese into this country. ftMelicau
law no good" sal the leading man.
ssWe got naturalized by the Spanish Gov
ernment, and then came to New York al
Spanish subjects, not as Chiuamen. We
pay twenty-five dollars In Havana for
naturalization pa ers and passport, and
that makes Us Spaniards. The French
Per1vians. Mexicans and Chiiians all Dc
the same"
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GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

INoENDIARIEs seem to be persistently de-
tcrmined TO destroy Cleveland, Ohio.
Two more fires were started on the . n,
gae Of which involved loss Of sl2iQJ0
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