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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-01-01
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

THERE are rumOrs OF another corn corner
at Chicago.
THos. VAN VALIN died at Syracuse,
N. Y, on the 26th, in his 105th year.
The City Club of Buffalo, N. Y, will
tender Governor Cleveland reception
January 10Th.
CHAs. francis ADAMS, Jr., denies that
the Union Pacific Road is in distress for
money.
THE shoemakers' lockout at Philadel-
phia, Pa, has ended, and many of the men
are returning:to work.
WALT HENRY, a saloon keeper of Akron,
o., was arrested on the 26th on a charge of
wife murder.
THE stock exhibit at New Orleans
promises to be one of the greatest the
world has ever witnessed.
BALTzER GEHR, resident of Crawford
County, Pa, for eighty-four years, died
on the 26th in his 104th year.
RUSSIA will transfer her nav al head
quarters in the Black Sea to Sebastopol.
The cost will be $7,OOO,OOO.
THE Mechanics Bank of st. Louis, Mo-,
obtained a new certificate of incorpora-
tion on the 26th, its old charter having ex-
pired.
Two violent shocks of earthquake were
felt in Spain on the night of the 25th. At
one place two persons were killed by fall
ing walls.
SENATOR WADE HAMPTON has written a
letter to a New York paper in reference to
the race question in the South.
SPAIN is willing to have the proposed
treaty with America modified, but would
like to have sugars admitted free.
THE New Orleans Picayune favors
strongly the Nicaraguan Canal, and
thinks the United States should acquire
Central America.
FRED. BARINBRoCK, of Dayton, o.,
brooded over financial troubles on the Goth
and killed himself. He leaves wife and
] seven children.
THE Sultan of Morocco claims sovereign
| ty over Timbuctoo, and desires to annex
/ to his dominions the coast country south
/ of Morocco.
Mrs. JOHN CARROLL, of Green Ridge,
Pa, was taken from her house on the
night of the 25th, assaulted and left in the
woods, where she was frozen to death.
BANDITS entered the house of a Catholic
4 priest in Galicia for pillage. Failing to
/ get money they tied the priest in heap
/ of straw and burned him to DEATH
THE steamer Vint Shinkle burned on the
Mississippi, on the 26th, below Cairo. She
was owned by the Cincinnati & Memphis
| line, and was valued at $4,000.
A COMMITTEE of Chicago citizens met on
/ the 26th 70 take steps to prosecute vigor-
ousiy the people connected with the cleo
tion fraud in the Eighteenth Ward Of that
/ city.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-01-01
A SUCCESSFUL LEE.

Death of Michael II. simpson, the Boston
Millionaire Carpet ManufactUrer--A Mas
ter-Sty0Ixe That Led to FOrtune-Tcn or
Twelve Millions Left Behind.
BosToN, MASS, December p.
Michael II. Simpson, of this city,
the possessor of a fortune of $4,000, 900
or $4,000, 900, died to-day of heart
disease. lie was horn of poor parents in
Newburyport, seventy-fve years ago, and
came to Boston when boy. The millions
have since been piled up for Mr.. Simpson
by the Jacksonville mills and the Roxbury
Carpet Company, both great establish
ments being contracted by him The bulk
of his fortune was
MADE BY A MASTER sTROhE
during the war. In the early months of
the contest, when business of all kinds
was greatly depressed, his partners sug-
nestcd that they, like others, should cur
tail production. Looking out of the win
dows of his great carpet mills, Mr.. Simp-
son asked:
GLOW much land is there in that vacant
traet?''
So many thousand feet was the reply.
every weIl,'' replied Mr.. Simpson, "to-
morrow we viii begin to build ware
house to cover it. Then we will make
carpets to the fun capacity of our ma
chfnery. When that stOrehoUse is full we
will build another and till it" This poll
icy was followed and when the inflated de-
mand and prices of a year or two later
arrived, the concern put an immense
quantity of goods on the market at the
highest figures. Mr.. Simpson was twice
married. The second time about four
years ago to woman hearty fifty years
his junior, who survives him. The we'd
ding is remembered on account of the inn
preston created by Mr.. Simpsons gift to
his bride of 81 900, 900 in bonds.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-01-01
RELIGIOUS ANp EDuoArIoNAL.


The Union Theological Seminary,
of New York City, has paid-up capital
and property worth 50, 900, 900.
Much progress is reported to have
been made in Ireland of late in the.
study of the Irish language. The larg-
est school-book firm in Ulster has Jllst
issued models of Irish characters for
use in slate-writing in the National
schools.
Prof. y. C. Cram, of Deerfield, N
H, is now keeping his 940th singing
school, being in his fifty-first year of
teaching. He has sung in the church
choir fifty-five years, and has taken
charge of the singing in the church for
fifty years.
The Baptist churches of Boston
and vicinity stand twenty-three to two
in favor of unfermented wine. After
several months notice, during which
the subject was carefully studied, the
First Church recently voted nearly unRu-
imOusly to use ''the pure fruit of the
-unfermented wine-for sacra-
mental purposes. Boston Journal i
The Pope has issued decree, Great
ing the American College in Rome, I'M
til recently~a part of the Propaganda
property, a clerical college with an or
ganization of its own, to be ruled like
the college of the Propaganda. This
relieves it of any danger of conlisca-
ton or control by the Italian Govern
ment as part of the Propaganda ~
T. Herald.
I'm Missouri a missionary of the
American Sunday-school Union found
church thirty years old, meeting in a
good house of worship, well appointed
as to comforts, with a large congrega-
ton, but which had never had a Sun
day-school. While there was preaching
to parents and adults, the children
were hunting, fishing, etc. Here he
organized good school with fifty schol-
ars.-BGpttSt Weekly.
The Yale NeaOS says of the proposed
abolition of the Wednesday half holi-
day of the college: This change will
be serious blow to our athletic in
terests, and it will make it almost i'm
possible for our nine and football
eleven to engage in enough practice
games to enable them to meet the
teams of other colleges on an equal
footing" Yale's football Captain,
Richards, who was injured on Thanks
giving Day, is again about the campus
on crutches.
President McCosh, of Princeton
University, believes that the college
which gives to its students wide
choice of studies during all the years Of
their course commits a radical error
He holds that there are branches rudi-
mentary and fundamental. (which
have stood the test of time, fitted to
call forth the deeper and higher facul-
ties of the mind, and opening the way
to further knowledge, which all should
be required to study" Such are the
classical tongues with certain Euro
pean ones, and, above all, our own
tongue, with their literatures. Such
are mathematics, physics, chemistry
and certain branches of natural history.
Such are the study of the human mind,
logic, ethics and political economy.
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A TIDAL WAVE.
A Slight Earthquake Shock on the Atlantic
Coast, Followed BY Destructive Tidal
Wave-VesseIs Riding at tAnchor the
Principal Sufferers-An Ominous Find.


Coast, Followed BY a Destructive Tidal
Wave-VesseIs Riding at tAnchor the
Principal Sufferers-An Ominous Find.
NEW HAVEN. Conn, December %.
Last night at eleven O'Clock, as Captain
S. p. Thrasher, Superintendent of the
Seaman's Bethel, was preparing to go
home, he felt distinct jar of the earth.
Looking out he. saw lamp posts shaking.
Tho shock was more severe than that
experienced here last summer, although
it was comparatively unnoticed, oc-
curing as it did at late hour. The jar
was also felt at the Central Police Sta
tion. 1t is now believed that there was
convulsion of the earth in Long Island
Sound directly off this harbor, or near
by, for at quarter past eleven O'Clock
tidal wave, crowned with foam, and fully
eight feet high, came rolling into the bay
from the south, traversing the entire
length of the harboF, which is four miles
long. 1t had a speed of about twelve
miles an hour, and moved with an oInin-
Gus rushing sound, like the blast of a
hurricane, carrying destruction in its
path.
1t was dark and cold and rainy at the
time, and light fog, which has been
growing denser ever since, was forming.
1t is impossible to ascertain the full eX-
tent of the damage done. There are 200
vessels in the harbor bound eastward.
The first one to take the force of the
mysterious wave was the schooner Nellie
Grant, bound from Jersey City to Ports
mouth, N. H., with coal. The wave
struck her with such force as to tear the
windlass out, and part the chains on both
her anchors, sweeping her away to the
north. The Captain hastily rigged sail
n knpU a
his way with difficulty through the fleetto
the inner harbor, where she is now re-
pairing.
Near astern of the Grant lay the
schooner Onrest, a Providence vessel,
bound home from Hoboken with coal.
One of the vessels crew heard loud
roaring sound, and throwing on his
clothes rushed to the deck. Just as he
did so, wall of water struck the bow of
the schooner, breaking over her and fill
ing her full of water. From the great
weight of her load, the vessel did not re-
spond and so literally buried herself.
The Captain was greatly alarmed, and
realized that unless the vessel parted
from her anchors she must sink. The an
chOrs held, and the wave tore away the
matches and burst into the cabin. The
vessel began to sink instantly and the
Captain with his wife and four men hasti-
ly got into the yawl boat. Just as they
got clear of the vessel she went down in
about four fathoms of water. The crew
lost everything.
Several coal barges and other vessels
were either sunk or badly shaken and
damaged.
An ominous find has been made at
Morris Cove, near. the eastern most point
of the harbor. 1t was a wrecked yawl
boat, a quantity of sailors clothing,
spIintered spars and loose rigging, and
thirty-two matches swept from vessels
decks by the waves. It is now feared
that other disasters have occurred.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-01-01
MIRCELLANEOUS.

OK the 22d a train load of passengers
were reported showed in in Oregon, and
provisions had been sent to them. SnO W
storms We're raging all through the far
West.
A DISEASE with marked typhoid symp-
toms of a contagious character is puzzling
the doctors of Annapolis County, Nova
Scotia. All ages and conditions are
affected.
THE alleged discovery of an Internal
machine and packages of explosives in the
Windsor (Eng.) railway station after the
recent incipient fire, turns out to be broken
fishing tackle, can of paint and a bottle
of horse medicine.
THE committee appointed by the New
York Chamber of Commerce made a ma
jority report on the 22d in favor of the rati =
fication Of the Spanish treaty, the majority
report opposing.
THE situation at Traverse, Dakota, was
unchanged on the I'D. Both sides were
heavily armed and were securing the coun-
try Tor reinforcements. Serious trouble
was anticipated.
THE coal miners all along the Mononga-
hela River went out on a strike on the 22d.
Operators say they viii close down the pits
indefinitely rather than concede the ad-
vance asked.
A FOOT Of snow has fallen at st. Johns
bury, Vt, and vicinity. This will start the
lumber business, and give many idle men
employment in that section
TIE New England Societyof New York
celebrated its seventy ninth anniversary
the evening of the 22d by banquet at Del
monico's. Covers were laid for 80.
THE employees in Sanford & Sons large
carpet mills at Amsterdam, n. Y, struck
ON the 22d in consequence of ten per
cent. reduction in wages.
TIE Court Of Claims on the 22d began
consideration of the claims of the Choctaw
Indian Nation against the United States,
involving about five million dollars,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-01-01
A BoId Robbery.

DIES MoINEs, IA, Decemb Der 26.
a bold and successful robbery was per-
petnated at Panoa, Guthrie County, We'd
nesday night. The Des Moines & North
western Railway agent at that place is
also United States Express agent, and
last night he received a package of 81, 600,
sent by the Valley National Bank of this
city to the Guthrie County Bank. The
railway safe has been blown open several
times recently, and it has since been the
agents custom to take home at night
money coming in after banking hours.
About nine O'Clock he started home with
the package in his pocket
On the way he stopped in an outhouse,
when an unknown man came in upon
him, grabbed the package from his pocket
and fed. The agent whipped out his
revolver, when the robber turned and
fired, shooting him in the arm, which
caused him to drop his revolver. The
robber then escaped. The agent doubts
his ability to recognize the man if he
should see him again, but the Express
Company is confident of a sure trail, and
the proper arrest viii be made.
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WIT AND WISDOM.

DE loudes' takers amt allus dc
wisest men. Geese makes more noise
den de roosters, but da ain got nigh 81
much sense.-ArbGHSdtO TrGUcicr.
A child's thought.
A little child looked out at night
Upon the stars in heaven so blue,
Aud cried aloud, in glad delights
froow
Judge" What sort of man. now,
was it whom you saw commit the as
sault? Constable Sure, your Hon
thur about your own size, yer Honor.
N Y. Herald.
-" Where've you been FrankP''
'' Down to st. Louis" What do
ingp" " Running a photograph gal
lery." " Did it work?" - Work!
should say it did. First day / hung
out n sign: Babies taken without
prior notice, and the next morning /
found four on my doorstep, - Omaha
Bee.
&c Has Burlington very intellectual
community" asked the new minister.
"Intelleptual parsonP Well, / should
construc. There's three dancing clubs
on North Hill, two skating riHks down
town, four bowling alleys on Main
street, a weekly hop at the South Hill
barn, and n school-house on West Hill
Intellectual, parson? Town Jest runs
to brains. "--Burdette.
A New York inventor has made
machine by which he claims TO reduce
the temperature of room To eighty
five degrees below zero if necessary.
1t WILL no doubt, be in great demand
by young men who have at last
screwed up courage to ask the old man
for the hand of his daughtcr-an
agonizing moment when the tempera-
ture of a room suddenly goes up TO
40 deg. in the shade. N0rrist0t0f
Herald.
He had just gone down and pur-
chased two tickets for the opera, and
grasping the two halves of his weeks
salary he hastened to the house and
was ushered into her presence. "Ah,
Miss De Smith, a very cold day, is il
not? VIII you not allow me the pleas
ure Of being your escort to the opera
to-night?'' 30. thank you so much.
but Mr.. Brown has asked me, and 1 am
afraid / shall have to refuse you; am
80 sorry. Yes, indeed, it is a very,
very cold day. Chicago Inter ocean.
He had a crowd around him on
the Campus Martius, and when he had
placed his toothache-cure on the board
before him and got his lamp brightly
burning, he said: ''Gentlemen, the last
time | was in your fair city some ono
hit me with an egg / sincerely"
At that instant turnip, thrown by
some one in the outer circle, struck the
mans hat and carried it ten feet away
He reached out his hand for il and con
tinued: Thank you! / was going to
say that preferred turnips to eggs, but
would IL be askinW too. much Of Won tD
boil them first?' Detroit Free Press
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CleveIand.s Christmas.

ALBANY, n. Y, December 20.
According to custom Governor Cleve-
land spent Christmas quietly and in the
enjoyment of home comforts. In the
morning he listened to sermon appro-
pirate to the day at the South Presbyter-
ian Church, of which he is q regular at
tendant accompanied by his sisters Mrs.
Hoyt and Miss Cleveland. After a light
lunch at noon, the Governor gave him
self over to pleasure of social
nature, few personal nc
quaintances calling during the
afternoon to tender Christmas greetings
to the President-elecS. Political talk was
eschewed altogether, the topics dis
cussed being purely of a private or con-
versational nature. Early in the evening
the Governor, after his usual habit,
visited the Executive Chamber, rema in
ing at his dtssk for over an hour inspect
ing some important State papers. Before
returning TO the Mansion he took con-
stitutional walk of half a mile unaccom-
panied save by tiny black and tan dog,
to which he has lately taken quite a
fancy.
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Editorial Suffering.

1--WE got two little gems I'd like to
read to you, and / want your candid
opinion about them, said tho in
truder.
The editor sighed heavily and
dropped his overworked scissors OH
the floor.
. The visitor read the first poem with
deep feeling and in different voices
The editor listened with closed eyes.
occasionally he groaned in his spirit.
" Well, now what do you think Of
thatPn asked the visitor with some
animation, looking at the editor with
an air Of eager expectancy.
4" like the other one best
Z" But I've not read the other one to
you yet
+" That's why prefer IT, Its in
fnitely superior to the one YOU have
Just read, ''-TcrGs SlftnRgs.
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Run Down at Sea.
NEW YORK, Decc

NEW ADf4A5 Dp~SiiiDSA %
The British steamer Cornwall ran down
the full-rigged ship Lontey al noon yester.
day of the batteey. The vessels were go-
ing at good speed, and the Lontey was
cut almost entirely in twain, and sank
Immediately. Her crew of thirty-tive
men, after struggling In the icy water for
some time were rescued by the life saving
station, and the men taken 10 Castle
Garden. The vessel IS a total loss. Shs
was valued at Sl5O,O00 The steamer
was but slightly injured, and though the
accident caused panic on board, no ons
was hurt. The responsibility for the coIs
lision is disputed between the captains.
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-S
a Sad Ending.

NEW YORK, December "a.
The girl who jumped from ferry boat
into the North River Wednesday night and
subsequently died in the hospital from
the effects of the plunge into the icy wa
ter, has been identified as an unfortunate
woman known in the dives around
Chatham Square as Carrie Stevens. Her
real name, however, was Eliza Danger
den, and her. r.parcnts are said 70 be we'll
tO-do residents of Waverly, n. Y. She
was brought here year ago by young
man, who abandoned her to a life Of
shame
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A Murderer Arrested.

NEW YORK, December 26.
Sanford Sisco, the negro who murdered
Abram Gurnee at Hillsdale, n. j.,
was arrested yesterday in the depot at
Paterson, where he had just bought a
attention was called to the man by his
frightened and anxious appearance. ON
being arrested Sisco admitted his identi-
ty, but declined to say whether he killed
GUrnee or not. lie had revolver, a
slung-shot and Sl56 ia money on his per-
son. He was taken to Hackensack and
locked up.
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IlDNDJN9 DVtEFLfEEL
The alleged dynamite plan to blow up
the Windsor Station, has turned out 4
ludicrous mistake on the part of the po-
lice. The fragments Of the, so-called in
fernaI machine with the American clock
work attachments have been examined by
Colonel Majendie, chief inspector of ex
plosives; he reports that they are parts
of a patent fishing-tackle. The tin-cans
said TO have contained the dynamite have
been found filed with ordinary oil-man's
paint The bottle, which the police as
serted was filled with nitrO-glycerinc,
contained patent horse medicipe- TheJ
are visibly chagrinedl
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BROOKLYN, y. Y, December "A.
The search for bodies in the ruins of ST.
Johns Orphan Asylum was concluded
yesterday without further discoveries.
The funeral of the bodies viii take place
to-day. Missing boys are returning from
time to time, and it is believed that all
will be accounted for in few days.
The sum of 81 400 was subscribed yes
terday toward rebuilding the asylum, and
clothing and provisions are being sent in
by charitable people. As yet no time has
been set for the inquest on the bodies Of
those who perished.
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PITTSBURGH PA, December p.
Natural gas has played sad havoc at
different places in Western Pennsylvania
within the past twenb'-four hours. Re
ports of explosions, attended with fatal
and serious results, have been received
from Butler and Washington, while in
this city a building on Magee street, Oc-
cupied by ii. Studt as grocery store,
was completely demolished last evening
At Washington, Pa, the residence of
William Rabe was partly wrecked, and
Rabe, his wife and child injured so badly
that ell have since died
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Widow Marries Her Young and COnsump-
tive Coachman, and Says 1t is NobOdy's
business.
NEW YORK, December %.
The topic of conversation on Staten
Island the past three days has been the
marriage of Mrs. Emma Britton, the Wild
ow of the late Abram Britton, to her
coachman, who is Familiarity known as
Tommy Mclaughlin. The Brittons are a
very old family on Staten Island holding
their property through a crown grant
made in the early history of the colony
of New York. Mrs. Britton was men,
Der of the Veirdonberg family, also one
of the old families of the island. They
were neighbors of Commodore Vanderbilt
is said that she is
RELATIVE OF THE vANDERBLTs
by marriage. Mrs. Britton had been
widow for several years. She had good
estate, and kept stylish coaches and
horses. Some months ago she engaged
Thomas Mclaughlin to care for the
horses. He worked a few days and then
took sick and went to his home, a cottage
on the Richmond Road. The neighbors
noticed that Mrs. Britton was daily visit
or, and finally that she seemed to have
left her elegant mansion to reside at
the cottage. When a reporter called
to ask if a marriage had really taken
place he found young Mclaughlin sitting
over the kitchen stove dressed in a blue
flannel shirt and hand-wOrked slippers.
He is boyish looking and is thin and his
cheek had hectic flush. He is about
twenty years old. He was unable to
speak above a whisper, and appeared to
be suffering from consumption. When
he was asked to call his bride the former
Mrs. Britton entered the room dressed in
a blue checked wrapper and a gingham
apron. She is said to be forty years old.
She said:
INTERESTING TO OTHERS.
awe are married legally and lawfully.
My family know of the marriage, and they
are the only persons that I care for.
shall not please anybody's curiosity by
giving any details. If | chose to marry
young man, and he was poor, that may be
interesting for some others to know, but
l shall not entertain them with any par
ticulars of my courtship or marriage, or
of my ideas or plans hereafter" Mem
bers of her family decline to talk about
the matter further than to say that they
are grieved, and that they are not inter
ested in the further movements of Mrs.
Mclaughlin.
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Tha Thomn.on- Z Ilbonrn Damage snia.

The subcommittee of the House Commit
tee on judiciary, having under considers
ION the memorial of John g. Thompson,
of Ohio, praying for an appropriation to
reimburse him for personal expenses in
defending himself against the damage
suit brought By Hallett Kilbourn, agreed
yesterday to recommend to the full com
mittee that Thompson be given reason
able sum to cover his expenses. The
committee at the last session recommend
ed an appropriation of $50, 900 to liquidate
the judgment given Kilbourne in the
courts, and the recommendation IS now
TO be reversed.