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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-05-07
AN ACTERNATIvE.

The Employees Of the West Division Street
Car Shops in Chicago Want More Pay or
Fewer Hours of Labor.
CHICAGO, April 30.-The employees Of
the West Division street car shops noti-
fed Superintendent Cregor Tuesday that
they would adopt the Eight-Hour rule on
May /, and would expect the same pay as
theywere receiving at present. Mr.. Cregor
replied: eTimes are hard" aud asked
them If they would not reconsider the
matter A meeting OF the employees was
held and the adoption Of the Eight-HOur
rule was voted down. Then IL was de-
cided to work ten hours but to ask the
company for an advance of ten per cent.
In wages, the car works to close on Sat
urday AZ noon, thus giving half a day
each week, making the work on the
average nine hours day.
Mr. Cregor said last night that he could
not say what course the company would
pursue until lie had received the final
answer Of them. The wages Of the 100
men in the mechanical department Of the
South Side Street railway were increased
from ten 10 fifteen per cent on April ] .
Yesterday the men agreed TO accept their
wages II the company would establish thu
Eight -Honrrule on May l. The company
conSnted. and on Saturday the men win
ioln Ia the Eight Hour celahEatiOn,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-05-07
vERNEs WOUND.
The Results of the Recent Attack Upon the
Great French Novelist.

The Results Of the Recent Attack Upon the
Great French Novelist.
The many admirers Of NJ. Jules Verne
were distressed to hear recently that he
had been attacked by his nephew, and
had received a serious bullet wound of
the leg. The ball has buried itself in
the tibia. and we learn that prolonged
but unsuccessful attempt to remove IL
has been made, and that the wound has
been left open in the hope that the ball
may be spontaneously discharged.
Probably in this there is some error.
II is a common popular notion that the
safe extraction of bullet removes the
chief danger from gun-shOt injury.
This is, of course, not the case. The
main element of danger arises from the
injury inflicted by the bullet In its path
through the tissues, injuries which are
only rarely benefited by the extraction
of the offending missile. Then follow
secondary, and scarcely less fOrmida-
bic, perils arising from Inflammation in
the track of the ball, occasioned in part
perhaps by the direct injury of the
tissues, but to a much greater extent
by irritating and poisonous materials
finding access TO the wound OF gener-
ated therein. The removal Of the bullet
does not directly lessen the danger
from this source. Still the extraction
Of a ball Is important; Il Is often essen
tial to the proper treatment Of tha
deeper parts Of the wound; and even
when no acute mischief follows the tn-
Jury the mere presence Of the ball may
cause such degree Of chronic infiam-
nation as will prevent the closure "
the wound London Lancet
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-05-07
THE SOUTHERN FLOODS.

The Breaks In the Levees of the Lowez
Mississippi and the Immense Volume of
Water Resulting In a General InundatIon,
With Worse Consequences Feared.
VICKsBURG, Miss, April 29.-General
w. L. Mcmillan arrived from East Car
roll Parish Oy steamer last evening, and
reports the Elton levee safe and not con-
sidered dangerous. The Salem levee in
the lower portion of the parish, is safe up
to this writing, and is not considered in
immediate danger.
Major Belknap, superintendent of the
Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific division
of the Queen & Crescent railway, received
a telegram yesterday from Colonel Buck
nor, at Lake Providence, asking that the
railroad assist in putting up the protec-
ton levee at Salem. The main line is
threatened by rapid caving. 1t was re-
ported last night that the levee at Caro-
lima Landing, Washington County, was in
3 dangerous condition.
The break In the levec at Austin, Miss,
was about $50 feet wide at noon yester-
day, and large volume of water was go-
Ing through with great velocity. At p.
m. it only lacked two feet of covering
the track of the Louisville, New Orleans
& Texas railway. Roadmaster Hutchins,
who is at the break, telegraphed TO the
Office here last night that they could pre-
pare Tor general lnundatlOn IN thaC Sec
ton, there being no hope of closing the
break. They were only trying to prevent
its widening.
Captain Sears, United States Engineer,
arrived at p. m. and stated that no lcvee
south of Greenville, on either side is con-
sidered dangerous. 1t is feared now q
great portion of the Yazoo delta will be
overfiOwed.
The immense leyee at Husshpuckna, In
Bolivar County, is in very dangerous
condition. If that goes, it will food the
lands in Washington, Sunhower and
Issanquena counties. The situation is
very critical, and it is now feared the
overflow in the next ten days will be gem
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-05-07
CONDENSED TELEGRAMs


THE coal operators of the Mahoning val
ley, in Ohio, have refused to grant an in
crease to their employees, and strike is
threatened. Nearly 5000 miners sre en-
ployed in the mines represented.
CHINcH BUGS have appeared in the fields
near Centralia, ILL.,, in large numbers, and
growers are fearful that promising crops
of this year will be entirely destroyed.
THE total imports of general merchan-
disc at the port of New York during the
week ending on the 1st were valued at So
653, DDS, exclusive of dry goods.
Two HUNDRED men employed on the
water-works in East st. Louis struck on
the 1st for eight hours work per day and
ten hours pay.
WOLF & LOwMAN, shoe manufacturers,
Of Cincinnati, assigned on the 1st. Assets
are estimated at $4,000; liabilities, $4,000.
ARTHUR H. WARD, of Kansas City, Mo-,
while walking on the railroad track was
struck by an incoming express train and
instantly killed on the 1st, at Quincy,
Mass.
THE debt statement issued on the 1st
shows a reduction of the public debt dur
ing the month of April to be 1896, ,3S7.g7,
and total cash in the treasury, 1892, ,462, $40.
REPORTS from Mississippi state that the
break in the levee at Austin is causing
much damage to THniea and Coahoma
counties.
TIVE House Committee on Public Build
ings and Grounds has submitted a favor
able report, providing for public building
at Huntsville, Ala, not to cost more than
100000.
LEE SHELLEEBERGER, a substantial
farmer, and his wife were arrested at
Nebraska City, Neb., on the 1st for the
murder of the farmers child and step-child
of the woman.
TIE deficit in the revenue of the PFus-
sian State railways for the past fiscal year
is 23,00O,000 marks under the the estimates
owing to the general commercial depres-
sion.
ALL the employees at Beta & Sons exten-
slve brewery in Philadelphia struck on the
1st, and all work was stopped.
THE strike on the Gould system has been
decInredsoT by the Knights of Labor.
A BILL authorizing the construction Of a
bridge over the Tennessee river by the
Memphis, Jsckson and Nashville road
passed the House On the Sd.
A RIOT occurred At Chicago on the 4th,
IN which six policemen and one socialist
were killed.
TIE sum Of 500. 900 In gold was engaged
on the 4th for shipment 70 Europe.
GLADSTONE arr we'd in London on the
4th and met with an enthusiastic reeep-
tion,
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The National Jockey Club.

WASHINGTON, May 3.-On Thursday
next the ninth regular meeting of the Ma
tional Jockey Club will begin at Ivy City.
Given fine weather, it promises to sur
pass all of its successful and enjoyable
predecessors. The stabling accommoda-
lions at the track have been taxed to their
full capacity, and, should any horses not
looked for come in during the next few
days, new stables will have to be erected.
There are now in training there 2I9
horses, which exceeds by about seventy
the largest number that ever took in races
In this section of country. There will be
five races on each of the six days, and the
usual complement of steeple-chascs have
been interlarded.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-05-07

MooREFIELD, W. "a, May 3.-The
Examiner prints a long account of the dis
covery on an island in the north branch
of the Potomac, in Hampshire County, of
the graves of about three hundred people,
evidently of a rrce which preceded the
Indians. The skeletons were exposed by
the late freshet undermining a portion of
this river bank. The skeletons are mostly
above the usual height, are uniformly
lying on the left side, with knees drawn
up, and with each is one or more small
earthen bowls filed with bone beads,
shells, flint knives, etc. One skeleton
had bands of copper about the ankles and
wrists
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-05-07

LONDON, May 3.-At a meeting of the
National League at Killarney, Saturday, a
motion, apparently supported by ma
jority of those present, was offered to
expel members who had voted for Doran,
Lord Kenmore's underagent at the recent
poor law elections. Chairman Sheehan
refused to put the resolution before the
meeting. aud it was subsequently with
drawn. The action of the chairman is
supposed to have been taken in accord
ance with instructions, and indicates
policy of peace and Cancellation on the
part of the Parnellites.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-05-07
liable To Be Lynched.

NEBRASKA CITY, Neb., May "A coro-
ner's jury returned q verdict late Satur-
day night that Maggie Shcllenberger had
come to her death at the hands of her
father and stepmother. The child was
found with her throat cut in the cellar
There is intense feeling in the city, and
the streets are filed with angry men. The
Jail is under guard, but mob violence Is
feared before morning. Quin Bohannan,
the murderer, is also confined. and If the
Jail IS broken he is liable to be hanged al
50. His case IS now IN the United States
Supreme Court.
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CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

In the Senate on the 9th the testimony
taken in the Payne election investigation
was laid before the Senate, and Senator
Payne discussed it at length. The bill for
Improving the White House passed; also a
large number of bridge bills. The Inter
State Commerce bill was then taken up....-In
the House the bill prohibiting aliens acquir-
ing title to land was reported adversely.
Messrs. O'Neil (NTo.) and Foran (O.) had a
taken up in committee of the whole.
In the Senate on the 2sth eleven bridge
bills were passed. Mr. Mitchell addressed
the Senate on the memorial of the Method
ist Church, praying for better treatment
for the Chinese, after which the Post office
was long debate, enlivened by a tilt be-
tween Senators Beck ana Frye.......In the
margarine was reported. In committee OF
the whole the River and Harbor bill was
taken up and discussed during the rest OF
the session.
IN the Senate on the Goth the Fourth OF
July Claims bill" was taken and after some
wrangling passed. The Post ONCE ApprO-
priation bill was taken UP and Mr.. Beck
spoke at considerable length. occupying
the floor three and a half hours, and giving
his views on the tariff as a sort OF perora-
tion........In the House a bill for retirement
ported a The River and and Harbor t,c bill I was
taken up and considered in committee of
the whole.
IN the Senate on the 8Oth the Presidents
veto of the bill giving pauper corpses to
medical colleges in the District of Columbia
was sustained. The conference committee
report on the Indian Appropriation bill was
agreed to, and the Post office Appropriation
bill was taken up......In the House the bill
creating a department of agriculture was
called up and debated until the expiration
OF the morning hour, when the River and
Harbor bill was taken up in committee OF
the whole.
THERE was no session of the Senate on the
lst...... In the House the report of the COM
mittee on Civil Service reform on the reso-
luton of Mr.. Taulbee, regarding the appoint
ment of substitutes in the Treasury Depart
ment, was submitted and, after debate, was,
on motion of Mr.. Findlay (Md), laid on the
table. Bills and resolutions from several
committees were reported and referred The
Oklahoma bill was called uD and discussed,
and the House adjourned.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-05-07
CRnIEs I'D CAsUALrIEs.

NUMEROUS Philadelphia dry goods mer-
chants have been swindled by a man rep
senting himself to be Ed Kinnane, Of
Springfield, Q.
ON the evening Of the 2Sth VIM. 2. With
ers, n non Union switchman In the en-
ploy OF the Bridge a. Tunnel Company at
Rt. Louis, shot and killed Johnny Gibbons,
y young striker scarcely twenty years OF
age. From the stories 81 eyewitness H.
appears that Withers acted in self-de-
tense,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-05-07
TIE Porte thanks the Powers for theit

TIE Porte thanks the Powers for theft
effort to cause Greece to disarm.
THE decrease in the public debt during
the month Of April is estimated at S11,-
100000.
THE law for the immediate execution Of
railway train wreckers when apprehended
in the act, has been passed in the Mexican
House of Deputies.
SEVEN cars of a freight train on the
Fitchburg railroad, between Athol and
Royalston, Mass, were thrown from the
track about two O'Clock on the morning Of
the 3Oth, and the night express and morn
ing trains were delayed several hours. No
one was injured.
THE special committee Of Congress spent
the 1st in st. Louis listening to the state-
ments of merchants concerning the effects
of the Southwestern strike on business.
THE 1st of May was signalized through
out the country by a general movement
by the working classes looking to the short
ening of the hours of labor. Numerous
strikes and lock-outs were reported, but in
very few instances were there any riotous
demonstrations.
THE law to suppress 'Polandism" abol-
ishes Polish regiments in the Germany
army.
IN the revenue of the Prussian railways
for the past fiscal year there was deficit
of p, 600, 900 marks under the estimates.
RUSSIA has notified its representative
at Athens that the reply of Greece to
the uItimatum of the Powers is unsatis-
factory.
THE Greek Premier denies the reports
sent abroad that the hesitation of Greece
to comply with the mandate of the Powers
was caused by previous and continued
understanding with France.
THE Italian bishops have been instructed
by the Vatican to exhort Catholics to abb
stain from voting at the approaching elec-
tions for members of Parliament.
On the ID seventy men who had been
induced by labor brokers of Kansas City
to go to Hutchinson, Kas., on false repre-
sentations, captured a Santa Fe train and
went to Topeka, whence they were fur
nished transportation to Kansas City.
THE British Parliament reconvened on
the Sd.
On the ID the Polish parishioners of st.
Albertus parish in Detroit, Mich, deter
mined that no other priest should succeed
Father Kolasinski, deposed by Bishop
Borgese, assembled in large numbers about
their church, which is closed, on. rumOr
that the Bishop was about to install a new
/ priest, and were somewhat riotous in their
/ demonstrations.
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French Concrete.

A kind of concrete, hard and solid, is
now being used for building purposes in
Paris. 1t is composed of eight parts Of
sand, gravel, and pebbles; one part Of
common earth, burnt and powdered; one
part powdered cinders, and one and a half
parts unslaked hydraulic lime. These
materials are thoroughly beaten up
together, their mixture giving concrete
which sets almost Immediately, and be-
comes in few days extremely hard and
solid, which property may be still further
increased by the addition of small
quantity, say one part of cement Among
other constructions to which this material
has been applied is house three stories
in height. 65 by As feet, standing on ter
race, having perpendicular retaining
wall 200 feet in length and 20 feet high.
Every part of this structure was made Of
hard concrete, including foundations,
vaults of cellars, retaining wall and all
walls, exterior and interior, as well as
the cornice work, mouldings, string
courses, balustrades, parapets, and the
building is without band iron, intels, or
wood throughout.
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Redwood.

The value for manufacturing and
finishing purposes of the richly grained
redwood Of California is beginning to be
appreciated, though not, it would seem,
until after immense. quantities Of it have
been diverted to unnecessary uses. Until
recently the rich, curly bird's~eye and
other peculiarly marked species were cut
for rough lumber, and the softer, straight
grained kinds being SO much more easy
10 work, less liable to shrink endwise, and
not SO liable to split in mailing, were the
favorite material for building and othar
purposes for which redwood was used, to
the exclusion of the wavy and peculiarly
grained varieties included in the frstrclass
redwood list. Thus trees Or logs indicating
the very features now so priced in redwood
have been used in prodigious quantities,
simply because of their size and strength;
but it is now a matter of special interest
to builders and artisans that for richness
and popularity of grain, the redwood is
excelled only by the finest of costly hard
wood. The shrinkage endwise is special
to this wood, but does not extend beyond
thorough seasoning.
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THINGS WORTH KNOWING.

To learn to think and act for yourself.
Torespect gray hairs especially our own.
To waste nothing, neither money, time
nor talent.
If you have place of business to be
found there when wanted.
To spare when you are young that you
may spend when you are old.
(. To bear little trials patiently that you
may learn how TO bear great ones.
To be self.reliant and not take too much
advice, but rather depend on yourself
To keep alive in your breast that little
spark of celestial fire called conscience.
To learn to say no; twill be of more
service to you than to be able to read
Latin. s
To do all the good you can in the world
and make as little noise about it as posi-
BILE.
Tostick to your own opinion If you have
one, allowing others, OF course, the same
liberty to stick To theirs.
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A perplexed Little Roy,

Bobby Ito young Featherly, who is MAX
ing an evening calD--Who was the other
young lady you took to church last Sun
day besides sister Clara?
FeatheNy-Other young lady? Your
sister was the only young lady escorted
last Sunday.
Bobby-Sure?
Sister Clara-Certainly Mr.. Featherly
is sure. What makes you so foolish,
Bobby?
Bobby-.Then what did he mean by tell
ing George that he had taken Miss Flora
McFlimsey to church?
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sHERlFF's EXECUTION SALE.

TT NDER and by virtue Of an execution issued
~ out of and under the seal OF the District
Court Of the State of Minnesota: in and for the,
Second Judicial District. and County of RAM
sey, on the 26th day of Eel ruary, 1856, upon q
Judgment rendered and docketed i'll said Court
and County III al, action therein, wherein James
Martin and John Fowler was plaintiffs and Fred
Ullman and Louis Wertherman was defendants
in favor of said plaintiffs and against said de-
PENDANTS for the sum Of two hundred seventy
eight and 42-100 dollars. which said juo gment
was docketed i'll Hennepjn County, February
27th, 1855, and said execution has to me, as
Sheriff of said Hennepin county, teen duly di
rected and delivered, have levied upon, and
will sell ut public auction to the highest cash
bidder, at the front door of the Court House in
the City of Minneapolis, in said County OF Hen
nepin, Oh Saturday the 3rd day of July, 1885, at
ten oclsek in the forenoon ofthat day all the
right. title and interest Of Fred ullman, one OF
the above named Judgment debtors in and to
all the following described property, to-wit:
Lot one ~, block eight (e>; lot thirteen 13).
block eleven (1l). Thwings Highland Addition
to Minneapolis, according to the recorded Plat
of said Addition on file and of record in the
Office Of the Register Of Deeds in and for Hen
hepin County, and State Of Minnesota
Dated Minneapolis, Minn., May 18TH 1885,
WINSLOW NJ. BRA CKETT,
Sheriff OF Hennepin County.
By James H. Ege, Deputy.
IL. II. HERBsT,
Attorney for Judgment Creditor.
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Parasols,,,

A. G.. Prentiss & Co. have choice
line Of new sunshades, parasols and sun
umbrellas, which are selling at panic
prices. Go and see them. 227 Nicollet.
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Flint Lock ntuskefs.

Birmingham, England, still makes
flint-lock mnskets for use in tine interior
of Africa, where percussion caps or any
form of fired ammunition would often be
impossible to obtain, while powder can
always be made and flint picked up in the
4
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BREAsr-p1ArED VESTS.
The Slick Swindle That Was Carried
On Among Union Soldiers.

The Slick Swindle That Was Carried
On Among Union Soldiers.
Our regiment was one of the first to go
to the front after Sumter had been hred
on, and we had scarcely got into camp at
Washington when tall, distinguished
looking stranger, who claimed to have
served through the Crimean war as
lieutenant colonel of an English regiment,
appeared at the officers quarters. lie had
q steel breastplate of his own Invention
one which had saved the lives OF hun
dreds of officers in the Crimean and other
campaigns. The steel plates were to be
placed iu the vest, one on each side, ana
when buttoned up no one could distinguish
it from an ordinary vest He furnished
vest and all for $50, and, to use his own
language
..That is very small sum for preserving
a mans life through the war. Statistics
show that nine men are hit In the chest
where one is hit elsewhere. warrant
this vest to safely turn aside even grape
shot, while bullets will rebound from 1T
like peas"
None of us wanted to die for our coun-
try and we didn't mean to If bullet proof
vests would prevent. There wasn't but
one single officer in the regiment who
didn't give him an order, and I don't
believe there were more than five out OF
the brigade. We got our vests just before
the advance on Bull Run and we took
hand in that fight, feeling real sorry for
the rebels, who had no chance to protect
their precious fronts by breast plates. We
lost sixty men out OF our regiment and
had an officer shot in the shoulder. This
to show you that we were in the thick or
it.
Well, we kept congratulating ourselves
over those vests until one day, two or
three weeks after Mcclellan had assumed
command, I had business call at the
Captains tent. It was a hot day and his
coat and vest hung on the centre POLE he
had been buying new revolver, and in
exhibiting it to me it was accidentally
discharged. We heard sound like bean
striking tin pan, and both knew that
the bullet proof vest had been hit. Come
to take it down we found that the bullet
had gone through both sides.
s.H'm-I see!'' growled the captain. as
he surveyed the holes. Lets take
little walk"
We passed out Of camp to thickeJ,
and he hung his vest TO astump and began
blazing away. The six charges made a
collander OF it, Then / hung up mine,
and it was done for in the same fashion.
The matter got noised around, and in two
days it was known that we had been sold
out for cent. Not a vest in the brigade
would stand q pistol bullet, let alone an
ounce bali from musket, and that
gander shanked Englishman was a big
Doodle ahead Detroit Free Press.
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DE-. J. h. Dunn has removed his Office to SIG
Nicollet avenue. Residence, No. II Twelfth
street south. Telephone call, 1913.