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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-09
A GOOD SOCIETY.
1t Proposes to stop the Business OF Whole
sale Bird Siayers.

It Proposes to stop the Business or Whole
sale Bird Siayers.
The exceedingly popular fashion
much INDUCED in by ladies for a year
or two past Of trimming their hats
with the feathers and wings of birds
will soon receive a serious check if the
new Audubon Society, which has its
headquarters at No. 40 Park Row, can
do it. An officer of the society said to
a reporter:
1.-The slaughter of birds has become
so widespread that there is danger Of
some varieties Of the feathered tribe
becoming extinct. Birds of all kinds
fall victims TO this brutal fashion
Robins are slaughtered by thousands.
sparrows, swallows, herons and in fact
birds Of every species are literally
butchered to supply the demand for
feathers, and in some instances whole
birds are placed upon ladies' hats
How do you propose stopping the
massacre?'
eve will endeavor to have laws
passed in each State making IL mis-
demeanor to kill birds for such pur-
poses, or at certain seasons of the
year. We invite cooperation from all
people all over the country who are
interested in the matter and hope that
moral suasion will greatly help as i'm
our efforts to induce the ladies To give
up this style OF hat adornment Over
forty thousand herons were killed in
one week around Cape Ann, Mass. by
agents Of the millinery trade. ~ y
Journal.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-09
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS,

TIE labor troubles at Wyandotte, Kas.,
have been settled by the company recogniz-
ing the right of the men to join the Knights
of Labor, that being tie disputed point.
THE total imports of merchandise at the
port of New York during the week ending
on the Sd were valued at IS, ,234, 12O, and of
dry goods =, ,256,4s9
BY fire in one wing of the Planters Hotel
at st. Louis on the Sd four servant girls
met their death by suffocation.
TIVE Connecticut State Senate on the 2d
passed bill giving pension to Mrs. Pru
dence Crandall PhIleo, who was mobbed
in 1884 in Canterbury for endeavoring to
instruct negroes.
THE House on the Sd passed the Labor
Arbitration bill by vote Of 195 to 90.
AT Pittsburg, Pa, on the Sd, Thomas
Bolan and Harvey McMurray had quar-
rel, when McMurTay, who is only eight
years of age, drew knife and stabbed
Bolan in the abdomen, causing almost in
stant death.
TIE planters along the Mississippi river
in the neighborhood OF Helena, Ark, are
very much agitatcd over the rapid rise,
and fears are entertained that the river
will reach higher point than it did in 1884.
HE IlNbE hb NNlAAds AAdss - seven AAAASS
wide, and doing great damage to property.
No doubt number Of lives have been lost
in plantation quarters.
A CONFLICT between officers and strikers
occurred at Fort Worth, Texas, on the Sd,
in which three officers and the same num-
ber of strikers were killed.
TIE ways and means committee on the Sd
took up the Hewitt customs bi and added
to it the free list Of the Morrison bill, SO far
as it applies to lumber, fish, salt, fax and
hemp. Wool was also added to the free
list.
THE gross earnings OF the st. Paul rail
road for the month of March were =, ,o34 900,
decrease as compared with the same
month last year OF $4,000.
IMMENSE quantities of corn along the
banks OF the Cumberland river awaiting
shipment have been swept away, inficting
serious loss 70 the farmers Of that section.
The House On the 9th passed the Mexican
pension bill. The bill contains "A provision
that its provisions shall not extend Co per-
sons under political disabilities.
HUNTIxGToN, MISS, had three-inch
snow on the 5th.
TIE issue Of standard silver dollars from
the mints during the week ending April 3
was S3Q5. .627. The issue during the cor
responding period Of last year was Sl73s-
ass
WIN F. FoEsrER, ChieE cretary for
Irt land under the previous Gladstone HniH-
istry, Is dead.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-09
NO.. 81.
ITALIAN PEASANTS.
The DepIorabIe Condition OF Common Ea'
borers in italy.

The DepIorabIe Condition OF Common Eas
borers in Italy.
1t would be difficult to exaggeratd
the miserable condition of the agricul'
tural population in Italy, the wretched
dwellings, the unwholesome food, the
amount of disease. the low wages, the
want of morality and of education
The diseases induced by unsanitary
conditions are fearful. In the ''pel-
lagra, which is akin to leprosy, the
body dries up and wastes away, the
skin grows yellow and black, and is
covered with scales; it loses all feeling.
so that prick or cut is scarcely per-
ceived; finally, the patient, inert, apa1
thetic, motionless, half Dead with
sunken eyes, becomes a mere mummy,
unconsciously awaiting the opening Of
his grave. 1t is sometimes said TO
arise from excessive poverty and star
walton, but" says the report, ''why
are there so many villages where the
country people are almost dying of
hunger without n single case, while 1T
is found in others not worse lodged
and fed?h The probable cause is the
use of putrid and mouldy maize, often
exchanged by the millers for better
the bread is made into enormous
loaves, baked thus to save firing, the
inside of which grows putrid before
the weeks end which they are intended
to last. "Other diseases, though less
heard of, are quite as numerous-scrof-
ula, chest complaints, and in some
valleys cretinism. 1t sounds strange
in our ears to talk of consumption as
one of the scourges which desOlate
Italy, of which we have considered the
north to have a sad monopoly. Malaria
and fevers of different kinds are eX-
tremely common in Latium, Lombardy
and other parts. Tertian fevers are as
dangerous as the pelagra in the
Roman Campagna and the irrigated
country in LombardY. ''Where marshes
exist man can not live. If he does not
destroy the marsh the marsh destroys
him." The excessively divided proper
ty in parts of Italy is such as to reduce
it to a mere proletariate of owners,
abominablv lodged and i'll nourished,
who could not possibly carry OUT any
sanitary improvements, even if decreed
by the law. Health and morality are
inseparably bound up together; for IN
stance, about Rome there is a zone of
small properties amounting to about
twenty thousand acres. Here the want
of water, of proper houses and the
total absence of roads at the very gates
of the Eternal City, greatly diminishes
the val ue of the soil. Wages are from
20 to 25 cents a day, but there are
nearly hundred festival days. Farm
servants who are clothed and fed, have
81 to 81 80, the women from 25 to 70
cents month. Nineteenth Century.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-09
MISCELLANEOUS.


WORKMEN in the Mariemont coIliory,
Belgium, struck on the lst.
THE railroad committee Of the New York
Senate on the 31st reported favOrably the
bin to repeal the Broadway New ork
City, surface railroad franchise bill.
A DOLLAR counterfeit brownback
National bank mote has been discovered,
purporting to be an issue of the Central
National Bank of Norwalk, Conn, and
giving the charter number of the bank as
404. This bank has never issued a note Of
the series Of 1882, and its charter number
is 2,3l2.
A SPECIAL meeting Of the English Cabi-
net was held on the LIST on account of
threatening news from Bulgaria and
Greece.
A GENERAL strike took place in the paper
mills of Birmingham. Eng, on the 1st,
against an ordered reduction Of thirty
three per cent in wages. 1t is believed
the strikers win accept a more moderate
reduction.
THE richest silver ore in large bodies
ever discovered in the United States has
been struck in the Iron Hill mine in Da-
kotn. Much Of it assays $1,000 ounces to
the ton. A hve-foot Lreast has been
opened.
THE Reading (Pa.) iron works, in re-
sponse to the petition presented by the
men, advanced wages fifteen per cent.
excepting puddlers, who viii receive three
dollars and a half instead OF three dollars,
beginning on the 2d. The employees num-
Der some two thousand.
The great strike and shutdown at Bev-
erly, Mass, was ended on the 1st, by an
amicable adjustment of the grievance of
Wallis, Keliham & Bray by the joint
81 utNsfN p
have started up.
BRAKEMEN on the St. Louis division of
the Louisville a. Nashville road are on a
strike on questions concerning wages.
THERE is great activity i'm the British
Foreign OHice.
FIFTEEN thousand strikers in the Char
leroi district, Belgium, refuse to return to
work, but the riots have been suppressed.
A THREAT Is made by the Fresm0R's
Journal that il the Scotch members help
TO defeat home-rule the Parnellites will re-
lentlessly oppose all Scottish measures.
THE visible supply Of wheat in the
United States and Canada, on the I'd, ac-
cordinw TO the New York Produce Ex-
change report, with the amount OF wheat
now at sea for Europe, amounted TO g.
13I 500 bushels, sq ainst "a 6Ss ,072 bushels
year ago; and OF corn q ,35T,o5S bushels,
against Il, ,3ls. .sSS bushels a year ago.
AT Kansas City. No, on the 2d, a mort
gage Of $40, 900, 600 was filed from the Kan
sas City, St. Louis 4 Colorado railroad in
favor OF the American Loan and Trust
Company, OF New York.
HEAL-HY revival is reported in the
Clyde shipping trade.
ORDERs have been issued from the War
Department making the following assign
ments OF division commanders; ajor-
General Schoheld, Division OF the Atlantic;
Major General Terry, Division OF the Mis-
souri, Major-General Howard, Division OF
the Pacific; Brigadier- g eneral Crook. re-
lieved at his own request from the com
mnnd of the Department Of Arizona. and
assigned to the Deparimeut ~ the Platte;
BrigRdier- General Miles, asst sned 10 the
Department Of Arizvna,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-09

ADRIAN, Mich. april 1.-THE Wabash
through express train leaving here at
9 20 takes on a dining-car at this station.
Yesterday afternoon, at 3.I5 o'clock,
Vim. Powell, head clerk, and George
Minard, head walter, engaged in a cutting
affray, one using a carving-kniie and the
other long pocket dirk. Jealousy over
a local colored woman was the cause Of
the fracas. Both men were cut badly about
the face. hands and iimhs. Powell live
al Butler lie is nnder the care of doe
ter in the Wabash baegage-room,
Minard ran % The woods. but was cafs
turcd 0y an officer, and his wounds are
icing dressed al tie county iail.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-09
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GERONIMO'S TREACHERY.
The Apache Chief Notorious For Treacheryi
CrnrLInesa and EaIthIessneas.

The Apache Chief Notorious For Treacherys
Craftiness and Faithlessness.
TOMBSTONE, AriZ, April 2.-General
Forsythe, commanding officer at Fort Hua-
chuca, who arrived here to-day, made
known the startling fact that at the first in
terview which General Crook had with the
hostiles Thursday last, Geronimo had
band of men ready to fire on all white men,
including Crook, at a signal. GerOnimO's
failure to keep his promise of surrender at
Fort Bowie is ascribed to the fact that
having so much blood to answer for
he could expect no clemency and therefore
preferred life in the mountains to a pros
pect of hanging at the hands of the author
tiles. The hostiles had 200 rounds of am
munition each. General FOrsythe said it
it was impossible to fathOm GeronimO's in
tentions and It is an open question whether
he will go south to join Mangas or remain
north TO harrass the frontier. Geronimo IS
a man of fifty-two years Of age, crafty,
treacherous and meTciless. This is the
third time he has proven faithless.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-09

PrTTsBURGH, Pa, April Mrs. A. C.
Nicklin, twenty-eight years of age, is
lying in dying condition at the home Of
her mother, No. 27 Morgan street, Al
legheny. In her dying deposition to
night she states that she is the victim of
an assault at the hands of her husband
Edward NickliB, who, she alleges, on the
morning of Thursday last, as she was re-
turning from a party at a neighbours
house, struck her with his fists repeated
", knocking her down In the fan her
head came in contact uith q step, prOdur-
ing compound fracture Of the skuf.
Her husband is in jail. Mr.. N.cklin is a
nephew Of Bartley Campbell.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-09

LANCASTER, N. H., April 2.-Yesterday
morning the ice in IsraeI's river formed a
big jam below the Mechanic street bridge,
and caused the river 10 be partially turned
from its course. One-half the stream ran
down Mechanic street, carrying huge cakes
of Ice with il, and all the houses in
tEat section were flooded. The Stewart
House, a small hotel, was flooded. but the
occupants were rescued from the second
story. Dynamite is being used to break
the Jam. but with little success. and IL is
feared that jam which has formed SIX
M les further up the river viii brelk and
that the food used thereby VIII destroy
all the buildings on Mechanic street.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-09
FRAUDULENT LAND ENTRIES.

A Number of Prominent Citizens of San
Francisco Tndicted--A Lot of Scotch Cap
ital Liable to Go Glimmering.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 4.-The United
States grand jury yesterday found indict-
ments against eight prominent citizens of
this State For subornation of perjury in the
case of fraudulent entries of redwood
timber land in Humboldt County, Cal.
The names of three are Joseph Russ,
David Evans and Charles II. King, who
collectively represent So, 900, 900 capital.
The names of the other five are not yet
known, but they are said to be all wealthy
men. The Land DepartmentatW at Washing
ton had reason to suspect irregularities
in the entry of these lands. and sent out
SPECIAL Agent B. f. Bergen, of the IN
terror Department, to investigate the
matter. The result of MIR. Bergen's in
vestigatiOn shows that the parties indict-
ed were all members of the California
Redwood Company, the capital for which
was mainly subscribed in Scotland. The
indicted parties procured about six hun
dred American citizens to take up $50
acres of land each, for which each re-
ceived fifty dollars. The entries i'm all
cases were Immediately conveyed to
David Evans, one of the indicted parties.
The California Redwood Company after
ward sent an agent to Scotland
to form syndicate to sell
the lands The syndicate paid the Cali
fornia Redwood Company twenty dollars
an acre for the land, which as shown, the
latter had fraudulently purchased from
the Government for 50 so an acre. Mr..
Bergen has passed three months in Hum
boldt County working up the case. and,
Notwithstanding numerous difficulties
thrown i'm his way, has secured testimony
from over a hundred persons who accept
I'd the bribes. Suit win be instituted by
the Government to set aside all these en-
tries as well as the patents, which have
already been issued. The land embraces
g6, 600 acres of the best timber land on
tla coast
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NEW YORK, April 5.-Tbe Capital City
was abandoned yesterday by the Wreck
ing company. There seems to be little
hope now of raising her. The Hartford
Transportation Company have abandoned
her entirely, having placed her in the
hands of the underwriters. She is in
sured for s75 900. and If the insurance
companies wish to spend any money IN
trying to raise her the company has no
objection. Tt is well established by ex-
animation that the vesse is so badly in
jured that, If raised, it will be unsafe to
run her again
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-09

THERE were 200 failures in the United
States reported for the seven days ended
the ID, against 191 for the preceding like
period. Canada had IS against 80. The
total number of failures in the United
States from January to April 2 is 3 ,339, +,
against 3,911 in a like portion in 1885.
Canada had $50 in three months of 1886,
against 437 in like share of 1885.
THE total number of rioters killed during
the recent rioting in Belgium has been as
certained to be twenty six. 1t is proba bic
that the persons arrested for melting rhe
strikers to violence can not be punished,
as it il. doubtful whether the mere act of
melting to riot is punishable under the
provisions of the penal code.
THE freshet in the James river in Vir-
ginia has been somewhat alarming, but no
serious damage has resulted, though poor
people have suffered most intensely. The
food has been six feet higher than in 1877.
The water was falling on the I'd, and the
trains were running through on time.
There was no gas in Richmond on the I'd,
owing to the rise in water.
ON the 3D. another of the wolf bitten
Russian patients of NJ. Pasteur died of hy-
drophob in Paris.
DISCLOSURES of a startling nature of
crooked work in regard to land grant Leg
islation have recently been made, which
may cost several Canadian members Of
Parliament their seats.
For the week ending the Sd the total inn
ports of merchandise at the port of New
York were valued at S., ,23I ,12O, and of dry
goods at s., ,256, ,499.
ON the Sd in the university boat race be-
tween the Oxford and Cambridge crews
on the Thames over the usual course be-
tween Putney and Mortlake, the Cambridge
crew were victorious in 22:29 1-2. 1t was
close race.
1T is reported that the Navajo Indians in
the San Juan country are on the eve of an
outbreak, and it is said they threaten to
kill every white man that does not vacate
a certain tract of land which they claim.
A MOB of Belgian rioters attacked the
Trappist monastery at Chimay, but were
beaten off by the monks, who had armed
themselves with heavy bludgeons. The
rioters said they were more to be feared
than Belgian troops.
THE street car strike at Pittsburgh, Pa,
is ended, mutual concessions having been
made.
THE sugar duties bill passed its third
reading in the German Reichstag on the
Sd.
IT is said TO be the intention of the Mis-
souri, Pacific Company to use every means
within its power to secure the punishment
of the strikers who have been participants
in acts of violence to the property of the
company.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-09

LITTLE Rock, April Jas. Blackstone,
an old huckstor living a few miles below
the city on the Pine Bluff Railroad, while
returning home this morning was struck
and killed by an engine. Engineer Dave
Mulberry observed the old gentleman walk
ing on the track and blew the alarm whistle,
but the old man was deaf and did not hear
the noise, hence the accident. The eoro-
ner's jury said it was an unavoidable acci-
dent, and no one was to blame. The de-
ceased was fifty years old, and leaves a
large family in almost destitute cireum-
etc
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-09

BALTIMORE, Md, April 4. - August
Freis, German, aged forty-fve and I'M
married, was lying on lounge at Cables
summer garden this afternoon reading
book, and was surrounded by a crowd Of
young men and boys who were examining
pistol. The weapon, which was in the
hands of boy Of seventeen years, named
Walter Opie Cook, was accidentally dis
charged, the bullet crashing through
Freis' eye, killing him Instantly. cor
Oner's jury rendered verdict Of aeci-
dental shooting, and the BOY was re-
Iensad
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-09
OPEN SESSIONS.

The Proposition to Hold Open Executive
Sessions of the Senate Gaining Favor.
WASHINGTON, April 5.-The propo-Is
ton to hold open executive sessions of
the Senate appears to be gaining friends
daily, and it is not improbable that some
thing will be done to remove this unpop-
ular feature of the proceedings of the
Upper House There are two resolutions
in support of an open executive session
now before the Senate, the one intro
duced by Mr.. Platt allowing secret exec
utive sessions when the Senate shall deem
it advisable, and the other, by Mr.. Lo-
gan, providing for open sessions for the
consideration of nominations. Mr.. Platt
intends to bring up his resolution and
speak upon it at an early date, probably
during this week
Should Mr.. Edmunds decide to support
a resolution in favor of opening the doors
or of making public the journal at the end
of each executive session there is no
doubt about its adoption. The Vermont
Senator fully realizes the Importance of
gratifying the public IN this regard, but
does not yet see how the matter
can be adjusted without injury to
the public service. During the re-
cent discussion upon the Edmunds reso-
luton several Democratic Senators
committed themselves in favor of
open executive sessions, among them
Messrs. George, Maxey, Butler and Coke.
Messrs. VOORHEES, and Beck are and
always have been friends of the proposed
change, while Mr.. Harris had pronounced
himself as bitterly opposed to it. On the
Republican side, Messrs. Van Wyck, Lo-
gan, Platt Dolph, Allison, Sherman,
Pike, Frye, Mitchell of Oregon, CullOm,
Hall, Harrison, Riddleberger, morrill,,
Teller, Plumb and Edmunds have either
expressed themselves openly or in con-
versation with other Senators in favor of
some chanoe
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-09
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

In the Senate on the 3Oth the bill establish.
ing two additional land districts in Ne
braska was passed Mr.. Logan's Army bill
was taken up and debated at length. Ter
ritorlal bills occupied the remainder of the
SESSION. ..... In the House Mr.. Guenther rose
TO 3 question of privilege, and defended
hiU self against certain newspaper attacks.
II e Post Office Appropriation bill was then
taken up in committee of the whole and
discussed During the debate Mr.. Houck and
Mr.. Nj MILAN entertained the House with
expressions of opinions of each other. AIr.
Randall introduced a resolution for com
mittee to investigate the Carrollton (Miss)
slaughter.
In the Senate on the 81 st Mr LOgan's army
bill was taken up aud discussed by senators
Logan and Plumb. Senator Vance Snade
speech in favor of his bill to repeal the Civil
Service law ..... In the House NJ. O'Neiu re-
ported his Arbitration bill, which was inn
mediately taken up in committee of the
whole and Mr.. O'Neill explained the neces-
slty Tor prompt alton OEhers also made
speeches. The River and HRrbOr bill WAS
reported. The majority report on the Hurd-
Rome1s contest was submitted
IN the Senate on the lst the bill for the
erection of a monument to Abraham Lin
coin was favorably reported. The Wash.
ington Territory bill was debated and sew.
eraI amendments adopted and others re-
jected Adjourned till Monday In the
House, in committee OF the whole, the Arbi-
tration bill was taken up and discussed dur
ing the entire session.
THERE was no session OF the Senate on the
% In the House Knight of Labor pro.
test against the Free Ship bill was present.
ed. The Agricultural Appro priation bill was
reported. Private business was dispensed
with and the Arbitration bill was taken up
in committee of the whole. During the
course of debate Mr. Glover (MO.) denounced
the Dill as a fraud and constitutional
abortion" Four sections of the bill were
considered.
THE Senate was not in session on the
Sd In the House a communication from
the Treasury Department setting forth the
necessity of an appropriation of $I.O0). 90 to
pay pensions allowed by act of March - was
submitted TIE Labor Arbitration bill was
then taken up, and, after discussion, passed.
The Silver bill was debated during the re-
mEinder of the session.
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An aesthetic Worcester horse viii
tear any cheap blanket that may be
thrown over 10 into shreds, but seems
immensely pleased when covered with
one that is costly and beautiful boo
.ol1 JoNrnak