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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-05-29

Mrs. Riel, widow of the leader in
the rebellion that cost him his life,
died at her home in Manitoba on
Monday last. Her father reached
her bedside too late to see her alive.
Her remains were inferred beside
those of her husband in the Cath
edral Cemetery at st. Boniface.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-05-29

G. w. Grenshaw and Alexander
Irving, of Cotulla, Texas, were in
the habit of greeting each other by
swapping their rcvolyers. Grenshaw
snapped his when it was loaded,
and greeting was fatal one.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-05-29

The body of Tillie Smith, the ser
want girl at the Hackettstown Col
legiate Institute who lost her life in
defending her honor, has been re
moved from the pauper grave where
it was first deposited to beautiful
spot in the cemetery, and a monu
ment is to be erected to mark the
spot. The fund for this purpose
amounts to $500, and is rapidly in
creasing.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-05-29
ADDITIONAL LOCAL NEWS.

PROMOTIONS TO THE GRAMMAR
notwithstanding that teachers,
pupils and friends of our city schools,
will be interested in report of the
examination of the A classes of the
several ward schools for promotion to
the Grammer School, / herewith
furnish you the following publication.
The pupils of the classes above refer
red to were examined on the Goth and
2lst inst, at the fifth ward school
building, in the presence of their
teachers, Messrs. w. A. Pitzer, o. F.
Ryneal, j. l.. E. Combs, and Miss A.
V. Wilson.
For the satisfaction of those interest.
ed, 1 give below, a list of the questions
submitted. These questisns are all
my own, and neither teachers MOI
pupils knew any of them, until they
were written on the blackboard fol-
immediate work.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-05-29

CHICAGO, May GA disastrous
fire occurred in a large brick and
stone structure at the corner OF Con-
gress street and Wabash avenue,
early this morning. The loss will
approximate S1,OO0,000.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-23
WORTH REMEMBERING.
How to Take OF a Hide without Impairin,
Its Market YaIue.

How to Take OF a Hide without Impairing
Its Market Value.
In taking off a hide or calfskin,
never cut the throat crosswise in the
least. Slit the skin from the brisket
to the tail, and from the brisket to
jaw; then cut around each leg to the
hoof. Slit the hind leg from the hoOf
up directly over the gambrel, and the
forward legs in the front, directly over
the knee, to the top of the brisket
bone. This leaves the hid or skin then
in the proper shape for finishing. Skin
the head and legs carefully to avoid
cutting them; then, commencing at
the head, draw fist off the skin with
out any further use of the knife, there
by avoiding the holes and cuts that al
most spoil so many calfskins. Some
farmers use a windlass to draw off the
dairy skins, and others use a horse;
but one or two men can do it great
deal more quickly and easily.
When taken off, lay the hide or skin
fiat on the floor in a cool place where
the sun can not shine upon it, and
cover it with salt-rather fine salt be-
ing better than too coarse salt. Do
not roll it up, but let it remain in the
salt until you take off another; then
place that one upon the other, sailing
freely as before, and so on until you get
enough to make quite a pile; then COM
mence another pile in the same man.
ner. Do not be afraid to use salt freely ;
what the skins do not require will
shake off and can be used again. If
you prefer to dry out your skins before
selling them, be sure that they are
thoroughly cured with salt before dry
ing them, and then that they are
thoroughly dried before being baled up
for shipment. Never dry out skin
without having it sailed as described
to preserve it from moths and other
injuries on the hair side, which are
liable to occur if the skins are not
properly sailed before being dried out.
If your skins remain on hand very
long after being dried out before de
livery to tanner, even if sailed,
watch them carefully to detect any
indications of moths or worms on the
hair side, and if any are discovered
have the skins vigorously whipped
with a stick so often that they shall be
wholly eradicated from the entire lot
of skins, as they often work serious
injury in very snort time.-C Chicago
Shoe and Leather ReUielC.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-23
A SINGULAR CASE.
Peculiar Law-Points Involved in an Acct
dent Insurance Suit.
l. IL

Peculiar Law-POints Involved In an Acct
dent Insurance Suit.
Judge Dyer has rendered his de-
cision in the singular case of
Loretta NJ, Crandall against the Acct
dent Insurance Company of North
America, which was heard by him sew
eral weeks age. This was a suit to
recover ten thousand dollars accident
policy on the life of the plaintiffs hus-
band. Edward NJ. Crandall, who COM
mitted suicide in June, 1884, by hang
| ing himself. He had insured himself
for ten thousand dollars against in
juries, effected by external, accidental
or violent means, but the policy was
not to apply if death was caused who'll
ly or in part by bodily infirmities or
disease of the insured, and suicide was
| also excepted expressly. The case was
tried before a jury, and they returned
a special verdict finding that CrandaIl
was insured, that he committed sui
eide, and that he was insane when he
| killed himself. The main question,
however, was one of law, as to
whether on such facts the company
was liable.
The Judge rendered a very able and
! exhaustive opinion, holding that the
company was liable. He said that
| there were two questions: First
| Whether the fact that the insured was
/ insane when he committed suicide
may have been rendered a death
! caused by the bodily injuries, effected
! through accidental means and took the
| case out of the special exemption in the
policy; and second, whether the death
( was due wholly or in part ''to bodily
/. intirmities," so as to exempt the COM
! pany. AS to the question of the insan
/ ity, it was clearly proved. Crandall
was shown to be sleepless, unduly eX-
eitable, a subject of melancholia and
unable to exercise his reasoning pow
ers or self-contrOl, When he insured,
then took his own life, it was not his
voluntary rational act. The physical
violence, therefore, which terminated
his life, was the same as if it had come
| upon him from sources outside
of himself for which he was not respon-
! sible. No provision was made in the
policy against suicide when insane. 1t
must be held, therefore, that Crandall's
death resulted from bodily injuries eff
fected through external, accidental and
violent means within the meaning of
the policy in suit.
The second question, and one equally
important, was whether death was
caused ''by bodily infrmities of dis
ease" of the insured, against which the
company had specially protected it
self. 1t was contended that insanity
was a disease. Although it might be
said that Crandall would not have
committed suicide if he had not been
insane, and that insanity was a pro-
noting cause of death, yet on the
strength of numerous authorities in
similar cases, it must be held that the
act of self-destruction must be regarded
within the meaning of the policy as
the true and proXimate cause of death
and that the widow is entitled to re-
cover the amount of the policy with in
terest. An appeal was asked and al
| lowed. Chicago Mail.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-23

mine-so the matter is settled Just
let me buckle on my belt, and / shall
be back here in ten minutes, or quar-
ter of an hour at the outside
ely, them" said Nine. Durand. 81
shall scarcely dare to breathe while
you are gone
II shall run, my dear madam" So
saying, the Captain took his plumed
shake, his cloak, and fastened from
the room. And from the way he
bounded down the steps it was evident
that he was in a hurry.
l returned to the drawing-room,
which was still all CONSERVATION.
/ Mime. Durand vgcillated between a de-
| sire TO fly and curiosity to examine the
bOmbshell. As If unintentionally, l
looked out into the street, which was
brightly lighted up by the full moon.
''It was a very simple matter to let
me take it away" murmured Victor.
''Tut, TUT" cried Durand. surprised
at the young mans quiet courage. lit
is better that the Captain should do
it."
''Let us hope,' said Mime. Durand,
THAT he will not keep us waiting
long,
mot keep us waiting long, dear
madamer' said l, gayly. ''YOu may
rest assured he will. For he will not
come back
''He viii not come backP'
Most assuredly not. To go to Bre-
bant's restaurant he should take the
road to the right, while he went the
other way, and fast enough he was go
ing, too"
GOOD gracious! What does that
mean?"
THAT means, friend Durand, that
I your Captain is a Dragging cur, and
| that l have unmasked the batteries of
such a scOundrel in favor of such an
/ estimable young man"
/ And taking a photograph album, l
/ struck it violently on the cap of the
/ bombshell, which burst into thousand
/ pieces-of chocolate. 1t was made of
/ chocolate and showered over the carpet
a fusilade of sugar plums, candied fruits
and nuts!
A shout of laughter followed the ex-
] plOsiOn.
1t is perhaps needless to state that
Victor and Gertrude were married as
| soon as the war was over.
1t is also probably needless to state
that the Captain has never returned
Translated from the French for tbeATgO-
| maui.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-23
n QUEER DISEASE
The Doctors Pronounced It Cancer, But
1t Was Lizard.
ICleveland 90 Special. I


Mrs. ]. G. Williston, the wife of g COM
tractor and builder of this city, has Just
returned from an extended trip after q
most remarkable experience. Mrs. Willis
ton is not yet thirty, but her hair is almost
white, and her face bears the signs Of q
life of suffering. She has been the victim
for years, at varying hours of night and
day, of pains like the cutting of a knife.
and physicians supposed her to be suffer-
ing from cancer of the stomach. Eminent
physicians failed to exactly locate the
trouble or afford the lady relief. She
spent months in travel and large amounts
of money endeavoring to find effective
treatment for her malady. but most of the
physicians whom she consulted said that
her disease was cancer of the stomach and
that death would ultimately result.
Last October she went to San Francisco,
stopping and treating, while en- route, at
the soda springs in Idaho, but in vain.
Later she tried the waters of CalestogA
Springs and the baths of Paso del Robes,
without effect. San Francisco's best
physicians could afford no relief, and she
started for Sonora, Mexico, intending to
visit some celebrated springs near Nogales.
She was taken seriously i'll at Tucson,
Arizona. One day during her illness a
Z lnuldu3 u 1OCa1 uOOOIl6Gy as q
"medicine man." visited Tucson from st.
Xavier's Mission. He was taken to Mrs.
WiIliston's rooms and asked If he could tell
her ailment. He looked at her, had her
describe the pains and their location, and
then with the exclamation: ''Me sabe heap
bad spirit" he rushed out and toward the
mission. In a few hours he returned with
herb and basket of mescal, a root used
by the Indians for food.
He motioned to Mrs. Williston to swal-
ow the herbs. They made her deathly
sick, so much so that she almost died from
fright, thinking she had been poisoned.
The result, after few hours, was the ennis
sion of a dead lizard that was fully four
inches in length. It was apparently of q
/ species common to the East, but how it had
managed to live for so many years was the
mystery. Mrs. Williston says that but one
! explanation occurs to her, which is that
when a child, and living at Phillipsburg
! n. j., she and her brother were accustomed
| to drink from little brook that ran neal
! the house. They would scoop the water
| up with their hands, and she thinks thai
! possibly in this way she swallowed the EN-
bryo lizard. Mrs. Williston's recovery hal
| been rapid, and she is now fairly on the
way to a complete restoration to health
Though the taking of living objects int
the system is not rare, medical men say
that this is one of the most remarkable
cases on record.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-23
PIG SHELTERS.
The Sensible Plan Adopted by Thought
full Western Farmer.

The Sensible Plan Adopted by a Thought
full Western Farmer.
In company with the owner of large
farm in one of the Western States, we
were riding horseback through a heav-
lily timbered tract of land, where there
were great numbers of nut-bearing
trees, and innumerable hogs in store
condition could be seen roofing among
the leaves for nuts, under every clump
of trees. While passing near a creek
where the ground was low and level, we
came among large numbers of immense
sycamore or cottonwood trees, and
our companion halted before the shat
tered romans of an old monarch. The
stump was about thirty feet high, and
from six to ten feet in diameter at the
base. This stump was hollow, with an
opening five or six feet high at one side,
which was now stopped up with logs
and large stones. Here, said the
farmer, E'is the scene of a tragedy that
occurred last fall. A cold storm of
sleet and rain came on, that forced the
hogs to seek shelter wherever they
could find it, and / would be
afraid to tell you how many got
into that old stump; they climbed
on top of one another, until they
crushed the life out of the bottom ones,
and when we found them there no less
than dozen, big and little, lying dead
in the old stump. That experience
taught me lesson, which is always to
have low roof to pig shelter" The
sides of the tree had prevented the pigs
from escaping when the weight be-
came too heavy. That this farmer had
profited by his sad experience, was evil
dent from the numbers of rude shelters
we passed in the ride, made for .'solid
comfort" by laying rails across two
large logs and throwing brush over
them. This was weighted with heavy
logs and stones. to keep the pigs from
lifting it when they tried to climb over
one another. Pigs are very gregarious
by nature, and their houses should al
ways be limited in capacity, so that
too many of them viii not get together
at one time, or they are certain to iniure
one another, and usually the weakest,
by crowding. -Anericdn Aqricultztg1St.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-23
The pEArHLEss PATTERN.

mourned the summer rose that died;
said; "It will return no more"
But lOl its beauty glor fed
saw next summers sun restore.
New born Il crowned with radiant grace
The stalk whore last years blossom came;
marked its hues, knew its face;
Twas the same rose-yet not the same.
] could not trace amid its bloom
The atoms of a former Hover,
Nor tell " hat waste from nature tomb
Had robed IL for It's perfect hour.
asked not II its form expressed
The very substance that dccaYed-
But there, in every trait confessed,
NY lowell favorte stood display cd
And when knew the parent tree
Had planned the rose ere spring begun
To set its Or sOncd be ny free,
/ felt the old and new were one
oh, not in wa ched and labeled dust
Lies beautys resurrection form;
Live in her spark her likeness must
While memory keeps her ashes warm.
There Is no pattern lost; whercer
The persisted parcel blends with earth,
The cast no changes can impair.
Nor death detace the seal OF birth
OF every face that fades away,
Somewhere. I'm custody divine,
The mold that shaped the featured clay
Preserves its picture, line Tor line.
What though this dust dispersed complete,
ShFll never. grain for grain, be foundf
'Tis but the shoes the pilgrim feet
Put OF to walk on holy ground,
Who're, evermore from earth estranged,
In Heaven aWnked. he only knows
New light has clothed b form, and change,
The faded 10 tho frcshcncd rose.
Theron BrOlCn, a. Youths Companion.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-23
EARM AND HOUSEHOLD.


Cold boiled rice or hominy, soaked
very soft in milk and mixed with eggs
and flour to q smooth batter, makes
nice griddle cakes Western Rural.
The young shoots of barley are par
ticularly rich and succulent. They are
greedily eaten by COWS, and it is good
plan to SOW patch near the barn to be
cut for soiling purposes.-IrOy Times.
w. @. Steel advises farmer to make
a greater use of copper wire. 1t can
be used to easily mend tools. A spool
of it carried in the wagon will be of
great assistance in case of an accident
to trace or other part of the wagon or
harness. Chicago Journal.
To make plain fruit pudding, take
one cup of sugar, one-ha1f cup Of but
ter and two eggs; beat together, then
a cup of sour milk and one teaspoon
full of soda, three cups of flour and
one cup of chopped raisins, spices to
taste. Put in mold and steam two
hours. Cleveland Leader.
-Peppermints: Two cups of granu-
lated sugar, half cup of cold water.
Boil ten minutes without stirring.
Then add eight drops of oil of pepper
mint while still on the fire. Then beat
with an egg beaten until it falls in
long drops, when drop quickly on
smooth tins.-N Y. Times.
-LyOnnaise potatoes: Cut a small
| onion and fry it in butter until a light
tan color; add three boiled potatoes,
! sliced small; shake the pan occasional
ly to prevent burning, and when a
good brown color turn them out on a
| hot dish, like an omelet. Strew over
them a little salt and chopped parsley
The Caterer.
From the dangerous wounds which
often result from running rusty nail
in the foot or other part of the body,
the following is said to be a certain
cure: Smoke such wound, or any
wound or bruise that is infiamed, with
burning wool or wooden cloth. Tween
ty minutes in the smoke of wool will
take the pain Out.-Prdirie Farmer.
"A very nice dish for lunch or tea is
sweet potato cakes. Sweet potatoes
are often poor and watery at this sea-
son, and this is, perhaps, the most
! edible way of preparing them. Boil
| them, remove the skins, mash fine with
| some butter, and form into little round
cakes. Fry brown in a little hot but
ter or dripping.-Ratral Nea0 Yorker.
The american CatltiUator saws
Many persons are prevented from using
petroleum on woodwork for fear that i
will make the wood more infammable
| This is not the case. The oil enters the
pores and so fills them that the wood il
harder and less likely to ignite thar
before. Coal oil or crude petroleum
with something to give it body, makes
cheap paint for all wooden nipple
ments, and to coat over the iron worl
of plOws and cultivators to proven
them from rusting in the winter.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-23
A Pretty Pony in a Wen.

Last Sunday morning, about three
o'clock, Captain Powell was aroused by
an unusual noise out at his stables among
his horses. Going out he found his beau
tifuI black mare, Daisy, greatly distressed.
He couldn't understand her uneasiness
until he began looking around for her colt.
Failing to find the little fellow, the thought
occurred to him that may be it had fallen
into well which was near by. His fears
proved true, for down in the deep, dark
well the brave little Percheron was foun-
dering about. The Captain aroused sew
eral hands on the place, and in a short
while the colt was drawn to the surface,
wrapped in warm blankets and soon re-
stored. No limbs were broken, strange to
say, from the headlong plunge. This is a
new and novel way to "raise' colts.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-23
LoNGFELLow's YOUTH.
The DiscOuragements Which the Youn
Poet Had to Overcome.

The Heterogeneous Which the Young
Poet Had to Overcome.
Hawthorne once said in speaking of
his own early life and the days at Bow
dom College, where he and Longfellow
were in the same class, that no two
young men could have been more un-
like. Longfellow, he explained, was a
tremendous student, and always care
fully dressed, while he himself was ex-
tremely careless of his appearance, no
student at all and entirely incapable
at that period of approaching Longfel-
low. Later in life warm friendship
grew up between them, and / find a
little note from LongfellOw in which he
SAYS he has had a sad letter from Haw-
thorne, and adds: Il wish we could
have a little dinner for him, of two sad
authors and two jolly publishers, no.
body elser'
OF Longfellow's student DAYS Mr..
Fields once wrote: Il hope they keen
bright the little room numbered TWEEN
ty-seven in Main Hall in BowdOin Col
lege, for it was in that pleasant apart.
ment, looking out on the pine groves,
that the young poet Of nineteen wrote
many of those beautiful earlier pieces.
now collected in his works. These
early poems We're ah composed in 1924
and 1925, during his last years in col
lege. and were printed first in peri
odical called the United States Literarv
Gazette, the sapient editor of which
magazine once kindly advised the
ardent young scholar to give up poetry
and buckle down to the study of law
No good can come of it, he said; don t
let him do such things; make him stick
to prosen But the pine-trees waving
outside his window kept up a perpetual
melody in his heart, and he could not
choose but sing back to them. Mrs.
James 7. Field, ia Century.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-23

From Colonel G. Il
Mackey, sd Iowa In
fantry: 1 have now beef
using Ely's Cream Balm
for three months, an
sm experiencing n
trouble from Catarrl
whatever. / have beer
@ sufferer for twentl
years---C. H. MACKEY
Sigourney, Iowa.
For several years
have been trouble
with catarrh - Ely
Cream Balm has prov
ed to be the article de
sired. / believe 1t I
the only cure.-L. b
G oBURN, Hardwar
Merchant. 7 an ds
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-23

LIFE-SENATOR FLINT, Canadian parlia-
ment, says: st. Jacobs Oil acts like charm.
Rev. W. M. Leftwich, D. D., Nashville,
publicly endorses Red Star Cough Cure.
Price, twenty-five cents a bottle.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-23

Nor faded or gray hair to be seen, after
using Halls Hair Remover.
A powerful remedy for lung troubles.
Safe for young or old. Ayers Cherry
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-23
An Afectionate Goose.
IN n pfcoxyUna

In the Louisiana lowlands there lives
an old man whose object of affection in
this life is large gray goose. The goose
is never so happy as when at his owners
feet, his long neck stretched upward and
his head resting against the old mans
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-23

There is a deaf man in Macon,
Ga, who never ceases to smile. "Why
do you smile?" somebody asked Of him.
"Oh, because, / can't hear the foolish
things that people say" was the reply.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-23

BosToN finds her glory in the past be-
cause she belongs to the had beans."-
Washington Critic.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-23

The headquarters Of ignorance-An in
teligence office.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-23

THE mariner is not liable to censure if be
leads q wreckIess life.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-23

There is more work than bread in
this world, and the regular tramp
ought 20 even up and occasionally
Try a little worry o. PicayHae,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-23

IF afflicted with Sore Eyes use DR.. Isaac
ThompsOn's Eye Water. Druggists sell it. 25c.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-23

No Opium in Piso's Cure for Consump
ton. Cures where other remedies fail. 25C