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The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1888-12-28
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary OF the Daily News
CONGRESSIONAL

WHEN the Senate met on the 18th the
resolution for evening sessions was taken up
and an amendment offered that the regular
hour fJf the meeting OF the Senate be eleven
pollock q. m, which ehcited a spirited discus
sion. The resolution finally went over one day.
THE Tariff bill was then considered until ad-
fournment. 90. The House. in Committee OF the
Whole, proceeded TO consider the Legislative
Appropriation bill debate on which continued
until adjournment.
THE Senate on the 18th passed the House
ain Incorporating the American Historical So
ciety with amendments. Senator Edmuuds in
droduccd resolu tions that the United States
Government Will look with serious concern ana
disapproval on the connection OF any European
Government with the construction or control
OF any ship canal across the Isthmus OF
Darieu or Central America, which was
referred The Tariff bill then discussed
until adjournment. The House agreed 70 the
conference report retiring General Andrew j.
Smith with the rank Of Colonel. After the trans
actfon OF minor business the House went into
committee OF the Whole on the River and Har-
bor bill, and pending its consideration ad
iOuUned.
THE Senate on the Goth nom -concurred in
rho House amendments 10 the Direct Tax bill
IND ordered conference 1t was agreed by
unanimous consent that voting on the Tariff bill
und amendments should begin AZ one O'Clock
january &C. when debate should close. The
resolution for a holiday recess from December
E1 20 January was adopted. After disposinG
taken up and debate resumed It was finally
laid aside and all the pension bills, ninety IL
number, passed. occupying hfty minutes. Al
gourned. After concurring IN several confer
once reports, the House, IN Committee OF th'
Whole, took mp the River and HarbOr bill
which was considered until adjournment
IN the Senate on tie 2lst Senator Teller
resolution appointing committee 10 investi
gate the affairs Of the supervising architect o
the treasury was amended so as to include th'
former architect, and after a debate which az
tackled the present system Of erecting pubh
buildings, was adopted. After disposing O
motions and resolutions the Senate tool
MP the Tariff bin and after % long debat
81 went over and several bills passed, when Tn
Senate adjourned until January 2 --. After rou
tine business the House went into COmmitte
az the Whole on the Ncaragunn bill which oC
Supied nearly the whole OF the session. Whe
the committee rose the previous question wa
ordered on the bill and amendments. Aftc
passing q bill increasing the pension of Jaco
ROgers (of Iowa., "a veteran OF the war OF 1877
10 $50 per month, the House adjourned unit
january 9
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TIE SOUTH.

a RACE war was reported at Wahalak,
Miss, on the 18th, caused by the killing
and wounding Of about ten white men in
an attempt 70 arrest negro.
The latter and his friends took to the
syyarnps aud armed whites from all quar-
ters were arriving to exact vengeance.
REWARDS of II 800 have been offered for
the capture of the Duck Hill (Miss.) train
robbers.
MINERS OF the Texas Pacific Coal Com
panv in Erath County attacked the store
house recently during the strike troubles
and ridd'el il with hul ess. The new men
were badly beaten. The Governor was
appealed 10.
RACE troubles are reported in the vicinity
of jackson. Tenn. A white man was
fatally wounded in one of the conflicts aud
several negroes were stabbed.
W. W. SMITH, one of the Justices of the
Arkansas Supreme Court, died the other
night at Little Rock from consumption.
AN inventory Of the estate of the late A.
: AbeU. founder Of the Baltimore sun,
was probated recently. BY his will the
.S,f,i newspaper was beQueathed absolutely
70 his three sons. The total appraised and
assessed value of the estate, not including
the GOOD will of the Baltimore Sun, is So
O67. .76a.l3 Various gratuites amounted {
$500, 900.
JUDGE EDMUND WADDELL, JR., Repub'
lican candidate for Congress IN the lhir1
Virginia district, has served contest no
tice ON George ID. Wise on the ground o.
obstruction of voters.
"HUNGRY JOS" the noted New Nori
/ condderce man, has been sent TO tn
/ MARYLAND renitentiary Ton nine years 70
svindling a Baltimore man out OF -, COO.
/ TIE three year-old bay colt Galorsa
/ famous young English racer, has beer
purchased by Americans for $1,000. MiltoI
Young Of Kentucky, has offered $1,000
for Ossory. brother cf Ormonde.
TuE executive committee of the Natioua
. Republican League has called the Ma
4 tl1uaI convention for February - an,
March az Baltimore.
A NEw epidemic has broken out on III
horse ranches * JEe Low 2r y N@liSwstcu
river ans is spreading Nith great rapldity
10 Affects the glands % the throat and jaw
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A MISSISSIPPI RIVER HORROR.
The steamer Kate Adams burned
Twenty 30 Fifty Lives AOsI-OVer
100 Bales OF COT on Destroyed

MEMPIs, TENN, Dec. 23.-The quiet Of the
Sabbath was broken by news of a steam
boat disaster rivaling that of the Golden
CITY in loss of life and sensational details.
The i'll -fated craft in this instance was the
Kate Adams, which has been accorded tho
name of the ''Queen of the Port" For six
wears she piled the river between Arkansas
CITY and Memphis Now she lies charred
and blackened wreck on the muddy bottom
of the Mississippi, with only her stern post
showing above the water. Her cargo IS
either burned or floating down the river.
Her more precious freightage of souls IS
almost equally broken and scattered. Inc
loss of life is variouslv estimated at from
twenty to fifty, including the third clerk
and two white cabin passengers, several
white deck passengers, and the rest col
ored. The exact number cannot yet be
learned. The fire troke out on the lar
hoard side of the boat while many of the
nassenpers we're at breakfast, and as the
bonnv Kate was steaming merrily along
inst below Commerce, Miss, forty miles
4 Memphis. In less than fifteen minutes the
/ fastest craft in these waters was np more.
The Kate Adams was just six years old
/ when the ignition of cotton bale sent her
I 10 the bottom of the river on whose bosom
she so proudly fioated. She was worth
/ fDlIN SD 900. having had repairs costing
! nearly one-third of that amount put on her
within the year. She was insured for S55,-
COO through st. Louis and Cincinnati un =
1 der,yriters. But lesterday a thing of
beauty, she is gone to join the fleet that
lies down in the muddy waters OF the great
river, shorn Of all her fair proportions.
The following is a list Of those who are
known to have been drowned; George Cor
bett. third clerk: Andrew Reese, cabin
watchman; James Nelson, texas tender;
Monroe Jackson, burner tender; Senator
Coleman. second pantryman; Andrew
Mays, third pantryman; Hilliard Horton
barber: Joe Porter, roustaboQt; Lee Fin
lev. roustabout: Frank Wells, roustabout
All the atove except Corbett were colored
Unaccounted for: W. A. Covington
planter, Bolivar county, Miss; Samue
Robinson, saIoonkeeper, Friar's Point
Miss.
The injured: Mrs. 7. J. Brown, Laconia
4 Ark, ankle sprained; Capt. John W. Har
ris Memphis, lower spine broken by stag
. pinnlx falling on him, and internal injuries
thought T. lie fatal: Richard Eoungs as
sivtaut engineer. severely bruised on th'
lower limbs and body. 4 number Of ne
proes whose names could not be learne,
Sycre more or Is IS seriously ipJpred.
: The cargo consisted OF 116l bales OF COT
! ton, s. bass seed cotton and 1900 SACKS. cot
ton sa1d. all oE which was Consigned 2
Memphis The cotton was lnsAreo 81 -
bale,
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wAsuTNGTON NOTES.

SENATOR FARwELL has introduced a bill
Tor the reorganization of the navy, so as
TO do away with present iniustices.
THE Interstate Commerce Commission
began hearing ON the 18th Of the tariffs
and classfications Of the Southern Rail-
way and Steamship Association.
AMAsA s. PAUL, administrators Of the es-
4ate of the late Edward $. Paul, has en-
tered suit in Washington against Senator
Cullom, of Illinois, for $4,000, the suit
growing out of the death Of Prof. Paul,
who was ridden down and fatally injured
by Joseph Chase, negro coachman IN the
employ Of the Senator.
SEVERAL. representatives OF Southern
railroad lines testified recently in Wash
Engton before the Interstate Commerce
Commission as to their tariff and rate
methods. All acknowledged lack Of con-
Tormity to the letter OF the law.
THE Secretary OF the Navy has sent out
circulars inviting proposals for the con-
ptruction OF a T. 40OO-ton armored coast de-
Tense vessel.
The Consular and Diplomatic Appropri-
Eation bill, as prepared by the House Com.
Snittee on Foreign Affairs, appropriate'
-. .42T, ,525-S1,4i0 less than that of thi
year.
DR.. NEMoNA AUGUSTA, Ambassador o
The Haytien insurgents to the United
States, aud Charles A. jackson, OF New
York his attorney, We're in Washington
aecently attempting to interest this Gov
,ornment i'm the cause of the insurrection
lists.
1T is stated that National hank notes
redeemed at the Treasury Department
lave again got into circulation. Ia som
mysterious manner they failed to reac
the macerator, where it was intende I the.
should he destroyed.
THE President has pat doned Benjamin
Hopkins, the bank defaulter OF Cincin
natl, on the ground OF ill-health.
Mrs. CLEVELAND returned to Washing
ton on the 2tst from her visit to Philadel
phia.
BENAsULI, a Moor, has arrived at Wash
iugton TO prefer charges against Consul
General Lewis at Taugier of having eN
torted money from MOOrs under America
llrotectlOn.
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TuE EAST.


RUSSELL HARR5soN and Chris Magee,
Ihe Pittsburgh Republican leader, deny
shat $40 COO sent to Indiana 10y Pittsburgh
manufacturers was misappropriated by
two young Indiana Republicans.
THE applications of Henry c. Perley and
j. +. Peixotic for membership in Re
publican Club at New York were rejected
recently ON the ground that the applicants
were professional politicians"
THE divorce suit Of Pauline Hall, the
actress, against her husband, Mr.. White,
came up i'm court at New York on the 18th
hut had TO be postponed on account of the
s,on-arrival OF testimony from London.
Inddelity is charged on both sides.
THE coal boat Coal Valley, owned in
Pittsburgh, was sunk on the Ohio river
the other day by striking huge log.
GREAT damage was reported at Scran-
ton, Pa, on the 18th, caused by heavy
salns AID a rise in the Iiackawauna river.
Damage was also reported at Carlisle and
Wukesbarre In the more Eastern states
a blizzard was reported ON the same date.
MUNICIPAL circles in Philadelphia are
lnuch torn up by "a statement made by MIR.
G5raham, member of the Select Council,
that he had been offered Doodle to further
an elevated railroad scheme.
THREE woykmen were killed by the
blowing ont Of furnace at the Edgar
Thompson steel works at Pittsburgh, Pa,
rhe other night The molten metal was
ahrown over their bodies almost roasting
Hhem'alive.
Ann O'DELLA DtsS DEnAn, the spiritu-
Mist, was released from Blackwell's island
ON the 18TH where she had been confined
six months for dcfraudiug Lawyer Marsh
Ir Is reported that a combination Of al
Nhe electric light interests is being ar
ranged for with a capital OF Sl2,oooooO
Edison light stock has been steadily rising
am the Stock Exchange and has reached
a70.
QUITE a violent shock OF earthquake was
felt in Washington and Warren Counties
N Y, on the 10Th. No damage was done
OVER two hundred cases OF diphtheriJ
nre reported i'm the counties Of Lancaster
.Barks and Lehigh, Pennsylvania.
JOIN MYERS DoRENus was hanged re
Afently at Hackeu~ac's, y. j., for the muir
fler Of his SON, John Bogert Doremus Jun,
r. The son was protecting his mothe
from his drunken fathers abuse when h
WAS stabbed 70 death.
TuE Jury at Boston iu the case of Mrs
Preble against Bates aud Valley, stoc
fhrokers. 70 recover $4,000 alleged 20 hav
itbeen lost I'm speculation by her son, hav
toereed upon "a verdict in favor Of IN
tplaintin for s3t,TsA
DURING t.le rev sion az the excise laws q
New York State, by co.AuissIon, Rev
Dr. Howard Crosby deuounccd cd the foreign
prs who sought Co overthrow tne Sabbath
Tar New York Herald published a s1u
National s.cry from Indianapolis, Ind
tgith reforenceto "a c9nspracy 90 1ssassiI
ts the President elsct No credit was a.
Aa0hsi q u'
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1888-12-28

BY the derailing Of train near Houston,
Tex, the other day, three men were killed
and four seriously injured.
HARTsFIELD g. Roe, furniture dealers OF
Fort Worth, Tex, have assigned, with
$40. 900 liabilities and S54, 600 assets.
South CAROLINA has finally passed bill
giving the Railroad Commission power to
fix rates of transportation for freight and
passengers, to prevent unjust discrimina-
tion, etc.
THE house of Martin Regan, three miles
north of Huntington. W. Va, was burned
20 the ground the other night, and hegan's
two children and his aged mother were
| burned to death.
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An Insult to the Fiag Rebuked.

NAcoy. Ca, Dec. 20.-On TUESDAY night
some unknown parties nailed large
United States flag, Union down, to tele-
phone pole IN this city. Yesterday the at
tention Of the officers Of the United States
Supreme Court was called TO the matter,
and by direction Of Judge Speer the
United States marshal removed the nag
sd ran il ND over the United States build
inc. Judge Speer strongly reprobated the
conduct Of the persons who had placed
this indignity upon the National ensign,
and said that such occurrences gave
character to the Southern people Which
fhev did not deserve, and alludso II Tor
ciple terms to the blessings aud adFan'
ssges the people ep1oY UNDER tie nag
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"A VaIuai Colt.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Dec. 2O.-It is report
ed that negotiations are pending between
Higgin, the California turf man, and
Bryant & Scoggan, owners of the great
two-vear-old Proctor Knott, which, dur
ing the summer months, won the Junior
Champion and Futurity stakes. Haggin
Is said to have offered S2o,OO for the
gelding, and the owners nave slgnlneo
tbat SS0 600 would about secure the ami
NAL. A representative Of Haggin IS said
~ he en- route to dicker with Bryant q
Scoggan. The latter were offered $40, COO
for Proctor Knott just before the race Tor
the Futurity stakes.
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sLAuoHTER AT suAkIM.

"A Bloody Battle Fought with the Arabs
and Dervfshes Intrenched Around Suak-
fm-The Allied British and Egyptian
Forces Win Signal Victory, Complete
Iy Routing the Enemy with Fearful
Slaughter.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1888-12-28

EDWARD MEREDITH, one Of the assailants
of gambler Daily in New York hat re-
Gently, has been sentenced to eight years
and ten months in the States prison ana
Herman, his confederate, to six years and
eleven months. The cases Of the woman
have not been heard.
TIE annual catalogue of Harvard Col
lege will show the total number OF students
to be 1,Ss9 against 1850 last year. ms Is
a rise OF 245 against 22s last year.
Oliver DTTsoN, whose name is a house
hold word wherever music is sung OF
taught, died on the 21st at Boston, aged
seventy-seven years. His death was due
to brain trouble.
THE Congressi 0nal immigration Inyesti-
CATION Committee opened its inquiry al
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 2Ist
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1888-12-28

1--WE Wish 70 be Just judges q 81 talas''
LEI "a firat persuade ourselves gu .ll ,.
that thsro Is nnt one Of Is w1taouy q tn'l'
--aseHsca.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-09

awnings, oii-cloths, and paper hansins.
Plumbers. Gas and Steam iittere
d. +. REDFORD. 1910 l.. Main street Pncu
cal plumber, timer. gAs and steam iti.s
T. 4. TINsLEY. AZ Brook avenue. steam Aa'
gas fitting. Thinning, Sc.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-09
THE RANDANA CLUB.

As the press Is ALWAYS ready to take or
capture the credit that is denied to II, we
recommend the muscular enthusiasm OF
the City Democracy to express Its parry
spirit at once by organizing Bandana
Club. Our ffaternal friends OF The STATE
can furnish a president in the person OF
one OF the electors-at large, OF course we
do not mean Hon. John I. Harris, and II
the office OF treasurer promises anything
like fair chance tue TIMES will fill that
Office while the principal advertisers can
furnish the handkerchiefs IL the Dis-
patch will give US the q 'ariette Club there
will he music of brass and cymba's and
we will only need a benefit performance
by another match between the west
moreland and the Richmond mines to
give the unterrified Democracy all The
boom that it needs.
Come one, come all, this flag shall ny
from it's firm staff and win or die.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-09
Restaurant Life in London.

Americans engaged in making the
grand European tour can never under
stand one feature Of restaurant life in
London. If you happen to ben bachelor,
and therefore dependent on chop houses
for meals, as the hotels rarely provide
for the inner man, you Will probably
look around for a comfortable place
where you can get acquainted and take
all your meals. That is the great error
into which all travellers fall.
In London you want to select three
different chop houses. one for breakfast,
dinner and supper or Is you wish to be
English sans reproche. YOU must have
another for the evening lunch ABOUT II
o'clock. These houses all make a specl-
atty Of one meal, and while YOU may be
supplied with enough TO duh your appc-
lite at other houses. YOU will only get
perfect service at the one table for which
the house has made areputation. Then.
for example, take Il dinner chop house.
You take a seat, order piece of roast
beef and have the whole roast wheeled
out in front Of your table while the waiter
slices off a juicy morscl that would tempt
an anchorite in Lent When you come
to understand these things you can live
with greater satisfaction on s. day
than an American could on double that
amount at home. Tips are nothing, as
penny apiece is enough to satisfy ordinary
walters. Globe Democrat.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-09

A National convention week Is not
favorable to work in Congress, but there
have been noteworthy debates this week,
and the Senate on Monday, as the record
shows, passed no fewer than seventy
eight bills, mostly its own, besides taking
action of some sort on enough others to
make more than a.hundred, and holding
prot.scted discussions on several meas
ures of Importance upon which inal &C
ton was not taken.
A good many of these acls were
pension bills. which can be rushed
through at the rate of dozen to every
ten minutes.
The pension bill Is nice little gouge
on the Treasury to boom the Congress
men at home, and the worse the fraud Is
or the more certain that the beneficiary
was kicked by mule the more certain is
the promise of more fat premiums to
bogus veterans.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-09

Judge Emory Speer of Georgia, decided
that ''decoy letter" used to detect mail
thieves was violation of law, but the
same point came up in the United States
Circuit Court at New Orleans last Tues
day. Judge Billings took n view of the
law different from that entertained and
expressed by Judge Speer and ruled on
the point that "a test or 'decoy' letter is
defined to be a sealed package addressed
by one person TO another, and placed in
the mail that a decoy letter, if really in.
trusted to the mail, is letter within the
meaning of the criminal law, and that
any person stealing or embezzling such q
letter violates the law The use Of them
by officers of the Government, provided
they are honestly Used, is sometimes q
necessity in order to separate the guilty
from the innocent, where many are under
suspicion. II ehould always be under
stood that they should not impair the in
volatility of the mail, which, like the
freedom of speech, should be absolute"
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-09
CALIFORNIA; Raisin Grape.

The raisin industry OF California prom
ises to become very important and fairly
remunerative. The climate OF the central
and southern part Of the state is most
favorable for drying the fruit. and there
Is the center Of this enterprise. The two
important factors in rasin making are u
suitable variety of grape and dry climate
one not subject 10 dews, fogs or rains
for weeks while the fruit is drying
Though the region Of California men
toned is not exempt from fogs and rains,
get they are infrequent. and the necessity
Of protection to the drying fruit is not ex-
perienced often enough 10 make that feat
ure Of the work very burdensome.
The variety of grape from which the
raisins are made is the Muscat OF Alex
andra. which is better known 10 most OF
our readers as the Malaga grape Of the
shops, which comes Ia Us from Spain,
packed in cork dust, in small casks. 4
white grape makes raisin Of better color
than a red or dark one. though in Europe
both red and black varieties are used TO
some extent In Santa Clara county, Cal,
where the temperature at the drying sea
son is not so high nor the air 50 dry a.
more southern counties. the grape growers
have resorted to the use of dryers or ovap-
orators and with success, and the practice
Is extending many tons Of raislns were
made there in that manner last year The
method is 10 expose to the sun for few
DAYS and then remove to the eyapOrator
and finish up with slow heat.-Vick's
MAGAZINE
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-09
Army Mortality By Disease.

In connection with the subject OF rcgi-
mental losses there is the important one
If losses by disease. In our army there
were twice "a many deaths from disease
rs from bullets In the Confederate
army the loss from disease was, for OBJ
yious reasons. much less. being smaller
than their loss in battle. This loss by
disease was. in our northern regiments.
very unevenly distributed, running as low
as thirty in some and exceeding 800 IN
others, while in some of the colored regi
ments it was still greater There seems
To he an impression that the regiments
which suffered most i'll battle lost also
the most from disease. This il az, error,
the direct opposite being the truth. The
report Of the war department for 1866
SAYS, regarding this subject, that lit IS
to be noted that those states which show
large mortality on the battlefield likewise
show large mortality by disease" This
NAV be true Of the state totals, but Is
wholly Incorrect as TO the regiments
themselves: for. with but few exceptions.
the regiments which sustained the
heaviest loss in battle show the smallest
number Of deaths from disease.
The inference is a fair one that the
fighting regiments owed their exemp-
ton from disease To the same pluck
which made them famous, and which
enabled them to withstand its encroach-
ments without tamely giving up and
living down under its attack. 1t was
question of mental rs well a. bodily
stamina, and hence there is found IN
certain black regiments a mortality from
disease exceeding by far that Of any
white troops. fact which cannot be ac-
counted for by climatic reasons. because
the particular regiments referred to were
recruited from blacks who were horn
and raised along the Mississippi, where
these troops were stationed. and where
the loss occurred. Col. William T. Fox
in The Century.