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The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-09-11
SERVED HIM RIGHT.
A AWould-BeEBurgIar in Jail with Broken
Limbs and Bruised BOdy-AccOmplices
Arrested.

A WOuld-B -BeEBurgIar in Jail with Broken
Limbs and Bruised Body-AccompIic
Arrested.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Sept. Ida
Marsh, the 16-year-old daughter of
William Marsh, a photographer of
Homestead, awoke about two o'clock
yesterday morning feeling a hand
clutching at her throat She opened
her eyes and saw a negro standing
over her. He told her that if she
made an outcry he would knock her
brains out. But she managed to- shake
off the hand on her throat and scream.
Her father. who was sleeping in the
next room, went to her assistance
with revolver.
The intruder leaped from the Sec
ond-story window. His foot caught
on an electric wire and he fell head
long to the ground. Both his arms
were broken, his right leg injured. his
head and face cut and he is now in tie
county Jail. along with three others,
charged with being accomplices. A
fifth man escaped. The leader was
Isaac Mills, and the others were James
johnson, Homestead barber; Henry
Armstrong, and an unknown colored
man. The arrests were made on in
formation furnished by colored boy
who slept in an ad diacent house, from
which an entrance to the Marsh house
was effected.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-09-11
a Kaco for Life aud Death.

"And don't you remember the tlmes
Rufe, when Buck Milligan thought the
tie rein of his bride was snake, and
for a little more would have run his
fool self to death?"
OF course | remembered that time
as fresh and clear as if it had only come
to pass on yesterday, but Ben Chri1
he went on to tell me all about it.
You see Buck he was the onlyest
baby of the Nilligan family, though ab
that time he was great lubberly boy,
plenty big enough to put away tho
things of child and take up the things
of a man. Late one evenin the old man
had sent Buck down to the paster with
his horse, and it was first dusk when
he got there and turned the horse in
and started home.
In the main time, you understand
Rufe, me and you or some of the mig
gers had been tellin Buck some out
landish and hair-raisin stories in re-
CARDS to snakes, and if there was any.
thing in this round created world which
that boy Jest naturally couldn't stand
the naked thoughts of, was snakes.
So he turned the horse in the paster,
flung the bride across his shoulder and
started in swingin trot for the big
house, which it was mile, or may be u
little better, that he had to go.
"Now then presently Buck he looked
back and thought he saw thunderin
big snake runnin after him and right
at his heels. 1t was now about night
the moon was comm out, and his first
thought was that a coachwhip or one
of these big black runners was right
in behind him. Well, man, sir, from
what Buck has since told me, il ever "a
white boy sifted sand and burnt the
wind in foot race with n harmless
piece of cow leather, he was that boy.
"But to hear him tell it, Buck couldn't
run away from the blame thing worth
a cent. Every time he turned his head
and throwed his eyes back, there was
the snake scorchin the very earth un-
der his heels. He run like a quarter
horse somewhat further than mile,
which by then he was a slap out of
breath and had to give up the race. IN
the horrors of that orful moment Ire
drawed his pocket knife, jumped up
on stump and turned to make 4
fight for life, when 10 and behold, he
didn't see n blame thing but the tie rein
of his bride, which he had been drag
GIN behind him and runnin from it, as
he thought, in a race for life and death.
eff that had been me or you, Rufe.
the rale facts in the case never would
of leaked out to the general public. But
in so fur as know Buck Milligan never
did eat any soup with Solomon to speak
of, and consequentially he didn't have
no better sense than to let the catout OF
the wallet, whilst the joke was too good
for us boys to keep"
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-09-11
TENNESSEE STATE NEWS
Farmers Conven'I,n.

The farmers Of Tennessee are antici-
pating big time at Murfreesboro the
FIRST tkree days in October. The fourth
annual session Of the series Of farmers
conventions, consolidated, will then be
hold in conjunction with and on invita-
tiOn OF the Rutherford Fair Association.
The original plan was to hold this con-
1ention in Nashville this year, but the
pOstponement Of tho Centennial caused
this proposition to be abandoned. a
number Of distinguished agriculturists
from other States will be present at
MurfreesborO and make addresses. Over
$1,000 in premiums will be awarded and
exhibits from other fairs in the State
will be on hand, thereby stimulating
friendly competition between the farm
ing element of sister counties. The
premium list is large and distributed
over many articles, to cover the varied
or peculiar products of each section,
making this session from that stand
point very attractive.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-09-11
Found Dead.

The dead body Of d. A. Hood, en-
ginaer of a government dredge boat
used in the river improvements at Chat
tanOogs, was found N an open field near
the river one day last week. There
was found q number Of letters, a bottle
Of whisky and a purse containing $3.50
in the dead mans clothing. The coro-
ner's jury decided that the man while
intoxicated had fallen to the ground,
buryiug his face in a pile of muck, and
was asphyxiated. No signs OF violence
were on the body and a post mortem
examination revealed the fact that
theie had been no functional disorders,
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-09-11
Rev. Z. A. shoup Dead.

Rev. +. A. Shoup, d. d., of the Epis
copal Church, died at Columbia last
week. DIR. Shoup at the time of his
death was professor in tho University
of the South at Sewanee, and principal
He was a distinguished artillery general
in the Confederate army, being briga-
dier-general of artillery of the Army OF
Tennessee. The remains were taken to
Sewanee for interment. DR.. ShOup was
&C years old. His wife is the daugh ter
of the late Bishop Elliott.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-09-11
Phosphate in Marshall County.

Considerable excitement is manifested
at South Bend, in Marshall county, over
the finding of deposits of a nature re-
sembling phosphates. Parties who
claim to know say it is phosphate be-
yOnd a doubt and of a high quality.
Comparing it with samples from the
mines near Mt. Pleasant, it is pro-
nounced much the same, there being
some difference in the color. Some of
this is gray, while some has more of a
blush cast. Groupings can be seen in
many places. Further developments
are awaited with great interest.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-09-11
an WAYS THAT ARE DARK
And Tricks That Are Vain the Heathe
Chinee is Peculiar"

And Tricks That Are Vain the Heathen
Chinee is Peculiar"
NIAGARA FALLS, \. Y, Sept. Z-lf
all reports be true one of the biggest
Chinese smuggling schemes on record
has just come to light. According to
the reports there has been all summer
a systematic smuggling of Cinnamon
from ST. Catharines, Ont, to Chip
pewa, Ont, from where the celestials
were rowed across to the American
side at point between Schlosser dock,
in this city, and LaSalle. From there
they have been taken under cover of
darkness to Tonawanda laundry and
after being kept there for some time,
have been liberated, one by one, some
of them going to Buffalo, and some TO
Rochester and other cities.
The game has been a very clever one
and only came to the ears of the Chi
nese inspectors here by accident. 1t
is thought arrests will follow in day
or two. The smuggler is thought to
be white man.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-09-11
warehouse De,trorod.

The warehouse known as the Farm
ers' Alliance warehouse at Prospect was
destroyed by fire one night last week.
The house and contents were totally
destroyed. About two carloads of
dressed lumber, flooring, ceiling and
Notwithstanding, a lot of window sash
belonging to Pitman & Co., Pulaski;
shingles, box of carpenters tools be-
longing to Il. L. Erwin, and about 125
bales of shucks, Reed & Orr's property,
were burned. The building is supposed
to have caught from sparks from rail-
road engine, as it was close to the rail-
road.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-09-11
NEARING The GOAL.
The Bicycle Relay Pushing Forward Oven
Heavy Roads.

BUFFALO, n. Y, Sept. 6.-In the face
of a storm and over roads into which
the tires sank over the rim, the hardy
young athletes to whom was en-
trusted the Journal-Examiner pack,
brought it through from Erie last
night, reaching this city at 7;lO 4. IN.
The Buffalo section, Erie to Roches.
ter, l75 miles, was run in just II hours.
The run from Buffalo to Rochester, 20
miles, was made at the rate OF - miles
IL hour.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-09-11
The Great CbInaman Takes His Leave of
America and Americans.

WASHINGTON, Sept eli Hung
Chang's parting tribute to the Ameri-
can people was given to the United
Associated Presses yester rday evening
for dissemination. He said:
THE three foremost men in history
have been Napoleon, the Chinese EN-
peror Yao, and Washington. Napo-
leon created an empire which was
speedily destroyed; Yao created an
empire. and then proceeded himself to
rule over it; Washington built mp II
great nation and then steppeG aside,
leaving others TO govern"
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-09-11
MhnIesaIe Lail neIIrerr.

HUNTINGDON, w. Va, Sept. by
the aid OF chisels, secured in some un.
known way, John Love, who was
awaiting trial for murder, escaped
from the Jail in this city Saturday
night, accompanied by five other Grim.
inals. The alarm was given by other
prisoners, and posses started in pur-
suit, but as yet without success.
There were l3'prisoners in the Jail
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-09-11
VICTORY FOR wEYLER.
His Banana Edict Causes the Failure of
an Importing firm.

New YORK, Sept. III. Dumers &
Co., shippers and commission mer-
chants and importers of West India
fruits, have made an assignment to
Henry A. Kessell, without prefer
ences. Their failure is attributed to
the war in Cuba and the edict of Gen.
Weyler presenting the shipment of
bananas.
Their last statement to Bradstreets
in November, 1895. showed assets $780,
600 and liabilities, S25s,QQQ,
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-09-11
KILLED Over a Drink.

p. J. Kehoe, a stone-cutter, aged 40
years, died at Nashville last week from
the effects of a blow with stick ad-
ministered by Ike Corlew, barIeeper.
Kehoe endeavored to take drink by
reaching over the bar for the bottle,
when the barkeeper struck him.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-09-11
Sold Only Hard Cider.

Deputy United States Marshal L. a.
Stanford, Jr., has recently been at Lu-
ray pulling the bovs on charge of
illegal whisky selling. The facts, as
brought out before Commissioner Thorn,
went to show that it was only hard cider
that they sold
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-09-11
SUBSCRIPTION: Sl.OO Per Year.

that pleasant skirt this side of Big Wolf
creek, as started up here to see ou--
was 10 find Long Luther Ridgcway
hunkered down there on the very same
spot of earth and under the came old
oak tree where me and you found him,
wounded IN the big toe and weepin
great drops of grief 80 years ego this
summer"
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-09-11

1. And with that me and Ben Chris
Weaver-the playmate of my childhood
and boyhood, friend of my manhood
and side partner in a thousand trials
and troubles and temptations-we then
went on to talk about them good old
times that use to be in our young and
CaI1in daVS
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-09-11

The following letter has been sent to
farmers, fruit-growers and garden men
of Tennessee;
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Sept 2, 1896.
Dear Sir-It is earnestly desired to have as
varied and complete display of the field orchard
and garden products OF the State as it is pOssi
bic to collect for exhibition at our Centennial.
Crops OF this years growth, such as wheat,
oats, rye and barley in the sheaf and half
bushel Of the grain; also grasses, such as
clover, timothy, millet Herds grass, orchard
grass, ETC., in bundles Of four to five pounds,
and seed from same in one peck lois; corn,
sorghum and broom corn in stalk; also thirty
ears OF the different varieties of corn; also one
peck OF sorghum and broom corn seed. 1t is
requested that samples OF the above be pro-
cured, preserved and held subject to the order
OF the Commissioner OF Agriculture. Orchard
and other fruits. as they Tipen, may be carefully
packed and sent without delay TO Mr.. Lucius Z.
Brown, No. $50 North Cherry street, Nashville,
Tenn, who is prepared to carefully preserve
them for the Exposition. In sending specimens
OF the above, please carefully designate variety
by name. Yours truly,
T. T. p. ALLISON
Chief OF Department of Agriculture.
JNO. w. MORTON,
In charge Of Glasses of Cereals and Grasses,
horticultural and Dairy Products
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-09-11
Electric Cars at jackson.

The jackson e Suburban Street Rail-
way Company have closed a contract
with Van Aiken & Co., of New York, to
put in an electric street railway system
and an arc and incandescent electric
light system TO be ready for operating
by the 18th of December.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-09-11

this nlornin and
turn round ana
go back and take
a fresh start and
be a pair of har-
um-scarem boys
o II c / III ore p
S a Y s he. 1T
would suit me
perfectly II
right and to a
mats b ris Il c,
Ben Chris" says
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-09-11
Chancery Court of AppeaIs.

Judges Barton, Neil and Wilson of
the chancery court of appeals took the
oath of Office before Judge Joseph w.
Sneed of the Knox county circuit court
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-09-11
THEN GOLDEN DAYS"
Tho Sage CT Rocky Croek Look
ing Backwards.
Zen Chris Weaver Comes Up from :he
O:d Settlement Long Luther
and the Widder"-Buck Mill
Iigan'S Race.

How would it suit you, Rufe, for
IS to make q cross mark and spit in it
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-09-11
Chief Of Department of Agriculture

In charge Of Glasses of Cereals and Grasses,
Horticultural and Dairy Products.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-09-11

The following letter has been sent to
farmers, fruit-growers and garden men
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-09-11
II AT NIAGARA FALLS.

The Great Chinese : ateSn.in mp-essed
i'y the CatarSc-, Entere Ste,t ia Yalkee
Eiterprise and Delighted with America
ways-NarrOw Escape from Injury
by COatac1 with "a Dynamo.
The record-union., 1896-02-06
PERSONAL MENTION.

D. L. Levy of Arbuclle is here on a
short visit
Adjutant-GeneraIB Barrett went to Los
Angeles yesterday.
Mrs. NJ. E. Spencer has returned from
a months visit to San Francisco.
j. T. Bogue, a prominent nurseryman
of Marysville was in the city yesterday.
Miss Fannie Smith of Seattle is Wis
iting her sister, Mrs. c. M. Basler, at
1907 L street.
Mrs. d. Harris and mother, Mrs. L.
Levy, have returned after an extensive
visit at Yreka.
B. F. Maskey, Police Commissioner Of
San Diego, is in the city, attending to
some private business.
Charles O'Neil of San Francisco, for
merly of Sacramento, is up on business
here and will remain for a few days.
Miss NJ. Croclzer of Reno, New, is
here for a few days visit with relatives.
She has just returned from Washington.
Miss Bessie Mae Guinean of Port
land, Or, who has written a great many
excellent things for the Record Union
during the past few years. is now pur-
suing special studies at the Stanford
University
w. B. Maydwell, now residing in San
Francisco, is making a fight for the po-
sition of Commandant Of the Yountville
Soldiers Home. He will receive the
Endorsement of Grand Army men in
this section.
The record-union., 1896-02-06
ADJUSTMENTS.

There was about half house full
in the Metropolitan Theater last night,
the masquerade ball and other attrac-
tions dividing the patronage Of theater-
goers. Mr. Keene's Richard III. was
disappointment. That he is capable of
giving a strong, l-proportioned and
altogether superior Richard goes with
out saying, for he has done it before
frequently. But Mr.. Keene last night
conceived a new idea of the reading of
the play. and by no means one meeting
with favor. If the audience last night
was irresponsive it was justifiably so
The tragedian attempted the repres-
sive style; 1t was an effort to give in
tensity by repression of vocal effort,
and the usual demonstrations of deep
feeling and the workings of passion
It resulted in failure to sustain periods
even when entered upon vigorously. In
deed some of the sentences read were
Of the peevish order For instance, the
celebrated command, Draw, arehers.
draw your arrows to the head!" was
given with apparent petulance and
without martial spirit. At times Mr..
Keene rose to the passionate delivery,
but as a rule the repressive style pre-
dominated-and it was a mistake. It
was the extreme opposed to rant and
excessive defamation. which is equally
unpardonable We regret that Mr.
Keene has taken up with the new
idean OF reading the lines Of Richard
III, for it is a mistaken notion on the
part of an accomplished artist, who
cannot afford the experiment. The
bright and shinging lights in the play
were the King Henry VI. of Mr.. Eagle
The record-union., 1896-02-06
THE BALL.
A Brilliant Affair-Large Throng of
Merry Makers.

A Brilliant Affair-Large Throng of
Merry-Makers.
Promptly at 10 o'clock the grand
march of the maskers began. Floor Di-
rector George H. Clark had arranged
that the formation should be in the
athletic club rooms, and it was no easy
task for the crowd in masks to make
their way to positions in the line Never
before had such large number of peo-
pie attended in costume the clubs an
nual masquerade The ladies outnum-
bered the gentlemen more than two to
one and for lack of escorts were. com
PEELED to promenade in groups by them
selves.
The orchestra struck up a march at
the signal from the Floor Director, who
lead the van into the main hall. Fol-
lowing him were the members of the
Board Of Governors of the athletic club
and next two Carnival Princes and their
Princesses.
Then came the maskers, and it seemed
as if the end of the line would never
be reached. When the last couple ha6
entered the main pavilion, the floor was
taxed to its utmost capacity by the
crowd of maskers. The merry whirl
The record-union., 1896-02-06

son, in a reading full of tender feeling,
marked by fine spirit and comprehen-
sion of the thought of the text; the
queenly character of Elizabeth, sus-
tanned by Miss Timberman who in fig
ure, voice and sensibility of the i'm
passioned text, notably in the tower
scene. left nothing wanting; the manly
Richmond of Mr.. Henning, though he
read the prayer upon the eve of battle
with too little of devotional and suppl
eating spirit; the buckingham of Mr..
Lowell, who, though a very youthful
Duke, invested the role with interest
because of the earnest spirit with which
he read its lines, and the Duchess of
York by Mrs. Baker, than whom there
is no better representative of the ven
erable noblewoman. Mrs. Baker is a
fine type of the old school; over 7S
years of age. 56 years upon the stage,
having been support to Macready, the
elder Booth, Forrest, Murdoch and
long of great departed actors. this
aged woman is still possessed of much
of the vigor and fire of the true artist,
and represents a school of art Of the
highest type, albeit it is not modern.
nS DOA-OtllCS VI I11S IhCIAOpOtAbctu
Theater will open this morning for res
e1yation of seats for I'm Old Kentucky.
The play in San Francisco drew so well
that every night many comers were
turned away by the sign "House filled"
AT the C1unie Opera-house this even
ing the rafting farce-comedy MY
Precious Baby" to be followed by the
comic acrobatic act by the new team of
performers.
Melville Marx, one of the managers
of the Columbia Theater, San Fran
cisco, is in the city arranging for the
appearance here next week of the
Fraw1ey Company. The troupe now
has nineteen people, and it is conceded
to be the strongest organization Of
stock made on the coast since the days
of the old California Theater. The
plays here will be Lost Paradise and
Men and Women" two powerful
dramas that were in such demand in
San Francisco that the company was
kept on this week in San Francisco
when it had been billed to go on the
road last Monday.
The record-union., 1896-02-06
PROBATE DECISION.
One of Interest to Administrators of
Deceased Estates.

Deceased Estates.
Following is a syllabus of a decision
rendered on Tuesday by the Supreme
Court
Ann Murphy appellant; Edward w.
Clayton, respondent. Claim and de-
livery. Judgment reversed.
Claims against an estate which have
not been accepted or allowed by the ad
ministrator, or which have not been re-
duced to judgment, do not bring the
claimants within the category of cred
itors.
To authorize an administrator to
commence an action to set aside a deed
of his intestate as void against cred
itors there must exist creditors to be
paid, and there must be an insufficiency
of assets to meet their demands. Both
facts must co-exist. He must be
creditor whose claim has been allowed
by the administrator or is evidenced by
judgment.
The record-union., 1896-02-06
RUTHERFORD's MISTAKE.
He Explains How He Came to Testify
as He Did.

as he Diu.
officer Rutherford now admits that
his statement on the witness stand, that
he saw George Sprout here on January
4th, was not correct. He says he made
a mistake in the date. This is prob
ably true, but persons should be care
full to what they swear, especially when
their attention is called to the matter
and every opportunity given for cor
rection. He was very positive it was
the 4th, but now thinks it may have
been on the Dist or 22d that he saw
Sprout.
He explains his mistake by saying
that he was subpenaed to go to San
Diego on January 9th and went there
He was also subpenaed to go to San
Francisco on the 24th and went. He
knew that he had seen Sprout two days
before he went away, but had confused
the dates, and thought it was previous
to the first time.