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The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-07-03
SUNDAY SCHOOL OFFICERS.
Interesting Meeting In Bost0h-JOhn Wan
aFnAker subsefIbed $1,000.

Interesting Meeting In Bost0f-JOhn Wan
amaker subscribed $1,000.
BosToN, June ED. L. Moody con-
Quoted the international Sunday
School associations praise service yes
terday. At the business meeting the
treasurer, Mr.. Bige1ow, of New York,
presented his report, showing receipts
for the last three years S21, ,269 and ex-
penses S21, SCI. Officers were elected as
fol1owsi President, Alfred Day, of On
tario; vice president, Marion Laurence,
of Ohioi secretaryapd treasurer, Ham
mie Huber, of Kentucky. The total
amount pledged to carry on Sunday
school work was S34,OOJ John Wana-
maker, of Philadelphia, headed the
individual list with 81, 900.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-07-03
LABoRlNe MEN AND SILVER.
Mark Hanna Says They are Little About
the Financial Question.

Mark Hanna Says They are Little About
the Financial Question.
CLEVELAND, O., June n Mark Ham
ma, the republican manager, does not
think the silver question is matter of
great consideration to the working
men, saying:
The thousands IF workihSm6n wh6 are ems
ployed in the manufactures of this country,
do not care an iota about this question of free
silver. They say they do not and 1t is apparent
that what the industrial classes Of America
wait Is better times. dawn of prosA
perity, and some assurance that they
will ere long receive better wages, or at
least a stipend equal to that which they
were getting before the financial depression
which followed the democratic victory of 1892.
am convinced of the correctness of what am
saying because I have talked with my men on
this subject 1 have 5000 to 5000 men in my
employ and know by personal investigation
that the men who aTe working in the shops
and in the mines care little or nothing about
the whole financial question. They recognize
the fact that it is one of the issues OF the cam
paign. but that is about as far as their interest
crgre
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-07-03
FARMERS ENCOURAGED.

Government OmciaIs Certain That This
Years Harvest Wfn Yield Large Profits.
WASHINGTON; June 27.-There is new
hope for the farmers. The year 1s9a
promises to bring them rather better
returns for their labor than last wear
and better than the year before. The
wheat crop of the country is sure to be
the largest since 1892, and larger than
the average of the last 16 years. This
years wheat crop is pnoficially esti-
mated by the department. of agricul.
ture at AIS, COO, 600 bushels. This has
been exceeded only six times since
1880. The Importance of the wheat
crop to the farmer is not SO much in
the total yield as in it's market value.
the value of this years wheat
crop will greatly exceed that
of the last three years. The
department OF agriculture does
not presume to estimate the prices of
any commodities in advance of the
market, but unofficial information is
to the effect that the average value of
wheat this year is likely to be about
81 cents, against 81 cents last year, 40
cents in 1894, 54 cents in 1898 and SO
cents in 1892 If the estimate of 81
cents for this years crop be borne out
by the market quotations during the
remainder of the ya4r, the total value
of the 1896 wheat crop will be S27O,-
600, 600
The condition of spring wheat indi-
Gates prospective yield that closely
approximates full or normal crop,
the average for the country being &c. 9
per cent. The average for the year
1895 was 97.s. The percentage of the
combined winter and spring wheat
acreage is 1917, and the condition of
all wheat is s7.6.
As yet the government has no off
fetal returns on the corn crop, but un-
official advices indicate normal crop,
probably equal to last years large
yield of ., Isl, 600, 900 bushels. Prices
are stifening up a trife, and the out
look for a greater total value than last
year is counted good. The outlook for
cats, rye and barley is good.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-07-03
REVIEW OF TRADE.
rhe Monetary Uncertainty Retards I'm.
provement Of Business-FaIlures.

me Monetary Uncertainty Retards I'M
provement Of susiness-FaIlures.
New YORK, June 2T-R. @. Dun a.
Co.'S Weekly Review of Trade saysl
The monetary outlook is not yet clear The
strength shown I'D recent conventions by advo-
Gates of free silver coinage, and expectation
that all elements favoring that policy may yet
be consecrated. incline them to a waiting atti-
tude Their uncertainty retards Improvement
Notwithstanding the more widely prevalent
feeling that the monetary action at the ST.
Louis convention viii be sustained by the peo-
pie. Wooden mills are acting without concert,
but Ia ore mentioned In dispatches as having
closed this week There is no similar move
ment in other industries, though the period Of
summer closing Is at hand in many OF them
and important controversies as to wages Of iron
puddlers and other hands make 1t likely that
the annual stoppage in that industry may last
longer than usual
The great com mbinatiohss which, the Iron Age
wisely reasons will tend to cause disastrously
low prices hereafter. still control the markets,
both for material and finished products of iron
and steel. though it is reported that lower
prices will soon be made for coke. owing to
better utilization OF bye-products. and for
nails. owing to the heavy decrease in con-
sumption
Failures for the week have been 2l7 in the
United Sta tes against 256 last year, and "a in
Canada against % last year
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-07-03
HOMES Thrown OPEN.
Entertainment Committee at Washing gtOn
Finds Places for $4,000 EndeaSofers.

Entertainments Committee at Washin ton
Finds Places for $4,000 EndeaTofers.
WASHINGTON, June 27.-Accommo-
dations for over 25, 600 people from July
s to Is have been found by the ehters
tainment committee of the Christian
Endeavor convention in the boarding
houses and homes of Washington.
It is estimated that 5000 more viii
be quartered in hotels. and that an
additional 5000 will stop with friends.
An active canvass of the city by
members of the entertainment commit
tee is Id progress, and it is the earnest
wish of the committee that the private
homes, especially of those interested
in the Christian Endeavor society,
should be opened for the accommoda-
ton of the many thousands wi1o have
been invited to enjoy Washington's S
hospitality during the July convention.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-07-03
A "Close CalI' for scroggins.

At the last regular meetin of the
Rocky Creek Farmers club Blew Scrog-
gins-which, you understand, Blew talks
a whole passcl sometimes jest simply
because the good Lord, in the wisdom of
His grace and mercy, give him some
thing to talk with-Blev he spit it out
as his private opinions in the CoDnerway
case that when the old man went crazy
he didn't have no very durn long jour
ney to make. 1.-THE mainest trouble
with the old man." says Blew, was
about sixteen ounces of skull to one
spoonful of brains"
OF course, that is none of my business.
and it wouldn't be right for me to say
whether Blew was right or wrong in
general way. But there was two of
the Connerway boys in the meetin, and
it took some monstrous fast and fancy
work TO keep down the sheddin of hu-
man blood and stave off second-class
funeral in the settlement.
You will take notice that my friend
and fellow-citizen, Blev Scroggins, amt
no sixteen to one free silver man. lie
don't even sorter half way make out like
he is, and since the cards have been run
min the other way like shot, Blew has
got his bristles up considerable. He
give it out in a crowd over at Cool
Springs church on the last meetin day
that he was goin to yoke up his oxen
and pack his wagon and move off down
into the cow country amongst the gall
berry thiclets and see if he couldn't
find little patch of earth where every
body hadn't went crazy for free silver
at sixteen to one. reckon, though,
that Blew was only tallxin that day to
see how his voice would sound through
his new straw hat. At any rates, don't
know where he would go to find that
"little patch of earth" which he is look
in for.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-07-03
eoRMAN WILL STAY AWAY.
The Maryland Man Sees NO Chance OF
stemmlng the Silver ride at Chicago.

The Maryland Man Sees NO Chance of
stemming the silver Tide at Chicago.
BALTIMORE, Md, June Ex-senator
German will not go to the democratic
national convention. "If were to go
to Chicago" said he yesterday, what
more could do than will be done by
the gentlemen who compose the
delegation elected by the state
convention? Nothing" Mr.. Cor
man thinks that there is no chance
at this late hour to stem the free silver
tide which he believes will sweep over
the Chicago convention. When asked
whom he thought the democracy would
nominate at Chicago, he replied: TT
looks like Boies."
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-07-03
QUAY WILL ASSIST HANNA.

The Senator O6ered the ChaIrmanship OF
the Executive Committee.
CANTON, O., June 2Z-Ex-Gov. Nc
Kinley and Mark A. Hanna deny that
any selections have been made for the
national executive committee except
that Senator Quay has been offered
the Craftsmanship. There will also be
an advisory committee, of which HI. Fl.
Kohlsaat, of Chicago, will probably be
a member as will also Cornelius y.
Bliss. of New York.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-07-03
SMASHED THREE RECORDS.

John X. Gentry Went the Fastest Mile Ever
Paced In June-Time, 9iO3 Ia.
RED OAK, Ia, June 27.-Three rec
ords were broken yesterday in the
performance of Jonn r. Gentry, bred
by II. @. Taylor, of Wichita, Kan, and
formerly owned by the man for whom
he was named, Johu r. Gentry. of Sc
dalia, Mo He broke the track record
of 2:O7%, his own record of 2:03Z and
paced the fastest mile ever paced in
June and it was thought by those well
informed that he could have paced in
2:02, as he went without the usual
pace-maker and without being urged
or cOaXed.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-07-03

WASHINGTON. June e7.-Mipiste- An
drade, of Venezuela, to-day received a
telegram from his government an
nouncing that British Crown Surveyor
Harrison, whose arrest has caused
strained feelings between the two gov
ernments, has been released by order
of the Venezuelan authorities
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-07-03
KILLED HIS BROTHER.
Charlie Golden, of Kingston, Ky, Commit
Murder Then Kills HImself.

Charlie Golden, of Kingston, Ky, Commits
Murder Then Kills Himself.
RICHMOND, KY, June 81 Charlie
and Richard Golden, sons of Harry
Golden, we'll to do farmer living near
Kingston, this county, while out plow-
ing together yesterday morning en-
gagged in a quarrel over some domestic
affairs. Charlie ran to the house and
got his shotgun and, returning, emp
tied it's contents into the breast of
Richard, inf1icting a fatal wound.
Then, drawing a pocket knife, the
frenzied man attempted to cut his own
throat, almost severing the jugular
vein. Both men will die.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-07-03
SILVER MEN FAR AHEAD.

Nearly Two-Thfrds of the DeIegates to
Chicago for Free Coinage.
CHICAGO June 81. = The Tribune
saws: "a canvass of the delegates of
every state and territory on the cur
rencv question shows that SIS dele'
gates to the democratic national con-
vent ton are either by instruction or
personal preference for the free and
unlimited coinage of silver at sixteen
to one against 32s delegates instructed
for or favoring the continuance OF the
nresent gold standard.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-07-03
THE ARTICLES SIGNED.
James j. Corbett and Tom sharkey to Meet
In Finish Fight.

In finish Fight
SAN FRANCISCO, June 27.-James j.
Corbett and Thomas Sharkey will meet
in a finish fight for $4,000 a side
Both men are anxious to settle the
question of supremacy. Corbett to re-
trieve the laurels he so nearly lost and
Sharlxey to make good to the world
the statement he has repeatedly made.
that he can defeat the champion.
The preliminaries have nearly all
been arranged and the men
met at two o'clock yesterday and
signed the articles of agreement. They
call for meeting before any club in
the United States offering a suitable
purse, and if the match cannot be held
before club the men are to meet on
Mexican soil. The battle is to take
place within six months, the exact
date to be agreed upon later.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-07-03
SUBSCRIPTION: Sl.0O Per Year.

then, low and beholdl he had dug six
teen graves for that one dead baby girl.
1t is Il real sad case if you think about
it right sober like and serious, but, ac-
cordin to old man Connerway's present
plans of government and money, and
politics and religion, and life and death.
everything in the whole discovered
world must stack up and fill in and
match out at the rates of sixteen to one.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-07-03

year is the great
and CROWN ques-
tion of sixteen to
one. And that
amt all by a
whole tremendous
big lot. If there
is anything you
don't know and
would love to
find out in re-
CARDS to gold or
silver or green
backs. all You
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-07-03
she yyouId Not support Him.

MARsHFIELD, Ore, june W.-IarI
Albrecht was hanged here yesterday
for the brutal murder of his wife last
January. She supported him by TAX
ing in washing, and because she did
not turn all the money earned over to
him he killed her. The execution was
private and passed off without incl
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-07-03

YOKOHAMA, June 81. 1t js now eEti-
mated that 27, 600 persons were dEowRed
and 5000 injured during tba accent
fidal Rsye and earthquake IL tho
EoFtheFH provinces OF gspsn.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-07-03
Tbree 9Ten Hanred az Once.

CANON CRY, Col, june E7l-A triple
hanging took place in the state peni-
teatiarg lest night the men being
Thomas Holt, Albert Noble and Dos
TatE!es Romero, usa killed palieeaRE
john selomop ID Trinidad,
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-07-03

have got to do is to pack your wallet and
come down into the most loveliest strip
of country in the round created world
and mix and mingle around amongst
the folks and live and listen and learn.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-07-03
nOId Gitn sanders Now.

Now as for me, all lSnow-and you
can stake your side whiskers and your
Sunday boots l do know that for GER
tain-is that at our house we most in
generally always have about sixteen
wants to one dollar. And it raley makes
but blame little difference with me
whether it comes in gold or silver or
paper SO long as the feed bills and the
store account stack up agin us at the
rates of sixteen to one. What shall we
wear, what shall we eat, what shall we
drink, and wherewithal will we raise
the necessary coinage-that covers all
the ground for me.
Naturally, of course, l don't put my
mouth up as anybody's prayer book,
and there amt no laws of compliment
to make you believe everything write
and say. But / will bet sixteen good
mules to one blind steer that I have
to git up and git more reglar and fire.
quent than any livin man in II states
and territories. Every time ] go to
town it Is daddy git this, and Rufus git
that, and Rufe git somethin else. Con
sequentiaIIy / have now took and
changed my maiden name from Rufus
to sold Git" On my return back home
the last time I went to town, when l
first driv up I called mother and the
children out to the wagon to help me
unload the producements, and then
give out the new name and laid down
the law And / wouldn't be plum
square and honest if didn't own up to
you that I used more plain United
States language than Bible words by
at least sixteen to one.
"By the seven stars and the Milky
Way" says I to mother and the risin
generation of the Sanders race, don t
call me daddy and don't call me Rufus
and don't call me Rufe any more. Dad
blame it, that amt my name nohow
BY gatlins give me a name that will
fit the man and jest call me Old Git
Sanders"
John Andrews Milligan is now out as
a free silver candidate for the legisla-
ture, and he told me the other day If
he wins his f1ght-which he thinks he
will by majority of somethin like
sixteen to one-he will work up and
pass law to make my new name stick.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-07-03
SIXTEEN TO ONE"
The "Mainest Thing" in the
Rocky Greek Settlement.
4 Follower of fashion who Bought
sixteen New Brides to One Poor
Old DEule-BIev scroggins
Wanted to Move.

The mainest thing with the people
around in the Rocky Creek regions this
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-07-03
"slxteen to ono" Connerway.


But let me write and tell you, white
people, that old man Matthew Conner
way" -"Sixteen to One" as everybody
calls him now-is way yonder the hap
piest as well as the most craZiest NOR
tai in all the regions round about Rocky
Creek this summer. He lives right over
there in the hill country, and for the
last three years-every day and every
hour, wet or cold, hot or dry, at home
or abroad, in sickness or in health-he
has been preachin forth the doctrine of
free silver at the rates of sixteen to one.
Mind you, now, old man Connerway
aint the onlyest sixteen to one free
silver man in the settlement. You
would have to burn the woods and sift
the ashes to find sixteen men around
here that aint preachin from the same
text and fightin under the same flag.
But in the main time when sixteen to
One" Connerway caught the disease he
caught a tremendous bad case of 1t.
And what was worse and still more
of it, about the same time he was took
down with a right hard spell of runnin
off at the mouth He went forth into
the highways and the hedges and talked
free silver at sixteen to one so rapid
and so constant, and preached the same
old sermont from the same text over
and over and over till now bless gra-
cious he has went slap kerdab crazy
on the question. He helt up under the
strain right tolerable well till late
along in the spring, when it come to
pass that free silver was the winnin
card all around, and then 1t would seem
like the old man couldn't stand it no
longer. His head gearins jumped a cog,
so1nethin broke, and henceforwartls
after that Sixteen to One" Connerway
has been a standin candidate for the
Crazy Siloam.
To show you what furious bad case
of il the old man has got, the next day
after we got the news that Tennessee
had went a windin for free silver he
went to town, and ] am all sorts of a
liar if he didn't put in and buy sixteen
new brides for one poor old mule. !
took particular notice of the old man
as he rid by our house on his return
back home that cyenin, and from gen.
eral appearments would jidge that
be had bit off about sixteen plugs of
white whisky in one day.
Here week before last Luke Conner
ways girl baby-which Luke and his
wife they live in the house with old
sixteen to One" and they had three
boys to only one gfrl-she took sick
with the slow fever and lied. And
whilst nobody would of thought it, the
old man got mp the next mornin at first
daybreak and took bis spade and lit out
and went over to the old Ehenezer
graveyard. Ii wps way up into tho day
hsfepe hls faiks could fRd hIms sna
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-07-03

Gather 10000 of the threads spun by
q full-grown spider, twist them together
and see Il they equal In subsisteaes the
size ~ ore o. yaHg kalFe
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-07-03

But in the main time our Aunt Nancy
Newton she amt gone Eowheres. She
has sent word by Andrew Jim that
she will try and git in amongst us one
day next week, fly bonnet, old pipe,
thanky bag and all.
RUFUS SANDERS.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-07-03

OWN to bad seasons there is a right
smart talk around amongst the farm
ers to the extent that corn has been
overshootin. Andy Lucas says his corn
must of oyershot itself, cause If it shot
at all it missed the whole durn field"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-03-07
CHRISTMAS.

Christmas is here because little low
ing Christ Child was born on that day.
He grew up. and he grew up to be good.
And after he was about 30 years old he
was the saviour of all men women and
children. Any one would be on point of
death, he could cure. Any one blind, he
would give them eyes and help them
along. Christ wrote some of the Bible
and other noble men did too! But
Christ wrote and said the finest of
words. He said bring the little chill
dren unto me" and "those who are sick
l will make we'll and those who are poor
l will make rich" He said all those
lovely things. God is almost the same
as Jesus Christ. But Christ was down
on earth while God wasn't, so we are
not sure about God; but we think when
people die they go into Gods hands, and
we think they go to beautiful city
which we call the heavens, way up above
all the sky. When people die they go
into Gods and Christ's hands and the
body is left on earth, but the soul keeps
agoing and agoing until it reaches
heaven. Then it stares and wonders
what is coming next. Then they have
wings and fly about in the white clouds
and they live in gold and silver palaces
and God and Christ take care of them
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-03-07
A LITTLE BOYS SERMON.
Descriptive of Christ and Christmas.

A little friend of the Editor in this
city, MASTER CLIFTON SAWYER, aged
10 years, surprised his parents (Mr.
and Mrs. G. A. Sawyer) last Christ
mas by writing Christmas sermon.
We were permitted to see this SER
mon and requested a copy to print
in The UNIvERALIsT. 1t will be in
teresting to those who are making
study of what is now denominated
Child-Psychology that very interest
ing field of exploration which endeav-
ors to trace the earliest unfoldings Of
the child-mind as it begins to formul-
ate it's ideas of things and to express
itself in regard to them. EDITOR.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-03-07

tional sentiment. Let us as Chris
tians, as men who desire the reign of
peace and love try to estimate Alright
the fraternal feeling of the English
nation toward US and try to teach to
our children and to all similar SEN
timent. Happy will it be for us,
happy for England, happy for the
world, if this sentiment shall prevail
on both sides, if these two brave and
progressive nations shall come to I'M
dertand and admire each other. It
will lead the way to a union of these
two foremost nations which would be
supreme in the affairs of the world.
The Anglo-Saxon peoples need not
go outside the men OF their own Ian
guage to form a federation which
could by its simple edict dominate
the world. Loving liberty and fol-
lowing justice and mercy, what might
such union not do? 1t could, with
out firing gun or manning ship,
compel the Sultan to largely remedy
the disorder in Armenia; it could
stay the misrule of Spain in Cuba.
1t could cause the disarmament of
Europe and make war to cease. It
could bring in liberty, peace and pro-
gress everywhere. Shall it not be
our national policy to cultivate such
a friendship and hasten such a
union