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The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-01
Mrs. Elizabeth Brown.

Mrs. Elizabeth Brown. widow of the
late ex-Gov. and ex-senator Joseph E.
Brown, of Georgia. died at Atlanta.
recently, aged 20. She had just re-
turned from a tour of the Holy Land.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-01
Mrs. E. yandorf.

Mrs. E. Vandorf died at the residence
of her brother, c. c. Buder, of Column
bus, Miss. Deceased was a member of
one of the oldest and most prominent
families in the state.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-01

my r e m e nj :
brance a | n :
dead wrong /
never did tell
you Brit Fos-
ter's Christmas
story in regards
to h i s little
steer by the
name of Brin-
die, h | $ r e 4
leather S h o e s
and his long
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-01
Three Persons Drowned.

Allen Greer and the wife and daugh-
ter of Bud Owens were drowned in
Clarks river, six miles from Paducah,
KY. They were crossing the stream
in a canoe, when the craft was over
turned.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-01
wife Murderer to Hang.

Judge Hicks has set February 19 as
the date uLon which c. Fl. Givens, the
wife murderer, is to be hanged at
Dandridge.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-01
State Railroad Project.

A proposition is being discussed look
ing to u erection by the State of a
branch road twenty-five miles in length,
to extend from the Brushy Mountain
mines to the Cincinnati Southern rail-
road at Glen Mary. At present the
State must ship by a short line known
as the Hartman &c Northeastern rail-
road, running from a point within half
mile of Brushy mountain to Harri-
man. 1t costs now SO car of thirty
tons to get the State coal to the main
line of a railroad. The average output
of the mines is, say, sixty-five cars a
day, making an average outlay of near
ly $500 per day. 1t is understood that
the prison commissioners will be able
to show that they can build the pro-
posed road for about SIS, 600, and that
they will save the State many thousands
of dollars annually.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-01
TENNESSEE STATE NEWS
The Coal Combine.

The Nashville Banner says the coal
combine of East Tennessee is fighting
the State policy of using the canvicts
for mining coal. The fight has been
systematically conducted, and the hope
of the combine is to get the Legislature
to change the States policy, which
would force the leasing of the convicts
again to the coal companies. The coal
combine insists that the Brushy noun
tain mine is running their business.
Concerning this complaint the Chatta-
nooga Times says:
''In point of fact the high price OF
coal was dead drag on manufacturing
in this town, in Knoxville and else
where in the State for years. When
Birmingham got run of mine for 80
cents and S1.0O ton, our manufacturers
paid 81. 40 to S1.75. These are the facts
For nearly generation domestic con-
sumers here, in Knoxville and Nash
vile paid $500 to S. SO a ton for
lump, while the small towns of Ohio
paid So. 90 to So. 25 for the same quality,
in their cellars, the Ohio coal being
freighted distances ranging from so to
$50 miles, by rail or canal.
"But all this doesn't give the State a
right to ruin these coal operators; and,
in very truth, the State is not doing
anything of the kind. If it has cheap
ened coal BIT, may God bless it; the
poor consumers, the manufacturers,
everybody but those who sweat and
'cuss' because they cannot get the peo-
pie at their mercy, will join in the
blessing of the State for giving them
fuel just little cheaper"
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-01
Hasrwo OBJECTS In view.

w. c. Coleman, wealthy negro of
Concord, N. c.. will build and equip a
cotton mill for the double object of
teaching and giving employment to
negroes.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-01
Got Drunk and Used : Gun.

jeff Mccullough shot and mortally
wounded Frank Buker in Albert Blues
barber shop at Brookhaven, Miss.
Mccullough was drinking. All coll
ored.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-01
"Tremendius Sad whereforcs."

"Hits been so monstrous long ago.
Rufe, fand the whenceness and the
wherefores thereof are SO tremendous
sad unto my wanderin thoughts till
burned if don't raley hate to tell the
truth whilsthistory repeats herself. HIT
was the ups and downs, the trials and
tribu1ations of that orful day, Rufe,
which driv me away from the old home
where I had spent the golden days of
boyhood. Hit was the scandlous scrape
brung down on me by that little scrub
steer of mine, Brindle. them red
leather shoes and that internal long
tail coat, which took me as green and
tender boy, fresh from the woods and
hills-with the dew drops and the hay
seed in my hair-throwed me out into
the cold world alone and made me what
you see and what am to-night-a gam
bier which has bet his pile on two pair,
queens up, as it were, whilst the other
mar helt four aces or a straight flush. :
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-01
Death Claimed Both.

Tandev Foster, aged "a, and his
wife, aged SO, died at Elkton. KY,
within five minutes of each other.
They resided in Todd county for years.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-01
with BIS aRiggEns on

by this time some Of the women
folks 1t home had liked me up With .
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-01
ON llIgCKIEBERRY RIDGE.
The Story Of Ono aSad and Orfur'
Christmas Day.
Trials and Tribulations That Befell a Pam
ther Creek Boy - Little Steer Brin-
die, Bed Leather Shoes and Long
Tail Winchester Coat.

Stories / have told now and then
stories on top Of stories = but If
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-01
Raising Corn In the South.

Mr.. Ounce Hammond, who resides
near Anderson. S. c., has given prac
tical proof of the fact that it is folly
for southern farmers to have their
corn houses in the west. Last winter
Mr.. Hammond cleared and drained a
quantity of low land. lilo acres of
which he planted in corn last spring.
From this he gathered SPAS bushels of
merchantable corn. being at the rate
of nearly so bushels per acre. Unlike
western farmers, Mr.. Hammond will
not have to make fuel out of his corn
to keep his household warm.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-01

tail Winchester coat. Many and many
the time 1 have heard Brit tell that
story, which at the same time, you un-
derstand, it was the unwashed truth
and 1 have laughed and laughed tall By
gracious / would ache all over in spots
as big as saddle blanket.
But Brit he never could find where
the laughin part come in. With him
it was "a passle of most hellatious sad
and solemcholy facts in history"
ssThe Man and the Surroundins Mot"
Hit was way out there in the Pan
Handle country of Texas, in a town
by the name of Vernon, one Christmas
eve night, where me and Brit met up
together the last time in this vain and
fleetin world below. Seven long years
had then come and went since me and
him had shook hands acrost the bloody
chasm of the past. There was a warm
and hearty "howdy Rufe" and "howdy
Brit" and that night when we fell in
with the town gang around blazin
good fire in the back room-all hands
braced up to about six bits in the dollar
and mellow onto the OCCASION lowed
to Brit that the man and the surround
ms had met oncst more-that the day
and hour had now come for him TO
tell them Texas fellows about the sad
and terrible Christmas which he had
spent one time back there in the states
in durin of our young and better days.
Well, as usual, Brit pulled on the bits
considerable, but under the general
-.-.---,,..o rf +l,o c,,rro1rudin circIlIll-
ference he finally at last give in and
come forth with that famous chapter
from our local history.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-01

Two bishops were required to un-
tangle the colored Methodist confer
ence at Paris. Tex. Several ministers
were expelled for immoral conduct.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-01
aOver on Huckleberry Ridge

sYOu must recolIecf, Rufe, that IN
them plain old days some of Gods own
people lived right down there in the
Panther Creek settlement. Most in
generally speakin they belonged to the
Old School Baptists-God fearin, deb.
payin, dram drinkin, democratic people.
hut they were pore. Rufe, most helia-
tious pore-which l always did main
tain they didn't mean no harm by that.
And let me tell you, fellow citizens,
money was money then, and it took
some tall scratchin and starvin stintin
to pay off the feed bills and keep up
with the store account. Consequential
ly as you no doubts recollect, Rufe. IN
our young and gallin days the where
withals and raiments with which
clothed my awkward body were the
plainest and but blame few at that.
Now can remember the skeerce AMI
scanty manner of my dress the same as
if it was but only yesterday. Honest to
God, fellow citizens, was passin out
from boyhood into manhood. with whis-
kers sproutin on my face and women
bearin on my mind before ever climed
up on the inside of full suit of clothes.
In the summertime / had to wear u
long tail homespun shirt, and in the
winter it was that same long tail shirt
spliced out below with a pair of wool
socks to keep my wayward feet from
freezin slap off.
"But finally at last / was feelin my
oats so promiscus and plentiful till
nothin would do but / must go out
amongst the female generation. In the
main time old man Larry Benton was
Twin over there on Huckleberry Ridge
and raisin of tremendous large and
lovely crop of girls. And it did look to
NE like of all the places in the discov-
cred world for a youngster to go and
have high heel good time that was
the mainest place. But from that
bright day down unto this blessed hour,
so fur as anybody knows, never have
been caught foolin and fumblin around
with passle of gay and gorgeous girls.
By gatlins. I give EN- ali the road now
till they git broke and bride wise and
quit pnI1in on the bit. Anyhow, after
stayin wake Of nights fer week
wrastlin with the question which would
be the best, TO go or not to go-thinkin
about that drove of girls over at cid
man Larry's. and piclin out the prit-
tiest one In the pack for my own and
onlyest sweetheart lowed that /
would CO. After that the mainest thing
with me was the higgins and the fix
ments to put on.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-01

Said to Have Shot in self-Defense.
At Vicksburg, Miss, Michael Oates,
a boiler maker, was shot and instantly
killed by d. II. Crawford, proprietor
of boiler works; claims self-defense.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-01
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.
Died From Leprosy.

Frank Monnier died in New Orleans
recently of leprosy. The case was one
of long standing, and was known to
the entire ighborhood, and accord
ing to one of the brothers of the young
man, to the board of health and the
police. ALI they did. he said, was to
come around once in awhile and sec
how he was getting along. He never
left the house or the neighborhood
once during his long and terrible
malady. He remained around the
house all of the time doing small jobs
and chores up to four months ago,
when he was compelled to take to his
bed, where he finally died, a most
horrible sight to look upon.
This is the second death that has oc-
Cured in this family from leprosy.
About eight years ago one of the sons
died of the same disease. The house
is small single story frame cottage.
and the family living in it is composed
of father, mother and two sons. They
are all healthy and strong looking.
and are free from the taint.
The Growing Trade of New Orleans.
Statistics compiled by the treasury
department for November show that
the foreign trade of New Orleans, in
stead of falling off little from the
record established in previous months,
was much larger than ever.
In export of cotton and corn New Orleans led
all other ports. In cotton, of course, New Or
leans has always held first place, but in corn
the pre- commence has only been achieved with
the last year. New York has always held first
place in corn exports.
In wheat exports New Orleans Is also gain
ing, the total for 1896 up to December being
3.600,009 bushels, as compared with only IA, 900
bushels in 1895 In -four shipments it has also
made noteworthy progress. For the same
period the total shipments have reached 100000
barrels against 81, 900 barrels in 1895. One of
New Orleans most noteworthy gains in the
way of exports has been the increased ship
ments OF lard. During the time noted the
large totals of 235O0,o00 pounds, as compared
with only 5000 pounds in 1895. This is taken
Indication that eventually New Orleans
will become quite as important a shipping
point for hog products as it already is for
grain.
Birmingham state herald., 1897-01-10

position to temporize with the opposi- tion--to compromise principle--our de- feat would have been overwhelming and ignominious.
 Whereas, courageous stand Tor what we believed then and now to be right, won the respect of the masses, and made the first great battle, under all the circum- stances, a great victory for the restora- ton of the money of the constitution and rule by the people.
 And the 6,500,000 heroes who, inspired by the courage of a great leader took their stand against the powers of com bined wealth, will, like Jackson's follow CTS in their day, stand their ground, until truth and right triumph over misrepre- sentation and wrong.
 Already from the ruins of falling financial institutions all over our fair land Is heard the wall, Can it be what Bryan says is true? Are all those old writers on political economy right. after all, when they declare that continuous currency contra ction results in ever fall ing prices and certain financial distress?
 "All that is essential, therefore, is to stand our ground-perfecting our or ganization, waiting patiently, ever ex- posing error, discussing, practically, par ticular measures pressed to be made law, maintaining ''masterly inactivity and history will demonstrate the righteous ness of our cause" aas
Birmingham state herald., 1897-01-10
A PECULIAR WORLD.

This is a peculiar world, says an ex- change. One man is saving money to build house. and another is trying to sell his for less than it cost to build it.
 One man is spending all he makes In taking a girl buggy riding and to enter tainments with the hope of making her his wife, while hts neighbor is using One man escapes with diseases flesh is heir to, and gets killed on a railroad
 Another escaped with only scratch, and dies with the wfhooping cough. One man stands off his creditors and goes travelling to the springs, while another stays at home and pays his debts-Alex- ander City Outlook. .
Birmingham state herald., 1897-01-10
BIRMINGHAM STATE HERALD SUNDAY 'JANUARY 1o, 1es7
IA CHAPTER IN CRIME.

The State Herald, realizing the gravity of an awful fact lately thrust upon 1t realizing, too that the height. the deptf and the horror of that fact, are not prop erly estimated by the public. puts before its readers today story of contemplated crime which it dares to say, is unparal lelled in the history of the south.
 It is. not Surprising that 90 per cent of the thinking men of today absolutely refuse to entertain as credible. the idea that there exists in the world a human being so diabolical as to plan and de liberately execute the helllsh scheme the accomplishment of which meant the aw- ful tragedy or the two bridge disasters SO lately schFonieled.
 The civilized mind recoils in horror which is instinctive from the thought that human vultures were lowering over the dead and the dying at Cahaba bridge; mans belief in his fellow man is not so easily loosened from it's mooring. The State. Herald. itself was slow to accept so horrible a.conclusion. Even after it had weighed the facts 1t withheld it's yer dict. But it has heard the confession of the perpetrators of the deed. tI has
 
 entangied themselves in a mesh of tes- timony. each corroborating the others story until the chain of evidence was complete and fastened about the feet of five men who stand today demons, self confessed. It has looked too. upon the faces of these criminals, faces in which all the passions of men are shown and little that is else than despicable. It can no longer doubt the evidence.
 It puts before its readers the confes- sion as it fell from the lips of the crim- inals, a confession so cold-blooded and hellish that comprehension loses its grasp and stands aghast at the magnitude of the crime matched in human brain. It presents, too. the pictures of the crimin- als and he who runs may read upon . these brutal faces the possibilities of crimes that are nameless. yet which day by day blot the escutcheon of the land of the south. To such natures human life is the cheapest thing in the world about them, held as lightly in the. hand as chaff and as readily thrown to destruc- ton.
 The State Herald does not appeal to the emotions of its readers in this matter. In all 'caimness it presents facts which are beyond dispute, and it asks but one question: If the averted wreck at Me- Combs treste was caused by these brutes in human form, self-accused and self-confessed, is it not an inevitable in ference that the Cahaba bridge horror was but a sequel to McComb's and the work of the same hands?
 To the State Herald the conclusion seems irresistible. No shrlsing is possi- ble and it now behooves those in whom the power of law is vested to mete out punishment,- swift and sharp to the per petrators of a deed so horrible that his tory and tradition alike will shrink from its rendition.
Birmingham state herald., 1897-01-10
WHY NOT SPEAK ON KANsAsq

It is suggested that Mir. Ingalls, touch upon the history of Kansas in his lecture. No man is more able of treating the his- tory of Kansas intelligently and drawing deductions therefrom. No state in the union has more interesting record than Kansas. In bleeding Kansas was fought the first battle between slavery and free dom. The latter won, and Kansas was added to the free states instead of the slave states. On January 2s. thirty six years ago, the state was admitted to the union. after a hard-fought battle in the senate. The issue in Kansas disrupted the union between the south and west, started civil war in that state, and broke up the whig party. The Farmers Alliance had its stronghold in Kansas, and the populist party now has control. The problem of politics is now being worked out there by the populists. It is said in the. east that Kansas is a ruined state; that its> bEnRs>aye breakthg. It's people bankrupt, and all because of pop ulist rule. Does MT. Ingalls hold to this belief?
Birmingham state herald., 1897-01-10
THE POOL BILL.

Sunday, January F, will be memora- ble day in Alabama. In the morning at Il o'clock thousands of pulpit sermons will be preached against gambling. not only in Alabama, where measure is now pending before the legislature regu- lating this evil but throughout the coun- try where ministers have been encour- aged by the work being done in this state to exercise their influence in furth- ering the enactment of this law.
 On the night of the 17th joint meetings will be held in the churches throughout the state, and the pool biii be informally discussed by all who feel an interest in the moral welfare of the state, irrespect- i've of denomination or whether or not they are members of any church.
 In Birmingham the eloquent Dr. Eag- CT will deliver a. special address and there will also be speeches by prominent lay men. Where this address will be deliver ed has not as yet been agreed upon, but the ministers of the city are already laying their plans for large and inter- esting meeting. A special musical pro- gramme will be arranged suitable to the occasion.
 The ministers throughout the state have been thoroughly organized for the purpose of bringing every effort to bear for the passage of the pool bill. and their work promises not to go unrewarded.
Birmingham state herald., 1897-01-10
A DIABoLICAL. PLOT ITO BURN.

Richmond, Va, Jan. 9.-An attempt was made this morning to burn the Wharton building. in Radford. in whicsS. are the court room and clerks office. De- liberate preparation had been made, the object being. 1t is supposed, to destroy the court records. The fire was discov- cred and extinguished before much dam- age was done. The incendiary is being hunted with hounds
Birmingham state herald., 1897-01-10

The Birmingham fire department has been the subject of considerable praise by the people of Birmingham during the past few weeks On several occasions the department has made runs to the ex- treme limits of the city, arriving in time to protect property from serious loss. Chief Mullin is prominent member of the American Association of Fire Chiefs, and stands at the head of the list among the best chiefs in America
Birmingham state herald., 1897-01-10

The republican platform declared for international bimetallism. or the gold standard. Mckinley is taking the plat form literally and proposes to try inter- national bimetallism. With this object in view he has sent Wolcott to Europe. It has been said that Mckinley is at heart lover of silver, but courted gold as a. matter of political expediency. His present coquetting with silver angers the gold men, but pleases the silver men.
Birmingham state herald., 1897-01-10

The esteemed Eufaula Times thus re- lieves the mind of the public of a per- picking question:
 When the Atlanta Constitution had resurrected Maceo 8 dozen times the State Herald took up the idea and pro- ceeded to resurrect him on it's own &C., count. We desire to say to our esteemed contemporaries that Maceo is dead.
Birmingham state herald., 1897-01-10
MONEY HARD TO GET.

There never was time in the his- tory of Russell county when money was as scarce and hard to get as at present. There never was a time when the people were as hardtup and when the item of taxes bore as hard on them as now. There never was a time when the ar gument of additional taxation would have as much weight upon the voters of the country as at present, and still Scale says this is not a propitious time to sub- init the court house question and settle 1t by vote of the people. Poor, poor judgment.-Russell Register.
Birmingham state herald., 1897-01-10

Jefferson county helps to educate the children of other counties in the state. Jefferson pays in more to the school fund than it receives It pays into the school fund for the state about $6O,000 and gets back only $25, ,000. s--
Birmingham state herald., 1897-01-10

The demand for a reformatory is im- perative. Every consideration of jus- tice to our fellow-men demands 1t. The State Herald has the matter much at heart. and is glad that the ladies have taken hold of it. They will not fail now that they have espoused this cause. The member of the legislature who fails to heed their gentle voices will regret it,
Birmingham state herald., 1897-01-10

The signs of the times indicate that politics is to be back number during 1897. This may appear odd, but this is an odd number year Besides in Chicago the popular headquarters for national gatherings, one thousand saloons have closed business. and in Birmingham, the popular gathering point for Alabama politicians, several saloons have closed doors. And there is some talk of closing the barrooms in the national capital. You can't run politics without iiquor." at least that has been the cry for a number of years.
Birmingham state herald., 1897-01-10
WITH THE STATE EDITORS
NEW CONSTrTrrTIoN

A new constitution is what all progress i've citizens of the state favor By all means let us hold convention for that purpose this year.-Pinebelt News
Birmingham state herald., 1897-01-10

The Atlanta Journal asks, lis the stage declining?" which leads the Selma Jour nal to remark that Judging from the increasing of high kicking artists, it seems to be elevating in the wrong way"
Birmingham state herald., 1897-01-10

Wonder if MT Ingalls will take the position that the triumph of the republi- cans and goldbugs has brought about the Crisis" E