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The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-26

Nov, if it was somebody like me
and you and Blew Scroggins, Rufe-
such scapegraces as would cut the
pigeon wing around anything with cal
leo and ribbons on-I wouldn't be givin
myself any particlar worriment about
it. But when you see one of these slow
and bashful men like old man Lum
Wiggins Payin his double-breasted re-
CARDS to a female lady so reglar and
so constant you mought as well to
stand from under, for somethin is more
than probable to drap.
what l come to see you and talk
with you about, Rufe, is this-if some
thin aint done right away Immediately
to block the game and bust up the
pleasant relations goin on between old
man Lum and Miss Mandy, burned il
my crumple-horn cow and her fawn-
colored gal calf amt forever lost to the
Lucas family. Remember, now, Rufe.
that COW is givin three gallons of milk
a day and butter as rich and yellow as
gold, and it will be meat and bread to
me and mine il you can help me to
scotch the proceedins between old man
Lum and old Miss Mandy"
With that Andy he mounted and rid
off towards home. Now, in regards to
men and horses and things in general
I raley couldn't believe Andy Lucas on
a Bible oath, and yet still at the same
time 1 do naturally love the very
ground he treads on. But for the life
of me don't see how I can save my
self and do anything to keep old man
Lum and old Miss Mandy from hangin
their clothes on the same peg if they
have got the notion in their heads.
Maybe I mought save a cow and cali
for Andy Lucas, but would be dead
shot to lose two good friends to the
Sanders family. So on the whole, then
takin the case as it stands, up one side
and down the other, I ruther think ]
will let old man Lum and old Miss Man
dy and Mother Nature have their way.
RUFUS SANDERS.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-26
BEN'S BABY.
The Harrison Mansion at indianapolis the
Scene of New Arrival.


INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Feb. 21.-Gen.
BENJAMIN Harrison is the father of a
little girl who arrived at the Delaware
street mansion at five o'clock this
morning. DIR. Henry Jameson Off
ciated at the event, and under his care
Mrs. Harrison and the daughter are
progressing finely. indianapolis society
has been on the qui vive for this an
nouncement for a month past, and al
most daily there have been rumors to
the effect that the child had arrived.
DR.. Jameson was called last evening,
and, with Mrs. Barmuth, the same
nurse who attended Baby" Nc
Kee, was in attendance until morning.
Mrs. Parker, Mrs. Harrison's sister, was
also present, having come from New
York some weeks ago. The little girl
is a finely formed child, and weighs
eight and three-quarters pounds. Ex-
tensive preparations for the arrival
have been going on at the Harrison
home for months past, and the array of
haby clothes that has been made is Suf-
ficient to satisfy the fastidious taste of
even an ex-president's daughter.
If there was in the generals mind
any disappointment that it was not a
boy he gave no indication of it. This
morning was the first Sunday since his
return from the summer sojourn in the
mountains that Gen. Harrison has not
occupied the family pew in the First
Presbyterian church. The announce
ment of the arrival had reached the
church, however, and Mrs. Harrison
has been the recipient of a shower of
flowers and little notes of congratula-
ton during the day.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-26
RIev scrorgIns on the Road.

Which the same that puts me in mind
of the time when Blew Scroggins started
out as book agent to sell family Bibles.
That was back there in the seventies.
The seasons had hit wrong, the crops
fell way short, and with the people
around Rocky Creek the mainest ques-
ton was how to put meat in the smoke
house and meal in the barrel and keep
the wolf away from the front door.
Consequentially, Blew he got to be the
general agent of a book concern and
started forth to sell family Bibles. But
Blev was like me with the lightnin
rods-he didn't make any tremendous
big sales to speak of, and after the first
round he laid down his hand and
jumped the game.
Il wouldn't talk it out in public,
Rufe, if you didn't know it already"
says Blew to me, "but, to tell the truth,
and nothin but the truth, the Scroggins
generation of people never did build
any churches so fur as L know, and
what little they never have learnt in
regards to the Bible would fill stavin
big book.
but you must keep it in remem-
brance, Rufe, that there was one more
plain case of pushency, and the mainest
thing with me at that writin was to
keep the family washin out of the poor
house. So braced up and went forth
rs the general agent for family Bibles,
and by gatlins the next Jews l got
had struck a snag and went down in
deep water.
First thing. rounded up over there
at the old lady Hanson's place and sailed
right in to sell her family Bible. 1t
was hard to tell from her first few scat
term remarks whether she would or
whether she wouldn't, but in the main
time she lit in and talked Scriptures
to me till hanged if could even say fo-
certain that my name was Scroggins.
THE dear old soul-she wanted to
know OF me what thought about this
man and that man, and this woman and
the other woman, Accordin to reports
from the Scriptures-which of course L
didn't know a blessed thing about any
of 'em But lodged and hedged and
answered her questions as best / could,
skimmiu over the rough places and
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-26
VIII Make No Exhibit.

The Methodist Church, South, will
make no exhibit at the Tennessee Cen
tennial. This decision was reached at
meeting of the Tennessee Centennial
MetL o list commission held at Nash vile
few days ago. Tho expressed deter
mination of the centennial management
to have tho centennial grounds incor-
porated in order that beers and light
wines might be sold with meals is the
cause. There was long and animated
meeting of the commission, but the vote
on the question of abandoning the pro-
posed exhibit was practically unani-
nous. Rev. E. Fl. Greasy of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church opposed this ac-
tion, and when the decision was reached
he announced that his church would go
ahead and get up an exhibit anyhow.
A mee ting was subsequently held and
DR.. Greasy was elected president of the
new movement. Tho disbanded COM
mission secuted all idea of trying to
boycott the enterprise.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-26
VIII Resist Payment.

About forty stockholders of the Chat
tanooga Warehouse and Banking Com
pany, which failed about year ago.
met last week and decided to fight suits
brought by the defunct company to COM
pei them to pay balance on stock SUBJ
scribed. 1t seems that there were
large number Of stockholders who had
subscribed on the installment plan, and
they had paid only part of their sub
scriptions. The bank failed, and now 1t
is sought to reduce the pro rata to be
paid by the stockholders by compelling
those who had not paid the full amount
Of their stock to do so.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-26
value of Wives Is Increasing.

The value of wives, according to the
estimate by a New York jury, is going
up. An outraged husband, wcll-known
broker of that city, has just obtained
4 verdict for $4,000 against an equally
well-known physician, who alienated his
wife's affections. This was the full
amount asked for, and is one of the
largest verdicts ever recovered in such
an action. In Newark, n. j., a suit is
pending of similar character, in which
the injured husband asks for 100000
damages. The revolver is going out OF
use in such cases in our higher civiliza
tim
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-26


The dadblamest Hll-overest gone.
byest worst pestered white man in all
the Rocky Greek regions to-day is my
side partner and fellow-citizen, Andy
Lucas. Who rid up to our front gate
and hitched his critter at the horse.
rack, and dismounted and got down and
come In after supper the other night?
Who but our own and onlyest Andy Lu-
cas-? Straightway from that Andy
put in and give me long song and
dance, which his tale of woe was as fol.
lows;
"You recollect my little crumple.
horn haF Jersey cow, Rufe, which
got for boot in horse trade with
old inah Bunk Weatherford. Well, she
has now got a little fawn-colored gal
calf. gives three gallons of milk day,
and the two are worth their weight in
gold or free silver at sixteen to one.
And I am pestered most to death from
the fact that stand a tremendous good
chance to lose that COW and calf with
nothin to show in their place.
"You know old man 1uIn Wiggins,
Rufe-of course you do. Now old man
Lum, accordin to the records and the
family Bible, got aboard this plannet
along about the same time with you and
me. We went to school together over
at the old Cross Roads schoolhouse--
we At and quarreled and played to-
gether many and many's the time
we turned summersets in the same
sandbed and built futter mills in the
same old spring branch together-but
you well know and recollect that Lum
Wiggins has always been old man Lum.
lie was old man Lum from the cradle up
old man Lum when mere kid-and
he is old man Lum till yet. He never
did fiddle and tumble and frolic around
with the female generation any to speak
Of, and up till right here lately he never
got caught foolin off any of his precious
time courtin and carryin on with a
bunch of calico.
"But along in the Christmas I got
sorry for old Miss Mandy Mayfeld-
which you know, Rufe, she has been on
the bargain counter for 10 these many
years-and / told old man Lum if he
would set up to the frisky old girl and
bring on n weddin match with her I
would give him that little erumple-
horn COW and her fawn-colored gal
calf. Right at that time 1 didn't have
no serious thoughts that he would take
me up, but bless the heavens if he didn't
put in to courtin and carryin on with
Miss Mandy to beat six bits.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-26
Shot From Ambush.

John D. Heck, superintendent of the
Royal Coal and Coke Company's mines
at Coal Creek, was shot from ambush
and instantly killed few days ago.
The murder was cold-blooded and
created great excitement in the little
mining town, which is thirty miles from
Knoxville, and was the scene of famous
riots three years ago. Heck had only
been married about month, and when
the shot was fired he was on his way to
his residence. His young wife ran out
to meet him, and was just in the act of
greeting him with perhaps an affection
ate kiss when the shot was fired, pierre
ing his heart with 44-caliber Winches-
ter ball. He fell at his wife's feet and
died in an instant. His slayer is not
known. The assassin was concealed in
a thick underground of trees, and when
he saw that he had killed Heck he ran
for the mountain and made his escape.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-26
1t Was "wusser Than That.y

| 1t Was "Wusser Than That
But Rccordin to Brit Foster and the
Scriptures, everything that goes up
must come down. So il is with the vain
and fieetin hopes of mortal man. 1
driv out that mornin and likewise driv
In the same day. l put them horses
through and talked and talked till by
gracious for little more and would
of took down with case Of the lock-
jaw. But marry single lightnin rod did
[ sell. l turned the water on in every
way could, but the machinery wouldn't
run.
Late along in the shank of the evenin
driv up to a house where they hadn't
Put up no rods and hailed at the gate.
The lady come out to meet me, but she
was Cryin like her heart would break
slap to pieces. Naturally of course a
sight like that touched me in a soft
place and 1 took it on myself to ask her
what in all creation was the matter.
Somebody sick unto DEATH" says 1.
"WuSser than that, mister" says she.
rs your husband dead and gathered
unto his fathers?" says l.
"Wusser than that, mister" says she.
taken away your father or your dear
old mother" says L.
'Wusser than that" says she.
"Then maybe death has laid his with
erin hand upon the buds and blossoms
of your heart and home and took some
Of the children over the river to that
blessed land of light and sunshine and
flowers" says 1.
''Wusser than that, mister" says she.
We'll, tell me, good woman, what in
the round created world is the matter
with you?"
"Our dear and onlyest daughter"-but
she broke down right there and wept
great gobs of bitter grief. Then pres
emily she recovered and went on:
This mornin our onlyest and dearest
daughter Sophy May she took and run
away with a lightnin rod agent"
What did l do then? Turned the
wagon and team the other way and driv
back to tovn-throwed up my job
soaked a good silver watch for three
dollars and hit the first train goin west
that night. L have seen my full share
of ups and downs in this vale of years
and tears here below. have travelled
all the gaits and covered all the ground
from the woodpile to the clearin and
from Caney Branch to the county line.
And have done little of most every
thing that a poor mortal man ever had
to do, but henceforwards and forever
more / draw dead line at the lightnin
rod business.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-26
REDUCTION IN IRON STEEL
Works Its Legitimate Sequence-Wages Go
Down with Prices.

Works Its Legitimate Sequence-Wages Go
Down with Prices.
READING, Pa, Feb. 21.-The Reading
Iron Co. posted the following notice in
the works yesterday:
ssThe business situation compels re-
duction in the cost of production. We
regret that this involves reduction in
wages. In other localities this has
already taken place. This company
has delayed making a similar re-
duction in the hope that sub
stantial improvement and better
prices might reasonably be expected.
Severe competition, greater uses of
steel (which can be made cheaper than
iron) and other market conditions have,
however, caused prices to decline to
such an extent that many articles we
manufacture must now be sold below
COST
The reduction will go into effect
March i.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-26

10 be done right away Immediately to
meet the great issue of bread and meat
and wherewithals. So 1 put in aud
made arrangements to go forth into the
highways and byways as lightnin rod
agent. Bright and early the next morn
in was out and gone with q good pair
of horses and the wagon loaded down
with materials-the bappiest and most
hopefullest man that ever worked his
way through clost place.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-26
Appreciated His Generosity.

'T shall use the $50 you gave me. tc
spend. john" said the wife, tenderly, tc
the man who had recently, become the
partner of her joys and the sharer OF
her sorrows, 'in the purchase of some.
thing that will constantly remind me
of your generosity. shall have the
portraits of my first three husbands
beautifully framed and hung in our sit
ting-room."
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-26
Terrible Boiler Explosion.

A fearful explosion occurred last week
at a sawmill near Lansing, Morgan
county. While Trilby Hughes and
others were firing up q sawmill engine
the boiler exploded and instantly killed
Hughes, while Lewis Howard, John
Massey, Mart Howard and John Ander-
son were severely injured. John Mas
sey and Lewis Howard each lost leg,
while Mart Howards shoulder was torn
from his body. Hughes was thrown
some distance, stripped of his clothing,
his vitals scattered in all directions,
and one leg was torn off. he was found
lying on his face. Lewis Howard was
seriously injured.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-26
THEINFLUENCE OF THE CHURCH
Carried the Election in Favor of Seperate
Schools in st. BOniface.


WINNIPEG, Man, Feb. 21.-The by
election for st. Boniface yesterday
hinged on the Manitoba school ques-
tion, and the fight was between the
Catholic clergy candidate, Lozon, and
liberal candidate, Bertrand. AS was
expected, the church candidate was
elected, his majority being 1872. The
liberals or anti-separate school party,
put up strong fight, but the influence
exerted by the church was too great to
overcome, Archbishop Langevin per-
sonally taking part in the campaign
and exhorting his flock from the pulpit
to vote for Lozon. The Roman Catho-
lies are greatly elated over the victory
as it indorses their stand for separate
schools and prolongs the Manitoba
fight.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-26
THE TRUSTS CANCELLED

Mrs. Mccormick Blaine Receivers Full Pos
session of Her Million.
New YORK, Feb. 21.-David B. Ogden,
a referee, has made a report in the case
of Anita Mccormick Blaine against her
brother, Cyrus Fl. Mccormick and her
uncle, E. M. Fowler, to set aside certain
trust deeds under which they were
trustees. The referee holds that the
trusts be cancelled.
Miss Mccormick married Emmons
Blaine in September, 1889. She is now
widow, her husband having died in
1892.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-26
Frightfully and Fatally Manrled.

David Stewart, engineer of the Georgia
Mining and Manufacturing Company's
blast furnace at Chattanooga, fell from
the engine platform last week and was
caught in the mammoth fly wheel Of the
blowing engine, his right leg being cut
off and his body otherwise bruised and
mangled, from the effects of which he
diod
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-26
Tennessee Cigarette Law.

Tennessee's new cigarette law is at
tracting widespread attention. The
secretary of State is in daily receipt OF
letters from different parts of the United
States for information in regard to it.
Quite mum Der of mt IN bers of the Texas
legislature have written for copies of
the law, and say that they will make
strenuous efforts to secure the passage
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-26
COSTLY FLAMES.
Narrow Escape of Apartment Tenants in a
Temperature of Twenty-Five Below.

GRAND FORKS, n. D.. Feb. 22.-Fire
early yesterday morning burned the
Syndicate block, owned by William
Bulge. Estimated loss, 1925, GOO; in
sured for one-half that amount. The
tenants were Ephraim Bros, clothing;
Rand Bros, shoes; Higham Bros, hard
ware and Thomas Beare, dry goods.
Many tenants who lived in apartments
narrowly escaped death from exposure
as the Thermometer registered % below
zero,
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-26
Indea MilIiam Hammond Dead.

Judge William Hammond, of Leba-
non, Tenn, died last week at Wood
ward, Oklahoma. Judge Hammond was
one of the best known men in Tennes-
see, having been on the bench for years.
At the time of his death he was register
of the United States land Office at
Wood ward,
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-26

trustin mostly to my nigger luclt Well.
she caught me in two or three rsle tight
places, made me back my fool self up
agin q snag here and there and finally
at last she come out fiatfooted and told
me [ didn't know a mortal thing about
my business.
"Raley. Rufe, it did seem to me like
the old lady mought be somethin like
about three-thirds right about that,
whereas 1 went on back home and took
out and forever retired fro.n the book
business. And if the plan of salvation
for the human race was dependin on
me to sell family Bibles, it would be
woe unto this lost and ruint woi Id"
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-26
DRAGGED IN A CONDUIT.
'rightfuI Death of a Trackman at Kan

FrightfuI Death of Trackman at Kan
City.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-. Feb. 21.-John
Lagale, trackman on the Brooklyn
avenue cable line, met horrible
death. He was putting pulley wheel
in the conduit and was lying across
the rope. He did not hear the APP
preaching train, nor did the gripman
see him. The grip caught him and
and dragged him half block doubled
up in an unusually-narrow conduit
He was conscious when taken out, but
he died two hours later.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-26
Exceeded Her Contract Speed.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va, Feb. 21.-The
Wilmington, one of the three gunboats
constructed at the shipyards here for the
United States government, went on her
trial trip yesterday and exceeded her
contract speed of 1S knots by ~ knots.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-26

/ turned up one day
dead broke, fat
busted and kerhum-
muxed-in a town
way down there in
the southeast cor
ner of Arkansaw,
Texas and Louisi-
ana, which they
called the name of
the place Texar-
kama. Somethin had
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-26
Sharn Ia sheriff.

In the Moore-Sharp contested election
case, involving the shrievalty OF David
son county, the Supreme Court sustained
the finding of the lower court. This
leaves Sharp in charge of the Office.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-26
HANNA FOR SENATOR.
Gov. Bushnell Makes Announce
ment Of His Intention
To Appoint Senator Sherman's Successor
In the United States Senate the Chairman
of the Republican National Commit
tee-Mr. Hanna Will Not Talk.
VIII Appoin. Mark Hanna Senator.

COLUMBUS, o., Feb. 21.-Gov. Bush
nell furnished the following statement
to the United Associated Presses this
evening:
1T had beer my intention to make no an
nouncement in relation to the action would
take in the matter of an appointment to I'LL the
prospective vacancy in the Ohio representation
in the United States senate until the vacancy
actually existed. But on account of the mani
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-26
A Hospital to Be Opened.

The proposed hospital at Jackson will
be opened in short time with full
corps of physicians and surgeons.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-26
FROH THE WOODS.
The Sage Of Rocky Greek Has the
Floor.
Was "Oncst" n LiEhtnIn Rod Agent
Blev ScrOSEinA on the Road with
Family BIbIes-Lucas Family
In Trouble.

Oncst upon time when I was bruisin
around promiscus out in the wild west
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-26
ASA s. BUSHNELL.

(Signed) ASA s. BUSHNELL
Mr.. Hanna Refuses to Discuss the Report.
CLEvELAND,O., Feb. 22.-M. A. Hanna
was shown the United Associated
Presses dispatch from Columbus last
night announcing that Gov. Bushnell
had finally yielded to the pressure and
will appoint him United States senator
to fill Senator Sherman's unexpired
term. Though happy, and realizing
that the victory had been won, the ma
tional chairman refused absolutely to
di scuss the matter.
Il don't doubt the authenticity of the
telegram" said he, but have not re-
ceived any official announcement from
the governor or anyone else, so you will
have to excuse me from discussing the
matter, and l will say nothing until
the official appointment does come. 1t
would neither be right nor just nor
etiquette to comment on it at this time
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-26

fest interest OF the people and their desire to
know what will be done, deem it best now to
make the following statement: When Senator
Sherman resigns to enter the cabinet of Presi-
dent Mckinley 1 will appoint to succeed him
Hon. Marcus A. Hanna, of Cuyahoga county
to serve until his successor is chosen by the
seventy-third general assembly of the state. 1
trust this action will meet with the approval Of
the people.
(Signed) ASA s. BUSHNELL
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-26
MoHAMMEOAN RULE

Being Maintained by Christian Guns I'm
Christian Crete-A Fight Between Turks
and Cretans Decided In Favor OF the
Former by the Guns from the Fleet of the
POwers-The Cretan Patriots Discour-
aged.