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The Portland daily press., 1899-08-22
Imports.
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tins coal % VIM NJ Bradley.
lmports.


FVW IIlHNI5l aug II.
The Wheat market closed weak and lower to-
day on improved crop conditions and poor cash
rdemand; Sept dropped u as CLOSING &C 4 / -
Coarse grains easier. Refined Sugar weak and
SIG lower. Butter very firm and and quite &C.
tive Potatoes about SC on at 50@55c. Eggs
steady and unchanged Fnrpentine quoted at
higher 57G67c. Linsecd oil firm. Burning oils
baye been advanced nc Mackerel firm and
tending upward; the New England feet has
landed to date s.9s7 bbls, against II ,274 bbls
last year, 7ico bbls in 1897 and $3.50 bbls in
1896. Imports Of salt Mackerel at Boston to
date 9,4os bbls. against 5,45e bbls in 1895 and
1880 bbls in 1897.
The followingquotauons represent the whoIe-
sale prices for TINS markets;
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chicago 1--we sreex sIsrk.s.


CHICAGO. Aug. 81, -Cattle-recelpts
G 60; commoner grades at 2596 10; stock
ers and feeders =; bulls. cows and heifers At
2 00G5 Is; Texas steers 3 50a4 95; calves at
4 50d7 10.
Hogs-receIpts $4,000; weak; heavy at 10
"a SO; mixed lots 40a4 S714 light at 4 600
50 n pigs 1904 75.
? Sheep-receipts 16. 900; strongerl; sheep 80
"a 5oi lambs 5oG6 20.
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RATES OF PASSAGE.

CABIN 5000 to $4,000 A reduction Of 10
per cent Is allowed On return tieEeis ayca ~
on the lowest rates. eNSep'
SECOND CABIN-To Liverpool London or
Londonderry-S35.C0 single; S65. TO retur,i
STEERAGE-L Liverpool. London. Stiasgou.
Prepaid certificates So. s''0'
Children Under u years, half fare. Ratas IN
or from other points on application To "
IT,. r. MCGOWAN, AGO Consress 81.
Portland. Me. S'''
j. u. HEATING, 81 Ia Rxry,au.. g.
Portland, NE. tssaats
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BROW oun coRREspoNnENrs.

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS.
PORT CLYDE. Aug l9-Ar, sch Julia Ann,
Bangor for Boston.
Sch Lizzie Carr, Capt Thomas Chadwick. from
Swan's Island for New York. with granite, mas
arrived here, leaking 900 strokes per hour She
will make temporary repairs and proceed.
ROCKFORD. Aug 20-Sld, sch Rebeeea Shep-
herd, Smith. Washington.
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NEW YORK. Aup. 81

- y 2 o1sFt9 sAEIl5s 2 I
Money on call was steady2s4 asa pr ct; last
loan at per cent; primo mercantile paper
at 41485 per cent Sterling Exchange firm,
with actual business in bankers bills A s6l4
@As61s for demand, S394 1914 for six
ty days; posted rates at 4 saga Sta. CONNER.
cial bills s2l4 "a 1874.
Silver certificates e0a6osl.
Bar Silver GO.
Mexican dollars 47Ts.
Government bonds strong.
The Portland daily press., 1899-08-22

The wreck OF the sch Lavinia Belle. which
was sunk near the New England Company's
pier. Bath, Is being removed.
In few days II Is expected that the work OF
dredging certain parts CT the harbor OF BANGOR
Will begin. The berth OF the Boston and Bangor
steamers Il TO be.deepened and the channel on
Rollins mills Is also to be dredged, while the
Kcnduskeag stream from its mouth TO the Ken
duskeag bridge is to be deepened several feet.
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P0pham Beach Route.
and FREEpORT.
Steam en- Peiensc0f.

Pier at 1000 a. m. and 4.s0 D. M far Waiiess
Landing, Town Landing. Princes Point Cous.
ms, Littlejohn Great Chebeague, Bustin's
Islands. Freeport.
RETURN-Leaye Porter's Landing. Free.
port at 625 a. IN. and 1890 p. M, South Free
port s. 5 a. m. and i2.45 p. M. Bustn's 100 a
M and LOO m, Great Cnebeague 7.2o a. NJ,
Cousins 7.35 a. M. 80 ,. M. Princes Point 55
a. M, 80 p. NJ, Town Landing $40 a. M, 2.1o
p M; MalIe's Landing s25 a. M, 225 p m.
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Boston Produce Market.

Boston Produce Market.
BOSTON, Aug 81. ise9-Ths following are
to-siay's euotauons OF Provisions. s5o.i
FLOUR.
The market IS firm.
Spring aients 4 2OR4 40
winter patents. 3 so a. 50.
Clear ana straight 3 40 . 4 90. II
Corn-steamer yellow Al 1xc<
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EASTERN STEAMBOAT co.
SUMMER ARRANGEMENT.

commencing June 20, 1899.
Leave Bath daily except Sunday at $50 a.
m. landing at Westport Junction, Isle OF
Springs, southport, Mouse, CAPITOL and SQUIRREL
Islands, Spruce Point, Ocean Point aud Booth
bay Harbor, connects at Mouse Island Tor
Christmas Cove Heron Island and Pamaquid.
ing same landings.
Leave Boothbay Harhor at 715 a. m, landing
daily Sunday excepted at Squirrel and House
Islands. southport, Rggsville, Westport juno
ton and Westport. Monday. Wednesday and
Friday az 0eeaR>Point. Spruce Point, Capitol
Island, Five Islands, and Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday at Isle of Springs and sawyerss
Island. Returning leave Bath at 2. 80 D. m.
Saturday evening express commences July
Sth. Leave Bath at $50 p. m.
Noon express commences July nth. Tues
DAY, Thursday and Saturday, leave Bath at IL 40
a. NJ, Boothbay Harbor at II a. m.
P0pham Beach Route.
Commencing THURSDAY, June is, 1899.
steamer Win leave Popham Beach daily, ex.
cept Sunday, at a. m. and $50 p. IN. Return
ing will leave Bath at a. m. and p. m. calling
at Phipsburg Center. Parkers Head, Hinekly's
and Bay Point each way.
JAS. B. DRAKE, Pres. and Gen. Mgr
Bath, Jure ID. 1892 ie2ldtf
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Retail Groeers, sunar nrarkef.

PORTLAND marEet-eut loaf &c; confectionery
8ct powdered az 6lae: formulated at &c: coffee
crushed -ci yellow 41ac.
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Foreign Ports.
Sid I'm Avonmouth Aug 20, steamer Lycia, for
Boston.
Ar at st John, NIB, Aug 81. steamer Spring
hill Cook Portland.
CID sch Lizzie B. Belyea, Thomaston.
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European MarketE
(By Telegraph.)

LONDON. Aug 2i, 1s99-Consols closed at
los 15-16ifor money and lo614 for account.
LIVERPOOL, Aug. 81, 1S9e.-The Cotton
market steady; American middling at 7-l6d; |
sales estimated 1000 bales lot which OOOo
bales were for speculation and export.
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Portland & BOothhay Steamboat Co.

GOING WEST.
STEAMER ENTERPRISE leaves as
follows:
East Boothbay for Portland, Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays, at 100 a. M,
touching at South Bristol, Christmas Cove.
Heron Island, 7 Ocean Point, Boothbay Har-
bor Squirrel Island.
GOING EAST
Leave Franklin Wharf Portland, Tues
days and Saturdays at T.o0 a. M, for
sDamariscotta, touching at Squirrel Island,
Boothbay Harbor, Ocean Point. Heron
Island; Christmas Cove, South Bristol,
East Boo.hbay.
Lave Portland, Thursdays, at 200 a M,
for East BoothDay and above landings except
Damarisco;ta.
Passengers conveyed by team.
Returning to East Booihbay.
Subject to change without notice.
1yldu ALFRED RACE. Manager.
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Tho following quotations represent the pay
ing prices In this market: -
Cow and steers. .........,.. To "a m
Bulls and stags...... go
Skins-No quality ..............IOc
nos .,. ...... ....s sa7o
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Service resumed Friday, March 81, 1899. on
which date the Steamer Frank Jones will leave
Portland on Tuesdays and FRIDAYS at IL 90 o.
m. for Rockland, Bar Harbor and Machiasport
and intermediate landings. Returning leave
M, arriving Portland at hoo D. m. Connecting
with trains forlBoston.
GEO. II. EVANS. FE BOOTHBY
Gen' Manager. Gen1 Pass Aren't.
Portland. Maine. mar24dtf
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Portland & RunfOrd Falls Ry.

Kn Effect Hume &c, 1900.
DEPARTURES.
$50 A. NJ and Ito r. NJ. From Union Station
for Poland. Mechanic Falls. Buckneld. Cam
ton. Dixnald. Runlford Falls and Bemis.
With through car on ITO p. m. train for
BemiS.
ssoa. M. t10 and 5.l5 u. N From Union
Station for Mechanic Falls and intermediate
stations
on Saturday only 5.15 p. m. train runs through
to Itumford Falls.
Il G. BRADFORD, Tlafic Manager,
Portland. Maine
1e1S diff Rurnford Falls. Nalne.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-11-10
WHEN BRITAIN CoNQUERS.
Ehe BurEhers VIII Make the Trans
vRaI m He'll on Earth to
the Hated British.

New York, Nov. Ga dispatch to
.he Herald from London says:
The following dispatch has come to
hand from Mr.. Bennett Raleigh, the
vell-known war correspondent of the
Daily Telegraph:
Writing under date Ladysmith, Oc-
tober 6, he says: The primal ground
of the Beers is that the country is
theirs by right of grant, conquest and
occupation, and only with the unbid-
den consent of the burghers shall any
body else have a voice or the right to
rule in the land.
AS intelligent men, though, they de-
clare they may be able to withstand
such forces as England can send
against them for a season, yet should
Britain put forth her whole strength,
and no European power intervene to
aid the Transvaal, they admit they
must be cverpowered.
But" said Mr.. Smuts, the states
attorney, TO me, with the approval of
Mr.. Reitz and others: "When you
have conquered the Transvaal, it won't
be as another Ireland to England, /
promise you. Ireland shall be as
a peaceful country compared with
what we shall make of the Transvaal
to England.
'It will be a hell on earth to you
Of shooting and unrest. Only the big
Iest armies will maintain you in the
sountry."
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-11-10
SOUTHERN oLEANINGS.
There is Money In Cotton Mills.
~. EolIo.,-i,,cr l. IN o,-tr.nnt from

There is Money In Cotton Mills.
The following is an extract from
letter written to the Chattanooga
(Tenn.) Tradesman by w. S. Witham,
president of 81 banks in Georgia:
There is no reason why the south
should not get from SIS to 500 for a
bale of cotton worked up, instead or
$50 in the raw material. Labor is plen-
tiful and cheap in Georgia. The sue
cess of Georgia cotton mills has proven
that southern men know how to run
them. From personal experience
know that cotton mills of from 5000
to 10000 spindles pay much better div
idends than mills of larger size. AS
many years ago the west attracted
the attention of capitalists and business
men, so now the eyes of this class are
turned to the south. / can name half
a dozen cotton mills in Georgia hav-
ing from 1000 to 10000 spindles, which
show net earnings of from 25 to 60
per cent. during the past IL months.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-11-10
STATE NEWS
COnvicts Escape.

Gus Thomas, life convict froDi Har-
din county, one of the most desperate
men ever in confinement; Frank Mitch
ell, a safe blower, in for sev1n years
from Davidson county; George Law
renee. a Shelby county burglar in for
ten years, and J. J. Johnson, Shelby
county burglar in for three years, es-
capped from the new State prison at
Nashville last week. Some one of the
four stole the engineers keys, and the
quartette went through hot air cham
Der a distance of 200 feet. This let
them down into cellar of the central
building, and then, with the stolen
keys, they got through the doors out
into the administration building. Once
there all they had to do was to walk
out, and thev walked forth unmOlested.
Prior to the departure they stole bot
tie of turpentine to spread on their
tracks, on the theory that this would
throw the bloOdhounds off the track.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-11-10
Saved All Their stores, Etc.

Durham, Natal. Nov. 3.-Evening--
delayed in transmission)-It is said
that the Coleuso garrison saved all the
stores. tents, kits, etc. The Beers
numbered about 5000 men. comprising
a fresh corps of the Orange Free
Staters. The ormored train did splen-
did service, taking a detachment of the
Dublin Fusileers to relieve an outly-
ing fort garrisoned by volunteers.
Measuring reports have been re-
ceived regarding the position at PETER
maritzburg.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-11-10
state Treasury Receipts.

Receipts of the State treasury for Oc-
tober were S115,S54.19, and disburse-
ments, s161, 671.46. Balance on hand Is
S14,1443I The principal items among
the receipts are: From county truS-
tees, S19,2s1.96; county court clerks,
$50, ,625.11; circuit court clerks, ST.
$50. 81, and for maintenance of convicts,
s 1895. Among the disbursements are:
State prosecutions. S21, ,S69.79; interest
on State debt, So, ,552. so; maintenance
of convicts, S24, ,O52. 35; Tennessee In
dustrial school, S14, ,695. 55; blind school
S6,152,
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-11-10
Damages for a Whipping.

The supreme court awarded 800
damages to a negro woman against
Robert L. Peters, superintendent of
the Knox county workhouse, for an as
sault and battery, Peters having ad-
ministered a whipping to the woman
under the order of the county commits
sion. The court held that county con-
victs cannot be lawfully whipped.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-11-10
Held Rr the Enemy.

New York, Nov. Ga dispatch TO
the Herald from London says:
The Telegraph's Cape Town cor
respondent. under date of November ],
cables: The correspondent of the Cape
Times telegraphs that a large com
mandO of Free State Beers attacked
NcrvalspOnt bridge at five o'clock this
morning. They then surrounded the
camp of the Cape police, who. being
greatly outnumbered hT the enemy,
were obliged to yield to the demand
for surrender.
The telegraph station at the bridge
is in the hands of the enemy.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-11-10
Entire Equipment Burned.

Adjutant-General Lamb has received
a letter from Capt. Wardlaw, who com
mands the military company recruited
in Ripley station, stating that the en-
tire equipment recently shipped the
organization had been caught in a
wreck and had been totally destroyed
by fire while in transportation. If the
entire shipment of guns and uniforms
was burned, the loss to the State will
amount to something like So, ,OOO.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-11-10
Reward for jackson Murderers.

Gov. McMillin has offered a reward
of 5000 for the apprehension of the
murderers of Lemuel Jackson of Green
county. This raises the reward in the
case to $500, the citizens having raised
$500 for the same purpose. The gov
ernor offered the reward on the sug-
gestion of Attorney General Harmon.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-11-10
ThinIey-Inhabited Counties.

The two counties of Brewster and
Presidio, Texas, having a joint area
of 5000 square miles, have, it is said,
fewer than 5000 inhabitants.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-11-10
Traced br RIoodhounds.

Jack and Baxter Shelton and Champ
Briggs, three tough characters, have
been arrested, suspected of being the
murderers of Lemuel Jackson, in Green
county. Bloodhounds were put on the
trail of the murderers and they fol-
lowed the track to a dense laurel
thicllet near the North Carolina line,
where the three men were found. The
three men were taken to Greenville and
lodged in Jail and strong circumstantial
evidence has accumulated against them.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-11-10
Arrested for an Old Crime.

Berry Griffin, aged S3, was arrested
at Nashville last for the murC5 II of Shell
ley West at a dance in that city twelve
years ago. Griffin was indicted in 1887,
but the case was retired in 1890, and
only reinstated on the docket last
week. He refuses to tell where he has
been during the intervening twelve
years since his escape. Tired of roam
ing, however, he concluded to venture
back to the scene of his crime, and was
soon caught.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-11-10
Reception of the First Tennessee.

The reception committee has decided
to pay the sleeping car fare of the First
Tennessee Regiment from Frisco to
Nashville, and also provide them with
meals en- route. Four thousand five
hundred dollars has been set aside for
this purpose and will be raised by pub
lie subscription. Chairman Anderson
of the executive committee has issued a
proclamation to the people of Tennes-
see calling upon them to subscribe to
the reception fund.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-11-10
A AIurderous Burglar.

w. j. Anderson, a prominent busi-
ness man of Jackson, narrowly escaped
being killed one morning last week by
murderous burglar, who had gained
access to his bed room. Mrs Anderson
was awakened by the CLEAN of dark
lantern and aroused her husband, who
threw out his hand and caught the
burglar by the arm. A struggle en-
sued, when suddenly pistol shot rang
out and a bullet sped just over Mr..
Anderson's head, passed through the
bed and out the window. The burglar
then escaped, but secured money, a
watch and other valuableS.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-11-10
4 Big Phosphate Deal.

Another big deal in phosphate lands
was made last week, the L. X. Orr place
of sos acres, selling for $4,000. H. n.
Soria and others, of New Orleans, were
the purchasers. The farm lies just
south of Mount Pleasant and is sup
posed to contain 200 acres of phosphate,
though it has never been prospected.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-11-10
May Chnn. the Gnnnus.

Charles Given, condemned to hang
Dec. II, for wife murder, has been re-
moved from the penitentiary at Nash
vile to the Jail at cambridge, Jefferson
county. Given is dying with consump-
tion and had to be hauled to the depot.
1t is not expected that he will live to
be executed.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-11-10
Has His own Opinions.

Mayor Woodward of Atlanta, Ga,
has ideas of his own as to the relative
evils of different methods of betting.
The city council recently passed an
ordinance making it unlawful to bet
money on horse or other races in At
Ianta, but his honor vetoed it. He said
that the ordinance as constructed was
liable to be used maliciously, and Incl
dentally he referred to the evils of
bucket shops, and said that TIC inj'l1y
accomplished by the betting on horse
racing amounts to practically nothing
when compared to legalized and re-
spectacle gambling known as futures.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-11-10
Couldn't Talk Dutch, But

1t was st. Louis woman who caused
a police wagon to be hauled two miles
through the mud so her drunken hus-
band, who was creating a disturbance,
could, as she expressed, "be given
good talking to by a Dutch police
man." The officer couldn't talk Dutch,
but he didn't do thing to him" in
Irish.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-11-10
ST. John to Manage All.

President John Shelton Williams Of
the Georgia & Alabama Railway Co. is
authority for the statement that the
consolidation of the Georgia & Ala
banam, the Florida Central & PeniE-
sular and the Seaboard Air Line viii
be effected on or about January, and
that E. ST. John, now of the Seaboard,
will be general manager of the con-
sol;dated system.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-11-10
Rev. e. w. speer, ID. ID.

Rev. Eustace Willoughby Speer, D.
D., father of Judge Emory Speer, of
the United States court for the south
ern district of Georgia, died at Athens,
Ga. He was a noted man in the Meth.
odist church in Georgia, and was for
eight years professor of belles-letters
and English literature at the state uni
VerSitV
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-11-10
Chinese in Public schools.

Floy Sing, the 11-year-old son Of
All Sing, a ST. Louis Chinese laundry
man, has been admitted to the st.
louis public schools, and is .hc first
of his race who ever attended them.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-11-10
Woman Against Woman.

In Crockett county, Tenn, Mrs.
Pearl Arbuckle has sued Mrs. Lulu
Jones Arbuckle for $4,000, alleging
alienation of husbands affections.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-11-10
I,ooksLfke snoriIegc.

A pet monkey had a very formal
burial in satin-lined white casket
in Baltimore. Flower designs included
an "empty chair and 'gates ajar."
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-11-10
Love Affair End in BIurder.

John Lee shot and killed James Sen.
tell at Elaser, KY, the other day. The
affray was over love affair. Lee fled
to the mountains.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-11-10
Want a BattIeshsp Named 0virginia.n y

At meeting of the Richmond (Va.)
Colonial Danes, a committee was ap-
pointed to call on President Mckinley
and request that batteship be named
Virginia.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-11-10
In the Wrong Place.

a sigtn reading Progress is Our Mot
to" has been displayed for many years
in store room in Charleston, S. c.,
which for ten years past has been va
cant
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-11-10
No Legal Right to whip Prisoners.

The supreme court of Tennessee
has decided that no city, county or
state prison keeper has legal right to
whip a prisoner therein.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-11-10
Ostrich and Incubators.

a Florida man has just succeeded IN
Matching an ostrich egg in an incu-
hetor. This is the first successful ef-
fort of the kind in this country.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-11-10
Whnt EXRerts SAY.

Experts in the cotton trade at Dal-
las, Tex, declare that the crop Of
Texas and the Indian and Oklahoma
territories will not exceed 2,25O,OO
bales.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-11-10
In He Goes.

Andrew Sloss, negro, was lynched
a. Courtland, Ala. He was charged
with entering the bedroom of his en-
pIoyers wife.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-11-10
SmaIIDOx in Texas,

y recent dispatch from Dallas, Tex,
says: Smallpox is spreading so rap
idly as to alarm the health authorities
all over Texas"
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-11-10
Help Union Veterans.

Sedgewick Post, G. A. r., Kingston
K. l., has received a check from Rob-
ert E. Lee camp, confederate veterans,
of Richmond, Va, to assist the post in
reducing the debt on its encampment
hall. The check was sent in recognI-
ton of the service performed by the
post, which acted as escort when the
body of Miss Winnie Davis, the
Daughter of the Confederacy," left
the north for the south, one year ago.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-11-10
RornI Contributions.

London, Nov. 6.-The queen has con-
tributed 1000 and the prince of
Wales e262 to the Transvaal war
fund.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-11-10
A New British Fear.

The movement of Beers into Cape
Colony is beginning to awaken British
fear that they have greatly underesti-
mated the forces they will have to
meet. and that even Gen. Buffers task
may not be so easy as anticipated. 1t
is becoming apparent that all the
British calculations, based on the 10y
atty of population, are hopelessly at
sea. or there has been very serious
leakage of Dutch sympathizers from
Natal and Cape Colony. Otherwise
there is no accounting for the large
forces of Durghers reported from all
directions. The war Office, conse-
quently, is being urged to have more
troops in readiness for all possible de-
mands.
The evacuation of Colenso and the
reported withdrawal of the British
force from Stornberg are still unex-
planned.