The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-06-30
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The New York Evenine Posi- s. resue -
bic for the following dish of misebancss.

!
ing a preaeher the other about the freaks of
a mad dog--Which occurred in hurried
makeup" IN a printing-ofiee
Rev. James Thompson, rector of st An
drew church, preached to q large concourse
of people on Sunday last This was his last
/ sermon In few weeks he wiz bid farewell
to his congregation, as his phgsieian advises
him to cross the Atlantic He exh0rted his
brethren and after tire conclusion Of short
prayer, took a whim.te cut ups some frantic
freaks lie ran ui1 Timothy. street togthe
college. At this stage Of the PFoeeedlngs
! couple of boys seized him ana tied tin ket-
tie to his tail; and he again started A great
crowd collected, and for time, there was a
grand scene Of runnEns and eOnlusin. After
a long race he was finally shot By policeman.
Whether the foregoing be fact or fancy we
cannot say, but here Is q freak of the make
Up which actually occurred in one of tho
principal cities Of rebeldom not many years
/ age .a.asae zn
The various elergymen Of the place were
accustomed to preach each IN his turn, az
the Orphan Asylums due notice being al
ways given IN the city papers. Among the
rest was Rev. Mr.. ----, who had the Tepu-
tation of being the dpllest and most prosy
speaker in the city, and whom nobody would
hear who could decently avoid 1t One Sat
urday evening one Of the principal aailies
Egious- Notices.
EGAUTIoN p
Rev. MIR. --- viii pFeachet the Orphan
Asylum at half past ten tomorrow morning.
There was. probably not more amusing
paragraph IN that paper The head line
belonged to notice which appeared below,
warning the public against harboring or
trusting a runaway wife sen
1t is not stated whether the following item,
which is said to have been printed sonee
upon time, was the result Of inebriety on
the part of the printer or of reporter:
Horrible CQtastr0phe- Yesterday NOR
ming, at four o cleck P b., a small man named
Smith, with a heel In the hole Of has trow-
sers, committed arsenic by swallowing dose
of suicide The verdict Of the inquest re-
turned Jury that the deceased came to the
fact IN accordance with his death. He left
a child and six small wives to lament the
end of his unfortunate loss. In death we
are in the midst of life.
t7l.so THE POWER or COMMAS. lIaae
In the Priory Of Hamessa There ldWelt
prior who vas very liberal, and who caused
these lines to be written over his door
BE open eyermore, o. thou my door,
70 none be shut, to honest or 70 poorg' sitt -
But after his death there succeeded him
another, whose name was Raynhard, as
greedy and covetous as the other was boun-
tiful and liberal, who kept the same lines
there still, changing nothing therein but0ne
point, which made them run after this maa-
ner:
E 65ss 9S1 sG. G :5s o. Gsasss saSo on ny q pos
The following sentence from a recently
written novel, shows the importance of pune
tuation; ta sa
He enters on his head, his helmet on his
feet, armed sandals upon bis brow there
was a cloud in his right hand, his faithful
sword in his eye, an angry glare he sat
down"
OTHER MISTAKES. aa
A lad In q printing-ofHee came upon the
name of Hecate1 occurring Ia q line ike
this: aas 1sd s.a ol
shall reign the Heeate Of the deepest hen,
The boy thinking he had discovered an
error, ran to the master printer and inquired
eageariy whether there was an in3cat-
Why, no, you blockhead, was the reply.
Away went the boy to the pressToom and
extracted the Objectionable letter, But fancy
the horror of both poet and publisher when
the poem appeared with the line
Shall reign the He Cat Of the deepest hell" ll
"A newspaper some time ago graveIy in
formed its readers that a rat descending the
river came in contact with a steamboat, with
such serious injury to the beat that great ex
ertions were necessary to save 1t. 1t was q
raft and not a rat, descending the river.
To the above amusing paragraphs, we
make the following addition. Twelve or
fifteen years ago, while working as an ap-
prentice at " the art preservative Of all arts
in a large book and job Office located in tho
goodlylcity Of NJ, in this State, it fell to
our lot to set up the last page of Judge C3s
Directory; it was a card for one John T.
Smith, locksmith and bell-hanger, and oceu-
pied the entire page. The press work was
executed in adingy old cellar that was poorly
! lighted by one or two miserable jets Of gas
the pTessman a negro. When the last form
was made up, proof was taken, aud we
carried It to on boss" he objected to the
smallness of the letter in which the words
bell-hanger appeared. and suggested that
/ larger type be substituted We did as di-
reeted, but in placing the line IN the page
unluekily pied it; the type was rear
ranged as speedily as possible, and, we
thought, placed in their proper places all
right, the form locked up, and the press put
in motion the sheets were sent to the bindry,
and in due course Of time several thousand
Of the Directory had found their way into
the publie's hands Smith, the advertiser,
| appeared at the Office one day in a very IN
dignant mood and on being dunned " for
the amount which he had agreed to pay for
the sole use of the page referred to, stoutly
refused to settle stating that great blunder,
a grieyous error had been committed, and
that the printer had not followed the copy
as he gave It, and forthwith produced one Of
the books, so that our wellTemembered pre-
/ ceptor could see for himself Turning to
/ the card, he read aloud as follows: John T.
Smith, locksmith and heltbangrr r That
card never was paid for, and the writer Of
this never could convince the foreman but
what he transposed the b p and b intep-
tionally.
A Dutchfnan once being called upon 10
! testify In court as witness, exhibited a sin
/ ruIar confusion as to his own identity. The
! usual question being asked, Nhat is your