The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-02-01

ABDEiAN COUNTY, TENN
The corn crop of1s67 anoaatsto az, ,820,-
600 bushels.
Pork is selling IN Padueah, Ky, for
cents per. pound.
John Jacob Astor died on the 18th inst,
aged &C years.
Gen'lJ B. Magtnder has taken the oath
Of allegiance to the. y, S. Government
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The Tennessee Legislature proposes to
make habitual drunkenness sufficient cahse
for divorce Bill passed its first reading.
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Nashville hasa soup house in full blast,
at which hundreds Of destitute people are
daily fed.
Bakers in Paris must weigh their bread
in the presence Of the.customer, whether re-
quested to or not.
The equal rights bill, passed by Congress
for the special bensftof negroes and mean
white men, failed to become a Iaw. So says
President johnson.
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The Weekly Review claims that Franklin,
the county site of Williamson county, has
Improved more thsRany place in Tennessee
since the war. Glad to hear it Hope Boil
var win loom up over the mud holes " yet
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Horace Maynard says that the Judges of
the Supreme Court of Tennessee are of the
opinion that the State is not legally bound
for the payment of the deprecated notes of
the State Bank
In the State Senate on the 23d uIt. an act
requiring railroads to carry deaf dumb,
blind and insane persons to and from their
respective institutions, free of charge, passed
it's first reading VIII probably become a
law
EFFECT OF CoMPETITIoN.-Cotton is being
shipped from Nashville to Louisville, KY,
by railroad, for one dozLay. pe7. bale, while
boats only ask aeoentyJiue cents per balei
An item for those who desire the reopening
Of Hatchie river.
The st, Paul Pioneer gives the tables of
mortality there for 1867, from which it ap-
pears that, out of population of Is, 900, 272
died during tie year, only Il per cent, or
three deaths out of each two hundred persons.
Minnesota is certainly very healthy State.
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There are two hundred and thirty four
eonvicts in the State prison at Nashville
whose average theft did not amount to s..
A bill has been introduced in the Legislature
authorising the Governor to release all those
who have been imprisoned for such small
ofenses.
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The Murfreesboro Watchman (radical)
thinks that the "wiseacre" who introduced
bill in the Legislature, a few days ago, to
legalise '' chicken fighting" must be the
same chap who wanted to encourage loyalty
by prohibiting the sale of JEFF Davis pic
lures"
The Rev Robert J. Breckinridge, Of Ken
lucky, it is announced, has addressed letter
to President johnson, asking a pardon for
General John c. Breckenridge, who is now
Ia Paris, in very reduced circumstances. He
urges that his high character as a man en-
titles him to Executive clemeney.
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The organ, it is said, was invented by
Arehimedes, about two hundred and twenty
years before the Christian era, but whether
it is so or not is not well known. There is
| evidence that organs were used in the West
ern churches by Pope Vibatianus, in the year
658 1t is affirmed that the organ was first
known in France il the time Of Louis T., in
the year So, when one was. constructed by
an Italian priest
An exchange says, We can always tell what
sort Of woman man marries, by the way
he treats the printer. IF he gets common
wife he forgets the printer altogether. If he
gets a tolerably good wife hewill send in the
notice of his marriage. If he gets very
/ good one he viii send the printers slice Of
cake accompanying the notice. IF he gets
an extra good one, he will send bottle Of
wine.
The New York Senate on the 24th inst
adopted a resolution that on the government
recognizing no distinction between native
adopted citizens, it should call on all nations
for the immediate release of all citizens
held illegally in military seryive, or rre-
/ tended political ofenses not committed On
i their soil, and thatitis the 3uty of the govern
ment to enforce the demand, If necessary,
with all the power of the nation.
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"Tbe Southern EagIe IS the name of a
a neat and interesting paper, printed at
Water Valley, Miss, the first ngmber of
which reached US last Monday. w. B. Var
rel, editor We hope The Eagle viii meet
with better fate than that which attended
the Courier, and that It win long soar above