The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-08-22
BOLIVAR, HARDEMAN COUNTY, TENN, August %, 1868.
The vile of Senator TrumbuIl Is dead.

The vile of Senator Trumbull Is dead
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Now Jersey excludes all Illinois, Missouri
and Texas cattle until the order is revoked
Horatio Seymour has established his head
quarters at the ButterReld house, in Utica
! New York.
Over a seventh part of the State of Mis-
sissippi is advertised for sale under execu
ton.
Grant has no opinion and no policy. His
political stock in hand comprises a pap and
a papoose.
After Iull of Eve weeks three fires oc
Cured in Memphis on the morning of the
18th inst.
It is asserted that the Pacific railroad will
be completed before the close Of the year
1869.
Every dollars worth of property in
the United States paid, last year, over three
per cent interest to the Rump.
a lady residing near Kingstree, South
Carolina, died recently at the advanced age
of one hundred and forty years.
The tariff for ten words, allowing five
for address, over the Atlantic cable, will be
fifteen dollars in gold after the first of Sep
tember.
The veto of the Governor of Alabama, on
the bill taking the election of State electors
from the people has been sustained by the
Senate.
NJ Combs, Jr., claim agent at Memphis,
accidently shot himself in the feshy part
of the leg day or two ago while carelesslY
handling pistol.
G. A. StiIlman, formerly a be-millinar of
Memphis, and who is generally known in
that city and New Orleans, has been placed
under bond of $4,000 to answer four or FIVE
distinct charges Of perjury.
Ada Isaacs Menken, the actress, is dead.
She was born in Shelby county in 1882, and
died in the city of Paris, Wednesday, Aug.
18th, 1868. She was beautiful, unaccom-
plished, but wayward woman, and led an
eYentful life.
When the news reached Nashville that
Thad. Stevens was dead, salt water rose in
the blessed eyes of the q IoiI legislator" and
a resolution was passed honoring his memory
If the raddies draw on their peppers at the
loss of Thad wonder what they viii dc
when they have to acknowledge the tota
destruction of their party in November next
Blubber, blubber, boo, hoo, WOO
| The New York Tribune radical and pa
per of great influence, has no confidence in
the success of Grant Speaking of him and
referring to his chances the Tribune asks:
| Friends, is there nothing in this great
party but Ofice-hunger? Is the chief end
| of man the Post Office and revenue service
| Are we willing to follow a doubtful leader
/ into an uncertain battle for unknown princi
| pies
A Washington telegram of the 18th says
! The proceedings at the Capitol to-day, a
/ the funeral of Thad Stevens, were a bur
! lesque, and insulting to his memory. The
| Butler ZOuavas, negro organization, were
very overbearing and insulting to the Yisi
tors who called to see the corpse.
Thad. Stevens himself was a disgrace t.
his country.
The Mobile people want to increase thei
communication with Memphis by means Of
canal from Aberdeen, Miss, to Bolivar
Tenn, then by the Hatchie river to Memphis
We found the above paragraph in the
news column of the Grenada Sentinel, ant
hope that our friend Signaigo will go for tn,
canal which is to connect Bolivar will
Aberdeen. Hurrah for the "MobiIe peo
pie" When the project Is completed, wei
take a ride on the raging cana,CL".
SPLIT.-The raddies of the 5th Nashville
Congressional District have split Thei
convention was failure, and adjourne
without making any nominations. Later il
the day, the friends of Mercer and Prosscl
held separate conventions, and the two rad
dies named were declared the nominees
This is a more serious split than the on
which took place at Brownsville between th
smithites and the Nunnites and insures tn
defeat of scallawagery in the 5th district.
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In Dayton, few days ago, q little gin
nine years old, daughter Of Mrs Foley, az
cidentaIIy swallowed a small glass buttor
1t passed into the lungs, and all efforts t
discharge it proved unavailing. Dr. Reeve
was employed, who, after exhausting a
other means, decided to open the child
throat, and keep it open with instrument
asserting that it was the only chance {