The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-10-08
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The Notifications form a girdle around
the city of Paris twenty four miles in length.
The population of New York is 885, ,O26,
as appears from the official figures.
An unknown white infant was eaten by
hogs in Lebanon one day last week.
The Wilson county Fair was a grand sue
cess in every department.
B. 81. Wear has our thanks for copy of
his excellent paper" The Union City"
The new Baptist Church to be built at
Union City is progressing very slowly.
At Henderson, Texas, cron is delivered
| to purchasers at IS cents per busheL
Texas is going to have two penitentiaries,
business is brisk in the Lone Star State
it seems.
By the recent bombardment the great
library of Strasbourg, 5000 volumes, was
totally destroyed
| One day last week an estimable young
man named John Carroll was run over by
the cars at Jackson, Tenn, and killed.
Mrs n. NJ. BOstwick has been appointed a
clerk in the Washington Dead Letter Office,
Vice Mrs. Petigru King who resigned to get
married.
The Dyer County Agricultural and Me-
chanical Fair will begin on the 25th inst
and continue four days. We tender thanks
for q complimentary ticket
1t is reported duel is imminent between
Generals Jordan and Quesada, in conse.
quence of an article by the latter published
in the Spanish paper in New York
The Turkish government has ordered two
hundred mitrailleurs, on the Gantling-Amer
lean princip pie, to be made and delivered
with all speed.
At the Rutherford county Fair last week
Mr.. F. Mitchell was champion of the pigeon
shooting match, killing twelve birds in sue
| cession.
Benz. F. Mayhearn, Sergeant of the 18th
is. Regulars, at Nashville, has been deal.
ing in counterfeit money, and is held to
answer the charge.
That was a smart thing Gov. Walker, OF
Virginia, did, when he referred the negro
to the Legislature who wanted him to solicit
the right of sitting on ajnry for his race
Painted candy was the death of a New
Jersey baby the other day, and it's just as
well that it was, for had he grown to be q
man, painted women would have finished
him.
Victoria is quite oblivious of the presence
of Eugene in England. Maybe it is because
she kissed Eugenie's husband once and CAM
look her in the face after that transaction.
AT the Fair recently held near Denver,
Colorado, gold brick weighing 146 pounds
and valued at thirty-nine thousand dollar.
was one of the attractions o, for one o
'em-how handy it would be to have it il
the houseI
M. R. Alternately has announced himsel
as conservative candidate for the L egisla
tur in McNairy county As Mr.. r. 8. Hous
ton is the regular nominee, we presume Mr.
Alternately is an independent candidate.
Col. Geoge G. Porter being the only can
didate to represent the Madison county Dis
trict in the state Senate the Whig an,
Tribune depreciates the idea of holding
Senatorial Convention at Brownsville.
Col B. J. Lea, of Brownsville, is announc
ed as candidate for the legislature froI
Haywood county. His numerous friends i
HardemaR are all glad of it, and would b
pleased to see him triumphantly elected.
Old Moxa Morton, of Indiana, one of th
most beastly of the radical crew, has bee
appointed Minister to the Court of ,
James Grant is certainly reaching yer
low, and seems determined to disgrace, G
, far as possible, the American people.
At the recent election in Vermont tt
Democrats cut the radical majority dow
from thirty thousand to twenty Thousand
and gained at least twenty members in Il
state legislature This is cheering news i
deed, and will meet with warm WELDON
all over the land.
ROdeTick Random Buffers trial has bee
postponed uaEil after the election. He "
recently re-nominated for Congress at Gree
vile. If he is defeated for Congress he W
doubtless suffer the penalties of the law f
forgery, otherwise he may be acquitted.
Courier, Vol 1. No. l. We wish the ne
paper unbounded success, and can say to &
L people of Dyer county that in the Cou"i
'' they have home paper worthy of the
J. support Captain j. j Brooks and Maj
0 J. II. Bowman are its editors.
r Trochu has his hands so full with keepi
II, the Prussians out of Paris that he does 4
seem to have been able to organize al
exuedition outside for the relief of Ne
meanwhile the rain of iron continues and t
garrison is becoming more and more exhar
ID ID ted.
is Sherman, of Ohio, one of the "troc
-Iy Io;I has bean n member of Congress abe