The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-09-17
A Novel TO be Read in Five Min.
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A Novel TO be Read in Five Min
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VOL. /
MOONLIGHT evening-shady grove
Two young people much in love:
Heroine with great wealth endowed,
Hero handsome, poor, and proud
Truth eternal-hearts united
Vows Ofchangeless passion plighted;
S-sighs-caresses,
Maiden yields one of her tresses:
Obstacles to be surmounted-
Ugly rival, old and stale,
Overhears the tender tale.
VOL. II.
Morning in the East looks ruddy
Scene-Young lady's fathers study.
Hero with his hat in hand,
Comes her ditto to demand;
Angry parent storms, abuses,
And at once her hand refuses
Maiden faints beneath the blow
Mother interceedes-no go;
A'i-' ASEAS II ) oICL lCo-- pEOI6SGdClODS,
Mixed with old mans exeerations
Exit lover midst the din
Ugly rival enters in.
VOL III.
Time-a moonlight night once NOR e
Scene-outside the lady's door.
Lover, with half broken heart
Swears be- rather die than part
Garden-hower, outrageous shade
Many accents-serenade-
Chamber-windOw opens wide
Debut of cxpectant bride
Little dog most kindly mute
Tears-rope r-fight-pursuit-
Gallant steeds-too late, nights screen
nmph-marriage Green
Old man. s rage disowns forever
Ugly rival-scarlet fever.
VOL. ".
Old man sickIy-sends for child;
All rgiveness-reconciIed
Young man making money fast
Old mans blessing-dies at last.
Youthful couple prove probate
Get the moneY-liYe in state
Mothers wishes crowned with Joy
DoctOr-nurses-little boy.
Time proceeds-her ties endear-
Olive branches year by year;
Blessings'on the good attend
General gladness-moral end.
PRUSSIA has 359 associations for the in
proYement of the soil by drainage, irrigation
and the building of dikes
FIVE negroes were instantly killed by
lightning at Kingston, \. Y, recently, whil
standing under tree near circus-tent
IT is said that the custom of placing
whole loaf of bread upon the breakfast-tabl
was introduced by Queen Victoria
THE apple crop in New Hampshire prom
ises to be immense, and the market is alread
glutted with the fruit, fifty cents busht
being the ruling price at present
We find from our Canadian exchange
that the cattle disease is spreading ther
also, and that several herds in the neighbol
hood of London and elsewhere have suffere
| severely.
A FEMALE octogenarian, at Albany, Vt
cuItivates small farm with her own hands
Her work, this season, consists in psepariu
the ground, harvesting and husking half a
acre of corn.
Machinery has recently been invented
England which weaves from the hair {
cats and rabbits a sort of velvet tissue, d.
tinguishable from silk, but not inferior
fneness and beauty.
The taIlest tree yet measured is an Au
tralian, of the myrtle family, and of tt
genus Euclyptus 1t is four hundred an
eighty feet high; but in diameter it is inf
rior to the larger Calif0rnians.
THE longest railroad bridge in the Sta
of New York, or in the United States, is Il
Cayuga Bridge, ten miles west of Aubur
1t is one mile and fifty yards in length,
feet wide, and cost $I50,008.
HENRY LANGHAM of Wheaton, H., has
mis- possession an old English Bible, wi
brass ring, where formerly it was chain
to the pulpit in 1864, found in Leeest
Abbey, where Cardinal WOlsey was burie
A TEACHER in one of the Boston pub
schools has resigned after several yea
service, because she has cOhscientio
scruples against teaching on Saturday. ;
belongs to a sect known there as "Bih
Christians
IT may not be generally known that t
last sale ola slave in the South occurred
Virginia. News had just reached t
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