The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-10-20
SUNDRIES.

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do so
An infant was born last Friday in a
Third avenue passenger car, New
York city.
Baker county, California, wants
somebody to match her S6 600 gold
nugget.
Fifty million bushels was the
amount Of Pittsburgh's export Of coal
last year.
They paste shO y bills over the cracks
in the jail at Hudson, n. Y, to hold
it from falling to pieces. The bOaders
threaten to leave if it isn't made air
tight before November.
A tombstone in a cemetery at DuX-
bury, Mass, is inscribed "ChiseI can
not help her any"
NapoIeOn's sixteen horses sold for
S7603-an average of S4S8. The high
est price paid for q single horse was
| $50.
The amount of United States cur
Tency now outstanding is 1891, $685.
652.
There are seventeen street railway
companies in Philadelphia.
/ The internal revenue is collected in
Massachusetts at less cost than in any
other State.
A number of young girls have start
ed a paper at BrintOn, Pa. They do
their own type-settipg.
A young lady aged 20, Of Bristol,
England, recently converted herself
into a grandmother by marrying a
gallant old officer of the Indian army,
eOtdt so and over.
At Vienna, lamp wicks which will
last a year are made Of asbestO in
wax
The Canadian revenue for this year
will exceed SIS, SOC, ,O6O, which is largely
in advance of last year.
A single firm of furniture manufac-
turers in Vienna employ over four
! thousand wOrkmen, and produces an
nUally about 450 600 pieces of furni-
ture.
The ex-Tebel Gen. AIarmaduke has
| entered the pacific pursuit of journal
! istic agriculture, having become the
! editor of a weekly in st. Louis, Mo,
s devoted to the interests of field, farm,
I and garden.
| A woman at a revival meeting in
Ohio, said she found her jewelry was
| dragging her down to peTditiOn, and
so gaze it all to a younger sister.
= Memphis hOrseman was hurled
! from MS saddle bodily twenty feet into
a saloon. He drank some rum, ar
ranged his hair, remOunted and rode
/ away.
Col. Pickett, a Georgia planter, has
/ planted this season, in the southwest
| eTn part of that State, g, 500 acres in
cotton and 3, 500 acres in corn, and il
Is estimated that he viii clear $780,
/ 600 upon bis cotton alone. This is said
to be the largest cotton crop planted ia
the South. He employs nearly 400
! hands, all Of them negroes.
y Houston (Te1as) paper asserts
! that goods manufactured in the cotton
/ mills near that place are superior to
/ any Of the same grades made at the
/ North, and adds that immense guam
titles Of these goods are shipped to
/ Northern markets, resOld, and Teship-
/ ped to Texas.
/ The North CttroLiniag is informed
/ that the "WaIteT Raleigh vine," on
/ Roanoke Island, is nearly three hun
/ dred years old; that it covers an acre
! Of ground, and that from it last year
/ s., Co0 worth Of wine WAS made. We
/ don't know which to admire most
/ ,he size Of the vine, or Of the story.
Rhode Island claims to have the old
est bell in the world. The ancient bell
on what used to be known as the "But-
terhy Factory" in SmithfieId, bears
date 1868. 1t was brought from Cuba
many years ago.
The Rev. G. w. Thomas has resign
ed the rectorship Of St, Philips At
| ianta, Ga. It is proposed to erect a
cathedral or the lot now occupied by
st. Philips at Atlanta. The cathedral
to cost S75, COO
Ia London an arrangement is COM
pleted to utilize the contents of their
sewers. An aqueduct has been cOn-
structed whereby the sewerage is con-
yeyed to farms in the vicinity, and
spread on the land. Such farms are
producing enormously, and land
which has long since been worn out
now yields the finest wheat.
\ well informed writer says that
more than 10000 acres of the best
timber in America are cut every year
to supply the demand for railway
sIeepers alone, In single year the
locomotives in the United States con-
sumed S56 600, 600 worth Of wood.
Mrs. Lydia ShankIin, the Oldest per-
son in North Carolina, died the other
day at the age of one hundred and
, twelve. She was present when the
Presbyterian church with which she
was connected was dedicated, and liv-
ed past the celebration of its hun
dredth anniversary.
The highest farm in the world is said
to be situated four miles from Sher-
man Station on the Union Pacific
Railroad. It has an elevation Ofeight
thousand feet above the sea-leyel
Vegetables and grain thrive well on
this farm, and two hundred young
apple trees have been set out IS an eX-
pertinent.
a DRAWIN-MAsTER, worrying his
, pupil with cOntemptuous reruaks up
on his lack Of ability, ended by ask
p ing: Now, sir, If you were going
TO draw me, what part Of me would
yCa commence first? p The boy, with
q meaning look into his masters face
answered very quietly: - Y our neck,
sir
Jt is one of the seyerest tests Of
, friendship TO tell your friend Of his
Z faults. II you are angry with a man
or hate him, IL Is not hard to 20 to
him and stab him with words; but so
> to love a mau That yoI cannot bear
to see the stain OF siu upon him, and
, to speak painful truth through loving
3 w0rds-tiat il friendship. But few
P have such friends. Oar enemies Usu-
ally teach Us what we are st the
. swoTG.-Bsecaer.
On q recent evening, as some young
p people near Rocky Mount, Georgia,
were taking q walk, one young lady
=. having q small switch in her hand.
struca o young man who happened to
have @ copper cartridge in his pocket,
which exploded, the ball lodging in
. the knee of the lady, producing q
Z painful and dangerous wound.
D 4 Paris lady abruptly entered her
+. Kitchen the other day, and saw Tie