The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-06-07
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
A Hartford th,ce-year-old con
soled his mother who was watching
at the death bed of his little sister,
with the remark. mamma, don't
cry! If Nelly wants to die, let her
die"
The Boston Post says. ''The usu-
nj balloon ascension will be dis
pcnscd with here on the 4th of Ju-
ly because real estate is rising so
rapidly that everybody can go up
with it,
A spOrtivo hunter of Detroit, who
kept Il flask of whislxey with him on
a shooting trip, struck a race-course
In the suburbs on his return, and
walked around all night, wondering
why he didn't get to town.
A Georgian was recently bit in
the forehead by a moccasin snake.
coilee i'll bucket out of which he
attempted to drink. The mans
head swolled to an enormous size.
but two quarts of whiskey were
poured down him, and he will get
we'll.
The Boston Transcript asks: ais
this controversy about Mount Yer
non an advertising ruSe to get the
American people down there as an
investigating committee of the
whole aud collect from them a large
income! And shall we see that lit
tie hatchet when we get there"
Risso mentions an orange tree
growing at Nice, in 1889. which was
more than fifty feet high and the
trunk of so large girth that it re-
CURED two men, with Outstrctched
arms to embrace it. The tree usu-
ally bore 5000 to 5000 oranges.
"What do you mean by cat and
dog life?" said a husband to his an
cry wife, 'Look at Carlo and Kitty
asleep on the rug l wish men lived
half so peaceful with their wives"
stop said the wife "tie them to-
gether, and see how they will agree
Jimmie Smith, the restaurantor.
has a hightoned dog, with a bright
brass collar, which bears the follow
ing inscription:
THE IS on me has been paid
To runa' large I'm not afraid,
Disturb me not but let me Jog,
For am }. F. Smiths good dog"
A spirited young woman in Bos-
ton, the other evening, set a good
example to her sex by administer
ing a vigorous slap in the face of an
impudcnt fellow who accosted her
on the street with 'Don YOU know
me, my dear? He will probably
know her when he meets her again.
Judge fine Tom LeaIy five dol:
lars for assault and battery on Pat
MolOy. Pat Moloy--But, your hon
or, L want more damages. He
blacked me eye, and if had been
invited to n tea party | couldn t
have gone. Judge--The Court
knows nothing about consequential
damages. You must carry your own
case to Geneva. Adjourned.
A Bohemian who initiated the
hand writing of Eugene Sue the
NOVELIST, very skillfully, was arrest
cd recently in Paris on a charge OF
having sold to a bookseller a spuri-
Gus manuscript of an unpublished
novel by that author. In his room
limitations of the handwriting OF
Voltaire, Alfred de Vigny. and
other eminent writer's were found.
This is the way Mr.. Beecher quail
ifies his Calvinism: 81 consider my
self Calvinistic, you know, and in
this way. / believe what John Cal
vim would have believed if he had
lived in my time and seen things rs
l see them. My first desire is to
know what is true; and then l am
glad if John Calvin agrees with me.
but if he don't, so much the worse
for him.
A collision occurred at New Riv
or Bridge on the Virginia and Ten
nessee Railroad, on Sunday after
noon last, between two freight
trains, by which four persons wer,
injured, one of them, it is supposed
fatally. One of the trains was com
ing east and the other was gOin,
west, when they collided, the en-
gines of both trains being badly
smashed up, and some of the car
slightly damaged.
In Philadelphia on Wednesda,
Frank Chambers, aged about eigh
teen, was arrested on a charge o
attempting to eXtort money b.
means of anonymous letters address
cd to residents of the suburbs II
which letters he pretended to revea
plot of determined and murderou
burglars for breaking into tn
houses Of the person addressed. Fo
consideration of ten dollars ad
dressed to J. t. o., at the of tn
Public Ledger, he would tell the pre-
else night that had been fixed 70
the attempt. In order TO make a
excuse for receiving letters at tina
Office he had advertised in the pape
for employment, directing answer
IN he thus addressed,