The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-05-17
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.
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Mr.. Colfax was 40 on Saturday.
Cincinnati is subscribing to a
100000 hotel.
The Philadelphia carpet-weavers
have struck for higher wages.
Bierstadt is painting a mammoth
mountain scene for Gov. Stamford
of California for $4,000.
A colored man received 80 lashes
across his back at Alexandria, Va,
for stealing pair of shoes.
Rev. Peter Cartwright, the well
known Methodist minister and pio-
neer, has. recovered, after all, and
may live to preach long time yet.
A dispatch from st. Petersburg
says the Emperor, also Gortschakof,
received Catacazy very coldly, and
that the later Is going into journal
ism.
The cotton mills in the Southern
States now have $50, 900 spindles in
operation, and are paying from 10 to
20 per cent. dividends on capt. ais
ranging from 100000 to $1,250, 900.
The South improvement company,
which has made such stir among
the oil men, next proposes to get a
monopoly Of carrying live stock from
the West to the seaboard, 1t is said.
Elisha Brakeman, "a years of age,
and nearly all his life a member Of
the Shaker church family at Leba-
non, has just parted with his breth-
rem and sisters on account of his pro-
gressive views.
President Grant still maintains his
habit of a daily walk and smoke.
Sumner takes no exercise at all, and
works il hours day. Schurz works
late at night, and lives two miles
from the capitol that he may have
the exercise Of walking.
A letter from Chicago says the
newspapers of that city continue to
do a more fourishing business than
ever both in the matter of subscrip-
tions and advertisements. The Tri-
bune building Is expected TO be
ready for re-ocupancy June l.
A gentleman in the vicinity OF
Philadelphia recently lost his wife,
and young miss of six, who came
to the funeral, said to his little
daughter of about the same age;
"Your pa viii marry again, won't
he?" ooh, yesl'' was the reply; 'but
not until after the funeral"
A new Washington correspondent
thus paints a new member-our
next-tloor neighbor, Mr.. Alvah Crock
er of the ninth district: He is a
fne-looking old gentleman, with a
high brow and bold head. He re-
minds us of the member of the
House" whom DIR. Holmes portrayf
in the a lantic Monthly; not from
what he says so much as from his
dialect
The beggars in Japan are very
honest. DIR. Prime, in his Travels
says: Passing through a street anc
seeing some forty or fifty copper'
hanging on as many nails at the
front of a shop (the copper coin has
a hole in the center), 1 inquired
what they were for, and was tolc
they were placed there by the shop,
keeper to save time and trouble IL
answering the calls Of the mendi
cants. When one came along he
simply took a copper and passed on
never abusing the charity of the
shop-keeper by taking two.
Sir Francis Ronalds, now 90 years
Of age, is u member of the society o
telegraph engineers recently estab
lished in England. In 1918, Sil
Francis proposed a system Of electric
telegraphy, and went to considerable
expense in erecting miles of tele
graph in his garden at Hammer
smith. La 1923 he published book
now very scarce, in which he said the
day would come when the king a
Brighton might communicate will
his mi i-ters in London as quickl,
as If he were himself IN the metrop
oils.