The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-04-18
NUGGETS.

Docs killed $50, 900 worth of sheep in
Kentucky last year. a=
BACK-PAY COMMUNICATIVE will he
do with it 4? Better give it up.]
THERE is but one State in the Union
and one Territory free from debt-Iowa
and Colorado.
WDyDHAh, Connecticut, has conferred
the right of local suffrage upon fifteen
female electors.
ALREADY about $50 estimates of the
cotton crop have been submitted in the
Augusta, Georgia, pool. They vary
from $3.50, 900 to 400, 600 bales.
TIE cost of the Vienna exhibition
will reach nearly S8, 500, 900. 1t is es-
timated that in order to make it pay 90
600, 900 visitors must patronize the ex-
hibition. ..... -r..
OVER IA, 600 English Church clergy
men have petitioned the Bishops in the
House of Lords to favor bill Iegaliz-
ing marriages with the sisters of the
deceased wives.
FIFTEEN Detroit clergymen have pub
lished an open letter to Governor Dix
commencing his course in the Foster
case. Capital punishment has been
abolished in Michigan.
A LITTLE girl was killed in New
Hampshire a year ago by kick from
horse which had been frightened by a
dog, and her father has just recovered
81, ,45O damages from the owner of the
dog. . t-e.
A BILL to establish freedom from the
press In Pennsylvania is before the
Safe Legislature. 1t provides that in
precautions for libel the truth may be
put in evidence and the facts explained; !;
it also throws the burden of proof of
malicious intent on the complainant.
WEALTHY Americans with handsome
daughters whom they are about to take
to Europe should know that sons-in-law
may claim support from their fathers-in
law. Paris is full of barons," very
handsome and decidedly impeeunious.
A BILL has been introduced into the
Massachusetts, Legislature by some
over Jealous member, placing all publ
cations which illustrate or describe the
commission of crime in the same cate
CORY with obscene publications, and for
bidding the sale of them under the
same penalties. .--.-r..... ....
A HARTFORD surgeon, DR.. p. W.
Ellsworth, opposes the execution of
criminals by hanging, and proposes that
they be stupefed by chloroform and
their heads then blown off with a load
ed cannon. The Disagreement of the
person, he says, may be Objectionable,
but there would be absolutely no pain.
An illustrated japanese paper, with
a Japanese proprietor and editor, is
about to be established in London. 1t
is designed to publish the writings of
the numerous japanese now in England
and this country. 1t is estimated that
there are upward of seven hundred Of
these Japanese, most of whom are
students. .... .-- -...-
MASSACHUSETTS wonders at the rise Of
a Delaware millionaire who began his
mercantile career as a poor boy "by
borrowing ST and investing it in apples. 4"
The thing that Massachusetts, can't
understand is how any one cOHld be so
imprudent az to lend 81 to a poor boy
without good security for principal and
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BosToE's burned district is to be re-
built on plan peculiarly appropriate
for the Hub" namely, after the pat
tern Of a wheel, with straight streets
like spokes from a common
center and q curved avenue at the
IN which fellows may circle
till they are tired. This scheme is said
to have been proposed for London by
Sir Christopher Wren, and win doubt
less give occasion for formal cere-
mony Of Wren-ovation when completed
In the Home of Jubilee.