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

More than nine millions of brierwood
aud other wooden tobacco pipes are made
yearly in this country.
The are 10000 Chinese in San Fran
cisco, and they occupy less than 700
houses.
A Madison county lad named Ben
Blackmon, aged fifteen years, has taken
to himself . wife. The early bird, etc.
Track laying on the extension Of the
Missississippi Central Railroad north of
Jackson has commenced.
DR.. Wm. Lea, president of the Tennes-
see Central railroad is in Nashville solic~
iting subscriptions to his road.
The Ripley NsaOs says that the Hon.
J. P. Young represented the people of
LaudeEdaIe county correctly when he
cast his vote against the passage Of the
odious funding bill.
Late advices from Hampstead, Texas,
report tho fruit all killed, gardens ruined
and crops badly damaged by unusually
cold weather.
An Indiana Grand Jury has indicted
tWenty-one ministers for failure to return
marriage licenses with the proper csrti-
ficates.
Missississippi has now a most stringent
liquor law. Her black and tan legisla-
ture will adjourn on the 18th of the
present month
A Kentucky paper, in reporting we'd
ding, says that the bride was not very
handsome, but her father threw in q lot
of mules, two COWS, one jack and a stout
cradle. The husband Was satisfied.
1t is rather funny TO mark the similar
opinion Bismarck and the Pope have of
each other. The former says the Pope
is bigoted, inn natured old man, while
the latter describes Bismarck as q perse-
cutting Colossus
We have good news for the ladies just
now. Several new companies are organs
izing In the eastern States to manufac-
turs sewing machines, and it is predicted
that sixty-fve dollar machines will sell
at thirty-6Vs dollars within year
The New York Mail, which is quite a
purist, tells US that favorito hotel is to
be kept this season at one of the water
ing places "by the widow of Colonel
Ups, who died last summer on q new and
improved plan !"
One day last week froliesome youth
caused an old gentleman to do any
amount of hard swearing in Dyersburg
The little rascal placed q number of in,
verted tacks on bench near the en-
trance to a grocery. Squire c. takes
his coffee standing now.
Congress has ordered survey Of the
Forked,Deer river from Dyesburg to its
junction with the Mississippi. So much
credit to the man who represented thai
district How is it with Hatchie river
the old 8th and Vaughan Echo answers
4" hOlc !"-nothing more.
DR.. Die Lewis gives the following cure
for Dyspepsia Have a right good talk
two or three funny anecdotes, and hall
& dozen hearty laughs, with each meal
Eating alone or shoveling in prOVendel
in solemn silence will give dyspepsia tC
an ostrich.
A worthy lady, who has an eye to bus
iness, offers the following advice to girls
Whenever a fellow pops the question
don't blush or stare at your foot bu
look him square In the face and com
mence talking about the furniture.
A fire occurred in Brownsville on thG
night of the 26th ult. which destroyeC
Dalton's beer saloon, S. Anker's grocerl
store and Mrs. Ankers residence on tn
corner of Washington and Franklin SITS
Estimated loss, $4,000; insurance abou
$1,000. Lee Greenwsld, Mrs. Moses ant
Mrs Anker are the heaviest losers.
Mrs. Davis, of Trenton, don't read tn,
papers much. Last week, as we learr
from the Gazette, she attempted to kindI
a FIRE with cSal oil and succeeded bsyOn'
! her most sanguins expectations. Tn
can exploded, her clothing was instaatl,
f wrapped in flames and she came YER,
near being burnt to death.
. The counsel which the President wa
directed to employ to recover in tn
, courts from the Pacific Railroad none
due the government, are preparing bi
J to be fled in court against all member
, of the Credit Aobilisr company. It
/ the intention Of the attorneys for th
: government to PRESS the suits to a tria
5 as last as possible.
: Jackson proposes to give 800, 900 t
T the Methodist Central University fun
] provided the Institution is located in thI
: place. We don't know "sggaetly tt
r amount Bolivar is going to offer on th
same condition, bat presume that it vi
e. be "up'ards Of a main chance-in fac
\ 8 whole chance; being as how sh's moth
ing TO lose nohOW / " Shaw what's =
offer.
A Little Rock girl died few days az
: of what was supposed to be cersbro-sp
nal meningitis DE-. Quidor, doubling sh
cause of her death, obtained peFmissiO
: b make post norton examination. II
examination disclosed the fact that Il
> little girls stomach was loaded vii
;. boiled cabbage, which had worked itse
d into one hard, solid mass, distending Il
9 stomach and causing death, the yieti
Is dying in conVulsions The doctor s.,
that many Of the deaths credited to th
. cerebrO-spirai disease have nothing to