The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-10-31

The obituary notice ola Kentucky Ia
dy includes the fact that her hair wac six
feet eight inches long.
Ship building is active in Wilmington,
Del. The caulking hammer is again
heard in yards that have been deserted
for over ten years
In letter to friend a young lady OF
Illinois states that she is not engaged,
but she sees q cloud above the horizon
about as large as mans hand.
In some Of the Western oranges, it is
said, the members are pledged never to
20 to law with each other, bur settle their
disputes by arbitration.
1t is said that the government troops
have been ordered to wage war against the
Comanches and Chyennes in the viciai>
ty of Pueblo.
Baruum has offered the Fisher estate
$3.50 900 for tbs northeast corner Of
Ninth and Chestnut streets, Philadel-
phia lie proposes erecting on the prem
ises, which are 80 feet by I75, a new
theatre and museum
Another post Office gives up its de-
faulter. Six thousand dollars and clerk
have suddenly disappeared from the At
lanta Office, and the defaulter, when last
heard from, was on his way to Cuba. lie
ought to have given bail and divided the
5000.
Some scamp at Fort Wayne mailed
letters to q score of business men telling
them to look out for a pan who would
visit their houses that evening to see
their wives, and twenty business men
surprised their wives by coming home
two hours ahead of time.
Grape picking has begun in earnest at
Put.in-Bay, Lake Erie, and some of the
vineyards ere yielding from one to two
tons per acre. The market price now is
$2lO per ton. aud the crop is being eager
~ sought for by both local buyers and
those from = distance.
Among the members OF the Wyoming
Legislature are BLACK Jack Bill"
prairie joe" "SIim Sam Shaw" and
Grizzly Graham" Tho Speaker will
also have to recognize the gentleman
from "Hen>foot Claim" and the gentls-
man from Buffalo horn Corner"
A Sunday school teacher, explaining
the first chapter of Genisis, asked
"Why did God command them to leave
the fruit ofone tree untoucheiY' A dead
silence at last little girl spoke up and
said: "Please, marin, think he wanted
to leave some for manners -
One of the proprietors Of Petersburg,
Va, paper, in going over the Office re-
Gently, discovered that SLAB used as an
imposing stone WAS the tombstone of q
near relation, who had died about forty
years ago. The engraved side Of the
stone was downward, and how it came
into use in the Office is unexplained.
p J. Peterson and +. H. Brandt the
original discoveries of the Little Annie,
Del NOrte, and Msrgretta lodes, in Col~
orado, have just sold out their claims for
$4,000 cash. These men, one of whom
is Swede, and the other German, are
thus suddenly raised to OPulence, and
will Immediately visit their wondering
relatives in Europe.
Little Jenny r is FIVE years old
Her uncle gave her a doll Jenny
cherished the doll with all a mothers
care. The other day she was nursing it
on her knee; she started suddenly, the dol
fell, the head was broken of Jenny
was overcome with grief at this misfor-
tune, and looked aghast at the poor
hendIess doll; then raising her eyes, said
with sigh of resignation, Another Its
tie angel in heaven"
According to a writer in the Popular
Science Monthly house should be SO
placed that the direct rays Of the sun can
have free admission into the living
apartments, because tue suns rays i'm
part healthy and inyigoratinG quality
to the air, and stimulate the vitality of
humenIbeungs as they do those Of plants
and without sunlight human beings, as
we'll as plants, would sicken and die
The aspect, therefore, should be south
east
In order to prevent the possibility of
such case as that Of the TiehborDe
claimant ever again recurring, it is said
that early next session bill will be in
troducsd into the British Parliament to
the effect that if any presumed heir to
property should leave the country, and
through any eccentricity or other cause
purposely abstain from making his eI-
istence known, he shall be looked upon
after the lapse of 4 certain number Of
years, as dead in the eye Of the law, the
property to go to the next of kin.
A lady Of Providence, r. l., who is
ninety years old, remembers that short
time before the year 1900 Walter Allen
# Union Village, r. /, was married 70
Lucy Bufrum. The bride wore silk
dress entirely of her own make. She
| tended the silk worms, reeled the sill
from the cocoons, spun it, dyed it, wove
| il, and made the dress. It was heavy
ribbed, dark brown silk. Pieces OF it are
carefully treasured by members Of the
family, and it was said to have been the
first silk manufactured in this country.
Prof Sillimnn has recently called at
tsntion to the probable occurrence Of
small diamonds in the sands left in the
sluices of hydraulic washinss in Caliior'
MIA 4 microscopic examination of ,