The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-01-31
Editorial Items

hundred and four years. !
The Bourbons and Orlcanists have Co
aleseed and recognized Count De Cham>
bord the rightful King of France.
Indiana produced 5000, 600 bushels of
corn last year. No wonder hog and
hominy are cheap in the Hoosier State.
Stokes murdered Fisk on the eth of
January, 1872. and on the 9th ofJanuary,
1873, he was sentenced to be hung for
the crime
Judge Emmons says that the jail of !
Knox county is a presidential hole.
The same is true of almost all the county
jails in the State.
In the vicinity of Independence, Kan
sas, corn is selling at fifteen cents per
bushel, and all other products of that
region in proportion.
Speaker Lacey appointed negro Ass
sistant Doorkeeper of the Senate, and for
so doing is being ridiculcd by number
of the Press ''VeI, vat of it?"
Water Valley, Miss, reports three
cases of smallpox. The Courier, like
faithful sentinel on the line, tells the
truth about it and sonceals nothing
Miss Addie Taylor, of Bridgeport,
Connecticut, attic nded a Frenchman who
was sick of smallpox few months ago,
and now he has given her a fortune of
$4,000
A chap over in Giles county has had
1.-The exquisite felicity and talks about
"faultily fau.less" Poor fellow, one
more felicity" will set 'em on end be-
yOnd the shawdow of doubt.
Near Boyd's Landing Hardin county,
a desperate ARRAY occurred between Geo
Foster and John Stanford, short time
since, in which the latter was shot to
death Foster made his escape.
Owen Norton, a workman at the ST
Louis Lead and Oil Works, corner of
Cass avenue and Second streets, while
oiling presses last Friday, was caught in
the machinery and had his head cut off.
Laura D Fair, the brag female man
killer of California, is giving free lee
lures in lager beer saloons in the city of
Sacramento. Her tendency is downward
Pistol, powder, poison, daggers and ball !
The Committee on Claims of the lower
House of Congress, has agreed to the bill
appropriating Sl8, 500 to the East Tens
nessee University, for property used and
occupied by the United St tes troops
during the lata unpleasantness.
In November last IO3 accidents oc>
Cured on the various railroads in the
United States, by which 81 persons were
killed and ia Injured When the re-
turns for December are complete, the
above figures will sink into insignif'
canoe
Our State debt has been.reduced in the
last few years from the enormous sum o
$40, 100000 to S23,OO0,O 0, and still tn,
good work goes on, notwithstanding the
fact that on the lst day of January, 1878
there was less than tIco hundred dollar
IN the Treasury
OF seven hundred and forty four con-
victs in the Tennessee penitentiary las
year, six hundred and fifty six had enc
trade" Comment, as Bill Yerks woul,
say, is "ineontinently busted" Boys
learn a trade, and take your cha noes OIL
the sunny side of misfortune
In the Bartlett Circuit Court Overtol
Claxton. Administrator, has brought sui
against the Louisville & Memphis rail
road company for $4,000 damages, 70
the killing of Adelina OK, colored, o.
Wolf River bridge last April The En-
te5prisc says the case will be heard a
the April term Of Court, and will attrac
) much attention.
4 The head quill driver of the New Or
9 leans Picayu7ee wants to know if tn
b Democratic party is dead, No brother
e no, not dead, but "she sleepeth muchly |!
o If few hundred Bourbons would quietl
T. slide into the arms Of Morpheus an,
e remain there for three or four years an
y then all come up at once with booho
- and a hurrah they might "wake her up!
= An educational bill is before the Leg
= islature now, which provides for til
n maintenance Of public schools by com
- ing down on "liquor dealers" This Bi
r says every liquor dealer whose sales e.
1, coed S25, 600 shall pay $500 Ever
s liquor dealer whose sales are betwee
= $1,000 and $25 900 shall pay a tax
$3.50; those whose sales are betwee
$4,000 and $4,000 shall pay $3.50 A
a other liquor dealers shall pay 500.
> A gentleman, who is now greatly ad
vanced in are, says that be has kept a
account of the explosions of steambo;
boilers in the United States since Isl:
=" Six hundred had exploded, causing tn
loss of 5000 lives Out of ali he boiler
that exploded none were made out
Tennessee iron lie says that he ha
- never heard of boiler made out of Ten
u nessee iron that has exploded It's dur
Il ability, elasticity and strength is unsul
. passed by any iron that the world hs
ever produced.
1t is now claimed that the notoriou
Captain Jack"-and just exactly VT
&c Captain Jack is we do not Happen
y know-has no less than one thuusar
Modoc warriors at his command, ar
&c from all indications General WheatC
d will have hard time of thrashing hi
- out Of his mountain fastDesses (
* licked the General in one fight, and sa,
nc L. .nn Do II -rrnin IInrIa Earn Ill Ia.