The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-02-28
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Even with children half price" it
costs Brigham Young SIS to 50 to the /
circus.
man in Kentucky, by burying PEG
pie at $40 each who had died of the small
pox, accumulated enough to pay his own
funeral expenses.
Henry Ferdinand Carl Bernon:tz leap.
ed from a moving train in New JERSEY,
and, falling under his own name, was
crushed to death.
The religious editor of the Racine
Journal says he has yet to hear of q man
north of Milwaukee who would not pre-
fer being a dooTkeeper In the House of
Assembly than in the House of the Lord.
1t pays better"
At San Francisco, last week, a party
of dredgers brought up from the waters
of the bay the body of an unknown man,
respectfully dressed, with his throat cut
from ear to ear, and about fifty pounds of
pig-irOn attached to his body.
At Troy, New York, an owl recently
carried off a fiftcen'pound dressed tur-
key, and was enjoying a nice thanksgiv-
ing dinner, when a ruthless man with a
rifle bowed him through, and found he
DdA OoS@C0 wv OlAuo viii one SuOb-
The Postmaster General estimates that
during the last yea there were sent
through the mails eight hundred millions
Of copies of daily newspapers, six huns
bred millions of weeklies, and one hun
dred raIllions of monthlies and other pub
locations
The body of a young lady has been
placed in the receiving vault Of the In
dianapolis cemetery for daily inspection,
as the doctors are by no means certain Of
her death. The indications of a trance
are the freshness of the couutenance and
the pliability of the joints.
They attempted to kill a sewing ma
chine agent in Kansas the other day.
He was rubbed, thrown into the river,
knocked off the cars, pitched from a
| bridge 224 feet into the river again, then
| hung by the neck eight hours, and,
| strangely enough, was found next day
with money in his pockets and stopping
as the guest Of the leader of the attacking
party.
| John McMahan, an Irishnan, who was
employed as a swItchman and watchman
| at VictoIia, Texas, on the Gulf, Western
| and Pacific railroad, lost his leg by being
run over by an engine in 1871 He
! brought suit in the United States District
! Court for $4,000 damages, and the jury
returned a verdict in his favor, on the
10th inst for 5000
Poughkeapsie has an Enoch Arden.
| He returned from the war, AMI finding
that his wife had gone and CO. married
again, he inquired if his mOther,in>law
was still living with her, and, receiving
an affirmative answer, remarked, 81 will
| remain dead to her forever" He turned
away with his hand organ, and has not
since put in an appearance.
A young lady teacher in Massachu,
sets Sunday school caught boy smiling
last Sunday She said What are you
smiling at, Johnny ?" Nothing. mum,
was the answer. 81 know BETTER said
the teacher, severely; NOW tell me wha
it was" Johnny looked frightened as he
stutteringly said ''l--I see your news
papers s-sticking out b>behind, mum.
The teacher sat down suddenly and ar
ranged things
The New York Mail says! "You car
never be absolutely sure of your man, i
is so easy to be mistaken as to persona
identity. A Baltimore grocer was de-
frauded, the other day, out of n larg,
am, unit of butter and found a man VIII,
he WAS perfectly sure was the rascal WIZ
had cheated him. The look, dress ant
manner we're the same, and he could no
possibly be mistaken, and yet the accused
proved to be highly respectable Clergy
man, and it was shown that he was con
Quoting services in his church at the YER
time of the butter transaction. NothiD
J, but "a alleybi' saved his clerical skirt
from the faint of stolen butter.
; A band of Mormons. under the leader
ship of George A Smith, have been mai
ing a tour of the continent, during tn
past three months. They possessed
fair share of Yankee persistence an
curiosity, but their shabby appearance
and uncOuth ways did not commend theI
to the polished foreigners, " no suhjecte
: / hem to numerous Sights. In the
eagerness to see the French Corps LCs
: islatif, they blockaded the back stairwa
: Of President Theirs mansion from moo
. till near m duight, one day, to Obtai
tickets of admission, and were final
:, packed eff by a disguised offici i, VII
:, gave them cards for day when thel
q was no session.
>. We commend this picture of life
| Florida to those parties who intend mo-
n ing there. It is from a correspondent
e at took me IA few days to get settled
D. my house, where, although l am the so
T human occupant, / am by 10 meal
IF alone. To say nothing Of cockr, aches
e take q prize for size and ugliness at
worlds fair, any one of them-spider
flies, ants, etc, | have other and mo
,r agreeable companions. The house is f.
n of the little green lizards of the Southel
4 States. They are from three to Gig
- inches in length, and on a warm dav tn
= are continually running IN and out
- their crevices in the logs, over my tab
=, over the bed, on my chair, on my shiT
= sleeves, here, there, everywhere n
ID peal.
u 1t is stated that the injury which CHI
to Justice Nicholson received from n Fl
lie in the capitol building in Nashville,
er December, Is so serious that he will r
e be able to attend the meeting of the :
d, / p-eme Court in April and a bill
I'll been introduced into the Legislature
&c appoint two conn etent lawyers spec
i Judges, WhO, in connection with Jud
Nicholson, shall sit in Nashville and t
such cases as the lawyers and parties m
en- agree upon and that there shall be
Of special meeting of the Court to ent
ur judgment; aud that the persons thus Z
IL, pointed snail receive the same pay as t
he regular JUDGES for tue time they are tn
ds employed
n A MIR Brown emigra ted from I
m cheese-nakIng counties Of New \ ork
ps Erath county. Texas, and starred {
in business in 1869 tie made 900 pour
~ of cheese the first year, and lost
IIv pounds Of it by not understanding