The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-03-28
Editorial Items.

A'asf'hA Ot-Cfo4o AAitAAC Jew ISL CAttLSE5
pay fines for playing cards on Sunday.
Maj G. A Henry is considered the
leading Orator of Tennessee.
Waco, Texas, has just experienced a
$50 600 FIRE. "No preparation.
In Trenton when fellows noss turns
very red the local of the Gazette accuses
him of eating Gran berries
Strong efforts are being made to secure
funds for the purpose of erecting large
cutton factory at Trenton.
The Northern press generally speak in
favorable terms of the free shcool law re-
Gently enacted by our Legislature.
1000 bales of cotton and 100 hogsheads
Of tobacco were burned at the Erie depot
fire in Jersey City last Friday.
Scientific men insist upon the fact that
the winters in the Southern States are
growing colder and more severe each
year
Edward Jurdon was stabbed in the
neck by VIM. Shockley in Colum bia one
day last week and died instantly. The
murderer was arrested.
Powell CIaton, ye Senator from ye
Rackinsack, has been whitewashed by ye
Senate, and he is still open for convic>
ton
A bright youth over in Henderson
county wants his big brindle dog vacci-
mated SO that he may not be subject to
hydrophobia Pass him.
According to the papers Columbus,
KY, has recently had a game Of Hull
Gull a Mr.. Hull gulled the people upon
the subject of spiritualism.
The editor of the Corinth Courier has
just been caned by Dr. Hall and knitted
by John Pollock. He still lives to return
thanks, gobble free lunch, etc. Happy
man
Recently the town of Lawrenceburgr
KY, was nearly destroyed by fire. Hun,
dreds OF people were render, houseless
Loss S25O,O0O A good hook and ladder
company could have saved one half the
amount destroyed
The number Of hogs and cattle packe
at Chicago.this season is set down as fol-
lows: Hogs l, 425, O4O against l ,2I8, 1853
last season; cattle 1875 against l6,OSC
last season. Total number barrels Of
mess pork packed SO, 385; other grades
1901; tierces of lard 1876, 054.
Judge w. A. Richardson has been ap
pointed as Secretary of the Treasury tc
fill the vacancy occasioned by the cleo,
ton of the Hon. Geo. s. Boutwell, to the
! United States Senate from Massachus stts
The little town of Milan has subscribe
ed S26, 900 to the Tennessee Central Rail
road. Wake up Bolivar and go for tie
Nj. & K. R. r, Ia earnest.
A petrifed frog has been discovered IL
Colorado which on being broken wa
found to contain an ancient Az5ec coin
Imprisonment for debt Is by no means
SO generally abolished as people suppose
The Hartford Connecticut Courian
mentions that ten or twelve debtors hav {
been lodged in the jail of that city durin,
the past winter; and three are confined
there now.
A widow woman named Houston, sixt,
years old, living nine miles south O
Nashville, was taken out of bed by IN
known parties last Monday night, carried
to common gallows erected for DRESSING
hogs and hung until she was dead
1t is supposed from the tracks discovered
that two men committed the deed. The
eaus3 of the outrage is unknown.
Chief among the laws enacted by th'
37th General Assembly, whose labor
have just been brought to close by cor
stitutional limitation, are the following
The Public School law; the Fundin
law; the redis tri citing or CongressiOnG
appOrtionment; the Assessment law; th
public law the law letting out the prin
ing to the highest bidder, and the tip
ping law, the latter being veoted by ii
Governor.
, Last Friday morning at Bridgepor
t twenty-nine miles this side of Cbattano,
= ga, w. W. Hightower, bridge builde
? in the Nashville and Chattanooga Rai
: road service, was shot four times by
q saloon keeper named Glover. Hightow,
s died about half past seven o'clock, al
Il was hard working, peaceful man, age
s 40 years. He leaves wife and sever
g children at Murfreesboro, where he +
. | sided GlOyre does not bear q good cha
@ acter.
e The Methodist Episcopal Churc
8 which didn't want DR.. Newmans serv
5 ces as q bishop, is to lose him as past
d for some time. The reverend doctor
n to start on a pleasure trip around q
lie world Mt the expense Cf the national cri
to He is to be accompanied by his fami
at and a prominent divine of the Method
9. Church. The doctor is to be called
ut spector of eensuls. Unlike the indiVid
l. al who last held that pleasant and prol
ls able travelling sinecure, the doctor has
ed written a work in praise of Genl. Ora
be He has prayed and preached his prais
however, to an extent that would I'll
good many books, and he is to have
te reward. The Senators are said to
I'D unanimous in their wish that the doe
ed may have a long and agreeable jour-
m especially long one.
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I'M Pretty Good Hint.