The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-06-18
CLIPPINGS.
Nashville has watermelons.

man.
Crockett county has fns crop pros
poets.
franklin has organized a military
company.
Gadsien ships cherries t, Chicago and
! New Orleans.
A number # young mn in Pulask XII
have the mumps.
Tom Hughes, cf Crockett county, has
laid BY his corn.
Humboldt is tired of whisky, and
wants u soda fountain
L. P. Meyers, of the Humboldt Her
aid, has Joined the church
Week before last, Humboldt sold
twenty-five bales of cotton.
Knoxville Sunday schools have pic
mics. CaInp-meetings next.
The Supreme Court will convene at
knoxville Monday.
Eight new wheat threshers were sold
at Bells Depot week before last.
Rad Brigauces, of Bells Depot, was
severely stabbed by Charley Hicks, last
week.
The Madison county wheat crop will
realize one hundred and tifsy thousand
dollars.
5. G. HowIet, Of Madison county,
has cotton that measures eighteen
! inches.
Colonel Wisdom will soon resume the
publication of the jackson Wing and
Tribune.
The Masons will have orations and 4
public installation of officers at Hum~
boldt on he twenty-fOurth.
Constable Lcbn Walker, of Memphis,
shot and killed q mad dog in that city Cd
the 10Th.
Alexander st Clair Abrams, having
failed as editor of a paper at Atlanta, Is
going to Florida to Iaise oranges
The President has signed his commits
sion, and Col. George W. emory, OF
this State, is now Governor Of Utah.
The Vickshurg Herald estimates that
the wheat crop of Mississippi this year
will be equal to the crops Of the last ten
years combined.
The Philadelphia newspapers are dis
cussing earnestly the necessity OF pre-
venting eztOrtionate hotel charges dur NJ
the Centennial.
Mrs Sarah Evans, who was arrested
in Memphis upon the charge of giving
pistols to certain Jail prisoners, was re-
leased upon giving a bond Of two hun
dred and fifty dollars.
=; Mr.. white, the evangelist, who la
bored so yea ously, and with such good
results, for over month. in Memphis,
is now in Little Rock.
Pulaski Citizen: The first cotton
squares we have seen were sent to Us last
Tuesday by MIR. Laneve from Judge
Spofford's firm. One stalk had three
squares. They appeared as cary as the
5th met.
The news from the Mexican fr 1ntier
on the 18th reads more like war than
any nhihg we have yet had. If the Mex
lean government does not interfere
promptly to prevent the destructive in
cursions into Texas of her bandits, war
between the two republics is inevitable.
at may be that there are no contin,
geueies which call for n recollection Of
General Grant; that is an open ques-
ton, but we insist there Is no cOnstitu-
ti0nal or other objection to Il third term ~
This IS the way The New York Gragphie
talks, and 1t Is Il Grant organ.
Here ia an extract from a letter writS
ten to her over by Montgomery,
a Alabama, girl: For your sake, darling,
| have quit using chewing gum would /
you have quit gum for ME 2 | would not !
have omit gum for any other person in |.
the whole world
Gov Baveridge of Illinois, seems to .
be doing what he can to make crime re-
speeta Bile During the last six months
he has pardoned out OF the State prison
seven hurderers and fifty nine Guns
victs of less degree. Under such state
IF things the enforcement Of law has NJ
teTrOTs for criminals.
The man who drops a poker because
the handle is warm, and then carel5sly
hicks it up again by the end that is red
not, geueraIly gets about as much sym7
Dathy as the man Wh0 Tnshes To the
newspa pers Office to have 40 explanation
and finds, when the correG~
ION comes out, that ia ten times as bad
Is the original was.
India now manufactures o great deal Of
'Otten. ighteen steam sPinning and
Weaving mills are at work in Bonn
,ay. Presidency alone, emT lows 1900
ooms, 100000 spindles, and 10000
lands, turning out daily 10000 pounds
# yarn. The weekly consumption of
Otton is described as 1900 bales, and
likely to increase largely. There are also
many cotton manufactures in other parts
f India.
Memphis Avalanche "a man named
lam Russell had his throat cut and !
vas killed by his son-in-law, Henry
'rince, about four miles northeast of ,
Hardeman county, about 80 s
niles east Of this city, on the ID instant :
'iince had married daughter of Rus |
ell shortly before the tragedy, and :
gainst her fathers consent Russell
isited Pocahontas and while on his way {
ONE, accompanied by Steve Russell, bis f
rOtber, and John KIRK, a quarrel en- |
Ied which resulted as before stated |
russell was desperate mau when an L