The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-01-06

weather was too warm.
Eggnog and Roman candles for who'll
last the longest.
The junior editor of this paper has
been spending several days in Nashville.
Our boys must learn to be more ouiet
at night, as ''there is a man sick at Jack
son."
When is that ball to come off at
the Bolivar Stir her up boys, this is
the nineteenth century.
We thought we heard somebody wink.
1t must have been the young man that
wrote the love letter published elsewhere
in this issue.
Our young and handsome friend, N. N.
Polk, arrived in this city from Knoxville.
where he has been attending the East
Tennessee University.
Messrs. Prewitt, of Grand Junction
called on US on Wednesday Call araine
! gentlemen, we are always. glad to Sc
your genial faces.
The old mansion near the southwest
| corner OF Court square is being remodeled
and made quite handsome. Capital for
that side.
There was a social dance at Mrs. Fen
6ress, last night, ana the young folk of
our city enjoyed themselves extremely in
graceful dancing.
A handsome youth of this city, being
questioned by rather stylish lady as to
his occupation, replied that he was san
adiuster of movable alphabets.'' He is
onlya printer.
81 never sot my mind to writin' poetr Y
till two years" said young ruralist, til
ing back in our editorial chair; "but the
minute took to goin' with that John
son gal, by gosh couldn't help it."
The mackerels of Bolivar now 90 arm
ed with old filesithat have been convert
ed Into bowie-knives by the SHARPENING
OF the points and edges. Our devil has
one. Look out for him, he is bad medi-
cine.
That singing club should be organized
by all means. Besides helping to i'm
prove, it would keep out of mischief,
for a short while at least. some of the
boys who are too fond of the gl-, we
Won't say it, but it is true.
The Bolivar Hotel opened up or Mon
day last under the management of G. a.
Swinebroad, and most supurb dinner
was served for the Introductory feature,
the like of which is to be continued
while the Hotel is in charge of MIR.
Swinebroad.
Mrs. Ann Black, who has had charge
of the Hotel at this place for several
years, and who is so well known as an
excellent caterer, has removed to the
old Pitser Miller place, where she intends
to maintain her welI-established reputa-
talon as landlady.
Brigham Young says that a woman
who can't make a dress out of eleven
yards of cloth will find Heavens gate
too narrow for her to enter. The Boil
var ladies, however, will use from eight
teen to tweEty-eight yards, and run the |
risk of squeezing through the gate or of
finding ladder to go over the walls.
& darkey who was stoooping to wash |
his hands in a creek near here, didn't |
notice the peculiar actions of a goat Just |
behind him, so when he scrambled out of
the water and was asked how it happen |
ed, he answered: 81 dunno 'Zactly; but |
'peared to me as eff de shore kinder histed |
an frowed me in"
PulI-backs are just the thing for this |
muddy weather that we have had for sew |
eral weeks, for if the wearer should per-
chance slip into mud hole, she would |
be pulled-back of course. Can't our |
boys, the darling little things, haye them |
some pull backs made, for they very of |
ten slip into holes at the dead of night |
anu AAO44 y NOl44O OIAG VII AAAO' LII
Pull-backs have their drawbacks, as a
young lady of this city found when she !
went to set down at a ball last week. |
after having danced until twelve O'Clock. !
"Good graciOusi l am nearly dead to set |
down, but didn't expect to dance so |
long and II amt fixed to sit down" /
Her escort found place for her along |
side of the mantlePiece, where she could |
take parade rest"
An opponent of the newspaper press,
in a lOng-winded, and foolishly written |
article, published in circular form in New /
York city, asks, "What is newspaper
The New York Herald answers: 1.-The
commOn-sense view is that a newspaper
is the history of Yesterday written to-
day; that it is the mirror of the time. and
that those who conduct it care nothing
for individuals, except to do them JUS
tice." A newspaper is a pubic obserVa.
tory to which people go to look ont upon,
remark, and critieise Tie rendition of
the vaTious roles of the numerous actors
upon the stage of the theatre of the |
World; a window through which people
look to see the things that other people |
do; an encyclopedias, without which the
world would forever be in search Of
knowledge understandable.
The majority Of the people in this
country are not overly fond of breaking
their necks, or even disseminating their
existence by drowning themselves but
should there be any who have desire to
depart from the general rule of living as
long as you can, and be undecided where
TO 90 to drown themselves, we would
most respectfully ask to be allowed 20
suggest a sure and convenient place to
perform the operation of drowning
themselVes-and that is on the crossing
between Mask & Sens and Harkins q
Durrett's after heavy rain. Yes, that
is q most magnificent place for that
purpose, for there is an old piece of plank
that helps to constitute said crossing
which would defy the utmost efforts of
John RObinsOn's tight-rope man to walk
it 4 dark rainy night.
On Wednesday night Q last week
there was grand ball and reception at
st. James Hall, and the 20 ung gallants
and fair maids of our city repaired there