The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-01-20
MIsTAKEs-EEPORTERs on PBLN-
TIERS?

Not long ago tailor stood in the dock
for misappropriating his employers prop
erty, and the latter, we were told, deposed !
that "the materials were to be returned |
made up on a Thursday, and on the Sun |
day following he discovered that the de-
ceased had left his home, and he did not
see him again until he was in custody"
The deceased was sentenced to a
months hard labor The following is a
curious sample Of printers mixture which
the Daily Telegraph once set before its
readers This purported to be a report
of a case in the Bankruptcy Court, and af-
ter stating that the Register ordered Re
eeiver to be appointed, but declined to re-
strain the action Of the creditors, went on
thus: IA good deal of evidence was
given, and in the course of the case his Lord
ship expressed an opinion that juror
should be withdrawn. and that the case
was one for only farthing damages. 1t
was, the Judge said, a sad thing to see
| young man in such a position, which there
was no doubt had been brought about by
/ habits Of intemperance, and but for the
recommendation of the jury he should
have passed a very severe sentence. He
| advised him to abstain from drink for the
future, and sentenced him to be imprisoned
and kept to hard labor for six months"
Some Of the industrious. gentlemen whose
avocation it is to hunt up news for provin-
cial journals have very odd way of put
ting things Under the heading "Death
from Drowning" we read: "On Saturday
Mr.. ]. C. Jarrold, Deputy Coroner. held an
inquest at the Hazard Arms, Mill Lane,
concerning the death Of Thomas Ship,
who was drowned on the following night
Chronicling the coming to grief of a young
trapeze performer, the reporter says: al
was afterward discovered that the boys
collar-bons was broken, but unfortunately
his injuries are not of dangerous descrip-
ton" Another announces, without word
Of protest against the vivisectionistss thai
"a British Workmansis sbout to be opened
at Morpeth." A third tells us. al pony
carriage was passing along New Bond
street. Bath, when, in turning into North
: gate street, it fell down and broke both o
its legs" Recording some steeplechas
! doings at Monaghan, the Irlsh Times said
"a very nice days sport was carried Of
a over an excellent course. AL grass, eve
2 the lands Of Mr. Henderson, whose hcspi
: tality was unbounded. 1t consisted Of tw
walls, two bank drops, water cut an
two hurdles" Telling of man who los
his life in riot, Belfast paper ended th
story WITH ~Tbey fred two shots at hin
the 6Tst shot killed hims but the secon
y was not fatal" He was not blessed with
d couple of lives, like the deaf man, name
re Taft, who awas run down by = passeng'
s train and killed; he was injured in q sim
IS lar way year ago.
E. The Irish journalists, however, cann'
II be accused Of rnonopoIzing the manufa
II of bulls; their English brethren are equal
2 clever that way; as they proved by sem
" ing-the Princess Louise to Wimbledon g
- witness the shooting Of her husbandi" 4
seribing the Primes of Wales second s,
Is can amiabls boy like his mothers" ar
- announcing that tbs Duke Of Hamilt
% would shortly take to wife "ths late Lao
y Mary Louisa ElizAbAls NOntagas.
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