The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-03-02

SPEAKING OF New York lawyers in |
comes, the Sunday Times aud Messenger
says that David Dudley Field is credited |
with S875,Q00; Samuel G.. Courtney.
@zOO'O0Oi Brown, Hall & Nanderpool, |
9zZ2,oebo; E. w. Stoughton with 5000 |
900, and William NJ. Evarts with $50.
oVO annually.
MANY of our southern contemporaries
have commencedurging farmers to raise
IheIr own food supplies, as has been Gus
to'mary for long time at this season of
the year. Heretofore, farmers have paid
little heed to the sound advice of having
their corn-cribs and smoke-houses at
home; now, however, the idea seems to
have found many adherents, and the
coming season will probably see the
south more independent of the west than
ever before.-NashUite Au1erican.
CANNED fish generally is not partic-
ularly wholesome food, and it is not
infrequently dangerous. 1t should never
be eaten unless it had been heated 10 a
boiling temperature shortly before, even
though it is particularly liable to spoil
soon after opening, under the most favor
able circumstance. Brands devoid of
these necessary directions for safe use
should be avoided, and persons who per-
sist in putting such food upon the market
without precautions, should be placed
under legal restraint.
ONE of the most curious things at the
exposition will be an architectural plan
of the city Of Mexico It's dimensions
are $50 by 23l feet. 1t will display all the
characteristics of the city, and will be
peopled by $4,000 Ieaden figures dressed
in appropriate costumes, some for the
opera, ball and social party, and Others
vending fruit and ice cream, carrying
baskets and rolling barrels In the
streets will be 800 coaches, an equal
number of other vehicles and a lot of ar
tillery pieces
THE officers of Harvard University
have lately kept record of the percent
age of the students, from which some in
teresting facts are to be ascertained.
Merchants and shOp-keepers send to col
lege about half her students. LAWYERS
send literally, and clergymen not so well.
Among the classes ofparents who do not
send at ALL are sea captains, railroad
men, hotel keepers, artists, and literary
men. Artists and architects have only
contributed three students in six years,
and editors, authors and publishers have
done little better
KEELY's motor has been enveioped in
a mysterious obscurity for some time,
and people were generally beginning to
believe that the affair was a failure. I.ast
Friday evening, however, in Philadelphia,
terrific explosion took place in a brick
building, and one of the walls was knocked
to pieces. Upon investigation it was
discovered that Keely occupied the
structure, and his iron bex where he
chained his motor, had blown up. There
seems to be something in Keelys ma
chine, after all, but the people who live
in the neighborhood have very earnestly
requested him TO move elsewhere
A GENTLEMAN in New York has con
vertcd an old church, no longer used for
the purpose of worship, into lodging
house for tramps, the beds in the pews
on the ground floor free to their occu-
pants, and those in the gallery let at
trihing cost. In this way he accommo-
dates three hundred vagrants nightly,
two hundred and fifty of them absolutely
without charge Tn the morning each
guest is given hot breakfast Of mush.
k is entirely at the option of the tramps
whether they acknowledge the kindness
extended TO them, by chopping wood in
the basement of the building half an hour
before taking their leave, or not 1t is
gratifying that large quantity is
chopped, which indicates that the much
abused tramp is not altogether destitute
of honor No drunken men are ad-
mitted.
SERIOUS danger has Deen apprehended
in England of a war between the Anal
gamated Engineers and their employers.
The owners of the Firth iron works,
having decided to conduct their business
by piece-work instead of weekly wages,
the men went on strike, and the union
issued orders that they intended TO COM
pei the masters-except under specialc cir
cumstances, to be Judged by the union
to abandon the one method of payment
for the other. The Amalgamated Engi-
neers possess a fund of e25O, 600; and
they rule from 10000 to 10000 skilled
hands. They can, if they organize a gen
eral strike, throw entire trades out of
gear, and stop large undertakings directly
dependent on their labors. The London
Spectator says that the Amalgamated
Engineers can stop or greatly reduce the
income Of 100000 households, and inflict
nearly as much misery as a great cam
paign would. What this organization
proposes to perform, is to take away from
the skilled minority possession which
they have for the benefit of the majority
and, says the Spectator, they have no
right to do it, and no plea of benevo-
lcnce nor brotherhood nor general conve-
nicnce can give them the right. The
Iron Trades Employers Association.
which held its general meeting at Derby.
held in its hands the issues of war on
peace. The counsels Of prudence fortu.
nateIy overruled the promptings of self
interest, and adopted a policy which is
likely to lead, for the present at least, tc
satisfactory settlement Of existing