The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-07-05
GENERAL ITEMS.


The potato bugs are attacking the
beans.
There are upward of 5000 churches il
the state Of New York.
The government still owns one-fifth OF
all the land in Alabama.
The best education one can obtain is
the education experience gives.
The twenty pound Emma mine shares
! have been sold in London at one shilling
each.
Waco, Texas, has shipped thirty-fve
| thousand five hunded bales of cotton this
| season.
Christians should be humble and
thankful, watchful and cheerful.
Epidemic catarrh is killing horses and
mules in Mississippi in large numbers.
A boy in Salem, Mass, died last week
from lOckIaw resulting from the filling Of
a tooth.
No use looking for Swift's comet. It
| Is 100000 900 miles away, and still trav-
cling from us.
An ice-machine in Dallas, Texas, pro-
duCes ice-cakes thirty feet long and six
feet wide, weighing from O,OO0 to 12,-
600 pounds each.
George A. Blaney, of WOburn, Mass,
locked in JAIL pays the tax under pro-
test, and is then allowed to 90 free.
Brigham Young now has fifteen wives
under his care and protection. He has
had fOrty-five children. The number of
his grandchildren he does not know.
KrupP's fifty. ton gun, exhibited at the
centennial, was purchased by Russia for
the Notifications at CrOnstadt, and is
new in position for work.
There is a movement south of the
"divide" in Colorado to separate that
portion of the state from the northern
section, and organize the new territory
Of San Juan, with its capital at Pueblo.
This movement is doubtless due tc the
enormous and Over-crOwded population
of Colorado.
Cinnamon in California are themselves
complaining of d" Chinese cheap labor"
Coal mines in Amador county are
worked by Cinnamon from the interior
of China, who speak a dialect that the
rest Of their COuntrymen in California
cannot understa and, accept SO month
wages and board themselves,
England does not intend to contract
any more Alabama claims. That Turkish
irOE-clad, which was nearly finished in
an English ship-yard when the war broke
out, has had to stay there. The govern
ment Immediately took means to
prevent any infringement of the neutral
t V laws, as Secretary BOuTke expressed
t in parliament.
A Partisan Snowman, whose daughter
was lately married, endowed her most
Enthusiastically. He gave her for her
portion an elephant who knew how to
dance, a dog that could reckon accounts,
two canaries skillful at caTd-playiDg, and
a camel 50 piOus that 1t went down on
its knees at sunset, with its head TO the
east.
Poor Mr.. Brown, in Indianapolis,
while waiting in the criminal court to be
called as a juror, had his pocket picked.
Afterward, to add to his sufferings, the
defendants counsel objected to hun as a
juror on the ground that having been so
recently the victim of thief he couldn't
be an impartial juror in a case of larceny.
This didn't make poor Mr.. Brown feel
better at all.
Ten Texan cattle breeders alone own
!, 1,O25 OOO cattle, besides horses and mules,
and have $50, GOO acres Of enclosed pas
that the state contained 494, 504 horses,
81 322 mules and asses, 423 O4S mich
cows, 132 400 oxen, and >, ,933 ,045 other
cattle: or, for all the owners in the state
only 2.469, ,0G0 more than are owned by
ten men alone.
Centenarians continue to turn up, in
spite of theories that they are impossible.
A banquet was recently given in Rich
Ln1~Io,,I TO NJ. LfiuraVg AInrCraT n
of Brougham House, WiliesdeD, by
members of his family ana a number of
friends, on his completing his 1O6th
wear. The figures are attested by a
record in a very old family Bible. Mr.
Morgan, who is in vigorous health, was
| born in Bristol, May d, 1870.
Mrs. Mary Livermore speaking "In
| Iowa I saw a law sign, Foster q Foster
| 1t meant Mr. and Mrs. Foster. They
| attended the same law school became
attached; became partners for life. The
man looked up the cases; the woman
/ pleaded them before the court and jury.
| In a certain difficult case where a woman
was concerned. he doubted his ability to
! do it Justice and carried it to MS wife,
and she proved it to be case of insani-
! ty."
The first directory ever published in
Philadelphia, was sent out by a man
named Mcpherson in 1885. The Phiia-
delphians of those days did not take
! kindly to the collection of addresses,
and when the collector couldn't get a
mans name, the publisher printed the
| answer given, as for instance | won't
! tell YOU" Maiden lane None of your
! business. Is Sugar alley; Never mind
| what nv name is," 100 New Market
-treet; q Don't you wish you knew 20
/ IS5 John street 'SJust as you please to
| Put it, 40 Market street.