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

Egypt exports more rags than any
thing else.
The young ladies take degrees at Cor
nell university.
The public library of Boston now con-
tains 914 2G5 volumes.
Rural Kentucky continues to Clamor
for the whipping-pOst.
Germany IS the principal buyer ct
Kentucky bluegrass seed.
The Knoxville Tribune has absorbed
ten different papers in its days.
The attendance at the Philadelphia
permanent exhibition is very meagre.
Colorado is shipping wild sage t" tie
east, to be used for medicinal purposes.
A Marshall, Mich, saloon bartender
made his three year old boy beastly
drunk for the amusement of his patrons
The clipper Canterbury has sailed a
race from New Zealand to London in
sixty-fve days, the fastest time on
record.
The San .!osC (CaI.) Mercury saws that
" the stubborn fact Is presented that the
grain crop this year viii not suffice for
hoTse-feed.
A mansion now building in New York
has a Pompeiian room, the woodwork Of
which is of ebony, with ivory inlaid fig
ures, and panels Of amaranth wood
painted by hand. The furniture is up
! hOlstered with raw silk of Teseda tIuts,
| bOrdered with crimson velvet.
a Battle Creek, Mich, tramp was
given breakfast at the house OF Judge
! Hall, says the Journal, hut Mrs. Hall
noticed that lac did not eat, and pre- ent-
| " he got up from the table. The host
ess asked him if he was sick. " No, ]
ain t sick, but / am goirg TO 20 where
can get 4 decent breakfast"
OF the forty members of the gradua-
ting class at Williams college, twelve are
to be ministers, seven lawyers, four ply
siCians three business men, three teach
ers, one a journalist, and the rest are
undecided. Every man Is a trader,
and there are ten who class theE ives
as independent in politics.
A statement published i'm the Globe
Democrat, shows that. while there were
., SSS deaths IN st. Louis during the
period from Jan. | TO June 20. there
were only seven hundred and twenty
eight births for the same TcIiod- This
shows a net loss Of 2,l6O. st. Louis re-
lies principally upon her directory
maker for gain in her population.
Torpedo balloons are proposed by
CORRESPONDENT Of the Scientific Amer
| ican. The idea j. to float the balloons
over the enemy, and drop the torpedo
| by means Of electricity sent over a wire.
II is calculated that a city could be
totally de troyed i'm this way by dropping
sufficient quantity OF nitro-gIycerine.
The other day William Kief. of New
ark, n. J., was cleaning his finger nails
with a pair Of SCISSORS. His young vile
began teasing him to buy some furniture,
and he became angry and threw the
scissors at her. The two blades penetra-
| ting her eyes Just beneath the eyebaIls.
A physician said that the woman could
not recover her sight
The German American matrimonial
| help society is Philadelphia concern
/ which promises TO give every member
! $500 on marrying; but the member finds
! that in initiation fee. monthly dues, and
/ assessments he is compelled to pay much
mere than he gets. The assessments,
| too. are in many cases made on the pos
siblv fictitious marriages of members in
/ distant parts of the country. The com
| panv has sent out gOrgeOusly litno-
graphcd circulars, referring 10 nineteen
Philadelphia merchants and cleTPymen
| as indOrsers OF the scheme; but every
one Of them has, in A published state
ment, rcpudiated it.