The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-10
miscellaneous.

The telephone company of New York
mas already thirty-fve lines in operation in
that city.
Mr.. T. H. Ellis of the Ellis house,
Bardstown, KY, and Mrs, Mary Ellis, his
step>mother, were married in Jetfersonville,
Ind, the other day.
The United States ship Constitution,
known as the "old ironsides," is now being
put in condition in PHILADELPHIA to take ont
a load of goods for the Paris exposition. She
will sail about the 10Th of February.
Gen. Adam Badeau has been dropped
from the rolls of the army retired list, under
a decision OF the attOrney-general that he was
not legally entitled to be carried on this
list and hold civil efice at the same time.
The New York canals are becoming
obsolete in spite of all the efforts made to
sustain them channels of TRANSPORTATION,
Inc tolls for the last year were only $780,
6S6, against $l,S40,O05 for the preceding
year.
A new form of telephone has been in
vented. 1t consists of two membranes of
different metals with water between them.
The action of the water makes current
enough, and there is no need of magnet or
battery.
AlonzO Bell, assistant secretary of the
interior VS.. the New York Sun, for one hun.
dred thousand dollars damages Verdict for
tered his wife under her maiden name as
clerk in the department
The bank reward for the capture of
the Younger brothers has been awarded in
equal sums to forty-one persons who took up
the chase the day after the capture st Made
liza. The state reward is to be distributed
among one thousand persons who partici-
pated in the chase from first to last.
The pork men of Louisville are having
hard time of it. They have been feeding
large numbers of hogs, while awaiting the
return of cold weather and still there is but
little change in the temperature. The ex-
pense of feeding these animals is large, and
is bearing heavily on some of the packers.
A correspondent of the Manchester
Guardian telegraphs that journal regarding
the governments policy as follows; There is
no idea of the acquisition of Egypt, which
would be an abandonment of the policy OF
opposing partition of Turkey. 1t is be.
lieved that should Russia reject mediatiou
Lord Beaconsheld is prepared to appeal to
the country on the question of declaring war
! Cor the defense of British interests
! TALKING about our civil service, some
one tells of an Ohio tavern keeper an.
pointed collector of internal revenue
who got one day,in an envelope addressed
to him officially, a $500 greenback, with s
| slip of paper on which was written. econ
| science money. be put the bill in hi
pocketbook without debate, simply re
marking. "I always did suspect thai
barkeeper. p Hartford Times
Miss BRADDoN NMAxwELL,th novelist
has an indignant letter in the LondoH
Times. She was riding with severa
children in London, not long ago, whe1
a steam-roller was the means of KILN,
her horse, nearly killing her coachman
spelling her carriage, and frightening
the little people. An action wa
brought against the steam-roller, and tn.
steam roller won. Hence the letter.
An inventive genius in New York ha!
started a shop for the sale of " duphcat,
wedding gifts" and is doin. a thriving made
Brides who have half dozen silver pitcher
or two or three silver tea sets among thei
wedding gifts, send the ones they do no
want TO the duplicate shop to be sold fo
what they will bring. In this way a pair q
solitsire diamond earrings, which eos
$4,000, were sold for 81 200, and solid siiye-
water pitcher, costing $500, sold for $s5.
! Some years ago Prof Maury prophesiec
that any alteration in the direction of tn
gulf stream would reverse the history of th
world. According to European meteorolo
gists this change is taking place, and tn