The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-03-06

Monticello tor the erection of mOnu-
mont over Jefferson grave have PISSED,
and work will be begun in the early
spring.
The Virginia senate has re used, by a
very decided majority, to repeal the
whipPil G post law, taking the ground
that great sav ng OF expense has &C
2rued and that there has been a notable
decrease OF petty crimes.
POSTMASTER GENERAL KEY is a good
deal OF womsf's rights man. He says
a great number IF women have been ap>
pointed 20 sn all fices in the past four
years, ard they do tie business in first
"lsss shape. They take more pride in
flee holding, in fact, than men.
The canvas-bsck duck, it is said, can
never be caught alive. There is stand
ing offer of fifty dollars r pair Tor them,
but no one has yet got it. A prominent
caterer in New York has been trying for
three years. to execute a commission
from the son of the Duke OF Sutherland
for two pairs of canvas backs
RAILROAD travelling in Mexico is de-
scribed as something awfuI when the
way lies scross one OF the arid plains
that surround the capital. One of the
American excursionists now visiting
that country writes: "Eighty-six and
q half miles in an atmosphere so thickly
charged with dust that respiration, al
ready rendered difficult by the great ell
eVa'icn, became positively painful"
THE amount tOfluxuTiousness of bestowed
upon pet dogs in New York is something
almost ircIedible. Says the New York
Home Journal: II is not at all un-
common to see carriage, with two liv-
cried men upon the box, driving through
Central park Cn a pleasant morning.
with only dog, or perhaps a pair OF
them, inside taking a sniff of fresh air.
They have had their bath, their locks
have been dressed, and fresh ribbons
adcrn their necks, while a short>haired
dog is carefully blanketed
A PROPOSITION that may startle some
folks has been made in the board Of al
dermen OF Spring field, Mass. 1t is to
pass an ordinance ioTbiding screens,
blinds, curtains or any other obstruction
TO Il full view of tie interior of all bar
rooms from the outside. The idea is to
make the hiding OF violations OF the ex-
Cise law impossible. The liquor dealers
view the proposed measure with alarm,
not so much because it might compel
their obedience to the law, but they
have a reasonable fear that comparatively
few men would diuk 50 publicly.
Certain facts render it probable that
birds in sCme manner become aware OF
cholera injection in tie air. Recent
German journals state that at Munich
the rocks aud crows, which flew about
the steep'es and through the trees of the
public proue euades, have all emigrared
and the same thing happened during the
cholera seasons OF 1886 and 1854 Ac
cordng to Sir Samuel w. Baker, the
same phenomena cccurr at Mauritius
where the martins, which exist in i'm
mense numbers the year round, wholly
disappeared during the prevalence of tn,
cholera.
WHILE a bill il pending in the New
York legislature for reducing the rate 0
interest to six per cent, at the west tn
demand in general for lower interest
Gov. Croswell, of Michigan, proposes tn
repeal Of the provisi n of law authoriE
ing contracts to be made at the rate no
to exceed ten per cent. and the substitu
tiOn OF the uniform rate of seven pc
cent Gov. CuIlum, of Illinois, sug
gests the reduction of the maximum rat
to eight per cent. Gov Phelps, of Mis-
souri,, recommends a reduction OF six 0
seven per cent, and the enactment of
more stringent usury law. Gov. Pills
bury, OF Minnesota, urges reduction i
the rates. The movement is spreadin
and becoming general.
COAL armor is the latest rage anon