The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-09-04
HOME And FOREIGN GOSSIP.

A PORTRAIT of the Rev John A
Simpson, for many years pastor of a
Universalist church at East Cambridge,
Mass, has been placed in the Boston
Rogues' Gallery. He is in jail on
charge of demonstrating.
ETHER was thrown into the cell of a
refractory prisoner at Vevay, Switzer-
land, until he became harmless. He
had defied the gendarmes to take him
before the Judges, and the Court could
not wait until he was starved into sub
mission.
A DEPOSIT of S115 was made in the
Portsmouth On. H) Savings Bank in
June, 1886. One day recently the book
was presented at the bank for the first
time since, and the Treasurer entered in
it 81 ,3I0.70 dividends to July, 1879.
JAKUTsK, East Siberia, is supposed to
be the coolest of towns. From Novem-
Der to February the thermometer ranges
from AZ degrees to 68 degrees below re
TO, and the neighboring river is solid
ice for nine months of the year. Yet
it is place of considerable business.
THE EUGngeIicdL Chbrchnlan of To-
ronto tells us that Bishop Bompas of
Athabasca, North America, speaks with
approval of dainty of the Tonshean
Indians, made of cakes of seaweed, pop
lar bark, herring spawn, bitter berries,
sauce of seal oil, and the juice of the
oolelun fish.
BURGLARS awoke Farmer Plummer,
at Durham, Me, and he chased them,
losing no time in adding any clothing to
the shirt in which he had slept, but tax
ing care to throw a gun across his Shout
der. Across fields and through village
he pursued them, until he got within
close range, when they surrendered
rather than be shot.
CLOSE to Abergeldie, the Prince of
Wales's Scotch seat, is what is known
as the Cradle Bridge, over the Dee,
which at that point is too rapid for fer
ryboats. A person is seated in sort of
cradle attached to pole, and swung
across. The Prince of Wales and even
the Princess cross in the cradle, and save
many miles.
CAPT. STONE planted a mahogany
seed at MOundsville, w. Va, 80 years
ago, and remarked that he would live
until it grew into tree big enough to
provide material for his coffin. Wind
blew the tree down last spring, and the
Captain had a handsome coffin made of
it. He died a few days ago, and was
buried in the mahogany of his own plant
ing.
WHEN the late Prince Imperial was
born, the morning before st. Patrick s
Day, % years ago, the Emperor and
Eugene ut once declared themselves
godfather and godmother of every child
in France born on that day. Besides
bestowing large charities, the happy IA
ther of the Royal babe liberated 1000
prisoners.
IN 1877, some Swiss settlers expelled
from Chabag, in Russia, on account of
-. l. II L.
moved to the strip of Bessarabia now
ceded by Roumania to Russia. AS they
are thus threatened with a new expui-
sion, the Swiss Consul at st. Petersburg
has been directed to Intervene in their
favor.
A RUSSIAN peasant girl, 10 years old,
weighing AIS pounds, is now on exhibit
ton. She is accompanied by her moth
er, and is engaged by Jewish man
ager, who pays tor the mother for the
girls services so monthly. This gi-
gantic girl, when travelling, is put in the
baggage car, as she can not pass through
the door of the passenger cars.
AS long as the Cinnamon in Queens
land were content to work in the garden
and catch fish, the Queenslander smiled
on him, but when he showed q tendency
to gather gold, it was quite another af-
fair, and prohibitOry legislation became
the order of the day. No vessel may
carry to Queensland port more than
one Chinese passenger for every 10 tons
of registry.
Mrs MCGOWAN, keeper of a board
ing-house at Akron, o., passed pudding
to all the men at dinner excepting Mar
tin Bouten. He was madly in love with
Mrs. MCGOWAN, and her inadvertence
about the pudding was construed by him
as an intentional slight. He fired at her
twice with revolver, but failed to hit
her, and was disarmed by the other
boarders.
AT Winnemucca, New, the other Sun
day evening, several shots, fired by
poker-players in settlement of a running
account, went through the windows of
church where Rev. MIR. Riley was
preaching, and disturbed the devotions
of the congregation. The shots were
fired by Chinese in pursuit of colored
gambler who had " swept the board
THOMAS SMITH, of Ipswich, Massa-
chusetts, is rather notable man in his
way. He is eighty-siX does his own
farming, haying included; lives in an
old-fashioned manner; never had a stove
in his house, and cooks by an open fire
place; has never used spectacles; reads
fine print by candle-hght; never rode in
the cars, preferring ride behind the
old mare, which makes good time enough
for him.
Mrs. VLIET, who lately died at New
Albany, Ind, divided the mature part
of her life into three distinct and con-
trasting periods. She was for 10 years
II washerwoman, working hard for q
bare subsistence. Then she went into
business rs a fortune teller, and for 10
wears was so successful that at the end
of that time she was possessed of $780,
600 Finally she became pious, and
during the last 10 years devoted her
time and money to deeds of charity.
II. +. BEECHER, a son of Rev. II. w.
Beecher, left Kern County, Cal, three
or four months ago to superintend the
driving of 1860 sheep, the property of
Gen Beale, to Salt Lake City. In cross
ing the Aida Desert, over which the
drovers and their herds travelled for
eight DAYS and nights, finding no water
for the animals, 1O,067 sheep persisted.
Gen Beale was offered $4,000 for the
herds ut the start, but refusing, now
finds himself the loser of some 1000.
THERE is romance in peanut A
wholesale fruit dealer in Hartford found
in a bag of peanuts, the other day, one
with tag tied to it, which was fastened
together by n thread. On the tag was
written; ''Open the nut and take out
the slip of paper; give it to the prettieSt
Girl in your place and request her to do
as the note says. The writer is man
of means and connected with a large es-
tablishment in Norfolk, Va" The nut
was then opened, and upon a small slip
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