The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-11-13
HOME AND FOREIaN GOSSIP.

A SOLDIER at Woolwich, England,
has registered his infant son in the name
of 6 Cetywayo."
An English woman visiting at Port
land, Me, who is "A years old, is the
mother CT q children.
No other passengers are to be taken
IN the steamer Samaritan, which is to
convey the Princess Louise to England.
CONSCIENCE impelled somebody to
send 800 anonymously to Isaac g.
jenkins, n Syracuse On. Y ) merchant,
with the words, " / robbed you of this
years ago"
EVERY hotel in Brattleboro, Vt, is
closed, and travellers are compelled to
find accommodations at private houses.
This is in pursuance of the plan TO
make the prohibitory liquor law I'M
popular.
A MAN exhibited at fair at Montpe-
lier, VT, three packages of butter from
the same churning, but differently
marked, and got first premium on one,
second on another, and the third was
condemned as poor.
THoUGH Siberia Is more than half as
large again as the United States, some
of its districts are already overpOpu-
lated. The RltsSbaiG Prada says that
in the Province of Tobolsk there is no
Government land left for the settlement
of the exiled criminals.
THE London Freemas0n points out
that in February next there viii be five
Sundays. This fact occurs but three
times in a century. Thus, after 1880 we
shall have to wait until 1920 before the
shortest month in the year can again
boast of five Sundays.
EDWARD EVERETT HALE writes to the
Boston Advertiser that Joseph Rankin,
the Indian boy whose devotion and
courage saved what is left of Maj.
Thornburgh's command, is one of the
Indian lads who was under the personal
training of Mr.. Danforth of Boston,
when the latter was agent for the Utes.
THE Car of Russia has ordered from
an English shipbuilder a million-dollar
yacht. 1t has been designed by Admiral
PopOff, and will replace the Levadia,
lost off the CTinlea last autumn. The
Gar is represented in the contract by
Admiral Lesovsky, the Russian Minister
of Marine.
THE alarming increase of diphtheria
in Paterson, n. J has attracted the no.
tice of the local journals, and they point
out that its prevalence is largely tracea-
BILE to imperfect distinction and to at
tendance at the funerals of victims of the
disease. A well known Paterson under
taker is quoted as expressing surprise
at the reckessness with which many
persons court danger on these. Occa-
sions.
A LADY travelling on the New York
Central Road, the other day, lost her
sachel near lion. 1t contained $40, 900.
A freight train came along shortly after
the passenger train, and the Conductor
picked up the sachel from the side of
the track, and left it with the Agent at
lion. 1t was restored to the lady, who
presented the Conductor with $500 for
his honesty.
THE French Forestry Department is
satisfied that forests directly increase
the supply of water in their neighbor-
hood. From careful observations at
Senlis and Nancy, they have decided
that it rains more abundantly in wooded
tracts, and that while the leaves and
branches give back the water quickly to
the air, they prevent rapid evaporation
from the ground, and are thus favorable
to the formation of springs.
THE oldest timber in the world, which
has been used by man, is supposed to
be that found in the ancient temples OF
Egypt. 1t is found as dOwel-pins in
connection with stone-work which is
known sto be at least 1000 years old
These bowels appear TO be~of tamarisb
or shittim wood, of which the ark is
said to have been constructed, a sacred
tree in ancient Egypt, and now rarely
found in the valley of the Nile.
A NUMBER of Frenchmen have been
defrauded by sham emigration com
pany in London, which held out the
temptation of farms and profitable
handicraft labor in the United States
On repairing to London they We're in
duced to pay 800 francs per head fOl
passage, etc, and were directed to &c
to Portsmouth to embark in the Uragel-
Ian. No such vessel was to be found
there, and on returning to London the
victims found the company's Office shut
up.
TERRIBLE trinkets have been devised
in France. Formed in the shape of q
scarf-pin, they are connected with hid,
den electric battery, so small that it may
be carried in the pocket, and by il
worked in such fashion rs to become
truly appalling to the behOlder One, 6
deaths head with diamond eyes and m
articulated jaw, is said to create pecu
liar surprise. AS the spectator looks
on, it rolls its optics and grinds its teeth
while its wearer, apparently unconscious
of this extraordinary pin, pursues his
ordinary avocations.
RED Doc, the peaceful Sioux chief
who is now encamped in the Valley o.
the Wounded Knee River, in Dakota
was made frantically happy a few day,
ago by receiving letter from a young
white woman of Washington. Year:
ago, when he was a bad chief, Red DOG
kidnapped little pale-face girl anC
gave her as a servant to the people o.
his lodge. The girl grew into favor anC
when she was released there was wailing
on the Wounded Knee. She was
brought to the East, educated and giver
work on a Washington paper.
A SINGULAR accident befell two ladie
living just outside the town of Lafayette
Georgia. One morning, not long ago
Miss Wilson, an elderly lady, went on
to her cow-pen, and, falling over rail
broke the cap of her thigh bone. Sh,
sent for her sister, Mrs. Greer, to com,
and stay with her, and few days afte
Mrs. Greer went out to the cOw-pen, fel
over the same rail, and broke a bon,
Just in the same manner her sister haC
done. They are now both lying in tn,
same room, and it is said neither will
ever be able to walk again.
Mrs MARY STow died and was bur
led at Ravenna, O., in August, 1856
Recently the body was exhumed for re
moval to Braceville, and upon opening
The coffin, the friends were startled by !
most remarkable sight. The body lay
and looked identicaily as when buried
The features were not even discoloreC
nor wasted: The wearing apparel wa