The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-10-02
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

THERE are 40 lawyers and only three
printers in the New York Penitentiary
at Auburn.
THE trademark of a well known
Kentucky whisky house was sold the
other day for S51 ,050.
IT is proposed to erect statue to La
fayette in Druid Hill Park, Baltimore,
at cost Of $4,000.
SENATE pages at Washington do
good business by making up complete
books of the autographs of Congress-
men. A good collection commands $50.
A CANADIAN girl carried a 2O-foot
ladder 100 yards, placed it against
burning house, climbed up, and-well,
she did not put out the fire. She fell
backwards on a man and nearly killed
him.
DIR. STIRLING of New York has
passion for going up hills. He has a
cane upon which is carved the names of
~ mountains in Asia, Africa, Europe,
and America which he has climbed He
thinks the stick has cost him over $10,-
000 5i #tt -tHfttf
LEWIS A. KENDALL and Lewis A. Slo-
cum of Boston; William f. Hunt of
Rockland and Mrs. Wallace Hunt have
been held in $1,000 apiece ut Boston for
misusing the mails They advertised by
postal-cards and letters the sale of valu-
able clocks for one dollar each, and
then sent applicants the solOgraph,
cheap device by which the suns RAYS in
dictate the approximate time of day pro-
vided the sky is unclouded. -
A REMARKABLE bicycle accident oc-
CURED at Philadelphia the other day.
A young man named Hulseman, %
years old, while crossing a bridge, fell
against the stone parapet, which being
out of repair, gave way and hurled him
into the stream many feet below. He
struck on the rocks and lay there
one hour before he was discovered,
and died soon after being taken to his
home.
A CALIFORNIA man has sent the De-
troit Free Press one of the ballots cast
there ut their last election, and that pa
per remarks: They are so big that
they cast all other California big things
into the shade. Each ballot is five
inches wide and two feet long, and con-
tains 81 names. Think of casting bal
lot of 120 superficial inches! 1t takes
an able-bodied man to WELD the ballot
in California, and the printing of1ice
that is fortunate enough to get the job
of printing them instantly orders all the
paper that can be had, and forthwith
makes a fortune.
PRESIDENT JOHN w. HARPER of the
Danville Qnd) College disappeared
mysteriously year ago, while on his
way TO address a Sunday-school conven-
ton. There was nothing in his business
or social relations to drive him off, and
it was believed that he had been muir
dered for the $500 that he was carrying
in his pockets. Lately his wife took out
letters of administration on his estate.
But he now returns. His story is that
he was knocked down and robbed; that
the blow affected his reason, and he
wandered westward, finally coming to
his senses among the Ute Indians.
THE Boston Globe Theater gets an
amount of attention in the newspapers
that would be incidentally valuable as
advertising if the peculiar circumstances
did not keep the establishment closed.
II is owned in sections. John Stetson,
formerly the manager, holds lease of
the main entrance and lobby. A G..
Baldwin holds the auditorium, and will
not let Mr.. Stetson have it at the price
offered. A part of the stage belongs to
a. A. Rand, and has been cut off by a
brick wall. 1t is said that the theater
viii be rebuilt on Mr.. Baldwin's ground
on smaller scale.
A COLORED pastor in Georgia has in
troduced a novel service which pleases
his people. The congregation forms
into procession in single file, each men,
Der carrying a big stone on top of his
head. The minister carries a hymn
book and the great pulpit Bible. Thus
equipped the procession marches around
the church seven times, chanting a
plaintive dirge all the time. The idea
is taken from the marching of the Is
raclites at the siege of Jericho. But it
falls considerably short of the Jericho
idea, for the result of the procession
around that city was the tumbling down
of the walls.
THE Princess Louise at the military
review in Toronto was, says CORE
spondent, d" the plaineSt dressed woman
in sight. She wore a short riding habit,
decidedly the worse for wear, hole in
it being conspicuous. There was not a
bit of trimming on it any where; the
only piece of color was buttonhOle
bouquet of bleeding hearts on green
leaf. She wore "a plain linen roll collar,
fastened with stoneless gold brooch
Her earrings were large pearl drops.
Her face was shielded by black veil
with large black spots, and her gloves
were of dogskin.'
Young Mr.. George Evans of Chenan-
go County, N. Y, is fond of practical
Jokes. Old Mr.. George Shapley was
goOd-natured, nervous, and deaf. Or
Monday afternoon young Mr.. Evans
was amusing himself by firing off his re-
volver near Mr.. Shapley's ear and see.
ing the old man jump. The last time
he fired he aimed too low. He thought
there was no cartridge i'm the revolver
but there was. 1t went through Mr.
Shapley's lung, and, instead of Jumping
the old man tumbled down and died
Young Mr.. Evans, the rural humorist OF
Chenango County,was thereupOn march.
ed off to the lookup. We find this in
teresting story in the Utica Herald.
THE establishment of system of horse
passports is under consideration by the
Russian Government. The measure i,
suggested, not i'm view of political dan
GER from the equine race, but in order
TO prevent misfortune that often hap
pens to the horses themselves, namely
norse-steaiing. According to this Gu
rious project, the birth, peculiar signs
and death of every horse must be re
corded, and the proprietor of n horse OF
horses is 10 be furnished with horse
passport that will entitle him to the
leoai possession of said horse or horses
Now, as a horse-thief can not possibly
steal both the horse and its passport, he
can not sustain his right to the posses.
sion of a stolen horse. This is the es
sence of the wit and wisdom of the Rus
sian official in this matter.
AT the celebrated Eastern Circus
Orozi, recently performing at Pesth, the
attendant was started from sleep by the
elephants rising to their feet and trump
citing in a shrill tone, significant of grea
Mental AGITATION Looking around II