The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-09-18
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

- HE SnauOW Ol ATOu upon ttIin Is
one of the finest of the Sultan's titles.
THE Oneida Community is said TO
have cleared $76,0 600 last year from the
products of its own industry on 700 acres
of land.
EDWARD KING says he knew, in the
Russian army, most amiable and ac-
cOmplished gentleman who had been
three times reduced to the ranks for
dueling, and who, at the age of 40, was
only Lieutenant when he might have
been a Division General.
THE conjuring materials taken from a
Georgia negro consisted of goose quilts
filed with broken needles, a vial of
iron rust, the feathers of various birds,
and a snake skin. The negroes of his
neighborhoOd had long believed in and
feared his power of working mischief
with charms.
AS Mrs. Blanchard of Monticello,
Iowa, was passing along the street the
other day, n part of a swarm of bees,
Just robbed of their honey, flew at her
head and face in a cloud and stung her
numerically. Over so bee-stingers were
taken from her head, and she had a hard
struggle to live.
THE Province of Quebec has the boss
centenarian. II. Richards of Sher-
brooke, aged one hundred, visited Der
by Line the other day with a woman of
fifteen to get married. He is hale and
hearty, his hair is turning from white to
black, and where he was bald the hair
is starting out.
ANNA MAYER of Louisville was told
by her parents to practise steadily at the
piano for two hours. They heard her
pounding the keys about half of the pre-
L. 4
Mr.. Mayer soon went to the parlOr, and
found her lying on the floor unconscious
from chloroform, while two negro thieves
were ransacking in an adjoining room.
MARY KEERsUCKER, one of the most
enthusiastic Of the converts at a camp
meeting at Urbana, Ohio, fell into a
trance while praying. Her friends be-
lieved that her condition was the result
of a special blessing, and would not per-
NIT physician to do any thing for her.
She lay unconscious several days, and
finally died of spinal meningitis.
PROF. BRUN of Geneva has described
curious case of poisoning in a child of
2 years of age. 1t was caused by eating
combination of cabbage and figs. The
cabbage, he says, must have produced Il
great abundance of Tactic acid, which,
in the presence of the figs, developed
enough of butyric acid to cause the death
of the child.
RED snow, which is usually found only
in Arctic ATTITUDES, is seen on a lofty
summit near Mount Stanford in the
Sierra Nevadas. For several acres the
vast drifts are of a beautiful pinkish
tint to the depth of three or four inches.
1t is n beautiful spectacle. One ex-
PLANTATION of it is that myriads of minute
OrpaniSmS cover the surface
THE number of mprudent persons
who have been killed since the Franco
Prussian war in trying to empty the
German shells that have been found I'M
exploded in the fields round Paris is ex-
traordinary. At st. Denis, Il fortnight
ago, a charcoal dealer, an old man of
GS, who had earned some celebrity in
the neighborhood by his collection of
German shells, was trying to empty an
other when it exploded and blew him
and his shop to pieces. The remnants
of his body were found scattered in all
directions. similar accident is also
reported from the arsenal of Belfort,
where one artilleryman was killed and
five wounded.
A QUEER case is reported in the Hos
pitdl Gazette of Paris. A doctor was
called to see patient dying from
cholera. In order not to discourage the
man the doctor prescribed three doses
of ipecac powder; to be given every
half hour The nurse misunderstood
the directions, and, instead of giving the
drug by the mouth, gave it as a snuff
This produced violent sneezing, which
was followed by violent reaction. The
circulation was quickened, the skin was
warmed, and the patient was on the way
to recovery. When the doctor called
next day he was amazed TO find how he
had taken his medicine, and that he was
out of danger.
ALTHOUGH the Big Horn canyon is
called impossible, two miners have gone
through it; but their experience was
such as TO discourage any body who
would repeat the feat. Desiring to save
200 miles of roundabout travel by land,
they built a small but staunch boat, put
some provisions aboard, and embarked
on the rushing stream. They were
whirled along at n frightful speed, and
finally hurled ashore, the boat going on
without them. The walls of the canyon
rose perpendicularly 600 feet, and there
was no escape except by water; so they
dashed two logs together with their belts,
and again trusted themselves to the
rapids, finally completing the trip un-
hurt.
STANLEY, the explorer, is again in
Africa, under the auspices of the King
of the Belgians, who is anxious to open
trade with the natives on the great Con-
90 River. About the middle of July
last he sailed from Gibraltar for the
West Coast of Africa in a steamer. A
steamer laden with goods has also been
sent from Antwerp, which will remain
mt the Congo till SANKEY'S arrival. The
steamer has on board two or three steam
barges in sections, in which to ascend
the Congo, carrying these sections piece
meal around the Gellala Falls. The
King of the Belgians has manifested
great interest and great energy in thus
being the first to gain foot-hoid among
the natives.
CHARLES A GOODMAN took great
pains to get a little money from Miss
Roberts, in Cincinnati. They boarded
i'm the same house, she being a dress
maker and he a reputed eX-army officer.
He told her that he was very wealthy,
although the fact was that he was pen
niless adventurer. She fell in love with
him, but hesitated about marrying him
before learning something of his antece-
dents One day he pretended to faint
away, and, on being put to bed, said
that his illness would quickly kill him,
as it was the result of an old wound
which he had long known would finally
prove fatal. He expressed desire to
marry Miss Roberts before he died, and
bequeath her all his property. She con-
scented, and they became husband and
wife. Then he recovered, permitted his
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