The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-03-11
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.


of health Officers and sanftarians ~
y TIIE young man to whom Miss Nellie |
Croker, daughter of a California mil |
honaire, was betrothed, and to whom
she left 100000 in gold by win made
a short time previous to her death, is |
named Beck, and his father was at one
time Secretary of State in California.
~-~W- A TRAM found a woman alone in a
4 fYermont farm house, and threatened to |
u kiil her.if sshe-did not give-him five
cents. g Well here it is, she said show
ing the coin, 90 but 1 guess III shoot It /
to you," and she dropped it into the
barrel Of a shotgun. The fellow did
not wait to take It. eFF
THE fagorite amusement of all Span
iards, bull-hghting, Is threatened with
suppression The Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals, estab-
lished in the capital of the Austrian En-
pire, has addressed circulars to kindred
institutions throughout the world re-
e. questing their cooperation in putting
down this barbarous sport 80
PUTTING together the facts that
Stephen Denaro kept seven pistols and
five guns in his house, on Edisto Island,
5. C., that his fayorite theme was the
untrustworthiness of circumstantial evil
dence, and four men have been muir
dered in his neighborhood within few
years, the officials concluded that his
arrest WIS proper, although there is no
~ direct proof of his guilt -
DIR. VANDERPoEL, of New York,
makes the rather startling suggestion
that IN many cases where people
supposed to be dead they are really
frozen to death by the undertaken who
places them in a freezer and packs ice
around them. He mentions several
afE casesin Which he BELIEVES the fperson
u was Hpt dead when thus frozen. =
9fsk sia EPYARD. THoHs'Fos, thc British
442 Minister and his two daug hters ride on
the roads about Washington every
pleasant day; the white whiskered IA
theri on "a handsome bay, the young.
ladies on two beautiful mouse-colored
horses. The English girls high hats
aud short blue habits are mentioned as
" being of the most delicately trim fashion,
Il and they are Remarkably graceful horse
women. -,.
THERE is always an interest shown BY
people who must stay at home in the ex-
penses of trip to Europe. A gentle
man living on Long Island, who has
just returned from ninety days tour
Of Europe, says the trip eOsbh him in all
only 1916. He paid 500 for return
ticket on a first-ciass steamship, and for
the rest he visited the British Isesr
France, Germany, Switzerland, Holland,
Belgium and Italy. He does not state
-. how. many relatives he had in those
countries.
80. 3 A YOUNG, woman at NIankato, Mimi,
was cleaning her white kids by washing.
IN ~benzine, the other day, near hot
stove, the gloves being on her hands,
- when the treacherous stuff took fire, and
"a q she Will probably lose, both arms, even
- If she does not lose her life. The poor
"A girl rashed out doors and plunged her
e arms in and rolled in the snow, and sue
-ceeded in eXtinguishing the flames on
sFCs her arms and forehead, but not until the
skin was completely burned off both
arms to the elbow. 14 i---.
d BE AN orphaned heiress at Searsport,
Me-, bad a. scaPegrace for lover and
81 two watchful uncles for guardians. She
desired to marry, but the uncIes would
not give their CONSENT and she would
lose her fortune by disreearding them.
A message arrived by telegraph from
@fs London for the lover one day, saying.
That he had fallen heir to great wealth..
&, re The news soon, reached the uneles, and
Abt they did not learn until the wedding had
taken place, with their consent, that the
fTf young folks had deceived them with a
false report -
en-, "a BARON vKURD Won SoHLosER, the
German Minister at Washington is a
plain simply dressed bachelor, who does
- more work than any other foreign Min
ister. He is as simple in his habits as
in his dress. When all the other diplo-
- mats went in elegant carriages to make
their New Years calls on the President
81 Baron Won Schloser walked He takes
long walk every morning, gets his own
a. mad from. the Post-office, and does
thereafter hard davis work. He used
to bethe Private Secretary of Prince
Fffe Bismarck BAk 20 Sah1EkE
WINNIPEG, but a few years ago the
very outpost of civilization, inhabited
mainly by servants of the Hudson Pay
r Company and q few hundred half
breeds, and reached only by the primi-
tive ox-cart of the Selkirk settlement,
is now fouishing city of &c, 900 people,
connected by railroad with the great
lines which stretch up through Mime
sofa to its northern border, and keenly
1.tr Q alive to the possibilities which lie before
it as the capital of what is soon destined
to be one OF the most popular and pros
porous provinces of the British Empire.
SPAISEhas a. Remarkable speculator
in she Marquis de santa Cruz di Mum
dila. He made fortune many wears
ago, and became large holder of fir
tree lands in the Sierra di Segura, Just
before they rose. from nothing to great
value by the railroad being made from
Alicante to Madrid. His next venture
was in planting vines on such scale
gVTr thath is believed to be the largest own
%t4!t erlOf vineyards in theworld His vine
uEIU yards are lplOughed instead of worked
by hand, and he raises great quantities
of drinkable wine at small cost.
ALL The protector of the floating apiary,
Q. o. Perrine, who attempted bee Gull
ture on raft upon the Mississippi, com
mencing at its mouth and working north
during the season, pronounces this at
tempt a total failure. From his expert
ments he lost many thousand dollars
He now advises bee keepers to keep as
far as possible frOn large bodies of
= water, since, during high wind, many of
the bees perish in the water. His pres
ent system is to take his bees down to
New Orleans in cars as soon as the sea-
son ends at the North, returning with
them in the spring soon as white