The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-02-19
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

varies 4S' in half an hour.
DIR. JOHN J. BROWN of Boston, "a /
years old, danced at a recent wedding /
party.
PRESIDENT LINCOLN's wall1ing-stick, |
taken from his box at the theater on the |
night of his assassination, has been re-
covered at Troy, n. Y.
THE plan of an Evansville (Wis.) |
marble-cutter to get work was to multi |
ate 80 tombstones in a graveyard and |
it succeeded, for he will cut stone during |
tho next year in prison.
SEVERAL modest Western New York |
ers have asked the National Govern
ment TO give them $4,000 acres of Texas
land, and $4,000, that they may engage
in tea, coffee and grape culture.
THE New York papers say that there
has never been mid-winter in which
more expensive social affairs have been
the rule. Single entertainments are
named costing from $4,000 to $4,000.
SEVERAL physicians who attended
the late Cyrus Morrison, of Lancaster
County, Pa, believe that the dye which
he applied to his hair, whiskers, and
mustache killed him by poisoning his
system.
A LITTLE girl shut up as punishment
for some fault in her fathers barn at
Baud (Moebihan), in France, was killed
by a wolf, which by climbing a rubbish
heap was able to enter by the roof
The family had been at work in the
fields at some distance, and on the
father opening the door to release the
child the wolf sprang out and made off,
leaving on the floor the half devoured
remains of its victim.
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Western farmer discovered, many years
ago, that wood could be made to last
longer than iron in the ground. Time
and weather, he says, seem to have no
effect on it. The posts can be prepared
for less than two cents apiece. This is
the recipe: Take boiled linseed oil and
stir in it pulverized charcoal to the
consistency of paint. Put a coat of this
over the timber, and, he adds, there is
not a man who viii live to see it rot.
MYRA CLARK GAINES is now pos
sessed with the idea of establishing a
Congressional boarding house at Wash
ington, where no smoking shall be al
lowed, and every occupant must bring
his wife with him. Mrs. Gaines has
bought an elegant site at " Highland
Place." an aristOcratic row, where
Justice Miller, Senators Edmunds and
Bayard, Prof. Baird of the Smithsonian
and other distinguished men live, and
has an architect at work on plans for a
dwelling that shall cost $4,000.
IN 1860 Jacob Burhaus came to this
country from Holland. He settled on
Long Island, but subsequently removed
10 Ulster County, n. Y, and took up a
tract of land in Wild Wyck, now Wilt
wick. Jean Burhaus, son of Jacob,
came out few years later in a ship
styled the Spotted Cow From these
sprang the Burhaus family in this coun-
try, which numbers about $4,000 per-
sons. 1t is said to be the.most numerous
family in the United States. Samuel
BUREAUS, Jr., of New York City, who is
making genealogy of the family, has
a deed dated 1867.
THE believers in heredity will have
their views confirmed by statistics from
the report of the Eastern Pennsylvania
Prison Inspectors, which shows that a
out of nearly 800 prisoners (about one
SIXTH had relatives who have been con-
victed of crime; men guilty of larceny
having brothers in prison for that crime
or for counterfeiting money; burglars
with burglar cousins and brothers; a
highway rObbar with brother in an
other State-prisOn for the same offense
uncle and nephew both convicted of as
sault and battery, and other similar ex.
amples.
A TURKISH gentleman, who formerly
resided in this country but has returned
TO his own country, has recently sent &
letter to a Boston friend, in which ht
gives a gloomy picture of the condition
of the Christian subjects of the Sultan
Since many of the Christian subject.
We're set off as the result of the war Will
Russia, those who remain are treated
worse than ever before, as revenge i,
taken on them for the disasters of the
war. There are many homeless Chris
Ian fugitiyes in the country who live 10y
robbery and steal the stock of the
farmers and waylay travellers. Their,
are in the country 10000 men, dis
missed from the civil and military serV
ice of the Government, who have beer
driven out of Roumania, and many O
them have turned beggars or robbers
Us they are unable to support them
selves. The Government is bankrupt
and many of the persons in its employ
have received no pay for many months
To crown all, the harvests have beer
bad for three years, and the cup of sor
low and misery of the people of TIT
country is full to the brim.
THE recent hanging of Swift Runner
In Indian murderer, at Fort Saskatche
van, Canada, was in temperature o
40 degrees below zero. A gallows haC
been built out of doors, so that the In
dams could see the execution; but whel
the officers and prisoner arrived at tn
spot, it was found that most of the scat
fold had been used for firewood by tn
udlf-frozen crowd. Swift Runner com
t.lacentlV warmed himself at tho f,,
while the gallows was being repaired
When every thing else was ready tn
nervous hangman said he had forgotten
TO bring a strap to fasten the prisoner
arms and legs. He offered to saw
further trouble by killing himself with
tomahawk, but his proposition was re
jected, and he ate a hearty meal o
pemmican, with the moose around hi
neck, while a messenger was fetching
strap. A priest attempted to give hin
spiritual consolation, but he said tina
the white mans whisky. had ruine
him, and so he couldn't believe in tn
white mans God. He preferred
death dance by his own people, an
while they were performing it he wa
hanged
THE education of Japanese girls i
America is not. regarded with favor b
the Toxic Times, which says that eve
the male Japanese students now in tn
United States believe that the foreig
experience of their half dozen youn
countrywomen will render their futur
life wretched. The reason given fo
this view of the matter is that, on IT
turning to their homes, the girls fin
their education and acquired taste
utterly antagonjstic to the social custom
Al. H.