The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-03-25
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

OlsfA NOF OF the OhalQeeS) J, a town OF
much historical importance on account
OF the connection Herewith of the patri-
arch Abraham, has been nearly de-
stroyed by fire.
THE first gas ever exhibited in New
York was from a lamp erected by the
old gas company in 1928 in Franklin
Square. 1t caused great curiosity and
was nightly visited by crowds.
THERE is, according to the Gaatl0is,
only one doctor to every 10000 inhabit-
ants in Paris, and then lots of them have
to 60 out and do carpenter work to help
make aliving.
A LOT of wild rice soWn on the ponds
about Erie, Pa, two years ago, has
grown and fiourished, attracting thou
sands of birds, large and small. Trials
in parts of New England have not been
so successful.
THE Secretary of the Liverpool Veg
etarian Society states that he has walked
500 miles in 10 days-an average of 80
miles per day-on diet of nothing but
raw fruit, and this without unusual IA
tigue or bodily strain.
The Boston newspapers tell of a stage
struck woman who got q divorce from
her husband in order to become an
actress, failed dismally behind the foot
lights, returned to her home and begged
to be made wife again, which was done
by re-marriage.
THIS is an age of canal projects The
German Government, it is said, contem-
plates cutting a ship canal, navigable
for war vessels, from the Baltic Sea to
the German Ocean, and passing through
Schleswig-Holstein.
A PARROT died of a broken heart in
BallstOn Spa. After it had been twenty
five years in family its owner went to
Minnesota. The bird soon missed him,
and its only cry was "Where is Joe?''
1t ate nothing, and continued its call
until it fell exhausted.
SOUTHERN city is said to boast of
q colored lodge, part of whose title is
"The Grand Council of the Grand An
Gent Order of the Sons, and Daughters,
Brothers and Sisters of Moses, of the
United States and the World at Large. -
Their secret grip lanes a man for six
months.
MAINE has a law that relieves the
debt for liquor from payment. All
such sales on credit are made at the
risk of the seller. Certain parties in
Boston Just now, owing to the insolven-
cy of few Maine liquor concerns, find
themselves out of every dollar of their
claims.
GOV. ANDREWS, of Connecticut, is a
thoroughly domesticated man. One of
the reasons given for his not attending
the dinner at Boston on Saturday night
IN honor of Gov. Davis, of Maine, was
that he could not reach his home again
before Sunday. He has spent every
Sunday with his family since his mar
riage.
The Vesuvius railway promises to be
an accomplished fact A portion of the
rails are already laid, and number OF
workmen are daily engaged upon the
work. The railway starts from point
situated to the west of the observatory,
on that side of the cone which is least
seldom subject to streams of lava.
CAPT. WEBB, the Channel swimmer.
has undertaken to swim 60 consecutive
hours, viz: for three DAYS and two
nights. He will be allowed to leave the
water for not more than 80 minutes in
each "a hours. The attempt will be
made under the most favorable circum-
stances possible, viz: sea water of sum-
mer temperature, and in London early
in March.
BAREFOOT WALKER - is well known
around Columbus, Ga. He is so called
because he has not worn shoes for forty
years. The other day he died, to all in
tents and purposes of old age, and his
friends made preparations to bury the
old man. just as the funeral ceremo-
MES were beginning old Walker sat up
in his coffin and asked what they were
doing there. The funeral party went
home discouraged.
DURING a recent storm at Anamosa,
Iowa, a woman experienced a peculiar
shock, the sensation being that of 8
blow upon the forehead. She was puz
lied as to the cause. The next day il
was discovered that there was hole
torn through the floor of the room, and
on closer examination the joist was
found splintered. 1t was plainly evi.
dent that it was the work of electricity
and that the charge had gone upward in.
stead of downward.
THE Supreme Court of Indiana de.
cides that the legal name of a person
consists of one Christian name and a
surname. Any person may have as
many middle names, or initials, as are
given him or as he chooses to take,
They do not affect his legal name, and
may be inserted or not in a deed or con-
tract without affecting its validity. Nor
does mistake in the middle initial OF
a name, in deed, in any way affect its
validity.
THE bridegroom was not present at
the time appointed for n wedding at
Harmony, Ga. The bride, who knew
his bashfulness, said. his courage had
probably failed him. Somebody su0-
gested that horn be blown to call him,
and this was done. A responsive whoop
was heard from the woods near by, but
the young man did not appear until
a scouting party brought him in by
force. 1t was not until he became fear
full of losing the girl, whose patience
gave way to anger, that he mustered
enough courage to face the ceremony.
AMERICAN grape-growing was once
looked upon by European vinedressers
only as something interfering with the
market of their wines here-hence as OF
no possible benefit to them. Now, after
the ravages of that insect that has de-
stroyed millions worth of vineyard
property in Europe, Italy has offered
prizes, amounting to $1,000, for vine
yards raised from gratis of American
varieties of grapevines capable of re-
sisting the phylloxera. This is a re-
markable instance of the blessing in dis
guise-that American industry which
seemed to be pure calamity for Euro
pean vineyards is now largely relied
upon as the chief help in peril.
Miss KATE FIELD has issued in New
York prospectus for ladies' cooper
ative millinery establishment, similar to
the London institution, and to be known
as the - Ladies' Dress Cooperative As
ISOLATION" The capital stock is fixed at
SOLO 600 in shares of SOB each and II