The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-02-05
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

oIANLEH, well armed and equipped, !
IS ascending the Congo.
EDISON, the inventor, was born near
Digby, Nova Scotia, but he does not
know the name of the place, as his
parents removed to this country when
he was very young.
IN Queensland, Australia, the splen-
did wheat eron has had, in many cases,
TO be cut for fodder, by reason of the
rains. The colonies are thus distress
ingly sympathetic with the mother
country.
A CoNGREss of Fashion is talked of
in Washington, at which all the wives
of Senators, Members of the House, and
other dignitaries win be members.
They viii discuss grave and disputed
questions of etiquette, dress, cooking,
bric-a-brac and confectionery.
PRINCE ACHILLE MURAT's old resi-
dence in Florida is now much dilapidat-
ed, but few pieces of the once splendid
damask furniture still stand in the draw
ingroom. Three very old colored serv-
ants Of the Murat's still remain upon the
place.
DELEGATE CANNON of Utah, counts
up his family as follows: First wife,
Elizabeth Hoagland Cannon, and six
children; second wife, Sarah Jane ,Jen-
ney, and five children; third wife, Eliza
Iinny, and two children; fourth wife,
Martha Tilley, and five children.
LEADYILLE boasts of aristocratic
walters. At the Grand Hotel is an ex-
member Of the New Jersey Legislature,
whose letters bear the prefix of g Hon.
AT the Clarendon the guests are served
at table by an ex-Confederate General,
doctor of medicine, a lawyer, and
an eX-Judge from Freedom County,
Mimi
SEVERAL leading New York banking
houses celebrated New Years Day by
giving their employees handsome pres
ents. One concern gave s. 900 apiece to
their clerks; another gave its cashier
$1,000; DreXel, Morgan & Co., gave
each clerk sum equal to 10 per cent. of
his years salary.
A MAN in Chicago theater cried
90 Bravo at the leading actress. and
she liked it, but when another and in
tOXicated admirer shouted Bully for
you, old gal - and % You're a daisy, !"
she stopped acting and demanded his
expulsion. -Four ushers undertook the
task, but he laid himself on the floor,
put his arms and legs around the seats,
and was immovable until they pried him
loose with a broom-handle.
GEO. II. STUART, the well known
philanthropist of Philadelphia, has lost
all his fortune by the failure of person
for whom he Endorsed. He has sur
rendered his entire estate to his friends
creditors, and now at the age of more
than 20 years he lives in a rented house,
but meets his friends every day with
pleased self-satisfaction.
NORWAY must be a sort of sports
mans paradise. Among the game
which his gun can bring down are the
tydder, roer, ryper and jerper, which
are sufficiently outlaHdish to English
ears. The tydder is the bird known of
old in Scotland by the name of caper-
cailzie. The cock is a noble bird, OF
the size of turkey cock, with a bill
and claws of great strength. The roer
the female, and in size, plumage, and
appearance so different from the male
that it has received a different name.
The ryper is the Scottish ptarmigan,
but larger and better clothed The
erper is a delicate bird fer the table,
of the grouse species, and about the
size of a full-grown pigeon Wood
cocks are also abundant, and of deli
cious flavor.
THE Pope has written an autograph
etter to the Gar, cOngratulating him
on his recent escape from assassination.
In this communication the Supreme
POntiff acknowledges the tolerance en-
joyed by the Roman Catholic Church
under an Emperor whose rule is char
acterized by a benign sOlicitude for the
welfare of his subjects, irrespective OF
creed. The Vatican looks for impor-
tant concessions from the Gar, who has
relaxed the severe restrictions imposed
by his predecessors upon the Roman
Catholic Church. For the first time in
the profound antagonism of the Greek
and Latin Churches, the Roman Catho-
lie Vicar Apostolic has been allowed to
establish public schools for the children
of his communion.
A GERMAN journal publishes a curl
Gus list of the decorations conferred up.
on Prince Bismarck, AZ in mum Der
Among them may be mentioned the stan
of the Grand Commanders of the House
of Hohenzollern, with brilliants; the
cross of the Knights of st. John; the
order of Fidelity of the Grand Duchy OF
Baden, with brilliants and chain o,
gold the grand cross of the Hanoveriau
order of Guelphs; the grand cross, with
brilliants, of the Austrian order of St
Etienne the order of the Annunciation
of Italy; the grand cross of the Legion
of Honor; the order of the Seraphins OF
Sweden the Lion and the Sun of Per
STA; the White Elephant of Siam; the
Osmanis, with brilliants, and the Toison
dor.
A CHRISTMAS gift has caused hus.
bands arrest and a wife's tears in San
Francisco. The young man, who was 8
poor mechanic, had married above his
station, but lived happily with his wife
In an evil hour he saw n sealskin sacuue
hanging in front of a store Nobody
was near; it was after dark and he stole
it. On Christmay Day he presented il
30 his wife. She was somewhat sur
prised at this expensive gift, but thought
nothing more of it. The New Yeal
came, and the husband advised his wife
TO pawn the sacque, telling her he would
redeem il when she wanted it. The
obcdient wife did as she was bid, and
visited n pawnshop and offered the
sacque. The pawnbroker informed the
police, and man and wife were arrested
The scene at the station-house was {
most affecting one. The wife was true
20 her husband, and at first refused t
oeheve him guilty; but the proof was 81
convincing that her faith was shaken
She fell upon his neck and wept bitterly
Railroad Construction in the South
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