The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-03-04
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

has just Deen SOLD 10 Yorkshire gen.
tleman.
HENRY L. CLINTON, w. II. Wander
bits principal lawyer in the will-con-
test case, has sent his client bill of
S25O,O00 for services rendered in the
suit. Vanderbilt declines to settle.
THE German papers complain that
an enormous amount of tobacco has
been Struggled across the German from
tier by an organized band, the members
of which are principally Dutclnmen.
A Mr.. HARRIS, formerly of Preston,
England, has left that town 81 100000
for educational purposes, and $780,
600 to what is known as Queen
Anne's Bounty Fund for aiding poor
clergy.
A QUEBEC merchant has experiment.
ed successfully in shipping beef to Eng
land in the carcass. The animals are
beheaded, the entrails are taken out, and
the bodies pressed into a small compass
and frozen. The hide is not removed
until the voyage is over, and it is
claimed that the meat is superior in APP
pearance to other imported beef, and
keeps longer.
A SACRAMENTO undertaker's CON
science accused him of being glad when
he heard of a death, and ne became
convinced that even the probability of
an epidemic caused pleasurable emo
ton. He therefore committed suicide,
leaving a letter in which he said that he
could no longer remain in a business the
profits of which were closely connected
with human misery.
AMEMBER of the Virginia Legislature,
during ~ discussion in regard to en-
ploymgt "a stenographic reporter, offered
. resolution " that the Clerk of the
House purchase Immediately .phono-
graph into which the members who de-
sire to perpetuate their speeches shall
deliver them and turn the crank thereof
for the benefit of future generations. -
1t was ruled out of order.
AARON BARNES OF independence,
Iowa, was advised to 90 to the poor
house, as he was old, infirm and desti-
tute; but he said, ''I'd die first and
hobbled away from the village store to-
ward his lonely shanty. He was not
seen after that for a week, and was then
found dead, from hunger and cold, by a
messenger who brought the news that
his claim for 900 pension-money had
been allowed.
Mr.. AUGUSTUS MEVEs of Hanwell,
England, who died recently, was a sin
gular kind of claimant His father pro-
tossed to be the Dauphin who was inn
prisoned in the temple at the French
revolution, from which in some mys-
terious manner he declared he had been
able to escape. The son believed firm
ly in the Legitimacy of his claims, and
some time ago published a book in
which he attempted to establish it.
A MAN and woman, of Phoenix, Ulster
County, N. Y, decidedly on the down.
hill of hfe-he was 60 and she was 65-
could wait no longer to be married, and
started for the clergyman's house in 6
sleigh On the road they met another
clergyman, and, with a rare and beau
tiful enthusiasm, requested him to per
form the ceremony on the spot. They
stood up in their sleigh, the minister
stood up in his, they were pronounced
to be man and wife, and a pair of frisky
horses with their sleigh-bells furnished
the wedding music.
The nearest realization of the CHEEKY
BILE Brothers of Dickens is furnished il
Sir w. Lawrence and Alderman Law
g. renee of London, brothers and partners
who retired from business q few week!
ago. They handed over the whole o
their business to their clerks and mana
gers who had served them faithfully TO
years, with the sum of $500 to carr,
1t on, gave the artiZans who had served
them for ten years and upward sums il
proportion to the number of wears, an,
few of the the Oldest an annual pen
sion of Ego, reserving no interest in tn
new firm for themselves.
A MELANCHOLY picture is drawn b
the correspondent of a Vienna paper @
the condition of the Turkish army il
Albania. Begging, he says, is no long
er regarded. by the Turkish soldiers a
disgrace, and the streets of Janina ar
full of soldiers who stretch out thej
hands to the passers-by for aims in broal
day. AT night they attack the peasant
and rob them of all their valuables
The Turkish soldiers are, Indeed, so niue,
in want of money, owing to their no
having received any pay for more tina,
three years, that they often sell thei
arms; and the military commandan
has found 1t necessary to issue a deere
strictly forbidding this practice unde
severe penalties, when discovered.
NJ. CLAUDE ETIENNE MIME, the in
ventor of the carbine known by tina
name, who died recently, was born i
Paris in 1904. He entered the army a
n private, but rose to the captaincy of
company of chasseurs. 1t was then tina
he conceived the idea of improving tn
weapon used by this corps. He refuse
to make money out of his inventions b
patenting them, or to quit France fo
superior service in Russia. He was. i
lS49y appointed instructor in firing a
the Ecole Normale, at Vencennes. an
retired from active life in 1858; but h
had all along been occupying himsel
with the Improvement of firearms, an
his last achievement, rifle lighter tina,
the chassepot, and carrying one thou
sand metres further, was exhibited a
the Universal Exhibition of 1873.
IN Japan they honor the aged wit
the same congratulations as we offer o
their attaining a remarkable number G
years, though in a somewhat differen
way. Mrs. Iva Kura, mother of one G
the dignitaries of the Empire, has JUS
arrived at the sum of fourscore wears
In order that she might understand hoy
great was the joy of her friends, eight
of them came to an understanding eac
TO write her Il short poem. Among tn
authors were included some of tn
greatest personages of State. Tn
verses written by the Queen delicatel
treated of the great age to which tn
stork attains, and, contrasting Mrs. Nv
Kura with this favored bird, drew infer
ences of the most 1attering character
1t is not said that the old lady read a,
the poems, but il is noted that she too
pains to conserve them by having ever
one pasted on a pair of screens an
relegated to a distinguished place in he
dwelling.
A Wooden Watch.