The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-09-08
LOCAL ITEMS.

ry.
Short recesses and early closing Of
the public school Excellent idea.
The cbildren's prayer meeting at
the Methodist Church on Tuesday af-
ternoon was well attended.
The Bolivar boys will soon have
another trial with the Junction base
ball club.
The robbers again at work at ICONS.
Tom RufTln'5 store has been robbed of
three hundred dollars worth of goods.
Il is rumored that Sam. Kahn is
prospecting to buy residence in town
in Jew Of his contemplated MARI q Ee
to G certain Memphis lady.
We sincerely sympathize with the
family of DIR. N H Dunlap of the
Valley OF the death Of Mrs. Dunlap;
the and event occurred last Saturday.
4 robbery is reported to have oc-
cured at Pocahontas last week. Par
ticulars next week.
Bill McNeal, colored, was knocked
off the Iaihold track on Sunday morn
ing by passing freight, aud slightly
injured Can nothing be done to pre-
vent such accidents?
The Grand Junction sboys defeated
tue Bolivar nine on last Friday, by
score of 10 to 8. 1t was the best game
that has been played here this sea
son.
We regret to learn that Mr.. II. I.
Patterson, of. Grand Junction ha-
TWO very sick children with typhoid
fever
The Memphis and Charleston
Railroad Company has advanced the
wages of all its employees five per
cent, except the engineers who have
been given an increase Of l13 per
cent.
At the last Monthly Court, +. Fen
tress, Esq qualified as Executor, Of the
estate Of z. Miller, decd appointed I'M
der the will. a. T. McNeal, Esq.
administered on the estate Of Leon
Bills decd. Jno. r. McKinnie admin
istrator on the estate of Mrs. McKin-
ME his mother lately decd.
Gen1. Manager, j. y. Clark, and
Civil Engineer, Ii. p Farrar, of the
G. st. L. and n. o. r. r. have ex-
amincd the proposed route for branch
road from Canton Miss, to Arkansas
City, anb we learn they will recon-
mend a survey of the route. The road
will run through the fertile Yazoo
Valley, and will be a southern outlet
for Kansas and the Northwest.
The Nashville American mentions
that the Third National Bank of that
ciiy had just received $1,000 in one
cent pieces from the United States
mint, and that they will be perma-
nently.circulated in that city. 1t will
not be long till their use gradually
works its way into all the leading
towns of the State, and will be great
convenience.
St. James Hall opens on Monday
DIR. Lee is now READY with enlarged
facilities to meet the educational de
mands OF the community in the edu-
cation of ouc daughters. lie will
lave competent teachers in all the de-
partments. The philosophical section
j. supplied with apparatus and the
liter, With additional library facili-
ties Ne nope that this session will
0ote q new Nd still more successful era
in the history n his well known IN
stitution.
The appeal says that few days
ago a procession passed tiIrough Mem
phis, consisting of = diIapidatett wagon
6rawn by two rawboned horses, End
containing two sickly looking women
and half dozen tow-headed children,
moved from the river landing east
ward. 4 couple Of raw beRed and sal
low looking men were in the advance,
mounted on the poorest of poor horses,
and they we're followed by the historic
yellow dog, which in this instance was
crippled badly. The occupants Of the
dismantlad and weather beaten prairie
schooner said they had been TO Arkan-
sas and Texas for two years, but they
had bad luck. The GPJuth ruined the
crops, the folks got tho chills and fe-
vcrs, two of the children died, and be-
coming disheortened they concluded to
bid adicu to the golden land Of the
West, with its mirsges Of fertile lands
and visions Of big harvests, and return
10 the old home in North Alabama.
The party seemed happy that they
had reached the cast bank oftle Mis-
sissippi river