The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-06-16
BREYITIES.

bAtAs ' aA-s9s
THERE are no sweets in family lars.
Could not the doctors fee be Justly
lied ill-sotten gains
4 FIELD of iute in Sampson county,
n. c., averages twelve feet IA height
SIR GARNET WoIsELEY, The British
commander IN South Africa, Is tectO-
:aler.
Mas. PRUDENCE IAEIS, of Newburgh,
n. T., died the other day at the ripe old
age of los.
MAYOR Wen, Of paducab, was fined
1 cent i'll the City Court Tor engaging IL
street disturbance.
THE Sophonlores Of Bates College have
chosen as thcir orator colored student,
the son Of former slave.
A NUGGET of gold weighing two and a
half pounds has been taken OFT OF the
Christian mine, in North Carolina.
AN infant Mt Hickory, " c., was bap-
TIED Jesse Fido Rin@ail Fillmore Ham
cock Jarvis Dowd Harper, and Is sad to
htili live.
THE population OF Florida is III, 76l,
an increse Of "a, 0l6 in ten years. The
whites number l43, 821, and the coiored
1878
A 6-YEAR-oLD son of n prominent mer-
chant at Grenada, Miss, %; tempted to
hang himself on account of disGppomt-
ment in love.
UNDER the laws of Illinois what per-
son sees through a lZoy-hole cannot be
accepted rs evidence III court. But no
sewing society in the country would re-
Ject such testimony.
SENATOR BLAINE wears ? nIckeI-plated
watch that cost him $3.50 He says he
refused to take $40 for it, and that he
means 10 carry it TO the SoIate as IL
product of American skill.
MEs. MIRA CLARK GAINES, tho indie
fatigablc, is living in retirement in
Washington Although she is 70 years
old, she is still rs brisk aud clipper as a
young widow OF 10
AN old man in Virginia jumped into
the well TO spite his wife FOX running into
debt she lot him stay there in three
feet of cold water until he agreed to
deed her the whole farm.
A CHANGE is coming over Venice.
Travellers who wish 81 see the old city
of palacca, logs and lagoons, as it was
seen and sung 81 by Byron, must Inc
there speedily. Tho gondolas and gon-
dolierS will soon have passed away.
The venerable Lucrctia Mott is re-
ported in rapidly failing health. Al
though confined to her room, her mind
is strong and brich, She resides with
her son-in-law, Edward NJ Davis, on
Chelton hills, Philadelphia, Pa.
AT length the LONG history Of The
United States, by Mr.. George Bancroft,
is drawing toward completion. The an
thor set TO work upon this opus may
mum SO far back as 1873 and has, with
little intcrmission, been laboIing on it
ever since.
Mr. r. II. McDoNALp, of San Fran
cisco, offers SLOT, 600 towurd IN endow-
meHt for Christian University, ON con-
ditiOu that an equal slim shall be raised
by the Baptist, Presbyterian, Episco-
puliau, Congregational, and Methodist
denominations.
A FRIGHTENED horse ran lutoa crOckcry-
ware store ut Bangor, tue other day,
going the whole length Of the floor be-
fore he was captured, and. although SIR
rounded on all sides 10y crackery, hc
was led ont without having broken Il
single piece.
a SEw process Of using mp old steel
has been patented in England. Iiy it a
NOW metal of extraordinary strength and
Iuctility is alleged to bc introduced,
which is expected to prove of great
value. &.gcl .'--,ade on this plan las
sold rapidly ut 9325 ton.
SmF, RmERTs, The coaqucring hero
Of CanLl4nF, and sostyled "SSavior OF
Aighanst'tn, is the son OF clergyman
81 the Established Church IN Waterford
Ireland His brother, Samuel i. Rob
crts, Is one of the Commissioners Of tn,
Board Of Public Works in Ireland.
SENATOR BURNSIDE is reported to tel
this story ut the expense Of Lis colleague
Senator Anthony They vaeA dirinG to
gcther one day Whcn ham formed one .
the dishes. ''If over I Turn f.umcr,
said Mn. Anthony, {" / shall raise p'cnt,
OF calves, so that 1 can pet some nj,
hQm like this.
A WATCH which had not gone for tw,
yepys and dchcd the best efforts of ;lu
matchmaker, was struck by lightning il
the course of severe storm, ncG
Vienna, and now Vienna paper an
noumccs with the solcmnity Of trutl
that the watch Inns kept excellent tim
ever since.
ON the 18th of January. 1867 thcr
existed only seventeen daily newspaper
IN Paris, while ON the LIST vi September
1850, there were siXty-one daily news
papers in circulation. Another curiuu
fact is that the number of daily journal
sold at one son each amounts to seven
teen, on exactly the number OF dali
newspapers CNistiu" in 1867