The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-08-11
BREYTTIEs.
THERE are no sweets IN family jars.
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THERE are no sweets III Isllliily Jars
CouDD not the doctors fee be Justly
He'd ill-Sotten gains
a YIELD Of jute in Sampson county,
\. G., averages twelve feet IN height
SIR GAaNEF WoLszI.Er, the British
commander IN South Africa, is a teeto-
.aler.
Mrs. PRUDENCE LAKIS, Of Newburgh,
n Z, died the other day at the ripe old
age Of log.
MAJOR Wen, Of Padueah, was fined
cent II the City Court for engaging Ia
a street disturbance.
HESophomores Of Bates College have
chosen as their orator a coloEed student,
the son Of former slave.
4 NUGGET OF gold weighing two and a
half pounds has been taken ont Of the
Christian mine, IN North Carolina.
Az infant at Hickory, Y. c., was hap
tized Jesse Fido Bmetaii Fillmore Han-
cock Jarvis Dowd Harper, and Is said to
still live
TIE population CT Florida is 81, 764,
"A increse Of 81, 0I6 il ten years. Tie
whites number 143, 821, cad the coiored
I27, DAB.
a G-YEAR-oLD son of q prominent mer-
chant at Grenada, Miss, attempted to
hang himself on account Of disGppoirt-
ment III love.
UNDIsR the laws Of Illinois what A per
son sees through a key-hole cannot be
accepted as evidence in coIIrt. But no
sewing society IN the country would re
ject such testimony.
SENATOR BLAI25E wears nlckel-pIated
watch that cost him $3.50. lie Gays he
refused to take 80 ior it, and that Lac
means 20 carry it No the Senate "a q
product of American skill.
Mas. MYaA CLARK CANES, The indie
fatiguble, is living IN retirement IL
Washington Although she Is 80 years
old, she is still ~ brisk and clipper DIS a
young widow Of 40
! An old man IN Yrginia jumped into
the well to spite bis wife for running into
debt She let him stay there in three
feet Of cold water until ne agreed to
deed her the whole farm.
! A CHANGE is coming over Venice.
Travellers who wish 10 see the old city
OF palacec, logs and lagoons, as it was
seen and sung OF Icy Byron, must hle
there speedily. The gOnd0las and gon-
dolers viii soon have passed away.
THE venerable Lucrotia Mott Is re
ported in rapidly-failing health. Al
though confined to her room. her minC
Is strong and bright She resides witt
her son-in-law, Edward NJ. Davis, OF
Chelton hills, Philadelphia, Pa.
Ar langth the long history Of In,
United States, by Mr.. George Bancroft
is drawing toward completion. The au
thor set to work upon this opus mag
g1liHa so far back as 1875, and has, witt
little inteImission, been laboring on j
ever since.
Mn r. II. MGDoNALD, Of San Fran
cisco. offers 810G,, 000 toward an cndow
ment for Christian University, on con
dition that an equal sum shall be rms e,
by the Baptist, Presbyterian, Episcc
palian. Congregational, AKA Methods
denominations.
a FnIGETEEED horse ran intoa crockcry
ware store at Bangor, the other day
going the Fhols length Of the hoor b,
fore he was d3l. .tIred, and, although sul
rounded on FL sides ny crockery, /
was led oHt without having broken
uinglc piece
4 REV process Of using up old set
haS Useu patented In England T. It
new ,, etai &C extraordinary strength IN
ductiiifv j. rIk,S,d 10 be introduced
Which Is cxpou-ed t. prove Of grea
value Steel renaGe On tins plan ha
sold rapidly at 9225 ton.
SIR Il. RoBnRTs, the coDQueI|rg her
Of Candahar, and so-styLod "Sefior ,
Afgl,anisten, " is the SOB Of o cleTgyn1a
Of tie Established Church in Waterford
Ireland His brother, Samuel I. Rol
erts. il one of tie Commissioners Of til
Board Of Public Works IN Ireland
GENAToa BUIysDE IS reported tote
this story at the expense of his colleague
Senator Anthony: They were dining 4
Gcther one day when ham formed oae
the dishca. Of ever I turn farmer,
said Nh. Anthony, " ! shall raise pleDt
OF calves, so that oan get some nj,
ham like tins.
A WATCH which had not gone FOR w
years and defied the best efforts OF Il
: matchmaker, WAS struck by lightning
the course of severe storm, nei
e Vienna, and now a Vienna paper a.
3 nouuces with the solcunnity OF trut
= that the watch has kept excellent tin
r ever since,
( OK the 18th of January. 1857, tho
/ existed only seventeen daily pewspape
@ in Paris, wIlilc on the Let Of Septembe
: 1880, there were sixty-one daily neW
/ papers in circulation. Another curio
/ fact Is that the number Of daily iourur
8 sold at one sou each amounts to scyc
teen, or exactly the number OF tlai
t newspapers existing in 1867