The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-05-12
BREvTrIRs.

THERE ARE no sweets in family jars.
CoULD not the doctors fec bc Justly
lied ill-gOtten gains
A FIELD of jute in Sampson comfy,
n. c., averages twelve feet in height.
SIR GARNET WoIsELEY, the British
commander in South Africa, is a teeto-
:aler.
Mus PRUDRScE LAKIS, Of Newburgh,
\. Y, died the other day at the ripe old
nge of LOG.
MAYOR We'll, of Paducah, was fined
cent II the City Court ior engaging III
street disturbance.
THE SOphomorcs of Bates College have
chosen as their orator n colored STUDENT,
the son H former slave.
A SUOsRr of gold weighing two and
half pounds has been taken out of the
Christian mine, in North Carolina.
AN infant nt Hickory, n. c., was Imp
TIED JesAe Fido Rmgtlil Fillmore HIM
cock Jarvis DOwd Harper. and is said to
stilLhye.
THs population a Floridn il 271, 764,
An increse q 81, 0l6 IN ten years. The
whites number I43, 62l, and the coiored
1898.
A 6-YKAR-OLD son of prominent mer-
chant Mt Grenada, MISS, attempted to
hang himself on account Of disappoint-
nsent in love.
UNDER the laws of Illinois what per
son sees through kQy-hOle cannot be
aocef,tSd rs evidence Ia court But no
sewing society 10 the country would Ne
lect such testimony.
SENATOR BLAINE wears p nlckel-plated
watch that cost him $3.50 He says he
rnuaad TO take $40 for it, and that he
means 10 carry is TO the Senate rs 4
product of American skill.
Mus. MIRA CLARK GAIxHs, the indie
fatigatle, is living in retirement in
Washington Although she is 70 years
old, she il still as brisk and chippcr as d
young widow OF 40
Az old man in Virginia iumpxtl into
the well to spite his wife for running into
debt, Sbe Let him stay there in three
feet Of cold watcr until he agreed 10
deed her the whole farm.
A CHANGE is coming over Venice
Travellers who wish e. see the old city
of pGlAccN, logs and lagoons, as it was
seen and sung of by Byron, must hue
there speedily. The gondolns and gon-
dOliers will SOON have passed away.
THE venerable Lucretia Mott is re-
ported in rapidly-iailing health. Al
though confined to hof room, her mind
Ii strong and bright. She resides with
her Son-in-law, Edward NJ. Davis, on
ChSlton hills, Philadelphia, Pm.
AT length the long history of the
United States, by Mr.. George Bancroft,
is drawing toward completion The an-
thor rot to work upon this OI)us mag
mum 30 far back AS 1926, ard haq, with
Little intarInission, been laboring on il
ever since.
Mn. r. II. MoDoSALD, of San Fran
cisco, offers Sd0C, 900 toward an endOw-
Eaent Sslr Christina University, on CON
dition that an equal sum shall he raises
by the Baptist, Presbyterian, Episce-
PAliAn, Congregational, and Methodist
denominations.
AFRIGHEREkD horse ran into q crockery.
ware store at Bangor, the other day,
going the whole length Of the floor be
fOre he was captured, aud, although sur
rounded on all sides by crOckerv, ht
WIS he'd out without having broken
single piece.
A NKw process of using mp old stee
has bte4, patented IN England BY it 1
new metal of extraordinary strength nnt
dactihty is alleged to be introduced
which IS expected TO prove of great
value. Steel rcmnde on this plan Ina
sold rapidly at 1925 IL ton.
Su +. RoDERTs, the coYquering hero
al CSAdahar, and sostyled "Savi0r %
Afghaui5tan, " is the son of clergyman
Of the Established Church in Waterford
ireland. His brother, Samuel u. Rob
orta, b one OF the Commissioners of til,
Board of Pablo Works in Ireland.
tJHNKTon BURSsIDE is reported to"tel
this story ut the expense of his colleague
Senator Anthony They were dining to
gether one day when ham formed one {,
the dishes. IF ever ] turn farmer,
said Mr.. Anthony, " shah raise plcnt,
Of calves, so that 1 can got some mis-
ham like this"
A WATCH which had not gone for tw,
years aud dotted the best efforts of th.
FstchmalteF, was struck by lightning il
tho coarse of severe storm, Hea
Vienna, aud now a Vienna paper an
nOuncos WiSh the solemnity of trail
THAI the watch has kept excellent tim,
49, siDoe.
QE the I1th Of Janual-y, 1867, Their
existed only seventeen dnily newspaper
IN Paris, while ON the LIST u{ September
1850, there were sixty-0ne daily news
papers in circulation. Another cWriOl
TACT Is that the number of daily journal
sold NJ one EOs each amounts 70 seven
teen, or oNnctly the number Of dali
newspapers eNisting III 1867.