The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-15
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establish resort at the Natural Bridge IN
Virginia.
Chambersburg Valley SPIRIT: 1t is
said by some people that Guiteau looks
like Malone. Some people have no feeling
whatever for Guiteau.
A memorial of the late Thomas A.
| Scott is to be raised in Philadelphia in the
| shape of a handsome church, the Pews of
which are to he free.
The French fishermen suffered last
month almost as much as the British. At
Boulogue the October storm has made So
widows and $50 orphans.
The Wabash company is surveying
a line of 70 miles in Illinois for a road which
will give them direct through line from
Chicago to New Orleans.
Secretary Blaine will retire from
the Department of State on December 10.
Previous to that date he viii give a fare
well dinner to the Diplomatic Corps.
The ladies of Montreal, Canada,
have an association of their own tor intro
ducing female help from Europe. The
Minister of Agriculture is aiding them.
DIR. Uriel Ferrell, of Orange, Va,
probably is the old st man in public life in
tho United States. He is 4 member of the
new Legislature, a Democrat, and in his
Goth year.
Mrs. Garfield has just sent to
Queen Victoria the photograph of the late
President which Her Majesty wished to
possess. 1t is Of cabinet size, and is ec.y
handsomely framed
The only State officer chosen by a
majority in New York at the recent cleo
ton was Robert a. Maxwell, whose major
ity over the Republican, Greenback and
Prohibition candidates was 21IO-
The San Francisco Chronicle prints
extracts from number of papers publish
ed on the Pacific coast, all condemning the
reciprocity treaty between the United
States and the Hiwaiian Islands, and de-
manding its abrOgatiOn.
The official returns in New York
show an aggregate vote of 8i1,6S6, against
the aggregate Presidential vote in 1880 of
1,1O5, ,226. To which party the 263, $40 stay
at-hOmes belongs will probably not be re-
yealed until the next national sweepstakes
English capitalists are visiting the
Montgomery mining district in Arkansas,
with a view to developing it's mineral re-
sources. The great drawback heretofore
has been owing to the fact that the parties
operating were mostly poor miners, who
could not obtain means sufficient to devel-
Op their claims,
Holland is shipping kraut to this
country by the ton. Two thousand barrels
reached this country last month. The OcA
casion is this years short cabbage crop.
Cars that last year were unloaded in this
city of 1000 head OF cabbage now hold l., 900,
so much smaller is the growth. The quail
ity of cabbage which is this year sought af
ter at p and 80 cents head, was drug in
the market in the fall of 1880.
a silver star marks the spot on the
floor of the Baltimore and Potomac railway
station where President Garfield fell when
shot A beautifully carved marble tablet
was placed on the wall above it on Wednes-
day. An eagle, holding in its claws ar
rows and laurels, surmOunts the stone, on
which Is inscribed: james Abram Gar
field, President of the United States, shot
July ,, 1881"
Governor Plaisted's address at Port
land: And for my part, when all other
agencies have failed them, if, after plead
ing the rights OF Englishmen in vain, the
Irish leaders should follow the example OF
our revolutionary fathers and appeal from
the rights of Englishmen to the rights of
man and from the ouanipotence of Parlia-
ment to the omnipotence of the God of bat
tles-then I will say: ''God save Irelandp'
Brothers said President Taylor
i'll his last annual speech to the Mormon
convention, ''we don't exactly know how
the temple fund stands. There is no need
of keeping an account. There is the build
ing going right up before your eyes, and
you can all see for yourselves. We will
sing the 336th hymn" This was regarded
as rather cool, considering that the fund
has already absorbed several millions. and
charges OF stealing in connection with it
have been made.
From an interview with Sunset
Cox: There is very strong feeling against
Guiteau, particularly in Germany. They
know no such thing there as this alleged
insanity. II man kills another they call
it murder and want him hung. The Ger
mans, and in fact all the European nations
except the English, had very little idea of
an American President until President
Garfield was shot. The shooting startled
the world, and since the Presidents death
his life has been written and published in
almost every language. The Germans
were particularly struck with the fact that
an American President can rise to the no.
sitisn from the lowest ranks, and that such
a man, such a President, should have been
murdered for nothing shocked them. They
consider the shooting an outrage of the
meanest and lowest kind. All the Euro
| pean nations feel the same, and will net
! hear of insanity in such a case,