The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-17
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CURRENT TOPICS.
In Baltimore, Mayor Latrobe has
signed an ordinance absolutely prohibiting
the sale Of toy pistols.
IT is feared a great calamity has
Oyertaken six fishing boats, with 119 men
OH board, of the French coast.
HENRY LOvETT, a negro, was hung
in Columbus county, North Carolina, to-
day, for the murder Of his friend.
AT Cleveland, Rhodes s. Bradley
Chicago, received a verdict of $213,OOO
against the Cleveland Rolling Mill Com
pany.
The Apaches are reported as depre
dating in the Saturipa District, Sonora
Five men, two women and one child were
killed by them.
Plucky policeman and sheriff who
knows his business have saved Tiffin a
scene that would have been her shame and
disgrace forever.
The revenues of the Government
for the current fiscal year exceeded those
Of the previous year by nearly twenty eight
millions of dollars.
ELECTRIC light towers, which prom
ised 50 much and accomplished so little,
have been generally abandoned. They have
proved complete failures.
The POstOffice Department is on the
road to being self-sustanining, the ssti-
mated deficiency being only about nine
hundred thousand dollars.
HARRISON H. WINAs, ex-member
of the Missouri Legislature, shot and NOR
tally wounded John o. Roach, Circuit and
County Clerk of Camden county, Mo.
Baron ROthschild has lived long enough.
When a man has had time to accumulate
$500, 900, 600 he shouldn't feel bad about
leaving the poor world behind him,
The New Orleans Picayune says that a
saddle horse knows enough of arithmetic
o carry one. And the livery man knows
enough of arithmetic to multiply by two.
A VicksbHrg man carried a carpet-bag
four blocks for an old lady and she remem-
bered him in her will for So, 600. Keep your
eye out for old women if you want to amass
wealth.
WILLIAM FORwOOD and John Quig-
ley, residents of Brandywine Hundred,
Delaware, were killed at a railroad cross
in, n Cf1
demolished.
TELEGRAAIs from MenOminee, Wis,
say that all efforts to prove VIII KuhI to be
the desperate Lon. Williams have failed,
and that KuhI Will probably be released at
once.
Cannon will probably ind the Cougre IS
ional doors closed against him, and Camp
bell, a man who was defeated by an over
whelmins majority, will represent the
voters of Utah without their consent.
Last week st. Louis policeman slew a
burglar, and Wednesday night the burglars
popped over policeman. This is rough
on the force, but it may end in the EXTERN
ination of the burglarious band that seems
to run that town.
The German Parliament will be
opened on the nth of November. Prince
Bismarck in an interview declared that
his friendship for the Jews would never
permit him to consent to abrogate the
laws protecting the Jews.
The late DIR. Bethune asked morose
and miserly man how he was getting along
The man replied: "What business is that
one of those who take an interest even in
the meanest of Gods creatures"
There was an awful state of affairs in q
little Michigan town where a type setter
substituted the word "widows" for ''win
dows." The editor wrote: '"The windows
of the church need washing badly, They
are disgrace to our village"
The pursuit Of politics sometimes brings
a candidate into strange company. Young
William A. Astor, the millionaire, who ran
for Congress, not only went around among
''the boys" but he danced with the girls q
hoe down in Harlem during the campaign
"COlOnel,' said man who wanted tC
make out genealogical tree, Colonel, how
can 1 become thoroughly acquainted with
my family history?'' ''Simply by running
for Office" was the answer. "YOu will soor
know more aboutit than you ever knew be
| fore"
FEARs are expressed that a mob will
dispose OF the ease OF Charles Madder, 8
Tifin (Ohio) student, who shot Miss Phoebe
Bernard last Thursday, because she told
him she would not marry him. Mr.. Ber.
nard tried to shoot the prisoner in the
court room.
IT is said that Jesse James seriously
cOntemplates making the race for the Gov.
ernOrshiR Of Missouri. AS there are TWEEN.
| ty-two other statesmen, more OF less, who
think Of making the race, Jesse's chances
TO become Governor OF Missouri are not al
all discouraging.
| A guest at one of the fashionable hotels
! took his seat at the dinner table recently
but no one appearing to wait upon him, he
| remarked, "Haye they any walters in the
hotelw "Ies," responded n person on the
! opposite side Of the table. The boarders
are the waiters.''
n CONSIDERABLE portion of the col
ed population OF Nebraska are moving
! Southwark this winter, and the exodus
promises to assume as great proportions as
did the one which occurred to the North
two winters ago. Albuquerque, New Mex.
leo, seems to be the objective point OF those
who rp IaaviD,r I inroI,, THE