The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-13
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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In Savannah, Ga, the annual death
rate for 1000 whites for the year 1880
was 1885, and for cOlOred 45.47.
Ex-senator Hannibal HamIin, who
was appointed Minister to Spain on
/ the day that President Garfield was
shot, will leave for Madrid in a few
days.
An indianapolis man broke a matri-
monial engagement with a plain
woman in order to marry her pretty
servant girl, and has been sued by the
former for damages.
President Arthur has a brother, VIM.
Arthur, who is major and paymaster
in the army. Major Arthur was mar
ried at Governors sland a few days
ago to Miss Laura BOuvier.
The Grown Prince and Crown Prin-
cess of Denmark have come into an
enormous fortuue, about fifteen
million dollars, by the death of Prince
Frederick of the Netherlands.
Queen Victoria will not leave Bal
moral till the last week in November,
when she will return to Windsor
Castle for about three weeks before
gOing+o Osborne fer Christmas.
Mrs. Marguret Hicks is said to be
the first lady who has adopted the
profession of architecture. She was
graduated recently from the course in
architecture at Cornell university.
Mr.. Roscoe Conkling has the dignity,
the manliness and good sense to treat
his traducers with silent contempt.
He has not, during ali these weeks,
spoken one word in reply to them.
DR.. Claiborne Watkins, of Little
Rock, has resigned the chair of Pro-
fessor Of Chemistry in the Arkansas
Industrial University, much to the
regret of the friends of the institu-
ton.
A knotty point has arisen in an
English insolVent society at BOulegne,
whether a gentleman who has merely
liquidated should take precedence, at
the dinner table, of one who has filed
a bill in bankruptcy.
1t is gravely announced in an
English newspaper that an Irish
agent has been sent to America to lay
in stock of Colorado beetles, which
are to be secretly let loose in the
fields of fair England.
The New York Sun complains that
the rich men of Ohio have permitted
strangers to take care of the widow
and the orphans of Garfield, for
whose welfare they have offered moth
lug but very cheap sympathy
Senator Edmunds. during all the
years he has been in the Senate, has
never, it is said, revised a single
speech for publication. He never
uses notes, and knows exactly what
he means to say before he rises from
his chair.
A negro went home from Georgia
camp meeting i'm a state of ecstasy, de-
clared that he was going TO heaven by
the way of a tall tree that grew in the
doOrvard, climed to a height of 20 feet,
and then undertook to fly the rest of
the journey. The fall killed him.
Hannibal Hamlin and his wife ex-
pect to visit Paris, Maine, this week,
to take leave of friends before their
departure to Spain, Mr.. Hamlin
having accepted the appointment
of Minister made the day President
Garfield was shot.
Hon. Nelson w. Aldrich, who will
succeed General Burnside in the
Senate, is at present a member of the
House, serving his second term. lie
is a young man, less than forty, but a
gentleman of decided ability, and
will yet make his mark.
Rose Terry Cooke cannot only
write a fine story and an exquisite
poem, but can cook as good a dinner
as though bred to the business. She
works in her garden before sunrise,
and her house is furnished with antique
articles that would set a New
York bric-a-brac dealer wild.
The new Senator, Lapham, is a
cousin of Miss Susan b. Anthony and,
shorl yafter his election, wrote to her
thus: 'Canandaiga, July Both, JSSl.-
Dear cousin: l have only time now to
return my sincere thanks for your cor
dial congratulatiOn and kind words.
Of the future, hope that our country
will prosper, and that woman will
yet be accorded her rights"
The Chicago Tribune states that
since the commencement OF the
present year SOB murders have
been reported in its columns. During
the same period there have been
but seventy executions in the United
States. OF these fOrty-nine, or cOnsid-
erably more than half, took place in
the Southern States, and Of fOrty-nine
all but four or five were negroes.
The First Baptist church of Macon,
Ga, undertook to benefit its members
temporarily by means of conserva-
tive society, the members OF which
could buy goods at a reduced price
while they lived, and be buried free
when they died. Deacon Jeremiah
Pounds was elected president, secretu-
ry, treasurer and general manager. As
soon as the fund reached $500 he
stole it.
Poker has ruined DIR. E. J. Hoffman,
Of Louisville He had a large practice,
was an active Methodist, and his rep
utation was excellent. Becoming in.
fatuated with the game, he neglected
his patients to play it, borrowed all
the money he could to meet his losses,
and finally forged checks, amounting
to $1,000, for which he is now ia jail.
His church loses $500.
Mr. Porter, President of the Fruit
Hall Company in Des MOines, an
nounced in the local papers that he
would give a premium Of twenty dol
lars for any Iowa young couple VINO
would stand under the new bell IN the
Fruit Hall and be married. One day
last week a youth called at the hegis-
tey. Office and asked if the offer was IN
good faith. Upon being assured that
the offer was bona fide the young man
said he would 20 and see his girl
about il at once. They were to be
married soon amy way, and If they
/ could save the license and preacher