The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Snow at New California, o., Tues
day morning.
The Mrs. Garfield fund to date
amounts to 1851, ,79l.
James Lynch was killed by the cars
at Fort Wayne, Ind.
Indiana has been added to the list
of peanut-prOduciug States.
The Mississippi is eight miles wide
at Burlington, owing to the floods.
New York City has contributed to
the Michigan relief fund over $I0S,-
600.
The late Francis P. Schoals, of New
York City, left $250,OOO to charitable
institutions.
Judge Boynton has resigned bis po-
sition on the Supreme Bench of the
State of Ohio.
Mrs. Mary Bradford, sister of JEFF
ferson Davis, died last Saturday at
New Hope, Ky.
Henry Ward Beecher retires from
the editorial management of the
Christian Union.
Mr.. Window has been reelected to
the United States Senate by the Min
nesota Legislature,
Kentucky Democrats will hold a
State Convention January next, to
nominate a candidate for Clerk of the
Court of Appeals.
Mrs. Garfield will take a house in
Cleveland" The Mentor farm was
leased by the late President for four
years to Mrs. Garfeld's brother Ru-
dolPh.
The Inter7Oceanic Canal Company
has bought the Grand Hotel in Pan
anna for $206,00O. It will be convert
q into offices for all the departments
of the Company.
When you are telling a friend a
4 joke poke him in the ribs. He'll he
i more interested in the yarn, and can
put mustard plaster on the sore spot
when he goes home.
The marriage of Miss Edith Shark
/ lin Harlan, daughter of Justice Har-
Ian, of the United States Supreme
! Court, to Frank L,enschild, took place
Monday night in Washington.
The official count shows that the
| amendments to the Constitution OF
Texas, which were submitted to the
vote of the people on the 9th Of Sep
tember, were overwhelmingly defeat
ed.
/ Ex-Governor Hendricks, Of Indi-
ana, expresses himself as opposed tC
the large holdings Of land in the West
erp and Southern States. He thinks
the question will eventually be made
a political issue.
Twenty valuable Oil paintings ship
ped several days ago by the manager.
of the Boston Mechanics Fair to thu
PenRRy lVania Art Club, PhilAdei phia
arc missing, with the railroad car il
which they were shipped.
The currant crop of Greece this yea
is one of the best ever known, both IL
quantity and quality. The entire Gro
is about 10000 tons. About 1870
tons have been already shipped t
Great Britain, the Continent an
America.
Colonel H. P. Holcombe and wifi
, of Selma, Ala, have recently celebrat
: ed the sixty-thlrd anniversary Of thei
! marriage. Colonel UOIcombe is in hi
:, eighty-lhird year, but is reported
be as erect and quick in his now
> ments as man a score Of yeal
: younger.
: Judge Spears, an old resident {
= Utah, says that every year the MOI
> mon church is growing richer an
! more powerful, and that every foot (
+ agricultural land in the adjoining te
V ritories is secured by Mormons. 81
o ten years" he says, "the United Stat
will have several Utahs to de
!" with"
t. A Chicago correspondent lOOkiT
5e over a mercantile directory in 1Sl
'es finds on the black list the entry:
!. :! -lSuiteeu, Charles j., lawyer" Tur
d II ing To the definition to the letter q
ltI he finds; "Z-Incoms uncertain al
is precari0us. Defer indefinite the pa
TX ment of debts. LaWsuits to cole
at same would be useless. Nd credit
d favors should be given.
eff Gen. Grant is going to have
e. grand family reunion next ThanE
5h giving. The gathering will take pla
ef At the new mansion III New 4ol
IS, which Will be by that time in col
il | plete order, and seventeen members
Ill fi,e family viii sit down to dinn
ct, TheV include Gen, Grants mother
IN little old lady with white hair anC
lively meIROPy, who lives IN Jers
Citv with her daughter, Mrs. COrbi
Col. Fred. Grant, with his pref
to dark-eyed wife and children; Je
'ly Grant, wife and children; Ulyss
res Jr.. with their children, will s
he from England in time for the festiv
IS An Iowa paper tells of two Low
who were permanently settled by
Ia interposition of ''cold cloud of re
=" % ism" Being freely interpreted
III means probably that they were
. kindred souls. The circumstance
IN IN calls the instance of romantic you
"a "a lady ~ ho had a very fine head Of hi
M NJ One evening, when her affianced ST.
I.iss nis very inquisitively looking at 1t in
nI MS midnight, she said, with much feeli
an; an; .sJohn, are you thinking that e
-l nv one of these hairs is like golden g
eh binding you to happiness 2" "W
\ ma" he answered accordingly, Il
as thinking what hice mosquito
d they would make"