The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-06-02
LOCAL ITEMS.
Have had fine rains around town.

The Jackson Institute has It's COM
mencement next week.
The Bulletin is not responsible for
views of correspondence.
Bolivar needs night Waterman
worse than day Waterman.
Go to see the match game of
baseball tomorrow evening.
The festival at the Methodist
church last Fri hay evening succeeded
well.
The editor Of the BULLETIN will
deliver the annual address ut the Mon
tezuma Institute on the 23d inst.
The BULIErIs was misinformed
as to tho rightiui winner of that cake
at the late festival at the Junction
-Bev. Sadlcr says he secs all the
pretty girls 60 by nowadays, luxury
he failed to enjoy when further up
town.
--Crichton Lodge No. 26, knights
of Pythias, viii hereafter meet on the
first and third Wednesday nights of
each month.
The Presbyterian ladies sewing
circle of Bolivar is succeeding finely.
They soon will refurnish their church
with new carpet.
The world was to have ended yes
terday, according to Mother Shipton
aad the ''cabbage-headed philosopher
of Collierville." Give us a new deal.
The Methodist Ladies Aid Sol
ETY. Of Bolivar have thus far this year
paid two hundred dollars on the church
debt, leaving about 1926 to pay now.
Put two men in room to sleep
together" says some philosopher, 'one
of them with the toothache and the
other ono in love. the man with the
toothacho will invariably go to sleep
first"
"A match game of baseball was
played Monday evening between the
.Riversides and picked nine The
Riversides were defeated by u score of
to 0, Wade Harvey making the
only run.
salisbury had good trade last
Saturday. Mr.. II. b. Wright, near
that town, has a splendid field OF
wheat. The farmers in that section
believe in clover and grain, in addi-
ton to cotton. Hence they are thrifty.
Mrs. p. w. Leath, wife of Prof.
Loath,, of Pocahontas, proposes to or
ganize IL class in Bolivar to learn wax
work in all It's details. She is most
accomplished lady, and teaches nine
teen branches of ornamental work
Specimens Of her skill on exhibition
ut Moore & Harvey's drug store.
The stand of cotton is reported tC
be good throughout the Memphis sec
ton, and the weather is dry and ia
vorable. The corn crop is also doing
well. Farming operations are about
two weeks late An increase of acre
age, averaging 5 per cent, is reported
from North Mississippi and East Ar
kansas. Laborers are working well
Memphis Appeal; At two O'clock
Monday, at salisbury, on the Mem
pbis and Charleston road, two men
NJ c. Wallis and M. f. Dancey, from
North Carolina, were digging sand IL
n cut near the depot, when the banl
caved down upon them, killing Dance.
and hurying Wallis up to his neck
Work was at once commenced digging
them out. Wallis was taken on
alive, but much injured, but Dance
was dead.
Under the present assessmer
law all State and county taxes for tn
years 1880 and 1881 are due and pay
able on the first of August next. TIL
section of the act regulating this ma
ter is as follows: ''Be it further enacte
That every taxpayer shall pay n
State, county, railroad, municipal an
all other property and poll taxes,
said county trustee; and said take
shall be due and payable on the frs
Monday in July, except for the yea
1881, and for this year they shall |
due the first of August; provided thi
this sectionsshall not apply to tho;
municipal corporations that, under tt
existing law, have their own tax co
lectors."
On Tuesday, Sheriff Farley, Es'
Cliff, and Colonel Milt Moore, WEI
TO Fulton, KY, having heard that tv
certain suspicious characters we
there and were probably tue Bolivi
safe-robbars. They returned
Wednesday with Fred L. Steele al
II. NJ. Strickland, and that afternoC
trial was had, but there not beil
sufficient evidence to justify comm
ment, they were set free. We puI
lished,a full account of the robbery
the second edition of the BULLETu
but for the benefit of those who failt