The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-09-15
BRRxErEEs.
THERE are 10 sweets in family jars.
CoCrD not the doctors fee be iustl-

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THERE. are 10 sweets in family jars.
CoULD not the doctors fee be justly
He'd ill-sotten gains
A rIELD of jnte in Sampson county,
n. c., averages twelve feet IN height.
SIR GARNET WoLsEnF.Y, the British
commander IN South Afuca, Is q teeto-
taler
AiRs. PRUDENCE LAKIN, of NewburgI,
\. Y, died the other day at the ripe oil
age Of LOG.
MAYOR We'll, of Padncah, was fined
] cent in the City Court for engaging IN
a street disturbance.
THE Sophomores Of Bates College have
chosen rs their orator q colored student,
the son Of a former slave.
A NUGGET Of gold weighing two and
half pounds has been taken ont Of the
Christian mine, in North Carolina.
AN infant at Hickory, II. c., was hap
tized Jesse Fido Ringtail Fillmore Han
cock Jarvis Dowd Harper, and Is said TO
still live.
TIE population OF Flor;da IS 271 ,764,
an increse Of 81, 016 in ten years. The
whites number 143, 821. and the coiored
1898
A 6-YEAR-eHD son Of Il prominent nlcr-
chant at Grenada, Miss, attempted 10
hang himself on account Of disappoint-
ment IN love.
UNDER the laws of Illinois whnt per-
son sces through a key-hole cannot be
accepted lis evidence in court. But no
sewing society ia the country would re
ject such testimony
SENATOR BLAINE wears niclzel-plated
watch that cost him $3.50. He says he
refused to take $40 for it, and that lac
means to carry 1t to the Senate rs q
product of American skill.
MRs. G[YRA CLARK GAINES, the inde-
fatigable, is living II retirement in
Washington. Although she Is 70 years
old, she IS still rs brisk and clipper as q
young widow Of 20.
An old man in Virginia jumped into
the well to spite his wife for running into
debt. She let him stay there In three
feet of cold water until he agreed &c
deed her the whole farm.
A CHANGE is coming over Venice
Travellers who wish to sec the old city
of palacea, logs and lagoons, as it wa.
seen and sung of by Byron, must HE
there speedily. The gondolas and gOn
doiers viii soon have passed away.
THE venerable Lucretia Mott is re
ported in Tapidly-failing health. Al
though confined 20 her room, her min(
is strong and bright. She resides wit
her son-in-lnw, Edward NJ. Davis, o.
Chelton hills, Philadelphia, Pa.
AT length the long history of tn
: United States, by Mr.. George Bancroft
, is drawing toward completion. The au
thor set to work upon this opus mag
, nam so far back as 1925, and has, witt
ltAe intezmission, been laboring ON
ever since.
= Nh. r. II. MCDONALD, Of San Fran
cisco, offers $l0G, 900 toward m endow
! ment for a Christian University, on con
e ditiOn that an equal sum shall be raise
= by the Baptist, Presbyterian, Episcc
J. palian, Congregational, and Methods
{ denominations.
7. A FRIGHTENED horse ran into crOckeIY
ware store nt Bangor, the other day
going the whole length Of the floor bt
q fore he was captured, and, although sul
f rounded on al sides by crOchery, h
3 WIRE led out without having broken
i single piece.
5, a new process of using up old ste,
: hos been patented in England. By it
). new metal of extraordinary strength an
Il ductility is alleged to be introduces
4 which is expected TO prove of grei
4 value Steel remade on this plan hi
z sold rapidly at 1928 & ton.
It SIR F. ROBERTS, the conquering hel
q Of Candahar, and so-styled Savior
y Afghnnishu, is the son OF clorgymf
" of the Established Church in WnteIfov
d Ireland His brother, Samuel U. Ro
"a erts, Is ono OF the Commissioners of Il
re Board Of Public Works in Ireland
~ SENATOR Burnside is reported tot
!; this story at the expenao of his coleagu
-, Senator Anthony They were dining
a. gether ono day when ham formed one
~ the dishes. "'If ever I turn farmer
Is said Mr. Anthony, " shall raise plen
y of calves, so that I can get some nj
ham like this.
Z WATCH which had not gone for t,
years and deRed the best efforts Of (
matchmaker, was struck by lightning
lg the course Of q severe storm, ne
at Vienna, and now a Vienna paper c
rs nounces with the solemnity OF tru
On that the watch has kept excellent til
It's ever since.
n9 Or the 18th OF January. 1867, tho
We existed only seventeen daily newspap
eh in Paris, while on the list Of Septemb
va 1880, there were sixty-one daily ne1
a papers IN circulation. Another curiC
p fact is that the number of daily journ
y sold at one sou each amounts to sev,
nd teen, or exactly the number of do
Id newspapers existing in 1867