The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-24
PERSONAL AND GENKRAL


Oak wood can be bought at Lexing-
ton, Georgia, for sixty-five cents a
cord.
The st. Louis s. San Francisco rail-
road viii build shops at Fort Smith,
Ark.
Catching smelts, or trying to catch
them, is an interesting pasttime just
now.
Ed. Partridge, a schley county(Ga.) )
negro, whipped his six-year-old child
to death.
The Augusta (Ga.) Nescs says, rBnl
Arp" is sixty, bald-headed and a
grandfather.
It rained hard enough at Bryan,
Texas, the other day to stop 3 circus
performance.
The Shenandoah r. R. Company
has contracted for $4,000 hotel at
Roanoke, Va.
Tie Rome (Ga.) Courier saws citron
grows to perfection in the flatwOOds
of that county.
a negro man in Pettus, Ala, be-
came insane because the drOuth
ruined his crops.
a West Point, Georgia, negro was
bitten by rat two years ago, and is
still suffering from the wound.
When the schoolmaster threatened
to tan Johnny, the urchin reminded
him that ga soft tan, sir, turneth away
wrath"
Earl Dunraven was arrested under a
capias, in Caledonia, Canada, last
week, for shooting moose without a
license.
In the voyage of life every man is
| provided with a skull, with which to
! paddle his own canOe.-N O7TiStO tC3l
Herald.
Contractors began work on the
Memphis s. Kansas City railroad at a
point ten miles from Marion, Ark, on
Tuesday.
The length of railroads built in the
United States during the last year was
GLIB miles, or twice the mileage of the
preceding twelve months.
The Mobile & Ohio Railroad has
been completed to East Cairo, Ken
lucky, and will run passenger cars
through next Tuesday.
Mr.. Fred Wolfe, of the Erlanger
roads, was indisposed in Cincinnati
Thursday, and, therefore, did not pro-
ceed east, as he had contemplated
The Gurdon branch road is COM
pieted and trains are running to Cam
den regularly. a good country is
opened by the completion of this
road.
Near Thomaston, Georgia, a gray
fox attacked some shOats, when the
old sow gave battle, and catching his
foxship by the throat choked him tC
death.
Deer, squirrels and pheasants arc
said to be very abundant in the She
nandoah Valley region this fall. Part.
ridges are scarcey while wild turkeys
are about an everage.
The Prince of Wales has distin
guished himself by designing a new
plaid in green, red and white, and his
wife and daughters encourage him by
wearing suits made of it.
The east-bound train on the Little
Rock and Fort Smith road last Satur-
day ran over and killed DIR. Brown
citizen of Pulaski county. Brown
was sitting on the road asleep.
It kind of broke up the temperance
man from down East when he went
into the rooms of the DeadwoOd Total
Abstinence Club to find the club be.
lieved in total abstinence from water
Larkin G.. Mead and Henry L. Gay
both of whom are residing in Italy,
and both contributors to the statuary
at the national capitol, are competing
for the monument to Victor Eman-
uel.
/ A mulattO woman, aged lS7 years
has Just died in Brazil. This was the
first time she ever did such thing
Boston Transcript. And she was old
tOqnn Herald
Mr.. Gladstone's late illness was
caused by his love for rural pursuits
While at Hawarden he went into the
woods to fell timber, though the
weather was stormy, and a serious
cold was the result.
The grading on the G. s. 0. road,
between CoYington and the Big
Hatchie, was completed Friday.
Track-laying will be commenced at
once, and toe ears will run through to
the Hatchie before Christmas.
Eli Perkins wants to be cremated
when he dies. The lyO-thst could be
extracted from his ashes would sell
for enough to build him big monu-
ment and leave enough to make a
quantity of soft soap for an obituary
The work of laying the track OH the
Mempris division of the g. D. & S. w
road was likely finished to-day as faI
/ f9,sp 1.oa hnou
a day Of reiSicing among the denizen'
of that Dlace.-PGducdh NetCS.
The safe robbery at Greenville, Tenn.
is still a mystery, aud, If any one has
any clew to the perpetrators OF the
deed, it is not known. AS about 5000
of the money stolen was school money
it may seriously affect the co.'s mon
schools of the county.
An English peers humor: aWiItor
House. The Earl Of Pembroke begs K
inform the gentleman or gentlemen
who lately shot some Of his Canads
! geese that the common tame goose o
this country affords. quite as good
sport to the shooter and is far bettel
eating"
The Church of Humanity in Brook
lyn has started on its second year with
the following unique prOgrams:
"First-To give every tramp batf
by way of baptism into the church.
1fSecond-To dress him in a new
and clean suit.
'SThird-Giye him a square meal.
sFourth-Put him to work, and il
he declines the offer and is able tC
work, send him along.
'FFifth-Provide a lecture room, Z
reading room, library and all the bles-