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

| already nominated tickets for the election
! in August, 1882.
/ Women now vote in Austrian Croatia at
municipal elections. The other day over
500 OF them turned out at Agram and tossed
their ballots into the urn.
Whitelaw Reid, the newly-married editor
Of the New York Tribune, is thus don up
in the society column Of a Vienna Va ger:
'sThe correspondent ofthe New York M Cfsd,
| Mr.. Reid, has married Miss Mills, with a
I dowry of S125.OOO.OO0-"
The italian Government has at length
delivered blow at the lotteries of the king
dom, which are the procuring causes o
| limitless crimes and wretchedness The
owners of the Naples lottery have all been
arrested for swindling with their wheels.
A guest at one OF the fashionable hotels
took his seat at the dinner table recently,
but no one appearing to wait upon him, he
remarked, "Have they any walters in the
hotelp' "Yes," responded a person on the
opposite side OF the table. The boarders
are the walters"
JESSE JAMES, the notorious outlaw
is six feet tail, has broad shoulders, a
broad, straight back, without the slightest
INCLINATION to stoop, and tapering toward
the waist, a high forehead, blue eyes,
prominent brows and cheek bones, and a
nose like an eagles beak.
LIEUTENANT HoOPER's report does
not give much hope for the safety Of the
Jeanette or her crew. In two seasons the
COrwin cruised over $1,000 miles and visit
| ed every accessible part Ofthe Arctic coast,
| but not a sign was seen to indicate the fate
of those adventurous explorers.
A GENTLEMAN who recently rode through
| ex-senator D orsey's cattle ranch in New
| Mexico says Of it: lit is forty by sixty
miles in size, land has on it twenty-eight
| thousand head of cattle and thirteen hum
dred head of horses, The income from
this place can not be lets than $4,000 for
! the past season."
A FEW months ago the electric light
was introduced into the Philadelphia Post
office. The bill for October has just been
presented to the POstOffice Department. 1t
| shows that in last October, when gas was
| used, the bill was $1,1S4, while for this
| month, with the electric light, the bill is
$354, or a net saving i'll one month of $3.50.
The Salt Lake Tribune discloscs the
fact that Confederate bonds are manurac-
| tured NY the millions in Utah from newly
made Confederate plates. Somebody, it is
said, has been paying the owner of the
| plates 50 a thousand for the notes. He had
them made in Chicago. OF course there is
nobody to punish him for counterfeiting.
SOME of the men about town are
discussing the forming of a society for tho
instruction of women how to put on their
clothes. 1t has always been doubtful
whether women dress to please men or to
displease other women. II their object is
to please men, surely there is no imprO-
priety then in men telling wherein they are
not pleased.
The proposed new State to be
! formed out of the southern half of Dakota,
will be about the size of Nebraska, or 70, fOC
square miles in area. The south half Of
Dakota is the best portion of the Territory.
and it is rapidly settling up, through the IA
ciiities furnished by the extension of the
| Chicago and Northwestern and the Chicago
! Milwaukee and st. Paul railroad systems
westward.
JUDGE DAVID DAVIS, the Springfield Re
publican says, preserves his frugal habits
young friend found him the other day
counting Il roll of greenbacks. "Young
man." he said, ''this is the true way tO
make money. Economy and saving. There
is my stationary allowance. The Senators
are allowed $125 for stationary. Too much
too much. 1 have used just 81 worth, and
am entitled to $1.1 cash, and here it is. BE
| economical and saving, Young man."
Chicago is about 10 open two new schools
ut cost of $4,000 each. There will theT
| be siXty-five schOolhouses in the city, witt
an attendance OF sc, 900 children, and there
are 800 more pupils who can only be ac
cOmmodated a half day each. 1t would
have made Mr.. MaIthus' hair rise if hC
could have been around in Chicago abOu
schooI-time.
The extreme Radicals in Paris ''impeach
ed'' the Government at n meeting the othel
day, at which Gambetta was denounced al
"a dictator who commenced with nOthin.
but the skin on his bones, and who is TO-DAY
with his clothes sewn full OF gold pieces
and with his hide so stuffed with fat as t,
have plenty to dispense to the chdrcutiers.' ,
But Gamhetta can stand such compliments
There is still fearful possibility Of re
ligiOus war growing out Of French or Eng
lish aggressions on MOhammedan terriotrl
fearful, because no other conceivable
event would result in such a horrible sac
rifice of human liie. The desperation o
Eastern fanaticism knows no bound s, whel
once aroused, as is evidenced by many
bloody page of history. The natisnalitie
of Islamism, as computed by a careful
writer in the Fortnightly Rertet0. numbe
! 1875, GOO, 900.
The Evansville sports have been treating
themselves to a dog fight equal in loathe
someness to that which took place near thi
city short time ago; yet after all the i'm
precautions heaped on Louisville by TIN
Evansville newspapers, the authorities o
the Indiana city did not lift a hand TO pre-
vent the b-utal display; nor have the par
ties who held the dogs been molested sine
the fight 10y the Evansville mOralists
Glass houses-stOncs.
The Railroad Problem.
In discussing railroad confedera
tons or E'pOoIs," and the practicabilit,