The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-12-04
LOCAL.

Court adjourned on Tuesday, after
an unusually long term.
The floor is being put down in Il .
new Opera house, The building
Will soon be Completed.
Drop in at the first hall north of
the new Opera house and you will
find the Bulletin IN its new quarters.
We want 70 see all our friends.
DR.. T. z. NJ, ore was IN Arkan-
sas several days of last week look
ing after his interests there. The
doctor reports times dry and hard
over there.
The speech made by Col Josiah
Patterson in the Moffat case was
pronounced by many who heard it
as one Of the ablest even delivered
IN the Court House at this place.
The Moffat case occupied the On
tire time of the court last week, and
WAS given to the jury at 4 O'Clock
Saturl ~ evening. They were out
Is minutes, and returned a vir-
dict OF not guilty.
The Bulletin has moved into its
new quarters in the new block east
Of the Court House, where we will be
glad to welcome oar friends.
Those appointed to get up sub
scriptions for the Fair should get to
business if they w'sA to make sue
cess of the enterprise. The matter
is with them. A sufficient amount
can be easily raised if any effort is
made,
Rev. Frederic Howard, editor
Of The True Babtist at jackson, and
pastor Of the Central Babtist Church
OF that city, VIII preach in the Bah
st church Boil, ar to night. Mr..
Howard is an eloquent preacher.
Rev. G. D. Hiliard preached
bis farewell sermon at the Metho-
dist church, in Bolivar, on last Sun
dav night. During the tin Mr.,
Hilliard has been with us he has
made many warm personal friends,
and wherever Conference may cast
his lot their best wishes will go with
him.
DR.. J. w. Nuckolls Of Toone has
bought the lands near Toone, OF
2. NorJhen, decd. There are 5000
acres in the tracts, and some Of it is
as fine land as there Is in the county.
This is t largest land TT d l. ade
in the county since the war, and we
understand it was a cIsL a :sacunn.
The dental rooms Of DR.. S. d. k
son in Bolivar are as neatly fitted up
as any OF the kind in West T4nnessee
He is prepared to DO work prompt
ly and efficiently, and it IS a pleas
ure 10 sit in his pariors.
Some sawdust that had been
sprinkled ON some linseed OIL which
had been spilled ever the floor a
Hudson's drug store caught fire and
iflit had been at night the house
would probably have burned. The
sawdus' was raked up and put in
box. 1t is supposed it caught f~e
from cont ustion. No damage was
done,
The display ofChristmas goods a
the usual places IN Bolivar are unus
ally attractive this season. Let times
be what they may, and however we
may hemc our circumstances ia
life, the holidays have a peculiar
pleasure for us ALL Hard-hcarted
and grinding indeed is he who woule.
take from happy childhood the re-
alization Of the longing desire for
the gew-gaws and good things If the
merry Christmas time, be they ever
so simple and Sc few in variety
Give them something.
john McCarley, who was sen
fenced to the penitentiary ut the
November term of Court, 1892, fr
five years for killing man named
| Doris i'm Bolivar, received the full
paldon of the Governor on Tuesday.
and was released The petition to
the Governrr for his release was
sign ed by the jerry who convicted
him, and the States Attorney vi 0
prosecuted him, and the Judge who
presided After a short visit TO his
family here McCarleY wlN accept 4
position to work at the tra Re .rarred
during his confinement; that ct j.
wood laytheman, in Nashvlie.
We have just received "a car load o.
liverpool salt
g. r. Ingram & Co