The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-05-21
STATE NEWS.

the tFala 20 haaar just 10 gei to
walk bacS-he SAYS there are -.
381 ties between this place aad
Ramer.-GlcEaisy Review.
The case Of Sn&uay rs. Ii'inois
Central Railroad was compromised
by the read paying TO him $1,000
and relieving HIN OF the
cost of the suit The case
was one Of considerable interest
Tribune & Sun.
Among The Visitors to Memphis
Monday was Somelville lady, who
had never been % he city before
although she had been living in
SomervilIe for twenty years or
mOre.-Someryille Repo.. Ter and
Falcon,
Mr.. r. D. Jackson living five
miles cast Of Toone Sta., in Harde,
man county, brought te the city Sal
urday ten young red foxes. They
were captured in their den, That
section abounds in why rona,ds, and
many lively cha Sc is had oyar the
hills and hollows of that thinly SCI
tied region. & Sun.
This government connot afford to
give foltY &c es and mule to every
communist in The conntry, but can
do them simply justice to give them
six feet of land decorated with a
marble slab--Pulaski Citizen.
In elections where bolitrcal issues
are at stake, democrats, should let
side issues of all kinds rest and or
ganize and present and outbroken
front to their political oppoDen is,
This is the republican rule and is
worthy Of imitation by the democ-
racy of McNary county.-McNary
Democ al.
Judge II. w: MeCor.y has appoint
ed Hon. Hu. G. Anderson, Of this
city, Assistant United States District
Attorney FOR West Tennessee IN
place of Mr.. Clough- Mr.. Anderson
is law er of marked ability and
re WI DO credit to The position
Il .,bune g Sun.
Monday morning about 8 O'Clock
NJ. Jack Gaines, near DeRay was
bitten BY a oopperhead snake. He
was cut, og vines in The field aud
The snake, concealed in a vine bill
him on the wrist. He was in a
very critical condition for some hours
bat 5 ROW out Of danger The Chief
remedy used was WHISKY as is usual
in such cases The cOppe. head els
one OF Che most venom Gus snakes
found ia tbs county many persons
conside. ing is bic even more dead
than IhaS OF the raty!eslake'-Pul'
as! c., zen.
WIFI Keaton, young man ABBOTT
twenty years of age, met with e Sc
we're accideat last Wednesday mo1n-
.nc at he sawmiil N Atwood.
While ut work we learn his trousers
leg got caught by the circular saw
when The limb was cut off below the
knee before the machinery could be
stopped Fortunately, surgical aid
was near at hand and he receive d
prompt attention-Milan Exchange
John Walker who liyes two
miles east of Purdy tells us that one
day last week he witnessed the
strange freak Of a house cat killing
monster chicken snake. The
fight lasted an hour, when the cat
fastened the snake by the back of
the head making short work of his
victim. He says thai The cats mode
of attacking the snake is similar to
| that Of the king snakes manner Of
disposing of other snakes.-McNai-
~ Independent.
On last Sabbath morning IN one
of our Sunday schools q lady teacher
asked her class if they knew the 7;h
commandment, and little fellow
six or seven summers drew himself
up and said ''yes'm I konow it thou
shall not-thou shalt not-Shou
shall not commit suicide" That is
new commandment bat some OF
our eli, zans would do well 70 paste
it in their hats and look al it every
time they go to a saloon coultet.
-HUmbo!t Messenger
The buffalo gnats have prevailed
to an alarming extent IN this country
duriog the past week; in fact as
disastrous as in April, 1852, when
hundreds of horses aad'muls3 were
lost. 10 several Instances at leas t
a dozen mules have died on one
plantation alone. The work Of
destruction has Seen quick and e.
fectlve hor es dying in few hou's.
Men vhs are in position 80 know,
say that at least two hundred a1d
fifty head have died it this coun, Y
in the past week andi in surround
icg counties, especially 10 those