The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-10-08

On the 9th inst, large number Of emf
grants from the North and Europe passed
down the road at Knoxville on their way TO
Middle Tennessee, where they have contract
ed for $4,000 acre of land.
1t is now said that jute bugs are an actu-
ality, and that they have been discovered in
chignons in Connecticut and Massachusetts,,
as we'll as Maine and Vermont But why
are they all found in New England2 Is it
because Of the eternal fitness of things
The European people, for a good many
years, were dictated to by Lord Palmerston,
and after time by Napoleon III, and now
Bismsck, one of the ablest diplomats in
Earope, and the most aristocratic Of them
all, claims that his time has come, and it
looks upon the surface very much as if it
had,
Gen. John G. Brown began the guberna-
atorial campaign at Chattanooga last Satur-
day; he will address the people at Green
vile to-day; at Blountville next Monday !;
at Jackson Tuesday, and Rogersville We'd
nesday. Other appointments will be made
in due time. Wlsener, has consented to
meet him at the above named places.
The Supreme Court of the United States
will meet in Washington on the 3Ist of the
present month, in continuation of last term,
which ends the first Monday in December.
The call docket will be resumed at case 204.
An appeal from the Supreme Court of Illinois
which refused admission to the bar to mar
ried women, comes up this term.
On the Both ult tremendous and de-
structive food swept the valley of James
River. At Lynchburg the water was fully
twenty-five feet higher than was ever known
before. Railroad bridges, hotels, stores,
farm houses, ETC., were torn from their
foundations and utterly destroyed The
loss in stock and to the growing crops was
immense. No estimate of the damage has
yet been made.
A company of Northern capitalists have
taken charge of the road from Port Royal,
the great harbor between Charleston and
Savannah, and announce their purpose to
have a continuous air line road from Pori
Royal through Memphis to Kansas City
This road from the Atlantic passes Opelika
Tuscumbia and across Alabama to Mem
phis. Its resources and fortunes are dis.
cussed with great interest by the press o.
Central Alabama.
Now that the Gemans have possession Oi
the Champagne district, it is to be hoped
that they will improve the quality of ths
wine. Vast quantities of so called cham
pagne are now manufactured at the North
and such is the perfection to which the
limitations have been brought, that many
connoisseurs cannot tell the real from the
spurious. The most of the champagne SOLE
grape as girls chin is of beard, while tn
quantity of the decoction sold in the Unitet
States is about three times the crop of tn
champagne district.
At the siege of Stasbourg NJ. Camille st
Marie, captain of artillery, was upon OBJ
observation duty, posted on the platform o
the Strasburg cathedral. Of a sudden b
sees she'll describe its beautiful curve
watching its flight what was his horror a
seeing it fall upon the roof of his own house
and, passing from garrett to cellar, thel
explode. The brave officer remains at hi
Ipost; but what must have been his anguis
, ofmindl On his relief ne hastened to wha
had been his home. Happily for him, hi
E wife and child had left the house for fe
! minutes before the fall of the messenger {
|, destruction.