The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-07-07
SUNDRTES.

Montreal claims 10000 population.
The Catholic Church property In
New York city, is valued at S., 5,400,-
600.
Brigham Young celebrated his 10th
birthday by banquet at Salt Lake
City, June I'd.
Twenty-six thousand children are
now learning music in the Boston
public schools,
/ A fortune is waiting In Peru fol
the man who will invent method of
sOlidifying guanO for expectation.
Wilhelmshohc, the prison of Napo-
Icon Ill, viii probably be offered
for sale by the Prussian government
The far-famed banking house of
the Rothschilds, having been found
ed in 177l, will be one hundred years
old this year.
The grasshoppers have invaded
Utah, and the consequence is the in
| vcntiOn by a Mormon of n 'twO-
horse grasshOpper smashcr."
The announcement is made tina the
President will start on his cOntem-
plated trip to the Pacific coast about
the middle of August. He visits
/ Nevada, California, and Oregon,
stopping at Salt Lake en- route.
The fires in the mountains Of Sulh-
van, Ulster and Delaware counties, n.
Y, have destroyed 10, 600 acres Of for
est, and are still burning. Three cab
ins have been destroyed, and their Oc-
cupants are believed to have peIishe /.
Thousands of tourists from the At
lantic and Western States are prepar-
ing to spend their summer vacation
on the slopes of the Rocky Noun
tains, among the sublime scenery of
the Yo Semitic, and in far distant CAL
ifornia.
A son of Napoleon the Great and
of Georges, the well-known actress,
gets $50 a year as an attache of the
National Library in Paris, while the
natural son of Bernadotte, King OF
| Sweden, plays the big fiddle at La
Scala, Milan.
Mr.. Charles Francis Adams has
lately built at Quincy, a fire-proof
building, in which has been placed
the large library of his father and the
YoluminOus manuscripts of his father
and grandfather. He is preparing
for publication a selection from the
writings of his illustrious father. 1t
is eighty-three years since John
Adams bought the Quincy estate.
Mr.. Isaac Halfway, of fEatontOwn,
and his twin-brOther, Benjamin, have
singular history. Although twin
born, they were not born on the same
day, nor in the same week, month,
year or century. One was born iH
/ l. c. -
Urday night, and the other was born
, in the first hours of the year 1900, on
, Sunday morning.
The last titled bankrupt of Eng
land, Lord COurtenay, son of the
: Earl of Devon, owes, it is stated,
3 fl, 100000 ($6,O0O,OOO), and will not
D be able to pay 10 shiIlings in the
4 pound. During the last few years
T he is reported to hsvs lived at the
5 rate of over E100,OO0 per annUm, and
] his Indebtedness to his tailor alone is
, set down at G12,000.
s The Louisville Courier-J ournal
C tells this for the creduIous: "a
young lady in this city, about eigh.
/ teen years of age, can lift tub OF
! clothing from the ground to ali eleva-
= ton of four feet, aud have the clothes
- line white with the results of the la
8 Dor of her own little hands in a short
= while. Meantime, her mother sits
in the parlOr taking her ease in heI
old age"
One effect of the Prussian Occupa-
! ton of the Champagne district has
been to increase enormously the eX-
ports of brandy to England. The
bonded stock of brandy there
, now amounts to nearly 13,000,00C
j gallons; the bonded stock to the end
: of last quarter, Amounted to upwards
: of 4 100000 gallons more than the
Z previous year, and these enormous
I imports still continue on the same
y scale.
: A new Oderless and nOn-poisOnous
. autiseptic and disanfectant called
: chloralimc, has recently been intro.
: duced in this country, and compares
9 faYOrably as to price, with anything
4 OF like character. 1t is said to bC
more effective for its purpose thai
either chloride of lime or carboliC
II acid, besides being without the disa
: greeable smell, and somewhat dan
{ gcrOUs properties of these disenfec
I tants. This article has been long
a a and favOrably known i'll Europe
where it is extensively used.
h The slave trade on the cast coast o
b Africa is said to be fourishing, not
q withstanding the efforts of the Eng
: lish cruisers. The atrocities com
d mitted in the capture and march o.
g slaves from the interior to the cOas
# are described as being more horrible
than those of the middle passage, anC
involve a sacrifice of 100000 to 800,
900 lives annually. Syed Maid, 8
native ruler, but the creature of the
80 English Government, is said to re,
n ccive a royalty of two dollars a head
y on sales of slaves in Zanzibar. His
II sovereignty extends over several hun.
'i drcd miles Ofcoast.
'sf An artificial Whirlwind blew al
:. Glen's Falls, New York, few days
IS ago; it was caused by farmer, who
= wishing to burn n fallOW of about
3 fifteen or twenty acres, ignited the
L brush at several places on the outer
5e edge. The flames rushed toward the
n the centre and assumed a rotary mo-
e ton, which increased in velocity till
d terrific Whirlwind was formed
= which tore up small trees, root and
, branch, and frightened everybody
:, who witnessed it. \ column o.
n smoke rose to so great height that
ir it was visible for many miles, and {
in noise as loud as thunder accompanied
II this singular phenomenon.
y The farmers of the South give this
. plausible reason why they devote 81
i much land to cotton and so little tC
u corn: The negroes steal corn to sucl
,e an extent that il is improbable. /
is is exposed to their depredatioms from
Is thn time the ears are laroe cnon0h II