The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-07-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

lake.
| Pensacola, Florida, has had two
crops Of strawberries.
Two thousand women labor daily
In the harvest fields of Wisconsin.
Florida people are already eating
sweet potatoes of this years growth.
The population of St. Louis in
creased from 1874 in 1S47, to 3l2,-
963 in 1870.
An Illinois farmer has one hun
dred acres set out with onions.
Baltimore is said to have church
accommodations for 100000 people.
New York last year educated 239,
| 7S4 children in the public schools, at
a cost of 81, ,733, ,691.
A Troy editor speaks of anotI0h
as sufficiently well posted to edit q
handful"
Peanuts are said to be classed
among the dessert at Wilmington
IN. c. hotels.
Daniel Styles, of Prescott, Wiscon-
sin, aged 106, claims to be the oldest
freemason.
Willard's hotel, Washington, SO
celebrated during the war, is to be
removed and finer building erected.
The sugar crop of Louisiana this
year is estimated at 104,SS1 hogs
heads, and her rice crop at 1871
barrels.
The Greek and Roman armies ate
but once a day.
To healthy persons mineral water
is not wholesome,
Hartford claims to be the richest
city of its size IN the Union.
The wheat harvest in Kansas be-
gun on the 10th inst. The crop was
never better.
The books in the library belong
ing to the British Museum occupy
twelve miles of shelving.
Three elephants, on an average,
come to this country each year. They
cost about $1,000 a piece.
1t is estimated that the number of
cattle driven from Texas this season
will reach eight hundred thousand.
In the procession at San Francisco
celebrating the pontificate of Plus
IN, General Rosecrans acted as Mar
shall.
According to one OF The New ork
papers there have been $500 cases
of smpll-pOx in that city since Janu-
ary.
Cupperhcad snakes are said to
smell like fresh cucumbers, and
Western snake-hunters follow and
despatch them br the scent.
Miss Cordelia Jane Hodgeson, The
late English connection Of BcnjamiH
Franklin, died at the age of rs OF
Preston, England, the other day.
1t will take sixty years 10 restore
to France the forests ruthlessly vast
ed in the military operations OF the
late war.
Brigham Young has recently had a
little steamer built in New York
and shipped West. She is to sail up
Salt Lake, and is called the "Lady
of the Lake"
No less than three individuals ia
different parts of the country have
recently shot themselves in showing
how Vallandigham Killed himself
1t is time the experiment ceased.
l4tt4C tNlfltCS ilOlil lStlltIdu tlAsit
the famine in one district of Persia
has reached such state that starving
people have killed and eaten finy
children.
A st. Louis iron company cOnteIn-
plates erecting blast furnace twenty
five feet in diameter and one hun
dred feet high. 1t will be the largest
in the United States.
The Rural Me- Yorker recon-
mends applying ashes to grass lands
bv sowing broadcast the fall after
the crop is of. The amount per
acre may be twenty-five to two hum
dred bushels,
4 correspondent Of the London
Times, writing from India, tells of
recent Whirlwind that carried houses,
trees and herbs high into the air, and
dashing them to the ground a mile
or so away, Killed everything that
possessed life.
Charles Francis Adams will shortly
publish his memoirs of John Quin-
cy Adams" which viii include the
stRtesman's diary from 1875 to 1913.
LippincOtt has it in press.
No less than two hundred and
twenty-four life insurance companies
have been wound up in Great Bri-
tain within the last twenty-five years.
This is twice as many as now exist
there.
Several of the Mackcrling feet
have arrived at Gloucester the past
week, averaging about 80 barrels
each. Prices rule very low, and the
business will not prove remuneTa-
tive.
Thomas Jefferson and Martin Van
Buren, have been the only men in tho
history of this country who have
been Governors of States, holders Of
first class foreign missions, heads of
cabinets, Vice. Presidents, and Prcsi-
dents.
In his speech in san Francisco
Senator Cole expressed the opinion
that the Treaty of Washington will
preclude the possibility of war be-
tween America and England for per-
haps a century to come.
The famed mosquitoes of New
Jersey are being eclipsed by the aP-
pearancn there of new blood-letteT.
called the winged porcupine,o
which has concealed under its wings
a number Of fine quills, and shoots
them at any ere attempting to capture
il. These work into the skin, causing
q paiHful irritation.
A Story is going the round Of the
Northern press that an Alabama
planieT. several years ago, becoming
satisfied that the vitality of the cot
ton plant was destroyed oHiy by frost.
tried an experiment with a single
plant. The second year he picked
500 pounds from it; last il yielded
i,293 pounds Of bestcottOn, and now
il is TWENTY-FIVE feet high. and prom