The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-09-29
MISCELLANEOUS.

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''iFon mountain
| They have discovered 3 fish, with
four eyes, on the coast of Mexico.
The Emperor Napoleon is about TO
| remove his residence to Croydon.
There were s2s deaths In Paris the
| past week. Six were from cholera.
The deaths In New York last week
Were 537, q decrease Of 30 from last
| week.
The great Ring Hotel, IN New York,
on the site Of the late Metropolitan,
will be opened next week.
Florida claims to have better paying
crops this year than during any year
| since the war.
The population OF New Mexico
I20, 900, OF whom s5, Geo are Mexican
and half-breeds, and 1000 Indians.
The Duluth canal was opened OH
| Friday. The large steam propeller
Norman passed from the city to the
bay.
The municipal council Of Paris has
resolved to issue, in the form Of a lot
| terry, three per cent. loan for large
| amount.
Thirty thousand young shad have
been safely transported via the Pacific
ramento.
B. G, Cook, member of Congress
| from the 9th district of Illinois, has
| rendered his resignation. His succee-
| sOr will be elected in November.
The Secretary Of the Treasury is
| about to issue a stringent circular eau
| tiOning manufacturers against the Inn
| proper use Of trademarks on watch
| works.
It is estimated that the receipts OF
! cotton in Memphis, VIII amount TO
$40, 200 bales by September !, placing
thaRcity third in rank in the cotton
market.
Striped snakes eat potatoe bugs,
| which, in turn, poison the snakes, and
| the people of Van Buren county,
Iowa, are in high glee at the mutual
| benefit society.
The cotton growers of South Africa
had cotton show at King Williams
Town, August 10th, tOFillustrate the
growth of their industry.
There is a walnut tree In Addison
VT, five feet and ten inches In cirUam
ference, one hundred and twenty feet
high, and it is sixty feet to the frat
limb.
There are already $4,000 colored vo-
| ters registered in Texas, and tthe Aus
| tin Journal thinks the number will be
| increased to 10000 before Che election.
The hop harvest in Northern New
| York is now in progress. Some two
| hundred girls left Syracuse on one day
last week to engage in picking the
| crop.
The California fig-crop is ripe, and
some OF the growers will dry censid-
| cradle quantities. Lastiyear one grow
| er sold 1900 pounds of 6gs nom one
tree.
Twenty-three thousand of the iu-
| habitants Of StrasbuTg are said TO have
| emigrated to France and America
since the cession Of that city to the Ger
| mans.
| Ninety thousand immigrants came
| into the United States last year from
British America. Many of these were
Europeans, but the majority were Ca
| nadians.
In Richmond, Va, many birds are
said to be going blind; every day dead
| birds are picked up in the streets, haV-
ing been killed in their flight by strik-
ing against buildings and other OBJ
structions. -.--.
The Welsh colony in Patagonia is
the modern Utopia, They have no
| lunatics, blind, deaf or dumb, and no
paupers or poor law. There is no tax
alton
Canada boasts the discovery of an
ancient burial-place containing some
two hundred gigantic skeletons with
the clay Of departed pipes in their
| mouths. ..-
The New York Express thinks the
proper way to start a cholera panic is
to ''write and talk about 1t evey day."
and hints that that is just what the
American people are now somewhat
unnecessarily doing.
Liberia, last season, produced 800
GOO pounds Of sugar 80, 600 pounds Of
| COFFEE; 10000 pounds Of ginger and 90
tons of white arrowrOOt-the latter
being prepared for market.
The Catalonia Silk Compsny'su
factory at South San Francisco, was
started short time ago, and thou
sands of silk growers are visiting It TO
see how the machinery works.
An attempt was made Monday by
some unknown parties TO explode the
monument to King George ". at
KingstOwn, Ireland. Though much
| blackened by gunpowder the M Gnu
ment received no real injury.
In San Francisco the salaries Of cler-
gymen are being reduced. One Pres
| byterian church which formerly gave
$4,000 year now gives but half that
sum another, which once gave the
largest salary in the city, now gives
but $4,000.
Two years. experimenting has de-
monstrated that the poppy culture In
California is 3 success. The opium
contains an unusual percentage of
mOTphia, and Is considered far superior
to the ordinary opium Of commerce.
There is a difference Of nearly fifty
per cent. between the male and female
population Of New Zealand, which
the Colonial authorities endeaveF TO
counteI-balanee by offering free pas
sages in Great Britain to all single
young women Of good character.
In st. Petersburg, which contains
about 675, 600 Inhabitants, twelve per.
sons were murdered last year, fifty
five committed suicide, I45 died Of in
temperance, ,,ninety-eight were drown
ed, 40 perished by other accidents, be-
sides fifty-thTee coFpes were found, al
though the cause Of death was not as
certained.
a writer on monkeys tells as a story
ofOne ofthese female undeveloped sps-
cies of humanity, who, having lost
her infant, adopted kitten. One day
the kitten scratched this affectionate
babOOn, who, much astOnished at be-
ing scratched, Immediately examined
the kittens feet, and without more
ado bit or the claws.
Prof. Agassiz owes the house owners
Of New Orleans an apology. His al
ledged prediction that a tidal wave
would overflow the coast of the Gulf
of Mexico, is reported TO have brought
: about q sudden reduction Of rents in