The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-08-31
MISCELLANEOUS.

A contract for the completion OF
the Cairo and Fulton Railroad. from
the Missouri line through Arkansas,
to Texas, is said to have been let,
the works to be completed by the Ist
| of July, 1872.
A team of horses was killed bv
hallstones in a recent storm near
Council Bluffs, Iowa. Chunks of
ice ten inches long, and of all shapes
and thickness" +" fell, destroying crops
and smashing things generally.
The Courier des Etas U1fs has
coined a new word, ca,homictd0Ra-
Hte-Which means the 'Emania for
committing murder on passenger
cars" 1t is a convenient word. al
though excessively polysyllabie and
hard to pronounce.
The Lockport CTexas) 7FanscySDt
gives these facts to show the profit
OF stock-raising There is now in
this city, resident here, a gentleman
who commenced in 1854 with $500.
he now values his stock and other
property at S75, 200, and expects rea-
sonably too, to make at least $75.O0O
or $4,000 with intwo years out ofhis
stock, and not decrease their present
value.
In Geneva, Switzerland, there is
an Orchestra Of an hundred perform
ers, at least a dozen of them are
worth from 100000 to $500. 600 each.
They attend all the rehearsaIs and
performances merely for the love of
music, The officers and directors of
the conservatoire, who devote much
time to the busisness, embrace some
of the wealthiest men of the city.
Some idea of the amount of money
expended for tobacco may be found
from the fact that in New York citv
during 1870 nearly 100000 pounds
OF tobacco were sold, and more than
o,OO0,OOOpoundsb besides were shipped
TO foreign ports-making total of
nearly 100000 pounds as the trans
actions of one year in New York
alone. In Great Britain It is estima-
ted that IL, 100000 pounds of tobaccs
were consumed in 1869, the latest
year for which there are official re-
turns.
The latest reform introduced bv
the Sultan OfTurkey is the enroll
ment of his Christian subjects as we'll
as the MOhammedans for military
services. Hitherto his armies have
been entirely composed of Moham-
medans, the Christians being exempt
ed by the annual payment of about
y, ,0UQOOO. The burden of military
duty has fallen severely upon the
MOhammedans, who only number
about 100000 ofthe 30,000,00O sub
Jects of the Sultan. The new policy
is hazardous one, and may be pro-
ductlve of important changes in the
history of the empire.
Among the large cattie-raiscrs Of
Texas are John HittsOn, who has
50,OOO head of cattle; William HIT
son, who has 5000; Geo. Beavers.
5000; Charles Rivers, 10000: James
Brown, 1900; e.. j. Johnson. 5000:
Robert Sloan, 1900; CogginGs &
Parks, 10000; Martin Childers. To-
900, ana John Childhold, 10000. The
entire number of cattle owned in
Texas, is nearly 100000, while New
\ ork State with 100000, of popu-
Iatlon, eight times greater than that
OF Texas, has less than 100000 head
of cattle.
Twenty-four years ago Eli StiIson
established himself in the wilderness
of Wisconsin, near what is now the
fOurishing town of Oshkosh. His
little farm now has l,1OO acres of
as tine land as one over saw, and the
land cannot be worth less than $780,
600. He has neat little white house,
no larger or more snowy than one
would ordinarily see upon a forty
acre farm in New England, but his
barn is 660 feet in length, an addition
al section having been put up within
the past year. His flock of sheep
numbers 1900. This man is said to
be the largest and best farmer in
Wisconsin.