The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-07-26
GENERAL ITEMS.

France used war-balloons IN 1874.
Springfield, Illinois, is to have 8
cotton factory.
A slab Of petrifed bacon is exhib-
tied in Sacramento.
Earl Russell shows signs of ap-
preaching deerepitude.
Ground has been broken in st.
Louis for the Iindel Hotel.
English papers speak mournfully
of the insanity of Sir Edward Land
seer.
Davy Crocketts marriage bond
has been deposited in the State Lii
brary of Tennessee.
One-half the slate pencils used in
the world are made in Vermont.
There will be an immense crop IF
the Early Rose potato in the Cum
berland Valley.
Twenty American tourists are
working their passage up the Rhine
in small boats.
The eldest daughter of Jenny
Lind IsTeported to have inherited
her mothers voice.
The grotto of Adelsburg, about ff-
ty miles from Trieste, is one of the
wonders Of Europe.
| Duval county, Fla. has produced
an Irish potato twenty-s six inches
long
A gentleman OF Davenport has u
248 year old clock, in good running
order.
Victor Hugo's new work, "The
Terrible Year." contains a violent
Remuneration Of President Grant.
1t is noticeable fact that many
farmers who, years ago, left Penn
| sylvania for the West, are return
ing.
The forty-frst annual exhibition
of the American Institute will be
opened in New York on the 4th Of
September.
The daily lumber product of the
Muskegon, Michigan, mills is about
100000 feet, besides largo amount
of lath.
The total taxable wealth of Mis-
souri,, according TO the assessment
of 1872, is S56S, 1875, 5O2-an increase
of over S68, 899,617 over 1871.
The first load of dressed granite,
for the new Treasury building at
Washington, was shipped from Rich
mOnb. Va, last week.
Tho Mississippi river and its trib-
utarlos are navigated by I0I7 steam
ers, having a capacity of 272,789
tons, andsvalued atsl0,O0O,0OO.
The Postmaster-Genera has or
dered mail service to be placed OF
the Baltimore and Potomac Rail
road, between Washington and Bal.
timore.
: A fine quarry of photographic
stone has been discovered in Ken
lucky, on tho line of the Lexington
, and Big Sandy Railroad. There il
but one similar quarry in the world
Cyrus Mccormick, of Chicago, i
having the largest telescope in exis
; tence constructed for Washington
and Lee University.
The total annual circulation o
> newspapers printed in the State O
New York is 4O2,77O,868, being
moro than twice the number printed
IN any other State.
f An Ohio farmer has imported 4:
"steam wagon" from England. /
: hauls heavy loads through fields anC
woods and over ordinary drains
. with great facility, and is very easily
, managed.
| After a two-years' contest, Amo
= P. Curry has been indicted into tn,
/ Office of Sheriff of Shelby county
4 | Tennessee, in compliance with &c
] cisiOn of the Supreme Court.
4 An automatic scale, to be used b,
0 millers and others in handling grail
y or flour, has just been invented. Th
f instrument can be set, when filling
0 car, so rs to indicate the weight O
s the grain delivered. A miller CA
also tell by the use of it how nue.
!. grinding has been done withou
! weighing the flour.
a Upwards of a hundred convicts i
d the Connecticut State Prison hav
n PetitiOned the Legislature for tn
8 passage of more stringent iquo
70 law. They represent that NOR
/ than threefourths of the inmates {
Is the prison owe their incarceratio
! directly to the influence of stron
3. drink. A bill has therefore been il
e troduced which does away wit
n fines, and provides confinement as
{: punishment for drunkenness in a
4 cases.