The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-03-08
Items OrInterest.

COmmordOro Vanderbilt is re-
ported i'll. s-st
Scotland exports walnuts to this
country.
There are sixteen firms in New
York who deal exclusively in corks.
Memphis lawyers are moving for
a reform in the matter of trial by
jury.
The new mines near Prescott,
Arizona, continues to be the centre
of attraction.
The English expedition in search
of DR.. Livingstone has left London,
the necessary funds having been
subscribed.
The first twenty miles of the Ore
gon-Central Railroad-or, as it is
generally called, the West Side
roads completed.
A La Messilla letter says the In
dams are reported in large num-
beFs all along the route between La
Mesills and Tucson, Arizona.
The Territorial Delegates to Con
gress have united in request to the
President not to give the offices in
the Territories to outsiders.
English Minister Thornton saws
he believes the misunderstanding in
reference to the Treaty of Wash
ington will be satisfactorily ad-
justed.
The southeastern portion of New
Mexico is filling up with Texas cat
tie men, who say they can raise
stock there cheaper and with less
expense than in their own state.
Five trains leaving Omaha from
January l8 to February arrived
at Ogden on Saturday. The pas
sengers complain bitterly of the
treatment and suffering along the
route.
The Western Division Of the Col
orado Central Railroad is being
finished rapidly west, and viii
pierce the very centre of the mining
regions of Colorado within few
years.
The town Of Lawlew, Iowa, which
three years ago was patch of hG-
Eel brush, with only one house in
sight, shipped 100000 pounds
of railroad freight last year.
The Terrible Mining Company at
Georgetown puts the present yield
of smelling ore at $50 tons per day
valued at $11,25O or $4,000, 900
per annum, and employs, at pre-
sent, 1, 500 men. as-
" A rubber company has been form
ed in New Britain, Conn, for the
manufacture of all articles of mer-
chandise made by a combination of
rubber with wood, metal or any
hard substance. IS
The Legislative investigation in
to the affairs of the City Chamber
lain's Office of New York, shows the
expenditures of the city and county
the past eleven years have been
$679,7s9,271.
Representatives of brewers were
before the Committee of Ways and
Means on the 18th, praying a mod
ification of the present tax law, and
the adoption of stamp system for
taxation.
The Missouri, Kansas, and Texas
Railroad have nearly completed one
of Posts patent diagonal truss
bridges over the Arkansas River
near Fort Gibson. The bridge has
n length of $40 feet from shore to
shore, forty feet above low water.
A delegation of native Chiefs from
the Navigator Islands are in Wash
ington, asking that the Govern
ment may take possession OF the is.
lands. They contain 5000 square
miles, and are represented as being
of great value for coaling stations
and other purposes. a7
The Surveyor-G Generals report
for Montana Territory shows thai
3,314,705 acres of public land are
now surveyed. The Register at the
Land Office in Helena reports thai
over 800, 900 acres of public land
has been taken up within the las
two years by actual settlers.
The Leavenworth ConanteTcla
says that Kansas has her share O
Bills. There was Wild Bill, Bufa
10 Bill, Apache Bill, Comanche Bill
Buckskin Bill, Bill Mathews, ant
now she has Temperance Bill be
fore her Legislature.
There are 10000 orange trees il
Los Angeles county, California
which produces an average of LOO
oranges per tree. The promist
of large crop this year is excellent
The gathering season commence
about the first of January.
The gold yield of Montana terri
tory for 1871 exceeded $12, ,000,0O
and prospects now are-on &C
count of the abundance of waite
which will be afforded from the un
usual depth of snow which has fallel
during the winter-that next sea
son the yield will be greater.
Dir A q Gerhard. of PhiIadel