The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-02-02
MISCELLANEOUS.


sharks in the harbor.
The relief committee of Chicago
has spent $l00, 600 for stoves.
Richmond Va, shipped SO, 900 bar
rels of -four to Brazil last year.
Mr. c. B. Lockett, of Georgia, is
the largest planter Of the South.
This is regarded in Wisconsin as
the coldest winter ever known there.
Boston wants $500, 600 for the Coli
scum to be built for this years Jubilee.
Little Rock, Ark, has taken
census of her dogs, developing 1900.
Osceola county, Iowa, with 277, ,180
acres of land, contains not a single
tree.
In Michigan, ten thousand men
are employed this winter cutting
timber.
Chicago proposes now TO have side
walks with iron girders, arched with
brick.
The proposed Viaduct Railway in
New York, if ever built, viii cost
$16, 100000.
The famous Tichborne .baronetcy
case is expected to continue until
midsummer.
The capitalists of Turkey have gone
earnestly to work extending their
railway system.
Paul Lyons, the Oldest man in
Mobile county, Alabama, died recent
Iy, aged nearly Ill.
The North Carolina Legislature
contemplates the passage of a bill to
encourage the growth of peanuts.
Trenton, n. J., owns the largest
circular saw in the world. It is
twenty-five feet in circumference.
The hay crop of Maine has hereto
fore averaged 1000, ,000 tons. This
year the supply is only 487, eco tons.
The English are talking Of replen-
ishing their exhausted oyster beds
with oysters from Chesapeake Bay.
A free supply Of water, it is said,
would add a million dollars month
to the present gold yield in Califor-
mia.
The Royal Geographical Society of
London proposes to send out an ex-
peditiOn to Africa to rescue DR.. Liv-
ingstone.
One of our police magistrates is re-
ported to have said that no class put
more feeling into their vocation than
pickpockets.
The United States lease Of Samana
Bay, San Domingo, having expired,
the American flag has been hauled
down in that region.
The high Spanish comb is coming
IN fashion again, and is made of gold,
studded with precious stones of OXidi-
zed silver, OF jet, or tortoise shell.
A Sac county, Iowa, horse tried to
scratch his nose with his own foot,
the other day, caught his hoof in the
halter, gave jerk, and broke his own
neck.
A mammoth cheese was recently
exhibited in Faneul Hall, Boston, OF
which 1000 persons bought slices,
paying for them in the aggregate
1881 40.
The new arrangement by which
mutilated currency is to be redeemed
at the post offices, by being taken in
payment for stamps, is a great eon-
Venienee.
A vessel just arrived at New York,
saw floating in the Gulf Stream,
miles away from any land, a large
railway baggage car, marked North
ern II. r."
Robert Branson, a great-grandson
OF Brant, the famous Indian chieftain,
and his wife, aged respectively nine
ty-one and eighty-seven, are living
in Dstroit, Mich.
There are said to be %, 900 Protest
ants in Turkey, representing twelve
different nationalities, the greater
number being connected with the
American missions.
Az English congregation proposes
to eetaso lish achapel on the summit OF
the Rigi, gear Lucerne Switzerland.
That CONGREGATION evidently belongs
to the High Church party.
An Iowa eagle made one fell swOop
and pounced upon young and ten
der pig Contrary to Rll precedent,
however, the pOrker proved resistant,
aud slew the proud bird Of freedom.
a member OF the staff of the Grand
Duke Alexis, who has listened closely
70 the speeches Of welcome made TO
that Prince, has come to the cOnclu-
sion that America must be nation
of orators"
The Boston Transcript says: "a
prominent and honest Congressman
\ Fejoices exceedingly that 4pder the
s5yil service reform he viii become a
freeman, and have his public LIE
enancipated from ilnpOrtunate ohloe-
seekers
Tbists is described by an American
gentiehssn, who saw him on the 10th
IIltimo, IS looking as hale and
hearty as the Pope, and promising
to outlive two or three more French
revolutions
England is excited on She subject
Of oysters. The price charged for
S,ooa ones is five times as great per
SuSLaI N 1871 as il was in 1861. The
beds hsve been dredged to death and
cannot restole g themselves.
The British mercantile marine con-
ufsts of thirtv-seVen thousand vessels,
representing six million tons. OF
those four million tons are steamers
and. altogether, the English have
more ships than all other nations
combined.
A contemporary thinks that The
graceful ease with which CalifoFnis
stai,e-with its load of passengers
allows itself to be robbed by highway
man in pairs or Singly Is more eredlS
able to the courteous good-natufe o
the travellers on the Pacific coast ca Al
to their personal coursge.H
California fancies that it has dis
covered good building material in
stone of volcanic character, known
there as lava rock, metamorphl'
sandstone, showing clearly the &C
aion of fire.
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