The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-02-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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Gin is made out of sage brush in
California.
In Michigan, ten thousand men
are employed this winter cutting
timber.
The Republicans have decided to
hold their National Convention in
Philadelphia.
Wild geese are so plenty in Oregon
that farmers have to hire boys to
frighten them of their wheat fields.
Oregon is endeavOring to entice
immigration by announcing the
discovery OF a magnesia mountain.
The Sultan Of Turkey is urging the
Improvement of the railways and
river navigation in his empire.
A machine to extinguish fires has
been invented by q woman in st.
Louis.
The British Museum has an anvil
which, it is said, belonged to one of
the Pharaohs. .-.
The State of Texas could support
the present population of the entire
Union, it raises such bOgntiful crops.
Mrs. Colt, of Hartford, is about to
build a school for the children Of the
working people in the Colt Arms
Factory, at a cost of $50, 900.
There is a cat in Davies county,
Indiana, which has the ehills and
fever as regularly as any of the rest
Of the family.
The part of the Column Vendome
which commemorated the victories
over the Prussians cannot be found.
The first carriage that ever appear
ed in the Yosemite Valley, appeared
there last summer.
Texas complains that thousands Of
her cattle are dying in consequence
of the severely cold weather.
Work is progressing on the Mem
phis and Raleigh narroW-guage rail-
road. The line will be open for travel
by the 4th of July next.
Beef was distributed to the poor of
st. Augustine, Fla, on New Years
Day, free. 1t was given by one of
the charitable citizens Of thatplace.
The Jaggars coal mine, on Dry
creek, in Fayette county, Ala, is 20
feet thick and several miles long
covering thousands and thousands of
acres.
Grand Jury duty in Arizona is
rather monOtonOus. Out of III in
dictments recently found, all but. three
were for murder.
News direct from the Northern Pa
cific saws that work will be continued
on the grade west of the Red River
during the entire winter.
Thirty applications have been
made by veterans of 1872 residing in
Minnesota for the pension Of $S q
month, under the act passed last
winter.
The Fort Scott Monitor says Sena-
tor Sprague, of Rhode Island, will
buy a stock farm in Kansas, and is
also thinking of building a cotton
factory.
The Kansas Pacific Railroad Com
pany propose to build branch road
TO Fort Lyon, in Southern Colorado,
to head Off the Rio Grande south
from Denver.
The Lake Superior and Mississippi
Railroad has conveyed to Duluth the
past season, for shipment to Eastern
marts, $50, 600 barrels Of -four
One thousand bushels of potatoes
was the reward John Barber, of Paci-
fic City, received for the cultivation
of two acres of ground.
a Weu-KnOWn auLnOf says JnQC
nothing battles curiosity, eludes pur-
suit, and generally mystifies the hu-
man intelligence like the plain, sim
pie and unvarnished truth.
King William, of the Netherlands, |
is charged with having sold most of
the valuable paintings in the Royal
Gallery at the Hague, and with hav-
ing substituted for them inferior
copies.
The Southern Minnesota Railroad
Company is about to introduce the
use of peat as fuel for its locomotives
in sections where timber is scarce.
A coal vein has been recently dis
covered on Squaw Creek, near Boone,
which is equal apparently to the best
found in that part of the State of Iowa.
The RI. Rev. Bishop McGil, of the
Catholic Diocese of Virginia, died on
Sunday morning, Jan. I4th, In Rich
mond, aged 81 years. @
The London Morning Post will
soon celebrate its one hundredth an
niversary, having been established in
1772. Samuel Taylor COleridge was
at one time its editor, and SOuthey
and Lamb contributors. aEs