The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-08-09
GENERAL ITEMS.

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BE1aHAM YoUNa has forty daugh-
ters and twenty-eight sons.
THE KING oi Denmark has offered
prize of 81, 1000 r'the best history
of the United States of America
sSnce the civil war.
IDAHO TAKES the lead of every 9TH
er American locality in the multi
tude Of its beavers, and will come in
to the Union as the Beaver State.
A TwELvE-PoUND piece of solid sill
yer ore was recently taken from a
mine in the Linter District, Utah.
which assayed $2S. 900 to the ton.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's silver
wedding occurs October 10. It win
be celebrated by four days meet
ing by the congregation of Plymouth
Church.
Ir MUST be cheerful to be an editor
OF q Polish newspaper. We are told
that Mr.. MARKS, editor of the Polish
at h0ttc, ha more than one hundred
bel aud pr eGs cases to meet.
THERE Is more than $1,000, 900 in
vested IA the ma nufacture of lanps
IN this cou ntry. OF chimneys about
1,OOC 600 dozen are annually sold
at an average of fifty cents per dozen.
STILsoN HUTcHINs, manager and
one-third proprietor of the st. Louis
Daily Times. yesterday sold his in
terest in that paper to Henry Ew~
ing, one OF the members of the firm,
for $4,000.
HE FOURTH was more generally
observed by Americans IN Europe
this year than ever before. There
were special celebrations in London.
Edinburgh, Manchester, LIVERPOOL
Paris, Stuttgart and other cities.
A BERLIN dispatch states that Bis
marck has received assurances from
three of the great Catholic powers
consenting to n conclave of Cardi-
oals, in order to have perfect un-
derstanding between the Cardinals
ana the governm ents interested in
the Pope.
A cRUsTY old gentleman, not lik-
ing the way his Iandlady's daughter
had OF making free with his hair-oiI,
hlled his bottle with liquid glue the
day before ball to which tho girl
had been invited, and she stayed at
horno.
A CORRESPONDENT writes to Crofults
WeSterse World, from Arizona: "Our
Territory ia at present in pretty hot
water. have been q resident in
New Mexico and Arizona since 1856,
and never have seen the Indians in
such q hostile attitude. Many mur-
ders have been committed Ia the last
few days.
1t is estimated that the Columbus,
Ga, manufactures will consume
this season, 5000 bales of cotton,
worth twenty cents per pound, or
Sl00 per pale, 100000 in raw,
and more than s$1 100000 In the
manufactured state.
FOURTEEN years ago an Indianian
left his lady-love for the land of gold.
During all these years the faithful
par haze each written and received
two Letters every week, till 8 week or
twJ ago, when the swain returned to
saaim his bride. They have a pile of
two thousand nine hundred and ten
love letters to begin housekeeping
with.
A CORRESPONDENT of the London
Times has written to that journal
pointing out that the celebrated
maxim of President Lincoln, mot to
swop horses while fording the
stream" has been expressed centu-
ries ago, attributed to Cyrus the eld-
or, King of Persia, in directing his
troops to take up their several sta
tions, when he said, "When the con-
test is about 10 begin there is no
longer time for any chariot to unyoke
the horses for a change"
The United States government is
to undertake the breeding of salmon
upon the Pacific coast, with q view
10 stocking Eastern rivers and other
waters suitable for salmon. The
work viii be carried on upon large
scale, and viii be under the charge
of air. Livingstone, of Charleston,
who viii go to Oregon next month
and commence operations IN the Co
lumbia River.
A NEW departure has been made
in the whale-oil trade. We notice
10y San Franci-co paper that the
c rgo Of the bark Louisa, lately ar
rived there from New Zealand, has
been transhipped via Panama to
New York. This will accomplish a
great saving in time, as formerly all
eargoes were sent round Cape Horn.
The cargo of the Louisa consists OF
500 barrels of oil and 1000 pounds
of whalebone.