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

& "A COW IN INDIANA recently eat up
$500 in greenbacks.
A girl in Utah recently fell dead
from lacing too tightly.
Ice two feetthick is being gathered
in Indiana ana Illinois.
The value Of school property In
Ohioi is nearly $4,000, 900
The value of school property In
Ohio is nearly $15,0O0,0O0.
1871 was known in Boston as the
year of pleasant Sundays.
A band of female commentators ha3
been broken up in Illinois.
In Chicago the new Mayor is maxi
ing war upon the gamblers.
The Swiss ribbon makers are said
to know 1900 different cOlors.
Silver coin is q legal tender in
England for only forty shillings.
There are 1913 persons over zen
years Of age in New Hampshire WHO
cannot read.
The construction of the railway
over the Splungen pass of the Alps
is to begin this year.
The Italian coral fishery furnishes
employment to 3, ITO men, and IS very
successful and profitable.
A bill has been introduced in the
Ohio Legislature to encourage the
cultivation of forests.
Why is the car-bell strap like con-
science? Because it is an inward
check on the outward man.
Ia France, oysters have become SO
dear that large numbers of snails are
now eaten instead of them.
James Fisk, Jr., at the time of his
death, was in his thirtv-eighth year.
He was born April lst, 1884.
NJ. Gambetta asserts that he knows
of no greater misfortune for France
than the execution of RosselI.
There were three hundred and FIVE
murders in New York last year, and
only one man hanged for them.
The Trenton Board of Trade is
moving for the purpose of improv-
ing the navigation of the Delaware.
There is never a man so bad, says
a celebrated writer, but what some
woman loves him and has faith in
him.
Gloves were once the principal ar
tic'e given by the French people TO
their friends at the beginning OF the
year.
The New York Mail says: AS men
part their hair in the middle, ladies
have taken TO wearing theirs parted
on the side.
"This is the Princess's birthday
were the first intelligent words spo-
ken by the Prince of Wales after his
long dehrium.
Capt. William Gibson, soldier
during Wellingtou's Campaigns. ano
veteran of Waterloo. died in Illinois
the other day, in his 94th year.
Joe Jefferson's orange island prom
ises a yield of nearly two hundred
barrels of oranges this season. The
crop is being Skipped to st. Louis
1t is stated the commissioners o.
the State have leased the Knoxville
and Charleston road t. II J.. Wilson
for one hundred dollars per month
The Fredicksburg (Va) Star re.
cords the death of Mrs. Cloe Fiat
ford, aged lis, and of Abby West
colorcd, who died at Dumfries, aged
80.
St. Louis last year made great pro
gress in commerce, manutactu, es
and business, und large number OF
new buildings were added to the
town.
The Indians of the Grand Traverse
region in Michigan have $4,000
worth of property and las houses,
and raised large quantities of pro-
duce this year.
The whole number of barrels OF
mackerel caught by the fishermen OF
Nowburyport this year is 70S2,
which is nearly one thousand bar
rels less than last year.
The world uses 250,OOO,0O0 pounds
of tea each year, and 7lS000,O
pounds of coffee. China furnishes
nearly all the tea, aud Brazil over
one-half of the coffee.
Three-fourths of all the water o.
London has been pronounced poison
Gus by Professor FARMLAND, of the
ROYAL Institution. Londoners drink
as much as ever, though.
Mr.. Carl Rosa publishes the fol
lowing note: / see it is said thai
tho greatest uaY ever received by
q singer was $4,000 paid to Nilsson
for twenty nights of opera I'm New
York. l have paid Watchtel $3O,O0l
for the same period III New Yorf
engagement.
Hon. w. w. Vaughn, member o
Congress from the Memphis district
has introduced a bill in the HOUSE
authorizing the construction of {
bridge across the Mississippi 81
Memphis. The task will be accom-
plished and within the current de-
cade.
THE building statistics Of St. LOuii
for last year show that over $1,000,
coo have been expended in the con,
struction of new editices, ranging
from palatial business houses and
elegant dwellings to homes OF more
moderate pretentions.
Alexis, like Daniel Webster, does m
care much for money, but he thought
81, 500 n little steep for sixteen hours
lodging and one msal at the Spencer
House, Niagara Falls. The land.
lord, probably desiring to perpetuate
the harmonious relations between
the two countries, consented to take
81, eco, which was paid. The people
of that vicinity are greatly incensed
att hedisgraceful occurrence.
How SOIL WAS MADE.-Prof. Agas-
siz says that all the materials on