The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-07-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Wages in Oregon are higher than
for ten years back.
Minnesota has nine new railways in
course of construction.
The treaty for the evacuation of
France by the Germans has been
signed.
The Spanish Cortes has been dis
solved, and elections for new mem
bers ordered.
The law removing all duties on
coffee and tea, went into effect on the
LIST inst.
Large numbers of German emil
grants are settling in Washington
County, Texas.
A Detroit negro sings the Watch
on the Rhine" in the original Ger
man.
Greece positively denies that she
has shipped criminals to the United
States.
A Muscatine, Iowa, deaf man
sneezed bimse in the full possession
of hearing the other day.
A large salt spring has been discov-
cred eight miles SOU Ia of Raymond,
Kansas.
Stoek-raising is becoming an i'm
portant interest in Central and
Northern Nevada.
Over seven hundred buildings
were erected In Denver, Col, last
year, at cost of about $2,300,OOO.
a new fort, with all the modern
mprovements, is soon to take the
place of ruined Sumter.
It is declared that Gilmore's next
venture will not be in the Hub; nay,
it viii be in Chicago.
General ]. w. Whitfield, the origi-
nal 'fBorder Rufian" Delegate in
Congress, is now driving cattle from
Texas.
David Dudley Fields son-in-law
MusgrOve has gone out to Natal as
Governor of that blazing diamond re-
gion.
DIR. Calvin Cutter, author of the we'll
known volume on physiology, died
recently in Warren, Miss, at an adj
vanced age.
Applications for Northern Pacific
Railroad lands, are received at Kala-
ma, Washington Territory, at the
rate of forty or fifty day.
Nothing has been heard of Adj
rondack Murray for six weeks, and it
is feared he is emulating Livingston
in losing himself.
The Atchison and Nebraska Rail
road engineers are locating a line
| from Table Rock via Pawnee City
westward to the Blue River.
The horse Joe Elliott, eight years
old, was driven mile in 2:153 in
Boston on Saturday afternoon, beat
ing Dexter's fast time of 2:l6.
The Colorado desert, by late rail
road survey, has been found to be in
places 200 feet below the level of the
sea. Scientists are in a quandary.
Never since the first settlement OF
| Colorado have the hills and valleys
and plains of that region been SO
covered with q thrifty growth Of
grass as now.
German immigrants are no longer
to be swindled by bogus brokers il
New York. Measures are being TIA
ken to effect an exchange of currency
at current rates.
Colorado says she does not wan
to be considered a hospital, anC
warns incurable conservatives tina
they cannot be improved by going
out there.
Two townships of land on thu
Northern Pacific Railroad have beer
purchased for colony of Scott
farmers, who are now arriving will
a choice selection of thoroughbred
stock.
The blacks and mulatoes of Jack
sonville, Florida, have declared wa
with each other. The mulatoes hav,
organized a society to which thu
highly colored are not admitted
Hence the trouble.
; Chief Clerk Terry, of the Commits
sary Department at Fort Mcpherson
Kansas, while picking his teeth with
a straw few days since, penetrated
his tongue with the sharp edge o
the straw, and bled to death.
A dispatch from Madrid, Spain
says a royal degree has been prom al
gated In the Gacetta dissolving tn
Oortes, ordering elections foE mem
bers on the Oath of August, and con
vokiDg the new Cortes on the l5tl
of September.
A Mr.. Seibert, a resident of New
York, has presented the Emperor
William with several tame stays
His Majesty, on accepting the gilt
took occasion to thank the German
in America for their patriotism
The Babcock Fire ExtinguisheI
Company has commenced suit il
New York for infringement OF it
patent against the National anC
Gardner Fire Extinguisher compa
MES and against the purchasers o
their machines.
The Emperor of Brazil has ISSUED
a decree abOlishing a custom which
2 has prevailed at the Court of Rio
Janelro for generations. On Certain
, religious holidays people who ar,
, introduced at court were allowed
and almost expected TO kiss the i'm
perial hand. This was considered :
special favor, and the people did no
] know whether to regard It's abolition
/ as an abr'dgment OF their privileg,
or a reform in court etiquette
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