The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-02-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

over 1870 Of 1900.
Statistics show that 10000 emil
| grants left Germany last year,
nearly all for the United States.
n. Matson & Co., jewelers., Chi
cago, claim to carry stock worth
about half million dollars.
The United States has $4,000
miles of telegraph lines; about
equal to the number of miles in
England, France and Russia COM
bined-
1t has been estimated that the
freight transported by the railways
of the country last year amounted
in value to over twelve billion of
dollars.
Advertising receipts of the New
York Herald are represented at
81, 500 to 5000 q day, according to
the changes in the busy season OF
the year.
The London Lancet thinks that
during the coming Spring, or early
in the Sum mer, cholera will reap
pear In Western Europe.
A dispatch from st. Petersburg
announces the issue of an imperial
decree subjecting all male citizens
of Russia to military service.
The customs treaty recently nego-
tiated at Frankfort by the represen-
tatives of Germany and France has
been ratified by both countries,
A four-pound cannon ball Was
recently found in a lump of coal
taken from a depth of 150 feet be-
low the surface of the earth, at the
Acadia coal mine, Maccan, n. s.
There are signs of breaking up
In the ranks of the Republicans IN
France. The Democracy of GAM
BETA is too mild to suit the extreme
tendencies of the day.
Eight hundred sewing machines,
worth $50 a piece, have been fur-
nished to sewing girls at SIG by the
Relief Society of Chicago, the sew
ing machine company furnishing
them at a very low figure, the So
ciety giving portion outright.
More miles of railroad were CON-
structed in this country last year
than in any previous year, being q
total of 6,9S3. The number of
miles of railroads now in operation
in the United States is 60,362.
The news from Mexico Is COM
ficting, both sides claiming advan-
tages; but there is no doubt that
the revolution is making progress,
and that the cause of Juarez looks
rather more dubious than at our
last writing.
They tell of the Grand Duke that
when his train stopped at Bloom
ington, Illinois, he appeared upon
the back platform, and g strong
minded woman at once began to
''interview" him upon female suf-
frage. The Duke beat hasty re-
treat into the car, and remained
there until the train left the depot.
The Committee on Army Reor-
ganization in the French Assembly
has agreed to recommend the adop-
ton of the rule that soldiers unable
to read and write at the expiration
of their terms of service, shall re-
main in the army until they can.
The new paper money which has
appeared in Paris is printed in
blue ink on fine tissue parchment,
and is issued for small payments of
one two and five francs. 1t is we'll
received by the public, as small
change has been extremely scarce
since the war.
They have a new way ofgetting up
surprise parties in certian parts of
Illinois. A resident receives an an
onymous letter, stating that a sur
prise party will be with hin on a
certain evening. He prepares for
it. Nobody comes, and the surprise
of the party is complete.
An interesting literary relic is an
nOunced to be for sale among the
MS collection of the late Sir Charles
Young, Garter. King at Arms. Il is
Oliver Goldsmith's political View
of the Present War with Amreica
upon Great Britian, France, Prus-
sia, Germany. and Holland"
original autograph % ms1uscript, 40
pages folio. beived to be unpublish-
ed.
Until the time of William the
Conqueror the English people be-
gin their year on the 25th of De-
cember. That great ruler having
been cronwed on the LIST OfJanuary
the people began their year at that
time, to make it agree with what
they then considered the most re-
markable period of their history.
The French Minister of Marin
has ordered that fencing shall be
| taught on board all the ships of the
Republic. Admiral Pothuau re-
Gently ordered experiments to be
made OF Cherbourg and Vincennes
with new steel breech-loaderz. and
the report sent In to the Admiralty
speak highly of. these pieces, which
are effective at p distance of five
| kilometres.
It is said Of Commodore Farra-
gut, who was listening while his
secretary read q letter from the
Navy Department, thanking him
for the grand service he had render
ed his country by the capture of
Mobile, and telling him that his
name would go down TO future
/ generRtions-''StOp, sir; skip all
that" roared the Commodore; "Go
on, and find out what they want as
to do nexti"