The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-08-02
GENERALITEMS.

Iowa has elghty-1iye wOOlen mills.
Joe Jefferson has wholly recovered
his sight.
Much damage has been done by
overflow of the rivers IN Idaho.
Shreveport, Texas, has been plac-
ed on the list of frst-class post
Offices.
California farmers find it difficult
to get farm hands at $50 per month.
The Signal Service will take obser-
vations from the top of Pixies Peak
during the summer.
A national convention of short
horn cattle breeders will be held in
Indianapolis on the goth of Novem-
Der.
Father Beckx, the General of
the Society of Jesus, will visit this
country next August.
The Prosbyterians of Philadelphia
lately opened one Of the best furnish
cd hospitals in the country.
Gen. Warren has been selected by
the War Department to select the
site for the bridging of the Mississip-
pi at La Crosse.
In and around Biddeford, Maine,
there is a colony of $500 Canadians,
and more are constantly arriving
there.
The value of improvements in
Portland aud East Portland, Oregon,
this year will exceed $3,000,00O.
It is uncontradicted that for wheat
Nebraska is the banner State, and
will be the banner State for wool
and mutton.
The Secretary of the Iowa State
Agricultural Society estimates the
number of dogs in that State at no.
256.
Tom Scott's company has invest
ed $I50,000 in saw mills at Apala-
chiola, Florida, to saw out cross-ties
for the Southern Pacific Road.
DIR. Thomas Poster, the veteran
editor, has leased the Duluth Mn
nessoiian to T. II. Pressnell, and re-
tires upon a fortune made in Duluth
real estate.
A Lawrence, Massachusetts, ma
chine for making wall paper, pro-
duces seventy-nIne miles of paper
daily, being run twenty-three hours
out of tWenty-four.
The permit of the new Lindell
Hotel, at St. Louis, specifics a front
of one hundred and eighty feet on
Washington Avenue, and building
six stories high, to cost $500,000.
The Kentucky Register says Gener-
al Williams is wearing this summer
a pair of linen pants which have
reached their forty-ninth year. They
were made by Billy Peacock, in this
place, in April, 1924.
The Northern Pacific Railroad
Company have recently bought out
the interest of the Columbia River
Steamboat Company, including all
the boats plying on the upper waters
Of the Columbia.
st. Louis is constructing works for
reducing silver and gold ores, and
refining bullion. They will be in
operation by the first of August, and
the company is now purchasing ores
and bullion.
A rich vein Of lead ore has recent
ly been found near Smithland, on the
Cumberland river, at the depth of
13S feet below the surface. The vein
is 13 feet wide, and the assaying
yields about 90 per cent, pure lead.
This is the penalty of disorder.
Within the past few years Paris has
lost four hundred thousand of it's
resident inhabitants. The number
of vacant apartments exceeds forty
thousand. Rents have fallen in a
proportion which ranges from one
eighth to One-fourth. The deprecia-
ton in the value Of land and house
property is estimated at twenty per
cent.
A leading wine firm Of San Fran
cisco give it as their opinion, that it
is almost certain that the vintage of
the present year, though somewhat
reduced by frosts in some localities.
will foot up greater than that of the
year previous. They estimate that
100000 gallons of vino will be
made, besides the large quantity of
grapes manufactured into brandy.
It is stated in letter from Prague,
that the damage done by the floods
in Bohemia, is estimated at nearly
$4,000, 600 of forms, one of the most
fertile districts in the country having
been devastated. The water rose so
rapidly that the people, most of
whom were IN their beds, had no
time to escape, and about seven
hundred persisted. Hundreds of
houses, too, were carried away, and
railway bridges and embankments
1ocfrova1