The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-04-11
Editorial Items


Ell near the city Of Nashville This was
one of the provisions governing the Com
modores gift.
Tue Western Union Telegraph Com
pany contemplates n large and uniform
reduction 10 rates all over the country at
an early day.
A Philadelphia juror was rejected By
Judge Pazson tie other day on the
ground that he had been in penitantiary
for rape, highway robbery, assault and
battery, and larceny.
Robert f. Lee, jr, son Of the late Con.
frderate General, is likely to be the
next Democratic candidate for Governor
Of Virginia
1t Is gratifying to note that nearly all
Of The Journals in our State deuounce
the Funding Bill
The Khedive Of Egypt il said 70 be the
richest man in the world His yearly
income Is not less than fifty millions of
dollars
ZIek Fry and Buck Russell, charged
With the murder Of Thomas Rossberry,
over u months ago, have been arrested
and lodged in jill at Huntingdon
The Hhjg ami Tribune asserts most
positively that jackson will subscribe
5000, 600 to The Birmingham, jackson &
st Louis railroad.
Sirce 1868 the taxable property in
Madison county has increased nearly
81 0,00J, and is now set down at S.. ;
937.757.
Il. b Hurt, D. N. Wisdom, and cthers,
have applied for a charter of inoorpora-
ton, and propose establishing large
cotton factory at Jackson.
The tloral Hall on the Jackson Fair
Grounds was demolished By the heavy
storm Of the let instant The building
Is a total wreck.
in Montana they have society for
protection against cattle and horse
thieves" with central council and
branches for the administration Of Justice.
The branches are located from ten to
twenty feet from the ground
1t is rumored that Young Tom Murphy
and Miss Nellie Grant are going to travel
down life's rugged path together. Give
EN- enough Credit MoLilior to set EN- up
house keeping, and let the old man at
COvingtOn, rock the cradle
St. Louis and Galveston are now con
nected by railway. The first through
train passed over the line On the oath
ulf. There is, however, some unsettled
difficulty in delivering freights at DsnN
son, that is causing trouble TO shippers
both ways. A compromise should be
made, in some way by the roads that will
facilitate the transfer of freights, ard We
hope it may be made soon.
a letter from Sonoma county 10 the
San Francisco Bulletin says that an i'm
portaGt change has taken place in the
geysors recently, and that they now ex>
hibit a greater display of fiery activity
| than has been known since 1859. 4 real
geyser is now shot up from the Witche' :
Caldron to hei bit Of about forty,two
feet above the surface, and it is said that
Il would rise much higher were it not for
overhanging rocks which are 10 its way
The water in the caldron maintains q
temperature of 292 degrees Fahrenheit
I dense volumes Of steam are continually
ascending into the air. and warm work is
going on all through the Geyser canon.
1t is not unjust to blame Gen Grant
for securing for his son Fred So, 500 {
year, instead of 81, 800! Can those WIZ
approve the Presidents lobbying to ge
$4,000 year 70 himself, v hen he hat
agreed to work for s25, 900, properly fine
fault with his little game for doubling tn
! salary of his oldest son also?
The scheme for the annexation Of Yves
Florida to Georgia has taken defnit
shape in the Legislature of the latte
State On March 81 Mr. Jones Of Lee
from tie select com mittoe on the acq1is
i:ion of West Florida, reported bill ap
propriatiug 100000 eight yer cent
coupon bonds to be made payable to tn
authorities Of Florida as compensate
for all that part Of their territory lyin
west Of the Chastahoochee AMI Appalach
icola rivers, and authorizing the appoint
mens of committee of three TO make til
proposal t. the Government of iloridi
The report being favorably received, it
: not unlikely that the already extensiv
territory Of Georgia viii soon be increas
ed by the annexation of the coveted sec
ton Georgia is the least robbed an
, most progressive Of Southern States, tn
D statistics of manufacture recently pub
lished showing that she has kept pac
during the past decade with the averag
o progress Of the North. Florida, on tn
: contrary, is given up to oranges, mo
' quitoss, and official plumber.
- The St Lofts and Cairo narrow gaug
t railroad, the first railroad running I'M
e -. Louis that has been constructed c
y the narrow gauge principle, is open
. Sparta, fortY.eight miles, and cars al
e now running between that point ar
S East Carondelet, opposite South st Loui
n the present northern terminus of Il
- road. Il is reported that the whole liz
/, of the road, 10 miles, will be complete
1t IN running order by the middle of Jul
II as the road-bed is already prepared wit
. the exception of a few unimporta
breaks, and the iron and ties are reac
Il for putting down The width of the gaui
t is three feet The first sixty miles
Il this road from st. Louis runs through OF
n of the finest sections Of Illinois, most
=, level, aIluvial land. producing enormo