The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-01
Editorial Items.

The corn ana cotton crops IN Lonoke
county, Ark, are said to be first rate.
The negroes have a Furnishing Odd
Fellows lodge at Brownsville.
A new vestry room has been added to
the Episcopal church at brownsville.
A narrow gauge railroad is to be built
from Jacksonville to Evansville.
MEMPHIS is to have soda fountain e.
rected in her Court Square to cost 81 $780,
Professor Wise's contemplated balloon
voyage across the Atlantic is fixed for the
Goth of August. There will be seats for
eight or ten passengers.
The Somerville Falcon of last week
says there is considerable sickness in
portions of Fayette county.
Our Williamson county friends are in
luck. At the depth $50 feet, parties Dor
ing for water near Franklin, struck a
stream Of white sulphur water said to be
excellent.
There were IS deaths in Memphis last
week-I2 whites and % blacks No
cholera. This exhibit proves Memphis
to be the heaIthiest city of its size in the
| Union.
Last Sunday night young man named
StOrne, barkeeper on the steamer Phil
Allen, fell from third-story window in
Memphis and was instantly killed
The corn crop of Giles county will be
cut short three-fourths if it doesn't rain
this week Fields that would have pro,
duced eight barrels are now offered fol
two. The farmers are all cumplaing
So says the Pulaski Citizen.
1t has been supposed-with what rea'
son does not appear-that the water o
of the Atlantic was higher than the waite
of the Pacific at the LIST linus of Darien
The Darien canal survey has aseertaineC
that the water level Of the two oceans il
the same.
The number of children in Tennessee
of "school age" is about 100000. TIL
State school fund is S2,5l2,5OO. Tn
amount available is $65O,0OO, and tn
Peabody trustees contributed last year il
aid of ffty~ive schools, S25 900. Tn
total sum distributed by the Peabod
trustees, in the South, was Sl35, 700.
Texas epizootio is a new name fc
horse stealing IN the Lone Star STATE
A dose of hemp tea cures 1t effectually
| and the horse is recovered, but the p
+ tent isn't
? a Cairo man in good health went
bed, called 10 five doctors, and they sal
It was fever, cholera, congestion, drops
4 and consumption. He had his laugh.
} The late Convention of the Episeop
s diocese of Louisiana reported 1912 con
= munieants, being a net gain for the ye
b of AS. The contributions were in Il
+ ratio Of SGT 81 to a COMMUNICATE.
4 Old Tennessee bank notes have abO,
} ceased to flow into the State trsasur
u and there is but q small amount of the
= now out standing. The funding Of Il
= State debt viii commence as soon as Go
z Brown recovors from his present Hines
Three millions of the bonds have alread
Is been prepared for issue
I'd We see that the Ripley, Miss, Pos
e Office has got to be money order ofic
Money sent in this way goes safer than |
registered letter; in fact we believe, |
- this method, there is no risk to run.
Is California is rs, lS5 square miles larg
% than the whole Of Great Britain, the Ia
, ter being PIC, $40 square miles. 1t wou
Il make twenty-fOuF States the size Of &
"a Stats Of Massachusetts, leaving 2,7
s. square miles; and the area Of Californ
NJ would make las States as large as 4
40 State of Rhode Island.
n Fourteen years for stealing hol
and Eve yearse for killing q man is {
rule in Texas" This looks a little Gu
il Gus at the first blush, but you must
member that, while horse costs YOU
d hundred dollars in Texas, you can buy
lie man member Of the Legislature, f
instance-lJr one third Of that snou