The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-06-27
Editorial Items

The Athens Post thinks the wheat
prospect in East Tennessee is generally
bad
1t is estimIted that the beet root crop
Of sugar in Europe will amount to l.
100000 tons-an excess of 10000 over
last years crop.
As general thing, the cotton crop of
Texas is in a promising and hourishing
condition. Blooms are plentiful on many
of the plantations.
The Commissioner of pensions decides
that the application of widow for the
Increase of pension, provided by the act
of 1873, will be allowed, whether made
before or after her remarriage.
It is said that the steamers Natchez,
Robt Lee and Belle Lee have cleared
this season from 5000 to 100000
Water Valley, Miss, before the war,
was scarcely known. Now it contains
over 1000 inhabitants and is one of the
li7est ana most fCurishiug towns in that
State.
The accommodation trains running be
tween Columbia and Nashville have been
discontinued On account. of the cholera.
The disease had not appeared in Colum-
bia up to the 18th inst. 1t is very bad
in Nashville.
j. Alexander, Esq, near Frankfort
KY, sCld a COW to be carried to England
last week, for the enormous sum Of ten
thous NJ dollars Kentucky has import.
ed pure blooded stock until Europe is
now out done, and importations begin u
60 the other way.
In Athens, Ga, two or three school
girls are sick from swallowing heartscase
flowers. Their romance was, that when
ever they swallowed one Of these flowers
whole, and then expressed a wish, they
would have it gratifed Prussic acid in
the flowers made them quite sick. The
romance was voted a humbug.
Capt H. L. Fowlkes, of Dyer county
informs the Dyersburg Progress that he
has sold this year over 5000 worth o.
corn and beef cattle that be raised on hi,
farm. Last year he raised over lot
bushels Of corr, which he is now selling
as fast as he can measure it out at s., 81
per barrel. lie says if he had plante,
cotton he would not have realized more
than So, 500.
Ohio is coming to the rescue of wo
man. The announcement that Susan 3
Anthony has been convicted Of ilIega
voting is supplemented by the news tina
the OHIO Constitutional Convention ha
declared by a vote of SO to to make wo
man eligible to appointige offices.
If it takes 500 troops fl days to cap
ture l3 Modocs, how long will it take tn
United States army to capture the entir
lot of hostile redskins on the fontier 0
Texas?
a simple but sure preventive agains
cholera. Use sulphur in your socks.
half teaspoonluIl in each sock ever
morning is enough This will charg
your system with sulphurate hydrogen
which DR.. Herring-3ngh authority wit
the hOmePaths-says is bar TO cholcr;
as you can sea in his medical work put
lished twenty years ago. Many used it q
above in St Louis in 1866 and 1867, an
| did not hear of a case among such. S
says a correspondent of the Courie,
Journal
There is a tree, standing III front ofth
Dyersburg Presbyterian church, that ha
been struck by lightning nineteen times
And it is a good tree yet Meals S:aj
Gazette is responsible for this item, an
We are not disposed to swallow it" ur
less permitted to consider the elcctri
fluid Of that locality of most inferior grad
New York has about 100000 mol
population than Philadelphia, but til
latter has 10000 more houses than tn
former. There arc in PHILADELPHIA 100
900 houses
On Monday night young marie
woman liviug on Lyle street Louisville
went to the picnic in company with
single young man. When che returne
to her domicile Tuesday morning, 81
found it deserted and empty, and on il
quiry she learned that her hus band, WI
had remained at home alone all nigI
had early in the morning packed up a
! the household goods and furniture an
hauled them to a Market street SECOND
hand store where he old them, put Il
money in his pocket, and went on h
, way, leaving the wife to shift for hersel
Sensible to the last
The Southern Baptist Convention, ju
held at Mobile, unanimously approve
OF the removal Of the Southern Bapti
Theological Seminary, now located
Greenville, s C., to Louisville, Ky. I!
condition of its going 70 the latter 7la,
is that Kentucky shall raise for it $500
: 600, OF which amount Louisville sha
: raise oue'third, and tho other Southel
States 100000 more, making total
+ half a million. The Convention coupl,
its recommendation with the cond:ac
? that, in case the sum of 100000 is n
: raised in Kentucky, the Board shaii ha'
S the right to use the amount contrIbut,
l outside of Kentucky for some other loo
ton The changed condition Of afFri
In South Carolina neces states the reno
al of the Seminary. II Kentucky gets
she will draw prize. No theologic
seminary in the world has q curriculu
more carefully adjusted to all the nee
Of theological students, nor corps
= ADLER and more earnest instructors
The FARMERS MoyING From the f.
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