The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-08-14

geographically connected with the \
Offices of the leading lawyers, and by Ii
this means the state of the calendar II
and the progress of trials can be an h
nounced to the lawyers, and the latter q
summoned when wanted. The tele- f
graph in this respect promises to be a
quite as useful as it is on the stock ex- (
change or in business circles. +
HoosAoK TUNNEL.-In the central :
section OF the Hoosac Tunnel the bench :
has all been removed and fifty work !
men discharged. In the east-end sec
ton 2, 500 feet of twelve-inch Scotch
4 & drain pipe has been laid and covered.
The excavation has been made for
thirty-nine feet of brick arch, which is 4,
to be built at point about mile from
the eastern portal, and the laying of
brick viii be commenced this week.
All cross ties needed between the east
end central shaft have been deliver d,
and it is believed that the track will be
laid in the month of August.
. THE French Bishop Of Canton has
Just sent to the Jardin &'Aeciimation, at .
Paris, q plant whose flower changes
color three times day. It is spoken
of as another wonderful evidence OF I
Chinese art IN heading nature out of her !
her customary paths. It is not more
remarkable than floral freak of South
ern Australia, beautiful flower, SINH
lar to our welI-knoWn mornine-olory
r with five streaks of color on its bell /
shaped calyx. In the early morning
the color streaks are pale blue. Toward
noon they turn to a rich purple tint,
s= which changes to n light pink during
the afternoon. AS the day declines, the
color fades, disappearing entirely after
sunset, when the flower closes and dies.
"A CORRESPONDENT of Land and Water
calls attention to the singular preva-
leuce of blindness in salmon in the
York River, which flows into the Gulf
OF st. Lawrence at Gaspe the extreme
eastward point of Canada proper. In
some instances fish have been takenthat
are totally blind, both eyes being Gov
cred with a hard, Opaque scale, while in
others one eye only is thus affected
again, some have their eyes apparently
sloughing away. So complete is the
blindness that a man may drop down in
bark canoe right over the fish, and
chip him ont with a gaff The York
River is a very clean bottomed and clear
~ stream, and it is now a frequent occur
renee to observe q large fish lying in
precisely the same spot at the tail of a
pool, seldom IN tho strong water, day
after day, and never stirring, though
.-z fly be passed over and under his nose.
The number of these fish is apparently
on the increase every year. They are
all from twenty-five to twenty-eight
ponds weight, and have a dull, white
appearance, though in fair condition.
Many seem to be old fish
THAT crows and other species of birds
have little fear of mau when he is IN
armed is a familiar fact, and suggests
that they fear him because of the
weapons he carries. In Scotland, where
shooting was prohibited on Sunday,
crows and rocks were gentle and fed
~, r, around buildings without concern.
u E Sjnghlarly enough, the same thing was
observed of animals by DIR. Tristram
when travelling in the wilderness Of
81 Moab, where the sound of the gun is
quite rare He says: {" We were struck
with the sagacity which all the wild ami
7lnaIs showed IN the matter Of firearms,
little familiar as they can be wi h them
here. Asst was Sunday, We atrolled or
st down among tie ruins without our
fOTling pieces, and were consequently
objects Of Indifference. a fine fox sat
b aud looked at us dozen times among
the stone-heaps, and iuet walked away,
keeping almost within gunshOt all the
afternoon. The Sekkr falcon sat calmly
on his favorite perch, and allowed us to
reconnoiter him on Sunday, while the
eagle, owls, sand grouse and partridge
showed similar contempt for unarmed
Europeans.
Coon BEEF OHnAp1sR THAN Poor
Ia market quotations of our western
towns, we find cattle quoted something
like this Good shipping steers, SO. 81
To Sc 80; butchers stock, So 80 to 81 so
Now why is it that living as western
people do, where So many cattle are
bred, they should eat so much pool
beef q? It is b cause such quotations ar
the above indicate that the poor beef is
oheapest But this is not true. A we'll
fatted animal, weighing 400 to 1,60t
lbs, of small bone and fine quality, vii
-a give us more eatable meat for the same
money at $3.50 per hundred, than
thin, eoarse-boned oil COW or steer
weighing from 900 to 1, 100 lbs, at So. 81
to $3.50 per 100. This was ILLUSTRATED
not long since by an Investigation mad,
t8-- into the management of one OF on
western state prisons 1t was charged
that the prisoners had better beef thar
the people of the city. This the super
Ser intendent did not DENY, for he said hi
purpose had always been to buy thu
best cattle in the market and we I'm
derstand that he actually demonstrated
hv the accounts aud figures CAREFUL,
kept of purchases, the gross and ne
weights, ETC., THAI he saved money Z
the state by the practice --LiVe Stoc
- Journal.
AN eminent German surgeon, DR.
Kuester, has been conducting a serie
of experiments concerning the actio
of bnl let's used in modern warfare iron
which he has derived several importan
results. In the frs5 place he has dis
proved the commonly accepted Iaedico
legal dogma, ''that gunshot wound
are more extensive in the living bod
r- ~ han in the dead, and that this Affords
means of Distinguishing whether tn
injury has been inflicted during life O
after death ;" the character of tn
wounds being similar in living and dea
animals with all the arms tried by hin
a. 4 including the ordinary muzzle-ioadin
- rifle. with eonical ball, the needlegun
Chassepot, Mauser and Henry Martin
rifles. Secondly, the wetl-known Gil
cumssance that in gunshot wounds froE
the more powerful modern rifles th
aperture of entrance is small While tina
OF the exit is Of frightfully large d
mansions Is shown to depend not on Tia
49, melting Of the missile, but on the fac
= that soft lead ball when discharges
from a short distance is broken up o
entering the tissues into a multitude c
small fragments (about one-half OF II
substance being thus subdivided) whic
act like a charge of shot, lacerating To