The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-04-30

- entrusted with commission of war
fare" for he believes the Catholic
church is approaching a crisis, the
most fiery for three hundred years"
THE state board of immigration of
Missouri is about publishing q map of
the state and hand book for distribu.
tiOn in European countries, to induce
immigration. Ten thousand copies of
the work are to be printed.
a PHYSICIAN in Maine has been in
qu1ring into the statistics of infantiIe
narcotism with soothing syrups, and
states that the sale os these dangerous
nostrums annually disseminates 49,
600, 200 grains of morphia among our
nurseries.
A RESIDENT of MiIledgeville, Ga, who
saw the recent whirlwind strike the
Oconee river, says the water went up,
he thinks, 100 feet in the air, and for a
few moments the bottom of the river
where the tornado passed was laid bare,
and the mud and soil was blown into
the tops of the trees.
Gov. STAMFoRD's $50, 600 horse, Occi-
dent, and his companion, st. James,
have arrived safely in Philadelphia, on
the luxurious equine palace-car pre-
pared expressly for them. The horses
are stabbed at Point Breeze, and are
now undergoing training for the great
eastern races.
ADvICEs from the west and northwest
indicate widespread damage to crops.
Winter wheat and small grain sown
early in the spring have suffered severe
ly. In many cases fields will be resown
in corn, and this cereal promises to be
the main dependence of farmers this
year.
A NUMBER of prominent Louisianians
have resurrected the old railroad scheme
of building line from New Orleans to
Shreveport, and bill Incorporating the
company has been presented in the leg
islature. The road is designed to con-
meet with the Texas Pacific railroad,
with view to divert the trade of Texas
to New Orleans
IT is stated that the old Spanish fort
at st. Augustine, Florida, is to be con-
verted into a military prison, for the
reception of a number of rebeIlious
Indians from the western reservations,
now in custody of the United States
army. The cells formerly occupied by
the Seminole chiefs, Osceola and Tiger
Tail, have been put in order, and others
are undergoing repair for the accommo-
dation of the red men of the forest.
AN investigation into the condition of
the winter wheat by the statistical di-
vision of the department of agricul-
tUre, the crop as a whole much below
the status of that of last year In April.
There is an apparent increase of about
per cent. in round numbers to a mil
lion and half of acres. Though that
portion winter killed and to be re-
planted in other crops may be equal in
the west to the enlargement of the
planted area, this increase is small in
the middle states, considerable in Hi
nOis AMI Missouri and prOpOrtiOnateIy
the largest in the Gulf states and Kan
sas, reaching 80 | er cent. in the south
west.
THE southern railroad lines have not
up to this date joined in the general
war among the northern roads. Ii
having been announced that the New
Orleans and Mobile railroad, known as
the coast line between New Orleans and
eastern cities, had cut its rate very
largely, the Jackson route. in connec
tion with the Louisville, Nashville and
Great Southern railroad have an
nounced a reduction on rates to Louis
vile, Washington, Baltimore and New
York of from one-fifth to three-tentbt
of the regular rates. It is expected
that the competing route will max,
still another reduction, to be followed
by a further reduction by the jackson
route. The fight between the two lines
promises TO be a warm one.
IT may appear surprising that, in re
gard to the cost of transportation
Rome, Ga, is almost as near Birming
ham, England, as Cincinnati, 0. WheI
we add that the article transported wa
pig iron, the surprise increases. Ye
the Birmingham post notes the arriva
of an experimental consignment of Ala
bama and Georgia pig, which sold at So
net per ton, leaving small margin
and says its transportation cost only s
more per ton than to take the same irol
from the furnaces to Cincinnati. TIL
Cornwall iron company of Cedar Bluff
in Cherokee county, Ala, are now pre-
pairing to ship a hundred tons of thei
charcoal iron to the English market
As an earnest of what the early tutur
may witness in the way of southern rt
cuperation, this novel movement Is AZ
TO arrest attention,