The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-03-19
TIMELY TOPICS.

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states are remarkably small. Hondu-
ras musters only 800 men; San Saliva
dor and Costa Rica l 900 each, and
Guatemala 1900 Across the isthmus,
Columbia supports ! APO Venezuela,
5000; Ecuador, 1900; Peru, 4,67O !;
Uruguay, $500; Bolivia, 1000; Chill,
1872, and the Argentine Republic
6,482. Thus these twelve republics
manage to get along and keep up their
everlasting scrimmages on a total of
3O,884 soldiers, while the United States
army last year numbered only 3O,670.
The empire of Brazil is the only South
American state that supports an army
apprOzimating ours. its number being
25, ,282, while our neighbcr Mexicomus-
ters IS, 200. -.l-. s-.- t.
GREATNESS does not bring content.
Bismarck, far from being the happiest,
is really one of the most wretched1y
unhappy of men. The correspondent
Of an English paper describes him as
being perpetuaIly annoyed by threaten
ing letters, and warnings of the police,
to guard his life with especial care Tt
is scarcely year since he escaped by
the strangest of fortunate accidents,
coming to his death by an assassin's
bullet. His devoted family are nearly
distracted by the perpetual danger he
runs, whether he stiIs abroad or re-
mains at home, and their gloomy fore
bodngs can but affect his own spirits.
THERE is IN Virginia a British asso-
citation which is designed to promote
the settlement of that state by English
men. It has presented a memorial to
the Legislature suggesting that Gov.
Kemper be sent to the old country to
make statement of the case before
the yeomanry. The governor is a suave,
affable man, and a good speaker.
Clothed with the authority and dignity
of his office, he would doubtless make
strong impression upon the laboring
classes in England The idea is favor
ably entertained by the newspapers cf
Virginia. <..
THE Freedmens bank is in a worse
condition than heretofore supposed,
and, therefore, the commissioners,
Cresswen, Leopold and Purvis, have
asked to be relieved for any further re
sponsibility for or on account of said
trust, provided their bond may be re
leased from liability after their retire
ment, and new commissioners substi-
tuted in their places. They assign as
the cause of their action, the failure to
obtain from congress such legislation
as they deemed essential to the proper
and speedy execution of the trust re
posed in them. ....H.-.s
THE New York Evening Post main
tains that the last cotton crop was nos
large one, after all, and that if the
southern planters had taken it's advice
and not marketed their staple so soon
they would have got two cents pound
moro, amounting to some millions of
dollars. The post thinks that the crop
will not go over 3,75O,O0O bales, ana
claims that a larger portion of it than
usual was marketed early. On the
other hand, the Financial Chronicle
shows that the proportion Of the crop
marketed by March l for the past five
years has averaged II per cent, and
never gone over 81 per cent.
A LETrER. from london says The
banquet to the prince imperial at Wool
wich has given rise to good deal of
criticism, both here and in France.
The commander OF the garrison, who
presided, made au exceedingly fulsome
speech in praise of the prince, and even
went so far as to express the hope that
the swords of EugHsh officers might
one day be at his service. 1t is under
stood that the prince il to be attached
to the stsif of the duke Of Cambridge,
The ex Empress Eugene has, it is said,
just contracted another private loan.
THE project of opening up in Ala
bamu and Mississippi fields for the i'm
migration of English laborers appears
to be assuming a shape that promises
a speedy cousummatiou. The Mobile
and Ohio railway company has now a
representative in England engaged in
the work of procuring settlers for large
tracts of the company's lands in Ala.
bama, and is offering such inducements
as has ready insured a measure ol
success tor the enterprise.
A UTAH Judge has decided to allow
Mrs. Ann Eliza Young $500 per month
alimony during the pendeucy of hel
suit for divorce against Brother Brig
ham, with back rations at the same rate
from the commencement of the suit
twenty months ago. With $4,000 il
cash and an income OF $500 a month
Ann Eliza doesn't care a continenta
whether that suit ends now or s5retchet
out till the crack of doom.
They have got good thing in Michi
gan, if the experiments result satiffac
torily. Illuminating gas of sixteen
candle power is obtained from th
burning of wood, or rather the ga
made in the manufacture of charcoal j
preserved and used. One cord of WOO,
will make 35. 600 cubic feet of good gas