The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-06-25
TIMELY TOPICS.

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AMONG the smuggling devices de-
tected at New York is the illfcit impor-
t5ation OF ribbons HID in -Watch-cases-
800 worth in eteeh cose. Other articles
nave been Hmuggied in through Con
sular official mail,bags.
HE drinking water furnished the in
habftnts of Washington must be sort
ofFsanRibal soup, thirty-one bodies of
Hnfantile humanity having been found
IN cleaning out the sediment of the res
erVOir last week.
THE government is going to send two
entomolegists to the west to study the
grasshopper and his habits, with view
to extermina!ing him. The people of
mlnnesOta seem to be mastering the
pest with clubs and other weapons,
withertt the aid of high science.
A HUNDRED and twenty Englishmen
propose tc visit this country to shoot
buffalOes. How would they ike to
have fifty Sioux and score or two of
Utes eneamp in their parks, and kill
deer and rabbits and such things? Buf-
faloes are growing scarce, and the wan
ton shooting of them should be prohib-
tied by law. The shooting of elephants
merely for the fun of the thingis almost
as iRhuman as the murder of men.
RECENT statistics, compiled by the
best authorities IN Germany, shows
that Paraguay has actually decreased
in population nearly half a million. So
much for the internal war waged by
Brazil and the Argentines on Lopez.
The Paraguayans were declared by all
authorities to be the most enterprising
and moral people in South America.
They are now nearly obliterated from
Che earth.
HE department of agriculture IN its
cotton report for June states The
Threatened reduction in area has not
taken place nor has the reduced area of
last year been much enlarged. Tue
comparison with last year is as follows
North Carolina, 1O2 South Carolina,
iO6i Georgia, 96; Florida, 80; Ala
bama, l04; Mississippi, 1O2; Louisi-
ana, 191; Texas, 108; Arkansas, 1O1
Tennessee, 90. The report of the con
ditiOn is the most favorable in the past
five seasons with the exception of that
of 1872.
Now comes a Frenchman who defies
drought and proposes to make farmers
free and independent of the clouds.
His name is Paraf, and the Monsieur
and his plan depends on the fact that
chloride Of calcium absorbs moisture
from the air. by mixing it with the
most unpromising soils, he has ascer-
tanned that Judicious proportion of
the familiar compound will more eff
fectually irrigate waste lands than any
present system OF canals or wells. His
preparation retains moisture for three
days, where water application as now
prac.ioed would evaporate in one.
The completion of the new Atlantic
cable has led to the recapitulatien of
tslegraphic and cable statistics of some
interest, as pres enting the rapid pro-
gress made in the application of the
cable as means of communication be-
tween commercial countries. By these
statements it appears that, aside from
the cables between Europe and the
United States, which are now five in
number, of an aggregate length of
9,O26 miles, there have been twenty
nine laid between other countries since
1867 of total length of about 26,661
miles. This gives a grand total of
nearly $4,000 miles.
GEORGIA Is very fast returning to
that prosperous condition of ante-b
lum times which gave her the enviabIe
title of the Empire State of the south.
LabOrers, both white and black, are
working with will, and a very large
portion of the males of the latter race
make as reliable and trusty laborers
on the farms as they did when slaves
Her crop prospects are magnificent
There has been but little corn an6
bacon sold to her farmers this year, and
the slack demand from the south gen
CiullJ Is one cause Oh the IdlluIG OF JHt
bulls of the west TO make successful
corner in bacon and corn Union ana
AH7ericdH.
AN immense falling off in expectation
of commodities grown, produced ant
manufactured IN the United States i
exhibited by government statistics
During the first ten months of the cur
rent fiscal year there was falling of il
value of exports of bresdstuffs alon
amounting to S31, 600, 600, as compare,
with the exports of those cOmmoditie
during the corresponding period in 1874
when they amounted to S125, ,0OO, 900
Exports of wheat and Indian corn de
creased SO, 600, 900. The total export
of cotton this year amounted to S167,
C00,OO0 worth, or S25, 600, 600 less thar
last year in other words, the exports o
cotton decreased more than I3I, 900, OOO
pounds this year.
Coz LoNG, the ex confederate Office
attached to Col Gordon's Central Afri
can expedition, who not long since dis
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