The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-03-26

passenger business became brisk he
predicted this kind of conflict would
cease, and the rates become firm again,
as had been the case during former
seasons of railroad strife.
IF the post Office department were an
institution gotten up expressly for the
annoyance of the public, it could hardly
be more efficient as a nuisance than it
is. The repeated changes in the rates
of postage on printed matter are enough
30 distract statesmen themselves, let
alone ordinary men, and it is no wonder
that the public, always stupid in mat
ters that most concern it, should fail to
keep informed of all the little postal
revolutions that take place in the course
of year. By the recent change in
postal rates probably half the news
papers mailed by individuals will be
held for postage and sold for wrapping
paper.
SAILING vessels have been decreasing
In number for the last four years. In
1870 the total number of registered
sailing vessels in the world was sc, 6,518.
In 1874 the number had decreased to
6,289. At the same time the average
size of the ships had also decreased
from 270 tons to 258 tons. The de-
crease in both cases has taken place
principally in the fleets of America,
England, France, and Germany, where
steamers are rapidly supplanting sail
ing ships, and this decrease has been
sufficient to moro than counterbaIance
the increase of the number of sailing
ships belonging to Greece, Portugal,
and Norway.
A LETTER from Florence, Arizona, to
the San Diego Union, gives a detailed
interview with Bender, the Kansas
murderer. He confesses that he is
John Bender, but states that he did not
commit the murders, but that John and
Kate, his son and daughter, did. He
declines to state the whereabouts of his
family. he says they went from Kansas
to Texas, and there separated, he COM
ing to New Mexico and subsequently
to Arizona. He left John and Kate
with the old woman. A requisition
from the governor of Kansas is daily
expected, when he will be taken there.
DRs. BEAsI and Wagner, the German
statisticians, estimate the total popula-
tion of the globe at 1,391, O32, 600 souls.
Asia contains over G7 per cent; Europe
less than % Africa less than Is, and
America barely per cent. The nation
of China alone embraces 425, 800, 600,
or nearly one-third of the whole world
Hindoostan is credited with 24O, ,OOO,-
600, so that these two countries contain
nearly half of the human race.
DIR. DEKovEN, a High Churchman,
has been rejected, and DIR. Jaggers, a
Low Churchman, whose Endorsement
of Bishop Cheney's position before he
seeded created considerable excitement,
has received votes enough to make his
confirmation as bishop of Southern
Ohio certain beyond any doubt. The
result in these two cases settles the
status of the laity as between High
Church and Low Church.
New York city is on the point of try
ing new sy ystem of underground tele-
graph wires. The new venture is Great
ing so much enthusiasm that bill has
been introduced by the state assembly
providing that within six months after
its passage all telegraphic wires in
cities of the state containing over 300
600 inhabitants shall be laid under the
street or sidewalk.
A sEvENTEEN-YEAR-OL boy in Paris
recently induced companion of eleven
years of age to steal nine hundred
francs in gold, and then strangled him,
threw him into the Seine, and then
walked off with the money. He was
sentenced to twenty years in the gal
leys, having escaped the death pen
atty, we are told, con account of his
youth"
A CHICAGO reporter, having been IN
structed to write up the county poor
house of Cook county, clothed himself
ID ragged and filthy garments, rubbed
mud on his face and got permit to the
institution, where he remained as a
pauper for four days. He then slipped
away and wrote it up with ali its hor-
rors. he depicts it as a perfect hell.
THERE are 100000 common drunk
ards in the United States; of the 40,
900 idiots in this country three-fourths
are the children of drunken parents.
Ninety-nine-hundredths of the crimi-
nails and paupers were found to be in
temperate. The liquor annually sold
amounts to $3.50, 100000.
THE Baltimore council has forbidden
the construction of Mansard roofs OF
combustible material in that city under