The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-07-02

slGIOn STATE. 1t IS asserted in England
that the moment an 81 ton gun is fairly
af BAT, in ship buiIt to carry it. and
use it, the fate of sea going armor-clad,
vessels of the present type is sealed.
CHIoAGo's new directory is out at
last. A comparison of names with st.
Louis and Cincinnati shows Chicago
40, 600 in the majority. st. Louis has
1O5, 70l names, Cincinnati LOG, ,977, and
Chicago LAG, 133. The latter city had
the advantage, however, being the last
to show up.
LONDON adviceb indicate that the
financial breeze is over, and attribute
the late crisis to over speculation, par
ticularly III teas, silks and opium, and
an excess of discounted paper. 1t may
be remarked that in this country also
the tea trade threatens to be overdone,
as 1T now comes round the world to us
both ways, from the east as of old, and
from the west via San Francisco.
SPEAKING of the crops in Louisiana,
the New Orleans Picayune says reliable
accounts from every quarter concur in
representing the crops of this year rs
exceptionally fine. better mutual
feeling prevails as between employer
and employe, and there has been be-
nefcent concurrence Of circumstances to
reward the courageous energy with
which, despite the many reverses and
discouragements of the past, the plant
ers have labored to secure the present
and propitiate the future.
The United States steamer Plymouth.
which is to go to the mouth of the Rio
Grande to assist in preventing Mexican
raids, carries twelve guns but as the
river is not navigable on account Of
sand and shoals, the services of the vessel
can probably not extend beyond the
protection of Brownsville, the capital
of Cameron county, which is only
thirty-tive miles from the Gulf. Boats
may ascend, however, to a considerable
distance, provided they can be of any
use.
The strike that has just come to an
end IN the Pennsylvania coal regions is
estimated to have caused q loss of at
least ten millions of dollars to the op-
orators and wOrkmen. It was all about a
reduction Of ten per cent. in the pay of
the workmen. AS they have resumed
work at the rates proposed by the op-
orators, it will be seen that they have
gained nothing, but have lost their
wages for three or four morths. They
are, no doubt, glad to get work now,
even at the reduced rates, for MANY of
them were reduced to the verge of star
walton by their prolonged idleness.
The hOmliest women IN the world are
said to live in the valley of Spit, twelve
thousand feet above the sea, in the
Himalaya mountains. Their faces are
horribly repulsive, and they wear high
leather boots clear up to their bustles,
which they fill with -four to keep their
extremities warm. Yet, nevertheless,
travellers say that the men of Spiti are
Just as apt to get "Iocney and lose
their sleep over these ridiculous crea.
lures as are the men of more favored
regions over their own beauties. There
is just as much signing III Spiti az
there is anywhere else,
THE project OF the st. Petersburg
conference on the international laws
of war seems to be kept in abeyance
AS yet only Austria, Germany, France
Italy srd sweden, have signifed then
readiness to be parties to it. -Four Of
these powers hav given in simply then
adhesion, while Germany has, at the
same time, sent in the amendment,
which she means to make to the prelim
mary stipulations of the protocols
signed last year in Brussels. England
as it is well known, has decided to tax,
no part in it, while rome of the smaller
powers have as yet returned any answe
either way.
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