The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-02-24
The Hudson River Bridge.

At last the long talked of railroad
bridge at POUghkeepsie has been con-
tracted for with a Chicago company.
The river at this point is about half a
mile wide, with depth of from fifty to
sixty feet and four feet tide, and the
bridge-whiCh is to be what is called an
under-grade or neck bridge, with double
tracks-including the approaches, will be
about one mile long. There will be four
masonry piers, the foundation of which
will be formed of caisSOns, sunk by the
pneumatic process, and the superstTuct-
Ure will consist Of five truss spans of five
hundred and twenty-five feet each, the
distance from the surface of the water to
the lowest lines Of the tTusses being one
hundred and thirty feet, and to the rail
read track one hundred feet. The
structure will be remarkable for the fact
that the proposed spans are longer than
any now existing, and also for the fact
that it IS necessary to 90 fifty feet below
the bed of the river (itselt fifty or sixty
feet deep) to reach the bedrock on
which to put the piers, which will make
it about three hundred feet from the foot
of the pier to the railroad track. The
contract price is between four and five
million dollars, which is the largest sum
ever put into bridge cOntract-the st.
Louis bridge, although having cost about
nine million dallars, was contracted for
at Il smaller amount. The company who
has taken this contract has built four out
of the seven bridges over the Missouri
river, and can be relied upon to meet all
the obligations which they have under
taken to fulfill as to the time and place.
TELEGRAPH STATIONS IN MID-OCEAN.
Several foreign naval powers, says the
London Standard, are directing their at
tentiOn to the practicability of establish
ing telegraph stations in mid-ocean, by
which messages can be sent from any
part of the sea along the line of the cable
to the terminal points on shore, and rice
versa, so that communication with iron
cIads, mail steamers and other vessels,
when out at sea, may be established.
The invention consists of a hollow sec
tional column, with base plate attached
bv ball and socket joint. which column
is lowered into the water, and anchored
rigidIy TO the ground. The branch cable
is coupled to the main cable, and car
ried along the column to the surface Of
the water, to be there connected with
instruments on board the vessels. By
this invention it is proposed to control
naval and strategical movements while
a ship in distress could communicate her
exact position, the nature of her dis
asters, and thus procure assistance.
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1t invigOrates and strengthens the whole sys-
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Illumination, cleanses and cures liberation,
cures constipation, regulates the bowels,
headache and pain in the back cease; in fact
there Is no disease or complaint where the
Vegetine gives so quick relief, and is so ef-
fective in its cure, as IN what is termed fe-
male weakness. It has never failed in one
instance.
CHAPPED hands, face, pimples, ring
worm, altrheum, and othe cutaneOus affec
tions cured and rough skin made soft and
smooth, by using Juniper Tar Soap. Be care
full TO get only that made by Caswell, Hazard
q Co. New York, as there are many imita-
tions made with common tar, all Of which are
worthless.
WE trust the time viii come when ev-
erv one will use Dobbins' Electric Soap,
. (made by Cragin & Co, Philadelphia.)
I IT. sale is daily increasing, as Is always