The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-08-03

Emerson lives on a small patrimOny
and has made only $50, 600 from all s
works.
Bryant has made 100000 from the
Evening Post and only $l5. 900 from his
bookei
According to the Mayors report, the
debt of Memphis Is now, in round num-
bers, $5,700,000.
Two hundred and fifty women will
graduate as telegraph operators, this
year, at Co oper Institute.
The Sioux Indian reservation ia D,E1-
to is 56,072 square miles or 1886 $50
acres, including the Black Hills.
Bayard Taylor gets So, 600 year as ed.
itoriaI writer on the Tribune His
WORKS have yielded him some $50, 900.
The President has signed the bill re-
storing public lands in Mis- sissippi, Ala
bama, Louisiana, Arkansas and Florida,
to market.
Brigham Youn is the father of sixty
three children, forty-fve of whom are
living. More than oue-half are females,
JULIUS SalA pttLttl iODAlllS
1t is unlikely that the American of
fcers in the Egyptian army, in view of
the fact that they were all to be dimissed
on July l, were in a SPIRIT for ceIebra-
ton of the Fourth.
a proposition has been made to the
Shelby Couaty Court by the the Ho ly
Springs, Brownsville and Ohio railroad
company for the purchase Of the Raleigh
narrow guage railroad.
The National candidates with one ex-
ception (Hayes) are bare-faced crowd.
Neither Tilden, nor Wheeler, nor Hen
bricks wear beard They are t0Ierably
good looking fellows, however.-Boston
Globe.
Schuyler CoIfax follows Boss Shepard
Ben Butler and Brother Blaine in com
mending the nomination of Hayes. Hayes
may not be a rogue but be is the candi-
date of the rogUes. Voters should re-
member this.-N. Y. Sun.
North Carolina Republicans concede
the election Of Vance, Democratic Candi-
majority. Since the nomination Of Til
sured Of at least 10000 majority,
On visit to Hickman county, Tenn,
Col Killebrew says ne saw some Of the
finest iron ore deposits that can be found
anywhere in the United States. They
cover fully one fourth of tho county.
lie saw iron bluffs from 800 to 400 feet
in hight
Chicago's debt in 1860 was IS, 400, 800;
now it is ST, ll5,00O. Texas in 1860
amounted to 1913 ,3I5; in 1875 they were
$5,770,49l, a much larger increase Of
percentage than IN the valuation, and
five times the increase in per centage
OF population.
Paris, in this State, voted a thirty
thousand dollar SUBSCRIPTION on Satur-
day last to build narrow gagged rail
road to Cairo, Ills. The population of
Paris is not exceeding 800 and hence
her enterprise and liberality, is beth re-
markabls and commemorate. a city of
our acquaintance Of four times the pspu-
latiou Of Paris, might follow her example
with great pr0it-Ex.
The New York Times, IN an article on
unemployed capital in Europe, sets forth
that the Bank of England has now IN Its
vaults SAP 600 600 of specie and bullion,
and the Bank of France S4O5, 5000, 600,
making a total of S547, 100000 for these
two banks, and the reason why these
two banks hold these immense amount of
srecie is because the stagnation of bust
ness prevents a demand for its profitable
employment.
Eads, the great engineer, has obtained
an average depth of twenty feet of water
between the jetties he has constructed
at the mouth of the Mississippi. The
London Standard, after a careful review
of all the facts and statements in re-
gard to the advances made by Capt.
Eads, has reached the conclusion that
this last triumph of engineering skill
will revolutionize the grain trade Of the
world. Memphis cannot fail to prodtoy
it-Appeal.