The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-03-23

man II ehlplogeo IN building the road he
Will revoke his bequest
Two arctic expeditions are promised
already this year. The British admiralty
have made arrangements with Mr.. Allen
Young to communicate with the entrance
OF Smiths sound next summer, in hope
OF obtaining some information of the
Procc edings of the absent explorers. A
fu Sian capitalist has subscribed 25,0OO
r'Ibies toward the cost of starting Prof.
HordenskjOld on another trip to the ex-
treme north for the purpose of ascertain
ing If there Is a direct communication
between Behring's Bay and the seas
north of Russia.
EXPLORATIONS Of the Great Sahara
continue to be made. Largeau, the in
trePid French traveller, has recently con
cluded his preparations for second
journey across the great desert He will
be accompanied by three travellers, a
merchant with goods, native guide, and
eight native servants and camel drivers.
Even by the best known route, they
have in prospect a ten days journey
without water over burning sands The
greatest danger is from intense heat and
sudden changes of temperature.
Mr.. Booth has introduced bill into
the New York legislature making it a
misdemeanor for any person to hire out,
apprentice, give away or otherwise dis
pose of any child under sixteen years of
age to be used in any exhibition as tight
rope walker or other gymnastic perform
Ancc, or for any immoral purpose, or en-
Ployment dangerous 10 life or health, or
as beggar or singer or dancer; also
making it a misdemeanor for any person
to employ or exhibit such child for any
such purpose.
On the banks of the Iowa river, about
seventy miles from the Mississippi, is a
colony of people known as 'Amanes." "
They number about 1 300, and located
there nearly twenty years ago Origi-
naliy they emigrated from Germany and
settled in the vicinity of Buffalo, being
known as the " Ebenezers" " - a quiet,
moral, industrious people, devoting their
energies chiefly TO agriculture But
about 1856 they moved to Iowa. All
property is held in common by them, but
each family has its separate dwelling.
They appear 90 have no vices, commit no
crimes, have built school-houses and
churches, and made many improvements
in the villages they have built. German
is the language used in business and so
cial life, but English is taught in then
schools. Their religion is similar to that
of the Quakers.
A GENTLEMAN in Great harrington
Mess, has a geography published in Lon
don in 1749, in which California is de
scribed as an island. and map is giver
showing it to be entirely surrounded by
water. The book tells of tree in Flor
ida the leaves of which, if bruised anc
thrown into large pond of water al
the beasts which drink thereof will swell
up and burst asunGer." IL SAYS that eth,
air of Pennsylvania is generally granted
to be clear and sweet, the heavens bcin,
seldom overcast with Clouds" and tha
the "length of days and nights is mucl
the same as in New jersey" There is
chapter devoted to "rarities of New
York" in which it is said that in diver
parts of New York Especially those mig
unto and upon the banks of the rive
ConnecticuD grows a sort of snake-weeC
whose root is much esteemed of for tn
biting of the rattlesnake."
WHENEVER a case of yellow fever ot
ours in New Orleans the streets su
rounding the square are sprinkled wit
Calvert's No. 5 carbolic acid, diluted
fifty parts of water. \ large sprinkl,
on wheels is used for the roadways an
the sidewalks are sprinkled by ham
The grounds Of neighboring yards a
similarly treated, and the privy vaul
disinfected with a solution of zinc-ir,
chloride. At the termination of the ca
by death or removal, the infected apar
ments are fumigated with sulphuror
acid of chloride. The extent Cf IL
ground disinfccted is according to Il
lapse of time since the appearance of Il
fever. The extent of the disinfecti,
along the ground is about forty or fif
feet daily, so that after some DAYS del;
the whole square must be enclosed wi
a disiniecting band and the enclos
surface sprinkIcd.
THE proposed tunnel under the Er
Iish channel will prove to be a work
much greater difficulty than the Su
canal, which has made the name of F.
dinand de Lesseps famous. The sour
ings last fall, ole thousand five bund1
and twenty-five in number. revealed t
fact that four-fifths of the way acros
thick stratum of gray chalk exists, 7
senting a favorable condition for ex
waiting purposes, but it will require
greater portion of the present wear
complete the preliminary investigate
NJ. Lavelly, the French engineer, v
made a report to the French direct
INDUCES in the assertion that when
tunnel is completed, one million Il
elcrs will annually pass through il,
the revenue from that source alone
amount to two millions Of dollars.
revenue from freights by rail Will
much larger. 1t may be safely sal,
this tunnel, however, that it is q,
ion of time.