The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-04-26
GENERAL NEWS.

Senator Thurman, of Ohio, predicts
that the Democrats viii carry that State
next islL
Judge Emmons, one of the United
States District judges, and who on sew
eral occasions presided In the Federal
Court in Nashville, died at his home in
Detroit the other dap.
Arkansas is waking W TO the Importance
of securing immigration.
The pastors, CT Rome. Ga, preach in
PUlpits decorated with flowers.
There are FIVE lady telegraph operators
employed in Offices upon the Georgia
railroad
The poi lar forests in the region of
country north of LewistoWn, Ne, have
been cut down for timber for tho manu-
facture Of paper. These forests have
been considered by the farmers az al
NEST entirely worthless q good deal Of
wood or lumber hardly paying for the
cutting and hauling; but now the timber
brings high price.
The contract for postal cards amounts
to between 1900, GOO and 81, 100000.
The number used during the last fiscal
ycur was 100000.
Gen Robert Lowry, Gen. Z. G. Wal
thalI, and Gen. Ben HUMP hreys are all
spoken of as candidates for Governor Of
Mississippi.
The United States Supreme Court will
adjourn next month, and it is said the
vacancy caused by the election of Judge
Davis to the Senate will not be filled
until December, when the winter term
begins.
An enterprising English publisher an.
nounoes a history of "The B:rmaid In
dustry" It transpires that there are
300,0 900 barmaids in Great Britain.
At mass meeting of the citizens of
Stewart county, held at Dover last Satur-
day, resolutions were offered to the effect
that the Legislature should accept the
proposition of the bondholders to com
promise the State debt at sixty cents on
the dollar. The resolutions were adopted
by the unanimous vote of the whole as
sembiy, everybody voting. Hon. John f.
House and Representatives Brandon and
Smith delivered brief speeches.
Commissioner Killebrew has returned
from bis recent examinations of Overton
county, whittier he went to ascertain
the extent of its oIeaginous wealth. He
reports that it is rich in extensive oil
wells, and opens a fne, field for mining
enterprise. Clay, jackson, Macon,
Trousdale, Sumner and Fentress coun-
ties, also afford Indications of oil de-
posts.
PIowing with dynamite is the latest
novelty in agricultural pursuits. Duke
of Sutherland, in Scotland is using this
powerful explosive as a substitute for the
horse
The Japanese Commission, visiting
America to purchase live stock, are in
toe blue glass regions of Kentucky in
specting the celebrated herds there
found.
Spotted Tall brings 1000 penitent
hostlios and surrenders them to General
Crook.
Memphis has four cotton-seed oil
mills, with a capacity of 200 barrels of
oil day, and during the present bust
ness year will consume 10000 tons of
seed.
FicSaburg Commercial: Fifty thou
sand of :he seventy thousand dollars
nece saTY have been subscribed toward
establishing n cotton factory at Natchez.
The will Of the rich man of the future
will read: ITO the respective attorneys
of my children | give my entire estate
and ", rlily goods of ali descriptions.
Personally to ny children and my be-
/ loved wife | give all that remlins." This
instrument will satisfy the family and
save the trouble Of proving the old man
insane
w alter Valley Courier: From all quar-
tiers throughout this vicinity We get en-
cOuTaging information that the wheat
crop Is looking we'll It is somewhat
backward, buJ probably all the better for
that. 1t i said to be well rooted and is
growing finely. The worst feature in
the case is that there is so little sowr.
a great many farmers have none at all
growing, while many others have only a
small patch. A few farmers have a con-
siderable acreage in wheat, and they u i'll
be the fortunate ones.
Alexandria Gazette: We understand
that Gen G. W. Curtis Lee has institu-
ted IN action Of ejectment for the re-
cOvery of the Arlington estate (in Il o
county of Alexandria and State Of Vir-
ginIa) devised to him by his grandfather,
q. w. Parke Curtis When the facts
which have induced this action OF the
part of Gen. Lee shall become known,
we are convinced that it will not subject
him to the slightest ceBsure by any
honest or rigbt>thinking man IN the
country.