The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-12-13

pension of his paper. He remarked to J. +.
Gibson, of the Southern Express company,
that he had q presentimenJ that ne wsUld
never return to Richmond alive. He mad on
his person a box of morphine pills and
deringer pistol at the time, which occasions
much uneSsiness on the part of his friends,
which his continued and strange absence
does not serve to allRY. The Enquirer has eX-
hausted its resources during his prolonged
absence, and has been forced to suspend.
Wilmington IN. O. Star: If town
thrives you may generaly trace Il to manu-
features of some kind. Look at Durham.
But few years ago depot, with two or three
houses, and now it is one of the great to-
baccO marts of the continent ManuEac-
tures have done the work. We pointed to
Richmond, Va, the other day. Her pOpula-
ton has doubled since the war, and her
factories number three hundred and sixty
one of all kinds. Their sales in 1876 reached
the stun of $22 40 1, 800 Her wheat and corn
mills produced $2,S 600; her irOn-wOrks,
81, ,0S2, $50. The bonds of the corporation are
at a par. 1t is manufactures that have built
up this beautiful and enterprisiDg southern
city.
That most remarkable of all papers,
the Union City Herald, thus speaks of the
crane and the goose "The feathers of both
those water animals shelter their materiality
in the waters OF air and earth, giving
warmth in cold winter to the body while
the samefrehect the penetrating rays of mid
summers sun to be cool. The Grain has
been known to swallow small eels for food
frequently, but the goose never picks up
anything but worms and bugs. The crane
has been known to swsllOw a eel four times
on account of eel sickness, and the only
way in the crane judgment to produce diges-
tiOn to save lite was to back up against
rotten stump and eZclaim, 4 have got the
deadwoOd OIL you LOW"
Richmond Whig: From a close read
ing of our state exchanges, we would gather
that the destruction upon the bottom lands
! of all the products of the past season, not
removed land il is too early to have housed
corn any bulk, has been all but universal
| throughout the state-the valley. southwest
| southside, and Piedmont section to tide
waterfall having been visited by fresh of
! Like capacity for destructiOn-au recording
! wide spread ruin to mills, dams, out-build-
| ings, fencing, crops stock, etc. So general
| has been the loss eDtsIled by the recent flood
| that we look with confidence to the passage
| of an act in the early days of the session
| extending the time II 1870 for the cOllec-
| tiOns sOf taxes.
| Orders have been issued from the war
| department for additional troops to be sent
to the Rio Grande for the protection of the
| border counties of Texas from Mexican
raids. At present the United States forces
| at Laredo, Brownsville and RinggOld bar
! racks Opposite Camargo) number 76S men.
| At El PasO there are 20 men at Fort Davis,
| $50 men; at Camp Stockton, OF men at
| Fort Clark and Fort Duncan, 1885 men
making altogether 2, ,465 cavalry and infantry
| for She defense Of 600 miles of frontier, con-
| stantly exposed to the raids of Indians aud
| Mexicdns, the Indians fraternizing with the
| Mexicans and claiming and receiving the
| protection of the Mexican government
which is natural, as they number over SIX
millions out of the eight and half millions
of NJ. xico's population
New Orleans Democrat: The govern
! ment has welI-nigh annihilated the sugar
| growing interests of this state, The address
| OF the sugar-pianters' association shows that
in 1862 the state produced forty-fOUr per
| cent. of all the sugar consumed IN the United
| States, while that proportion IS now reduced
| to twelve per cent. The hand of the govern
ment brought this decline in our great in
duStry and the distress and ruin which
resulted from it The levees which protected
our canefields were ruthlessly cut by the
army; multitudes Of plantations were de
vastated, aud the blaCkened -chimneys of
| sugar-houses are seen grImly marking the
fierce path of civil war throughout the whole
sugar region. Peace brought to the DESC
lated fields of Louisiana no healing on heI
wings. To us she came in the guise of the vul
ture, devOuring all that war had left"
The commissioner of agriculture has
reported favoTably on samples of guanO from
caves in Texas, inhabited by bats. He re
ports the material as worth from SIS to $50
per ton, and compares favOrably with tisf
guanO forsiertilizing purposes. There, are sew
eral caves containing such deposits in Texas
and the estimated amount of guanO is very
great, perhaps 5000 to 10000 tons for
single cave. As to the hats, they are ampl,
innumerable. a traveller, who accom- PANIED
Gen. Ord in recent visit to a cave near tn
little town of Selma, computed the bat
there at not less than 30000,OOO. It is al
unexplained mystery how such number
sustain their collective weight when cling
ing to the roofs of the caves. When the bat
issue forth they darken the air as if a grea
: opening.