The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-09-06

The committee inspecting the custom
house at Boston recommend decrease of
the force, and increased compensation for
those remaining, so that the net saving, If
their recommendations are adopted, viii be
little over $4,000.
Harvest expectations in Minnesota
have been more than realized in the yield,
as ascertained since thrashing began. The
wheat crop of this wonderful grain-pfoduciDg
state is set down at the enormous total OF
35,OO0000 bushels, leaving a surplus for ex-
port OF from 26,0O0,O00 to 28,O00,00O bushels
The average yield throughout the state is
now estimated at twenty bushels to the acre
The workingmen of Philadelphia have
indOrsed the eight-hour labor law. equaliza-
ton of taxes, compulsory education and a
liberal application of funds for the purpose,
and condemned the employment of prison
labor by private persons, manual labor in
factories by children under fourteen, and all
laws making it conspiracy for labOring men
to combine for their own protection.
The Chicago Tirors s"vz of the change
for the better in business ia that city; at
is barely a month ago that the country lay
struggling in the throes of what was little
short of civil war, and it seemed for time
that chaos and utter ruin would be the por-
ton of the whole community. For four
years things had been going to pot, piece by
piece, and at last came the engulfng climax.
All this was but month ago, yet to-day the
very face of nature seems transformed, and
the look of despair has, as if magic, changed
into broad sRile of prosperity. It is as if
the entire west, all of a sudden, was revi-
talized."
Two spans of the Union Pacific rail-
road bridge over the Missouri river at Omaha,
were blown down during a terrific storm
early Saturday morning. The piers are left
standing, and the other nine spans; but it
will probably take two or three months to
rebuild the bridge. The loss is estimated at
about $350,000. The storm was from the
north, aud struck the easterly end of the
immense structure with such force as to
wrench five hundred feet of it from its con-
nectiOns and tOpple it into the river, twisting
the large wTought-irOn stringers and columns
into variety of shapes. About one-half of
| the debris is out of sight under the water,
and the remainder lies on the side and at
the foot of the high embankment on the
eastern approach.
New England has increased in popu-
latien only II per cent. in ten years. In
1850 the six states Maine, New Ham mpshire,
Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and
Connecticut, had a population of 3,135,323; ;
in 1870 their aggregate population was 81
487,924. In Maine and New Hampshire
there was a decrease. Now, IN New York,
New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania,
there was an aggregate population in 1860
of 1871, POI, and in 1870, S,9S5,821. In Ohio,
Indiana and Michigan there was in 1860 a
population of ,O62; and in 1870, 5,52s- :
$50. In Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin the
population in 1860 was 3,162, ,745; in 1870,
5,887, ,581. In Mime sofa, Nebraska and
Kansas, in 1860, the population was 3O8, 1910;
in 1870 it had increased to 927, III. In Colo
radO, New Mexico and Texas in 1860, the
population was $4,000; in 1879 it was
961, ,422. The greatest increase OF population
is in the west and southwest. Texas, which
in 1860 had 6O4,215, has now, in 1877. a popU-
lation of 100000, and in 1880, when the
next national census will be taken, the pop
ulation of Texas will be equal to that of all
the New England states. Westward the star
of empire etc.