The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-05-30

sHARoN's seven-story palace hotel in
Frisco is the biggest klndot an elephant
on the hands of the proprietor. Every
month at least s12 600 is due on mort
gage account, and the running expenses
of the Institution are scarcely met by the
receipts.
AMONG many interesting relics in ard
about Monterey, Cal, is the wreck of the
old brig Natalie, the veritable vessel IN
which Napoleon made his escape from
Eiba. This slowly decaying wreck is
safely anchored in the sand by the new
wharf,
The British newspaper press direc-
tory" for 1873 exhibits ! IA newspapers
published in The Uaited Kingdom. In
the United States in 1877 there we're
8,079 newspapers and periodicals. o.!
British newspapers 15S are daily, while
of the American 799 are dsifys a r-s9 Z
A Boston man named Samuel B.
Hale, who has been farming in Buenos
Ayres forty>five years, owns now 3S,O 900
acres of rich prairie, 5000 cattle, 500
horses, 10. 600 sheep and 400 hogs.
The fences cost $26, 900. Last year the
wool product Of the farm netted 522, 900
pounds, and there was yield of 800, 900
pounds of taIlOw; also %. $40 sheep
skins ~
DURING the nine months past, the
aggregate value of exports from the
United STATES has exceeded that of the
imports, as shown by the custom house
books, by $206, 600 900. The cabinet
considered this fact recently, and became
convinced that it demonstrated a salts
factory commercial and financial con-
dition.
FROM the return Of the British board
of trade, for the first quarter of 1873, it
appears that the exports ef BreadstufFs
from this country to Great Britain were
SIT, 600. 600 in excess Of the amount in
the corresponding period last year, while
our exports OF cotton decreased s., ,5O0,-
600 in the same time. The increase in
wheat was SO, 600 OO0; -four, 50 0Oo, 0OO
and corn $4,00O.O00
A CORRESPONDENTS of the New York
Evening Post, writing from Toxic,
Japan, sends the following: q Thefamine
in the north of China RACES with increas-
ing severity. and the most, dreadful
reports come from the afflicted regions.
In one town man opened a shop for the
sale of human flesh, and did q good busi-
ness in eannibalistic Joints and roasts till
the local Mandarin caused the shop
keeper to be arrested and beheaded.
IT is Lot two years since the Custer
massacre took place, yet the Wilderness
in which it occurred is now populated by
farmers who are rapidly turning the
desert into a cultivated country. A
town of nearly one thousand inhabitants
has risen where Gen. Miles encamped on
Tongue river in 1876: in fact the whole
country which Sitting Bull occupied is
now taken up by hardy pioneers who are
planting civilization where barbarism
fourished such a short time ago.
A QUANTITY of well executed coun-
| terfeit trade dollars has been captured at
| Cincinnati. They are composed of block
tin, bismuth, and pulverized glass. They
possess pretty nearly the standard weight
and have the exact color and the true
ring of the real dollars. The only means
OF detecting them from the genuine is by
means of weigher, or by pressing them
between the teeth, when the glass which
they contain emits cracking sound.
The silver vault, now in course OF
construction in the sub-treasury, will be
fOrty~seven feet in length by twenty-touI
in breadth, and twelve feet high, and
will hold $4O,O0O,O0O in silver when
finished. The cost OF the iron and steel
work used in its construction was about
$4,000, including the doors and theil
levers. The floor of the vault will be Of
iron and steel two inches thick, and
under this will be four feet of concrete.
A RECENT Washington telegram say
the Philadelphia contractors for tbC
South American railroad are unsuccess
ful in endeavoring to secure eoloreC
labOrers about the capital from the feal
of the colored men that they will be solo
into slavery, the Brazilian minister hav,
ing been called upon by the colored men
and stated that. although slavery has no
been fully abolished in Brazil. it is il
process of abolition by gradual emanci
patton, which will make the country FIRE,
in Swenty~one years. There is law il
Brazil prohibiting colored men from set
tling in that country, and they can oDl,
be taken in by contract under a specia
act
, A POET in the CornhiI Magazine
wishing to write that his wife was on
beyond the brook. found that brook
would not make the rhyme he wanted
7 therefore he thought he would substitut
for it the word burn" which mean
! brock, although +" burn" d ,es not sound
: to unaccnstomed ears, like water of an
> sort. So he wrote, My little wife i
: out beyond the burn" 1t made prett
line, snd it did we'll enough until th
newspapers began to copy the poem. A
intelligent compositor soon fell afouI ,