The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-03-28
CHIPS.

n promising wheat crop Is TePoIteu
from all parts of the South.
Knoxville people are eating North
Carolina apples, brought over in wagons.
The English lion and the Russian
bear are ominously growing at each other.
Silver has advanced in London on
account Of demand for shipment to Amer
lea.
Craighead county courthouse, Tenn,
WAS burned the twelfth instant, with all the
records.
OF the English coast last week a
ship suddenly sunk, with three hundred
souls on board.
There are fifty-nine Confederate
soldiers in Congress, ten in the Senate, forty
nine in the House.
Hon. Lewis Bond and Col. Vaughan
are prominent cand ties for Congress in the
Brownsville districl.
The Gereral Conference of the NJ.
f. Church, South, will meet in Atlanta the
hrst Wednesday in May.
The Atlanta Constitution tells of
returned emigrants from Texas as having
"a bushel OF woes" to tell about that State
Wheat crops in West Tennessee are
unusually promising at this time, and the ay-
crage is largely in excess OF any previous
year.
One kentucky farmer appropriates
the yearly product Of one acre OF his farm to
the purchase OF reading matter for himself
and family.
Ex-Congressman John B. Vance,
of Kentucky, mysteriously disappeared
while on a late visit to Cincinnati. Foul
play is feared.
As corn-growing State, Tennessee
ranks sixth The average annual produc-
ton of this cereal is from forty-hye to
ffty-fve millions bushels.
Dean Swift proposes to tax female
beauty. and to leave every lady to rate her
own charms. He says the tax would be
cheerfully paid, and be very productive.
As corn-growing State, Tennessee
ranks sixth, though in 1910 it stood first
The average annual production - this
great cereal is from 45,000,000 to $780,
900 bushels.
Mr.. w. S. Jarratt presented the
States office, last week, with bunch of new
wheat containing sixty-fcur shoots, all OF
which came from one seed. 1t WAS taken
from his crop five miles from town.
Brownsville States
From the Charlotte, n. c., Observer
we gather that Stephen McCorklc, col
ored citizen, j. publicly advocating the
restoration of the whipping post. There
will be held in North Carolina conven
ton September 10th, 10 further this object
Colorcd people largely prefer this punish
ment to the convict system, and tax pave :
prefer il on account OF its cheapncss.
The Southern Industrial of Nashville give:
the following statement showing the number
of Immigrants that have come into this state
since last May, under the direct influence o.
the Bureau of Agriculture: Indiana, $50
Ohio, 533; Michigan, 2d5; Pennsylvania
III ; Wisconsin, ia Minnesota, no; llli-
nois, 81; New York, 90; Iowa, SO; Nebraa-
ka, IS; New Jersey, u; Maryland, 10; Mis-
souri; 8; kentucky, 2.
The active working Oranges ii
Tennessee now number 566; with member
ship ranging between l2,0OO and l5,OOO
Four wears ago the Oranges numbered 10!
with Il membership of about $4,000 Oh tht
entire number OF oranges OlSahlLct, oi'
hundred never had Il second meeting
Prominent Grangcrs say that the Order il
now in much better working order titan
heretofore with the prospects OF more ehec
lively carving out Its original object-th'
cultivation OF sscial intercourse and TIN
education OF the farming class.-NaslIvill'
American.
Official returns states that the
Russian Losses in killed and wounded dur
Ing the late war amounted to S9,3O4 officer
and men. Among these were ten Generals
killed and eleven wounded. One Prince o
the Imperial family and thrty-iour mem
bcrs OF the higher nobility Of Russia Tell or
the field OF battle. OF the wounded, 80
824 are already perfectly recovered, and
f0O0O more viii be able 10 leave the hos
n;;als during the n,xl few weeks. The pro.
horton OF killed and wounded to the total
pUmder engaged was very large, one ont OF
-, - men who went into actiou being
either injured or Left dead ON the field OF
battle.