The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-11-20
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.


at that port, and on Oct. 5 1,2O0.
TEXAS owes So, 200, 600, of which 81
100000 belongs to the School Fund, and
is in bonds held in the State Treasury.
The interest on the public debt amounts
o about 100000 year.
IN deed to large tract of land
now on record at Santa Rosa, Cal, a
mistake in the number of the
township locates the land u miles out
in the ocean.
OVER 800, 900 roubles in paper money,
supposed to be contaminated with the
plague poison, were recently bun ned in
the Russian city of Tzaritzin. This
money was collected in the dist riot
stricken by the plague.
TRAINS on South Carolina railroads
have been greatly delayed by the diff,
Guilty to get water along their routes
Streams were never so low through the
country ut this season, and the tanks
are as dT3 esP barren rocks in the wilder
ness.
IT is a fact not generally known that
the Bank of England supports Il rifle
corps of its own, which III time, it is in
tended, shall do away with fae- necessity
OF drafting force every nREiit from
one of the Household Regiments to
guard the national money chest.
A RECENT discovery at Pompeii was
that of a birdseller's house The i'm
bedded skeletons of numerous birds
were dug out; also, large quantities of
carbonized millet seed, hemp seed and
% species of small bean, which had been
the Dealers stock of bird food.
rHE venerable sycamore tree, blown
down near the residence of Gov. Doug
1aa NiAh1afousrr, -
contain embedded in the trunk horse
shoe that is supposed to have been nailed
on the tree 10 years ago. The trunk
SO inches in diameter, and the horse
shoe was % inches from the nearest
bark.
MONTENEGRO is an unique country in
regard to its postal business. Until
lately the mails were not sent to any OF
Che cities Or villages, but every citizen
had to 90 for HIS letters to the capital,
Cettinje. There has now been estab-
ished postal Department., and the mail
is sent from Cettinje tofoHr other cities
The mail carriers travel 10. these four
cities on foot three times weekly
AS a proof of the economy praetised
by the new Government of Egypt, the
Austrian journal Bonnie gives the follow
ing illustrations Criminals of certain
grade are entitled to 100 lashes with the.
bamboo cane; but a superior court has
reduced the number to 80, on the ground
that the Government is obliged to spend
too much for bamboo canes, when the
lashes are too lavishly administered
THE American Isabella grape planted
in Wurlemberg, Germany, grows with
extraordinary luXuriance, and during
the present season, in which the Ger
man vineyards are generally in a rather
poor condition, this is about the only
vine that bears abundant fruit The
Unite@ States send cheese and beef to
England, and grapes and lager-beer to
Germany. 1t remains now that they
should furnish wines to France.
GAsPARONI, the brigand chief just de-
ceased at Abbiafe9Tasso, near Milan, at
the age of 80, was Che terror of the Cam
pagna around Rome for 20 years. He
was imprisoned by Aa9onelli, although
he claimed to be IA cousin of the Car
dinal Cloth were from Sonino1, until the
capture of Rome in 1870, when he was
set free and allowed to promeEade the
streets of Rome where, as a falieFg hero,
he attracted great attention.
A sTONG evidence of the decline. of
idolatry in China is the fact that many
of the temples, once regarded most
hAtltNlY dlt nON OlCICAl IOE sale, anu
many idols have been sold for the value
of the metals of which they are COM
posed. "The Altar to Heaven, - one of
the grandest of the temples at Pekin,
which was once guarded and kept in or
der with the most religious care, is now
rapidly falling into decay from neglect
A NOVEL phase of the labor question
has been developed in the South Caro-
lima cotton-fields. The colored people
in one section held an excited meeting
extending through Saturday night and
Sunday, and adopted resolutions bind
ing themselves, their wives and children,
not to pick cotton for less than 80 cents
per hundred pounds, under penalty of a
whipping member of the Organiza-
tioH to apply the lash.
A DISPATCH from Rome says an
American lady and gentleman, named
Berow, were attacked in railway car
rage, on the Alta Italian Line, a few
days ago by two men, one of whom
drew a revolver and the other a knife.
After violent struggle the robbers sue
ceeded in getting possession of the gen
tleman's purse and watch. They es-
capped by jumping off foot-board when
The train slackened its speed.
THE Huascar, powerful iron-clad
belonging to the Peruvian Navy, was
lately captured by the CHILEAN fleet off
Magenanes, on the Bolivian coast. The
Huascar had been in many sea fights,
ana was regarded by the Peruvians us
invincible. Soi1e months ago the indie
pendencia, a companion war-vessel, ran
aground near Iquique, having been led
into shallow water in tn encounter with
the enemy, and in order that the Chflians
might not get possession of her, she was
blown up by her own officers. The
capture of the Huascar is a great dis'as-
ter to Peru.
VACCINATION is becoming general in
China. One of the most serious obiec-
tons to il yet remaining is curious
Chinese mammas are unwilling to allow
the arms of their daughters TO be
scratched with the lancet, because, un-
less a Chinese girl has II few marks or
her face, giving evidence that she has
passed through smallpox, she is con
Sidered rs lacking one of the chief quail
fications of a manageable maiden
The vaccination scar is still hardly
deemed a sufficient promise of future
immunity from the disease by the Bene
diets of the Flowery land.
LANCASTER, Pa, has a sensation o
an unusual and unique nature.
stranger made his appearance in tina
place the other day, and said he wanted
10 get married. The proprietress o
the boarding-hou ut which he stopped
undertook the management of the af
fair. She called in the girls of the
neighborhnod one after another unit
ten had passed in review before the fel
low, but none of them seemed to an
swer. The eleventh girl was NOR
lucky or unlucky, for she met his re