The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-07-10
FOREIGN NOTES.

TIE university of Copenhagen has |
just been celebrating its fourth centen- !
AIRY.
The late visit of the crown prince of
Sweden and Norway to England, and his |
reception by the German empress, is sup. |
posed TO have been connected with q /
desire on the part of his highness to sue |
for the hand OF Queen VIcforia's grand~ |
daughter, -Tineess Victoria, of Baden. |
The mother of the grand duke of Baden |
having been a daughter of King Gusta- |
vus Adolphus ". of Sweden, such 8 |
union would introduce into the house of |
BernadOtte near descendant of the line /
of Vssa.
Whitehall Review: The holiness OF |
the Dihilists passes belief. The other |
day the czar, on retiring to sleep. found |
batch of that revolutionary journal,
Zemba Lvoboda, under mis- bedclothes,
and while the search was still hot against
the offender, they discovered q pIcclama.
ton posted up inside the emperor's cab
met 1t is apparent from the audacity
of these acts that the nihilists have an
agent living inside the palace, and suss
piciOn has attached itself to q very
prominent member of the cars entOur-
age"
The Journal de st. Petersburg has the
following extract from the Caucasus on
the plague of lOcusts in the province
from which the latter journal takes its
name. "The whole province is in terror.
Old men remembered no such visitation.
The possible consequences Of the locust
invasion where at first too lightly
regarded. When, on April 9Th, a cloud
of these insects was observed in Elisabes
topol no one dreamed Of the danger that
was near. The locusts were multiplied
day after day, have invaded town and
surburb, have pitiIessly destroyed ne
yards and fruit gardens. The streets
and the courts have soon been filed with
| them, rendering all locomotion imp0s-
sible. People were literally stopped on
the way by clouds of insects. On April
2lst the shopkeepers put up their shut
ters to consider what was to be done.
| But superstitious terror prevents the
people from killing the insects, and the
| police have had to issue an order requir
ing each inhabitant to destroy two
pounds of locusts. Even the water
courses are choked by the insects, which
is a new calamity for the population,
which thus finds itself deprived of drink
able water"
The gambling hell at Monaco returns
within trife of 100000 sterling to its
proprietor, This princely revenue will
be short this year TO the income of
Grand Duke of Pnmbernickel. One of
the most remarkable in tances of lucky
gambling ever recorded has just set the
crowd at the little free city crying the
CRY of Dominic Sampson. Early in the
spring there was rumOr OF disaster im-
pending over an ancient British baronet,
/ nd
lawyers to the country. The heir had
inherited 81 900, 900 OF debts, added to q
round sum he had raised from the Israe-
lites at accommodation bank interest.
When the usurers found their security q
shadow, and the mortgages discovered
that the successor to the title and estates
had begun by dipping the property
further, 1t was resolved to force pay
meOt. A noble duke, whose name was
much mentioned III come ction with the
Glasgow bank, generously lent as much
as deferred the evil day. But the smash
would have come ali the same this very
month but for the wonderful stroke OF
luck which befel the spendthritt pat
rician at Monaco. He broke the bank
three nights running. His last coup
made g round $500 600 in addition to
the 100000 captured by him the two
| previous.
with his win ings, and Is now at home
negotiating with his creditors.
London Times: q Within the present
generation, and mainly during the pres
ent decade, nearly all the great geo.
graphical problems LETT Us by our adven
furious ancestors have been solved all
the great lines of exploration have been
taken up and worked out with q success
that leaves to the future only the details
to fill in. The northwest passage was
,, completed more than quarter OF CEN
fury ago the Australian interior has
been crossed and recrossed within the
past few years several bright lines now
! break in the once mysterious darkness
of the DarR Continent" the sources
of the Nile have been traced. and the
course of the Congo all but laid down
the Russians have filed up msny i'm
portant blanks in Central Asia there is
now no mystery to speak of for geo.
? 0raphers on the n orth American CONT
nent and none of any magnitude on the
south even the great outlines of the
ocean bed have been charted, and now
at last, after a struggle begun more than
l three hundred years since, the northeast
/ passage has been made with an ease thai
i makes one wonder why it was not done
long ago. A matter-O fact Swedish
3 professor has shown that with a suitable
ship at the proper season this long
sought~for passage to g Far Cathay'' Is {
: question of only few weeks. Of Arctic
i feats there now remains only the 9 dash
, at the pole" and that the north poll
' will be reached sooner or later there car
be no doubt"
! A Wonderful Fountain.