The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-03-27

Al the GSrman language. Inc board OF |
education proposes to exclude all Ian |
guages except English from the schools, |
unless taught simply as accomplishments, !
and the Germans are holding public |
meetings in opposition to the measure.
THERE are now ION the rolls Of the
pension Office the names of IO, ,407 SOL
diers of the war of 1912, and of the
widows of soldiers of that war, 3 725.
Considering that the war of 1872 closed
more than sixty. three years ago, these
rolls show some Of the most remarkable
instances of longevity on record.
THE Railway Age puts tn annuale
cost of working Pullman car, including
the employees pay, at 81, ,O0O To defray
the cost of maintaining and running, let
alone the profit, an average of seven
berths night must be kept up. The
company keep up the discipline of their
servants by means Of staff of inspect
ors, who report on the efficiency of the
conductors, &c.
IHE mania for spending large sums in
forts and big guns still obtains in italy.
The forts around Spezia are now receiv.
ing a supply of 1OO-ton guns cast at Tu-
rin, to be placed SO as to command the
entrance Of the vast harbor. Spezia it,
self IS miserable hole, not worth the
powder snd shot intended to protect it,
even if it could be protected against any
OF the larger European navies.
New York seems SIS fond of roast
horse flesh as Paris is. Within the last
month two large stables have been
burned and each time over fifty horses
were roasted to death. A great number
OF horses have been thrown out of en-
ployment since the elevated railroad be-
gan running, and as the horses were all
insured the singular event of two such
horseNdestroying fires becomes less singu-
lar.
IHE Grand Lottery of the Sacred
Heart was a Montreal scheme for endow-
ing several Roman Catholic institutions
and had the warm endorsement Of Rish-
op Fabre. The tickets were one dollar
each, and the prizes amounted to $272,-
7S8. The advertising was extensive, and
the sales were heavy at first, but latterly
\ the project has been abandoned as a tail>
uTe. Although there is no charge of
dishonest intentions, the ticket-holders
will get nothing for their money.
STATISTICS show that the number of
unemployed mechanics and Iaborers in
New York city is now one half less than
four or five years ago, which is accounted
for by the movements west and south,
and a decided business revival. The
table published gives the present number
of unemployed at II 1000, of which 5000
were laborers carpenters, 1000; masons
and stonecutters, 1000; bricklayers, 500;
plasterers, 600; cigarmakers, 30O Dur
ing 1878 the daily average unemployed
was $4,000, reaching subsequently CO.,
600.
A NEW method of planting telegraph
poles has been introduced in Pennsylva.
MIA, says the Scientific American. A man
starts of with cartridges of electric pow
der,s and crowbar in hand the bar il
driven four or five feet into the ground
a cartridge with lighted fuse is dropped
into the hole, and the man proceeds tC
the next stake, but before he reaches i
the cartridge has exploded, making
cavity as big as flour barrel, and gang
of men who follow plant a telegraph
pole. In this way four men can set VI
100 to $50 poles per day.
PACIFIC coast whslers set forth from
their winter quarters early in the spring
provisioned for g cruise of st least si1
months. The crews number about thirty
five men, a force sufficient to man fou
or five boats. The number of boats car
ried depends on the locality of the hunt
ing ground and the nature of the whale
to bs captured. In the extreme nortI
whales never attack a boat, but in tn
south they do so frequently. The bes
of the weapons carried is the paten
harpoon gun, which is darted from. In
hand, and explodes after striking tn
whale, causing instant death when it en-
ters vital spot.
THE Oft-repeated story that the Qua
kers are decsying body does not seem t
be true, for an English journal assert
positively that not only has the falling O
in tie number of members of the societ
been checked for many years, but con
psratively rapid growth has also occurre
during the last few years, This is marke
by the increase of some of the oldC
meetings" Of the body both in Ell
gland and America, and by the spres
of the denomination into other countrie
if even on a small scale. Notwithstant