The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-04-29
CURRENT NEWS.
Judge Connolly Trigg is dead.

A tide of immigration is pouring
into Oktibbeha county Miss, from
Michigan.
Since the passage of the pension ar
bill $24, 100000 has been dis
bursed on that account.
The Southern counties of Florida
are planting more cotton than has
been usual for several years.
For the first time since 1888 sugar
cane has tasselled in Louisiana, which
indicates an enormous yield.
President Hayes says that the last
half of his administration has been as
pleasant and free from troubles as that
of any President who ever ruled in the |
White House.
The Cincinnati Commercial truth |
fully says the greatest misfortune that
could befall the Democratic party
would be the failure to nominate
Grant at Chicago"
Beaconsfeld is more gloomy and de-
spondent than either of his captive
African kings. He will soon realize
as keenly as did Cetywayo how it feels
to be shorn of power.
Senator Henry G. Davis, the richest
man in West Virginia, did not inherit
cent. When he was seventeen years
old he was brakeman on the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad.
The senate committee on railroads
will report favorably on a bill extend
ing for six years the time allowed for
completion of the Northern Pacific
and Texas Pacific railroads.
Thirty thousand Swedes have left
their native country and are on their
way to New York. New York and
other States will welcome these sturdy
selfreliant emigrants with open arms.
A London dispatch announces that
more than twenty thousand political
prisoners are now at various depots in
Russia awaiting transportation to ST.
IBERIA. A fine country to live in is
Russia.
Last Monday night a terrible de-
structive cyclone visited Macon, Miss,
destroying the railroad depot, teIe-
graph office and thirty houses. Seven
teen persons killed and twenty-five
wounded.
The successful growing of the coffee
plant in South Florida seems to be now
established beyond question, and the
Commissioner of Agriculture has
awarded the premium offered some
time since for the first pound of coffee
grown in the open air.
There appears to be no doubt that a
panic has struck the Sherman party
in Ohio. There is great danger that
John viii not be able to secure a solid
delegation to Chicago even from his
own State. He may be said to be
practically out of the race.
The Republicans of the House of
Representatives put themselves on rec
ord as being opposed to giving pensions
to veterans of the Mexican war, and
the excuse, as given by Mr.. Hayes, of
Illinois, was that they opposed the bill
because Jefferson Davis might receive
a pension under it.
1t seems that nearly hundred mil
lion pounds of oleomargarine year
have been consumed in this country,
and not a creature knew it twas any
thing but butter" until recently, when
the attempt was first made to compel
dealers to sell butter for butter, and
oleomargarine for oleomargarine.
Mr.. Talmage, the Brooklyn minis
ter, has just returned to his home from
visit South. In a sermon on Sun
day he informed his congregation,
doubtless to their great astonishment,
that the South was not all what was
represented by stalwart orators and
newspapers. On the contrary, he de-
olared that the bulk of the stories cir
circulated in the North "are sheer
fabrications" (which is a good deal for
a Northern man to say in a Northern
community.
Another triumph of civilizat ton just
reported in the English papers, is an
improved Calling gun. 1t is recon-
mended as being the most terrible
deadly weapon yet invented. 1t is DIR.
r. J. Gatling's own Improvement of
his own gun, and is capable of firing
one thousand shots per minute and
killing man or horse at a mile range.
1t is labor-saving engine of death,
and the claim Is made that with it
three men can do the work of three