The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-11-02
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Virginia has 172 tobacco factories,
which consume 4S,0oO,000 pounds Of
the weed annually.
1t is stated on good authority that
there are 1880, 000 horses in this coun-
try, the aggregate value of which ex-
ceeds $500, 600, 600. Of this sum
Robert Bonner alone contributes $685.,
600, the value of his horses Chicago
Ne1cs.
The oldest deed in America is in
possession of Major Leland, of New
York. 1t is dated 1910, IS years after
the discovery by Columbus, and con-
veys Fishers Island. in Long Island
Sound. from certain Indian Chiefs, to
John Cabot, whose Signature it bears,
M II Times.
The City Assessors of Pittsburgh,
Pa. have completed their work, and
announce the following as the amount
of business done in that city for the
year ended April 1, 1882: Iron and
steel, $24, ,S2S, 800; glass, S5,505, 600;
sundry manufacturers S33, ,2S2, 120;
general business, 8 Is, 784, $50.
There are at present nearly four hum
| dred female physicians in active prac-
tice in twenty-six of the United States,
the majority of them being settled in
L. a
| sylvania- These figures show a rapid
increase in the number of women priIc-
ticing medicine in the United States.
According to the report of the Scot
tish herring fishery for 1881. the yield
consisted of ], Hills barrels of cured
herrings This number has OnlY once
been exceeded-in 1880. when 1. 473, 500
| barrels were obtained. In 1881, II, 809
boats were employed in the fisheries.
with 48, 121 men ana boys, being an in
crease over 1880 of 58 boats and 900
fishermen.
Eight million three hundred and
sixty-six thousand bushels OF salt were
made in the Onondaga. reserya-
ton during the fiscal year ended Sep
tember 30, 1882; being the largest TrO-
| duction of an1Ryear since 1871, and an
increase oyt asst year of 732, 900
bushels. The-4eceipt for duties from
the year 1918 to 1882, inclusive, have
been 81, 295, 478.-N 7. Sun.
-Cincinnah has received about
1,50Q. 900 baskets of peaches this season,
and about 500, 600 went direct to New
! England cities The Baltimore and
Philadelphia Gamers are said to have
used up another million and a half
| baskets. Eighty evaporating establish
ments have been engaged in Delaware
and Maryland ever since June fruit has
been ripe. Preservers have taken liber-
/ ally the large crop, believing it well to
| provide for possible short supply in
1888. Chicago Tribune.
Among the passengers on the mail
express leaving Pittsburgh for the East
| recently was a one legged man who Oo-
| cupied a seat without any company.
| He spoke to no one. and attracted no
attention. About seventeen miles east
| of Pittsburgh a loud report was heard,
and the one-legged man was seen sitting
/ upright in his seat corpse, blood and
| brains oozing from his right temple.
/ Pension papers were found from which
it was learned that his name was
! George p Helm, that he was about
forty-five years of age, and that he had
lost his leg at Gettysburg. n Chicago
Times.
The number of pieces of mail mat
| ter handled during the last fiscal yeaI
by nine of the largest cities was as fol
| lows Baltimore, 80, 495, l59; Boston,
50, 389, 760; Brooklyn, 20, 435, 154; Chi
cago, la, 832, 007; Cincinnati, q, 285,-
| POI; New York, 238, 578, 203; Philadel-
phia, 144, ,894, ,869; st. Louis, d, 665, 249;
San Francisco, %, ,046, ,513. OF the 3, ,115
carriers, 543 are employed in New York.
The mail letters delivered in New York
numbered more than $4,000. 900, the
postal cards more than 11,O00,0 900, the
local letters delivered nearly 33, 600, 900,
and the letters collected nearly Is, 900, :
O00.-N Y. Graphic.