The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-11-23
FACTS AND FIGURES! a J

1t is estimated that Virginia VIII
this year make 2,00Q,000 bushels of pear
nuts, Tennessee 800, 600 bushels, and
| No14h Carolina 1Z5 0g0 bushels.
1T is asserted that in the three
years ended 1880 there We're no fever
than 252 theaters destroyed by fire, or
| partly So, resulting iii T. $40 deaths and
about ., 400 injuries, z--N X. Sun. 1n-
II In the fifty. years from 1880 to 1880
the amount Of money invested Ia cotton
manufactures IN che United States in-
creased from $40, 100000 to. $225sOQQ.-
600. and the bales. consumed from 194,-
800 to 2, 000,00O.e fii ~ iFttA ffat
The Paris Boltrss estimstes the
total stock of geld -i1l- the -svorld-in use
as coin or as banking reserves in one
shape or other at about 1850, 600, 000
of which 9EnoIand has EI26, ,000, 600,
France 8136,000, 600, Germany ESQ.,
| 900, 600, and the United States E92,
100000. faias- III - ~ @a'fa
-4Silver veins have been found IN the
Palo Pinto Noun tains of Texas. The
ore hGs been assaYed at III ounces, to
the tom Negotiations are now being
carried on, with two. mining companies
one of New Mexico and the other of
Arizona-to open up these mines. = Cl5i-
cage, 9pleS. s e.i 9raFn lftA 9fIf ,iffH
Statistics from Trustworthy sources
have been furnished the Kansas State
horticultural Society, showing the per
cent of the apple crop in seven of; the
Western States, as follows: Kansas,
f76 per cent. Michigan, 80; Illinois, 33;
Indiana,e20; Iowa. 30i Ohio, 80; Mis-
souri, 75, f.....tt AL xvY a9E
Mr.. John Field has prepared an es-a
stinate from The accounts OF the com
Panies of the quantity of gas used in
London last year. 1t was in round
Numbers, 20, $50, 100000 cubic feet
This is equal to a bulk of one milesquare
by 720 feet high. Consumers paid Sl4,-
$50. 600 for this immense supply Chi-
edgo Tribune.
q -sThe lunlberfcuti in the iSierras win
this season. reach 46. co J, 900 feet. and
of this probably $1,000, 900 feet sold for
about $12 a thousand, footing up about
$500, 900, and the rest sold as clear lum-
Ter for about $35. making over $500,
900 moreover 800, 600 earnings for
the nine mills sthat-FaR,- ,--seme- OF them
only part of the time. .. s,s,.,f j.
The number of post-offices in
France is 6, 12S, there being 30, 120 par
ishes destitute of post-offices of their
own. The total number of articles
which passed through the post last year
W 10 As As1DNsOOD91S NAo NOlh 1NAC0 VIM
S05, 900, 900 1877. Prepaid letters in-
creased from 374, 060. 600 to 563. 900, 600,
newspapers from 219, 100000 to 354, /
600, 900, and. books and other printed |
matter from 175,000,0 600 to 374, 000,O |
. -Wesson, Miss. was not long since
a pine forest 1t now has cotton mill, |
the insurance on which,, with eontents,s
is 800, 600. 1t gives work to 1000
speople uses-up 1900 bales of cotton a
year, has a setof handssat work all day, |
and ano her all night, and is lighted bysl
electricity. 1t makes doe-skins, cassi-
meHes. Jeans, acott0nades. knitting-cet-a
ton, sewing thread. towels, etc. Wes- !
son has population of $500.
1.-The lumber business of Puget
Sound, w. T., is immense, and. the dis
tribution is very Wide--.-kn- one-day, re-
Gently, vessels were seen loading for
Boston, Sam Francisco, Valparaiso, the
Sandwich Islands, Vallejo, Mexico,
Japan, China, France. England and |
Australia.l The export in 1881 was
about 175, 600, 600 feet, valued at S1y-
700, 900. Some of the logs are immense, /
Many measure five feet in diameter |
From one tree nlately. cut there were I
sawn two logs of thirty-tWo and twenty |
six and two of thirty feet, in all 118feet |
in length. The top of the tree meas
ured sixty7one inches eaeross--Detr0it
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