The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-03-23
FACTS AND FIGURES.

1t has been calculated that breakers
on the Atlantic coast fail with force Of
three tons to the square foot.
"A half-dollar of 1896 brought S23. so
at an auction sale in New York. One
of the year following went off at $3.50.
Over 500, 600 bushels Of charcoal
are used in Leadville every month. One
firm consumes about 125, 600 bushels, at
Il and II cents per bushel.
OF the large cities in the United
States. Charleston, S. c., has the
largest proportion of colored people, 50
per cent. and Milwaukee the smallest,
Is blacks to every 5000 of the total
population.
"A party of New York capitalists
have purchased $50 acres of land near
Rockaway, at $500 per acre, and will
commence the work at once of laying
the property out into villa sites and
erecting dwellings for sale or rent.
"A speculator in the neighborhoOd
of London, Ont, is buying up all the
cats he can get, and paying therefor
from ten cents to forty cents each. He
says the pelts are cured and manufac-
tured just the same as fox, mink, etc
The Noble Furnace property, on
Cripple Creek, Wythe County, Va,
has lately changed owners for the sum
of $67, 800. The tract embraces 5000
acres of land, and is regarded as one
of the finest iron properties in the
South.
The total number of newspapers
and periodicals published all over the
world in 1889 was, according to the
Newspaper Directory" 34,274, and
the circulation amounted to 1882, 000,
600, or six copies to each individual liv-
ing.-N T. Sua.
Among the recent imports received
at New York was 2, 80 cans of con-
densed milk from London, 1885, boxes of
cheese from France, 4,S06 bags of pota-
toes from Scotland, 424 bags of turnips
from Scotland and $50 hogsheads of
saurkraut from Germany. N i. -IFI0-
me.
w. II. Durham died in Harris Coun-
ty, Georgia, recently Of a wound received
at the battle of Charlottesville. eight
eoE years ago. He was shot in the hip,
the bullet, it was thought, lodging in
the bone. A post-mOrtem examination
was made and the ball was found in the
small of the back lodged against the
backbone.
General Meigs was the great spend
er of the public money. During the
war he directed the expenditure of as
much as $1.956, 500, 600, sum by the
side of which Vanderbilt seems like a
pauper. He also audited the mass of
/ War claims, allowing $4,000 that
amounted to $40, 600, 600. But not a
dollar stuck to the honest officer S
hands.
The bonanza stocks, as California
and Consolidated Virginia have always
been known, reached their highest
valuation in the San Francisco market
on the 9th of January, 1875. Each
mine was then divided in los, coo shares,
and California sold at $3.50 per share,
and Consolidated Virginia at S715 per
share. Subsequently both mines were
divided into $40, 600 shares each, and
they have ever since sold on the same
basis. This is equivalent to 1856 for
| California and S143 for Consolidated
| Virginia. No one would have thought
that in seven years from that time, Cali
fornia would be selling at 10 cents pei
share, and Consolidated Virginia at 81
| cents per share. But that is the record
| California is now selling for only one
| third of the assessment money collected
q few weeks ago Chicago Times.