The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-04-12
SOUTHERN GLEANINGs.

SOUIHhRN GLEANINGS.
There are 500 Baptist churches in
South Carolina.
J. P: Armstrong has published a
Business Directory" of Selma.
The Montgomery Board of Trade
is about petitioning Congress to
make that city a port of entry.
The Paducah Kentuckiar reports
the fruit prospect still excellent up
there.
The Selma Times understands
that a colorcd military company
has been organized in that city.
Two-thirds of the mills in
Lowndes county, GA, have been
washed away by the recent storms.
A "A dwt. nugget of gold has
been found near the line of Dawson
and Lumpkin counties, Ga.
Work has been commenced upon
the reservoir of the Jacksonville
Water Works. It's capacity will be
100000 gallons.
There is rumor afoat that a
large cotton factory is soon to be
builtnear Montgomer,y-the largest
in the State If not in the South.
Col. Davis of the Limestone
NelOs has been presented with the
first aXe-handle made by machinery
IN Alabama-LOuis & Meredith, near
Athens, manufacturers.
A negro midwife has been ar
rested at Prattville, Ala, and
lodged in Jail, for having on a GER
tain occasion, some time back, re-
duced the negro population one
poll.
In the criminal court ut Selma
on the 22d, Rufus Jackson and
Mark Underwood, negroes, were
convicted of forgery, and sentenced
to ten years each in the peniten-
tiary.
The TaIIadega, Wachto,cer of the
10th says: "PhilliP Duncan had
his left hand terribly mangled last
Friday by the bursting of a gun.
He was shooting at a deer when
the unfortunate occurrence took
place"
The wheat throughout North Ala
bama is unusually SIN all for the
time of the year, yet there is a
good stand the SHOWS and freezes
have put the ground IL, excellent
condition, and there is prospect for
a large crop.
A slate quarry has recently been
found in Garter county, near Car
ters Depot in East Tennessee,
which promises to equal in quality
and quantity any discovered in this
country.
Rev. Mr.. Bingham, on his way
from Enterprise to GarIandsvilIe,
few days ago, was thrown from
his buggy, and injured to the ex-
tent of dislocated shoulder.
A negro woman while asleep,
rolled upon her cub and killed it,
at Brookhaven, few nights ago.
The same thing happened at En-.
terprise about the same time.
An insane man named Simpson,
said to have lived at Birmingham,
Ala, committed suicide by cutting
his troat with a knife, at Winches-
ter, on the night of the 10Th.
Tennessee contains 29,OOO,OOO
acres of land, of which only 6,0OO,-
600 are improved, but from this
email portion the productions by
negro labor before the war, princi-
pally corn, wheat, cotton and stock,
made the State rank third in
wealth.
The German Schutzenfest, al
ways q gala session In Charleston,
South Carolina, will begin on the
22d Of April and end on the 26th.
Unusual preparations are being
made to render the festival at
tractive to visitors, and the rail-
roads are expected to issue excur-
sion tickets for one fare.
There is a good deal Of feeling |
among the Hebrews Of Selma over
the fact that a young man among |
their people had taken out license |
to marry a negress. The clerk did |
not know the woman was of the |
colored persuasion when he issued |
the document. No proofs of
4" solemnizing" of the marriage had |
been received at last accounts.
The rains which have fallen upon |
Alabama withsuch unvarying regu- |
lsrity during the last four or five |
weeks, have so FAR retarded farm |
ing operations that it Is beginning to /
be predetermined whether as much |
cotton VIII be planted IN that State /
as would otherwise have been. /
Corn viii become much more popu-
lar with farmers than It would have /
been under other circumstances =and /
thus it may eventually transpire
that what now appears to be a curse I
viii be blessing in disguise.