The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-04-05

Shad are plentiful IN Newbern
a. g. at 80 cents a pair.
: An interesting revival of religion
is in progress at Wake Forest Col
lege, n. @.
Horse-racing is all the go il
; Columbia Is. c. just now.
There are at present between four
and Eve hundred visitors in Aiken,
r s. @.
It is said that property can be
bought quite cheap at and about
Eutaw, Ala. y - a'tt zh@
Citizens of Eufaula have taken
nearly one hundred shares in the
Southeast Alabama Agricultural and
Mechanical Association.
John NJ. Gross has been confirm
! ed by the Senate as Register of the
Land Office at Huntsville.
There are several cases of scarlet
fever in Augusta.
Mr.. o. G.. Gurley has become
connected with the Brainbridge
! Ga. } Sun as associate editor.
David Pully, aged 113 years, died
IN Wayne county two weeks ago.
The Mississippi Medical Associa-
ton holds its next meeting at Holy
Springs, April Sd, 1872
The Medical Association of the
State of Alabama meets at Hunts
vile on the 26th instant.
| Birmingham is to have a theatre
built on the most approved style.
She has already organized q regular
Board of Trade, all Of which is told
US by the Sun.
A Baptist minister, named VIII
liam Simmons, who resided in
Sewer county, East Tennessee, re-
Gently took poison through mistake
-suppOsing it was wine. He died
in few minutes after. .
A band of counterfeiters, capt1Ir-
ed near Charlotte with about $1,000
spurious currency on their persons,
have been committed to Wake coun-
ty jail. Observation-Disclosures.
Georgia has but one lady editor
Mrs. hlargie 2. Mosely, of Nose
ly's Weekly, published in Rome,
The Supreme Court OF Tennessee
decides that in cases where citizens
destroyed cotton during the war by
order of the military authorities.
they shall not be he'd responsible
for the damages.
George Lee, coloreG, native of
Worcester, Mass, has been elected
Judge of the Superior Court of
Charleston. -.. ##.E.
Pneumonia is prevailing to a con-
siderable extent at Colum bus, also
whooping-cough. The latter is
mostly confined to the negro pCpu-
lation, and is usually fatal.
1t is reported that there is a large
and most indOlent negro reputation
at Vicksburg. With hundreds of
lazy, able-bodied men lying around
out of employment, the planters are
yet forced to the necessity of send
ing to other States for their hands.
The wheat throughout North
Georgia and Alabama is unusually
small for the time of year, yet there
is a good stand. Tie SHOWS and
freezes have put the ground in ex-
cellent condition, and there is
large crop. .. s..r.
The cyclone recently reported at
Jacksonville extended over a good
portion Of Florida, doing considera-
bic damage to timber and fencing.
The wind was accompanied by
perfect deluge of rain, and on many
farms corn will hav9to be replantei
in consequence.
The Brenham (Texas) Banner
say that large panther recently
entered a house. near Fort Griffin,
seized child sitting on the floor
and attempted to carry it off. Two
men, who happened TO be near at
hand, rescued the child, which was
not seriously injured.
The first coal was discovered in
Virginia sometime about the wear
100, by q party of eInigrees who
settled on a grant of land near
Richmond. The event is thus chroni-
cled in an old history: zone of
these, French, being fowling, shot
a fowl in the (Jamcs) river, upon
which his dog went down the bank
to bring it to his master; but the
bank was SO high and steep that he
could not get up again. Hereupon
the Frenehman went Gown to help
his dog up, and breaking he mould
a1cay dccidentalty acith his feet, he dis
covered a ueTy rich coal mine. f ..
The rains which have fallen upon
Alabama withsuch unvarying reg1-
larity during the last four or five
weeks, have so far retarded farm
ing operations that IT is beginning 10
be problematicsl whether as much
cotton win be planted in that State
as would otherwise have been.
Corn viii become much more poDu-
lar with farmers than it would have
been under other circumstances and
thus it may eventually transpire
that what now appears TO be curse
Will be blessing in disguise.
Says the Savannah News: IS.
q. Ringgold-Your tSonnit to a
Violet is good, but it is an inyaria-
bly, rule among newspapers to pub
lsh no original poetry unless it is
paid tor IN advance. The idea Of
making 'heifer' rhyme to Zephyr is
something unique, and would no
doubt make a sensation. Our usual
price for original poetry is eight dol
lars ahne, but as there are extenu-
atinGcirAmstances in your favor, we
will print yours for seven anda half
We have surpassed facilities for do
ing this kind of work y