The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-03-23
LATEST NEWS.
SOUrit AhD VEST.

An English company is buying up
100000 acres of the wild lands of Georgia.
The Cairo and Fulton railroad COM
pany is vigorously preparing to build a
branch road from Little Rock to Pine Bluff.
The tornado which swept through part
of the northwest last Friday afternoon was
very disastrous in its effects, involving not
only great destruction of property, but the
killing and manning of twenty or thirty per-
sons.
The Macon, Ga, Telegraph and Mes
| senger says that there has been more guano
sold in Macon this season than has been sold
| any season since 1870. The farmers are com
! ing for it from far and near, and buying it to
the very last limit their credit will reach.
They promise to pay for it in cotton, deliv-
cred next fall, at fifteen cents a pound.
A premium of one thousand dollars
will be paid by forty members of the Mem
| phis cotton exchange to the producer of the
best bale of cotton from Tennessee, Missis-
sippi, or Alabama, to be exhibited at Phila-
deIphia in July next. Memphis cotton bales
have already taken prizes at the principal
worlds fairs.
A special to the Courier-Jo Journal from
Mount Sterling, KY, says that most Won
derful phenomena transpired in that section
on the Sth. The correspondent says during
sunshine and clear sky there fell from the
heavens quivering flesh, which came down
in large quantities, and filled many acres of
| territory. Hogs and chickens eagerly de-
vour the flesh, specimens of which have been
sent to this city for scientific examination.
Capt J. B. Eads states that the twenty
feet depth has now been carried down one
mile and quarter from the upper end OF
the works. and the channel is cutting out
rapidly. Where the Matte II. Atwood
grounded on the 4th, drawing thirteen and a
half feet, there is now sixteen and half feet
of water Capt. Eads is confident that before
the end of the month he will have more water
between the jetties than there is at south
west pass.
The latest intelligence from Haze
Green, Wis, reports these facts: The storm
struck the village between four and five
O'Clock in the afternoon on the west side
sweeping through the entire village and
leveling to the ground some twenty five
buildings and killing outright some eigh
persons, besides seriously wounding som,
twelve or more others. The carnage is re
ported as terrible. The hurricane was sue
ceeded by deluge of rain and hail Th'
village of Hazel Green mas a population o
probably enc thousand inhabitants. 1t il
situated twelve miles directly east of Du
buque. 1t is almost wholly mining village
and is situated in the very heart of the bes
Wisconsin lead diggings.
Capt. J. NJ. Beck, a retired lawyer o
Mount Sterling, KY, and gentleman vel
known for reliability, arrived in Louisville
last week, with specimens of the flesh whicl
fell last Friday in Bath county. The hesl
covered two acres of ground, and resembles
mutton, and left traces of blood on trees an
fences which were touched by the fallin
} fakes. Chickens and hogs devoured it wit
! evident relish. The heavens were clear an
5 the sun shone, and only floating clouds wer
\ visible at the time-twO p. m, March Srd
Quantities of flesh have been preserved
=. That brought to Louisville was given to Pro
, Lawrence Smith, well-knOwn scientist, VIII
= says it is no doubt animal flesh. He puI
poses making further examinations sooI
J.. Hundreds of people are willing to attest wit
affidavits to the truthfulness of the entir
matter.