The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-10-26
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| Only fifteen candidates tor the Legl
lature in Hawkins county, Tenn.
A cotton factory is to be erected. at
] Hot Springs Ark. by twa-Canadian gen
ktleman.
DanyiIle, Va, has good prospects of
adding cotton factory to her industrial
| establishments.
1t is stated that more than half the
smigrants entering Texas, at Dennison,
are fram Missouri
Worms are doing great damags to the
cotton in portions of Alabama, Missis-
sippi, Louisiana and Texas.
Judge Boone, of Riehland, another s.
c. Republican circuits judge, joins his
three other brothers of the bench and
comes out for Hampton.
The Alabama and Chattanooga rail-
road was soite by order of court at No
bile, Ala, to Boston capitalists for $780,
600; 100000 paid down.
A Kentucky hog chews off grape
vines growing from tree, and holding
one end in the mouth, swings itself over
the fence into a corn-feld. Very pig
uliar that, certainly.
Every train that has arrived at Mar
shall, Texas, for the last tive weeks has
been crowded with immigrants. The
rush to Texas this year will be greater
than ever before witnessed.
Coleman, Mathes &,Falton, Of Texas,
own a little farm diyidsd off as follows
Big Pasture, 10000 Sefes; Rincoa Pas
ture, 1000 acres Shipping Pasture,
5000 acres; BRs. da Posture, $4,000
aeresS Nuecss = .sture, 10000 acres.
Henry's Bends Pasture 1900 acres;
VIM. Quinn Pasture ,42S.
Col. Copswood, of Austin, Texas, has
a camel rancho near Elgin, from which
be has sold two camels to the ST. Louis !
Fair Association, The cost of raising
is merely in herding and sailing and no |
more attention Is required than for the |
same number of mustang horses. They !
sell at from 5000 to $500 per head.
Says a Raleigh, n. O., paper: We'd |
all better move down to Chatham, where /
the people don't die. We told yester- /
day of an old colored woman in that /
county eyed one hundred and six years, /
and now we hear of Obid Park, who |
lives on Haw river, near @. p. Moore'e |
mill, ii Chatham, and hourishes 1T. the
green old age of one hundred and nine
teen years. Actual fact
Paris, Ky, claims citizen who is
a years Of age, says he never used
ia any form, never soiied his
lips with an oath, never took drink of
whisky never made bet, never wit
messed a. horse race or chicken fight
never purchased a lottery ticket, voted
for Radical or played game Of cards.
The growing tendency to erect cotton
mills in the Southern and Southwestern
States is. a most hopeful indication, and
must ina large measure advance the
Development of these sections. The
lresent Is most oppOrtune time to build
niIls,as both machinery and labor are
,heap.
Nj JOS Barton, of Winchester, Tenu.,
lad fifty sheep killed and wounded by +
logs last week They were valuable
lock, and Mr.. Barton had been improv-
ne on them for the last FIVE years. Sew
raj sheep owners in that section of the
state have lost number of sheep by the
logs.
The Louisville Bridge & Iron Compa-
~ has the contract for three spans $50
eet long, and one span $50 feet long,
through combination triangular truss
ridges, on the line Of the Burlington,
Bedar Rapids and Northern Railroad, in
addition to the one previously contracted
Tor, and mentioned In a recent issue.
Major Wade Hampton, the son of the
General, has returned to Lake Wash
ingtop, Washington County, Aississip-
pi, who're he is engaged in planting.
Major Hampton has, in connection with
bis f0theF, large planting interest on
the banks Of the beautiful water. Many
of his fathers former slaves are EN-
ploYed by him, and are doing well, are
oontented, and have been ever since
they, with the large majority of colored
men in that county, drove out the carpet
Dagger two years ago.
Cotton at the Centennial: 1t would
Sc en- impossible that any quarter of the
globe can produce any more perfect cot
ton than some that is here from Tennes
see, Arkansas and South Carolina Bales
from Florida and Asia Minor are side by
side; Peruvian, Sea Island, and East
lndieR Surdt lie cheek by jowl; West
Indian Savanilla and Am erican mIddliug
Mobile are in friendly company. What
visions of toiling slaves in foreign chimes,
of vast fields standing out white against
the blue of heaven o. Southern lowland
and upland what romantic memories
ana visions these prosaie rows of com
pactly pressed bales summon up Some
Of Ie premium Tennessee and South
Carolina cOttons which have been comb
ed out by the Willimantic Spool Cotton
Company are delicious in creamy hue,
and are of the most beautiful texture
possible.