The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-04-13
LATEST NEWS.
HOUTm md WEST.

Mississippi will be represented at the
posed of every variety of wood grown in the
state.
The California legislature has passed a
bill abandoning tuition in languages and
music in the public schools. The two cost
in San Francisco $4,000.
The Security bank, of Washington, has
closed and will go into liquidation. Liabili-
ties about 100000, of which $53, 900 are due
depositors.
The Consolidated Virginia mine has
just divided its thirteenth monthly dividend
of 81, ,O8O,OOO gold! In twenty-threc months
the mine has taken out $3O,OOO,OOO OF treas
ure, and divided $I7, 600 of profits.
The supreme court of Tennessee sen-
fenced L. A. Gilbert to be hanged at Fayette-
vile, May 29th, for the murder of VIM. John
son, a blind magic-lanten Snowman. The
prisoner received his sentence with laughter.
Elizabeth 7. Greenfield, coIored
singer, famous throughout the country some
years ago, under the name of the Black
Swan, died in Philadelphia last week, at the
age of sixty-eight. She was born a slave in
Georgia, but was manumitted while a child
Ten carloads of machinery. including
engines, boilers, etc, were shipped from St.
Louis last week for San Francisco, destined
for NichaIaivisk, Siberia, where they will be
put into eight steamboats, being built at that
point for AmoOr river.
Additional kilograms from Fort Fct
terman state that General Crooks victory
over Crazy Horse was a complete one, and
that many of the Indians who escaped must
starve, as all their provisions, ammunition,
etc, were destroyed.
The impeachment articles preferred
| against Governor Ames in the Mississippi
legislature have been withdrawn, Ames re-
signed his office and is once more private
citizen. President Stone of the senate has
been recognized as acting governor.
Columbus, Ga, claims the position OF
the Lowell of the south, She is now run
ming $4,000 spindles and 900 looms, besides
many iron and other industrial enterprises.
The city was destroyed in 1856, and all these
have been replaced since with southern
money.
! Col. Edward P. Jones, a prominent
resident of Canton, Miss, and now widely
known throughout the south, temporarily
located at indianapolis, engaged in intro
ducing his several patent inventions, COM
mitted suicide by taking hydrate ef chloral.
| Report says, business trouble, coupled with
excessive drink, was the cause.
The United States engineer in charge
of harbor improvements on the southern
coast, is now constructing harbOr in cross
tide some SIX miles above the city of Savan-
nah, in order to defect from its natural
course a large portion Of the waters of the
Savannah river. The Charleston chamber of
| commerce protests against it, as threatening
the commercial interests of the city and the
rice of plantations of the coast.
The hog cholera is becoming matter
| of serious concern out west, the terrible raw
ages of the disease rendering it a subject of
! grave consideration alike for producer and
consumer. The Illinois state board of agri-
| culture has Just taken steps to gather al. the
information possible as to the nature and
causes of the disease, and the various meth
DDS of treating it, for the information of
breeders and others who are experimenting
in the hope of finding remedy for the NAL
ady, or a preventive.