The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-11-01
NEWS SUMMARY.
TEE sOUTM.

HE SOOAA.
Gen. Forests health is still precarions.
The Georgia state fair last week
cleared over eight thousand dollars.
The little town of Geneva, Ga, exports
annually five hundred thousand shingles
The notorious Duke Fleming, of NAYS
vile, IS said to be the head of the forty Mexi-
can freebOoters. ;a
Owing to bad weather the Texas state
taIr at Austin has been'POstpOned to Novem-
Fifteen thousand people listened to
Wade Hampton at the North Carolina state
Corn is selling in Hyde county, n. c.,
Tor 81 per bushei. In some counties in Ken
lucky it is selling for 81 per barrel
The number of deaths IN Charleston
last week was forty-six, of which nine were
OF whites and thErty-seven ColOred. PAS
Washington county got the premium
at the Georgia state fair for the best acre of
corn, The yield was only fourteen barrels.
A committee of gentlemen from St.
Louis, Cincinnati and Memphis are soon to
visit New Orleans to inspect the Barataria
ship canal.
Only torty-five members attended the
meeting of the Old Texas Veteran associa-
ton at Austin. They report forty deaths in
he past year.
There have been one hundred and
twenty-five cases of yellow fever, and thirteen
deaths, at Port Royal. Many negroes had
the disease, but none have died.
Gov. Hampton was given q big mill
taIy reception at the North Carolina state
talr w ednesday. There were seventeen COM
panies in line.
Sixteen penitentiary cOnvicts have so
lar escaped from the Greenwood and Au-
gusta railroad stockade near Greenwood,
South Carolina.
Richmond Whig: The hquor-dealers
are sending 10000 circulars to dealers
throughout the state, urging them to become
members of the State Association of Liquor
dealers.
A proclamation Offering a reward of
$1,000 for the recovery of the books stolen
and carted away from the auditors Office
was issued by acting Governor Wilt, of Lou
isiana, Tuesday.
The MOffett bell punch is working we'll
wherever tried in Virginia, and is growing
In popularity. At Fredericksburg, in twelve
days, the tax was $246.23, exclusive of sales
by the gallon. That town alone will pay Sc, 900.
Of the six negroes who burned the
town of Darlington, South Carolina, last
July, four have been sentenced to the peni-
teRtary for life and the other two for ten
and twenty years respectively. The jurv
was composed of whites and blacks.
Capt. Ralph TrembIy died in Jackson
VILE, Fla, on the 17Ih. He was associated
with Audubon during his residence in FIori>
da, and accompanied that distinguished nat
IraIlst in many Of his expeditions upon the
| heys and amid the Everglades, in quest of
rare varieties Of the feathered family.
Knoxville Tribune The south has
had the Speakership of the House of
Representatives for fOrty-six years, in the
torty-four Congresses that have been held
The incumbents have been Macon. of South
Carolina Clay, of Kentucky; Cheeve, of
South Carolina Barbour, Of Virginia
Stephenson, of Virginia; Bell, of Tennessee;
Polk, of Tennessee; Hunter, of Virginia
White, of Kentucky; Jones, of Virginia
Boyd, OF Kentucky; Cobb, of Georgia. and
Orr. of South Carolina.
The citizens of the town of Weather
ford, Texas, and of Parker county have de,
termlned that the Texas Pacific road shall
be built from Fort Worth to that place. a
distance of twenty nine miles, and have
gone to work with spirit deserving of i'm
itatiOn by otheT4 WeatherfOrd is a small
town of probably two thousand Inhabitants
and Parker county is sparsely settled.
Among other liberal subscriptions we learn
that banker of WeatherfOrd gave five thou
and dOllars.i
The Jacksonville (FIa.) correspondent
! of the Savannah News writes That queer
marine animal, the manatee, mentioned in a
previous letter. is on exhibition. He is
hearty feeder, and consumes daily a wells
packed barrel of grass from the river. His
owner, an intelligent German, thinks of
taking him to the ThOmasviIle f4fr, and from
| thence to Louisville. If he carries ont his
| present purpose, the thousands who will
visit ThOmasville next week will have an op-
I Fortunity of examining really rare and re-
marlIably natural curiosity.
A Liberia Exodus Association" " has
| been formed in Charleston, South Carolina.
DR.. E. w. Blyden, lately appointed Liberian
minister to Great Britain, has made, with a
| view to settlement by American freedmen,
| an exploration of the country Immediately
west of MOnrOvia. He reports that about
! seventy-five miles from that city a tabIe-and
from s. 90 to 5000 feet above the sea.Ievel is
| reached. There is in this region an Ameri-
! can settlement, represented to be Verv pros
| perOus. The Rev. 5, D. Alexander, of this
! city, president of the New York State Colon
ization society, makes an appeal for aid to
/ this migration to Africa, He is of opinion
| that it will grow to large proportions.
Augusta (Ga) Chronicle: We saw
yesterday at the city hall one of the saddest
cases Of complete destitution and misery that
it has ever been our lot to witness. Sitting
against tree was a pale, emaciated man,
| evidently in the last stages of consumption.
NhhC at ulb ACCt sat q NIUE girl dDOuG Iillle
years of age and a boy still younger. Ali
were in tatters and pinched with hunger,
! uayel-Stained and weary. They had no
| extra clothing, no blankets-their sole
property consisted of the ragged clothes
they had on their backs, and a jug of black
ink which the man had manufactured and
was trying to sell. In response to question
propOunded the man related that his name
was Silas Able. He came from Kentucky,
and was on his way to Florida. The party
had walked the entire distance from Ken,
tucky 20 Augusta He bad no place to stay
and no money to pay for anything. AS he
spoke he coughed painfully, and his little
daughter gazsd sadly up into his face with
tears in her eyes, which famine and suffering
had made unnaturally bright. Poor little
waif, even that consolation Will scarcely be
left her long, as the father with whom she
has travelled so many weary miles towards
the "land of flowers will probably soon
leave her for another world. The party
were given quarters at the city hall last
night, and an effort will be made to-day to
get the man into the city hospital. q q
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