The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-09-20
NEWS SUMMARY.
THE SOUTH.

Mississippi has seventy-four counties
of 834,022 Inhabitants,
The growing cane in Louisiana gives
| promise of a fine sugar crop.
Not a drop of rain fell in Austin
| tTexas) during the month of August Just
past.
There are !, ,O25 convicts registered on
! the books of the Tennessee penitentiary.
The southern papers generally express
hopeful views Of the trade outlook.
The MesilIa Independent says fatal
fever prevails in portions of New Mexico.
Seven persons died in Las Cruces in one day.
An excursion party of Pennsylvania
aud New York land-buyers and capitalists
are visiting Texas.
The Tredegar works, at Richmond, Va
are building three hundred cars for the
Atlanta and Charlotte Airline.
/ Diphtheria in malignant form has
made ats appearance aleng the Tennessee
| border IN Lee county, Va.
Sora, little black swamp-bird of the
snipe family, is now the favOrite game of the
/ Virginia spOrtsmen.
| The Memphis Avalanche estimates the
| loss by cotton wOrBs as having been some
years as high as $25,OOO000- 1t thinks a
| free use of Paris green the best antidote vet
| found.
! Horses are dying along the coast near
RockpOrt, Texas, from an accumulation of
sand in the stomach. 1t is supposed they
| get the sand in cropping close grass in the
dry, dusty season.
| A colonization convention of four or
five thousand colOred people was lately held
in CoEnth, Miss. The African scheme was
not favored, but New Mexico, Arizona and
| northern Nexas were considered.
The Charlotte IN. c. Observer says a
rtch pocket of gold ore has been discovered
near that city. The first bUcketful taken
/ out is one-half gold, and in the ore are strata
/ Of pure gold the size of a mans finger.
! The Charleston News and Courier
published a letter from Virginian, saving
he wished to purchase desirable farm in
/ South Carolina, and in ten days two hun
! dred answers were received.
/ Some of the Tennessee papers are
! agitating the question of Withdrawing the
| eOnyicts from competition with honest labor
and putting them to work upon the public
roads. Many cOnYicts are so employed in
( Virginia,
/ Fernandina, Florida, where the yellow
as the crow flies, from Jacksonville. There
were half dozen deaths there between
/ Friday and Wednesday last, and the people
are leaving in large numbers.
A gentleman who was sent by the
authorities of Savannah to examine and re-
/ port upon the fever at Fernaudina, Florida
has telegraphed back; "Do not find any
yellow fever here. The other fever is of a
mild FORM
A Corpus Christie special says: As a
! bridal party were returning last evening
/ from church, Mexican men drove up near
them in carriage and opened fire upon men,
! women and children with six-shOOters. One
of the groOmsmen was shot through the back
and VIII die. The groom fed.
The officers of the army stationed at
Atlanta have raised fund sufficient to pur-
chase the plot of ground upon which General
Mcpherson was killed. The spot has been
marked with Parrot gun firmly set in the
ground, and the lot has been inclosed with a
! substantial iron fence. The trees which
grow on the plot still bear marks of shot.
The next session of the Georgia Iegis-
lature will elect United States senator to
succeed General John B. Gordon. Among
the candidates mentioned are Gen. Gordon,
| Gen. ToombS, ex-GOv. Brown, ex-senator
! Norwood, Gen. P. NJ. B. Young, Mr.. Julian
! Hartridge, present member of congress from
/ the lst district, Gen. A. r. Lawton, Gen. l..
/ s. Gartrell, ex-Gov. Smith, Hon, Thomas
Hardeman, Hon. w. E. Smith, Gen. W. T,
WofOrd and even Mr.. Stephens.
The New Orleans Democrat says that
a cOlOred woman living in st. Mary became
much jnceEsed against her liege lord and
while he was standing thinking over their
last quarrel, she came behind him, and with
one grand sweep with that formidable and
tavorite weapon of the race, the razor, cut
his throat from ear to ear. He dropped dead
on the instant. On her being taken prisoner
she seemed much astonished at the turn
affairs had taken, and expressed much grief
and said it was all done in play.