The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-12-13
NEWS SUMMARY,



New Orleans desires an observatory.
! There are five hundred convicts work
ing on one North Carolina railroad.
The legislatures of Virginia, Tennessee
and South Carolina are in session.
A genuine shad has been caught in the
Conecuh river, in Pike county, Alabama.
Cape Fear river rose fifty feet in
twenty-tour hours during the recent freshet
Hugh McCaferty, captain of the
schooner Silss, was knocked overheard and
lost at Galveston Thursday.
August Michon, formerly a drummer
in the thirteenth United States infantry, COM
mitted suicide in New Orleans, Wednesday.
A negro got finger bit off at a Nsrth
Carolina cOrn~shucking, and died therefrom
the Il ree day after. His wife has gone de-
ranged.
The Louisville canal is blocked with
coal boats trying to get down south before
the river falls. There are 100000 bushels
awaiting shipment.
The freezes, on 29th and Both uItimo,
soEdifed the juice in the standing cane in
portions of Louisiana, and are thought to
have done immense damage.
Union men and ex-federal soldiers st
Chattanooga, are contributing money to re-
pair the damage done TO the confederate
monument by unknown vandals.
Charlie Jones, the Indian who beat
his wife and raised such a racked among the
CherOilees in McAllister, was found dead the
other day, and the Indian organ there re-
marks, owe know not nor do we care who
did the good deed"
Galveston News: Friday night, about
midnight, the cotton gin of E. Blumberg, in
Guadalupe count, was set on fire by some
villain and entirely burned. Loss about
! hT1n Il II
OF cotton were burned,
Memphis Appeal: We learn that the
farmers of north Alabama find great diff.
Guilty in procuring hands for field-work, in
consequence of which half the cotton crsp
remains in the field, and will necessitate a
good deal of financial embarrassment,
Richmond Whig: There is q four
down the river by the food and ashore near
the Philadelphia st0he-yard, for which an
owner IS wanted. The structure is appa-
rently in good state of preservation.
Holly Springs (lIiss.) Reporter: The
cotton fields, even at this late date, are white
with the ungathered yield. Many fields
have not been touched, and this Is the last
month of the year. The weather has been
worse this fall than for many years.
New Orleans Picayune; While the
new dredgebOat Bayley was st work OH
. Friday hemispherical anchor, weighing
seventy pounds, was pumped uR. This is an
illustration of the force of suction exerted
by the pump. The Bayley is still operating
at the other end of the ietties.
Aberdeen (Aiss.) Examiner: Tens of
thousands of hogs are being fattened in old
Monroe, and with the great majority of our
farmers the purchase of meat viii hereafter
- be but tradition, and next year our county
Will be in condition to supply her less fortu-
nate neighbors with this great staple,
Tho Meridian (Miss.) Mercury is in
formed that the surveyor of Perry county,
while running of piece of land, was led by
] the yearningOt needle to the silver dollars
of our daddies to the discovery of $50, 800
concealed by the murderer Copeland, as de-
tailed in Or. Pitts book containing the reve-
IatiOns of the Wages clan.
Montgomery Advertiser We are in
formed by railroad officials that the emigra~
ion to Texas this year from Alabama is
hardly ten per cent. what it was last year,
, and the outlook for the future does not indi'
cate any greater amount. This is decidedly
encouraging, and shows that the people are
:. determined to stick to Alabama.
Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer: Our farm
ers are taking more interest N stock-raising
this season than for many years. They have
been buying more 6ne stock than ever be-
fore, and are determined to raise as much of
their supplies as possible at home the COM
ing year. There is a growing demand for
working stock, such as mules.
), Vicksburg Herald: A planters meet
ing was held in Lowndes county, the other
day, that took measures to attempt the pas
, saLe of a law that will make the obtaining of
1' money or goods under false promise of labor
a penal Otfense; also, law that Will prevent
- the hiring of any person who has contracted
for a specified term of service until said
service is rendered.
7 A Charleston Is. o. paper speaks o
a sale of farm lands in that vicinity, only
two miles from the northeast railroad anC
Webdin river, and of excellent soil. Sil
hundred and twenty-eight acres were sole
for S205, eight hundred acres for $22O, ont
+ hundred acres for $3S, all half cash and tht
, rest in one year.
Seaport Appeal: The population o
r, Georgia is 1,250,OOO. OF these 60 per cent
are whites and 40 per cent colOred. Tn
population is mostly native, only about II
600 being foreign born. The women are II
excess of the men by about IA per cent
re- OF this population per cent are engaged il
manufacturing, per cent. ia trade and com
meFce, IS per cent. in professional or pei
sonaI service, and 70 per cent. in agriculture
r. Charlie Hill, young Irishman who's
mother lives in Washington city, gave
balloon exhibition at Manning, S. c., Thanks
= ! giving day. A long rope was attached to tn
balloon and secured to he ground, but
in broke, and Fill was carried over Ok swamp
where bis dead body was found the mex
= morning half immersed in the water an
vs impaled on cypress knee"
Richmond (Va.) Dispatch: One of tn
strangest incidents in connection with To
freshet the capture by Aessrs. a. [
Smith and Robert Morton (cOlOred), of hsI
chester, of a very nice mahOgOny table, wit
plates, wRter-pitcher and other articles on i
1t was evidently swept from before some part
partakIng of meal, as two biscuits were ali
found on one of the plates.
The Richmond Whig says of the recer
| HnOd Of VIRGINIA. We have I'd Soma est
at mate the general loss As fully equal to II
debt OF the state (t400C0, ,OO0). OF cOurs
any estimate Of a disaster SO widespreG
- must be very vague. But there is no dOu
of the painful fact of the great distre
inflicted upon more than half of the BeOp
the OF the state-their present resources q
7o,7 stroyed and their means for future operation
~ seriously impaired.
on Memphis Avalanche: Gen. ChalmeI
,o1 of Mississippi, is trying to have a westel
lT' judicial district establishes, composed of tn
ILe portion of Mississippi comprising the cOu
ties of TUnics, Quitman, COahoma, Bolivs
My Washington, SuDfower, YazoO, Sharke
dis. Issaquena, Warren, Claiborne, JeffersO
fine Adams and WillzeTson, and all the terrific
the embraced therein, which may hereafter
Ioss erected into new counties
ms Augusta COnstitutiOnalist The dea
ned of Bishop Marvin, of the Methodist Epis'
- pal church, south, will necessltate the el'
D" was as ton of three bishops by the general conf
the epce, which meets at Atlanta in Nav ne,
he Il is quite probable that Rev. DR.. Lyn
,un, Parker, editor OF the New Orleans Christi
the Advocate, viii be urged fer one of the Plac
II Had Rev. DR.. Duncan, who died a f
en1 months ago, lived, he would undOubteC
Ill have been elected 10 the bishopric.
the The steady manner in which the NJ
tbet sissippi river has washed away and is wa
- ing sUndry and various towns and landin
Ill or left them inland; Is specially noted