The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-10-25
NEWS SUMMARY.
THE SOUTH.
Mobile is to have cotton factory.


The letter-carriers' petition, sent to
congress from New Orleans, was 175 feet long
and contained 10000 names.
The Mobile Register says the naval
stores trade of that port supports nearly
twenty thousand people.
The game law of Virginia does not
allow any partridge to be killed or sold in
the state before the 1st of November
The Vicksburg CUTOFF, which occurred
some months ago, has finally begun to tell on
the river in front of that city, and the Vicks-
It's present position.
a firm in Richmond, Va, has ready
a second steam fire-engiRe for the city of St
Petersburg, Russia. This same firm, lust be-
fore the war, built the first fre-engine used
in the MusooVite capital.
Gov. Hubbard estimates the value of
taxable property in the state Of Texas this
year at $o5O,OOOOOO, against $260,0O0 900
last year.
The female treasurer of a Sunday
school in jefferson, Texas, absconded last
week with three hundred dollars belonging
to the school.
The Methodisls OF Virginia and Mary
land are to be appealed to for contributors
to build a monument to the late Rev. DR..
Duncan. The sum wanted is $4,000.
The German steamer Hanover arrived
at New Orleans last week, cOllided with
ship bottom upwards, and passengers saw
two other ships bottom upwards.
The city of Brunswick, Georgia, is
exceptionally healthy this year. Only one
white Ga child has died in over a month
past, and very few colOred people have died
Charlotte IN. c. Observer: Postum
hunting is the rage just now, and when you
see two men engaged in angry debate you
may know that it is about who has the best
'pOssum dog.
Guardian: Owing to the strict quar-
antine regulations Tampa is dry, indeed, in
the provision line. We don't see the differ
ence from dying with yellow fever and being
starved to death.
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 New Orleans Times says that
thousands of unemployed men inger in that
city while urgent invitations are being sent
to the people of the north to come and settle
upon the fertile lands Of Louisiana.
About two hundred and fifty Boston
mechanics talk of locating in northern
| Texas. Eighty-twO of them had agreed to
! join colony to settle there and take two
hundred acres of land each. They propose
! to start this fall.
| Of the six negroes who burned the
town of Darlington, South Carolina, last
July, four have been sentenced to the peni-
| tentiary for life and the other two for ten
and twenty years respectively. The jury
was composed of whites and blacks.
A railroad maa says there is scarcely
| any limit to the amount of tobacco raised in
west Tennessee, and that the shipment of
the weed over the Northwestern road will be
! greater than ever before known. AS it will
| bring not less than or cents, and proba-
/ bly, more, according to the estimate of Colonel
Killebrew, Tennessee'is likely to realize a
| good revenue from that product.
! Natchez Democrat We hear many
| planters saying that by the middle of this
month, or the last of it at most, all the cotton
will be gathered, and they generally agree
| that because of the worms and the storms
the crop will be, hereabOut, from thirty to
| thirty-hve per cent. less than a full crop.
The office of the Knoxville Iron Com
pany, at Coal creek, with all its contents, was
set on fire a few nights ago by masked in
| cendiaries, and totally destroyed. The chute
| from their mine was fired, and during the
next night the guards were fired upon by a
number of unseen parties from the noun
! tain side.
Mr.. J. J. BlOis, a volunteer nurse from
Savannah, has completed the census of Fer
nandina, and the following is the result
Present population, 1,632; adults, 1912; chill
dren, $50; classified as follows by sex: Males
S13; females, S1S; by color, whites, SIS; col.
Ored, 1889; by condition, sick, 293; WELL l ).
339. OF those now well S53 have been sick
Knoxville Tribune The south has
had the Speakership of the House OF
Representatives for fOrty-six years, in the
forty-four Congresses that have been held
The incumbenLs have been Macon, of South
Carolina; Clay, of Kentacky; Cheeve, Ot
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; ant
Orr. of South Carolina.