The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-11-22
SUMMARY.

Virginia's public printing for the past
year cost $29,s12.25.
The women of Nashville have raised
$491 for Fernandina
Gov. Jno. Lochter was defeated for
legislature in Roekbridge county, Va.
The finest of Florida oranges are re-
failing at Key West at three for a nickel.
North Carolina has 16O,872 white
children OF school age and 1OO,S42 colored.
To the 9Th inst. Fernandinia had re-
eeiyed 81, ,549.H and expended $20,254.7S.
Virginia cOnvicts have forLv-two days
per year deducted from their terms for good
conduct
New Orleans has trebled its grain ship
ments in the past month, twelve vessels hay
ing sailed in that time.
The Ft Worth (Tex.) Democrat re-
ports the departure from that place of twen-
ty-two-well-to-do Mormon proseytes.
The number of yellow fever deaths ut
Fernandina has reached ninety.four. Twelve
per cent. of the whites have died in the past
two months.
New Orleans has not paid her city off
Gals since August, and Recorder Smith
threatens to pay hims6lf out of the fines
paid into his court
New Orleans Sunday Democrat: The
customs receipts at this port for the week
ending last evening amounted to $SS. .332. 81
gold, and $6,953.89 currency.
The steamboat, John F. TooIe. from
st. Louis for New Orleans, with an assorted
cargo OF western produce, burned at Grand
Euli last week Boat and cargo total loss.
Lexington (Va) Gazette About fifty
members OF the cOlOred Baptist church, In
this place, were dropped from the roll at
their church meeting on Tuesday night last
for attending the circus.
The same vote that elected Mr.. w. II.
Sims lieutenant governor of Mississippi by
nearly 100000 ma jOrity abolished the Office to
which he was elected. To Mr.. s. this Is the
most barren victory ever Won.
Saturday was the twenty fifth anniver-
sary Of the opening of Laurel Grove GENE
terry at Savannah. In that time the inter-
ments amount to q, ,454. A. I. Torlev has
been keeper during the entire period.
In 1873 Jacob Harris and Isaac White
quarreled IN Anderson county, Tenn, about
some feature Of the late war, and Harris killed
White. On Saturday the Supreme court SEN
fenced Harris to be hung at Clinton, Deem
Der %
Raleigh IN. c. Farmer and Mechanic:
The latest intelligence from the salmon hatch
cry at Henry's says the fish are all out and
doing finely. And the day is coming fast
when those quarter of a million of salmon
will furnish many poor man his summers
meat.
Through the bell-punch system the
whisky-dealers of Richmond have paid a tax
OF about $4,000 since the middle of Septem-
Der; whereas, in the county towns, where the
registers have not yet been put up, no tax
has been paid.
Galveston News: J. w. Maddox, ar
rested at CUerO the 9TH inst, charged with
conspiracy of Ham Il Co, is the same who
furnished the printer his friend Fitzhugh's
bigger man than Grant"
Wing The breadth of land seeded in
wheat this fall in Virginia, from observation
and the best means OF information we can
gather, is much above the average, and it
certainly has not for many years at this sea-
son made as favorable a showing.
Vicksburg Herald: In many fields the
ground is covered with young cotton that
has come up from the seed blown out of the
bolls by the storms of wind and beaten into
the ground by the heavy rims, while the
seed in the bOlls on the stalks are all sprout-
ing.
The sidcwheel steamer Tom Morgan
was wrecked by her boiler exploding while
wOOding Saturday evening at the head of
Scrubgrass Towhead, on the Mississippi
shore. Her owner and Capt. D. r. Howell
of COvington; KY, and the engineer were
killed. The bodies were not found. The
captains wife, crew and two families of pas
sengers were saved. The Morgan was a boat
of two hundred tons, and was in the cotton
seed trade.
Raleigh News An engine has been
transferred across the Blue Ridge at Swanna-
noa Gap, through the indefatigable and thor
Oughly intelligent efforts of Major Wilson,
president of the Western North Carolina
railroad. The whistle of a railroad engine
has for the first time been heard in North
Carolina on the west side of the ridge. The
iron horse has actually shrieked in the
SwannanOa valley 8nd tossed mis- feecy name
within the domain of "Ihe state of Bun
combe."
New Orleans Delta: In a paper read
before the board of health on Thursday
evening, Dr. Joseph Jones gave statistics to
show the absolute necessity of Legislative in
terference to cOmpellgeneral vaccination, for
the same reason that it establishes qUaran-
tine From 1903 up to 1868 the citv
denies. For the past ten years and ten
months the cases of smallpox and variOloid
in the city were 80, ,499, and deaths 1921, the
cOlO-ed people, from lack of vaccination, be.
ing the principal sufferers The board ap-
pointed a committee to bring the subject be-
fore the legislature.
Austin (Tex.) Gazette: FL Paso is the
theater OF a continued disturbance. The
Mexican population have organized and claim
the right to govern by mob law. They re-
fuse obedience to the civil authorities and
threaten resistance should attempts be made
to control them. The Mexican citizens are
aided in these revolutionary proceedings by
number of leading Mexicans west of the
river. Major Jones' by late advices, had
reached MessiIia, forty miles above FL Paso
and we shall learn whether he will be able to
| obtain peace and quiet. The probabilities
| are that he will not without the use of fOcce,
| and the men under him are too limited in
numbers to engage an organized opposition.
The crop report of the Memphis cot
| ton exchange for October, for west Tennes>
| see north Missippi, and north Arkansas, an
! tiCipates an average yield of one per cent.
| more than in 1876 (twenty-hve per cent. be-
| low September prOSpective( The report
| from Mobile estimates the yield in Alabama,
! nine per cent. less in uplands, and seventeen
more in prairie cOun ties; in Mississippi, the
/ yield, compared with last year, is estimated
| at FIVE per cent. increase in one county, the
| same IN six, and about sixteen per cent. less
/ in thirteen. The Galveston cotton exchange
/ says: The yield as compared with last year
/ is estimated at a decrease of thirty-two per
| cent. but we believe that some of our cor
! respondents have not taken into considera-
| ton the increased acreage in their sections"