The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-09-06
NEWS SUNNI AIRY.
TIE aOUTH.

of foxes at the rate of one dollar for gray
and dollar and half for red foxes.
Two immensely rich black lead mines
have been discovered in Barlow county, Ga,
on the Western and Atlantic railroad.
Mr.. J. G. Dove, a bee-raiser of Darda-
nellie, Arkansas, received three italian queen
bees, direct from Ita- y that cost him 81 so
each.
The improvements of the Coosa river,
now actively in progress, will give uninter-
rupted navigation of seven hundred miles to
Mobile.
Mr.. S. P. Williams, of De Soto parish.
Louisiana, killed in one week, with twenty
eight successive shots with rife, twenty
eight deer.
A rattlesnake with genuine horns an
inch long is on exhibition in Charlotte, North
Carolina. The snake is q native of that
state.
The Memphis Appeal gives a summary
of the building done in that city within the
past two years. The aggregate is million
and half dollars.
Belle Boyd, who figured so extensively
during the war as a scout for the confed-
crate forces, is now living at Calvert, Texas,
and supports herself and sister by sewing.
There are twenty-five species of oak in
the state of North Carolina, eight species of
eight of hickory and seven of magnolia.
The Chattanooga (Tenn. Times has
been shown a sample of wild wheat, valu-
able as food for stock and poultry. The
yield from 1t per acre would reach one hun
dred bushels.
Mr.. Shefard pre-empted one hundred
and sixty acres of land in Neuces county,
Texas, in 1861, and commenced a sheep
rancho. He now has sixty thousand acres,
and is worth in sneep and other assets, over
100000.
The Little Rock (Ark. } Gazette thinks
the war between the Iron Mountain and the
Memphis and Little Rock railroads will lead
to the construction of new bridge, probably
at the Point Of Rocks, foot of Rock street.
Last week twenty three tramps were
put off the train between Nashville and
Chattanooga, a distance of nearly $50 miles.
They would get on at nearly every other
station, only to be put off at the next.
A. NJ. Davis commenced bee-culture
three years ago with two hives in Shreve-
port, Louisiana. He now has seventy-five
hives, and his sales Of honey this year will
net him $4,000.
Among the inmates of the Virginia
penltentiary are a. man and a woman who
stole one hundred dollars from the latter's
mother upon which to get married and set
up housekeeping.
1t is stated that one farmer in Jefferson
county anticipates gathering seventy-fve
bushels of corn per acre from several acres
the present season. And this is the first
years experience at farming in Florida
SaUdnTah Nelcs,
By contract with the authorities of
Memphis General Forrest takes the vagrants
and tramPs convicted in that city of its
hands, and pays therefor ten cents day,
working them on his plantation.
Frere D'Esti, the leader of the Murphy
movement in Nashville, Tennessee, caught
In the act of stealing, was held on pre1mi-
nary trial in a bond of two thousand dollars
to answer. His brother Percy is at large.
The steamship Rio Grande recently
made the trip from New York to Galveston
claimed to be the quickest time on record
although two hours were lost in going in and
out of Key West.
Captain Malachi Corbel, keeper of life
station No. 5, on the coast of Virginia, near
Norfolk, will receive a medal from the gov
ernment treasury department for saving life.
On one occasion he rescued seventeen of
the English bark TintO.
There has been a dispute for some time
in Van Zandt county, Texas, whether the
county seat should be Wills Point or Canton.
By decision of the district judge, Wills
Point has the best of it, and the county
records will remain there
The pilots engaged on seagoing vessels
across the bar at Galveston say that the water
in the bay and gulf is clearer than they have
seen 1t for many years. The anchors OF
heavy ships which can not come inside can
be seen lying on the bottom in twenty-five
feet of water.
A tombstone with a six-shooter en-
graved on it is TO be erected to the memory
of one Tom Burns, who was killed in the
Choctaw natien last month. The Fort Smith
(Ark.) Independent surmises that d six
shooter was probably the last thing Tom
saw, hence the novel design.
In the archives of the Tennessee his
torical society Is Gen. Israel Putnam's com.
mission, signed by John Hancock, and that
of Daniel Smith, first secretary of the terri
tory south of the Ohio river, dated 1890, and
signed by George Washington and Thomas
Jefferson.
The Savannah News says that in less
than sixty days the Enterprise factory of
Augusta, Ga, will be in the full tide of sue
cessful operation. The building has been
completed and the machinery has been
placed. The mill starts out under the most
favorable auspices-freedOm from taxation,
300 spindles and 123 looms.
The New Orleans Times says that the
receipts from the sale of United States public
lands last year only amounted to $8,592 81,
or not sufficient to pay for keeping up the
various offices necessary for their disposal
and showing that the government would
ave money by giving the lands away.
The Edenten IN. o. Times: GA citi-
en- of Dare county told us day or two since
| that one day last fall he made a haul with
| his seine in the ocean, and caught one hun
| dred and two sharks. The seine was only
two hundred and eighty yards long, and he
| saws that twice as many got away as he
snded.
The mayor of New Orleans has ap.
/ pointed Captain J. A. Aiken Mr.. Charles
/ Chaffe Mr.. A. J. Gomila, Mr.. 7. Upper and
4 Mr.. c. J. Walker q committee to ascertain
and report to our delegation in congress the
postal facilities required for that state. The
committee is appointed at the suggestion OF
the late postal convention.
The Memphis Appeal says: During
the year 1876 our mortuary reports, KEPT
accurately and carefully, show that there
were 652 deaths among the white population
and COL among the negrOes-thst is to say
j there were nearly four times as many negloe,
| died during the year as white people, con
! siiering the proportion of the number of the
two races.
Capt. Louis Parker, an old settler O
the island of Galveston, died August 22d
He was a soldier under General Houston
and took part in the battle of San Jacinto
and subsequently during the war with Mex
leo he was the pilot that marked out tn
advance of General SCOTS army into tn
Mexican territory. Since the late var b
has been engaged in the manufacture of sails
Ira D. Robbins, alias Latimer, takel
from the Simpson county (Miss.) jail by
crowd of about six hundred men, and huns
is said to have committed "innumerable
murders. Most OF his victims were wome1
He was young man, barely thirty, and ha
spent great portion of his life in the prison
of Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas an
Texas.
2 We would like to have the affidavit
on the snake question. The Wilmingto