The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-09-13
NEWS SUMMARY.
TIE HOUTH.

tobacco leaves one yard long and twenty and
one-hah inches wide.
A pear tree at Newbern, North Caro-
lima, is in bloom for the third time this sea-
son. 1t has grown two crops.
There were ten thousand persons pres
ent recently at meeting at Lebanon church,
near Hillsboro, North Carolina.
Two thousand dollars Of the Peabody
fund, awarded to San Antonio, Texas, lifts
that place out of a strait in school matters.
The state geologist estimates the flow
OF water from the Alum Springs, OnslOw
county, North Carolina, to be two thousand
gallons per minute.
Of one hundred and thirty-seven col
Ored people baptized at Ridgeway, near
Raleigh. n G., hfty-one were baptized face
downward.
There are but five sound legs and three
good arms on the battle-scarred tickets of
the democrats in the present Virginia cam
paign,
The Austin State Gazette SAYS that
yellow fever Is preceded by north winds pre-
vailing for considerable time. That paper
expresses some apprehension in view of the
winds now prevailing in southern Texas.
A man in Chattanooga has a genuine
pearl, which was taken with five others of
various sizes from muscle from the Ten.
nessee river, near that city. 1t is very Ius-
trOUs, and appears to be of good quality.
In the land of the Papabat they also
catch stingaree. One was at the Barnes
hotel wharf, Biloxi, Mississippi, the other
day, that weighed one hundred and twenty
two pounds.
Messrs. George w. Haseltine and
Owens, of Lagrange, Georgia, have given
$1,000 to the fund for establishing q free
school for the negroes of that place. The
negroes have raised about 81, 600 for the same
purpose.
Lieutenant Armstrong has received
from the Texas state government So, ,8O6. as
reward for the capture of John Wesley Har-
din. The balance, 1894 will be paid as soon
as an appropriation can be made for that
purpose
Five years ago the weekly shipment
of beer TO NicksbUrg was about sixty kegs
per week, but now the shipment amounts to
at least six hundred per week, a considerable
portion Of which goes to the surrounding
country.
Savannah News Florida item: The
time has come when the competition as to
the prize for the regular Florida yams, some
times called "nigger killers" is active Or
lapda leads off with a specimen weighing ten
pounds.
Miss Florence Pitman and Miss Mary
Nelson, of Albemarle county, Va, will go to
Japan in October as missionaries. Two young
ladies from the same county, Miss Lottie and
Miss Eddie Noon, are already in China in the
same capacity.
Two boys in the course of their stealing
managed to get away with $1,000 worth of
books from the library of the academy of
sciences in New Orleans. A number of the
books were recovered from a shop where
they had been sold by the pound.
The Dalton (Ga.) Times tells OF a
rather remarkable sycamore tree in Walker
county. 1t was planted in 1868 when not
more than eight feet high. tits now seventy
feet in circumference. Many of the limbs
are forty feet long.
The city council of Charleston, South
Carolina, propose to create city official
whose duty it shall be to investigate the
origin and cause of fires. The authority of
the chief of the fire department in this re-
gard having been called IN question, his
labors in that direction have been discon-
inued.
In Louisiana county, Virginia, last
week, a Miss Kuncl1les died after a painful
illness. Her sister came into the room where
the body was lying and threw herself upon
the bed in parOXyism of grief, and, as was
supposed at the time, tainted. When her
| friends made an effort to revive her it was
| found that she was dead.
Wilmington Star: North Carolina
| furnished over one hundred and twenty
! thousand troops for the confederate service
! exclusive of nearly four thousand that were
! kept aG home in the service OF the state.
| This is remarkable exhibit, and 1t IS a cor
| rect one, for a state that never gave but 112,'
500 votes prior to the war IN any election
The Petersburg (Va.) Index-AppeaI
says that Hon. Judah P. Benjamin, of the
Queens counsel, in reply to a letter writer
| to him by an expectant heir, says he knows
| nothing whatever of the sOcalled Jennings
estate, nor does he believe in its existence
He further says that he would not give
penny postage stamp for the free use of al
| the rights of the claimants.
In Houston, Texas, lately died DicI
RogerS, a DOtOrious negro character He wa
| well known in police records, and was tht
! perpetratOr of many petty robberies. HI
| frequently appeared in female apparel anC
! having a wOman's voice easily passed himsel
| off for a female of the cOlOred persuasi on
! One of his latest villainies was the rObbinl
of st. LOUIS man out of several hundred
dollars.
The Palatka (Fla) Herald says tina
the prospect for a large orange crop thi
winter is encouraging, Among fruiUgrOwer
the only thing to be dreaded is the DOssibllit,
of a gale in September, or it may be sooner
which sometimes visits the south Atlanti
coast The gale of 1871 thrashed off abOu
oue-third of the oranges, but that was yer
severe, and another such may not occur in
long time. The young orange groves ar
very promising to those who have been toll
ing and patiently waiting for a return 70
heir labor.
The Petersburg (Va.) paper chronicle
the advent of new tobacco bug. Whereve
their bills perforate the leaf, it at once wilt
and dies. The bugs are about the size of a
ordinary chinch-bug, and have a small bi
similar to that seen the musquitO, only
is longer. When bruised, the bug emits a
S odor similar to that of the chinch-bug, Will
/ its color is a dark red. 1t is said to be veI
tenacious OF life, and is found in large nun
bers in some localities.
General Beaureeard SAYS, concernin
the Mississippi jetty system: There need
| nofear of the lefty structures snOtwithstandiI
= the rsvages of the teredo, so fatal to all mo
r ern structures in the waters of the gulf
o copious is the alluvial deposit upon the willo
s mattresses of which the ietties are compose
n that the wood is protected by thick coat
= mud, and the teredO, which requires fr
access of salt water to thrive, is baked of j
, opportunity"
: Galveston Civilian The importation
u of goods, wares and merchandise from foreij
. countries, at this port during the past cor
l. merciaI year subject to and free of dut
r amounted to 81, ,357, ass against 81 ,295, ,592
Ie the previous year. Coffee was the princiI
q article imported both in quantity and valU
= ton, there being 7,062, ,494 pounds impOrte
= valued at 81, ,136, ,127, against valuation
IL S976, ,424 the previous season Galveston,
Is believe, now ranks the third port in the uni
ID in coffee importation.
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WARRINGTON.
Mrs. Gen. Lees suit for the recove
of Arlington has been postponed until J;
uary.
3 The Commission of agriculture "
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