The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-10-18
NEWS SUMMARY.
TIE SOUTH-

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pointed to examine the models which NAV
be submitted for the Lee monument in
| Richmond.
In Virginia and North Carolina the
acreage planted in tobacco is fifty per cent
larger than last year; the yield promises to
De better IN the same ratio.
Hartsville (Tenn.) Sentinel The to-
bacco crop of the state now being housed is
vastly superior to any that has been raised
Tor many years.
Waco (Texas) Register, The pecan
| crop is reported good In this section this
year, and hundreds Of bushels of the nuts
will likely be shipped from this place.
! The Columbia Is. c. Phoenix says that
there is enough material before the IegisIa-
! tive investigating committee to keep them
/ at work at least eighteen months longer.
Hon. Washington Leonidas Grice has
been appointed circuit judge in the Macon
| (Ga.) district vice Judge Hill, who died on
the bench at Knoxville few days ago.
Black Horse and Left Hand, the In
dams who have been i'll at Fort Maron, St.
| Augustine, are convalescent and fegaininp
their usual health and natural savageness.
-Four little girls, the children of Mr..
Jacob Musselwhite, of Robeson county. Nc
died lately of diphtheria so near together
that they were all buried last Sunday, at the
same time
Samuel G. Reid, Esq, has made his
bond, received his commission, and taken
charge of the United States marshaPs office
Tor the middle and southern districts of
Alabama.
Greenville Is. C.) News: Work was
commenced on the Greenwood and Augusta
railroad last week, one hundred penitentiarv
cony1cts being employed under Superin-
tendent Bailey.
:, A Georgia negro preacher said to his
mock: I'VE have collection to make this
morning. and, for the glory of heaven, which
ever of you stole Mr.. Smiths sheen. don't
put anything on the plate"
A plcket-line is kept around Jackson
VILE, Fla, night and day, to keep out yellow
fever refugees, but one of them knocked
down colOred picket the other night and
got in.
The demand for cotton-pickers is on
the increase IN NatchitOches, La, and the
price has reached 75c. per hundred pounds.
This would be $13 so per bale for picking,
or y per cent. of its entire value.
The first official returns from Rich
mOnd under the Moffat law are for the last
seventeen days of September In that time
there were registered 135,55O malt and 137,-
220 alcoholic drinks. The tax thereon
amounted to $3.50.
According to the Columbus (Ga.) En-
quirer one of the strangest things in the
world is to find southern planters buying
tons of northern hay, while the heavy and
grievOus task the whole year round is to
keep the fields clear of grass.
A wolf that had killed over thirty
sheep in Gadsden county, Florida, was killed
the other day, after an exciting chase, in
which there were forty dogs and a regiment
of men. 1t was five feet long and two and
half high.
Carpe, who killed his daughter, her
child and himself in Bradley county, Tenn,
a few days ago, was an avOwed atheist, and
vr~slr Nro- v-eN
family and himself might as well be killed
by his own hands.
Rev. z. P. Bishop, of San MateO, one
OF the largest Ordnge-growers in east Florida
states that the present crop of that delicious
fruit is most promising. In his opinion, the
value of wild orange groves has been in
creased over one thousand per cent. within
the last nine years.
In Sumter county, Alabama, there are
two sherits; one by appointment of the
governor, who holds that his term of office
does not expire until November; the other
by virtue of the recent election. The circuit
clerk and other officers recognize the elected
one; the solicitor the governors appOintee.
The same condition exists in Green county.
Savannah News: About fourteen hun
dred head of cattle and the same number of
sheep passed through Quitman last Saturday
They came from COlquitt and Mitchell coun-
ties, and were on their way to fernando /
wilds during the winter.
Several letters, received by a prOmi-
nent cotton firm in Mobile from parties in
the OverfOwed district, represent quite an
encouraging state of things relative to crop
prospects. Reports from this region Indicate
that, perhaps, not tenth of the damage at
first anticipated will be realized by the
planters.
From November 1, 1876, to August 81
1877, the foreign exports of Pensacola have
been 5,S40,294 cubic feet of hewn timber,
4,091, 1876 cubic feet of sawn timber, 2O,541
cubic feet of oak timber, 28,921 900 feet of
lumber, 1,3O7 bales of cotton, employing 296
vessels, with tonnage of 215, 400 tons,
Atlanta Constitution: "Here, take the
pencil" were the dying words of Mr.. Wm.
A. Shorter, late editor of the Rome Courier
Hon. Edward Shorter, his father, relates that
on the death of his son in Rome, his wife, at
home in Eufala, Ala, awOke him, asking the
time of night, saying, "Willie is dead l
feel that Willie is dead" He looked and
found it 1;15 by this time. Our young friend
died at 1:1O by the time at Rome. Mrs !
Shorter knew of her sons illness, but never
theiess 1t is very strange that the impression
should have been vivid enough just at the
moment of his departure to cause her to !
arouse her husband in order to get the time
of night.
Mobile Register: An examination of !
the railways which now, or by the cOnstruc- |
ton of the short links, may be made to con- |
meet with the terminus of the Texas and !
Pacific rOad, will show that there is no impOr- |
tant point east of the Mississippi which can |
not be reached and benefited by the COM |
PletiOn of this great southern railway. For |
instance, ninety-six miles of road from |
Shreveport to Monroe will connect with all |
the lines via Vicksburg, through Mississippi, |
Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas, and |
verging to the national capital, thence to |
Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and New
Englsnd, while a line from Shreveport to
VermilliOnville would form complete rail
connection with New Orleans, and thence by
other lines to all points on the coast The
entire eastern seabOard can be reached by
lines through Virginia and Kentucky, and
the gulf ports of Galveston and Houston by
the Texas Central and great nertheru roads
already constructed.