The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-02-28
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

OOO16 Elm NEWS ITEMS.
The Moffett-register system.was agreed
on by the Mississippi senate by vote of 21
A st. Louis gentleman has paid ten
thousand dollars for gold mine in Cherokee
county, Georgia.
Georgia and her industrial and agri-
cultural products viii be well represented at
the Paris exposition.
arrival Of one hundred more emigrants and
| still no ship in sight.
There are eighteen ships, fifty barks,
twelve brigs and twenty-eight schooners in
the port of Pensacola.
The trade In western horses and mules
is just now very brisk in Southside, Virginia,
and North Carolina. :
Peter Cooper has established and en-
dowed high-grade free school at Limestone
Spring, South Carolina.
The tide of immigration to Florida is
said to be flowing into the eastern and south.
eastern portions of the state. f
Gen. Robert Toombs has about one
hundred thousand dollars invested in prop
erty and bonds of Atlanta.
The greenbackers of Galveston will be
represented in the coming city elections by
candidates of their choice.
An Atlanta man shipped thirty bush
els of sweet potatoes to Chicago. The sale
lacked S23 of paying freight,
The ways and means committee Of the
Louisiana legislature has reported favorably
On the Motfettregister system of taxation.
Charleston { N. C.) Observer: We have
thus far this season had FIVE separate and
distinct freshets, and there are two more
weeks to hear from.
The Louisiana legislature is wrestling
with the question of carrying the capital
back to Baton Rouge. 1t has been moved
from New Orleans twice, and as many times
brought back.
The Iiqnor.dealers of New Orleans
have met and determined to submit to the
Louisiana legislature protest against the
Introduction in that state of the Moffett
liquor register.
Marietta ga Journal: The people of
Georgia carry of the palm for sending their
children away to educate. Since the war
they have sent out of the state for this pur-
pose one million two hundred and fifty
| thousand dollars.
Charlotte, North Carolina, Observer: ::
Farmers hnd1ng now no further need for
| their private fences, the stock law being IN
| existence, are hauling them to town and
selling them for IRE wood
There is constant decline in receipts
from the bell-punch in Virginia, either be-
| cause the novelty of having drinks registered
has worn of and fewer are taken, or because
bar-keepers are learning to evade the law.
Atlanta has received of the cotton crop
| since September 1, 1877, ninety-one thousand
| nine hundred and seventy>six bales, an in
crease of seven thousand and Linety- one
bales over last year for the corresponding
time. - :,
Charlotte IN. O. Observer: Yester-
| day about thirty negroes, about half of whom
| were children, came down the Statesville
railroad, from the southern part of Iredell
county, on their way to Charleston, there to
take passage on a steamer for Liberia.
As father jumped from q buggy in
Dallas, Texas, his pair of high>mettled horses
| dashed away with his little tenSyear-old
/ daughter. = None but Texas paper would
venture to tell how she gathered the reins,
and stood 'em upO the ends of their tails.
An Atlanta gentleman proposes a
nObby banquet. He will invite ten persons.
| There will be ten meat dishes-turkey, goose,
| quail, duck, sheep, hog, beef, chicken, ven-
/ sion and fish. One of these dishes viii be
| placed before each guest, who will deliver a
ten minutes eulogy on the animal repre-
| sented.
The chief difficulty attending the use
of the telephone has been the want of an
| alarm to indicate the transmission of a COM
| munication. Mr.. Redmond, of Dublin, calls
| attention to a method which he has found
| very effectual. 1t consists in sending the
| current of ordinary naagneto~electric
machine through the instrument, which pro-
| duces LOUD hum that is distinctly heard
many yards distant.
The Lehman manufacturing company,
situated one mile above PrattvilIe, Alabama,
on Autauga creek, runs one hundred looms
and 1914 spindles, requiring one hundred
and ten operatives TO keep the machinery
going. The water supply is abundant and
in short time they intend putting in a new
| Eclipse turbine water wheel, one hundred
and twenty-five horsepower, which will
greatly facilitate operations.
The government is distributing tea
plants in Georgia. Gen. Toombs said to a
reporter of the Atlanta Constitution; If the
people would only learn the process of cur
ing the leaf, as good tea can be produced in
Georgia as in China" '' Why" added he,
"tea has been planted and grown in this
state for the last forty years, nearly. Right
here, in a few miles of you are trees, If some
body hasn't cut them down since saw them
last, that were thirty feet high, tea trees, that
were planted away back yOnder in 1912 W
The Augusta (Ga.) Constitutionalist
says the damage by the cyclone in that city
will amount to $4,000. The storm extended
some distance into South Carolina, but its
ravages were slight compared to what it did
in Augusta. Mr.. Henry Hammond's fences
and OuJ~houses on his plantation, six miles
from here, were blown down, and DR.. Burk-
halter's dwelling and out-houses were de.
stroyed. A building was destroyed on Mrs.
Walkers place. Fences and trees were lev
| elied on several other plantations,