The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-04-04
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

San Antonio, Texas, can trace her his
tory back to 1899.
The Florida Presbytery has also de-
nounced dancing.
The breast works around Atlanta are
still in good state of preservation.
The number of horses in training at
the Nashville raee-course have reached forty
FIVE.
1t is proposed that an incline railway
be built to the summit of Lookout mountain
from Chattanooga.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, of Virginia,
will not be able to attend the Paris exposi-
ton as commissioner.
Lynchburg, Va, has sold her six per
cent. bonds, to run thirty~four years, for
niuety>six cents on the dollar.
The Mobile Register urges congress to
enact a thorough. national quarantine, and
snch health laws as will guard the entire
coast.
As a corn-growiDg state, Tennessee
ranks sixth. The average annual production
of this great cereal is from foTty-fye to
ffty-five million bushels.
The state of West Virginia has author
ICED the Producers transportation company
to lay pipe line for the transportation of
petroleum from the oil fields in that state to
the Ohio river.
Savannah (Ga.) News: According to
the Quitman Free Press a very excellent
farmer living in the horven district under
took, few evenings ago, to cure his hogs of
vermin by rubbing them with coal oil. He
provided himself with a fat igbtwood torch
and commenced work. URluckily, Just as
he had gotten them well creased, spark
from his torch fell on the back of one, and
in an instant he was in light blsEe.
The flames communicated to the others,
and in few moments the whole drove
were running wild, fleeing with lightning
speed, and appearing in the darkness like
FIRE fends. The next day the farmer found
his bacon not only cured, but done up brown.
New Orleans Picayune: Yesterday
Judge Billings rendered an exceedingly able
opinion on the reports of the master in
chRneery as TO the question of fruits and
revenues due by the various defendents, and
as to the amount due by Mrs. Gaines, should
she elect to keep the improvements placed
upon the properties. The judgment holds
that the defendants are responsible, not
only for such revenues as they NAV have
obtained, but such as they might have
derived. AS to Improvements, Mrs. Gaines
is to have the election OF either, requiring
their removal or to keep them at the price
which their cost or the enhanced value
which they may have given to the property.
valuing the naked lots at the price they were
formerly worth, with their value and i'm
provements at the present time, the differ
ence to be allowed the defendant.
The Charleston Journal of Commerce
says of the arrival in the harbor of the
Azol," the ship bought by the Liberian
emigrants: Upon the return of the small
boats to the shore the news spread rapidly
throughout the city, and there were few
colored folks who stood upon the order of
their going, but fastened without ceremony
| to Browns wharf, where, by previous an
nouncement, the bark was to discharge a
portion of the inward cargo, from Boston
About ten o'clock the AZor WAS towed to the
head OF the pier, and had scarcely time to
moor when the impatient crowd made rush
to get on board, which was with difficulty
checked by the officers. From this time
| throughout the day a continuous throng of
the brothers and sisters were moving to
and from the wharf, and the various mani
festations of delight evidenced by frequent
| huggiDg and kissing of the opposite sexes,
| as well as the general indulgence, expressive
| of their happy feeling, in the half.broke en-
| English vernacular peculiar to the race, were
| a source of rare enjoyment to those who
| were lookers-on" through curiosity. The
AEor is rather attractive looking bark OF
tons, decidedly clipper>like in shape,
| and has been engaged for many years in the
| African trade, having been built for that
| especial purpose. The interior of the hold,
and also the cabin, are already fitted out
Win SOuAOISd SdOlO anu airy DSItnsy anu the
| attention that has already been bestowed
upon the proper equipment of the vessel for
| the intended voyage manifests itself in
every particular. The bark will, in day or
two, remove to Boyce's wharf, at which
point the emigrants, numbering near two
hundred and fifty. will be taken aboard.
| Capt Holmes, who is in command, and will
probably remain in charge, thinks, with a
| favorable chance, he can accomplish the
| trip in about thirty days. The dedication of
the vessel and flag presentation on the bat
terry will take place, it is stated, Thursday y
by which time it is expected that Bishop
Brown and others will have arrived,