The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-08-15
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

A snowwhite mocking bird has been
captured IN Texas.
Savannah is exercising most vigorous
quarantine measures.
The Memphis board of health will keep
no secrets, but will announce every case of
yellow fever appearing.
Four hundred German families are
settling on 1O5, 900 acres of land in the north
ern portion of Taylor county, Texas.
The superintendents of the various
railroads centering at Macon, Ca, have
agreed to accept Mexican dollars at valua-
hon OF only ninety cents.
Four companies of U. s. troops.
recently qartered in the barracks below New
Orleans, have moved to Holly Springs Miss.
frightened by Bronze John.
New Orleans has at present a popula-
ton of only 10000, which, however, is
steadily increasing by emigration from
France, Italy, and Germany.
A negre named Ephraim Miller, living
in Johnson county, Texas, fearing that the
eclipse was the beginning of the worlds
end, killed one of his children and then
committed suicide.
The New Orleans board of health has
adopted resolution declaring that the
unnecessarily harsh, and the request is made g
that the Mobile authorities permit the pass
age OF through freight and passenger trains
after being fumigated.
Montgomery Advertiser: All through
Alabama crops are very good and the Weld
promises to be large. An immense amount
OF grain was sOwed, and the harvest was
hne. The rains of the last few days it is
feared, will greatly injure the cotton in the
and = As.v,z 3 ~
as during shOwery and rainy weather the
worms flourish and multiply. OF one thing.
however, the people are well assured-thev
have the biggest corn crop raised in many
years,
New Orleans Times: The extraordi-
nary haste made by many surrounding
towns, little and big, to quarantine against
New orleans, thereby subjectiDg their own
citizens as well as ours to great and unneces-
sary inconvenience, is a striking illustration
| of the recklessness and selfshness of fright
| ened humanity. 1t has all the evidence of
an irrational panic combined with what ap-
pears to be studied effort to make their So
| called precautions as irritating and injurious
| as possible.
Atlanta Constitution: The MobiIians
| are badly frightened. They see Bronze John
| advancing in irresistible power. In their
| vivid lmaglnations he rides on every breeze
| and turks in every railroad car Nothing
| seems to be free of him, in their eyes, ex
cept few through mail pouches and there
| is so strong suspi ion against them that
| they have to be transferred to a solitary boz
| car sixty miles west of the city-at lonely
| Boloxls to which port the coast train is per
nitted to come in its eastward journey.
Sanford (Fla) Journal The young
| wife OF Harry Smith, living out on the Pin e
apple Ridge neighbOrhOod, has the true gri
for pioneers wife. A few weeks ago, dur
ing the absence of her husband, she discov
cred an alligator after her chickens. Sht
quietly gets her husbands revolver anC
empties six loads into his gator ship, maxim:
him squirm every shot; then brings out tn,
dOuble-barreled shotgun and peppers hin
with that, and ends the fight by choppinj
the last spark of life out of the ugly varmin
with heavy grub hoe. The gator measured
six feet and eleven inches long.
Galveston News: Capt. Kennedy
pastures in Nueces county now embrace 80
square miles. His stock consists of 45, GO
head of cattle, $4,000 head of horses an,
mules, and 1000 head of hogs. Mr.. Ken
| nedy's cattle are rapidly being improved b
breeding with the Durham and BrainaI
Mr.. Kennedy also owns q large interest i
the Corpus Christi, San Diego and Ri
Grande railway, which is now completed t
the PrecenOs, fOrty-fve miles from tn
! starting point. Engines and rolling stoc
have been sent for to better equip the rOaC
. 1t is not calculated to run the road by Sa
Diego unless the people subscribe $4,000.
Wilmington IN, O. Star: A few day
since two or three men were coming dow
the river on a fiat, and had reached pOiI
, about fourteen miles above this city, whe
1 two small, black clouds came nearly tC
gether, with the sun shining through tn
, open space, constituting focus of the sun
rays of such strength and power that
J., ! white man who was steering the fiat at th
time, and who happened to be in q positio
to get the full force of the piercing Iays, ha
9 his back and arms blistered to a cake, and
o was found necessary to run the nat ashes
with all possible dispatch, when the man
Il question crawled into the bushes in a shad
G place to cool Off
d New Orleans Democrats report of
- meeting of the board of health Dr. ChO
. pin took the floor to say that the first focl
n of infection had occurred within Magazin
o Chippewa, Thalia and Felicity streets; Il
second between POydras, Magazine and Jul
u streets and the river, which supplied Il
I charity hospital the third, a limited on
between st. Joseph and Girod. back
& Franklin street; fourth betw cen IRENE
4 Franklin, Cont, Gravier and Galvez stree
There was also a small focus at Josephil
'f and Coliseum streets, which seemed to
70 travelling upward. and another small one
: CustOmhouse street, between Royal al
y Bourbon streets. The new cases arose ou
d side of the large focuses--a fact which ga
,s him hope that the fever might be stOppe
Sdll, the germ was an active one, but
Pr Proposed to fight it until ne overpower
,e it or it overpowered him, and the discs
shall have become epidemic,