The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-03-07
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.


There are ten miles of decayed Nichol-
son pavement in Memphis.
Knoxville, Tenn, Chronicle: The
WnlppIng-post law was inaugurated at Bris-
tol, on the Virginia side, last week, by the
legal castigation of coIored offender bv the
oneer. Thirty lashes were administered.
Inc onense was stealing basket.
Galveston News Another consign-
ment of bat manure from one of the caves in
Llano county reached this city this morning,
ana was shipped per one of the Morgan
steamers. So far there has been received
about forty tons of this manure which is
pronounced by those who have chemically
examined its properties to be the equal of
the best guano ever imported into this coun-
try. In appearance it looks somewhat like
coffee grounds, lntemiDgled with steel I'll.
lngs and parched rich beans. 1t comes to
this place in barrels and is beginning to
form q feature in the commerce of the port.
The Clarksville, Tenn, Chronicle
wants the Red river made navigable. 1t says
few hundred dollars iudiciously spent
would make it navigable, in ordinary tides,
as safe to Port Royal as the same distance on
the Cumberland river. What an effect it
would have on the portions of Montgomery
and Robertson counties that are tributary to
ClarksVllle. At present the roads are i'm
passable, and the tariff on the railroad so
great that shipments of corn and tobacco are
almost prohibited. There are no miII-dams
In the way. The stream is open to the cross.
ing Of the Southeastern railroad
Lynchburg Virginian: West Virginia
has had remarkable financial history.
Though not yet fifteen years old, defaulting
sherifs owe the state the enormous SUM of
I've hundred thousand dollars. This does
not include what they owe to the counties
and districts. A few years ago one of the
collecting officers In our native county of
jefferson defauited for the whole of the
school tax, and as nothing could be made
out of him or his securities, another levy
was made upon the tax payers to make good
his defaulG But, as the whole state was
stolen from old Virginia, it is not remarkable
that kleptOmania should be epidemic among
the collecting officers of that new state.
Nashville American The movement
for the improvement of the Mississippi is
about to assume immense proportions, and
the diversion of trade complained of by
Chicago is not to be prevented, It has
occurred in advance of the Improvement of
the Mississippi. With that it cannot fail to
increase as prices of transportation decrease.
The Mississippi, as 1t is, a natural highway
unimproved, except st the mouth, shows
already largely increasing trade, which
| must continue to grow. The important fact
| that all the west and northwest, except i'm
mediately around the lakes, will find this
the cheapest and best means of transport,
renders the future matter of certainty, and
inevitably ties the Mississippi valley to-
/ gether-cOmmereially, financially, industri-
ally and politically.
! Polk county correspondence of the
| Florida Patriot: In this section-Peace Creek
splendid crops are the rule this year,
plenty and to spare, of corn, cane potatoes
/ and cotton, with 8 fine orange crop. I have
ma lie this year with two mules between 8OO
and 200 bushels of corn, a5out 900 bushels
Of potatoes, l don't know yet how much
] cotton, but il is as fine as I ever saw, and /
| have good crop of oranges On my trees
We have a self-sustaining country. We
raise in addition to the articles already
! mentioned, rye, oats, peas, tobacco, and most
| OF the varieties of garden vegetables. Sheen
do Teil, and from all that can see horses
/ can be proftably raised, We keep our smoke
| house at home. hogs doing well on the range
/ and taking but little corn to transform them
| into first class pork, Then we have fat beet
ten months in the year, and chickens and
! eggs until you can't rest.
The mayor of Memphis, in a recent
message, touches upon the Indebtedness oi
that city as follows: Our delinquent taxes
| now amount to something between twelve
and fifteen hundred thousand dollars.
| thlnk the most vigorous measures should be
| resorted to in order to collect them. We
must do so in self defense, and in Justice to
| those who have so long paid more than theii
| JASU PAOpCi. .LOu' oihCe amy Ii1 'uS prior &C
/ January. 1875, except the school tax, may be
| paid in any species Of city Indebtedness, il
| the payment of these taxes We can absorb
! and retire our outstanding Indebtedness
/ This Indebtedness can now be bought a.
between thirty and forty cents and to pa,
of a million of these delinquent taxes, will
at present figures, cost cur people not more
than three or four hundred million dollars
even if they had to purchase it, which many
| now owning would not have to do. Now
while the cost of collecting these taxes is no
wholly unimportant, yet, let them cost il
reason what they may, still we wish then
collected, and this as soon as possible.