The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-03
NEWS SUMMARY.
SOUTH.

The South Carolina house of repre-
sentatives voted down the bill incorporating
the new county of " Ninety in that
state.
Mrs. Chisholm, of Mississippi tragedy
fame. is to have Office in the treasury de,
Partment at Warrington.
Bills have been introduced in the Vir-
ginia legislature to incorporate the James
river railroad and the Virginia, Kentucky
and Ohio railroad companies.
A Big Bend correspondent of the
Macksville (Texas) Bulletin states that the
planters of that locality will abandon cotton
next year and cultivate sugar-eane.
The Wilmington IN. c. Morning Star
says one-half of the Duplin county lands
drained by the DuPlin canal have been obi.
gated 10 the canal company in return for the
reclamation of the other half.
Richmond (Va) Patron: Senator
Smith has drafted a bill proposing to ap-
prentice out cOnVicts of misdemeanor, under
proper restrictions, for the payment of fine
and costs incurred in their arrest, mainten-
ance and conviction of such parties, incIud-
ing the value of the property stolen.
Rattlesnakes are so thick at Slaughter
vile, Kentucky, that they have driven one
man out of his house. For two or three
nights In succession they could be heard
their number didn't seem to diminish ma
terially after he had killed twenty-seven of
them, he concluded 1t was time to clear out
A Cumming, Ga, letter speaks of a re-
markatle beet at that place, which shoots up
from the ground a stem about eighteen
inches high, and at the top of the stem a
tully developed beet. which could not be
spanned with the thumb and finger. From
near the ground sprouts spring out from the
main stem, which present at the ends perfect
evelopmeDts of small beets.
Attention is directed by the press f
Georgia to the large number of persons ennis
grating from that state to Texas. Colonies
OF hundreds each are going, bag and bage age,
and the Infection has spread into South
Carolina. The southern press also chronicle
the migrating of several hundred persons
from Indiana to Mississippi. A colony from
Maine IS likewise on its way TO the fertile
plains OF northern Texas.
The Richmond (Va.) State represents
as being the usu i salutation of the old COLI
ored people of that section, " Boss, remember
your old servant" and says it is generally
accompanied by supplicatory genufexion
that reminds one of other days. The State
says they are greater beggars than the laz-
zaronl OF Italy, and have no idea of doing
you the slightest favor without being remem-
oered in money.
The entire state revenue receipts in
Alabama during the year have amounted to
S979,592. The state debt, including the Pat
ton certificates of 1855, amounts to SO, ,7O5,-
6IS. The Mobile Register says: The auditor
informs US that the improved condition of the
state Is shown in her appreciation of the fund
ed liabilities. The per cent. obligations,
known as state money, are being absorbed as
an investment by citizens of Alabama, and
the new two and three per cent. bonds have
advanced in value at least twenty per cent.
within the past few months.
Elizabeth (Ky.) News Charlotte Va.)
letter: Edgar A. Poe was a student of this
university when he was eighteen years of
age tlS26l. ram informed by eiassmate of
his VIM. enbaker, ESQ.,, (the university
librarian) that Poe was student whilst here,
having obtained distinction in several
studies. He prOnounces as false the state
ment of Mr.. GriswOld (who wrote his first
memoirs) that he was expelled from the uni-
versity. Poe, he says, was fond of gaming.
and lost large amounts of money at the card
table whilst here; he expressed much regret
to my informant on one occasion that he had
contracted large debts at gambling and fixed
the amount at $1,000, but he was earnest
and emphatic in the declaration that they
were debts of honor, and he intended to pay
them as soon as he could. Like many school
boys who are doffed ''bad," he had that
propensity of using his knife upon the
benches; his name is cut on a bench in one
of the lecture halls, and also on the mantle
in the room he occupied.