The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-31
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

Gen. Longstreet is preparing review
| Of his reviewers.
Mr.. Redhead is member of the Mis-
Eissippi legislature.
| Virginia senators have reduced their
salaries from $40 to $500.
San Antonio has two ice factories, and
two more are to be erected.
The severe weather north is sending
swarms of people to Florida
The Mofett bell punch in Fredericks-
burg yielded In three months 81 ,754.
An Indian paper wants all the pistols
| IN the Indian territory broken.
New Orleans, Mobile and Memphis
are making extensive preparations for Mardi
Gras. g
There is one member of the Virginia
legislature who boasts that he has voted
against every bill in the body.
Three persons died of s1nall-Fox and.
nineteen OF consumption in New Orleans
/ last week. ~
Not mile of railroad was built dur
ing the past year in Georgia, Mississippi or
Arkansas.
A man was sentenced in Nashville to
three years in the penitentiary for stealing
three boxes of pepper.
The bishep of the African Methodist
the Liberian government. -
A sale of good farming land was made
in Stafford county, Va, a few days ago at
less than one dollar an acre.
The Virginia legislature proposes to
make silver legal tender in that state.
West Virginia has such law.
Waco (Tex.) Patron: Wheat is re-
ported to be doing well in every part of the
state. A large spring crop will be sown.
The gold yield of Georgia is now half
million year, and the Atlanta Constitu~
ton thinks 1t may be carried to that amount
per month. Z a.
The convention of mayors of the
southern seaboard cities, called to meet in
Jacksonville, February s, has been post
poned until February IA.
Charleston, S. O., is full of foolish ne
groes waiting for the Liberian ship. They
| say one thousand from about Selma, Ala,
viii go between this and May. ~ -f1.
One-third of the MofFett registers in
Virginia show that SIS, 1898 81 were collected
in December. This would give about six
hundred thousand dollars annually.
Atlanta, during the past ywo weeks.
| has received about three thousand horses
and mules, and sold about two hundred per
day for distribution in other parts of the
| state.
The gubernatorial succession is being
| discussed in Texas. Gov. Hubbard, Hon.
| w. w. Lang, Hon. J. w. Throekmorton and
Judge DeVine are the most prominent can
didates.
The roaring spring at Orange Park,
Fl0rldas ss asss4etng great many visitors,
| 1t flows TIVE thousand gallons of water per
| minute, and its temperature is seventy.two
degrees.
Atlanta Constitution The sheep fever
Is taking bold in Atlanta. 1t almost threat
ems 70 drive the money question out of dis
| cussiOn. Georgia will be the great sheen
state of the future.
Judge Baxter imposed fnes, amount
ing to two thousand four hundred dollars
| upon persons found guilty by the United
States circuit court, at Knoxville, last week
OF violating the revenue laws. 4
i The Mexican authorities at Piedras
Negras have delivered the murderer Cordona
to the American officers on this side of the
Rio Grande, much to the disgust of the
! Mexicans, who threaten rescue.
A young Mexican, Amado Palocio,
\ committed suic de at Corpus Christi a few
| days since. He was wrongfully prosecuted
| for the theft of q sadd e, and chose death as
a means of escaping the modification.
In 1876 seven aud half miles of rail-
road were built in Tennessee; in 1877,
twenty one and three quarter miles. Up to
| date Tennessee has 1867 miles OF railroad
Five hundred miles are projected, bat it is
a question of time whether they viii be put
in operation. Asa 6
Tallahassee (Fla.) Patriot: New orange
| groves are springing up in every direction
| in Orange county and the counties adjacent
None OF the groves suffered material damage
4 by the late cold weather, showing the un-
! doubted value of water protection, which
the numerous lakes in. that vicinity afford.
Collector WOodcock, of the Nashville
| district, has recently broken up about forty
moOnshine distilleTies, and Commission er
Raum has written him letter, stating that
| any support, either I'm money or forces,
required for the purpose OF suppreSsing IL
licit distillenes, will be promptly furnished
upon application. ess=--s - =
Current Southern item: Tramps are
numerous in this locality, ninety.nine hum
dredths of the scum of northern low life,
and all of them thieves (for an honest man,
though foot traveller in search of work, is
not tramPe and we advise our citizens to
keep their doors locked and their muskets
Z loaded, and always shoot low.
Vicksburg Herald: The Queen of TIE
| Gypsies is said to have died last week at the
camp OF the band who have been soiourning
for some time in the vicinity of SpFout
Spring She lay in state for several DAYS at
the camp, after which her body, inclosed in
the finest casket that could be procured, was
; semitic Dayton, Ohio.
|
:. A bill before the Virginia legislature
requires all persons selling cigars to take out
a state license, and be furnished with q
moffett register. Every time the dealer sells
a cigar he turns the crank of the register
and at the end of each month be makes oath
TO the number of cigars sold, and pays tax
OF one cent on each cigar sold.
Petersburg (Na.l Appeal: Four hun
| dred and sixty dollars were subscribed in the
city of Norfolk for the relief of the sufferer.
of the James river flood, Ia the town OF Blu
chanan. So far as we know, this is the only
reply that has so Tar been made, in or out o
: the state, to the appeal for relief lately pu
{ forward by a number of the leading citizens
of BOtatOurt county.
The auditor of public accounts of Vir
ginia, in q report made to the house, estimate
that, with some notifications, the Aodee
> law will produce annually between i've ant
I six hundred thousand dollars He has re
i ceiyed actual returns from all the cities anS
Is about thirty counties. The auditor report
4 | that the law is working sStisfactorily anS
: that there is now but little complaint asaiRs
: {,
! Austin (Texas1 Gazette: The depre
. citation of the Mexican dollar has been
: source of profound surprise to us. We sc,
/; it stated that the director of the mint rate
n it S9S in gold. 1t is represented on othe
Il high authority as being iatrinsicallY NOR
n valuable than two half dollars American
i / coiu- In Texas il Is especially unfortunat
that its value should be degraded, ss it mus
= injure the Mexican trade,
i Since the lunatic asylum at Raleigl
Ii was opened, in 1851, the total number of ac
missions has been 226 and the total uxmhe