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

Portions of Georgia are suffering Sc
verely from drouth.
A Texas man has raised and shipped
north this year 80 mocking birds.
The city assessment of Dallas falls
100000 below what is was for 1877.
The Georgia state fair, at Atlanta in
October, offers ST., 800 in premiums.
The streams in parts of Georgia and
North Carolina are said to be lower than for
forty years.
The Fort Smith (Ark.) Herald reports
that work will soon be resumed on the Jet,
ties at that place.
The Charleston, Is. C.) Journal of
Commerce has suspended after eating up
S6O,OOO over and above its capital.
Mountain trout in streams on the
south side of the Blue Ridge can not live.
Every effort to raise them has failed.
The Sunday ordinance in Richmond
worked so badly that it was promptly re-
pealed, and the back doors of bar-rooms will
be open as usual on Sundays.
In Georgia white girl, aged fifteen,
ran off with negro man, and both landed in
the Savannah Jail. The girl claims to be
negro, and clings to the man.
The ice dealers OF Charleston have
raised the price OF that article, but the
man ufactory at Savannah supplies the de-
mand at less than one cent a pound.
The subject of the narrow-gauge rail
road up to the summit of Lookout mountain
is again being ag!tated, with the view of
converting that height into summer resort.
The reporter sent over with the Libe-
rian emigrant ship discovered one negro in
| MonrOvia who had made money and was de~
lighted with the country. He was an under
taker.
Austin (Tex.j Statesman Some peo-
pie predict that corn viii not bring over
fifteen cents a bushel this fall. Farmers had
better make their arrangements to feed as
much as possible of it to hogs and cattle.
A correspondent of the Blue Ridge
Echo mentions the fact that a farmer in
RapPahannoek county, who sOwed ten tons
OF phosphate last fall, now offers his entire
wheat crop to any one who will pay for the
fertilizer.
The Macon Telegraph says: A very
daring robbery of large amount of money
IN the mails in Georgia has Just been dis
covered. The post Office officials and the
detectives are actively engaged in their in
VestigatiOns.
The government refuses to pay $50 per
ton for ice, and custom house and other EN-.
plOyes at New Orleans have to drink warm
wafer. The mayor of the city is taking steps
| to import ice, as it is absolutely indispens-
able in the treatment of yellow fever.
Montgomery (AIa) Advertiser: The
| law authorizing the hiring out of state and
! county COnviCts will no doubt be a bone of
/ contention il the next legislature. An eff
| tort will be made to repeal the law on the
! ground that II interferes with honest labor,
Galveston News A monster of the
| deep, in the shane of a shark thirteen feet
| long, was pulled out of the bay yesterday
| evening. The mouth was sufficiently large
| when open to permit the passage of mans
| head and shoulders, and it required twenty
| men to land him on the wharf,
! Austin Tex Statesman Last year
/ cotton in this section of the state averaged
| about one third of bale to the acre, and the
! total shipments from Austin amounted to
! about 10000 bales. The cotton crop in this
! section of the state now promises full bale
! to the acre, or three times as much per acre
rs was made last season, with an increased
! acreage. Therefore some anticipate that the
| shipments from Austin this season may
reach $4,000 bales. Certainly the shipments
will be more than double what they were
! last year.
Dennison (Tex.) News: There is a
| great religious revival among the negroes at
! Preston Bend. A few weeks ago two negroes
| on Judge POrter's place were killed by
! lightning A Gay or two after that a team
! ran away and broke a negro's leg The
! supersitiOns negroes inte erpreted these oc-
| currences as special vi stations of Providence
! and the result mas been thai nearly ali the
| cOlOred population have experienced re.
| ligion. 1t keeps the colored preacher busy
/ baptizing the converts.
New Orleans Democrat The present
type of yellow fever differs in many particu.
! lars from the characteristics of the same dis
ease in former years. This year the patient
| feels no pain in the back, and his pulse, skin
ard general appearance do not indicate a
high stage of fever. The fever is hidden
internal, though much more dangerous than
apparent febrile symptoms. The present
| sickness is sporadic, and gives no great
cause of anxiety as yet, if the proper sani
tary rules are followed with strict attention
New Orleans Democrat The levee
/ board of the eleventh district of Mississippi
/ met ut GreeuviIle the other day to decide
on the tax to be levied for the repair and
/ construction of the levees. This tax was
| finally fixed at One-half cent on cotton and
other personally and realty in the district
This Mississippi district therefore pays g
higher tax to keep its levees in order than
any northern state pays for all the expenses
! of government. The people of Tennessee
and Virginia complain OF five mills state tax
as extO-tiOnate, but the people of Issaquens
have to pay this tax for levees alone. Every
bale of cotton raised here is taxed 81 foI
levees.