The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-03-14
SOUTHEEa NEWS ITEMS.

A Pu.nam comfy, Tenn, moonshiner
tolel 3 reporter of the Nashville American
shat tbere were two hundred illicit distiller-
rs in That county alone, and that he had
made twenty-five dollars week at the bpsi,
ess.
A statue of AIajor-Genefal William
Henry Talbot Walker, who fell in the bloody
one OF the columns of the confederate monu-
ment which will be erected in the city of
Augusta at an early day.
Tie Mississippi legislature has enacted
/ a law to fix the penalty In cases OF rape.
This law makes the puDishmgnt of fape The
same as is now provided by law in cases of
murder, which is death or imprisonment in
the penitentiary for life, at the discretion of
the jury.
Col. W. 81. McCardle has been named
to collect and preserve the records of the
late war, as far as the state of Mississippi ia
concerned, bill to that effect having passed
the state senate. He is to be allowed 500
per month for his services, and twelve
months to do the work.
The supreme court of Georgia decided
the other day, in the case of McDade Us, the
Georgia railroad company, that the employe
OF railroad company who receives physi-
cal injury partly by his own fault, or partly
by the FAULT of other servants or employees of
the company, cannot recover.
The internal revenue officers in the
second Tennessee district, during their raid
upon the mOonshiners, succeeded in DESTROY
ing 20 Illicit distilleries, seizing II copper
stills; 10000 gallons of beer, $50 gallons of
slnglings, 100 gallons of whisky. Is bushels
OF meal, 10 bushels of corn and lot of meal.
Savannah News: Madison cnrhhv
boasts of a wonderful natural production in
the shape of horned rooster the property
OF Mr.. Ferguson. The owner exhibited him
at Athens recently and pitted him against
one OF the city games eg Shat place, and in
stead Of squirting, he butted his antagonist
opt Of the ring and gained the day. Send
aim to Paris.
About four hundred German itami-
grants, with their wives ana families, have
just arrived iR Taylor county, Texas, from
Ohio. They have bought an eypr hundred
thousand acres of land at a dollar and a half
an acre, cash down, and have an abundance
OF capital and improved agricultural imple-
ments with which to commence farming
operations at once.
The Tampa (Florida) Guardian says:
A sweet seeding orange tree in, the grcv5 of
Mrs. Peterson, at HprinA ELL, fernando
county, bore two genuine lemons in a crop
IF oranges this season. There was no lemon
! graft in connection with this lusus natuIE
which must have resulted from the fecunda-
ton of the orange blooms with the pollen
Nashville American! The followins
shows the number of immigrants who came
into Tennessee during the month of Febru-
ary, as reported by Commissioner Killebrew:
| From Ohio, 81; Indiana. AZ Michigan, AZ; p;
Wisconsin, 80 New York, % Pennsylvania,
IS; Minnesota, 21 (; Iowa, II, Illinois, 81 |;
| Canada, 1; Ireland, = making a total of 279
! About One.third of this number settled in
Lawrence county, and it is expected 100
more will reach here this month or early in
April.
The legislature of Georgia, at its last
session, pas5ed an act requiring all insurance
Companies doing business in the state to de-
| pOsit with the state treasurer, upon the
! expiration of their certificates, $4,000 in
| United States or state of Georgia bonds
This was done f0- the protection of policy
! holders. The certificates all expired on the
| 1st instant, and no insurance company can
now carry on business in this state unless it
| has deposited bonds with the treasurer in
compliance with the law.
An essay was read before the Georgia
agricultural society on tea culture in that
state. The Atlanta Constitution remarks
thereon: The tee raised hers and carefully
| prepared IS superior to any imported. There
| we're others present who confirmed all that
the doctor said in reference to the excellence
of the tea raised here. The essay concluded
with the assertion that tea could be raised
prOftablY in this climate. The Commissioner
of agriculture has recently purchased from
! Mrs. Scre7en. of Liberty county, 65, 900 young
/ tea plants for gratuitous distribution in the
! United States.
Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer Sun; PEN
sacola seems to be at the mercy of the
opoly, and the opposition of that road
has prevented the putting on of a line
OF steamers between that port and Cuba
for the expectation of grain and other
produce. A few weeks ago the gen>
eral southern manager of the Pullman pal.
ace ear company was in that city, with a
view OF putting on through sleeper between
Louisville and Pensacola, and every arrange
ment to cOnsummate this convenience was
made, when the Mobile and Montgomery
railroad stepped in and put a veto upon the
arrangement,
Little Rock Gazette: AS there is a
question as to the right of planters who desire
TO supply their employees with manufactured
tobacco for their own personal use and ac-
comm odatiOn, we have taken pains, in the
interest of our readers, through the internal
revenue Office of this place, to get decision
direct from Revenue Commissioner Raum
upon this matter specifically. The decision
obtained by us is as follows: "a farmer ol
planter who simply supplies his employees
with what manufactured tobacco they need
for their own personal use and for theil
special accommodation, and not with a view
1
as engaged in the business of selling manu-,
factured tobacco, and would not be required
to pay special tax for thus supplying hi!
hired laborers with tobacco"
There is but little doubt that the citi
gems of Jacksonville will secure the large
expertness of Captain Eads in looking aftel
the Improvement of the St. Johns bar. On
thousand dollars have been voted to pay thu
captains expenses, and Representativ Fin
lay, in communication to the Jacksonville
Sun and Press, says: MY only purpose i
L tc urge with the greatest earnestness imme
diate and energetic action on the part of tn
city authorities and citizens of Jacksonville
and of the state, and the prompt acceptanc
of Captain Eads' offer. If his report shoult
be favorable, it will be of incalculabIe ad
vantage to the city and the state If /
should be adverse, we shall then know tina
we cannot make the river do its own work
and that We may only hope to get an in
adequate depth of water over the bar at tn
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