The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-02-14
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

Fort Worth received 10000 buffalo
robes last year.
A very black couple in Columbus. Ca,
have three Albino children.
Richmond's bonded debt is $4,477,-
1850; taxable property, $780, 5S9,067.
North Carolina has S31 convicts in
the penitentiaEy, and 700 at work on rail
roads.
The enderest TROPICAL plants at Tampa,
Florida, were not injured in the least this
winter, -- --E ----. 1l-~.
Tennessee has now eleven hundred and
twenty convicts, and expects to have twelve
hundred in two months.
It is thought that for several years to
hat of each preceding year.
Marshall, Texas, Herald Reports from
ell parts of the state represent The wheat
crop as promising an abundant yield.
The Madison (La) Journal says there
are cotton fields in that parish that have
never been touched by cotton pickers.
The Fort Worth Democrat is authority
for the statement that one of Davy Crockett's
sons was in that town the other day with
load of cotton. t
Diphtheria has become so prevalent
and fatal in Tennessee that the state board
of health has issued circular upon its pre-
NSAtdOH dAO
Governor Hahn has offered bill in the
Louisiana legislature licensing gambling
houses, and prescribing the manner in which
they shall be conducted.
The Eastern Virgihiah tells of twenty
Goldfish being caught fortnight ago off the
| ccast OF Accomac-the first of the kind ever
known in Virginian waters. -s
Salisbury Watchman: There is little
negro girl, two or three years old, living in
town, with three feet and one hand. Her
| right arm has perfect foot on it.
II. NJ Moody has sent to the Office of
| the Jacksonville, Florida, Sun and Press q
peach, " one of some thirty that are on the
tree which had been in bloom the entire
| season."
The Knoxville Tribune says a ven
delta in Hancock county eliminated a few
days ago in the killing of Deputy Sheriff Cobb
and Andy Rhea, and the wounding of Fugali
and Epperson.
A Texan is exhibiting calf with eight
well-defned sheep horns, eight goat horns
| and two natural calf horns. He has also a
Berkshire pig with three horns, five legs, six
feet and two tails.
Tallahssse, Florida, Patriot: Peach
trees are in bloom, and If the weather con-
tinues as mild as we have had it for the past
two weeks, vegetables will go begging for
the want of buyers.
The governor has appointed Hon. F.
Fontaine, of Columbus, and Colonel John
A. Speer, of Lagrange, as the two honorary
commissioners to represent Georgia at the
Paris exposition.
The two cotton factories at West Point
are adding new machinery, and will soor
commence running day and night, an indi
cation that Georgia industries are in pros
porous condition.
One of the finest bayous in the state o.
Louisiana, which was, twenty years ago, {
perfect Eden of beauty and splendor, ha
become a swamp fit only for the habitatioI
of alligators and bullffOgs,
! All the states south of Mason anC
, Dixon's line were represented at the open
ing of the southern educational convention
at Atlanta, except Kentucky, Texas, Nortl
Carolina, Arkansas and Maryland.
In Hampstead, Texas, the grand jur,
indicted the gamblers, anu the gamblers il
turn filed informations before the count,
3 attorney against majority of the grant
. jury; also the county attorney himself.
. Williamson county TEX Sun: Cor
is selling freely at % cents bushel; oat
7 scarce and in demand at thirty cents; whea
> at 81 aud $t.25 for seed and immediate SOW
ing; barley scarce at twenty-five cents.
There is family in Madison county
: Florida, of remarkable stature. The recorde
/ reports their heights as follows: The fathe
+ | is seven feet four; the mother is six fee
eight; two sons seven feet three, and on
daughter seven feet nine.
Hutchins, the colored LAWYER fror
South Carolina, who some time since made
!. vain effort to obtain admission to the Georgi
r bar, has at last susceeded in carving ii
point, and is now a full-aedged Georgi
barrister.
s Gus. johnson will be hanged on th
8 18th of March, in Rome, Ga, for the murde
of a negro. lie VIII be the first white ma
. hanged in the south since the war for In
e murder of a negro. So says the Atlant
. Constitution.
Tennessee will not only send a lare
display of her products to the Paris expos
?, ton, but viii have about 10000 pamphIe
lt printed in French and German. and contai
ing such information about the state as ir
J, migrants will desire.
II The Richmond Transcript exbum.
IS the fact that Virginia once had a matt,
d African for governor. Governor Alexand
SpOttswood, who filed the chsIr in ia
D was born in TaDgier, while his father.
is British officer, was there on duty.
ig Mrs. Lily Murphy, of Pittsvlvan
county, Va, died on Wednesday. Duril
her 1Ress, her son, VIM. Murphy, aged
years, declared il his mother died he won
= go too, and when she died he cut his thro
ar with razor. but 1t is thought he will ]
a. cover.
70 Eleven dusky hegirists passed throu,
Crawfordsyille, Ga, last Saturday en- roS
sc to Liberia. They stated that il was their
40 tention to tramp through to Charlestf
/. where they would wait for their shin to cor
y in and take them to the happy land fowl
~ with milk and honey.
% The fishermen of ,Jaeksonv;Ila III