The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-17
NEWS SUMMARY.
SOUTH.

SOUTH.
The postOffice receipts at Savannah for
1877 were $47,271 90, and the expenses $27,-
628 29, showing net income of $19,643 81.
One hundred and seventy-five emf
grafton tickets have been sold in Charlotte
during the past month.
The Vicksburg Herald says the people
OF Louisiana are in earnest about the pro.
posed railroad connection between that city
and Shreveport.
Chattanooga Times: Sixteen hundred
immigrants to Texas travelled over the Ken
nesaw route in December, about half of
whom purchased their tickets in Atlanta.
Nashville American Most all the
gamblers are submitting their cases in the
criminal court and paying So fines and costs.
A saloon keeper was fined S. for permitting
persons TO play cards in his house for the
drinks.
The Atlanta (Ga.) Constitutionalist
says: Chicken fighting is getting to be so
common in the neighbOrhOOd of Columbus,
! that boys go about with game cocks in sacks,
and gafs sticking to the lapels of their
coats.
The Atlanta Constitution has inter-
viewed stock man, who thinks the calm
and meditative sheep is to be Georgia,s re-
generator" and that the Bermuda grass
beats the Kentucky bluegrass in several es-
sentlal particulars"
An encounter took place in Sumter
| county, Florida, few days ago, between
Reuben Marsh and Gus Caruthers. Caruthers
fired two shots from gun, killing Marsh he
then rode about half mile, fell from his
| horse, and expired.
Judge Sherman Page, Ex-Governor
Sherwood and A. f Meigs, of Minnesota,
are in Tennessee in search of information of
a desirable location for a settlement. They
intend to take large colony down when a
location can he determined upon.
The Charlotte IN. CO. Observer tells
! OF man who came to that place with a wife
and fourteen children. He wanted to move
| to Tennessee; the price of tickets was $528;
he retired in disgust, and is now at his old
| home.
There are I57 members in the Missis,
sippi legislature. In the senate are two re-
publicans, one colored. In the house are
one white republican, two independent col
| ored republicans, two fusion colored republi.
| cans and three colored democrats. A cOlOred
| democrat was elected dOOr-keeper of the
| house.
| The exports from the port of Norfolk
for the month of December aggregate ST.
| 800709 81. The number of vessels that
| cleared Tor foreign ports amounted to 81, ,093.
! The exports for the year amounted to Sc, ,278,-
| 933 43. The receipts of cotton at Norfolk
/ during the month of December amounted to
1926 bales.
HandsbOro (Miss.) Democrat: Mr. J.
e. Clarke, the general manager of the line
| of railroad leading from New Orleans to
Chicago, says the tide of immigration from
the west to the south is setting in in real
| earnest. He thinks thousands will seek
homes during the coming year. All who
come are welcome.
New Orleans Times: The postmaster
of fernando was garroted and robbed on the
| night of the Goth ult., while he was on his
| way from the postoffice to his home. Three
| white men were the assailants, and they got
personal funds. No clew to the identity of
! the robbers has been ascertained,
Steamers and RATS now pass through
Reuben's cut, on the Ocmulgee, hitherto the
most difficult part of the navigation between
| Darien and Hawkinsville. The opening of
this cut was recently effected by the United
States government, and adds much to the
! prosperity of middle and southwestern
Georgia, which is thus brought near to mar
| ket by cheap communication.
Judging from the experience of the
past three or four months, the Moffet regis
ter will realizein Richmond not more than
| ffty-five or sixty thousand dollars per an
mum. Special licenses, etc., may increase
the, amount $4,000; total $4,000 at the
utmost. This is a little more than double
what the old law produced; by no means
what was expected of the new law.
Knoxville (Tenn.) Chronicle The
following are the annual salaries of Chatta-
nooga's city officials, fixed at a recent meet
ing of their board Mayor, $500; aldermen,
$500; auditor, $500: recorder, $500; attorney,
$3.50; city marshal. 5000; physician, $3.50; en-
gineer, 5000; treasurer, $500; jailer, $540;
lieutenant of police, $500; policeman, $40
sexton, 500; tax collector, two per cent. on
all taxes collected.
Vicksburg Herald: Some time during
the last week of December there was received
at the United States treasury, Washington
city, from Vicksburg, an old tin box, which
had been buried in the ground a number OF
years by the owner, and lately exhumed by
him, containing twenty thousand dol
lars in the first issue of the government
greenbacks a1d national bank notes. The
money had become so rusted by contact with
the box and affected By mildew us to be in
great danger OF dropping to pieces, and was
consequently forwarded to the United States
treasury for redemption. The exchange fol
good money has been made.
New Orleans Democrat on "Jacksor
day:" The invading army, which had ad
vanced into the very heart of the republic
had burned the capital, desecrated the ma
tional monuments, chased the timorou
president into some remote hiding place, aDC
scattered, like sheen before wolves. the vas
horde of his mllltiamen, quadrupling IL
number the invaders, was here met on tn
| field by the youth and men of Louisiana
Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky, ant
driven back with shame and slaughter T.
their ships. In less than two months fror
: their appearance off our shores, an arm
composed of the veterans who had conquere
the great Napoleon and his cohorts, an arm
of twelve thousand of the picked veterans G
the great peninsular war, who had won tn
brightest of all the laurels won by the Britis
army, an army conducted tbither by tn
greatest squadron ever sent forth by ths
great naval power, squadron stronger thar
and composed OF the very ships of, the fle'
which had annihilated the French navy
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