The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-06-13
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

Arkansas is shipping walnut and oak
! logs to Liverpool.
The amount of back taxes due the CITY
of New Orleans is 50, ,OoO, 900.
| a Davidson county, Tenn, farmer is
making molasses from corn stalks.
There are twenty-five thousand vol
umes in the North Carolina state library.
The bones of q mastodOn were recently
blown up by a rock blast near Rome, Ga.
A one-legged pauper of Houston.
Texas, has sued the county for his support,
A thousand-acre plantation in the
Yazoo valley, Miss, recently sold for S55 an
acre.
The Dallas and Wichita (Texas) rails
road has been placed in the hands of a re-
ceiver.
The petition of the Macon ladies for
the free pardon of Kate Southern makes a
| document ten feet in length.
The American Baptist Home Mission
Society owe $45,433 incurred for freedmen's
institutions at Natchez and Nashville.
The Georgia Historical Society has
| been presented Gen. Lees plan for organ>
izing negroes into confederate regiments.
The Richmond State remarks that "the
/ latter days of Jefferson Davis, like Jobs,
are likely to prove more prosperous than his
| former"
The tobacco area planted in Virginia
! this year Is reported to be smaller than that
OF last year. The planters complain of the
low prices.
There are said to be nine hundred and
| forty more cOlOred citizens enjoying the ad-
vantages of the public schools Of South Caro-
lima than white children.
On the plantation of Mr.. Tom Shan
non, near ThOmaston, Ga, while the father
and mother were temporarily away, cabin
| containing six negro children was burned.
The Oldest child was ten years of age.
The average wages per month paid
| farm hands in Georgia, with rstions, is in
north Georgia, 50; middle Georgia, 81. so
| southwest Georgia, S7.4i; east Georgia, $8 {;
southeast Georgia, Sl0.10; average for the
state; $S08.
Kingston East Tennessean: A letter
dated Boston, April 80, stated that a party
| OF four capitalists would leave that city on
the Friday following to view 400 900 acres OF
Cumberland noun ain tablelands, owned by
| Cyrus Clark, of Pennsylvania, with the ex-
| pectatiOn of making purchase for the col
| OnizatiOn of eastern people.
The East Florida Banner states that,
eighty thousand dollars have been subscribed
toward building a railroad from Orange
lake to the Ocklawaha river. The present
crop of oranges up there is put down at six
million, and it will be difficult to haul them
to the river in wagons and over rough roads,
so tram road will be laid down this sum.
mer, to be followed by q better and more
costly road as soon as the truit growers are
able to build it.
Galveston News: Galveston is simply
dong nothing. She is just about as inert as
wet rag. Any stranger passing over the
city would be apt to ask the question. how
do all these people live? Ihe city does not
even produce an aA~handle. There was a
broom factory some years ago, but that gave
out. There is not lanyard in the place,
nor a wagon shop, nora cotton or a wooden
| mill, nor an Oil-seed factory, nor the vestige
of place where pound of bone dast or
oil cake could be produced; in fact, the city
is destitute of all preteBsiOns to either
wealth or progress in the domain of manu-
fscsure.
Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle: The grand
| jury of the city court of Savannah recon-
| mend that the representatives of Chatham
| county, in the general assembly, introduce
| bill for levying special tax upon gambling
| houses and houses of illfame, placing them
| under the surveillance of competent officers
| and otherwise subjecting them to such police
and sanitary regulations as may be deemed
| necessary for the good of the community,
/ Two grand iuries of this county have made
| a similar recommendation, but no steps have
| ever been taken toward carrying it into
| effect. 1t would seem to be the part of wis
| dom to regulate evils which cannot be supr
| pressed,