The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-02-21
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

Inc salary of the governor of Louisiana
is $4,000, and the proposed amendment only
cuts it down to $1,000.
There are one hundred and filty-one
Willismses in Augusta, Ca, according to the
new directory of the city.
The net earnings of the Eagle and
PhenIx manufacturing company at Colum-
bus, Ga, last year were $150,19S.
The supreme court of Tennessee de-
eided last Saturday that the state cannot be
sued by her citizens through her officers.
A Nashville lady deposited one hun
dred dollars in Philadelphia bank twenty
seven years ago, and on Monday received
therefrom 327.
Murphys are making things lively in
Wheeling, Nashville, Montgomery and Little
Rock. Southwark the star of temperance
hold its way, as it were.
The special joint committee of the
Virginia legislature on the revision of the
criminal laws recommend the whipping-post
for petit larceny and other small ofenses.
Charlotte IN. C.) Observer: The min
ing outlook is very promising, and those who
have labOred so hard for the development of
the mineral resources of this section are
much encouraged.
Messrs. Nash & Weisser, of Fulton,
Texas, killed fifteen thousand beeves the
past season, and successfully canned two
thousands of cans of turtle, tongues, soups,
etc.
The Atlanta cotton factory question is
not yet definitely settled, and counsel for the
Lowell machine shop will take the case Co
the supreme court. Meanwhile the directors
of the cotton factory viii deposit the re.
quired bond and go ahead with the work.
Richmond Enquirer: Philip Helfrich,
convicted of failing to registera glass of beer
sold, appeared before Juigon yesterday, paid
the fine and costs, amounting to $49.3 in
accordance with the finding of the court, the
supreme court having affirmed its acti on.
The supreme court of Virginia bas
decided that the Moffett lawis constitutional
There is not the slightest probability that
the legislature will repeal the law, as from
the returns already made the auditor of
public accounts is of the opinion that it will
produce not less than $525,0-O.
Texas is overrun with tramps, and
the Dallas Commercial offers this advice:
Don't feed the tramps IF they ask for
meal send them to the wood>pile and make
them earn it. If they won't do that they are
not very hungry. A rigid determination on
the part of the people not to feed those who
won't work will cure the tramping business
sooner than anything else.
Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer: Since Au-
gust 81, to date, the Eagle and Phenix mans
utacturlng company have ginned $40 bales
of cotton, against sos the same time last year.
This cotton was brought to the factory in the
seed as gathered from the field. This is
one of the great advantages possessed by
southern mills. The net earnings for the
past year were over one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars.
Louisiana Sugar Bowl: We are glad
to see thai the canvass OF the different sugar
parishes is fully verifying our estimate that
the loss from the freeze would not exceed %
per cent. Mr.. William Robertson, who has
recently visited all the sugar plantations in
st. Mary, iberia. st. Martin, Lafayette and
Vermillion, has found that in the parishes
named the crop is only about twenty per
cent. shorter than that of 1876, and the
Houma Courier reports the crop OF Ter=e>
bonnie as being 10000 hOgsheads against a.
331 in 1876.