The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-02-07
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

The Murphys have got down to Little
Rock, and 240 converts were made at the first
meeting.
Virginia had recently to borrow thirty
thousand dollars more from the banker John
B. Davis to pay the per diem of members of
the legislature.
A dinner was given in Warrenton, Va,
to twelve old ladies, whose aggregate ages
was eight hundred years. They danced
quadIille and the minuet
The Liberian Exodus association of
South Carolina report that one hundred
thousand coIored persons have signifed
desire to emigrate to Liberia.
Montgomery Ala Advertiser: Mules
were selling at auction YESTERDAY at the re-
markably low price of $35 apiece. There is
plenty of good stock in the country.
The White Sulphur Springs (Va)
property is to be sold st auction in August
next. A million of dollars, it is stated, must
be realized in order to satisfy mortgage cred
itors.
There are forty~seyen persons in the
Montgomery county, Ala, jail, eighteen of
whom are white men, and all of that num-
Der federal prisoners, charged with illicit
distilliDg.
The Lexington, Va, DisT atch says it
! is not CYRUS H., but Leander J. Mccormack,
native of Rock bridge, but now citizen of
Chicago, that is having the big telescope
made for Washington and Lee university.
A negro Voodoo doctress in Dallas,
Texas, says that she came to this earth on
pinions and that her god, in his displeasure,
| took the wings away from her, and she is
| awaiting the growth of another pair to fly
| away again to glory.
The Staunton, Va, VindicatOr has
been interviewing the druggists of that city
on the frig htful increase of the vice of opium
eating, and the rather remarkable statement
is made that one house alone has sold 70, ,593
doses in one year.
Candidates for governor of Texas
Hon. r. Is. Hubbard, Hon. j. w. Throck-
morton, Judge J. II. Reagan. Judge T. De-
| vine, Hon. John Ireland and Hon. H. NJ.
| Kopperd. Hon. John Hancock is mentioned
as the greenbackers' candidate, and Grand
Master Lang as that of the grange element.
San Antonio Express: There is some
thing about this Mexican silver depreciation
question we can't understand. In a short
time it has tumbled from premium to seven
cents below par in our local business trans
actions, and no satisfactory reasons based on
the principle of cause and effect have been
given for the great depreciation.
Tarboro, n. c., Southerner: In open
ing a bed of mari on the farm of Mr.. A. Case
some days since, they stuck into what i:
supposed to be a creek or small river, some
six or eight feet below the surface. There
they found an Indian canoe with Skeleton
! | OF q human De1ng, sitting uPrlg0B, with tn(
remnant of paddle in his hand. It is sup
posed that the embankment must have giveI
away above and buried this person while sit
ting at its base.
Cedar Key (Fla.) State Journal: The
orange business has not proved a remuner
! | ative one this season, from what we cal
| learn. The markets were crowded in tht
start with half ripe fruit, which no doub
: influenced, to some extent, the low price
| fhof all al wei in he
this would prove permanent as well a
profitable pursuit to many of our citizens
but it seems their experience has been rathe
sad thus far. The Florida orange, while un
| surpassed for its rich flavor and size, vii
2 not keep long. They rot very fast.
San Antonio Herald: Corn is six dol
lars a bushel in chihuahua. 1t sells in thi
: city at tnirty-tive cents a bushel. Northern
Mexico suffered fearfully from the droutl
! last summer. and provisions there are yer
9 scarce, and sell for enormous prices. Her
provisions are plentiful and very cheap. !
we send provisions from San Antonio to Chi
9 huahua, we must use wagon transportation
D ard take the northern route by Forts Dun
can and Davis, thence across the Rio Grand
and by circuitous road to chihuahua.
The Richmond Whig says that in 1S5
i Governor Johnson's pardon of the negl
q Jordan Hatcher, sentenced to death for mul
der, caused crowd to collect before tn
governors mansion and express their disaI
!. probation with groans and Kisses. This cause
Hon. Charles S. Lewis, who died at Clark
q burg, West Virginia, last week, to make
n motion in the house of delegates for tb
q appointment of joint committee to inouiI
= into the expediency of moving the capital ,
q the commonwealth from Richmond to som
is central location where the executive coul
discharge the functions of his Office withou
Being subjected to insult, and the motto
was carried by vote of IS to 80.
a Nashville American: AS a freigl
q train wss passing around the foot of Lookol
:. , mountain into Chattanooga Saturday one
y the hrakemen discovered a tramp In a carIoa
le of mules. The tramp was astride one of II
h | animals, and was asked what he was doir
there. " Driving mules to Chattanooga
ID was the laeonic response, as he yelled o
20 sswhoa pa to the animal. On looking ia
a car loaded with hogs another tramp W
DR. found, perfectly at home with the swim
n "who are you?' demanded the brakeIna