The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-07-25

Clarksville Chronicle: The elasticity
with which a people can recover from a
four hundred thousand dollar fire is best
shown by its rebuilding In the short space of
three months.
Near Paris, KY, in a rural cemetery,
some ants, by diligently working for several
weeks, undermined CONN in a vault dug 4
tunnel and carried the skeleton which the
coffin contained through the tunnel to a
place seventeen feet from where it was orig.
inally.
The supreme court of Louisiana has
sustained Gov. Nichols in his refusal to de-
liver the bonds authorized by the legislature
to be issued for the benefit of the New Or
leans Pacific railroad. Governor NicholIs'
opposition was based upon an irregularity in
the fogm OF the bonds.
The Vicksburg Herald SAYS that the
point above Delta is washing away very rap
idly, and that the powerful current is grad
uaIly grinding and sweeping away both
point and sand-bar, thereby resulting in
throwing the channel of the river further
on from Nicksburg every day
The future growth of Florida is not, in
the opinion of the Sumpter Advanced in the
number of immigrants brought into her
imlts, but in the millions of Young orange
trees that are gradually coming into bearing.
Every tree that natures ans puts forth fruit
ADDS Sl0 to $40 per annUn TO the wealth of
the state.
A party of scientific people, teachers
aud pupils, male and female, from Indiana
and Illinois, are walking in the mountains
OF North Carolina. The Asheville Citizen
says they have walked from Somerset, Ky
through the Cumberland mountains, and are
walking on to the Black, which will complete
distance of 200 miles.
Dallas Herald: An intelligent and OBJ
servant farmer who has Just returned from
AXEnnGnn tr1n r,vTar = he ,f 1t,
son, Hill, Ellis and Dallas informs us that in
Lfe-tlme's experience In the north, west
ana south he has never seen such crops as
| now cover these counties like a grand pano-
rama Of fruitfulness.
The Nashville American says at Rhea
| Springs, Sunday, mau by the name of Col
hns became deranged, and, stripping him~
self, ran muck through the town, knocking
down several persons who attempted to pre-
! vent his entering a church. He was over
| powered and put in jail, but when she jailer
| came in he killed him and knocked his wife
! senseless to the floor.
| An extensive South Carolina planter
| says previous to 1885 the natural decennial
increase of negroes on his plantation was 25
| per cent. There are now living on his lands
/ 17S negroes, and their increase the past
! decade has been Il per cent His conclusion
! Is that the negro increase in the country
/ will more than make up the mortality in
/ towns, and the next census will show a large
! increase all over the south.
! The Floridian says an OK went into
| the water at Lake Jackson and was attack ed
/ and his leg broken by an alligator. The OK
beloved and struck for the land, dragging
! the alligator with him. Attracted by The
| blood and the noise, other sliigatOrs came to
| the attack, and as the OK tossed them in the
/ air with his horns, he incauJiously backed
| into the water, when huge alligator seized
! him by the nose and drowned him.
Knoxville Tribune: For the season
| just passed the various kinds of wheat grown
on the College farm produced as follows :
/ College farm seed (CiausOnl selected, six
acres, 100 bushels-rusted. College farm
seed (Clauson), in river bottom, eight acres
| l76 bushels-nOt rusted Fultz seed, two
| acres, 20 bushels. Georgia seed, two bushels
! two acres, Is bushels Agricultural depart
ment seed, two bushels, two acres 19 bushels.
| Champion amber, two acres, 45 bushels.
Dallas (Texas) Commercial: Tom
| ScOtt's devil fish. as the Texas Pacific is
! called, has entwined its arms around cities,
! towns and valuable farms, and brought them
! up out of the depths of no. hingness. Cast
! your eye upon the huge monster as he lies
| across north Texas and see how these cities
and towns and prosperous communities lie
| cOntsnted and happy in it's embrace. But
turn time backward in its fight. drag this
monster back into the oblivion of the past,
and then look again at north Texas, and
what do You see ? Grass, trees, cabins, wolves
and wild deer. AS between the two we pre-
| fer the devil fish
Knoxville Tribune: Col. Barnard, the
! successful Indian fighter whom we men
! toned some days since being native OF
eest Tennessee, we learn enlisted in the reg
ular army as a private in this city during
the year 1856, at which time he was employ
ed as blacksmith at Kennedy's shops, foot
of Cumberland street, on first creek Col.
I barnard is son OF the late John Barnard,
| Esq, of Washington county (whO died about
two years since(- He was born and raised in
the vicinity of Beach creek, Hawkins county,
! and his family and children still live in
| JonesbOrO. That Col. B. has more than once
| " cleaned up" the red skins while the gen
| eral in command was holding prayers in the
rear for the delivery of his troops, is eulogy