The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-03-28
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

I The Nashville gas company sends to
Alabama for coal.
Cullman has the only sauff factory in
| the state of Alabama.
The Chattanooga steel rail works will
be in operation June 1st.
Memphis desires to hear Capt. Eads
on the subject Of river Improvement.
A new cotton mill has Just been started
in Natehez, Miss, the operatives going from
Georgia.
About five hundred colored men of
Tennessee propose emigrating to Arkansas
next month.
The contract to improve the harbor of
Jacksonville, Florida, will probably be given
to Capt. Eads.
Gov. Holiday, of Virginia, has offered
of Charlotte Harris.
Certain lands on the st. Johns river,
Florida, sold the other day for four hundred
dollars per acre.
Mr.. Caswen Bell, aged seventy, shot
himself in Atascosu county, Texas, because
a widow wouldn't marry him.
The sheriff OF Denton county, Texas,
recently passed through Dallas, escorting
four murderers and two horse thieves.
A Selma, Ala. man has patented a
machine for distributing poison on cotton
plants, and thinks he will be a millionaire
shortly.
Three persons in the parish of Assump-
ton, in Louisiana, killed nine thousand alii-
gators, and sold their hides for seventy five
cents apiece.
The expenses of the recent session of
| the Louisiana legislature were two hundred
thousand dollars less than for any year since
reconstruction.
The results of artificial propagation of
fish IN Virginia are beginning to be exhibit
ed in the large number of shad and herrings
| in the streams.
Richmond Dispatch There is a seri
GUS falling off in the revenues of the Moffett
register. This is not at all an indication of
fault in the register itself, but OF dishonesty
in some liquor sellers.
Shreveport Times: A resident of San
Pedro, Texas, killed his wife with hatchet
because she would not get out of bed first to
make the fire. A cOroner's jury brought in
a verdict Of 'Died from natural causes"
Dallas, Texas, Commercial: First
Murderer-The right of trial by jury is the
cornerstone of American liberty. Second
Murderer You bet it is. And then they
loaded their pistols and went to look for a
new victim.
Nashville American Collector Wood
cook says that he has received information
from The persons coming from the counties
mentioned, TO the effect that the Illicit dis
tillcrs are making an organized effort at
resistance, and that very bitter feeling
exists among them.
Savannah News: A comparatively new
and prospectively profitable use is made by
DIR. Moragne, on the st. Johns river, of the
millions of orange blossoms which annually
drop from the trees and are left to decay.
He distills from them orange flower water,
which ladies pronounce superior to the
generality of toilet perfumes.
The coroner's jury holding an inquest
at New Orleans over The bodies of the St
Pierre family, drowned in consequence OF
the collision between the tug5oat Hope and
| the steamer Texas, has returned a verdict
that the accident could have been avoided
had proper care been taken by the officers
of the Texas.
West Virginia has tile largest and most
valuable body Of timber of any state in tht
union. Prof. FOntRine estimates that the
area still covered by forests is between nine
and ten million acres, and that the value o.
the surplus exportable timber is fully seven
ty~fve million dollars as it stands in thC
forests. The oak, walnut, cherry, ash, pop
; lar, maple, elm, sycamore ana locust affair
a size there not surpassed on the American
continent.
New Orleans Times: We have learned
with regret that it is very probable New Or
leans will not send to the Paris exposition
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if any cotton Is sent there at all from here i
will only be bale or two put up by some in
| diVidua1, to exhibit the power OF some pres
or for some other purpose altogether foreign
to cotton as a grand national product. AnC
| it is also said that even our cotton exchangl
: will content itself with sending a mail,bo'
containing few pounds of this great staple
New Orleans Democrat: It wOulC
. seem that some years must elapse befor
Cuba can recover from the exhaustion of
protracted war; when its fields have beer
worn by overcropping to furnish revenue
for the government its finances depleted, it
). labor partially unsettled, and a reconstructed
government to be established. During thes
necessary years of recuperation, sugar pre-
duction will not be driven out of LouisiaH
by compulsory labor in Cuba. Before thi
can be accomplished, an edict of emaucips
tion will at least commence to remove th
cause of competition, and Louisiana will b
given a fair chance to resume her natura
place as the producer of the greater part O
the sugar consumed in the United States.
Is New Orleans Democrat: At the pres
It ent time there are in the port ot New Orlean
twenty-one steamships, forty ships, forty
. two barks, four brigs and fifteen schooner
making an aggregate of 122 vessels agains
u ninetyetwo last year at this date. The Brit
,r ish steamer Texas has cleared for Liverpool
with 26, 1879 bushels of corn in bulk, and tn
y steamer Ithuriel, for the same port wit
IA IS, coo bushels of wheat in bulk. Thus,
will be seen, our export trade in grain gOt
7s praveIy on. The exports of corn from Ne
1t Orleans thus far foot up 3,757, 1897 bushel
- while last year at this date they amounte
. to ,OS2, ,635 bushels. The receipts of eofft
1t at this port from Rio Janeiro to date hay
w been 15O,6S5 bags, while last year for tt
same period they were 104,4S bags, a mo
Is gratifying increase.
1t Edgefeld. South Carolina, correspon
ne ence of the Charleston News and Courie
L On Monday last one of the most extraordi
IN ary spectacles ever witnessed in a court
IF justice was presented to the Edgefeld pu
ss hc-six little children, and two of them CIR
tried for their lives on a charge of murde
ks OF " the prisoners at the bar" the younge
- is nine years old, and the eldest not thirte
till next August. Four of these unfortuua
little creatures are the children of 81. Pic
ney Fallaw. The remaining two, VIM. Ell
and Mary Dufie, are orphans, and the war
+ of Mr.. Fallaw. The deceased was a c.
ed ored youth about fourteen years of az
l. According to evidence, he was q bad be
> and under worse influences than usual.
nd had been warned and commanded not
,is come Into the fields of Mr.. FalIsw. But
-" the day of the fatal rencounter this b
in walked up boldly to the place where t
he FallaW children we're picking cotton a.
asserted that he could whip the crowd.
10 extended fight ensued. The negro began t
tn | affray by knocking down VIM. Ellis with
l. stick. A rock afterwards hurled at t
Ao negro by little Ellis inflicted a dead
ed wound Such is q brief outline of the e
~. dence as detailed upon the stand. The iu
- :. was not only intelligent, but above repros,
lis and after a short retirement to their roc.
tn | acquitted the listless and sleepy children, a
= sent them to their home free from the tai