The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-06-26
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.


Crops are drying up in Louisiana.
Memphis is to build cotton factory.
Memphis, Tenn, claims a population
of $4,000.
Little Rock covers an area of three
square miles.
1t costs fifty dollars to gamble in
Texas on Sunday.
Mississippi produced $40, 900 bales of
cotton last season.
Mexican dollars are taken at par in
border Texas towns.
City taxation in Mobile is one-six-
teenth of one per cent.
The wheat crop of Georgia will be
unusually large this year.
San Antonio, Texas, has two miles of
brand new street railway.
The last session of the legislature cost
the State of Texas 100000,
Mobile by her present form of govern
ment saves $4,000 monthly.
Jefferson Davis was seventy-one years
Of age the third day of June.
The Macon Telegraph recommends the
destruction of ailanthus trees.
Charleston, S. g, has just shipped
6,4OO barrels of potatoes north.
Memphis is going to have the biggest
sort of a fourth of July celebration.
Captain Esds is eighteen months
ahead of his contract on the jetties.
David MayberIy, of Murfreesboro,
Tenn, has just died at the age of 106 years
An English geologist puts down the
age of the rocks in Texas at 1000, 900 years
The sanitary committee o. New Or
cans is distributing disinfectants 0 dtui-
tOusly.
Savannah has successfully funded two
millions of her seven per cent. bonds at f We
per cent.
Indians on the Texas flontier re
numbering women and children and steali q g
property:
The baby bonds" of Georgia are or.
nAmented with the portrait of darling
little cherub.
Forty bushels of wheat to the acre is
about the average of the present splendid
crop in Georgia.
There are now fourteen murderers in
Texas who have been found guilty of murder
in the first degree.
The Charleston Is G. custcm-house
cost the government $4,000,000, and was
twenty years building
The business of sheep-raising is in
creasing in Texas. Half a million will be
shipped from Waco alone.
Cage Banks, colored, late OF Brandon,
Miss, writes to say that he had rather live
IN the Mississippi penitentisry than in
Kansas.
The farm known as Lammermoor, in
Essex county. Va, which before the war
sold for $4,000 was sold Monday last at
auction for $3.50.
The confederate monument st Thorn
ucuillo 90 will ha Trnvaflad lima IN II fo
twenty-five feet high, and was made by
MuldOon, Karins d Co 4, of Louisville, Ky.
The Austin Statesman sa Currie's
execution would be attended with keener
satisfaction than that of any red-handed
villain in that bloodstained commonwealth.
There are seventy cigar factories in
Florida all making imported Havana cigars,
which are considered very fine by smokers,
who think they are getting smuggled ar
ticle.
Austin (Texas) Statesman Western
rivers and streams of all descriptions no
longer furnish beverage to men or cattle, and
there is great suffering in many places on
the plains of Texas
Mdme Valentine Vredenburg, of New
Orleans, has Just been awarded $1,000, as
damages sustained by her in the loss of 8
husband, who was torn in pieces several
months ago by bear in one of the public
parks.
The board of health of New Orleans
has adopted resolution requesting the gov
ernor to modify his quarantine proclamation
against certain parts, as to make the
period of detention 240 hours instead of
twenty days.
Miss Telfair recently died in Augusta,
Ga and bequeathed property to the amount
of SOS, 700 to charitable institutions, The
natural heirs have Just been defeated in the
| lourar and nN4vfll he > &bo
supreme court.
The death-sentence of Handlin, who
assasslnated old man Maddox at San Antos
nio and threw his body into the river, has
been affirmed. This makes five murderers
in Jail there whose death sentences have
been affirmed.
Galveston News: Fears are enter
tanned that the corn crop in western Texas
owing to the drouth. viii not be sufficient 10
prevent suffering among the Rocsy Noun
tain locusts, should they visit that section
on excursions.
Galveston News: The last one of the
Fort Worth stage robbers has been killed
while resisting arrest, ami the rest of them
are either dead or in Jail. 1t seems there
are drawbacks to complete success in every
department of human industry.
Within the past two years Matches
has built cotton factory, every dollar ot
the stock in which is owned by her OWL
citizens, and which is yielding the veFy
handsome return of nearly twenty per cent
on the investment.
Judge billings, of the United State;
court at New Orleans, has decided that the
legislature could not repeal the vested
rights of the Louisiana lottery, and granted
an injunction restraining the state authori
ties and the police from interfering with tbs
lottery company.
Vanderbilt university at Nashville ha,
conferred upon Miss Lupton the degree o
master of arts, because" as the oresiden
said, " she won it in a mastery manner sh,
passed most satisfactorily all the examine
tons which the young men were subjecte,
to, snd won II fairly and squarely"