The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-17
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

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The sponge trade of Cedar Keys. Fla
since the first of January amounts to s75, 500.
A company of capitalists have cum-
meDced building street railroad in Vichs-
burg.
About one hundred and fifty bills
have been passed by the Tennessee legisla-
ture.
Florida immigration, while not 30 brisk
as heretofore, is of a more substantial char
acter.
There has not been white mar con-
fined in the Jail of TsIiaferr0 county, Ga,
in three years
Athens Ga, has a bonded debt of
$l25.OOO, which bears interest at the rate of
seven per cent.
An Augusta man has sold seven bush
els of Watermelon seed at the rate of thirty.
two dollars per bushel.
The society for the prevention of cru
city to animals numbers one hundred and
twenty members in Little Rock, Ark.
The $4,000 appropriated by the Ala
bama legislature to purchase limbs for
manned soldiers is exhausted already.
North Carolina will employ fifty con-
victs in DIR lining and reclaiming Angola
bay, an immense body of swamp lard.
Mr.. Joseph Jefferson will soon have
1900 acres of mis- orange grove plantation
enclosed by hedge of Mccartney roses.
A New Orleans policeman endeavored
to prove to his sweethesrt that he knew how
to handle pistol, and accidentally shot her
ia the chest.
The Tennessee legislature has passed
a bi q thOrizing the state board of health
to establish guarantine whenever and wher-
ever it may deem it advisable to do so.
A correspondent o. the Augusta Sem
tinel is of the opinion that Georgia society
will not be what it should be until the prac.
tiee of carrying Concealed corkscrews is en-
tirely done away with.
The penitentiary feature was stricken
from the tramp act in the Texas senate, and
the penalty made thirty to ninety days i'm
prisOnment at hard work in the cOnAty.
Appeal: Memphis was never ette
governed than she is now; she was never
in better sanitary condition, never had q
better outlook, and never saw the day when
her people should be more cheerful as to
tho future.
Knoxville Tribune: Putnam county
has the champion mOonshiner. lie is a boy
ten years old. He used tar kegs for beer
tubs, an cid con e-pot for still, and an
elder.stalk for a worm. A good average for
this miniature mOonshine es;ab ishment was
four gallons per week.
Dallas (Texas) Herald: Capt. Hall
mas a force of FIVE hundred men ct work,
has completed nearly fourteen miles of
grade, and this week has opened up the
fifteenth, sixteenth. seventeenth and eigh~
teenIh miles on the WeatherfOrd extension
OF the Texas and Pacific
The Mississippi papers state that g
fatel disease has broken out in the counties
bordering the Alabama line, which is pro
nOunced by the physicians as black meas
/ lac hvr 81,
| plague" IL is represented to be very con
| tagiOus and usually fatal, not a single case
having thus far recovered.
Key West Vidette: Reports brought
| by the sponging fleet inform us that IN the
| bay to that sheet of water extending from
the TOrtugas to cape Florida they found
millions OF the largest spOnges float Dg upon
| the water, all perfectly putrid, killed, es
they believe, by the poiBoned water that not
| long since destroyed myriads of fish.
Scottsboro (Ala) Citizen: We had an
interview with Mr.. Daniel Martin, of the
Belle Onte vicinity lastsTuesday. Mr. Mar.
tin informed us that he is now in his 79th
year, enj married mis- present wife, who is
not yet seventeen, about four Yeas ago
/ She was only twelve years and fifty days old
| wheH he married her ant he was seVeGty-fye
Arkansas Democrat Enough food i;
thrown away every year on worthless dogs
IN A. kansas to support five times the num-
Der of suffering poor in the state for the
same period. And yet great many people
doubtless maj Irity-are opposed TO any
! infringement OF The sacred aud inalienabit
rights Of the dog We are queer people
Aibsny (Ga Advertiser: Ii the Geor
gia Legislature Will restore the code OF honor
by IeJaovlng all penalty fro n dueling. anC
substitute forthe present law an act maxim;
the practice of carrying concealed weapOn
: I. l. l. L II
crease, and such shocking tragedies a tht
one enacted in the state capitol, last week
viii soon become like angel visits.
Columbus (Ga Times: This is fast
running world, and the south need ask n,
odds of the north in all branches of indus
try. Why, we don't need even their ice an
longer to cool our summer drinks, for tht
Industrial Ice company of this city is nov
turning out as fair an article of that indis
pensable luxury can be furnished by tht
best of the far-famed northern lakes.
Dallas (Texas) Commercial: The ne
gro emigration from Mississippi has beer
disastrous all round. In the first p,Ac
many plantations have been almost depo u
lated of laborers, and the planting interes
seriously affected. In the second place thu
emigrants themselves, having changed re
munerative employment foI actual povert,
IN many cases. now possess neither tn
money to complete their journey nor t
returl home.
The citizens of Natchez and Concor
dia parish, La, have held a meeting f
call the attention of congress to the eondi
ton of the Mississippi between the banks O
ConcOrdia parish and Adams county, AM
the danger of its breaking into Lake Con
cordia and changing its course. This woul,
seriously damage q number of L0uisian
planters, and at the same time cut Oi
Natchez from the river just as Vicksbur
has been cut of.
The New Orleans and Texas rsilros,
is now completed to a point about fou
miles beyond Berwick. The road is wei
graded, and about two miles of the distanc
is surfaced. he work is being pushed &C
lively forward and about a third Of a mile O
track is daily put in running order, the dis
tance varying from 1900 to 2l00 feet ever
twelve. hours. 1t is estimated that by thi
route, when completed, the run between
New Orleans and Houston will be made il
fifteen hours.
New Orleans Times The repovts from
the parishes continue to speak in large term
of the exodus of the negroes now in pre-
gress. It is said the enthusiastic weIcom
rendered the citizens of NafchitOches OF
their return after the trial in this eity ha
caused CONSERVATION in the minds of tn
colored people, and that, 10 spite of the ~
mored iu.treatment received by the emi
SF SIahts ~ o. ,I'! 4IouIs thsS are moving out o
t0ches parishes in vast crowds. The negroes
also, are selling everything they have st IN
best rates they can get. These rates are Q
course very low.
ThomasviIle (Ga.) Times Uncle Jacl
had been out among his sheep little durinl
Saturday, afternoon, and he made to US th
following statement: In one bunch ;" O
about forty five or fifty lead, he saw thre
lsmhs; in another lot of about one hundre,
and twenty-five be found only one lamb