The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-01-30
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.


Richmond, Va, claims 10000 inhabi~
tants.
Florida's orange crop was not damaged
by the cold,
Is costs 1920, 900 a year to run the
schools of New Orleans.
Mobile will celebrate Mardi Gras in
brilliant style the 28th prOximo.
New Orleans will celebrate Mardi
Gras with all her wOnted bFilliance.
A large number of New York people
are emigrstiny to Texas and Florida.
Gallatin's indebtedness, bonded and
otherwise, was 81 ,336.S2 on the first of Jan.
u,ry.
GREEN HAIRED children are sometimes
born IN Alsace, but the color disappears
after few months.
A Dallas. Texas, hunting party of
seven persons killed 4S deer in two weeks,
besides a great amount of small game.
The cotton business in Augusta is at
standstill, owing to the difference between
factors and buyers.
Atlanta, Ga, buried 817 persons last
year. OF these, S77 were paupers-322
black and 55 white.
A prospective South Carolina immi-
grant writes friend in Liberia, inquiring if
there are any coons in that country.
VIM. Early, a murderer confined in
the Dallas, Texas, Jail, spends his hours im>
pIoring mercy from the spirits of his victim.
There were eleven contestants for the
office of keeper of the workhouse in Knox
vile, Tenn, position paying $500 year.
The late Hon. Julian Hartridge, of
Georgia, had a paid-up policy in the New
York Life Insurance Company for $4,000
Tupelo (Miss.) Journal: The piscato-
rial commission the other day deposited two
thousand shad in Town creek, Just outside
of Tupelo.
There are in Georgia $500 persons
between the ages of ten and eighteen who
cBn neither read and write, as compared
with 1856, pa in 1874
The Liberisn ship Azor returned to
Charleston Friday, and will probably take
another cargo of darkies to feast on roast
monkey without lard.
William Busselman, of Vicksburg,
shot and killed James Linscott in a saloon,
for abusing him when he attempted to re-
monstrate in quarrel.
1t is claimed that the most expensive
and beautiful monument in the United
States is the monument to the confederate
dead at Augusta, Georgia.
The loss of life by yellow fever in the
south this year is estimated at about fifteen
thousand, and of money and trade at about
two hundred million dollars,
The cOnvicts of Augusta, Ga, were
organized and put to work on the roads last
Tuesday, as the supreme court had decided
that they could not be hired out.
The Constitution complains that At
lanta has about one dozen barroOms to every
church, and the saloons make money while
the churches go into bankruptcy.
Galveston pays her municipal officers
S1S,33O this year, and will pay them $500
less next year. The mayors salary alone
will be reduced from $4,000 to 81 800,
1t is thought that the governor of
Georgia will commute the sentence of death
of George Brown, of Cobb county, for the
murder of A. d. Jenkins, to imprisonment
for life.
The city council cf Richmond, Va,
does not believe city worth thirtyNniue
millions of dollars should insure its build
ings, and proposes to cancel all policies as
they expire.
The Methodist college building at
Harrison, Arkansas, was burned on the 18th
ultimo, and the citizens of that place offer
reward of $475 for the apprehension of the
incendiaTies,
Thomss Reed, cashier of the First
National Bank of Galveston, has defaulted
to the amount of S27, 900 and absconded. a
reward of 81 900 is offered TO his apple.
hensiOn and delivery.
The Macon (Ga.) city council has
passed an ordinance requiring every one
doing business of any kind whatever to
register his or her name in book kept by
the clerk for that purpose.
Austin Statesman: A Dallas man,
Thomas ClarksOn, sometime married in St.
Louis to Mrs. Annie Morton, has since dis
covered that she was his stepdaughter.
They are stepfather and daughter, man and
wife.
Florida Patriot: Saturday, Sunday
and Monday last the thermometer cOquetted
with zero, giving it the cold shoulder at 20
degrees above. The weather was the coolest
the writer has experienced south of Atlanta
| in twenty years.
The year has been a prosperous one
spiritually for Methodism in Georgia. North
Georgia conference reports 800 increase
in membership, and South Georgia 731,
making a total in the State of 2,231.
Texas has seventeen hundred convicts,
of whom some five hundred are Kept in
prison, and the rest are hired out to work on
railroads and farms. One is hired to his
wife, and lives comfortably at home.
Mr.. DeLaughter says that in his
| opinion, within three years there will be no
shad in the Savannah river, as parties are
! catching them in seines in the Augusta
canal at the rate of two or three hundred q
| day.
| A CHARMING young thing at a New
I York school examination, in reading her
exercise before a large audience OF
parents, changed Keats lines to, GA
thing of beauty is a boy forever I"
! In the United States Court at New
| Orleans, last Tuesday, Myra Clark Gaines
| got a Judgment and execution against a
number of persons for a large amount of
money, with interest at per cent, from
! various periods in 1877.
New Orleans Times: John L. Cum
Minis, indicted under section 5,167 of the
| United States statutes for embezzling letters
| containing articles of value, was arraigned
in the United States circuit court on Mon
day morning, and pleaded not guilty. His
bond was fixed at $1,000, and he was re
manded to await the appearance of his
surety. Cummings was brought from Ken
lucky on a requisition. There are FIVE
counts against him in the indictment. He
was a route agent or messenger of the
postoffice department between New Orlean!
| aud Vicksburg.
CONGRESSIONAL.