The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-03-27
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

Texas has 1900 convicts.
Atlanta has no detectives on her police
force.
Alabama's late legislature cost the
state over 100000.
For the Lee monument there has been
collected this year s1,04551.
In Texas, when a man sells mortgaged
property they send him to the penitentisry.
Yellow and red coons, with heads
resembling wildcats, are found in Accomaek
county, Va. .
In Texas there are only four inhabit-
ants to every six hundred and forty acres of
territory.
The Alabama legislature appropriates
$4,000 to the state board of health, to be used
at their discretion.
An Augusta man has sold seven bush
els of watermelon seed at the rate of thirty
two dollars a bushel.
Monticello, the Virginia country seat
of Themas Jefferson, will be sold at public
sale on the Goth inst.
The Dispatch says since the poisoned
fish appeared along the gulf coast of Florida
all the buzzards have left.
The new ice works in Columbus, Ga,
will furnish ice at one cent a pound; cheaper
than nature can manufacture it.
The governor of Texas has approved
the bill appropriating six hundred thous>
and dollars 10 the public schools.
North Carolina will employ fifty con-
victs in draining and reclaiming Angola bay,
an immense body of swamp land.
James Corning, of Arkansas, by will,
binds his executors to dig five graves for
him and set up five tOmbstones to his
memory.
CLARK Mills, the eminent sculptor, ia
at Fortress Monroe, making casts of the
heads of the Indisn students attending the
! Hampton normal school.
A serious drouth exists in the San
Antonio section of Texas. Wells have dried
up, and sOme farmers have to dive then
stock five miles to watar
An Arkansas Legislative bill proposes
to charter the Arkansas insane asylum lot
terry association to procure funds to ereet
such an institution at Little Rock.
The New Orleans Democrat says the
| exodus Of negroes from Madison and Other
upper parishes to Arkansas continues, tG
the rapid depletion of the labor supply.
1t is stated that Gen. G. T. Beaure
gard has been selected to succeed Hon
Alex. Stephens, of Georgia, in the supreme
grand command of the Grand consistorY o
the Sons of Malta in America.
The North Carolina state senate, by 1
vote of thirty-fve to eight, has adopted
resolution instructing special committee t
incorporate in the bill for the sale of spirit
uous liquors the principle Of the bell punch
now in use in Virginia.
Donaldsonville Chief: Where is a nov
city here in the way of courtNhouse. 1t i
a very small hatboat covered in. Being dis
covered ho 'ting down the river, it wa
pulled ashore, and is now occupied on eour
days by his honor, the cOlored Justice Of tn
peace, to settle disputes.
Newberry, S. O., Herald: A year sg
the Liberia fever was at its height Thi
year it is the Colorado fever. The darkie
are much concerned on the subject, or a
least few of them are, and are trying t
aeitate the question. a goodly number Q
them declare their intention TO go to Colo
RADIO.
Brandon, Miss, Republican: We lear
that a very fatal disease has broken out il
Scott county, between Hiilsboro and tn
county line, which is pronounced by tn
physicians as black measles, aad by the ne
grOes as the black plague. 1t is very conts
; giOus and very fatal, not single case havin
F recovered.
In Richmond J.. E. Poindexter at
tempted to cowhide c. c. Curtis. Curt
took a cane, and, going to Poindexter'
, place OF business, demanded an apology
! and, upon its being refused, persisted in hi
| attempts TO cane MIN until ne WIS FlOOlS
, with bullets from Poindexters pistol. FoU
balls passed through his breast and one int
: his brain, causing his death.
! A South Carolina paper says: CyrU
II. Mccormick, the Chicago millionair
, who owns Dorn's gold mine, in this coul
= ty. has given $4,000 towards the col
, | struction of the Greenwood and Angus
railroad, which is pushing right through
sure and speedy completion. Mr.. McCo
> mick's munifcence places the enterprise
. yond the possibility of failure.
Charleston News and Courier: Tt
D direct accounts OF the condition of Senat
p Hampton are encouraging. Although 81
fering considerably at intervals, there a
pears to be no danger, the trouble beil
merely local, and capable of relief by t!
8 lancet. Almost every fine day he is o
;, hunting or fishing. still 1ndulging in hors
back exercise, and riding almost as well