The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-07-10
SOUTHERN NEWS Iysr,sS

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Cattle are dy'4 4ag in Georgia of an un
=, Aoout twenty-five negroes have left
new O-4esDs for Kansas.
Hest Texas doctors now speak of that
seetloyl as the health belt.
she other day there were 10000 sheep
on the San Antonio market.
The ice factory at Sherman, Texas,
turns out 5000 pounds day.
A San Antonio merchant bought 9O,-
600 pounds Of wool in one day.
There are 1900 lots and squares in
Galveston to be sold for taxes.
Five thousand New Orleans petition
ers wish Sunday temperance law.
Augusta, Ga, was laid out in 1875,
and named in honor of an English princess
The Colorado potato beetle is playing
havoc with the potato crop in the valley of
Virginia.
Robert Falkner, of Warren county,
North Carolina, is 105 years old, and has
voted 81 times,
At Sadler's Bend, 1. T., thirteen horse
thieves are said to have been hung in the
past two weeks.
A colored drummer, repre- senting q
New York house, is doing business in North
Carolina towns.
One hundred barrels eff watermelons
were shipped in one day last week from
Gainesville, Fla.
The wheat crop in the upper portion
of South Carolina is said to be the finest
made since the war.
A few nights ago, in Concordia parish.
La, q mad bull gored half a dozen horses
and mules to death.
1t Is said the narrow guage railroad
can be built anywhere in Texas at q cost of
less than $5, 900 mile.
In Lsvaca county, Texas, a man clip
ped off the ear of hog and was sent to the
penitentiary for two years.
OF the 10,000,OO0 barrels of beer
brewed in the United States last year,
Georgia brewed only $500.
Two Mormon missionaries are in Ala
bama getting up big colony to go to the
land of many wives in October.
A widow of a Georgia railroad engi-
neer, who was killed in the discharge of his
duty, has been awarded 5000 damages.
The first missiOnar sent to the Indi-
ans west of the Mississippi river was Mrs.
Washburn, who has lately died at her home
in Arkansas. She was in her SD year.
DIR. Arlington, of Goldsboro, n. O.,
has by experiment satisfied himself of the
feasibility of silk culture, and viii plant 50
or IS acres in mulberry trees.
In the suburbs of Nashville, Wedues-
day, were sold by the commissioner two
paper mills and five acres of ground, cost
ing 100000, to T. S. Weaver for $25, 900.
LsOnRrd Collins, o. Apling county,
Ga, was bit by a raltlesnake while he was
getting lumber to make his mothers coffin,
and died after ten days of great suffering.
Two thousand one hundred head of
cattle are ready for shipment to Havana
from Tampa. The shipments from all the
Florida ports viii amount to 5000 head per
week.
Rev. E. P. Roe, of Cornwall, the now
elist and small fruit-grower, has recently re-
turned from a trip to Virginia. He states
that he there visited one field of strawber-
ries that included about 100 acres of land,
on which were engaged about 1 200 negroes
picking the fruit.
At Edwards Depot, Miss, two of Mr..
Charles DillOD's children were bitten by a
rabid dog ten days ago, since which time
one of the children died and the other is
not expected to live. Mr.. John Dillon was
also bitten at the time, but as yet has shown
no signs of hydrophobia.
New Orleans Picayune 4 property
holder in this city holds real estate assessed
at 500, 900. During the last nine months
the amount of taxes paid on this property
was 81, ,764 insurance, 1886; repairs, 81, 1877
the let returns for the period named reach
the magnificent sum of $41O.
The bark Monrovia sailed from New
York Saturday for Liberia, carrying fifty
colOred people as passengers, embracing all
ages. Most of them come from Arkansas
and the Carolinas, although other sections
of the country are represented. Mr.. A. L.,
Stanford, formerly member of the Arkan-
sas senate, was one of the passengers.
The biggest tree in Georgia is syca-
more tree on the farm of Mr.. Henry Hill,
in Walker county, which, says the Lafay-
cite Messenger, is supposed to be about 120
feet high, is 5S feet in circumference, and
1873 feet in diameter. It is also hollow, and
contains natural door three feet wide and
seven feet high,
Speaking of pineapples, the Key West
Key says: The crop of this delicious fruit
this season will double that of any former
year. Forme " they were raised at Key
Largo; now they come from Elliotts and
other keys in such quantities as to make up
large export trade. For weeks past we
have been shipping them to Galveston,
New Orleans, Mobile, Pensacola, and sIi
alongithe coast.
The annual distribution of prizes by
the society for the prevention of cruelty to
animals. TO drivers who have taken good care
of their horses or mules during the mast
year, took place in front of the city hall
Augusta, last week. FOTty-seven prizes
were distributed as follows: Fifteen to
drivers owning their horses, twenty-seven
to drivers not owning their teams, aud FIVE
TO drivers for discOntinuing the use of the
check-rein on horses,
Atlanta Constitution From the best
information we can gain of the growing
crops it would seem that we are on the
threshold OF a prosperity more brilliant
than that OF the past, and likely to be more