The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-01
SOUTHERN NEWS.

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At the ServanDe. Tenn, coal mines.
80 conviets are at work.
there VIII be an average fruit crop in the
south.
An average of $21l per annum is paid
county superintendents of public instruc-
Ion in Tennessee.
There are over 4, 900 600 acres of pub
lie land in Alabama subject 10 entry or
homestead.
Georgia has now 1900 convicts, snd
the number has steadily decreased Tor the
past two years.
Florida negroes are emigrsting to
Louisiana TO take the places of the victims
of Kansas fever.
2 A cotton compress in Sherman, Texas,
burned on the 18th inst. Loss estimated at
$31 800; insurance, ST., 200.
The state of Texas had offered $4,000
for Guerry's picture of Lee, destroyed by
the late fire in GreeRville, Ga.
The Democrat says the money must be
raised by some means before New Orleans
can do anything for eanitizatiOn.
Columbus, Ga, gets ice at one cent a
pound, and expects to get it cheaper when
the new factory gets into operation.
Msjor Boykin, register of the Vir-
ginia land office, died the other day, and
there are twenty candidates for the Office.
The superintendent OF education re-
ports that not less than 1000 children of
pupil age died in Memphis of yellow fever.
Ones6fth of the population of Richr
mond, Va, are Baptists. There are in the
city nIne churches of white Baptists and
ten of cOlored ones.
The Fruit-growers' association met
in Nashville Saturday, and reports ones
third of the strawberries killed and other
fruits badly damaged.
Nearly all the Louisiana parish police
juries have adopted the Sunday law, and an
effort will be made to have it incorporated
in the new constitution.
The settlers along the Texas frontier
are well pleased that the legislature has
made it a penal Ofense for cattle kings to
inclOse the public lands.
There are two hundred and fifty eiti~
zens for trial at the United States court in
Charleston, charged with violation of the
United States election laws.
Between twenty and forty Swiss emil
grants left Z Irich the latter part of March
for the Swiss colony in East Tennessee, and
are expected to arrive in few days.
The Sewanee (Tenn.) Coal company
have mule thirty-five years old that has
been in constant service since 1852, a greater
portion OF the time working under ground.
Texas is to-day the largest producer
of cotton, and her grain and sugar crops are
assuming such proportions that they pro.
mise. to rival that OF cotton in value in a
few years.
The South Carolina memorial shaft to
jackson, taken by the federal
army and now to be returned, was presented
to the state by West India islanders 1t is
made of shells, and is exceedingly chaste
and beautiful.
Under the law passed by the last leg
islature Of Mississippi all officers of the
county are required to be present at the
organization of the grand jury, that they
may listen to the ch e of the judge and
be advised,
The Dallas Commercial has inter-
viewed number of old settlers, who agree
that the present drouth is unprecedented in
Texas. The cat crop is past redemption,
wheat is cut short, and cotton and corn
prospects are poor.
Vicksburg Herald: The action of
Louisiana in establishing a rigid quarantine
at the passes, to take effect on the first of
May, meets with universal commendatiOn,
1t has restored confidence more than any
thing that has yet been done.
Can't. Edward L. Young died in Nor
folk, Va Thursday, aged ninety seven. He
privateer in the war Of 1872,
was the oldest citizen of Norfolk, and prob
ably the oldest Mason in the United States,
having belonged to that order sixtyssix
years.
Galveston News: Governor Nichols,
OF Louisiana, has issued his proclamation,
establishing a quarantine against West In,
dian, South American aud Mexican ports,
W hlgh NUnPg fntn tinn after Nav I
When will Governor Roberts follow the
example?
The rice fields on the Cape Fear river,
near Wilmington, which have lain idle and
grown up with weeds since the war, have
been reclaimed and planted this season by
several energetic parties, who expect to
raise at least 100000 bushels of rice in the
next five years.
The Columbia e. C.) Register says
that there are at present sixteen incorpo-
rated companies digging and mining phOsS
pilates in the streams and waters of that
state, some having exclusive and others
general rights, and representing an aggre-
gate capital OF about S1,0O0,0OO.
The Hawkinsville (Ga Dispatch SAYS
while the negroes were louBging around,
discussing emigration to Liberia and Kan
sas, Milo Sutton was at work with his " forty
acres and a mule" and the result was six
of corn and two barrels of syrup.
Lockhardt (Texas) News-Item Large
droves of cattle have been passing through
town nearly every day for the last two
weeks. About $4,000 head have already
passed through, en- route for the northern
markets. The drive will be much larger
this spring than was anticipated.
Lynchburg (Va News: Two car
loads of sandstone from Indiana, to be used
in the construction of the Lee mausoleum
at Lexington, arrived in the city by the
Midland rsilrosd Saturday, consigned to
Captain @. A. Kinnear, and was transferred
to canal boat for transportation to Lexing-
ton.
Texas telegram Frank Weaver, a
noted desperado and highwayman, was ar
rested at Wills Point recently. He wss with
the Good brothers when they killed three
men at horse-race in Bosque county. He
is the leader of a band of hoTse.t thieves
operating in this section for six years, and
the son of minister.
Pryor Coleman has lain in the Knox
VILE jail four years and seven months,
awaiting trial on several charges Of murder,
but tue supreme court of the United States
has decided that the state has not iurisdic.
tion over an escaped convict, and a squad of
soldiers Is waiting to arrest Coleman as
soon as he is released.
The Atlanta Constitution has reports
from nearly all parts OF Georgia, and the
inference therefrOm is that the fruit crop
has not been materially damaged. This in
ference may be specially applied to peaches
CHS frait has been injured, bat rot 10 that
that q fraf e1la