The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-24
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.


Portions of Florida are suffering from
drouth.
Tennessee has a fatteTing prospect for
peaches and wheat.
The late frost did serious damage to
fruit in Texas.
The Texas murderer now pleads "eme-
tional jim-jams."
They are still talking in Charleston of
raising a monument to Calhoun.
Lightning struck a team of six oxen
in Alabama and killed five of them.
A negro was sent TO the Texas peni.
tcntiary for two years for stealing ducks.
Wheat is heading in Texas, but on
account of drcuth much of it is very low.
Corn has gone up to ffty-fve cents at
San Antonio in consequence of the drought
The sea has thrown up the sponge at
Cedar Keys, Fla, TO the value of $75,50O
since January 1.
A pair of horses in Virginia, aged re-
spectively 33 and "a years. still put IN a
good days work.
Gov. Hubbard, OF Texas, says that
during his administration twenty-one mur-
oerers have teen hanged.
North Carolina has fifty-four cotton
and wooden mills in operation. The capital
Charlotte Thompson, the actress, owns
one OF the finest plantations in the south
5000 acres near Montgomery, Ala.
In Bullock county, Ala, persons sem
fenced to hard labor are hired to the highest
bidder, and bring $3.50 per month.
The export from Norfolk, Va. for
March, aggreg ated s., ,21I. .297, egainst $780,.
100 in 1879, an increase of $679, ,1O6.
John Lstcher, Virginia's /" war gov
ernor," has recovered from a long spell oil
sickness, caused by a fall on the ice.
Work upon the Lee mausoleum al
Lexington is progressing favorably, but s.,
| 600 are still needed for its completion.
Gen. Joseph r Davis, nephew o.
Jefferson Davis, was married at Missour
City on the 18th ult. to Miss Margaret Green
jeff Downing, an old Georgia fisher
man, was missing. His friends. slew two al
| hgators, and found him slowed away in theil
bellies.
The biggest orange tree in Florida il
| eight feet five inches around the trunk, 81
! feet in height, and 81 feet in circumference
at the top.
! An Alamo monument association hal
| been formed in San Antonio, Texas, to cree
a monument to the heroes who fell on tina
memorable spot
The Missouri house of representative
has passed bill making il unlawful tor an
dealer to sell to minors pistols, slungshots
brass knuckles or other dangerous weapons
William Bollinger, a native of Win
| chester, Va, died last week in MOnro,
county, West Va, in the 105th year of hi
age, having been born on January 16, 1775
He was a soldier of the war of 1872.
Ficksburg Herald: If the Kansa
fever has not died out it has taken a Iull il
this section. We shall probably hear yer,
little more of it after those at home have al
opportunity of hearing from those who hav
gone before.
North Carolina prides herself on tn
completion OF a tunnel under the Blu
Ridge mountains. The Western North Can
DINA road has done the work at Swannanos
and it opens up the western part of the stat
about Ashville.
Little Rock Gazette: If the neWspa
pers would combine in one common effol
to show that large cotton crop ought I
and would be planted, we would have NOR
corn to sell in the south next fall than eve
was heard of before.
A firm in New Orleans say they hav
large orders for laborers from the section
Louisiana and Mississippi lately absndone
by tho negroes. Many white laboreTs and
fair proportion of Cinnamon are sent foI
I
Pointe Coupee Pelican: Last year
was estimated that there were at least on
hundred and fifty casks Of dewberry win
made in this parish. The dewberry crop
this year bids fair to be a large one, sugar
cheap, and we trust that the vintage of tn
year win double that of last
Vicksburg Herald: The exodus of Il
, colored people to Kansas and to other ives
, ern states has, for the present at least, a
{ most entirely ceased. The last boats lea
! ing here bound up stream had no mo-
colored passengers than customary.
Troy (Ala.) Enquirer: Real estate
e every kind in the corporate limits of Il
] city has advanced since last fall, and lsnC
=, in the county command better prices tbs
. for several years. People are generally mo
i settled and better contenJed ii this sectlC
. than at any time within the past decade.
n The state-dsbt meeting in Nsshvil
appointed the following committee to go
+ New York TO urge the bondholders to a
i cspt the nifty cents and four per cent cor
promise Ex-Goy. Neil s. Brown, ex>GO
James ID. Porter, Hon. Henry Cooper, Sta
t Treasurer Marsh T. Polk and Col. James
n Gaines.
Dallas Herald: And the drouth st
u continues. The sixth day of April 4
n reached US and still no rain. The situati
=. j. all that is dis sheartening, but still we ha
hope thst the end is near at hand.
r. North Texas is a;hirst, and prays for frieH
NJ, II clouds that viii give the absolutely nee,
s-iry moisture for our crops, for our gsrdel
ie fsg stock, sud for everything else.