The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-07-03
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

NASHVILLE has ADO1lsAou uOI WOIKa
house.
The treasurer of Texas has $500, 900
on haud.
Rats are damaging crops in southern
Florida.
The wheat crop Of east Tennessee is
very large.
The negroes of Sherman, Texas, have
the Liberia fever.
There are 300 brandy distilleries in
middle Tennessee.
The manufacture of coke iron in Alas
bama has proven a success.
The Herald says Vicksburg is in q
wretched sanitary condition.
In Mobile they have levied a special
tax on vehicles kept for private use.
Twenty-four policemen preserve order
among the $4,000 citizens OF Memphis.
Charleston, S. O., has one and half
million dollars on special deposit in her
banks,
In Macon, Ga, gamblers are required
to pay license tax of two hundred dollars
per month.
A colored Methodist church in Abbe-
vile, s. c., gave 81, 200 last year to charita-
BILE purposes.
A firm in Petersburg, Va, has shipped
in the last month 100000 pounds of manu-
factured tobacco.
capital of Louisiana from New Orleans to
some interior town,
Prohibition is now on trial in 40
communities in Georgia, and those inters
ested appear to like it.
Seven hundred men are at work on
the Louisiana western railroad, between
Orange, Texas, and Lake Charles.
From now on" says the Galveston
News, Texas will compete favorably with
any other state in hanging murderers."
The sanitary committe in Memphis
has done its work so thoroughly that the
city is cleaner than at any time in twenty
years.
The Texas legislature is in extra ses
ion of thirty days. with more business than
it can attend to in six months at the usual
rate of legislative work.
A cypress saw-log recently passed
down the Sabine, in Texas, sixty feet long
and seven feet in diameter, capable of
making $4,000 shingles.
What is the use of fighting the En-
glish," said Zulu, when they can kill
man and bring him to life again ?"- alluding
to the effect of chlOroform upon a prisoner
whose leg had been amputated.
The idea of cutting a ship canal
through the isthmus of Panama is at least
three and half centuries old. Philip II.
of Spain had route carefully surveyed by
some Flemish engineers, but never pushed
the matter.
Dallas (Texas) Commercial Gold and
silver are said to have been found in large
| quantities in the mountains near Williams.
| burg, in Throckmorton county. These pre-
/ ciOus metals are becoming so plentiful in
Texas that we win hear of them growing
on the bushes next
Dallas Herald: Houston, on Friday,
received by Morgan steamers, from New
York, two hundred and fifty bsrrels of
/ -four. Funny, isn't it, that New York can
| sell -four at a rate to find purchasers in
Houston when we have so much wheat and
| -four here in north Texas?
Austin (Texas) Statesman Cattle are
| fat along the Sabinal, but starving about
San Antonio. There is neither water nor
| grass upon the plainsi of about one-third of
! southwestern and western Texas. The
drouth is terrible and ruinOus, but the law>
makers must go for the taxes.
The board of education of Nashville
| has decided to recommend to the city couns
ell the abolition of all foreign languages
from the course of study in the high school.
All salaries from fifty to one hundred dol.
lars per month were reduced hVe per cent,
and all over one hundred dollars month
were reduced ten per cent
Dallas Herald Eighty thousand head
of cattle, en- route for eastern markets. had
crossed Red river at Red-river station last
week, and large droves are still heading fol
that point. A number of herds that took
the trail one hundred miles west OF the
station have been stampeded by the IndI'
ans and many cattle stolen. For several
years past there have not been as many cat
tie along Red river as now.
Little Rock Gazette: a Mr.. Harbin
Just in from Mt. Ida, tells of a rather re-
markable discovery. Several BOYS were
bat 1ing in creek, and one of them, in at
tempting to climb mp bank, caught hOlC
of 8 shrub. The shrub gave away; pulled
out as though 1t was a weed. The eartt
thus torn aside revealed something, and, a
every man, woman and child in that sector
is filed with ideas of silver, the boy agaiI
climbed the bank, and examined the some
thing that he had Immediately regarded a.
discovery" It proved to be discovery
of the richest of silver ore, and the new
spread rapidly, and the people gathered
{ round and unearthed the almost pure metal
The richest silver now known to the world
history was discovered in similar manner
A young Mexican woman died sud
denly few days ago in Brownsville, Texas
Her body was found to be covered with con
tusions. The Democrat says: One VIII,
seemed to be up in the superstitious lore o
the Mexicans, and who was on the jury o
INQUEST, says the contusions were produced
| by the blows of s. wet hair~rope, which b,
saws were gwen her for the purpose of driv
ing out evil spirits that had possession o
her, or, as witchery is called In Spanish, Ia
by.itids The examination showed that tn
poor victim of benighted superstition hs,
been closely confined in a room wherein
was deposited a great quantity of chilpi
: quin, small Mexican pepper, similar to cay
enne in strength, on heated Goals. AM
this Tor the purpose OF driving out tn
witches in the nineteenth century.
Dallas Herald: The drouth which
now so much complained of in north TexR
is prevailing all over the state. No Tsin
have fallen since early in May. In tn
p southeastern counties a pretty fair cor
crop will be gathered even if there is u
I more rain, for the last one found il suff
q ciently advanced to give it enough immed
ate sustenance to mature In western, mid
c die and northern counties, as well as alon
|. the northeastern boundary line, the cor
prospects are rather blue. But cotton
doing very well. 1t is a hardy little plan
f which does not require much moisture. tn
? chances are our grain crop viii be sbort
= but there is ample time ahead to make a
e average crop of cotton. We shall hav
plenty of old corn on hand, besides Texa
grass lasts all the year round in the create
. portion of the state.
Atlanta Constitution We think on
] people hardly appreciate the amount g