The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-08
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

Macon, Ga, owes over seven hundred
thousand dollars.
A long drouth is embarrassing the
planters around NatcheE
The Texas legislature has appropri-
ated 100000 TO frontier protection.
There were more divorces than mar
risges in Houston, Texas, last week.
Chattanooga is about to fund her city
debt, which only amounts to $4,000.
There are 900 600 acres of land in
Alabama subject to entry or homestead.
The whale driven on the North Caro-
lima coast is said to be worth not less than
$500.
Commissioner Killebrew, of Tennessee,
reports wheat in tine condition and corn
backward.
The cold snap caused a great deal of
corn and cotton, even as far south as Florida,
to be plOwed up and planned over.
In Louisiana negro had a dog killed
by train, and in revenge he ditched a
freight train and wrecked eleven cars.
Jake SOmmerviIle gets ninety-nine
years in the Texas penitentiary, for the muir.
der of Chas. Roberts, three years ago.
Robbers entered the house of J..
Fisher. a stoekmaD, near Dayton, Texas, put
pistols to his wife's head, and made her
hand over $4,000.
The New York holders of Tennessee
bonds have agreed to accept the compro-
mise of fifty cents on the dollar and four
per cent. interest.
In Florida there are seventy cigar
factories, The largest is that Of Sidenberg
& Co, at Key West, where 10,70S, 40 cigars
were made in 1873.
Courier Journal: In Memphis, last
Monday, eight widows took out licenses to
marry as many widowers. Yellow fever makes
strange bedfellows.
During the war an old bachelor named
MeKissick was killed near Waco, Texas, and
the other cay. while tearing down his
shanty, negro found $S065 in gold.
The Lane cotton mill in New Orleans
was established in 1857, now runs 6S looms
and 2707 spindles, employees IS operatives,
and makes 1000 yards Osnaburgs a day.
The crops in North Carolina have
been somewhat retarded by drouth ard cold.
The open weather has been favorable for
work, however, and the farms are in fine
condition in the main.
The Herald says it hailed in Dallas
Wednesday for one hour and a half. Birds
were killed, fruit knocked off the trees, and
other damage done. Crops are too back
ward to be much hurt.
The tornado that destroyed Walter
o. d
oIsd persons outright, and wounded three
whites severely and three cOlored persons
mortally. Seven churches were destroyed.
The Fort Worth Democrat thinks
that should Currie's lawyers get the cow
ardly murderer of on the plea of insanity,
there will be a general regret throughout
the state that there is no law in Texas to
hang lawyers.
The ladies of Columbus have got the
soldiers monument after fourteen years of
work. 1t will be unveiled on the Goth. Gov.
Colquitt, of Georgia, will deliver the ad-
dress, and Gov. Cobb and Elk, Gov, Watts of
Alabama, will be present.
Among the articles placed in the cor
ner stone of the Columbus confederate mon
ument was piece of the bloody battle flag
of the 18th Georgia regiment, in carrying
which seven men were killed in the battle
OF Sharpsburg, and several others wounded.
A man IN Taylor county, Fla, saws
he has over five hundred one-year.Old peach
trees, planted from the seed by himself In
March, 1873. They are now full OF fruit
which bids fair 20 be ripe by the 1st of Nay.
He believes there is more money in early
peaches in Florida than in oranges.
Under a new enactment of the Texas
legislature, physicians, not permanent, are
taxed $50; each horse entered for less than
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each bull-fght, etc, $500; life insurance
companies, $1,000. The state tax on BARRIERS
was stricken out.
The Savannah city council have re,
! solved that the board of education be mott,
| fed that there are no funds now in the city
treasury to meet the appropriation of SO,
600 to the board OF education, and thai
there is no prospect Of there being any
during the present yesr.
Virginia's amended MofFett LIQUOR
law win go into effect on the 1st of May. I
| seems to be understood that bar-keep er
viii reduce the price of spirituous liquor
from fifteen to ten cents after that tims, anC
no drawbacks or checks for : = cents, as
the ease now, viii be given.
Fifty.eiRht persons Joined the differ
ent churches Of Salisbury, n. O., last Sun
day--a part of the fruits of Miss Painter
revival. Over one hundred have made
profession OF faith during the meeting, snC
4 large number are still at the altar, viii
dsily and nightly acessdons.
The rice fields on the Cape Fear river
near Wilmington, which have lain idle an'
grown up with weeds since the var, hav'
been reclaimed and planted this season b,
several energetic parties, who expect t
raise at least two hundred thousand bushei
of rice In the next five years.
Galveston News: The proclamation
by the governor of quarantine against Ger
tam ports from whence danger is to be ap
pretended during the summer will probabi-
be iss1ed IN q few days, and Arrangement
viii be made for the accommodation of mas
sengers who may be so unfortunate as to b
detained at the quarantine station.
Vicksburg Herald /; Be it enacted, tbs
any citizen of Mississippi who makes oat
that he carries eoEeealed weapon beSaus