The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-06-12
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.


four burglars.
Corn sells for five dollars a barrel in
North Carolina.
The Colo ado potato bug is bad all
over Tennessee.
A pine root 1O2 feet long is one of the
wonders of Georgia.
King, of Texas, has 11O, 900 head OF
cattle in one inclosure.
Six thousand Cinnamon are at work
on the Texas Pacific railroad.
In Rockingham, North Carolina,
man % years old weighs 3lS pounds.
Governor Holiday, of Virginia, has
recovered from a severe spell of illness.
Shreveport negroes are organizing eel.
onies of 800 for fall emigration to Kansas,
The profits of the Langley cotton fac
tory at Greenville, South Carolina, for 1873
were $50,991.
Seventy vessels, from five to seventy
tons burden, with $50 men, are now engaged
in the Key West sponge trade.
The courthouse in fernando county,
Fla, was burned by incendiaries, and her
county Judge has been assassinated.
Mr.. Corcoran, of Washington, has
contributed $1,000 of the $4,000 yet re-
quired to complete the Lee mausOleum at
Lexington, Va.
John Lanham, who shot and killed
Georgia Drake, an actress, in the San An
tonic theater, has been sentenced to be hung.
Atthe recent hanging of three burglars
at Hillsboro, N. c., pools were sold as to
which of the unhappy men would die hrst.
A man in Delta county, Texas, who
has three hundred stands OF bees, went to
market last week with eighty gallons OF
choice honey.
An effort will be made to have the
Louisiana constitutional convention abolish
the Office of state superintendent OF public
instruction.
The Herald wants the Palatka, Fla,
butchers to keep on hand full supply of
alligator steaks. 1t says when the gator is
young his steak is tender anG good.
Silver spring, Fla, is one hundred
feet deep, covers an acre, and sends stream
sixty to one hundred feet wide eight miles
to the Ocklawaha river.
D. o. Moorhead, who decamped from
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with $4,000 of the city
money when treasurer four years ago, has
been captured in Young county, Texas.
The Telephone exchange in Atlanta
is growing rapidly in popular favor. Several
miles of wire have been put up, and forty
five instruments have already been received
A Texas preacher warned husbands
that if they permitted preachers to sneak
around to their homes, and am thing wrong
came of it, why they must grin and bear it
w,thnut complaint, for it was their own
fault.
A man calling himself J. H. Ellis, of
Paramount, Mimi, arrived at Fort Worth,
Texas. last week, and managed to vlctimiZe
the cashier of the City national bank out of
$1,000 by depositirg New York bank ex'
change and drawing on it.
Nstchez Democrat: Drop prospects
continue to be exceedingly promising In all
the region tributary to Natchez. The labor
is undisturbed by the Kansas fever, and the
colored men have not yet begun to worry
much about politics, All are at work.
The LAGRANGE (Ga) reporter says
that the other day gentleman there bought
years old. When it was first made the
owner refused thirty>ive cents for it, but
now he was glad to get eleven
Edward B. Young, president of the
Eufaula national bank, of Eufaula, Ala,
died at his home in that city last week. he
was seventy'seven years of age, and had
largely identified himself with the business
interests of Eufaula, contributing much to
its progress.
The Fernandina Mirror tells a won
derful story of boat race at that place be-
tween Mrs. Lines and a Mrs. PartingtOn,
which was very exciting, and was won by
the former by about two boat lengths. The
most remarkable part of the story is that the
winner is said to be about seventy years old.
Holly Springs (Miss.) Reporter: Be
fore it Is too late, plant more corn. If you
desire happiness and wealth, plant corn and
peas have something to sell besides cot
ton. Having decided to transfer our corn
and bacon house from Chicago to Missis-
sippi, we say plant more corn, more corn.
The Memphis theatre was sold at
public auction. last Saturday, to Messrs. |
Leubrie Bros, for $4,000. 1t was built in
1853, and has been the leading theatre of the
city ever since, sometimes renting as high as
Sc, 600 per annum. Messrs. Davey d Brooks
nave leased it for the ensuing dramatic
season, paying $4,000 therefor.
Dallas (Texas) Herald: Ella ROwett
has established Dallas as the great races
horse center of the southwest. Galveston
produces her oysters, Houston her BeIgian |
barons, San Antonio her bulls and Mexican
lions, and Austin unacknowledged states |
men, but Dallas sends horse to Kentucky |
which kicks dust into the eyes of the fastest
born and reared on the turf,
Americus (Ga.) Recorder On the |
place of Mr.. Robert r. Howe, near Granger. |
vile, Macon county, there is an ever>bearing !
tree, which measures twenty-five |
feet and eight inches in circumference five |
feet from the ground, and the foliage meas /
ures ninety-fOur feet in a straight line /
through the broadest part. 1t shades Mr.. |
Howe's entire horse lot, aud he fattens hogs |
enough to do his whole force upon the fruit. |
Waco (Texss) Telephone: The little |
town of Brownwood 125 miles west of |
Waco, has a genuine sensation. Parties bor- /
ng an artesisn well discovered specimens of |
Dre, which hasty local assays declare to be |
largely impregnated with silver. The lucky /
owner of the ground where the silver was
discovered was offered and refused $500 4
Or his land. A stock company was at once
organized to work the land, and an eight
loot shaft was sunk in twenty>four hours
after the discovery.
There were running in the United
States, April l. 495 distill lerlss, ass of which
used daily 75,0S7 bushels of grain, making
27e,O0l gallons of spirits. The other seven
Of the dishlleries used mOlssses at the rate
Of 1856 gallons daily, and obtaining there
from AZ gallons Of spirits. Number runr
ming March i 1873, 466; capacity, 30S,135
gallons; decrease in March, 80 657 gallons
daily.
A practical movement for the eleva-
ton of the poorer classes has been set on
loot IN England. It is called g the peoples
society" It Is desivned 70
the influence of the music halls
and the public houses, the chief resorts of
the laboring poor in search OF amusement
The entertainments are free, and rst-class
3 lists are engaged in many cases.
The Iron and Steel association in ses-
.ioa at Pittsburg, Pa, has adopted resolu.
lions stating that the hopeless depression