The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-02-27
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

There are eight murderers in the Little
Rock jail
Only seventy one deaths in Nashville
in January,
The wheat crop is seriously injured in
Virginia and Alabama.
Negroes abOnt Vicksburg are prepar-
ing for general emigration.
Nashville's debt Is $I,7l2,000, and it
was increased last year 100000.
Texas is going to sell enough wild
lands to build new state house.
Virginia has not dollar in her treas
ury, and a legislature in session.
North Carolina has sent a man to the
penitentiary Tor stealing horseshoe.
In South Carolina there are 30,828
whites and 235,064 blacks who cannot read.
Some one says whisky drinking is ike
sitting down on a hornets nest-stimu ulsting
but not nourishing
Issac Brown. an oct geDarian of JEFF
ferson county, Ala. has plowed the same
field FOR sixty>twO successive years.
Ia two years the governor of Texas
pardOned 100 convicts OF the number 45
were muTderers, and 80 horse thieves.
The Atlanta Constitution estimates
that during the past two seasons the farmers
of Georgia have paid out $4,000 600 for
mules.
Farmers in Georgia, South and North
Carolina and other southern states are b. nd>
ing together TO resist the encrOachments of
d' aiers IN fertilizers.
All over the south farmers continue to
bypOthecate their crops in advance, which
shows th-t they are running at least one
year ahead Of their means.
Do. ,~,rv,+vy -Gyp.re,rr =, nd,
loon OF any kind within its limits, and its
last term ot court besides dispensing with
a grand ju y, only lasted half day.
At a temperance celebra tion at New
market, a little lad appeared in the process
sion, bearing hag on which was Inscribed
the following: "AlHs right when daddy's
sober"
3 Frank Jonas, Louisiana's new sena~
tor, is Hebrew, and Is said to be the sec
ond ever elected to the United States SEN
ate. TIE other was Judah P. Benjamin,
also sent from Louisiana.
At Denison Texas, Buffalo Jack shot
Ben Grant, and was in turn shot through the
heart by an officer. At Muscogee, I. T.,
Wild Bill shot one Brown through the heart
and another man through the leg.
There are one thousand two hundred
and seven 'y-two pOsto ohices iu Tennessee, out
of thirtynIne thousand six hundred and
seventy-nIne in The fOrty>nine staTes and
territories. OF these, seventy eight are
money ~order offices.
Stray item: There is a colony some
where in North Carolina of nine hundred
negroes. They are engaged in working a
quarry. They have organized a local self
government, and the whipping post is the
principal penal institution,
The New Orleans mint is likely to meet
with an unexpected obstacle to its business
prospects. 1t is month since the depart
ment began to advertise for bids for silver
bullion to be delivered at the New Orleans
mint, but as yet there have been no offers.
Terrebonue claims to be the banner
sugar parish of Louisiana. The crop for the
year 1878 is estimated at about Is 600 hogs
heads, the same amount of hOgsheads pros
duced in 1S6l-less enough uncultivated
lard (Uncui uitivated in 1861 to produce q
surplus of 10000 hogsheads.
The Great National Dog Fight" " will
not take place IN Louisiana. The IegisIa.
ture passed a bill that puts fine of $1OO
and three months imprisonment on the 'ad.
vance agents" of the twenJy-One trained
bulldogs sent down by the advanced civiIi-
zatiOn Of New York. MIR. Bergh's letter
did the business
Nashville Banner: It is a remarkable
fact tnat during the present term of the
criminal court more lawyers have been ad-
mitted to the bar than there were criminals
! convicted. Nashville is full of old and young
! lawyers, and how they all mansge to make a
living is one of those things which nobody
can correctly ascertain.
Some years ago one Cannon hired 8
| man in Texas to murder an enemy. The
man who did the murder was condemned to
| die, but the night before the day set for ex,
/ ecutiCn his wife brought him poison II hel
mouth, and both we're dead when found the
next morning. Cannon has just been cap
| tured, and will probably hang.
Charlotte Observer: Information has
! been received Gt the assay Office that a mug,
| get of gold, in the pure state, was recently
| found in Cabarrus county, near the Pioneer
| mills, which weighed OT Ter thirteen ounces
! or nearly one pound. 1t is a well~kuOwI
tact that the largest lump of gold IN the
! United States was picked up in Cabarrui
county many years go.
Hon. JOnn A. Cobb, OF Georgia, ha'
| $4,000 bushels OF corn on his plantation o.
last years crop, and all of this corn Is ye
on the cob. He has steam cOrn>shellel
! that can shell one hundred and twenty
/ bushels per day. This gentleman is one q
! the progressive farmers of the country. H
| generally ma keS two or three hundred bale
of cotton, and keeps his stock in the bes
order.
Gea. Gustave S ROsseau, who gradu
ated at West Point in 1898, and served SIS
volunteer in the Mexican war, dropped dead
As he was driving along the road n his buggI
: in Ascension parish, La. Tue only iivin.
| graduate of West Point from Louisiana, VIII,
graduated before General Ro>seau, Is ex
/ Governor Joshua Baker, whose date Of grad
/ Uation Is 1919. Governor Baker is at pres
ent planter On the Ieche.
Last Sunday Mrs. Elizabeth LeonsrC
relic Of Thomas Leonard, died in Granite
vile, 5. c., at the venerable age of 10
wears. She was born in BUckingham county
Va, on the 25th of D ecember, 177I, Sn,
emigIated to South Carolina when she wa
seventeen years of aSe, and lived nea
Ninety-siE. She raised twenty-five OrphaI
grandchildren. At the funeral was her onf
surviving son, over eighty years of age
Around her grave stood this son, a grand
child fifty years old, several g,eatgrand
/ children over iorty years Of age, great-grea1
grandchildren twenty>hve years old, and
number of great eat-grandcai'd 'dreI
five generations IN all. There are living q
present eighty of her descendants, and tw
hundred and ten have died, making alto
gether nearly three hundred.