The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-22

ing already arrived. They talk of concen.
tretiDg on the coast and forming a sort of
, pegFc republic. They have not grasped the
. Kansas idea.
4 Raleigh paper says The revival of
| religion begun in this city in the EdentOas
street Methodist church. by Mrs Noon, still
continues, and so great is the interest that
meeting was begun last week Ia The Person
street church, by Mrs. Painter, sister of the
| former lady. Both churches are crowded
every night,
Weldon IN. o. News: On Saturday
last several hundred negroes met in town to
discuss the question Of going to Kansas.
| Several speeches were made pro and con,
and committee was appointed 70 ascertain
| particulars and report. No definite action
viii be taken until more is found out in Fee
gard to the advisability of emigratlng.
Galveston News: Intelligence has been
received from Lynchburg and San Jacinto
that the water was five feet higher than
during the overflow from the storm of Sep>
tember, 1875 Many fsmilies are rePrese ed
as having lost everything they were J. IS.
sessed of, and unless relief be afforded a
great deal of suffering viii be the result.
The Chinese merchants of Augusta,
Ga, pay their liquor and tobacco taxes
promptly and willingly, whereupon the
News remarks that they say the Chinese
must go, but their industry and business way
of conducting affairs is very striking. The
revenue collectors say they are among the
Eromptest paying, and are always correct in
money dealings.
Charleston News aud Courier: O. O.
Leslie, the well known fish merchant, re-
ceived yesterday from one of his smacks
curiosity in the shape OF monster leather
back or trunk turtle, whose shell measures
six feet, and which weighs about 800 pounds.
1t was caught off Ch Irleston bar, and is the
first of this particular species that has ever
been caught in these waters.
Rockingham (Va.) Register: For
more than week the mountains east and
west of us have been on fire. We do not
know that we have ever seen such extensive
fires as prevail in the Allegheny and North
mountains. The light at night is grand In
the extreme. For more than sixty miles in
length there was a continuous stream of
fire, sweeping over knolls and down in the
gorges.
The London World says the famous
privateer Shenandoah was, after the war,
bought at auction by NicOl, Fleming & Co.
"a firm that has earned a nOtoriety in con-
neetiOn with the failure of the City of Glas-
gov bank-for the sultan of Zanzibar. After
remaining idly at Zanzibar for some years
she was sent to Bombay tor repairs but
foundered off SOcotra, all hands being lost
except one Englishman and few Lasears.
For the present the " Kansas fever"
among the southern blacks seems to have
subsided, but the movement will start afresh
and with greater force in the autumn, The
planters are SO well convinced of the gen.
eral disposition of the negroes to move
northward, that all of them who are able
are already making arrangements to supply
themselves with Chinese labOrers from San
Francisco. Many contracts have already
been made, it is understood, very low rates
of fare being secured for gangs of thIee
hundred.
An intelligent correspondent of the
New Orleans Picayune concludes, from
extensive observations in Mississippi,
that there has not been yet such
an alarming stampede of negroes as one
would infer from the many newspaper reN
ports. Here and there you can learn of
few families that have gone, and on close
investigation they are of a class who are
behind with their merchants for supplies.
are shiftless and very poor workers, and
scarcely ever accumulated anything, and
hence, from their very character, are of lit
tie benefit to any community.
A few days ago the Bazaar market in
New Orleans was taken possession of, and
the court afterward held that the eity's
creditors are entitled to four thousand of
water-works stock, which were seized some
time ago. Noticing these things, the Times
adds that the younger generation of law
yers has discovered an elasticity in the law
which was wholly unknown to the older
members of the profession. 1t will not be
surprising, therefore, if the parks, city hall,
court houses and public squares are gath-
cred in by the city's creditors, in the same
way that the Bazaar market and the water
works stock were."
The following paragraph from the Sa-
vsnnah News is peculiarly interesting Just
at this time; Certain negroes in the south
just now seem to be in a state of feverisb
restlessness. While many of them are
leaving Louisiana for death in the west
others are emigrating from West Florida to
Louisiana. We learn from the Madison Re-
corder that they go under regular contract
and are given house and fifteen dollars per
month, and in addition furnished with a
mule and a piece of land, should they desire
it, to cultivate for themselves. In the roll
ing season they are paid extra, and are
compensated for night work. This is much
better than relying on northern phiIsnthro>
pists for warding off starvation. Still, it
will be well for citizens of Florida of Afri-
can descent to bear in mind that a rolling
stone gathers no moss.