The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-06-19
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

Atlanta has As, COO inhabitants.
Atlanta has a debt of $40O, 900.
Montgomery, Ala, owes over $500, 900.
There are four ice factories in Atlanta.
mississippi has half million of dogs.
There are 1895 school districts in
Tennessee.
Houston, Texas, is building two new
opera>houses.
Silver has been discovered in Marion
county, w. Va.
The cattle disease is spreading in
southern Georgia.
Atlanta proposes to tax her insurance
agents $500 year.
A large number of negroes are leaving
Florida for Louisiana.
An extensive lead mine has been dis
covered near Berne, Texas.
In 1877 Jacksonville had 1,700 ins
habitants; it now has 14,000
There are at present $4,000 head Of
cattle on the Fort Worth trail.
A man living in Henrietta, Texas,
has domesticsted four buffaloes.
The various towns in west Tennessee
are originating boards of health.
The seven-year locusts have appeared
in the woods near Dallas, Texas.
Manatee county, Fla, has produced
coffee which is said to be excellent.
The cut>worm is very destructive to
the corn crop in all parts of Virginia.
The cornerstone of a colored male
college has been laid at Meridian, Miss.
It will cost Memphis 81 800 to keep
herself in good sanitary condition.
A galvaIized-iron icescream freezer
has poisoned several people IN Atlanta.
Out of LOIS convicts in the Texas
penitentiarys 915 can not read or write.
There are no symptoms of the Kansas
fever in the Louisiana sugar parishes.
Another rich silver mine is reported
to have been discovered near Hot Springs.
Buffalo-gnats are killing the horses
and mules along Sulphur river, in Texas.
A citizen of Hood county, Texas, has
enclosed his farm with hedge of cactus.
Pensacola, Fla, is boasting of ripe
figs seven and half inches in circumference,
A meteor weighing 40 pounds has
recently fallen on Fourehe mountain, Ark.
In the south, since the war, over 200,-
600 negroes have joined the Methodist
church.
Dallas, Texas, farmers are offering
$3.50 day for harvest hands and can not
get them.
One precinct of Waco. Texas, sub.
scribed $27, 900 toward the st. Louis and
Texas railroad.
Farmers along the Warrior river, Al
ALBANIA, are planting more cotton than any
year since the war.
A printing office now occupies the
room where Crockett and other heroes oi
the Alamo fell in defence of Texas indepen
dence.
It is proposed in Memphis that mem
bers of Gen. Forests old command contri'
butte to the erection of a monument to his
memory.
The Memphis papers deny unequivo
cally the statement that there has been {
single case of yellow fever in the city since
the 10Th of last December.
News comes from all parts of Missis
sippi that the colored people are working
with unusual energy, and that crops are IN {
most fourishing condition.
Bills will be presented to the mex
Georgia legislature levying a direct tax OF
dogs and whisky, ad valOrem- all for thu
benefit of the public schools.
Gen. Ord has at his headquarters il
San Antonio the handicapped table OIL
which Gen. Lee wrote the famous capitula
ton of the confederate armies.
1t is estimated that about $4,000 O
the 100000 debe of the Southern Methods
publishing hOuse have been subscribed, anC
some are sanguine that the balance can b.
secured by the first of January next.
A resolution has been introduced t
the city council of Houston, Texas, to su'
pend the fire, pohce and street department
| of that city, since there is no money to pa
their salaries, which amount to $4,000
month.
The board of health of Calcasier
parish, La, has established quarantin
against vessels from any port in the WeI
India islands and of Mexico, south of Texai
The Mayor has issued a quarantine proofs
nation.
The average salary of Methodist mir
listers in fourteen southern conferences
said to be $572, and the average amour
paid S4SS. In northern conferences the a
erage is 500, and the deficiency in paymel
about twelve per cent.
A special to the Galveston New
from Plano, Texas, says the average of co
ton in that part of the state is seventy~f'
per cent. greater than last season, and IL
prospect of a good crop was never mol
flattering than at present
There is q live sensation among Il
colored people in Collin county, Texas. The
| hSc ulkulA1 O1c O4aGh anu wv NAAAS 1NAe
coursing athwart the sky, the black one pT
saying death and the white ones offeriI
transportation to the land Of the angels.
Texas planters seem to think that Il
negro exodus will greatly raise t3e price
cotton, and with this impression upon the
have planted largely in cotton. In some
stances large fields of wheat which we
poor have been plewed up aud put down
cotton.
At the meeting of the Mississip
j stock>breeders' association. in Aberdeen,
D week since, a resolution was adopted W.
3 coming emigrants from the north and ",
i to that state, and promising to exert all
: gitimate Influences to induce emigrants
. seek homes in that state.
The Highland (Val Recorder te
, the prize sheen story of the season. Il s.
i that recently a pack of dogs one NIGHT
tacked flock Of sheep in that county a
killed several Of them; but on second
9 teck, the following night, the sheep got
better Of the dogs, Killing SIX or eight
them.