The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-03-06
SOU sHERN NEWS ITEMS.

Nashville is said to have more lawyers
than any other city of its re in the world
The Moffett register bill was ''remOrse-
Iessly slaughter ed" in the Florida legislature
A proposition to punish theft by
whip ping was rejected by the Texas legisla>
ture.
The governor of Louisiana has not
yet signed the bill TePealing the lottery
charter.
A steam rice pounding mill is to be
ere cted at Georgetown, S. C., at cost OF
$4,000.
A bill before the Florida legislature
dispenses with all municipal governments in
the state.
The Picayune says the prices of real
estate in New Orleans show an upward
tendency.
Mississippi farmers are citing uneasy
over the prOsI ect of a wholesale departure
of negroes for Kansas.
The Children's Aid Society, of New
York, has sent ffty>one more boys to homes
among the farmers Of Virginia.
The New Orleans Times says blunder
on the part of the legislature leaves the
Moffett register unrepealed in Louisiana.
The great mortality of fish on the Flor.
ida coast last fall is said to have been caused
by the obnoxious gas from a submarine
volcano.
Two Georgisns have married each
others daughters, and editors are getting
bald wrestling with the question of their
relationship.
Rev John Locke Martin has been re-
moved from the pastorate of the Presbyterian
church at DenisOn, Texas, on account of
drunkenness.
The eldest child of George Patrick, of
Denton, Texas, playing doctor, administered
a dose of acid to his brother Willie. who died
in intense pain.
Little Minnie Quinn, aged twelve, of
Atlanta, has published pamphlet edition
of poems she has been writing since she was
seven years o.d.
John Edwards, who was executed at
Smithfeld, N. c., last Friday, was sixty
seven years old, and was convicted 0On the
evidence of Il six year old daughter of the
murdered man.
Seventy,fve counties in North Caro-
| Ina have 375, 439 sheep, and seventy five
! counties report I1l,039 dogs. Last year
! 8,O8I sheep were killed by dogs, and only
/ 10000 have died from disease.
A Georgian claims that 20 600 have
| emIgr ted from that state and the Carolnas
| O Texas during the p st five years and that
| 10000 If them will return now that they can
| get emigrant rates back.
Texas papers ore praying for the whips
! ping post. The 5 Antonio Herald has
! heard of a negro who stole "A box of sardines
! valued at twenty cents, and VINO sent to
| the penItentlaTy at cost of $1,000 10 the
/ state.
Twenty~six persons have been killed
and thir. y wounded in the settlement of
personal differences in BreaJhiUJ county, KY,
since the ar, and not a person has been
hung sent to the peniJentiary in conse-
| quence.
The relief fund. $26 464, which was
! garnsheed by the creditors of the city OF
| N, mphis, h IS been released, Judge B xter
| holding tuaJ such fund Is not subject to gar
nishment by the creditors of the city of
/ Memphis.
! Samuel Gustina ThOm nsDn arrived in
| Nashville yesterd y from Phlad-lpnia. He
! represents the holders Of 81 600 ,0JO Of 2 en-
nessee bonds living in the atate of Pennsyl-
vania. He says thee bOndholders are willing
| 20 settle with the state ou the same basis as
| the Eew York bondhOlders.
The New Orleans Times says the Rp,
preparation made by the last legislature
amounting t. some seven or eight hundred
thousand dollars more than the practicable
revenues of the state, II is doubtful wte theF
members of the cvnstiIuti mai convention
Will get their mileage and S4 per diem or any
other sum.
When Gen. Veach, of North Carolina
escorted Governor Jarvis, Senator Vance''
successor, to the gubernatOrial chair recent
ly, he shook hands with him and said, " Now
iarvi-, I've done all can for you. Be com
J Portable, and you'll soon get u ed to it. Goo
bless YOU, aud make me your successor
Goodbye"
Chas F. Barry, who suicided in New
Oleans, left the following note to the cOrO
ner's jury; Gentleman, you can bring il
your verdict without trouble or delay.
have taken my own life by taking morphine
and laudanum. I tried hard 10 make liv
ing, but utterly failed. No person had com
p ssiOn on Il V old age would give me EN-
plOyment. l was reduced to utter destitu
tiOn. There is not cent to bury me-"
The ladies OF Virginia are to erect a
Winchester June 9th, shaft memorial tC
the confederate deud. 1t Will be dedicated
! on that day with appropriate ceremonies. 1
will he in height twenty-five feet, the bast
, Tour feet broad. The column will be mad
of The finest Italisn marble, and surm Dunte,
by funeral urn and drapery, and the bas
of Richmond granite. On it's front Will h
the coat of arms of the state, and on tn
= d, ferent panels will be appropriate nscrip
, tons.
The temperance editor of the Raleigh
IN c. Observer is responsible for thes
3 figures: If the population OF the state b
, / 1,U7OI2O souls, our people pay SIS, 800 $50 fO
for their religion $269,S3 That is, the
think eight times much, of whisky
| christian faith. There are 100000 bales c
u cotton grown in North Carolina annually
= These ball S will average 40 pounds. at
g cents per pound, this cotton will bring 81,
. 200 O00 AL the cotton grown IN the stat
n will not Ply the hquol bill.
|, Dallas (Texas) Commercial: INTEL
d gent and responsible parties in this city sa
! that about niue o'clock yesterday mOrniI
there was plai liy visible in the norJher
It heavens what appe sred to be reflection
~ the sun. 1t appeared at angle of abO1
six five degrees above the horizon, was ju
2 about the size OF the moon when at its fuI
J. and shOne wit" the daZs ing glare of mi
ror when rejecting the suns rays. l. col
s. tinued apparently static airy Tor some tim
disapi cared, and then appeared again. A
: together, coun ing both appearances, it W
u visible tor the full space of haf an hour.
q Nashville American Pcut. Milton y
r Hum hIe evs, professor Of Greek At Naudt
, bit University, has been rendered and h
"a accented the position Of editor general
q North merica of the Revue des R- -vues,
! review of phlol,gN, of literature and
- ancient history. His duty viii be to revit
- each V ar the reviews OF the cedIug yes
-, } This work lie Is TO Goa vnce Nna CO. c II
;" by Nav Tor The reviews of 1878 The Unit
c. States have been only slightly represent
N in this review, and he edi or k IN t
services of this lire scholar, whose repu
. tiOn is alreaoy wiIe Y e1tendeU, represeI
ly ative worthy Oi the country.
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