The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-10
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.


Petersburg, Va, lo6,4s4 pounds Of mann
factured tobacco.
Old Uncle Billy Thomas, one of Gen
Houston's body servants, is living at Deni
ION at the age of ninety-fve.
Rev. J L Davis, Baptist minister st
Georgetown, Texas, suieided there by shoot
ing himself through the head.
Beginning next October. a line o.
weekly steamers will begin carrying cattle
from New Orleans to Liverpool 5000 head
per week.
Two assignments in Nsshviile-John
W. Otey, shoe merchant, Liabilities, $500;
]. G. Fulghum, proprietor Commercial
hotel, liabilities, 5000.
It is estimated that Georgia ha ,e-
ceived this year, at her ,iifiereHt ports and
railway stations, 60,O00 tons of guano,
against II 900 last year.
The Temperance alliance of New Or
leans has organized for the purpose of pes
titIoning the legislature to prohibit the sale
Of liquor in that state on Sundays.
Tomatoes are selling at Twenty-Five
cents bushel in Key West. Within ten
miles Of inesville there are 600 acres of
land upon which tomatoes are being raised
W. F Hooper, twice a candidate for
assistant clerk of the Tennessee senate, was
found dead Saturday in the courthouse at
Murfreesboro, with bottle Of lsudanum by
his side.
A negro voodoo doctor in Georgia,
upon being acquitted of the charge of kills
ing one of his patients, acquired additional
eclGt by telling the negroes that he voodooed
the jury.
The Vicksburg Herald says Madison
parish, where the negroes do now and have
for years controlled the Offices and politics
of the parish, is suffering most from the
Deglo o exodus.
Gov. Nichols is still holding the bill.
repeating the charter of the Louisiana State
lottery, which, under the constitution of
that state, he may do for twelve months
without either signing or vetOing it.
The Sunday law Just made by the
North Carolina legislature provides against
the loading of freight and The running of
trains on the Sabbath between sunrise and
sunset. 1t docs not apply to mail trains.
Geo. r Greene, the missing book
keeper of the Merchants and Planters
bank of Sherman, was picked up one hun
dred miles away, where he had wandered
during an alteration of mind. His accounts
are correct.
Kate Southern, sentenced to the GeOr-
gia penitentiary for ten years foI stahDing
young woman for dancing with her Kate's)
husband, will be sent to one of the convict
camps and employed in the keepers house
domestic.
Cox the murderer of Aston is com
fortably quarters in the Atlana Jail, where
nj wife and sister spend the days with him
His face is still very much swollen, and his
physician saws he will be unable to appear
or trial at the next term of court
g We hate to tell it." says the Car oil
county (Ga.) Times. 4" but it is an actual fact
that hay is brought from Indiana, and sold
in this market. And yet our farmers spend
all the summer in trying to destroy the
grass, so vigorous is it, in this soil and
climate"
Judge Tilghman, who die d at Centre>
vile, Md, Friday, was graduate of West
Point, and several years in the army. He
was a classmate of JEFF r-on Davis and Gen.
Joe Johnston, and when Gen Robert E.
Lee was married, acted as ms groomsman.
He was seventystwO years of age
Drummers taxing out j. enses to sell
goods in North Can olina viii have to pay
one hundred dollars for each license, unless
il Is to sell liquor, when they must pay two
hundred dollars each. The new law exempts
them from the payment of any county or
municipal tax. Manufacturers are now res
quired tn take out licenses.
Mrs. ROsanna ShomO, sister of the
Creek chief Weatherford and the noted
warrior Red Esgle, died recently in Moo e
county, Alabama, aged seventy>five. Sac
was educated at Ra' eieh, n. c. and married
a captain in the regular army. OF the many
remarkable traits attributed to her, one is
hat she never spoke dispsraging word of
one of her sex.
MaIianna (Fla Courier: We do not
recolle ct the year when the same prOpitious
weather was had for the pPepara lion of the
soil for a crop. Not more than two days for
he ~ 4hu hod nd
then only light one. Should this weather
continue a week many of the planters viii
begin to plant cotton. Corn in many pOr~
tions OF the county is already up, and is very
hardy aud vigorous.
AT recent tenn of court in G o -ge-
town county, S. c., there was not a case on
the docket and not a true bill found by the
srand jury. In commemOration of the
went, in following out the custom prscticed
in England for many centuries, the solicitor,
in few appropriate remarks, presented a
pair of white kid gloves, emblematic of
| peace and good order, to the court on behalf
of the high sheriff of the county.
Selma , Argus: Every day it is tels-
graphed there is no yellow fever in the
south. OF course there is none now. Sut
not southern city has enforced sanitary
regulations to make yellow fever impossible
next summer. 1t is cheaper to cleanse than
| to quarantine and cleansing will infallbly
| protect, which quarantine never did. There
| is no necessary cleansing now; there will be
! plenty of useless qusrantines next summer.
| Mr. Crandall, of Louisiana, went to
| Kansas to investigate the negro exodus
question, and he says that in Kan, as the
| negro could hardly buy land st all, for the
/ reason that the landowner found IL difficult
/ to sell any adjoining tract to the white set
| tiers moving into that state, and that the
/ prejudice of the white labor there against
| the negro is equal to that of the Californian'
against the Chinese. Kansas does not want
them.
New Orleans Times: The citizens o.
/ Mobile have determined upon a most rigid
| aud early quarantine, should there be thu
| lesst appearance of fever in this city the
] voluntarily determined themselves into
! what may be termed a quarantine brigade
and the slightest report started in regard x
| sickness in New Orleans and vicinity vii
bring the organization into active service
like body of minute men.
The News and Courier says the gar
dens and farms around Charleston embrac'
over 1900 acres, and yield an income OF owe
| 81, 600 coo. In potatoes 1875 acres yieiC
S4O6 $50; in strawberries, $50 acres yieiC
! $4,000. The remaining SS5 res unde
| cultivation are planted in tomatoes, cucum
bers, beans, garden peas, asparagus, and al
kinds of garden vegetables, which not onl,
keep the home market supplied, but fuFnisl
to other markets quantity which returns
gross income Of not less than $4,000 sn
nually.
A Kansas emigrant writes TO his ol'
master in Mississippi: ] am here not say
ing starving, but very near so. don
kuow anybody except you to ask for as
sisanee, and if you can not assist me, ge
your uncle Abner to do 80, and [ viii worl
with you until pay you back, snd neve
expect to leave you any more, if you vii
only let me have one hundred and thiTty-tw
dollars to bring ne home, or express m
three tickets as soon as you can. If yo