The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-07-17

With one crop as large as marbles, the
orange trees about Tampa, Fla have secs
Ond bloom.
The Legislative council " in Mem
phls has passed an ordinance prohibiting
opiumNsmoking.
Columbus, Ga, claims to have mere
capital invested in manufactures than any
| other city in the south.
The corn crop along Red river, Louis
lana, is failure, and the farmers are al
ready cutting it down for fodder.
A Memphis clergyman takes the pc
sition that there is future state for all the
beasts of the field and fowls of the air,
An eight-year~old girl st Lower Ter
rebone, La, has a full beard of exquisite
fneness," and " a voice coarse and firm
The drouth is unprecedented in Rus
sell county, Va. Farmers have been COM
PEELED to drive their stock to other coun-
ties.
The Tennessee legislature appropriated
only $500 to keep the capitol in order for a
year, and the money has already been exs
pended.
Willows are growing on the bar in
the Mississippi at Vlcksburg, and it will
soon be dry land where the river once
flowed.
Montgomery, Alabama, wants another
route to the Atlantic, and cOntemplates q
road to Troy or some other point in southern
Alabama.
Gen. G. w. Curtis Lee has rendered
his resignation president of Washington
and Lee college, and it will probably be
accepted.
Two illicit stills recently captured in
Alabama were the property of Rev. Albert
Esmon, who escaped the revenue officers by
taking to the woods.
Hugh and Nathan Estill, children,
while playing about a sandbank, in Mur>
freesborO, were buried alive, and when exs
tricated were dead.
The gateway for the national ceme-
terry at Vicksburg, erected by the United
States government, is to be of Tennessee
marble and to cost $1,000.
The New Orleans Times says that next
year the Louisiana jockey club viii be one
of the most fourishing ana substantial or
ganizatiOns in the country.
Mrs. Sears sued the Texas Central
railroad for $2,50O damages for killing her
son. The jury returned verdict in her
favor and awarded her $500.
Shreveport, La, derived its name
from II. NJ. S. Snreve, of Louisville, KY,
who first cleaned out the great raft in Red
river, and was one Of the original settlers of
the town.
The academy of science in Atlanta,
Ga, hes decided that the past, present and
| future prosperity of that place is due more
| to its reputation for healthfulness than any
| other cause.
Agricultural Commissioner Killebrew,
of Tennessee, is in Massachusetts,, arranging
a mammoth excursion from the Old Bay
state of people interested in Tennessee col
onization.
Waco, Texas, adventures, are search
ing after treasure alleged to have been left
ii A
GOughey, wealthy old man who died there
several years ago.
Gen. Richard Anderson, corps com.
mander in the confederate army of northern
Virginia, died in Beaufort, S. c., on the 26th
ult. Gen. Lee once referred to him as ga
most noble soldier"
The training ship Wachusett is lying
at anchor opposite Vicksburg. The vessel
draws sixteen feet of water, and it is doubt
full whether she will be able to reach st.
Louis for some time.
Memphis never was as healthy as it is
now, never was SO free of diseaae, never vas
so clean and her people were never before
so intent on reaching and maintaining the
highest conditions of sanitation.
Sanguine Atlanta, that had not a
whole house standing fourteen years ago,
now has over 10000 Inhabitants, and ex>
poets to have $4,000 inhabitants and $40,-
In Buchanan county, Ga, s ten~year-
old son of Squire Vance committed suicide
by hanging. AS he was in the best of spire
its q few hours before, and a child of good
mind the motive that prompted him to seek
his death can not be understood.
The United States steamer Wachusett,
on its way up the Mississippi river in search
of young seamen,s ,sis stuck in the mud near
Lake Providence, La. 1t may get to st.
Louis and back in time for the next war. -
There is still hope for southern cities.
The yellow fever experts have discovered
that there is good reason to believe that
the yellow fever poison can be destroyed by
intense heat; and it is probable that the
temperature of boiling water is fatal to it.
New Orleans Times Texas seems to
be having her hands full and jails too, Just
now. In the state there are between thirty
and thirtyNfive murderers who are now IN
the hands of the law. Nine OF them viii be
executed, some of the rest are being tried
and still some others have carried theiI
death sentences to the court of appeals.
The question of the destruction OF
the ailanthus tree in Atlanta, Georgia
mas been agitating the community for some
time. The doctors have been called upon
to decide as to the baleful effects of the
tree upon the general health aud they are
wide apart in their notions. Meantime the
authorities are ia a quandary.
Atlanta Constitution Henry NJ. Tur
ner, the negro preacher, who is peddling
lies at the north, says that in Georgia the
whites refuse to sell land to the colored
people except for the purpose of building
churches. The fact that the colored people
OF Georgia own nearly six million dollars
worth of land doesn't seem to impress thil
eminent mulstto rascal.
Tue Nashville Banner, in the course
of long article reciting the progress Of the
city, SAYS: Any one who takes a walk
through the city cannot fail to note the nu
merous new buildings going up, and, at the
same tinae, to note the substantial character
of the same. Vacant lots are rapidly disap
pearing from sight, and improvements NAV
be seen on all hands, This certainly indi
cases revival of interest in real estate, and
marks the beginning of better era in the
real estate market.