The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-03-13
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

James Brown, aged eighty, died in
Georgia from measles.
There are pending in the courts of
Memphis 120 divorce suits.
Memphis is raising $25, 600 by private
subscription to clean the streets
The Tennessee legislature has passed
law giving the laborer lien on the crop.
The A. and NJ. college, to be built at
Meridian, Miss, this summer, viii cost $780,
And now they say cattle are dying
about CulIman, Ala, with something like
yellow fever.
The legislature of Alabama has appro-
priated money to buy legs for all her citi>
zens who lost them for the lost cause.
A Texas paper estimates that there
we're at least three hundred persons mur-
dered in that state last year. Twelve men
were executed.
The Alabama legislature took recess
in December, and, with the exception of two
members, all charged the state mileages, the
total being over $4,000.
Nearly every legislature in the south
has wrangled over the Mofiet register and
whipping post bills, but Virginia continues
to have monopoly Of both.
A Georgia darkey, when@he was told
that q dollar was only worth eighty cents,
remarked, This is wusser'n cotton. Must
have been Dustin crap of money made last
year."
The bodies of Mrs. Gray and her three
children, all firmly tied together, were
found in the river near Fort Worth, Texas,
a few deys ago. She drowned herself and
three children last June.
The poor farm established near Dallas,
Texas, for the purpose of taking care of
Paupers and working tramps, has cost in
twenty months $S, 600 more than its receipts.
Beef alone, cheap as it is in Texas, cost
9121O.
The farmers of South Carolina have
lost their heads in the heat of the fight with
fertilizer companies, and at one of their
meetings discussed the question OF forcibly
resisting the shipment of phosphates out of
the state.
Eddie Lawhorn, aged twelve, when
convicted of horse-stealing and sentenced TO
imprisonment for five years in the Texas
pepitentiary, laughingly said: " Five years
amt long. Why, can stand on my head
most of the time"
A young man who has tried every-
thing else and failed, writes the Vicksburg
Herald to inquire the requisites for a good
reporter and gets for answer: A bottle of
whisky, a lead pencil, cast-iron constitu~
ton and rhinOceros hide"
An Atlanta manufacturer says to a
Constitution reporter that the factories of
that city must purchase coal for TWO dollars
to five dollars, while in Chattanooga it can
be purchased for from one dollar fifty cents
to two dollars.
In North Carolina last year three
million nine hundred and two thousand four
hundred young shad, eighty-nine thousand
California salmon, and over fifteen thousand
landlocked salmon were distributed, under
the management of the fish hatchers at
Avoea and Swannanoa gaps.
According to Adjutant General Jones'
report, the aggregate strength OF the state
guard of North Carolina is 1924. More than
fifty Thousand dollars worth of ordnance is
now IN the hands of the troops Most of the
rifles are of the very latest improved breech,
loading patterns, worth eighteen dollars
apiece.
Richmond (Va.) State: The Rev.
Jasper delivered his sermon The Sun do
Meve," last night for the instruction and
delight of the members of the legislature.
1t is highly proper " Brother Jasper" or
somebody else should try to convince them
something, does really move.
The Atlanta cotton 'actOry has lain
idle two years. Certain subscribers refused
to pay because Kimball, the originator and
| president, had subscribed 100000 when he
had no property. The courts have decided
|
Lowell machine shop has enioined further
proceeding, and the immense establishment
! lies idle.
Another appeal is sent forth by Profes.
sor Venable, of the university of Virginia
under instructions from the society of the
| alumni, to the alumni and others, to raise
/ the amount necessary, 1000, or at least
| $4,000, for the erection of an observatory
that the gift of the telescope by Mr.. McCor,
| mick may be speedily utilized and the OBJ,
servor's chair endowed.
Several important bills have beer
passed by the general assembly of Florida
| extending the benefits of the internal i'm
| provement act to numerous canals and rail
| roads,. The appropriations for the purpose
will exhaust pretty Bauch all of the public
lards controlled by the state. They aRt
generally valueless in their present condi
| ton, and the only hope for ever rendering
them profitable is to bring them into tn,
market by running thoroughfares through
! them.
SPEAKING Of the recent railroad horro
near Selma, the Argus says: Parker, Will
living in shanty as it were, gave anythini
! and everything he possessed to make com
Portable those brought to his house, ant
Storer worked manfully and faithfully from
first to last to relieve the suffering. Thei
skins may be black, but their hearts ar
white as snow, and for their action in thi
instance the recording angel witt drop a tea
on many a shortcoming.
Knoxville Tribune: Mr.. Swany, VIII,
lost a leg during the war, was crossing tn
railroad track at Blue Springs, three mile
from GreenvIlle. AS he stepped upon tn
track he saw the train coming through fh
cut about fifteen feet distant. He turned t
escape, but there being rocks about tn
track and he a cripple, he fell on the trael
and was run over. He lost ione arm and
toe, and received a severe confusion on tn
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damages at S2500, the second $2850, and tn
third $4,000.
Savannah News Tallahassee letter
The TOMB Of Charles Louis Napoleon Achill
Murat, nephew of Napoleon BOnaparte an
son or Joachim Murat, ex king of Naples an
the greatest cavalry general the world hs
ever seen, stands in the city cemetery. ii
owned for many years a large plantation i
this county. He is said to have been yer
! eccentric in his habits, and many laughabl
anecdotes are related of his peculiaritie
The remains of HE wife, Virginia lady {
great excellence of character, are deposite
in the same inclosure.
Joseph St. Cyr, aged 80, and Cha
Raymond, aged S5, both took part in th
battle of New Orleans in 1915, and in th
military parade Saturday. They both hay
wives they married sixty years ago, an
both, like the Buffers OF Kentucky, den
the cotton bale story. They say in the en-
brasures for the cannon were two or thre
cotton bales, but none in the bresstwork
A writer, in the New Orleans Demoera
saws cotton bales and sugar hogsh heads wei
tried in the battles that preceded that
January s, but were rejected, because Il
former caught IRE and the latter wel
knocked to pieces by cannon balls and d
more harm than good.
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CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.