The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-06-26

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teen there are of Texas children twenty In
every hundred who can not read or write,
and, of the eolored population sixty out oi
every hundred. OF Texas white children,
between the ages mentioned, there ere thirty
| thousand WIN ran hts read.
The Galveston News says: The fact is
/ admitted all around that immigration Il
Texas, il not coming to an abrupt close, il
/ greatly on the wane. immigration agents
| on the railroads are all discouraged. Rea
/ estate in Texas has deprecated in value
| the last two years fully eight per cent.
The san Antonio Express ags gentle
men from Rio arsnde border towns repor
/ that Mexican soldiers are deserving to the
/ Texas side of the river in numbers. 4
| squad of sixteen waded the river at Eagle
pass. 1t is estimated that three hundred
men have escaped during the past two
months.
Little Rock Gazette: A gentleman
| Just from Mount Ida says that the silver sen
| sation is so intense there that a great many
| of the farmers have neglected their farms
and turned their attention to the develop
ment of mines. Many people are coming
into the neighborhOod, and the entire com
mUnity is in high state Of excitement.
Dallas Herald: Another curious case
has come up in Denton. George and An.
drew Brown were, in 1873, found guilty Of
murder in Montague county, but at the same
time were serving a thirty years sentence
ssin the penitentiary. The court of appeals
has just confirmed the second finding, and
the question arises whether they shall be
brought out and hung at once or stay there
until they have completed their thirty years
and then be executed.
BrownWood (Texas) Banner: Pros
pectlng for the precious metals is going on
IN various parts OF the county, with very
satisfactory results. Ore is being brought
/ ~ #wr -
proven to be rich in copper, lead and silver;
the fever is gaining ground, and the exciteN
ment IS beginning to rage. With little
l-capltal and energy we may soon open up
mines that will outstrip Leadville, anu make
Brentwood the bonanza of the world.
Memphis Appeal The health of Mem
| phis was never better. The total number OF
Ceaths for the month of May, 1879, was
seventy-seven, against no for the correspond
ing month of last year. OF this number
nine were from accidental and suicidal
causes, leaving sixty-eight from natural
causes; and of this number eight were
strangers dying at the hospital only leaving
citizens of Memphis, dying from natural
causes, for the month. OF this number
twenty-three were under five years of age.
New Orleans Times: Friday, at mid
night, officer F. Miller had his attention
attracted by the Pickering glare of four
candles, shining out in the darkness from
the cps of the house No. 90 North r mpart
street. On invest cation IL was revealed
that the candles surrounded an eartben
bowl filed with rice, FISH and other articles
of food, the whole being surmounted by a
calPs head The officer, having no iaith in
obi or vOudOu spells, took the stuff to the
fourth station, and thus broke the charm
which the descendant of three fingered
Jack, the defunct king of the VOudous, /"
sought to cast on the inmates of the hsuse.
Bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitution :
+ fifty years have made wonderful change
in Gadsden, for when old man Cad first
squatted down here as a refugee from South
Carolina justice, he very properly dubbed
it his den. [ am told he was a regular bull
of-the-wo0ds among the first settlers, and
was the only man for miles around who had
even a smsttering of edueation. The first
steambo 4t that ever piled upon the waters
of the COOsR dropped down here IN 1912,
and when old man Cad was called upon by
the wonderNstruck crowd to translate the
big red letters on the wheel-house (U- s. NJ.
COOsa), he announced with great pomposity
that her name was Use 'em, Susie.
Gov. Colguitt, of Georgia, on returns
ing home from Brooklyn: 'I tell you I can
Dot be deceived as to my estimate of those
people. They want peace and harmony just
as much as we do. They may be misled by
their politicians, and misrepresented by
their papers, but I tell you that at heart
they are sympathetic and harmonious. There
was no Misunderstanding the heaRtiness
and the unaniuIty with which they ap-
plauded everything that alluded in the
slightest manner to complete nrtional re-
conciliatiOn and a complete peace OF the
sections. The political leaders are, in my
opinion, making a fatal mistake in basing
their schemes upon the belief that the sec
tiOnal feeling still exists, or that it can be
famed into life again"
Jackson (Tenn. Whig: Last Monday,
while Mrs. Sanford, wife of Patrick Sanford,
living in the seventeenth district of this
county, was engaged sewing up some rents
in the pants of her little son, aged about
ten years, a toy pistol dropped from the
pockets to the floor, and, as Mrs. Sanford
thought, broke, as it seemed to come apart.
She took it NJ to adjust the parts, which at
tracted the attention of her little child.
about three years old, and he innocently
approached his mother to see the pistol, un-
conscious of existing danger. He stepped
to his mothers side and remarked, " That is
Johnnie pistol" and, as he spoke, the
pistol fred, sending ball through his brain.
The little boy fell dead at his mothers feet.
One of the strangest and most remar-
kable cures that the people of Petersburg,
| Va, have ever witnessed WAS that which
took place at q colored baptizing on Sunday.
| Fifty-four candidates were immersed. one
| of whom was a deaf and dumb man, Bur
well Lancaster, who is quite highly edu~
Gated. having receiy ed his schooling at the
college for the deaf aud dumb in Provi-
dence, R. 1. The mute returned from the
water cured of his in6rmities, and gave vent
t. his feelings by very lusty shout OF
a" Thank God " when he was again taken
deaf and dumb. To say thst the spectators
were considerably amazed would but feebly
express it, and no little CONSERVATION was
occasioned among the large crowd at the
| miraculous cure which was to last but few
minutes.