The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-06-05
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

Atlanta has a cotton exchange.
In Charleston they call waits anony-
nous infants.
Wheat is improving in portions of
Virginia and North Carolina
The various towns in West Tennessee
are organizing boards of health.
Louisville, Jefferson county, Ga, is
building railroad to the outside world.
Recent oveIfows damaged the Texas
and New Orleans railroad 100000.
The next series of Georgia. four per
cent. bonds viii be issued in 1880, to the
amount of 100000.
Seven years ago sha3 were planted in
the Ouachita river, near Hot Springs, and
now the river is swarming with them,
On account of the tax imposed upon
them, the Pullman car company threaten to
withdraw all their property from Texas.
Texas owes 100000. The legisIa-
tuTe is TO meet in extra sessiOn June 10 to
wrestle with the debt and school question.
F F. Hopp will survey the 3,O5O, 900
acres of land set apart to build the state
capitol in Texas, and receive therefor $1,000.
Judge Eve, of Augusta, without fear
or favor, fines everybody 800 who is brought
before him charged with carrying concealed
weapons.
Cotton in southwest Georgia is small,
but is rapidly coming out under the influence
of the warm weather. The small grain crops
are good.
The dIummers travelling in Texas
propose to have convention and organize
to fight the tax levied on them by the re>
cent tax bill.
A Texas paper says: The demand for
madstOnes is such, since the legislature re-
ed ha bat IA sof for
one of unquestioned virtue in Gainesville.
The Swiss colony on the Cumberland
river, in East Tennessee, numbers 500 per-
sons, and it Is very prosperous. They are
engaged mostly in fruitculture and wines
making.
The latest evidence of patriotism is
afforded by a Georgia emlgrant in Texas,
who left seven dollars and halt in his viii
to pay for the publication of his obituary in
Georgia newspaper.
The Fort Worth Democrat says that
up to date there has been total OF $3.50
head of cattle reported at Fort Worth, and
have crossed the Trinity, going north to
Kansas and Wyoming.
There has not been a bill of indict~
ment found against a citizen, nor has there
been a man arrested, Charged with an of
fence against the state, in Holly township,
Fender county, n. c., since the war.
The Tarboro SOutherner says a COLI
ored defendant in Edgecombe court OBJ
jected to several red-headed men who had
been summoned as jurors, on the ground
that "'fore God it would never do to let a
red-headed man try niger for stealing"
The Augusta News says there is an
old grey mule in Macon which acted in the
capacity of a shifting engine on the Monroe
railroad about forty years ago. The animal
is now forty-seVen years of age, and is doing
Of fba in,
dump~cart.
A Boston emigration company, headed
by a number of leading citizens, has pur-
chased $4,000 acres of land in Tennessee, on
the Cincinnati Southern railroad, forty miles
from the Kentucky line, and will lay out
city and populate it and surroundings with
Massachusetts colonization.
A religious paper in Georgia says:
Recently during night services at MorgantOn
a screech-Owl stole noiselessiy up the aisle
and perched himself compl tcently upon the
bald head of a good brother sitting on the
front bench Just facing the preacher. The
surprised look of the man and the Solomon
look of this Roman-nose bird presented the
funniest sort of contrast.
A hailstorm passed over Cuthbert,
Ga, and the Appeal says the woods were
entirely stripped OF every vestige of leaves,
while the branches of trees, and all under
growth were barked by the pelting hail. All
crops in the path of the storm were com-
pletely ruined. A week after bushels of
hailstones could be gathered from the fields
and woodland in the track OF the Storm
Lumpkin (Ga.l Independent: Some
time since we noted the occurrence of
young man stealing the silver from dead
mans eyes. 1t has not been six months, but
now be lies in the silent tomb. victim of
consumption, and died so poor that he had
TO be buried at the expense of the county.
Before his death he said he had never passed
peaceful moment since the act was cOms
mitted.
Sherman (Texss) Courier: Mr.. T. G.
Dunbar. late of Kentucky, but now tens
ant on the farm of 7. 5. Newell, SIX miles
north of Sherman, has Is acres of corn that
he plowed through four times and laid it by.
A large portion of. it is up TO a mans shoul-
der, and it looks black and thrifty. The
corn fields of the county will not average a
growth of more than II inches. This field
was planted the last week in February, and
the result shows what early planting and
good farming will do.