The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-15
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.


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Corn in San Antonio is scarce at one
dollar bushel.
The south Georgia aWberry crop is
6Rer this year than ever before.
There are tWo hundred convicts for
life in the Mississippi penitentiary.
Recent good rains have saved the cot.
ton and corn crops in northern Texas
The population Of Atlanta is said to
be increasing at the rate of six thousand
year:
The Texas legislature has pass, q
law giving $40 acres to every veteran pen
sioner.
The citizens of New Orleans are ac-
tive in putting the city in good sanitary con.
ditlon.
Thirteen hundred cases are before the
supreme court of Tennessee, representing
five million dollars and twenty thousand
litigants.
A negro named johnson Spencer has
been lynched near Starkville, Mississippi,
for barn-burning.
The prospect of the corn and cotton
crop in Mississippi is promising. The plant
ers are busy and hopeful
The recently planted crops in Alabama
suffered greatly by the heavy rains. Large
areas will have to be replanted.
Gen. Simons, who recently died in
Charleston, was in command of the southern
forces when Fort Sumter was attacked.
Four hundred illicit distillers are to
be brought before the federal court at Nash
vile, There are eight hundred witnesses.
II the new Indian Territory is opened,
it viii secure Galveston tw onew lines of
railroad connecting her with the "new
west"
A mad dog in Chesterfield county, s.
c., recently bit Mr.. Tucker, who in turn bit
two of his children, and the lives of all
three are despaired of.
Houston, Texas, has voted to place
herself practically under the control of the
Galveston board of health, so far as matters
of quarantine are concerned.
The Natchez cotton-mill has been in
operation less than year, and SO great has
been the success that the stockholders are
about to increase its facilities.
The white taxpapers of Selma pay
annually over three thousand dollars to
support hospital and furnish a physician
and medicines for the colored population.
"The remains of the old fort" SAWS
the st. Augustine Press, " thrown up by
Oglethorpe in 1740, when he attacked the
city, are still to be seen on Anastasia island"
Trucking in the eastern part o. North
Carolina is a growing industry. Last week
contracts we're made for the delivering of
5000 bushels OF green peas in northern
markets.
Poindexter, who killed another clerk
in Richmond for remarking upon the SYM
metry of his (P.'sl sweetheart's ankle, has
been sentenced to two years in the peni-
tentiary.
Ano4ber ;ns+o,,oo oF bor,. ,,o--1o l.
mand quarantine and then don't pay for it.
The state of Texas owes the city of Calves
ton twenty odd thousand dollars on the
quarantine account.
South Carolina can make more money
in wheat, hay and oats than in cotton, and
produce as much grain to the acre as in the
west; so the Agricultural society of that
state affirm in their report.
Mississippi is to have a convention at
Vieksburg in May to take into consideration
the present agitation of the labor question.
The planters hope to stop the emigration OF
the cOlOred people north, and call upon the
cOlored people to send delegates.
The Mississippi Stockbreeders' associN
alton are to hold convention, the purpose
of which is to try and induce planters to
emancipate themselves from the thraldom
of king cotton and devote themselves to the
better paying pursuit of stock raising.
DR.. Pratt, the gentleman whe dis
covered and first developed the immense
phosphate beds of South Carolina, is in
Georgia, and says that Georgia has the ma
terial and Atlanta can manufacture ferti-
lizers cheaper than any place in the country.
Savannah is reported by DR.. LeHardey
in paper read before the Georgia Medical
association, to be in such a condition that
yellow fever, if imported, could no more
prevail there as an epidemic than could the
seeds of any plant spring up and bear fruit,
If seminated on barren rock.
Charlottesville (Va.) Chronicle: Mr..
Warner Wood, of Pennington" lost four
teen of his best sheep few nights ago
through the blOodthirstiness of prowIing
dogs. Some of them we're pure COtswoIds,
one of them a valuable buck. and two of
them ewes, purchased by Mr.. Wood in Ken
lucky at high figure.
The proclamation of Governor Rob-
erts. establishing quarantine along the coast
Of Texas against all vessels from, or that may
touch at, any point south of latitude %
degrees north, to take effect from and after
April 26, 1879, and against any other part sr
place at which contagious or epidemic dis
ease may exist, is published in the Galveston
News of the 2Sd inst.
The presidents house at William and
Mary college, Virginia, came near burning
down few days ago. This house was built
in 1882, and was accidentally burnt by the
French troops, under Lafayette, on their
way to the battle of Yorktown. in 1871. 1t
was then rebuilt by Louis XVI. out of his
private funds, and has survived the fires
which have since then so often destroyed the
college. It is the only house in Virginia
built by reigning sovereign.
Nashville American: An amusing in
c:dent is related of deputy-maTshai Chap,
man and a noted distiller Of OvertOn county
Chapman and posse surrounded his house,
and knew he was in it. After making search
and failing to find him, he politely requested
his wife, who was sitting on a chest, to rise
The good lady obeyed, aud the chest proved
to he locked on the inside. He turned it on
end, when the man Cd the inside, having his
head downward, called for quarter and SUR
rendered.
Atlanta Constitution The1e iz q law.
IN Georgia, end, we believe, IN other south
ern states, which prohibits the intermsrl
riage of races With possibly one or two
exceptions, there has been no attempt either
to evade or violate this law. ana thus far il
has sbelumred quietly IN the statute book
being less bar TO misceganation than the
Instincts and desires Of the whites and
blacks. The indications are, however. thst
the constitutiOnality of state laws prohibit,
ing intermarriage Will shortly be tested be-
fore the supreme court Of the United States
with every prospect that they win be held
void and Of no effect.
While in Georgia tea culture is be-
ginning to attract attention, in some portions
OF Florida the culture of coffee is exciting
interest. The Tampa Tribune says: Mrs
Joe Atzeroth, living on the south bank of
Manitee river, near Braidentown. has two
coffee trees bearing this year for the first