The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-03
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

A 1000 acre plantation near Natchez.
sold lor $500.
Memphis now has two receivers and
nothing to give.
Considerable emigration from Virginia
to the West is now going on
The entire length of the boundary of
Texas is 4,630 miles, including 375 miles of
Gulf coast.
The Texas legislature has passed q bill
setting aside one>fourth of the State revenue
for school purposes.
The legislature of Tennessee refused
to pass a bill making the marriage of first
cousins q misdemeanOr.
The little cotton factory at GiraTd,
Ca, has proved so successful that twelve
more looms have been ordered.
The police have taken a csnsus of
Knoxville and given her a population of
15,771-an increase of over 5000 since 1870.
A happy Texas editor says: Our Office
is almost entirely surrounded by cattle, and
the grunt of the pig is heard beneath the
floor.
A New Hampshire manufacturer is
sending machinery to APopks, Florida, to
test the stsrch-making qualities of the root
of the cassava.
A North -Carolinian has seen and
heard the phonogrsph, and describes it as a
sausage-p1in with a voice Ike women's~
rights convention.
Senator Rollins, of New HsmpshiTe
has purchased Fort George Island. Florida
It is intimatod that he expects TO build q
manufacturing city, on the cooperative
plan, on 1t.
The present governor of Alabama,
Rube Cobb, as he was formerly called, is a
fiddler of considerable note. He used to
draw lively bow away up in st. Clair
county, and long before he ever dreamed OF
being governor of the state of Alabama.
The Hot Springs Sentinel states that
neither that town nor county makes any
provision for the burial of paupers. If a
oander dies in that locality the citizens
make up "pOny purse" and bury him, or
he remains on top of ground, food tor buz-
zards.
Vicksburg Herald The exodus of
plantation negroes continues unabated, not
withstanding the bad luck of those who
have gone before. Quite number OF emf
grants took passage on the Anchor line
steamer, John B. Maude, yesterday, with
their little plunder.
Jefferson Davis is living at Mississippi
City, small station on the Mobile and New
Orle@ns railroad, near the coast, and is in
circumstances which make him entirely IN
dependent of the be, efits resulting from the
pension bills and such special legislation.
| He is working quietly on his book, with
Msjor w. T. WalthaIl, formerly of Virginia,
as his secretary.
Andrew johnson, jr., son of the late
| President Johnson, died near Union Depot,
! Tenn, q few days ago, and was buried beside
| his father in GYeenville- The Knoxville
! Tribune says: 'fHis many friends who knew
| him years ago as one of the brightest boys
| at Georgetown Academy during his fathers
| stay in the White House, and later as a jour.
nalist at Greenville, will be panied to hear
| of his sudden death. He was a genial, whOleN
souled gentleman, a man of more than orr
binary ability and culture, snd a true
friend"
Says the Quincy (Florida) Herald: a
| poor darkey, whose corn-erib had been cap
| tured by the sheriff to secure the payment
of his taxes, brought a huge army pistol
the desk in the tax-collector's Office, said
" Mars Morgan, rather part wild my right
| arm den desc wepins, but you mus try to
get the tax outen 'em. De children mus
hab bread, and dat bread am in de corn
/ Please, sab. take de artil'ry an let up or
de corn.' This appeal was more than the
! kind-hearted revenue man could stand, anO
he proceeded forthwith to ''make arrange
ments."
According to the Chatham Record
North Carolina has remarkable legislature
d" hey have been economical even to stin'
giness, sn6 vet liberal even to extravaganza
shev have cut down and Tetrenched almos
to meanu ess, and yet they have made appro
pristions amounting almost to waste. They
have acted on some measures like children
swayed by sudden impulses, and like dema
gOgues counting popular favor, and yet thel
have enacted laws and carried through
measures that would mark them as patriot
and statesmen deserving the lasting graft
tude of our people"