The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-01

Houston (Tex) Telegram The CRY
| all over the state continues to be want OF
rain, and it is certain that, unless cOpious
I showers fall within the next ten DAYS or two
weeks, crops must badly suffer- In sorRe
/ localities they are doing so already. Al
( present there are appearances of one oi
/ those dry years that periodically visit this
] climate,
And now COMES the New Orleans
Demoefat ard says Gen. Dick Taylor was
/ born in Baton Rouge. The Pieayuue con,
firms the statement and adds When Louis
! lana, in after years, raises a monument to
4 all those who served her well and loved her
] Dest, high up among those whom she will
delight to honor viii be this statesmen, sol
dier and patriot.
Henry county (Ga.) Weekly: The
damage to fruit by the late cold spell is re-
/ garded as g serious calamity by many. Corn
| has been badly injured also, so much so
that some Of my neighbOrs are plowing up
and planting over again. Oats seem to be
doing well too; that is, spring oats. Fall
oats were pretty well killed out by the hard
! freezes last winter.
The negro emigration movement from
Louisiana and Mississippi began March 5,
when $50 negroes boarded tfle STEAMER F5el if
of Memphis, bound for st. Louis. Since
that time 200 emigrants haveleft these two
states for Kansas. Of these only 400 paid
their own way, the other 1850 being helped
along by colOred citizens of St. Louis and
various charitable associations.
An Alabama paper gets off this one
John Hanna, who died here on March 20,
1879, was born February II, 1743. He
served under Gen. Washington, during the
French war 81 captain. h was Gcquaint-
ed with Patrick Henry when small boy.
He was hardly ever known TO have any
sickness until few years ago. His eye
sight was perfectly good until the time OF
his death.
When the federal troops entered
South Carolina at the close of the war, they
! took possession of q memorial Shaft which
the state proposed to erecS to the memory
Of Gen. Stonewall Jackson, and it is now in
/ possession OF the war department. In re-
spOnse to letter from Representative Evius,
of that state, the secretary of war writes
that he viii make no objection TO its return
to Gov. Simpson.
The Troy (Ala.) Enquirer tells of an
insane woman, Miss Carrie Boatrite, aged
! 45 years, in the Andrews settlement Pike
county, who left her brother and was lost
in the woods for twenty-One days, without
other food than the buds of trees. She was
found by friends and forced to return home.
A brother, during her absence, was charged
with having murdered her, and mob had
been formed TO lynch him.
Richmond letter: There is much dis
satisfaction among the liquor dealers on
account Of the amended Moffett law. What
seems to be the most obnoxious feature is
making the principal responsible for the
acts of his agent, although that has always
! been the Gaze under the common law. The
new law will go into effect May 1, l believe.
! When the new licenses are issued to the
dealers under the amended law, no rebate is
allowed, and dealers have to pay for their
own registers.
| Savannah News: Mr., William Hughes,
sr., gentleman living near JOhnsOn's sta
ton, Liberty county, sent US a few days
since sample of tea grown and prepared
on his farm. It was drawn in the usual
way, and the result was a most delicious
beverage. Those who want the unadulter-
ated tea should try the Georgia article, and
they will never afterward drink the indigo
colored medicated leaf, as prepared IN China
especially foI the European and American
markets
Nashville American: Twenty colored
adults aad ten children, from Robertson
county, left here yesterday for Kansas.
here seems to be disposition among the
more intelligent Of the race to discourage
emigration to Kansas, for the reason that
the dissatisfied element can not better their
condition ~ leaving Tennessee. The
average wages paid to field hands in this
state,- with board, is SO, md without board
$15. 1t is thought by those who ought to
know that the Kansas fever will not spread
in Tennessee.
Jonesboro (Gs } News: One of the
oldest printing presses in America was
brought here from Fayetteville to be ship
ped west, and sold under attachment by the
bailif in JOnesboro, Ga, last Friday, and
bought by c. P. Vaughn. Tradition says it
is the press that Benz amin Franklin work ed
in his day. Our old citizens first became
acquainted with IT some sixty years ago.
Rev. q. F. Buchanan says when he was a
child Mr.. Minor was working it at Deca-
/ tur, Ga. Mr.. Z. Z. Morrow, during his
youthful days, had a jackass printed with
this press at the moderate price of about
Sl5. This press IS mainly wooden struct-
ure made of ash, hickory and mahogany,
heavily iroue1, with marble slab for bed,
and is worked by horizontal lever. The
platen is made of mahogany, with a metal
lie block inserted in the center on which
the power acts. The press served a siege at
McDOnOugh and also AT Fayetteville, and
is said to have been the first to hoist the
name of Gen. Jackson for president of the
| United States.