The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-05-13
CURRENT NEWS.

There are six announced candidates
for Governor in Arkansas.
The sugar-cane crop of Louisiana is
said to be the finest ever known.
Farmers in South Florida are feast
ing on roasting-ears and watermelons.
There are $500 churches in the
Sonth belonging to colored congrega-
tons.
Don Cameron says that just as sure
as his own hair is red, Gen. Grant will
be nominated for President.
Slavery has been abolished in Cnba.
This may be preparatory to its annex
alton to the United States.
Dennis Kearney, the labor revolu-
ZIONIST, has been committed to the
House of Correction i'll San Francisco.
Gen. Jos. E. johnson is not pleased
with his experience in Congress, and
will not be a candidate for reelection.
Ex-Gov. JAS /. Alcorn, formerly
of Kentucky, is the most extensive and
probably the most successful cotton
planter in Mississippi.
The Joint resolution, authorizing the
President to call an International San
itary Conference at Washington was
passed by the Senate.
The Grand Jury of the Circuit
Court of Bartlett County, Tenn, in
cludcs three colored men. The Petit
Juries are also composed partly of col
ored men.
Thirty-four manufacturing estab-
lishments in Georgia are now exempt
from taxation under the act OF August
%, 1872, covering the amount Of in
vcstments of 81 100000.
Ninety five centennial trees-one
for each county in Tennessec-are to
be planted on the Capitol grounds at
Nashville, to be known by the names
of their respective counties.
This is world of surprise. They
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for having two wives and found he had
five, all of which were doing nicely on
his salary of s25 per week.
The Naval Appropriation Bill pass
ed the House after the adoption of an
amendment increasing the appropria-
ton for the contingent expenses of the
Navy from $4,000, 900 to so, 100000.
Jas. r. Dodge, in his investigation
of sheep hushandry in the South, re-
ports more than 100000 killed by
dogs last year, or more than five per
cent. of the entire number in that sec
ton.
Mr.. Gibson introduced a resolution
appropriating $4,000 for the erection
in the public squares of Washington
| City statues commemorative of Madi-
son, Jefferson. John Adams, Randolph.
Pinckney, Webster, Clay, and Cal
houn.
Mr.. Bruce, the present colored Ser
atOr from Mississippi, is verv properly
urged as candidate for Vice Presi-
dent, but the Grant men somehow "do
not tackle kindly TO it." Why not
Grant and Bruce would make a reeu-
lar hot Scotch ticket.
Jay Gould is about forty-fve, and in
1857 was tanner in Northern Penn
sylvania. IIe went into the brokerage
business in New York in 1860. He
now. with his associates, controls
5000 miles Of railway, and there is no
knowing where he will stop.
Senator Beck, ex-senator Stevenson,
and several prominent Kentucky Dem
ocrats violently opposed to TiIden, are
actively organizing to prevent him from
getting control of the delegation from
their State Mr.. Watterson is work
ing in the interest of Tilden, and the
scrimmage promises to be lively.
a healthy-looking negro from Boil
var county. Mississippi, testified before
| Voorhees, Exodus Committee; to the
effect that, although he could neither
read nor write, he had since the war
earned a well-stocked farm valued at
about $4,000. He thought any col
ored man willing to work could do
likewise.
The latest reports on the condition
of the wheat-crop in the Western and
North western States differ materially
from those made four or five weeks
ago. At that time the prospect was
that the winter-wheat yield the coming
season would be enormous; but since
then the whole situation has been
changed, and it is now believed tina;
the crop, so far from being abundant.
will fall siJ-: ofeyel the general az
CraWC.