The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-02-12
SOUTHERN GLEANINGs.

wine, with capital OF $4,000, has been or
ganized in Randolph County, Ga. Grape
culture has been carried to great perfection
in that county.
Among the Alabama contributors TO the
Hood fund were the children Of General Jo-
seph Wheeler, who prepared a bale Of cot
ton to be sold, and realized therefrom the
sum of $2j6.5O.
Mr.. steddart, Of Pensacola, Fla, has
beyond doubt the largest fig orchard in
America at his Fairnil Hill place, just be-
yond Pensacola. He has $500 fig trees, Of
which 800 are bearing, and all Of them are
of the various fine varieties from Europe,
Asia and Africa. He has recently planted a
lot of 1000 received from France.
The State debt of Mississippi is s., 61S,-
9O0.47. During the past two years the debt
has been reduced $22O, 900. The cash bal
ance in the Treasury Dee. 81, 1879, was $500, :
757.14.
Monroe Reed, living three miles from
Charleston, S. c., is a thrifty farmer. From
u acres he gathered 500 bushels of corn,
each ear IL inches long, and weighing Zone
and quarter pounds apiece. That is hard
to beat.
The steamer Jay Hardy, from Memphis
to Shawnee Village, was sunk on the 10Th at
Island No. 40, by tree falling from a cav
ing bank. The Captain and crew swan
ashore. The boat and cargo are total loss.
Loss, 1000; no insurance.
The National Bank at Morganfield, KY,
was entered by burglars on the night of the
goth, who succeeded in getting 1920 in silver.
They blew the safe door off, but could not
open the time burglar lock. They stole three
horses and rode away with their booty.
The Lee Association of Mobile celebrat-
ed the anniversary of Gen. Lees birthday,
Jan. 10, by grand parade, banquet and ball.
On the Goth, the first locomotive passed
over the new and magnificent iron railway
drawbridge of the Louisiana Western Rail-
road, over the Sabine River, seven miles
from Orange, Tex, and connecting Louisiana
with Texas. 1t is 400 feet long, with draw
of 200 feet. Only II miles of track remain to
be completed between Orange and Lake
Charles, La.
The breaking of ground for the new
sewer system Of Memphis took place on the
21st, with appropriate ceremonies. President
Porter threw out the first shovelful Of earth
and other prominent officials and citizens
pulled off their coats and made the dirt fly
for few minutes each. 1t is intended tc
have 300 men at work by the LIST of February
john Manning and Ed. Connolly, two
DI4SOlltIS COIEutu III INC jail III NGWDOfI.
Ky, occupied the same cell. On the morn.
ing of the 21st they quarreled about theiI
sleeping arrangements and both clinchel
in hand-to-hand struggle. Connolly wa:
getting the better of Manning, when thu
latter drew Il razor out of his pocket anC
slashed his adversary's throat from ear t,
ear. Connolly was considered to be gener
ally good natured and inoffensive man
while his mnrHprar has fhn If .
bully and desperate.
Near Richmond, Va, George S. c. Yves
ley Summers, youth of is, married agains
the wishes of his father. The latter succeed
ed in inducing the boy to come home, wher
he beat him in a most horrible manner. Tn,
son, TO put an end to his physical suffering
and modification, committed suicide.
The sugar boiler at d. II. Carrol's plan.
| tation, on the Barrataria, in Louisiana, eX
| ploded on the goth, killing Arthur Parrier
chief engineer, Willis Wright, colored, anC
colOred man, name unknown, and serious.
| ly wounding IS others, some of whom are
not expected to recover.
The Sharp County Court house at Even.
| ing Shade, Ark, was fired by incendiarie.
and completely destroyed on the night of tn,
Goth, together with all the county records
Loss, $40, 900; no insurance.
The Kentucky Republican State Conven-
ton, to select delegates to the National Con.
vention, will be held at Louisville, April IA
On the 23d construction train on thu
Virginia Midland Road at Rockfish Station
Is miles south of Charlottesville, ran off thu
track at the bridge down an embankment 81
/ feet, killing Conductor Dabney Wilson ant
two brakmen, and seriously injuring Capt
II. d. Luckert and six road hands. Six car,
were completely wrecked.
The report OF the Prison Sanitary Com
mittee on the condition of the Kentuck
Penitentiary describes deplOrable state 0
affairs. The Committee finds that there ar
eight cOnvicts confined there who positiYeI
can not live longer than a few months
There are at least 30 others, some of WHOM
are confined to their beds, who in all proba
biIity can not live longer than the latter par
of this spring, and about 200 others who are i
a state of debility and weakness, PRACTICAL
uniting them for duty or work. Bad drain
age, accumulated filth. oVercrowded cell.
yards and workshops, and lack of prope
food, are given as the principal evils to b
remedied.
Two tramps undertook to rob and muir
der man in Tuscumbia, Ala, but they ver
weak from long privatiOns, while he wa
robust, and the consequence was that b
killed one and fatally wounded the other.
Mrs. Hennen, the grandmother of tn
Hood orphans, has concluded to pur
chase home for the childre
at Austin, Texas. The house an
lot have already been selected at a COS
of about $4,000, and she will remove ther
with her ten sacred charges on the first {
| May.
The Lower House of the Kentuck
Generel Assembly has passed bliss to 8
-reviving the whipping law. tn
same bill passed the House of the last AS
sembly, but was defeated by the casting vot
of Lieut.. Gov. Underwood.
| The Sugar-planters' Association
Louisiana have appointed a committee t
thoroughly investigate the subject of mark
citing sugar, with a view of correcting exist
ing abuses.
The difference between the horse an
the mule market in this city is just this
says the Atlanta Constitution: A drove
can get any price that he may ask for goo
mule, whereas horse has to be sold at an
price that he will bring.
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