The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-02-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

COI. u. u. mclean, one OF the |
observation-disclosures ofShelbv eoun-
ty, died last Tuesday at an advanc-
ed age.
Hon. Fernando Wood died at |
Hot Springs, Arkansas, last Sun
day morning.
Good mules in Mississippi are
worth about as much as four bales /
of cotton, while one can be raised |
for less than it costs to raise half
a bale. Of cotton.
Twenty-seven immigrant fami-
lies from Tennessee are announc-
ed as having lately arrived at
Bonham, Texas. Among them |
was a man named Jones, who !
had nine boys under fifteen years
old.
A bill has been introduced in
the Arkansas legislature to pro
hibit state legislative and judicial
officers from accepting free passes
for transportation, under penalty
of a fine of from fifty to five-hund
red dollars, and a removal from
office, to be thereafter forever
ineligible to a position of trust or
profit. The same penalty is to at
tach to any railway employee who
may tender a free pass or ride to
public officials.
The Committee on Commerce
of the House of Representatives
in Congress have finished the con-
sideration Of the river and harbor
appropriation bill and now have
it ready to report to the House.
The following are the sums ap-
propriated for rivers in Tennes
see: Big Hatchee river 81, 500.
Caney Fork river $4,000, Clinch
river $4,000, Cumberland river
above Nashville $4,000, below
Nashville $4,000, Duck river So,
900, French Broad SO, 500, Hiwa5-
see 81, 500 Ohio river $500, Ten
nessee below Chattanooga $1,000,
Tennessee below Chattanooga, in
Guiding Muscle Shoals $3.50, 200.
The decision of Judge Woods
sustaining the Georgia railroad
law will, doubtless, have much
effect on the Alabama Legisla-
ture.
1t has been said that if you
were to put Georgia "cracker"
and Vermont Yankee on a des-
ert island and divide the land
equally between them, the "erack-
er" would have the Yankee at
work on rented land in less than
a month.
The negro immigrants around
Oswego, Kansas, are dying off
like sheep from the effects of the
rigorous climate. Gov. Lew.
Wallace, of New Mexico, has
written letter to say that South
ern negroes should not be allow
ed to come there. a heavy respon-
sibilitY rests on those who have
enticed these poor creatures from
their homes.
Senator Pendleton's bill to give
Cabinet officers seats on the floor
of Congress is attracting much at
tention throughout the country.
1t has been reported on favorably
by committee of the Senate,
but so little time is now left that
it is not likely that it will be act
ed on during the coming session.
1t is said that the widow Of
Gen. Geo. H Thomas has never
received a pension. and is in COM
parative restitution. And yet
lots of men who never heard a
bullet whistle during the war are
drawing pensions from the Gov
eminent.
In San Francisco there are four
hundred places where opium is
sold, and each one of them re-
| ceives an income averaging s75 a
day from the evil and injurious
traffic. The opium habit is in
creasing all over the country, and
it is an evil no less terrible than
that Of drunkenness.
The following appeared in a Sc
cular paper of recent date.
Senator Beck is reported as
said in a recent interview that
''five men-Scott of the PennsyI-
vania Central; Garrett, of the
Baltimore and Ohio; Huntington,
of the Union Pacific; Jay Gould
and Vanderbilt-can sit down and
in five minutes chat, fix a tax
ofs2OO, 100000 upon the commerce
of this country by raising freight
Q cents a bushel, and do it accord
ing to law" They can do more.
They can influence the selection
of legislatures, and can, and it is
charged have, bought legislation
and Legislators. Monopolies are
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