The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-03-02
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

! lection of the State license of 500 in Charles
| ton,in the hands of the County Commission
/ ers, and makes it their duty to enforce the
law. The second provides for local option
/ law. Whenever two-thirds of the voting
| population of any city, town, or village in
| the State shall express a desire for an cleo
4 tion on the question of license or no license,
such election shall be held on or about the
1st of December following. 1t is thought
that by this means the municipal elections
will be freed from the influences of the Ii
| quor question. The third allows the sale of
wines made from domestic fruits in quanti-
ties not less than one gallon, and also the
sale of spirituous liquors in packages of not
less than ten gallons at the dstiIleries.
! Up to Feb. 1, the receipts of the 1881
crop of cotton at all points were 4,553,827
/ bales, against 4, ,770,7 ,719 bales at the corre-
! spending time year ago. The decrease,
| therefore, so far is 316,S92 bales. Reports
conflict as to whether greater percentage
than usual has been marketed, but it is evil
| dent that the shrinkage has been overesti-
| mated. The bales this year, however, are
/ about thirteen pounds lighter on the aver
| age than year ago, which makes the de-
crease a little larger. Since Sept. 1 the
! United States cotton factories have used
%, 154 bales more than in the same period
last year, but as the bales weigh less, they
have really not taken as much cotton.
The recent convention of cattle men
| at Austin, Texas, was addressed by Gov.
! Robinson, who favored the leasing of the
common school lands Of the State, and
| thought it probable the Legislature would
do so. A letter from United States Com
missioner Loring upon the best breed of cat
tie was read, and a resolution asking the
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of sheep from contagious disease was
| adopted. Also, resolution that the two
trails now known as the eastern and west
ern, crossing Red River at Red River Sta
tiOn, and the other at Dorin's store, be the
trails followed by stock men.
A South Carolina negro has been do
ing profitable business with phonograph.
He put one of these talking instruments in
side a rude figure of a devil, and attached a
spring in such a manner that the cylinder
would revolve on being started without the
use of crank. Thus provided, he set up as
fOrtune-teller. The negroes had never
heard ola pOnograph, and its voice filed them
with superstitious awe, particularly when
the seer, having drawn from his dupes some
information on the subject Of their calls and
filed the machine with astonishing answers
made it speak oracularly.
A half million of dollars has been paid
into the State Treasury of Tennessee on the
taxes of 1881, for the payment of interest on
State bonds under the 1908 act, now de-
clared unconstitutional.
George Hutchinson's wife left him at
Memphis, Tenn, in 1870, and went to England.
Hutchinson had the report sent to her that
he died shortly afterward with yellow fever
In 1875 he married a lady at Memphis, as
suring her that his first wife was dead. Now
No. 1 has returned from England, and
Hutchinson has deserted wife No 2 to join
his first wife.
The Georgia State Agricultural Socie-
ty is discouraged in regard to the present
status of the affairs of King Cotton. The
society advises the planting of more grain
and less cotton, as people must eat whether
they wear anything or not.
A Rome (Ga.) man is preparing a
unique directory. 1t will contain the name,
style, whether brunette or blonde, address,
and approximate age of every young lady in
Georgia who has in her own name, or as
heir eXpectant, property to the amount of
s., 900 or upward.
Atlanta, Ga, boasts of a young, at
tractiYe and industrious cobbler of the fe-
male sex, who both mends and constructs
all kinds of shoes to the satisfaction of nu-
merOus customers.
Robert Ayres, a retired merchant of
Louisville, who died recently, was one of
the four men in Jefferson County who voted
for Abraham Lincoln for President in 1863.
An effort is being made by the law
yers of the eastern part Of Kentucky to have
that section formed into a separate district
of the United States Court. Lexington
wants the headquarters for the new district.
The Mississippi State Grange favors
the repeal of the Agricultural lien law.
The Texas State Grange meets at
Belton on the first Monday in August.
A good iield of corn is growing in
velusia County, Fla. 1t was planted the 1st
of December.
The changes in the Mississippi Liquor
law are repeal of the pint enactment, and
each district is to be allowed to decide by
ballot whether liquor licenses shall be
granted or not.
Last year 6,352 firms were doing bus
mess in Mississippi. There were 153 fall
ures, with liabilities amounting to 81 ,942, ,129.
which is much greater than any year since
1876.
Vaccinate within ten days or pay
fine of $40 is a peremptory order from the
Dallas CTexas) City Council.
Geo. w. West recently purchased
from D. Raut, of Nueces County, Texas,
900 acres of land and %, 900 head Of cat
tie, paying 100000.
The best average uplands in East
Tennessee will produce from twenty to
twenty-five bushels of wheat to the acre.
An insect has visited the wheat in the
country about Rockford, Ala, that eats off
the leaves and kills it to the roots.
A Dublin (Ga.) girl only fourteen
years old weighs 200 pounds.
A street car company has been char
tered by the State OF Texas for Ell Paso. 1t
will run through the main streets to the Rio
Grsnde and across into Paso del Norte, the
Mexican Government having granted the
right of way.
Alabama is full of rabbits.
A Louisiana paper says: The gentle
men from Michigan investing so heavily in
timbered lands in Calcasieu Parish propose
going into the log business with a vim.
They say they will show our logmen some
thing about logging that they never dreamed
Of It is said that one of them will
bring three hundred lumbermen from
Michigan into our pine woods next spring,
and that he intends to run one hundred log
teams.
In Florida there are II, ,63s white peo-
pie over ten years of age who can not write
their own names.
Two Evergreen, Ala, pigs have horns
two inches long.
The Pensacola, Fla, canning COM
pany has commenced operations. They find
the red snapper better than the grouper or
Gulf halibut for their purposes, the meat
remaining firm and white after processing in
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