The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-03-23
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

10 the want OF railroad transportation naS
been cut off from the outside world. Since
the sale of the Western North Carolina Rail-
road to the Richmond and Danyille syndi
cate they have been making rapid progress,
completing the Paint Rock branch to the
Tennessee line, and are now concentrating
their entire force on the main line west OF
Asheville, passing through the Counties OF
Haywood, Jackson, Swain, and Cherokee to
Ducktown and Chattanooga, Tenn.-the
Pittsburgh Of the South. AS to the climate
Of this mountain country, there is none SUI
perior. The soil is rich and productive.
The great variety OF rich growths of valua-
BILE timbers is an inviting field for men of
enterprise and capital. A rich growth Of
black walnut is found in almost every coun-
ty west of the Blue Ridge.
Attorney-Gen. Blair, of Virginia, has
given a decision that a colored citizen Of
that State had been improperly deprived Of
the right to vote on the ground Of his con-
viction of felony while a slave. He says
that the man had no citizenship then and,
Of course, had no franchise or rights to lose,
and that by virtue of the fourteenth and fif-
teenth amendments to the Constitution of
the United States, being a former slave,
he was habilitated with the elective fran
chise and all the rights of citizenship.
A saw-fish recently captured near
Jacksonville, Fla, is one of the strangest-
looking inhabitants of the sea, and is over
eighteen feet in length, the saw being about
four feet long, and armed on either side
with a row of savage-looking teeth, twenty
six in number, or fifty-two in all. His skin
and posterior parts are like the shark, while
his fore fins, measuring across the back,
while extended, are over six feet across, and
resemble those of the devil-fish, or any
other of the ray family.
We have now within radius of two
and half miles Of this burg, says the Dab
lonega (Ga.) Signal. one forty, three twen-
ty, and five ten stamp mills, all running or
getting ready to run, making 80 stamps all
told, with two more twenty stamp mills in
prospect in the near future, and any amount
Of good mill sites awaiting the advent of
some lucky man or men to open and develop
them.
Steamers are making good time on
the Lower Mississippi. They can cut across
the bends and find plenty of water every
where. The steamer City of Baton Rouge
made the run from New Orleans to Cairo in
three days and fifteen hours.
Thomas Hays, manager of the Pullman
Southern Car Company at Louisville, KY,
and one of the directors of the Southern
News Company, recently made an assign
ment to James Caldwell It is estimated
that his liabilities are SS5, 900 and his assets
$50, 900.
Durham County, North Carolina, has
the heaviest Probate Judge in that State (300
pounds), and the lightest Sheriff (ninety- five
pounds).
The plan of hiring farm labor instead
of letting freedmen work for a part OF the
crop seems to be gaining favor in Alabama.
Panthers are devouring pigs and
lambs on the hills of Harrison County, Ken
lucky.
The Supreme Court of Arkansas holds
the Memphis & Little Rock Railroad liable
for a loan of 800, 900 by the State on mort
gage which was not recorded. Unless the
road pays over 1902, ,133 and interest a spe-
cial commissioner to sell the property will
be appointed.
A few Confederate bonds were sold in
Columbia, S. c., the other day at $4.75 per
$1,000.
IT is reported that a rich silver mine
has been discovered on the waters of Upper
Crosby Creek, in Cooke County, Tenn.
One of the industries of the noun
tains of Western North Carolina and East
Tennessee is the collection of ivy roots,
which are shipped to Philadelphia and Bos :
ton to be made into door and bowls
for pipes.
A young man of Rome, Ga, was twit-
ted so often about his striking resemblance
to Guiteau that he shaved off his beard to
obviate the annoyance.
A strawberry raiser in Chattanooga
says the prospects for the coming crop are
excellent. He expects to raise $4,000 pounds
on a nine-acre patch.
A man seventy-eight years old, living
in Arkansas, opposite HaIe's Point, Tenn. ,
becoming Respondent at seeing everything
being swept away by the water, got into a
boat, rowed out in the river and blew out
his brains.
The manufacturing of naval stores is
getting to be quite an enterprise in South
Georgia.
A Confederate half-dollar of 1861 was
old off at $50 in New York, a few days ago,
on an order sent to the auctioneer previous
to the sale. 1t was purchased in the name
Of South" the auctioneer declining to say
who the purchaser was. 1t is said that only
four of these half-dOllars were ever struck
One was in jefferson Davis's possession at
the time of his capture, and has not since
been heard of, and there is no trace of the
other two.
Mr.. Blackstock, of Jefferson, Ca, has
nineteen children.
There are $4OO,O 900 lying idle in the
Alabama State Treasury.
One thousand men are employed in
the mills of Pensacola and adjoining dis :
tricts.
Two hundred dollars worth of celery
was sold from one patch in Nassau County,
Fla, last month.
There has been more emigration to
Hamilton County, Tex, this year than for
the past seven years.
Nearly all the walks about the city of
Jacksonville, Fla, are perfumed with the
scent of orange blossoms.
Date trees are in bloom at Key West.
The stockholders of the Texas West
ern Narrow-gauge Railroad have resolved
to bond the road at S12, 900 per mile from
Houston to Preside Del Norte, distance of
six hundred miles, the bonds to bear per
cent. interest, and to be issued on the COM
pletion of every ten miles. Fred. Grant is
President, and his brother Jesse has been
elected Treasurer.
Three models from which to select a
monument to John c. Calhoun have ar
rived in South Carolina from Rome, for the
inspection and decision of the monument
committee.
The cultivation of rice is a growing in
dustry of Green County, Alabama.
In a riot at Third Creek, Catawba
County, N. c., recently, between whites
and negroes, 100 persons engaged. A negro
attacked white man, more negroes en-
gaging in the assault. Whites came to the
aid Of the man attacked, and troops arrested