The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-04-20
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

| eral increase OF acreage in winter and spring
wheat and oats, and a slight decrease in
cotton. The Increase in food crops is as
follows: Tennessee-30 per cent. in wheat
and 40 per cent. in oats. North Carolina
| Wheat, % per cent. oats, 80. Georgia-
| Wheat, 90; oats, 33. South Carolina
Wheat, %; oats, 80. Arkansas-Wheat, 10;
oats, Is. In all these States there is reported
to be a decrease in the purchase of CONNER
cial fertilizers amounting in estimated ag-
gregate to $1,000, 900. Alabama reports
that, owing to a very short crop of corn last
| year, on account of drought, the planting of
| winter wheat and oats was fully 30 per cent.
greater than ever before, while preparations
for corn are increased in as great a ratio
! With good season the food crops will be
enough for two years. supply. The decrease
/ in cotton, owing to the floods, is estimated
at 100000 to $4,000 bales.
Jesse Glass, of Shelbyville, Ky, a di-
rector of the Bank of Shelbyville and one of
the most reputable of that towns citizens,
was well acquainted with Zerelda Cole, now
| the famous Mrs. Samuels, when she
| country girl, living near Stamping Ground,
in Scott County, the seat Of ''Old Dick"
Johnson's Indian school. He has often
| spoken about the buoyant and beautiful
"tOmboy'' girl whose remembrance OF him
was perpetuated in the Christian name OF
her robber boy, Jesse James, who now lies
dead in Missouri. He represented her as
a buxom country lass, with no over-niee
sense OF delicacy, brimming full of fun, a
daring horsewoman, good dancer, and not
afraid Of anything.
James A. Sylvester, who died in New
| Orleans few days ago, aged 20, was the
man who captured Gen. Santa Anna in the
battle of San Jacinto, April 81, 1886, in the
war for the Texas independence. He fought
the Comanche Indians at Plum Creek in
| 1910, and was a survivor OF the i'll Ilfated eX-
peditiOn of the Texans to Mier- Mier in
Mexico, being one of the prisoners who was
forced to draw lots for his life, when each
man who drew black bean was marched
out and shot in the presence of his compan-
ions, and II out of TO were so executed.
After desperate fight with the Sher-
if and turnkey at Arkadelphia, Ark, few
days ago, four prisoners broke jail, three of
them securing their liberty.
In the jail at Greenville, S. c., Rich
ard Bates, colored, was married to a woman
of his own race. The next morning the
bride was transported to the Penitentiary,
while the groom will be hanged for arson on
| April 28.
The principal and interest of the debt
of Tennessee amounts to $28, 900, 900.
Orange leaves, six by ten inches, will
be used for fans in Florida this season, it is
said, displacing the palmetto leaves.
Atlanta (Ga.) men are working up a
Southern Chautauqua, or central camp meet
ing ground, for all the benevolent institu-
| tions of the South.
Wheat in Bosque County, Texas, is
already greatly damaged by rust, especially
the red May variety.
At a recent meeting of the cattle
kings Of Gainesville, Texas, $25, 100000 of
capital were represented.
twenty-five hundred head of merino
sheep recently arrived at Tyler, Texas, from
The Yazoo City CMiss.) Oil Works
have lost between IS, 900 and $1,000 by the
flood.
The Kentucky State Bar Association
has been organized, with the following Of
ffcers: President, B. T. Buckner, of Lex
ington; Vice Presidents, William Preston,
of Lexington; John w. Stevenson, of Cow
ington; G. F. Durham, of Richmond; James
Speed, of Louisville; Isaac Caldwell, OF
Louisville; John G. Carlisle, of Covington,
and John F. Eland, of Hopknsville; Secre-
tary, George Baber, Of Louisville.
A suit will be brought in Texas bring
ing into question who are the lesses of the
numerous eoal-beds twenty-five miles above
Laredo. Millions Of dollars will be involved
in the result unless compromise can be ef-
fected.
During a storm, some time ago, at
Hampstead, Tex, the lightning struck
negro cabin in which several darkies were
sitting up with corpse. The attendants
az.
lid was off and there was a hole in the face
Of the dead, made by the lighting.
Forty thousand acres of land in Arkan-
sas have been secured for an italian colony,
About a thousand Italians have already set
tied in thatregion.
Texas used to feed her pecans to the
hogs. Now she sells the crop for $2,OO0,OOO.
A calf born near Paulding, Miss, has
ears marked exactly like those of the parent
cow-a swallow fork in each ear.
A pompano fish was exhibited at Sell
ma, Ala, few days aga, which weighed
six pounds and half.
A company has been organized, and
all the stock taken, to build water works at
Palatka, Fla.
Tomato culture has proved failure
in the vicinity of Tampa, Fla, this season.
There are over 1000 insane people in
Texas, and only $50 in the asylum.
The Knights of Pythias have over
thirty lodges in Texas.
Mr.. Malone Wheless, of New Orleans,
has recently invented a very ingenious ma
chine for reporting, by which he claims to
be able to report over two hundred words a
minute. He has so arranged the language
that any combination OF sounds can be in
stantane ously produced by the mathemat-
zeal permutations represented on the instru-
ment.
Thomas McEwen, a special deputy
sheriff at Murfreesboro, Tenn, has killed
his third mana horse-thief named Bethel
Thompson, who fred upon him while he
was reading a warrant for his arrest.
Yazoo City, Miss, has eight aldermen.
While little grandson of Nelson
Alley. an old and well-known citizen Of
Frankfort, KY, was playing with a double-
barreled shotgun, the other day, it went
off, and frightfully wounded his companion,
Andy Holton, boy one year younger than
himself.
The Governor of Texas recommends |
the appointment Of a commissioner by the |
State, to act with another to be provided for
by Congress, to establish the boundary line |
on the northward. Greene County, with |
one million acres Of valuable land, is still in |
dispute.
The streets of Biloxi, Miss, are paved
with shells.
The spring wool season is opening in
San Antonio, Texas, several clips having /
been received there. 1t is thought the re- /
ceIpts OF wool at that point this year will /
exceed those Of any previous year. due to /
the fact of raiIraad connection with The TAR