The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-07-20
Miscellaneous Items.

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Miscellaneous Items.
Statistical returns of the Department
of Agriculture for July, which are very full,
show that cotton has improved since June 1,
its average condition being three points bet
ter than on 1st of July. From Virginia to
Georgia and West of Mississippi every State
shows higher figures. From Florida to
Mississippi and Tennessee the condition has
slightly declined. General average, 80,
which is higher than in July, 1873 and 1874,
and lower than in any other year for the
past ten. 1t was % in 1877 and in 1879,
and 95 last July. This condition is due to
the late, wet spring, and rapidly and gener-
ally improving under favoring skies. The
figures for the several States arc: Virginia
So, North Carolina 90, South Carolina 9S,
Georgia 92 Florida 90, Alabama 3d., Mis-
sissippi 81, Louisiana 90, Texas 81, Arkan-
sas 90, Tennessee 78. In Texas and South
Carolina the condition is better than in July,
1881, and the same as that date in Louisiana.
The drawbacks reported are those of the
past, and mainly deficient stands, slow
growth and general backwardness, but there
is a marked absence at present of an un-
healthy condition. Returns are nearly
unanimous in indicating good degree Of
Vigor and rapidity of growth. Thus far
there is only loss of time for development
aud fruting. Further favorable conditions
may make good the deficiency, but unfavor-
able weather in July and August would
make full crop impossible.
MIR. Black, who resides in Hillsboro,
Ark, exhibits control and influence over
the reptile family astonishingly myster-
ious. In the woods, creeks, or wherever he
finds snake, it matters not of what type of
deadly poison and venom it may be, he sue
ceeds in capturing it alive and suffering as
| little from the clasp OF its fangs as If it
were on ordinary pin scratch. He handles
! and fondles them about his person with as
much indirercnce as nthey were so many
harmless toys He win allow the largest
rattesnake to deliberately strike and bury
his fangs into his fesh, and apparently
suffer no Inconvenience. or Serious eonse ;
! quences from. the tragic risk By q certain
weed or growth of vegetation he claims to
destroy the effect Of the bite. When bitten,
he chews and swallows the juice of the
weed, which acts like a charm. -,
A negro recently found on a planta-
tiOn fifteen miles from Tuscaloosa, Ala, NOT
far beneath he surface OF the ground, an
entire skeleton over six feet long with q
necklace upon it of white stone beads. The
bones crumbled as soon as exposed. They
were found close to an Indian mound, and,
as other three skeletons have been unearthed
on the three other sides, it is supposed the
bodies were buried at the four ends OF a
cross, the mound being the central point.
Not more than half the usual amount
Of tobacco has been planted in Virginia.
Col. Bagley, of Covington, Ga, owns
a mule eighty years of age, and will soon
publish his pedigree in order to convince
people that the age of the animal is not ex-
aggerated.
1t is estimated that the South has this
season paid to the North S55, 900 for
wheat, $50, ,000, 900 for corn, $72, 900, 900 for
meats, and about $25, 900, 900 for hay, but
ter, cheese, oats, apples, potatoes, etc.
Georgia has recently been manufac-
turing miraculous stories similar to those
formerly owing their origin to the boundless
| West. Within the limits of single week a
mans body disappeared completely after
his clothes had been torn off by revolving
shaft, boy fell head hrstfn an almost dry
well sixty-fve feet deep and was presently
drawn upin the bucket, unscratched, and a
man who had been bitten By ratdesnake
was snatched out Of the jaws Of death by a
celebrated maidstone, whose owner values 1t
at S ,0O0.
4 More attention is now given to bee
keeping in the South than ever before. The
old fashioned "bee- gum has generally
given place to improved hives, and a large
increase of honey is the result.
4 Henderson, n. c., has a new tobacco
factory with a capacity of over 500, 900
pounds of plug year.
For 81 George Graham, of Rome,
Ga, recently climbed fiag-pole one hun
dred feet and adjusted the rope by whish
the flag is managed.
Newton Co, Ark, has one negro voter,
The coal-felds of Alabama cover TO-.
n $50 square miles, and the coal is all bitumin-
Gus, but differs widely in quality. The besi
Il coal in the State, and in fact in the United
J States, being fully equal to English camel
coal, is the MontevallO coal. In 1872 onlJ
10, 600 tons were mined in the State; in 1871
4 the annual output had been sweIled to 29O,
600 tons; in 1880 to $4,000 tons, and in 1881
lsro,4OO, 900 tons.
~ Mormon missionaries are not preach
ing in Grayson County, Kentucky, without
effect, and thirteen converts were taken insc
the church by baptism recently.
Fort Worth, Tex, has $4,000 inhabi
tants.
ColIDanieI Schock, of Asheville, N
G., is g5 years old, and has had 224 descend.
ants, of whom 1913 are Iiying-children,
grandchildren, and great and great-great'
/ grandchildren. His oldest child is 20. He
has lived eightysflve years in the same house,
Z Very fine glass has been manufac
tured from sand found In the vicinity o.
Carrabene, Fla. The discoverer took th
sand north several weeks ago, and had +
tested in a glass factory in New Jersey,
where the manufacturers were hight!
pleased with the quality Of the sand and TIA
glass