The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-06-22
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.


the point of becoming epidemic in Louis
vile, KY. 1t is supposed to be caused by
germs floating in the atmosphere, and is al
ways most prevalent after q flood. A Louis
vile physician says that it is known to med
ical science under the appalling name OF
''mucO-purulent conjUnctiva,' - that in times
past it has occasionally swept over large
! portions of the globe, and that to his knowl-
| edge there are now between two and three
| hundred cases in Louisville, outside the
hospitals, orphan asylums and jails. When
the disease is neglected the eye is speedily
destroyed by the action of pus, which can
not escape through the sealed lids.
A Chattanooga letter says: Already
| there is invested here over $1,000, 900 in
manufacturing enterprises, over $4,000, coo
| Of which is In iron interests. One company
alone, the Roane Iron Company, has paid
up capital of 81, 100000, and money is every
| day seeking investment here. To give an
| idea how much values have Increased here,
in 1871 there were SO, 800, 600 worth Of prop
erty, and in 1881 it swelled to S6, 100000, or
about 100 per cent. In 1882 the assessed
value will be over $7,OOO,OOO. In the manu-
| factories there are employed over 1900
hands, the Roane Iron Company paying one
| fourth of these, or 800 in all.
The North Carolina Methodist who
sang so loudly and discordantly in church as
to annoy other worshipers, and was indicted
/ as a nuisance, has won his case. The Ian
guage of the Court is: "The disturbance Of
congregation by singing, when the singer
does not intend so to disturb it but is con-
soientiously taking part in the religious
services, may be a subject for the discipline
/ of his church, but is not indictable. -
A few small California carp placed in q
pond in Woodford County, KY, eighteen
months ago were recently caught, and
weighed from six to eight and half pounds
each.
The Receiver of the United States
| land office ct GAINESVILLE, Fla, has sent to
| Washington over SAG, 900 for land purchases
! in that State since closing the business
| of the last fiscal year. This shows
that there has been q land boom
recently, and the purchases of common
school land from the State, if they have been
| in the same proportion, have largely replen-
ished the State treasury.
Several years ago Enoch Thomasson
was convicted of the murder Of R. G. jack
son, at Mount Pleasant, Tenn, and SEN
fenced by the Maury Circuit Court to hang
| for the crime. His sentence was Rfterward
| commuted to life Imprisonment. Another
chapter in this crime has just developed.
A man died recently in Maury County, near
! Columbia, who confessed on his death bed
the crime for which Thomasson is leading a
! prison life. Steps to hberate him will be
taken.
A suit is threatened to test the validity
of the Confederate land scrip of Texas, up
on the ground that the act under which the
scrip was issued is in violation of the Con-
stitution of the United States.
During the month of May the State
! Treasurer of Texas received from the sale of
land $65, 1926, of which $28, 4S8 was first pay
ments, representing sales of about $50, 600
acres Of school lands.
Every distillery in Arkansas has been
! compelled to shut down for want of grain,
| and an exchange says that this will tend to
! the establishment of many fruit distilleries
this year.
A goldfish ten and half inches long
was recently taken from cistern in Macon,
| Ga.
The Eleventh Congressional District
of Texas is larger than Alabama and Missis-
-sippi, and will some day raise more cotton
than those two States, and more wheat than
Ohio and Missouri.
The cotton-seed oil mills on Hutchin-
son Island, opposite Savannah, valued at
$50, 900, were recently destroyed by fire.
An extraordinary incursion of prairie
| dogs threatened the corn and oats with de-
! structiOn in some parts of Texas.
Some land in the Mississippi Valley,
| above Vicksburg, is so thoroughly and
| hopelessly inundated as to leave no pros
! poets for cotton crop this year.
A manufacturer in Macon, Ga, has
procured from the City Council special per-
NIT to shoot snakes on his property, in the
rear of his factory, where they abound near
his fish pond.
a valuable deposit of asbestos has
been developed near Roanoke, Va. The vein
varies from six to ten inches, and in tough
ness compares most favorably with the best
| Canadian.
A Greenup County, Kentucky, man
| has an old d-fashioned squirrel rifle that will
| soon celebrate its centennial.
One Mason County, Kentucky,
fruit-grower has set out 100000 young ap-
| pie trees this year.
One Key West pineapple grower net
/ ted $4, 900 last year on his fruit.
| The Hessian fly has destroyed the wa
| termelon vines about Tampa.
| Au0uSbds Udss Will SOOA ouO 4QuE
thousand people to her population by taking
| in the new factories and Harrisburg, Hicks
| VILE, and RollersvilIe, and the Sibley, King
and Curry settlements.
| Senator Brown, of Georgia, has given
So. 500 toward the building Of Baptist par
sonage in Atlanta.
A large number of German emigrants
are settling in Texas.
Florida shipped 29,948,64O oranges
during the season ending June 1.
The Wool-GrOwers' Association of
/ Texts adopted a resolution to support no
man for Congress who does not advocate the
/ protection of that interest against importa-
| tions.
Cocoanut plants from Central Ameri-
ca are now being planted on Caloosahatchee
| River, Florida.
Dallas, Tex, is to have a call board.
The great demand for lumber and the
large supply of logs brought out by the
/ flood, saws the New Iberia La.) Sugar
/ BoaoT, has given a new impetus to the lum-
Der trade. Nearly ali the saw-mills on the
/ bayou, which are worth it, have been put
/ in running order, while great improvements
| have been made to the best, and new ones
are being built.
James Kahn, of Walker County, Ala
bama, aged 81, who raised u children to
maturity, and has 103 grandchildren and 48
great-grandchildren, is still lively as a cricket
and fond Of talking politics.
| Peaches are a failure this year in East
| Florida, and It is said also in the west.
The cotton reports of the Department
i Of Agriculture for June represent the area
in cotton as 7-10 per cent less than in 1881.
/ Texas makes an increase, and also a small
cotton district of Southeast Virginia. All
other States return some loss In area. The