The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-09-07
miscellaneous Items.

The great railroad celebration at
Louisville, KY, on the 10th of September,
will be a grand affair. There will be a
street pageant several miles in length, rep
resenting manufacturing, commercial and
other business interests of the city. At
night the whole city will be Illuminated.
The railroads have reduced rates of fare to
one cent per mile, tickets good for four
days.
Tha Alabama River has been swollen
for eight months, indicating an unusual
rainfall.
In Mobile, Ala, fifteen-foot tiger
shark was caught recently that was believed
to have devoured A. Frogert, engineer of
the tug Col. Woodruff. Its stomach con-
tanned human bones and human arm part
ly enveloped in the fragments Of a blue
wooden jumper.
Crop reports from Southern Atlantic
States are generally favorable, but portions
of Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, and Ala
bama complain of too much rain, causing
shedding of bolls and retarding picking.
Some worms are also mentioned, supposed
to be in the second crop, but it is thought
they are too late to do much damage.
A colored baby in Lee County, Ca,
was found the other day with a large rattle
snake coiled around it. On being discov-
mediately killed.
Alexander H. Stephens, on arriving
in Atlanta, Ca, the other day, found a
crowd of 1000 persons awaiting him at the
depot. He was carried out to the plat
form by his servant, and made a brief ad-
dress.
By direction of the Secretary of War
a board OF officers Of the corps Of engineers,
to consist of Maj. Amos Stickney, Capt.
Alex. NJ. Miller and Capt. VIM. L. Marshall,
will assemble in Memphis for the transac-
tion of certain business connected with the
building and repair of levees on the AIissis-
sippi River.
A farmer in Henry County, Kentucky,
has eighty stalks of large white corn that
have 265 shoots on them. 1t is the f'Bessa-
rabia corn," of Russia, and will make at the
rate of forty two barrels per acre.
Near Lawrenceburg, Tenn. ,an elm tree,
said to be the largest in the United States,
If not in the world, is growing. II is los
feet in diameter, and 800 feet ia circumfer-
ence from tip to tip Of its branches.
Much cotton.
Memphis church attempted to whip the
pastor because he refused to let him par
take Of communion. The minister was
equal to the occasion, however, and the as
saulting party went to the hospital for re-
pairs. The name of the muscular minister
is Rev. J. P. Jay.
A desperate leap for liberty was taken
by noted burglar in North Carolina, few
days ago, who, handcuffed and tied, sprang
out of a car window and went down
precipice Of eighty feet, where he disap-
peared.
Carp-culture is attracting considerable
attention in South Carolina.
The Attorney-Ge of Georgia is
pushing to trial an action to forfeit the lease
by the State, to company OF which Senator
Joseph Brown is President, Of the Western
& Atlantic Railroad at $500, 900 per year.
Two years ago the sum OF s12,OOO,OOO was Of
fered for the road.
From the cotton-felds comes q call
for white labor, the negro having taken to
politics and preaching. The Superintendent
of Immigration in South Carolina asks the
authorities at Castle Garden, New York, to
send him Bohemians, Hungarians. and
Poles,