The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-05-04
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

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/ Florida papers, are that the Bishop had
| second-class ticket and went into a first
class car. When the conductor came to him
| and took his ticket he told him he must go
into the second class car. The colored
Bishop became very angry, and said if be
| could not ride in first-class car he would
rot ride anywhere, and, although he was
told that he might ride TO the next station,
he refused to do so, and, despite remon-
| strances, got off the train and walked back
to Jacksonville, where he had got on.
Southern merchants in many districts
have gone to their last limit in supplying
goods on credit to victims OF the overflow.
4 great deal depends on the crops.
A gentleman living near Athens, Ca,
has a gourd that has been in use to hold
pepper and spices over two hundred years.
The genealogy of the gourd is clearly traced
The Louisville (Ky.) Court of Ap-
peals has decided that an atheist can not be
deprived of his right to testify, and as to
credibility stands on the same footing with
| other witnesses.
The Sanitary Council of the Missis-
sippi Valley has recommended the estab-
lishment of an inspecting service at the jet
ties to keep out the yellow fever.
A New Orleans concern sent lot of
condemned condensed milk on a dray to the
garbage boat, few days since. On the
way the driver threw several cans of the
sour milk to men and boys on the sidewalk,
| and in very short time large number of
! people had gathered about the dray and took
every can from it. The immunity from arrest
in this transaction emboldened those who
received the milk, and at er in the afternoon,
when the crowd saw the same dray proceed
| ing down Peters street, loaded with twenty
| five cases of condensed milk, they at once
| concluded that the milk was condemned
and on its way to the garbage-boat. Instead,
however, the milk was perfectly sound, and
| intended for use on the steamship Mediator.
The crowd surrounded the vehicle, and in a
| few minutes it was left bare.
During March only fifteen drummers
visited Natchez, Miss, and they paid $3.50
or the privilege.
One man will ship nine thousand
cords of tanbark from the vicinity of Chat
tanooga, Tenn, this season.
There has been slight disturbance
| among the different churches in Dallas,
| Tex, caused by a committee of the Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union waiting
! on the pastors and asking them to discon-
tinue the use of fermented wines at the
| cOHlHluHlOu IdDies anu giving as Ln6lr Tea-
son that they could hope for and accomplish
nothing in the way OF prohibition until the
churches took the lead. The result is that
many of the pastors have refused to take
further part in the temperance movement.
The prisoners in the County Jail at
| Fort Worth, Tex. according to a local pa
per), held kangaroo court, the other day,
and convicted the negro Dave Jackson.
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brought in a verdict of guilty, and the ne
gro was Immediately strung up to rafter.
This was terribly realistic acting, and the
negro was ashy with terror. Dangling
from the beam, with his tongue protruding
and his eyes rolled up, the awful silence of
the prisoners at their grim pastime, all pre-
sented a picture that lacked only the black
cap and the coffin to make a hideous fore
cast of a coming event. The negro was
nearly dead when cut down, and little
pains were taken to relieve him.
A planter in Rapides Parish, La,
cultivated one thousand acres of cotton last
year, and four hundred acres in Bermuda
grass. The cotton yielded him net return
of about $1, 900 less than the grass. The
cotton was cultivated with severe manual
labor, while the grass was handled entirely
by machinery.
A negro boy recently threw his top
through a store window in Selma, Ala. AS
soon as he laid hands on the offending toy,
he grasped it with steel spinner outward,
and beat himself fercelv over the forehead
and head with it until blood came, when he
threw the top as far away as he could and
told the owner Of the store that he "didn't
go to break the window" This was a novel
way of atoning for his fault, but it had the
desired effect and he was allowed to depart
unmoested.
The manufacture of canes and curl
ositfes is one of the leading industries of
Jacksonville, Fla, furnishing employment
to a greater number of persons than any
other branch of business in the city. Almost
every thing in the shape Of fish, flesh or
fowl, animal, mineral or vegetable, is man
ufactured into articles of jewelry, for per-
sonal use or adornment. The trade in alli-
gators is also large. One concern has sold
over eight hundred alligators this season,
and another over FIVE hundred within a
month.
One hundred citizens of Tuscaloosa |
County, Alabama, have been taken to Mont
gomery to give bond to appear at the May
term Of the United States Court, for captur- |
ing few iightwOOd knots and few trees
standing and lying idle on some of Uncle |
Sans $40 per acre mineral lands. No |
E'favors'' shown-the Marshal just cleans |
them up for the money there is in it.
The country contiguous to Vicksburg, /
Miss, is now almost entirely out of water, |
and planting and plowing is becoming gen. |
eral The prospect for the Hill City is un- |
usually good. A full crop will be made, and I
the people are alive with the hope that comes /
of the best prospects.
Eight hundred and twenty-three nee
dies and pins have been cut out Of Miss /
Stokes, a very intelligent young lady living /
ten miles west of MOulton, Ala, within the /
past few years. She declares that she does |
not swallow or stick them in her herself,an |
it is very mysterious how the pins get buried |
in her body, causing great pain and vexa-
tfon of spirit.
There are 100000 sheep in Texas.
A Mormon church has been estab-
lished in Sewer County, Arkansas, with
several members, among the most ignorant
class of people. One preacher was run out
of the county, but two others have appeared.
They profess to be opposed to polygamy.
A gentleman and two ladies went to
Brunswick from St. Simons, Ga, in a row
boat, and on the way back got into a creek
and were left by the tide in a marsh. They
were gone from Sunday night to Wednesday
afternoon without food or water, and were
finally rescued by search party, in a half
famished condition.
THE old Tallahassee (F1a.) gas
works were sold the past week for $50.
The Governor of Tennessee has re-
ceived proposition from the holders Of
State bonds to compromise the debt at 90
per cent, with graded interest at 4, 5 and 6