The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-07-27
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

Whiteield, an orphan girl, aged six years.
by William Cox, a youth Of IA, is reported
from Brogden Township, Wayne Co., n. G.
The two children had been left alone during
the day, and the boys ungovernable pas
sion rose and he attacked the defenseless
girl. This much is inferred from the con-
fused accounts which the young murderer
gave of the death of the child. When the
parents returned they found little Cora
dead. and the boy mumbled out something
to the efIeet that she had fallen from
stump.
In Greensborough, n. C., peaches are
selling at so cents per bushel.
Sugar-cane in some portions of Hills
borough County, Florida, is six feet high,
and well iointed.
Five railways centering at Dallas,
Tex, are to build union freight depot.
There is a rose-bush at Limonia, Fla,
which has ITO buds on one stalk.
At the present rate of semi-tropical
fruit culture, Florida will in a few years
rival the Bahama Islands. In a recent ship
ment Of pineapples to New York from Be-
lair Grove, one barrel, containing 1l,weighed
113 pounds; the largest weighing IL pounds
and IA ounces. Three other barrels con-
tanned 80, weighing 30 pounds. These pine
apples are the Trinidad, and weigh, when
the plant is maiured, from 20 to % pounds
each. They have been very carefully cared
for and fertiIzed. They were imported by
Gen. Sanford some three years ago, and
exceed anything of the kind in the State.
A distressing accident occurred at
Society Hill, S. c., few days ago. A son
of Mr.. Winters, who was a cadet at the
Charlotte Military Institute, was playing
1, IL Aavry
tered his left eye. The wound brought on
brain fever, and he died.
Ice frozen by machinery is now used
almost exclusively in the South. 1t is
cheaper than that brought from northern
points.
One hundred acres of potatoes
brought Summer County, Tennessee, far
mer $4,000. He has planted a second
crop.
Jacksonville, Fla, is exhibiting a
coffee plant, covered with leaves and ber-
ries, which was grown near that place.
The prospects of the Louisiana rice
crop were never better.
Memphis is endeavsring to get up a
silk -culturists' comveAtion, to be held some
time this fall.
A Texas elopement party was made
up of three couples, ranging in age from 10
to 20 years.
Another valuable gold-bearing quartz
vein has been found near Dahlonega, Ga.
Key West CANDLES $12,0 900 away zach
month on lotteries operated in that city.
A Chilli squash raised as an expert
ment by Monticello, Fla, farmer, weighs
nearly two hundred pounds.
The wife of Ex-Governor Jenkins, OF
Georgia, who died few days ago, was the
only surviving sister of ex-Surgeon- General
Barnes.
In Virginia ne-growing has become
promising industry. It was commenced in
1869 by two Germans, on favorably located
hillsides of the Blue Ridge range, and the
crops were disposed of in New York. BY
| 1877 these pioneers were producing nearly
/ 5000 gallons of wine annually. Last year
they had thirty-seyen acres under cultiva-
tion, and turned out 3, 500 gallons. This
| year they expect to make out of their own
grape crop, combined with those of neigh
| boring vineyardists, from $500 to 10000
| gallons. The counties of Nelson and Albe-
marie at present produce together from 5O,-
! 900 to so, 600 gallons annually.
The oldest inhabitants of Arkansas
unite in pronouncing last Fourth of July the
coldest one they ever experienced.
Some of the finest walnut trees in the
mountains of North Carolina have been sold
at $40 each Just as they stand in the woods,
the purchaser reserving the privilege to
take them away within certain Dumber OF
years.
Texas prohibits newsdea1ers from
selling indecent publications by imposing a
tax of $500.
Confederate 81, 900 bills have lately
been selling in Atlanta, Ga, for s., and
500 bills for 25 cents.
A little colored child was smothered
by its brother in Camden, Ala, recently.
The latter playfully turned dry-goods box
over the child and was then too weak to re-
move it.
Mrs. f. Woods, nee Culp, who viii be
remembered by thousands present at the
late Kings Mountain centennial celebration
as the young lady who unveiled the monu-
ment. died recently at Marion S. c.. Her
grandfather was a distinguished actOrin the
great drama of Kings Mountain, overa hun-
dred years back, and the duty of linveflIng
the monument in 1880 was most appropri-
ately assigned to Miss CUP. .z- lsofs-r
Two Louisville (Ky.) editors, Colonel
G. E. Sears and John B. Gaines, exchanged
slight wound.
M o. Reynolds and wife have fled q
bill in chancery at Chattanooga to recover
the greater portion OF the Fifth Ward, which
is valued at nearly $1,000. 900. sees
Charles Gordon, of Shelby, Ala,
proudly shows certificate OF his own birth
dated seventy-eight years ago, and a cradle
full Of twins born to him within a few
months.
A war upon rates Of freight and
passage has been fnaugurated between tht
Cincinnati and Memphis packets and tht
Hsteamers of the Louisville transportation
line.
Three hundred men are now engaged
in picking peaches on one farm at Griffin,
Ga, and will continue to pick them until
the middle of July.
Diphtheria alarms New Iberia, La.
A colored man standing under tree
eating an apple, in Oglethorpe County, ,Geor
gia, was struck by lightning and killed tn
other day. His skin was not scratched, bu
every bone was broken.
A South Carolina paper says coloreC
people living near Abbeville, that State, ar
evincing some strange notions in regard q
the observance of the Lords day. On Sun
day proper they continue their accustomed
labors, and act as they do on other days il
the week, but when Tuesday comes AROUND
they cease work. put on their best clothes
and engage in singing and other exercises.
A Waldo, Fla. man % years old i
the father of ten children.
The Georgia Railroad Compan,
recently applied to Judge Simmons, a
Macon, for an injunction to restrain tn
Road Commissioners from enjoining il
freight and passenger tariff. on the groun