The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-11-28

Vol. ". b
On the Goth inst, it showed quite hard at
Richmond, Va, for over two hours.
Seymour, says the official report, carried
Georgia by A., ,263 majority. The total vote
poIled was $4,000
a bill is now before the Legislature, and
will pass, ezempting widows dover from
execution.
The Board of Police of Yazoo county,
Mississippi, offer reward of ST so for
every wolf killed in that county.
On the 5th inst, the court house at
Wilberton, California, was badly damaged
by an earthquake.
a. J. Fletcher has been reelected Secre-
tary of State, and J. E. Rust Treasurer
This is considered set back to Brownlow
It is rumOred that noted Southern gen
eraI has offered 10000 men to the leader Of
the fllibustering expedition which is now
being organized for raid on Cuba.
By the official count, Grant carried Ohio
by Al, 100 majority. All owing to the putting
aside of George H. PendletOn, the man who
the People wanted to vote for.
The Legislature seems determined to pass
a lawT requiring clerks of chancery courts
to take the franchise oath, or else compel
them to give way to others who can.
Prentice says that some of the Southern
papers have the " North bend" We hope
they'll bend until their Internal backs are
broke.
Old ireland, not to be outdone, was visited
by an earthquake few days-~sinee, which
caused considerable damage.
Theodore Zimmerman, while repairing
machinery in Belcher's sugar refinery, ST.
Louis, day or two ago, fell into kettle of
boiling syrup and lost his life.
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Near Granly Ford, Nevada, one day last
week, by the careless use of match, six
teen hundred kegs of powderwere exploded
BY the accident seven men lost their lives
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A boy at Lisbon, Me, fred q hay-mow a
few days ago, to break up" setting hen.
He Yves amply successful, and MS father will
proceed to rebuild the barn.
On the 10Th inst, the Ship HeIespont
was wrecked at sea, thirty miles south of
San Francisco, and proved a total loss.
Eleven of the crew, together with tie cap
tain, were lost.
We learn from the Covington, Upton
County Record, of the Goth, that little girl
of Alex, Smiths, Katy, living near that place,
was dangerously burned on the previous
evening. She was not expected to live.
The Superintendent of the States prison
of Mississippi, Lieutenant E. T. Wallace,
Co, E. 24th Regt U. s. Infantry, is charged
with torturing prisoners even to the last de-
gree Of brutalism. He's loil bird, too |
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Baron James Rothschild died at Paris on
sunday, the 18th inst, in his seventy
enth year. He was the last survivor of the
five sons of Mayer Anselm, of Frankfort,
the founder of the family and its fortunes.
Eaton, Superintendent, of the Public
Schools, is charged with speculating in
school books, and the charge seems to be
true Of course Eaton is "Ioil" bird
like all the rest of the flock, " kinder buzzard
fashion.
For the last fiscal year, according to the
Postmaster Generals report, the mail routes
of Arizona cost the Government 1926, ,607,
while the revenue derived from the same
mail routes only amounted to 81, ,963 That $
the way the money goes. Who wouldn't be
a radical and a citizen Of the best govern
ment in the world
The hotel at Mckenzie on the Northwest
ern railway, in this State, was consumed by
fire on the night of the 18th inst. A lady
and five children were consumed in the
flames. The unfortunates were from North
Carolina, and were stopping over for the
night
On the morning of the 8th inst, at
Blountville, in Sullivan county, in this State,
a dreadful tragedy was enacted. While
robbed of reason through the effects of
whisky, NJ Rhea, young man of good con
nections, shot his wife. After being wounded
the lady ran out of the house and was pur-
| sued hv her frenized husband. who. gaining