The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-06-20

unph IN november.
On Sunday evening, 3Ist ult, destruc-
tive storm visited Shanghai, Ark, and blew
down a new church in which services were
being held. Four persons were killed, and
andabout 35 wounded, some seriously. The
Fort Smith Herald, speaking of the terrific
storm and the destruction Of the church,
says
No power Of the pen can begin to give
the faintest description of the scene; some
rushed to the door to find that it could not
be opened. The only two persons who sue
ceeded in getting out were George Venn, a
brick mason, % years old, n good mau and
Harrison WiX9n a lad of y yenrs of age,
who were instantly killed. The building
reeled ike a drunken man, but none could
get out wives clung to their husbands,
children to their parents, brothers and sis
ters to each other, and despair was depicted
upon every countenance Sud ienly the
crash came, and with deafening sound, min
gled with the shrieks Of the pent up people
Timbers, scantling, all came down with a
sudden crash upon the devoted heads of the
congregation, men, women and children; /;
even little babies were mutilated in every
conceivable manner Some had skulls bro
ken, others arms, others legs broken, thighs
smashed, and others received internal iniu-
ries from which theT can never recover.
There were several who did not receive a
scratch, but nearly all were more or lass in
jured. A gentleman who was on the ground
after the storm, who had been in some Of the
hardest battles of the war, and had seen mon
wounded in almost every conceivable way,
says he never saw scene so truly heart
rending as this, to see women with their
clothing nearly all stripped of, and their
limbs crushed under a beam from which
they could not free themselves; to see old
men and little babies, with blood streaming
from their wounds to see little boys and
girls suffering in the agonies of death, made
him so sick at heart that he could not speak.
-o-es4-e-
A When the name Of Gen
eral n B. Forrest was announced IN the
Nashville Convention the other day as one
Of the delegates to the Democratic COnven-
ton, to be held in New York next mORth, it
produced general consternatioH. 1t was a
regular bombshell The hairs on the head
of the President were yisibly seen to rise,
and about a dozen protestors against the
Generals name rose to their feet All
praised his gallantry IN the field, and told in
touching accents how much they loved him,
but still he WAS not, in their opinion, the
right man in the right place" to send to New
/ York. They feared their Northern brethren
would not receive him kindly Memphis
! Bulletin.
You are mistaken, Mr Bulletin only two
persons rose to their feet and objected to y
B. Forrest A Mr.. Gid, was the 6rst, and
at the request Of Judge Baxter, ne withdqev
his motion; the next, a Mr.. Reeves, renewed
the motion but could not get asecond Therc
was no CONSERVATION, and there was not ar
/ ez-Federal soldier in the Convention bui
VITO warmly supported the motion to strike
out the name of Bate and substitute that o
] Forrest Forrest was unanimously elected
An exchange in speaking of celebrated
singer, says: " Her voice is deliciOus-puT
as the moonlight, and tender as a thre
shilling shirt
An Irishman says that the best remed
for badness is to rub whisky on your hea'
until the hair grows out, then take 1t IN
wardly to clinch the roots
An eccentric clergyman lately said Ia on
of his sermons that " about the cOmmones
proof we have that man Is made Of clay, ]
the brick so often found in the hat.
A, ,,,b,orvn root has said He vrh