The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-07-05
Odds and Ends.


a severe hail storm swept over Ste~
phenson, Ala, one day last week doing
much damage to crops in that vicinity.
From poetical elTusion in a late mum
her Of the Humphreys County 70 ugg1al
we learn that H. N. Little accuses Miss
g. p B of fixing a dart in bis heart !
Naughty girl. Thou shoaldst not have
done it. fake it outl
We learn from the Tishominco Herald
that a man by the name Of Mitchell MUIR
dered his wife near luka one night last
week, and then hid her body in the woods.
Horrible crime
Heretofore members Of .the Quarterly
court Of Shelby county have been allowed
$ per day Now they are to get only s..
Humbolt last Monday j. 0. Jeffreys
-of Water Valley, Miss. employed by the
Mississippi Central railroad as a switch
man at thatp lace, was run over by an en-
CINE on the lst, and had his foot crush
ed so seriously that it had to be amput-
ated
The New York F-orld comedies the
nomination Of Greeley at Baltimore 1t
nowhere percieves any respectable bolt
against his nomination That paper will
advise nobody to vote for Grant but as
between voting for Greeley and staying
at home it has no advice to ofer.
That little debt which Uncle Sam has
to pay amounts to S2,294,95TI42; the
interest on this is S4l ,705, 1913. An hens
est A administration will soon relieve the
the country Of this oppressive burthen
The Galveston CTvHiun publishes a
letter dated fredericksburg Texas, June
10Th. stating that General Mckenzie,
Lieutenant Smith and eight men were
surprised by sixty Indians and killed, be-
tween Fort Belknap and Jacksouboro
Out Of thirteen in Mckenzie party, only
three escaped.
The dwelling of M Quarterburn, near
Pine Bluff, Arkansas, was destroyed by
fire on the night o the twenty-ffth ult
Mr.. Quarterburn and his daughter were
both burned to death in attempting to
escape.
Yesterday one week ago a soda gener-
ator exploded in Boston, kill ny one per-
son and blowing leg off another
Gen. Campbell Of Madison, is a candi
date for Congress. We hope he may
be elected to the position. He is emin-
emily qualified for it
Speaking of "crops" in Upton county
the Coyington Record says:
The prospect for an abundant yield of
corn AID cotton in this county has never
been better since the war than at pre-
sent. Most of the farms are clear Of grass
and weeds, and if Sambo will continue to
do his duty while longer, we think we
can predict more than an average crop.
Baltimore advices say preparations are
nearly completed for the Democratic Con
vention. lord's theater, the place of
meeting, has been fitted up and will ac-
commodate between two and three thous.
and persons. Nearly every State delega-
ton has secured It's quarters. The Carr
rollton will be the headquarters for the
principal delegations Governor White,
of Maryland, announces himself for
Greeley, together with the most promi~
nent men Of the STATE
Bon. Butler rose to explain his views
on the civil service at the Boston-Grant
ratification meeting as follows "Pcrson'
ally, think this civil service reform is a
hum>bug. ! hold that It is better to turn
out men every year. Did you ever know
a new cashier to be a defaultor? 1t is
always the oil cashier, and the old and
trusted clerks, who are defauIters, as any
merchant or banker nows, and it is these
changes in Office which bring defaulca~
tions and speeulations to light Ac~
cording to Benjamin own argument it
is time that he and CIR mt and the rest of
thrt crowd should be retired to private
life
A horrible affair took place one mile
north of Brownsville on the LIST. Ben II.
Wray, a young man of II summers, shot
and killed his brother in~law, Mr.. John
A Wilson, aged IS, while eating break
fast, and then shot him self through the
head. An old quarrel revived was the
cause Of the rash act Both men we're
perfectly sober at the time Of the shoot-
! ing, SO this dreadful double murder can
/ not be ascribed to whisky.