The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-06-06

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county sent ten conviets to the peniten>
tiary.
Indecent postal cards involve fine of
not less than one thousand dollars.
MIR. Seaberry Temple, of Oak Grove,
Lcuderdale county, was struck by light
ming and instantly killed while scraping
cotton in his field one day last week
An exchange thinks that if the people
of West Tennessee had to depend upon
themselves for breadstuffs there would
be an awful amount of cotton seed cake
consumed
Coal of excellent quality has been DIS
covered on the line of the Texas and
Pacific raiIro cad in the Cross Timbers near
Fort Worth.
A Fort Worth girl says she is the
wickedest female in the Lone Star State
She is in love with the derH' He works
in the Democrat Office
The taxes in Louisiana for 1873 are
assessed at three dollars and FIVE cents on
each one hundred dollars worth of tax>
able property.
The Legislatures of the States 0; Mis-
siszIppi and Tennessee, have chartered a
new lie insurance company, known as
the Union Life Association of America"
for the sole benefit of the colored people.
Gen. CAnby's wiIoH is poor indeed,
and movement is on foot to raise by
subscription, sufficient money to maintain
her in go1d circumstances the balance of
her life, Candy was brave and honest
man. Hence his poverty.
Master James Scott aged : and Miss
Ada Smith, aged 10, were married at
jackson, on the 22d ult Farley to bed
and early to rise-some times makes
troubles in der family Yah"
The name of the Nashville AMI Chat
tanooga Railroad Company was changed
May Dist by the Chancery Court at Nash
vile to the Nashville, Chattanooga u ST
Louis Railways Company.
A dispatch from Los Angeles, Cal, re
ports the discovery of a mommoth tin
ledge forty five miles from that city, on
the San Antonio The ledge is said to
be mile long and 60 feet wide
Gov McEnery has issued an address to
the people of Louisiana advising acquie'
scence in the kellogg Government until
Congress assemblies in December next.
Cotton is fine in Georgia. The Dalton
Citizen says:
More cotton has been planted in this
section this year than ever before; all
of which, we understand, looks flourish
ing, giving promise of a heavy crop.
John II. Miller, editor of the Pren:i5s
Recorder published at Bonneville, Miss.
is Informed that there is a colored man
in the vicinity of Baldwin, known as
uncle Nat Shepard, who is 10 years old
and the father of 50 children.
Lewis Sturgeon, who shot and killed
a little boy named John Murphy while
bathing in the river near his hat-boat is
to be hung in Memphis about the first
of August, the Supreme Court having
sustained the judgement of the lower
court which found him guilty Of murier
in the first degree.
On the island of MoIokai, one Of the
Sandwich group, there is a lepers village
and upon its every inhabitant the curse
Of Elisha seems irregocably fixed. There
is leprosy 10 the Hawaiian blood, but
meme of it is seen in Honolulu, as those
vino are afflicted with it are sent to the
/ lepers' village.
One Southern Congressman, Joseph II.
SIoss, of Alabama, has put his back SAL
airy steal where it will do the most good
He gave it to the destitute of his district
The post master at Bonneville, Miss, is
defaulter to the amount of $4,000. He
is said to be a nice young man and parts
his hair in the middle.
A sensible fellow who prints a paper
somewhere tout west puts it thus
You might as well attempt to shampoo
an elephant with n thimblefuI of soap
suds as 20 attempt to do business and
ignore advertising.
George Francis Train has gone to Eu-
rope. lie took passage on the steamer
Baltic, and is to visit Stuttgarit, where
his wife is. lie is wanted as a witness
in the Credit Mobiiier suit which is to
begin in Hartford, Conn, in July next
No doubt his testimony will be rich and
damaging to the big thieves. He knows
all about them and claims to have en-
gineered their nefarious scheme through
Congress several years ago.
Walden, on the line ofthe II. c. r r..
sixty miles south Of water Velley, suffer
ed terribly from sweeping fire last FRI
day Almost the entire business part OF
the town including the principal hotel,
, was consumed. The fire Is supposed Il
have been the work Of incendiaries.
We learn from the Water Valley Con-
rier that M D. y. Quinn was last weeL
elected Sheriff oF Lefore county, to fill the
uuexpired term Of J E. Johnson, who
ran off with S29, 900 Of the county funds
The last artist put paper color Oh
= Daniel Boone, which was not in keeping
with his usual garb and row Kentucky
wants another portrait of Daniel
The Sheriff. jury having declared
, George Francis Train to be sane, he wa
: discharged from custody last Friday and
says that he is going to sue the city o
t New York for false imprisonment claim
ing one hundred thousand dollars dam
, ages.
l Last Friday an unknown man wake
i down to the foot of Exchange srse
Memphis, Invested himself of his cloth
T ing, and suddenly plunged into the river