The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-11-06
SouTH.

Kains 2s Go. s grocery, at .Vicksburg,
Miss, was burned Oct. 81sf. Loss s25, 600 |:
insured for $4,000.
Riehland county, S. @. has returned
1881 dogs, for taxation at value of. s6.s14
|hlie Lao sheep are returned at value OF
only s2,695.
hev. Dr. James Barclay, missionary
from the Christian church to Jerusalem, died
on Wednesday last, at the residence of his son
near HElrstzYillss Ala 81 O. 81 - EEeE
Gov. ?. II. Leslie has issued a proc
iamation Offering an aggregate reward of
about S9,0OofeP the capture OF the masked
men Who recently shota young negro girl in
Shelby county, Ky. z.1-l .---1e e~s.s-,
A delegation from Mississippi has
succeeded in indncing the Leamington Agri-
cultural Union of England to send over an
agent to prospect that state with reference to
an extensive migration OF farm laborers
The freman's. charitable association
of New Orleans, has resolved to discontinue
business, unless the city pays them bv The
18th of November. They control the fire de-
pSrtment. The city owes them one hundred
.oGsand dollars sGss se st1
A dispatch from Salisbury, N. c.,
says that Gen. Jas. c. Blount has been con-
yicted of conspiracy to defraud the United
States out Of a large sum of money intended
Tor the Cherokee Indians living in that state
lie is now in Jail at Salisbury.
Col. j. Y. Jeddes, commanding the
first artillery, writes to the adiutant general
OF the army that, owing to the prevalence Of
yellow fever in Charleston. S. c., he has
moved the troops under his command from
Charleston to SummervilIe.
Mrs. Anna Roseley, wife of Col. r,
. NJ Moseley, granddaughter Of Governor
Dowlmg, OF Virginia. committed suicide at
Anchorage, Ky, by throwing herself in front
OF a railroad train. # was probably caused
by temporary insanity, She had been mar
ried ten days
The Louisville Courier Journal pub
fishes a review Of the trade in leaf tobacco
for the past year, showing Louisville to be the
largest market for that staple in the world
For the past year the sales aggregated 69,97O
hogsheads, against 53.O56 for the twelve
months previous, the total amount of sales
being s7,677, ,71O.
A fire at Memphis last week destroyed
the residence of Hon. Jacob Thompson, corner
of Lauderdale street and fernando road.
A portion of the furniture was saved. 1t is
believed the house was first robbed and then
set on fire. Mr. Thompson and family are
absent, attending the Episcopal convention in
New York. Loss, St5, ,OOO; no insurance.
A distressing accident occurred in
Pamela county, Mississippi, last week. A
party Of four young men were hunting deer
an Tailahatchie bottom aud became separated.
One Of them, Ben Mitchell, while pursuing
path through canebrsse observed . cane
shaking ahead Of him, and thinking it deer
fired the contents of a double-barreled shot
gun loaded with buck-shot, and hearing the
5cresms rushed to the spot and f6und Thomas
H. hoseiy, one Of his Companions, lying dead,
shot through the head, David White, another,
shot through the head and n1ortaily wounded
and the third one, S. w. Johnson, severely
wounded All the parties were respectfully
connected, and the deplorable accident has
brought mourning and sorrow 60 many houses.