The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-11-29
NEWS SUMMARY


Jas. Beardall has just been convicted
at San Antonio, Texas, of the murder of a
/ peddler in 1857.
The famous e Koegan tunnel" on the
Cincinnati Southern, near Kingston, Tenn,
| vas completed the 10th.
Quarantine has been raised at all points
| against Port Royal. and business has been
! resumed at that point.
/ a New York tramp applied to the
/ Richmond authorities to be sent to the peni-
tenhary as a means Of getting a livelihood.
The Lee monument committee of Rich
mOnd has decided to accept none of the
/ models offered, and to postpone for a year
the making Of any contracts.
The Lexington (Vs.) Gazette says a
deer chased by dogs fell in getting over fence
ana was Pouneed on and held by mule until
the dogs came up and killed it.
At an Indignation meeting of the citi-
| zens of Chattanooga Tuesday night, resolu-
tions were adopted denouncing in the sever
| est terms the unknown Vandals who defaced
/ the confederate monument.
The Chesapeake and Ohio railroad ill
( by December pay nearly $I0O, 600 into the
I depleted treasury of Virginia. The Judgment
was for much larger amount, but the state
| compromised in order to get the much
! needed cash.
The Southern ColIegian says work on
the Lee Mausoleum at Lexington, Va, will
/ be begun soon. The spot chosen is a few
PAGES to the north of the memorial chapel in
which the remains now lie, and on the cam
pus OF Washington and Lee university.
In proclamation announcing yellow
| fever In Jacksonville, the mayor says: do
not fear that the disease can become epi-
1 demic, and hope the community will not
| eylnee anything like a panic, but remain
| at their homes, taking every precaution, after
| consulting with their respective physicians
A single firm at st. Augustine, Fla,
/ has caught during the season about one hun.
dred and twenty-five green turtles, weighing
two thousand i've hundred pounds, which
are now kept alive in a tank, where they are
daily fed and kept for sale. They weigh
| from i've to one hundred and ten pounds
/ each.
Charleston Is. C.) News and Courier ::
| The Spanish bark Carmen arrived in this
port yesterday, This Is the vessel which ear
| RES Boss Tweed from Havana to Vigo
| Strange to tell, the schooner Frank Atwood,
which carried the same notorious individual
/ to HaYsna, is still in port. The captain of
the Carmen says that Tweed paid him $3.50 in
| American gold.
Memphis Avalanche: Eight miles
south of Ashland, north Mississippi, few
days ago, Homer V. Hunt was challenged by
| c. MasO Lane for saying of a young lady
| friend of the latter: "How loathe any girl
| who is her euuaI?D He accented. and as
both were excellent shots, the distance was
/ extended from fifteen to thirty-fve yards.
/ Hunt was killed and Lane mortally wounded
| at the first fire.
| A newspaper controversy led to the
| shooting of Chas. Matthews, city editor of
| the Hot Springs Telegraph, by mayor Linde,
/ last Wednesday. Matthews was unarmed
| and received four wounds, one shot breaking
| his arm and another his shoulder. Alder
| man Davis and another man Were aeciden-
/ tally wounded by balls from the pistol of the
murderOus mayor. Linde gave bond in 81, 900
| for his appearance.
| Nashville American: John w. Chill
| dress, president, and r. c. Bransfeld, secre-
/ tary, of the Tennessee and Pacific road yes
terday acknowledged the transfer of the
| roadbed, etc, of that line, for $14O,OO to
| the Nashville, Chattanooga and st. Louis rail
| road company. The deed has been drawn
/ for some time past, but not registered until
yesterday, This does, away with the Ten
nessee and Pacific road as corporate organ
ization, all the stipulations of the sale of that
line having been fulfilled,
San Antonio Herald While anxious
as any to encourage immigration of the right
| Sort we are decidedly averse to encouraging
! She influx of an army of Micawbers who viii
/ ne tax on the public to support, and we are
no less averse to the indiscriminate and ex-
/ travagant praise of Texas, that will raise too
| high the expectations of newcomers to our
state. A poor man coming to Texas with a
| family dependent entirely upon his la or,
| has about as hard a struggle for a livelihood
as men generally have elsewhere, unknown
and without means,
Savannah News: There were in port last
week seventy vessels, of which four were steam
| ships. eight ships, thirty eight barks, FIVE
| brigs, and seventeen schooners. Twenty seven
| carried the American flag. sixteen that of
| Great Britain, seven that of Germany, nine
| of Norway, seven of Spain, one of Sweden
| and one carrying the Italian colOrs. Seven
of them are loading for New York, seven for
| LiveTdoOl, eight for Havre, ten for Ammster-
dam, one for Genoa, two for Barcelona and
the rest either loading, cleared or ready to
| sail.
Memphis Appeal: Last week the
body of Col. Wiley n. Reed, of Forests
cavalry, was brought to this city and shipped
| last night, by G. Fl. Hoist & Co., to Nashville,
| Tenn, for reinterment Col. Reed, who COM
| manded Mississippi regiment, was wounded
three times at the battle and capture of Fort
| Pillow by Gen. Forrest in 1864. His body is
| though II has been thirteen years since his
| death. The features preserve their identity,
| while the complexion of the dead soldier is
| not unlike it was in fe.
Reidsville Times: Sandy Palmer, a
colOred man, near Milton, n. c., fell from
his ox-cart, loaded with wood, and the wood
fell on him and the front wheel ran on his
breast. The OK stopped still and stood there
ali night. The old mBn threw up his hands
| and rubbed all the skin from the inside try
| ing to push the wheel Off His child heard
the dog barking in the woods, and found her
father next morning, his arms stiff and hands
up as he had grabbed the Cart~wheeI. He
! was buried in that position His arms were
so stiff they could not be bent.