The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-09-27
NEWS SUMMARY.
TIE SOUTH.

Bob Toodles has married Marine
Noodles, in Muscogee, Ga.
A Texan has contrived a machine for
taking wood on trains without their stopping
Captain McNally, the celebrated Texas
scout was but twenty-eight when he died.
Five persons have been hanged in
Abbeville, S. C., during the past four years,
and still the murderers follow their business.
The Marietta (Ga.) Journal says that
German miIlet is being used as rice in lower
Georgia, The husks are removed and the
grain is palatable food.
DIR. Kenilworth, a celebrated physi-
cian of Jacksonville, has given one hundred
dollars toward the trial of Col. Hardee's
theory of conclusion, as destructive Of the
germs of disease.
Jacksonville has formed q military
Gordon around the city to prevent the ingress
of refugees from Fernandina- The military
and fire com panies have volunteered to do
this service.
The city attorney of Galveston has
given it as his opinion that the city is not
liable for 1920 worth of scrip issued to pay
the expenses of entertaining the Kansas
delegation in 1875.
A colossal statue of the late Andrew
johnson is to be set up as a monument to
his memory near his old Tennessee home. 1t
Is OF white marble, and is being carved in
Philadelphia.
Hon. NJ. J. Crawford and Miss SeImon.
of Gainesville, Ga, were riding in buggy
few days since. Miss Selmon raised her
ParasOl suddenly, and the horses ran away
throwing both out. He was killed instantly,
his neck being broken, and she was fatally
injured.
The New Orleans Picayune saws John
| Wesley Hardin, the Texas desperate, is a
very finely organized person. One of his
victims he killed for snoring. He did not
like to be disturbed in his sleep, so he arose
in the silent night and slew the snorer.
| Steamboat navigation of the Suwannee
river, Florida, has been resumed after long
suspension. This Is one of the bodies Of
water that would be utilized in the cOnstruc-
ton of the proposed Atlantic and Gulf ship
canal, and the extent of its navigabIe ca.
Pacity is an interesting question.
| A young fellow in love. with a widow
/ got so jealous at a ball in Houston, Texas,
the other night, that he got a license and a
! preacher, and, going to the widows home a
! little before day, informed her that she must
marry him instanter or he would make a
| lead mine of the other fellow. She married
| him.
! The Savannah News says, outside of
any special call, Savannah has gone to the
relief of Fernandina. Her physicians and
nurses only await the demand when they
will be fOrthgoing. The disease is epidemic
in Fernandina, and it is the grand seItsacrl-
| fee that prompts the departure of physicians
and nurses to our afflicted sister city.
The Lancaster Is. O. Ledger says eve
learn that Ezekiel Mayhem, coiored man
with some little education, and formerly a
school teacher in Cane creek township, left
for Liberia on Monday last. As we under
stand, he.is sent out to view the promised
land, and Is to return and report his Observ-
ations by the first of next year."
The AshevIlle IN. c. Pioneer SAYS
that last week, while number of colored
| persons, both male and female, were digging
! for medical roots in the Bee Tree range of
/ Craggy mountain, one of their number,
named Elvira Seneca, better known as Vira
Lytle, was struck by rattlesnake upon her
right leg, just below the knee. She died,
leaving four destitute children.
The Charlotte IN. O. Observer says
it is a surprising fact that there were fOui
mortgages upon crops of 1873 lately recorded
In the office of the register of deeds. The
crops, Of course, will not be put into the
ground until next spring. 1t is a bad show
gaging that which they themselves have not
and will not have for twelve months, to Sc
cure suppl for the present
The Asheville IN. O. Pioneer say
that at the last term of the court AIexandeI
Shaft was tried and convicted of fOrnica
LlOu Anu duulJtIyJ dllu sentenced DY Ju0gt
Furches to six months imprisonment in tn,
county jail. At the first meeting of the
board of county commissioners thereafter
on application of Shafts WIFE he was hired
out to her at So per month.
The Galveston News says that tht
70 question of prohibition continues to be
leading issue in some of the northwestern
counties, where the local option law is still
before the the people. The papers quote
sentence from the charge of Judge Clark t.
the grand jury of Hopkins county, as fol
lows: You may visit the graves of criminals
. and with propriety might write above tn
remains ef ninety-nine out of every huI
dred: bottle of whisky; a deck of cards
a six-shoOter; a violent death; eternal ruiz
:, The following is the es timated damag
by the late cyclone around Galveston: Tn
government works in BRlyar channel, IN
Guiding a portion of the fleet, SIS, 600; tn
!. Galveston, Houston and Henderson railroad
loss of track and bay bridge, $40, 900; Gulf G
Colorado and Santa Fe railroad, loss of trac
- and bridge, $4,000: cotton presses, $1S, ,5O(
=. uncompleted buildings in the city 81, ,5Ot
bath houses on the beach, IS, 800; twent
small schOoners capsized, $4,000; privat
buildings and property, $4,000. Tota
$132, 900.