The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-10
NEWS SUMMARY.
Southern News.

Southern News.
Nashville scored Sc fires in 1877: loss.
527,967; insurance, $243, ,250.
The Brooks museum at the university
OF Virginia has been completed.
Every male citizen of Atlanta is taxed
i've dollars for the maintenance of the streets.
There were ninetv-three vessels from
all parts OF the world in the port of Savan-
nah last Saturday.
The Sewanee mines have shipped from
Tracy City, Tenn, during the past year
3,669,i05 bushels of coal and coke.
Bishop Wightman, though three score
and ten, has presided over five annual con.
terences in Texas in the last three months.
The New Orleans Democrat says if
congress passes the silver DILL, small outlay
will put the mint in that city IN condition
to roll out the dollar of the daddies
The James river and KansWha canal
is now In boating condition to point seven
ty miles above Richmond, and viii probably
be opened to Lynchburg by the first of Feb
ruary.
The Nashville Banner saws that Isaac
Graves, soldier OF the war of 1872, died re-,
Gently at his residence in MitcheliviIIe, Rob,
ertson county, at the advanced age of seven
ty years.
The preliminary trial of the Adams,
Swetman shooting affair, recently came up at
Mississippi City. Gen. Adams waived an
examination, and was held in $4,000 hail to
answer atthe April term of the circuit court
of that district
Nashville Banner: Two brothers bv
the name of Beaseley, are litigating in Trous>
dale county over their land line, and the
costs accrued amo1nt to 81 900, and they are
stlll hghting it out on that line. The amount
involved is very small.
Silver and copper have been discov-
cred within nina fapf of he IL
Springs. The copper find is no new discoy-
cry. Ii has been known to exist there MANY
years-but usually on the surface of "-tack
of reds"
Baltimore Gazette: The fine estate of
the Randolphs IN Fauquier county, Va,
l,32o acres, was sold recently for five dollars
an acre to one of the heirs. Before the war
this estate was valued at $50,000
James Thomas struck Joseph Smith
over the head with a double barreled shot
gun at Miffiin, Henderson county, Tenn, on
Christmas day, breaking his skull The
affair grew out OF an ola Crudpe The
wounded man was still alive at last accounts.
Atlanta Constitution: Wiley Turner
OF NorcrOss, sprightly, intelligent youth,
fifteen years of age, five feet seven inches
high, and weighing one hundred and twen-
ty pounds, never ate mOuthful of animal
meat OF any description, fowl or fish, in his
IlIe. lie mas never taken a drink of spirits
nor chew of tobacco, nor smoked. His
complexion is good, his cheeks rosy and
form good.
Their ale eleven million dogs in War
rem county and one hundred sheep TVicks-
burg Herald. That speaks volumes for the
people of Warren. The hair of eleven mills
lion dogs at ten dollars pound, is a matter
of profit that few sections enjoy; then there
is the bark of eleven million dogs at sixteen
dollars a cord Just think of it! Warren is
bound to push ahead of her sister counties.
There's millions in it.-HoAy Springs Re
porter.
Knoxville Chronicle: DR.. Tadlock fur
nlshes the following thrilling account of the
murder of James Martin at his freside and
home near Fullen's depot. Martin was sit
ting between his two daughters by the fire.
side about s o'clock. The assassin fred
through the window with steady and fatal
aim, discharging the contents of the gun in
his victims temple. Martin rushed out o!
his house and ran to a neighbours, where he
sank from loss of blood, and died at three
o'clock the next morning. negro boy
whom Martin had hired, was apprehended
by Deputy Sheriff W. 7. Mitchell on suspi,
cion. He confessed the shooting, but de
clared Martin had threatened to kill him.