Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1879-06-17

well, negotiate for the farm, stay week
at the house and go off after the purchase
money, that being the last Of him. He
paid such a visit to Il farmer livingabou
two miles from Jonesboro. He claimed
to be Col. Preston and wanted to buy
the farm. The owner rode to town and
happen to speak of his visitor, Capt.
Reeves learned his whereabouts and
went with Sheriff A. NJ. Stuart to offer
him an apartment in the Washington
county Jail, This was on Tuesday of
last week. the Sd inst. Bolin surrender
ed without resistance but not without
piteOus appeals for liberty. The reporter
visited him in Jail but he was not dis
posed to interview. He spoke freely
and cheerfully, acknowledged that he
had been living on his wits since the war,
that the proof was all against him, and
that he has a brilliant chance of ending
his days in the penitentiary, since Major
Evans wants him sentenced for two hun
dred years. He utterly refused, how
ever, to give any names or incidents,
saying that he intended to publish his
whole history in a pamphlet which he
begins this week. He claims that he
never chseled the poor or ignorant out
of anything but victuals, but cozened
money from the rich and powerful who
thought themselves wise, or lawyers
whose business it is to be sharp and
shrewd. This is the confidence mans
first incarceration in civil prison ex-
cept term of five days in North Car
olina Jail. He had gotten $4O0 from a
lawyer in Kentucky. The lawyer recov-
cred the greater portion of the money
from Mr.. Bolin and had the man arrested
and jailed as above. His release has not
been explained.
This remarkable series of swindling
operations is now all the talk in upper
East Tennessee, and this mans boldness
in remaining so long at the scene of his
operations eXcites general wonderment,
but his estimate of human nature IL JUS |
titled by his immunity from arrest, up to |
the present, which comes, as above stated, |
from the fact that his victims preferred, |
to sullert heir losses rather than the
laughter of their neighbOrs. The reason
why the newspaper, the entdnt terrible of
this age, did not sooner get hold of such
Il notorious fact, is that the item was
in the rural papers and reach
ed our ears in very roundabout way.
The best legal talent has been engaged
to prosecute Bolin, who il is said will en-
deavor to escape on the plea of insanity.
We take this opportunity Of thanking
Sheriff Stuart for courtcsies rendered
which materially aided us in getting
these incidents for our readcrs.--H601-
viile Tribune.
If other incidents related in the
above article is no more correct than
the one cocerning York & Fnlkerson
of this place, we would very much
question if any such man as Bolin
ever existed. EG NeaoS.
Josh Billings on Tie Honey Bee.
The honey bee Is nm m1ammable crit
ter, sudden IN his impressions and hasty
in his conclusions, or end. His natral
is warm cross between red
pepper in tina pod and fusil oil, and his
moral bias IL "git out Of mi way"
They have long boldly, but their phys
ikal Importance lies at the terminus, or
suburb, in the shape of a javelin, which
Is always loaded, and enters man as
still as thought, as spry as litenin, and
Is as full oph melankolly NJ the toothake.
Bees never argy II caser they settle awl
Of their differences Of opinion bl letting
their javelin fly, and are NJ certain to
bite ~ n mule IL. Bees are not long
'iyed--l cant state jest how long their
lives are, but know from instinct and
that emmy kritter, be he
Dug or be he devil, who Is mad all the
ime and stings every good chance he
san git, generally dies early