The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-06-29
GLEANINGS.

tll9 HIS laIuIs near DuDlAus VA Lub OJlaCA
night, his horse received a ponderOus blow
on the shoulder from the tail of an alligator,
knocking the animal entirely out OF the road,
The alligator did not follow up the fight,
but now stood on the defense, in threaten
ing attitude, however, with its huge mouth
stretched open wide enough to take in the
end of barrel. Mr.. Renfroe took rail
from the fence and rammed it into the mon
ster's throat. As quick as light the alhga.
tor closed on the rail and hurled Mr.. Rem
frOe against the fence, hurting him badly,
and swapping the rail like a chalk pipe-stem.
He then called to his family to send him his
gun, pistol, and ak. While waiting for his
weapons he amused himself by ramming
fence rails into the alligator's mouth. 1t
broke a dozen as easily as it did the first.
When his weapons came he shot the alliga-
tor twelve times with a Smith 81 Wesson
pistol and four times with a shotgun, and
then buried an ak in its head in eight places.
After all this life was not extinct for twelve
hours afterward. All the pistol balls, how
ever, did not enter. Fully half of them
glanced harmlessly from the tough hide and
went singing away through space. The
monster was over ten feet long and weighed
fully 300 pounds. The horse was badly in
jured.
A4C AAbCSb SudhO SOOAy 4AOhA GOOA SA0
is thus told by the Rome Bulletin: ''The
other day certain young lady started out
shopping. While putting on her hat she
thought it felt rather heavy, but not notic-
ing anything put it on her head. On her
return home she asked her sister to take off
her hat, that she thought something was on
it. Her sister took off her hat and while
doing so came near being bitten by snake.
The lady had worn the snake around with
her all the time, unconscious of its pres
ence."
Powhatan Causey and party of sew
en- surrounded q house in which thieves
were concealed, near Summit, Miss, the
other evening. They were met by Mrs.
John Harrison, who invited them in, say
ing, ''There is no one here" whereupon
Causey and two others entered and made a
search of the premises. They discovered a
man lying upon the joist of a room. He at
tempted to draw his pistol, whereupon
Causey fired. Then followed in rapid sue
cession some forty shots, and when the
smoke died away VIM. johnson and VIM.
Enos were lying upon the ground-the first
dead, and the latter dangerously wounded.
1t is supposed that one of the thieves was
killed, and that others were wounded.
A novel but profitable industry in the
AuOuHLdlAS OI tennessee Is b4aL OF cOII6ctlng
roots (mostly laureD. The roots are shipped
to Philadelphia and Boston and used for the
manufacture of door-knobs and pipe-bowls.
The roots frequently weigh from 70 to $50
pounds. There is a constant demand, and
good prices are paid for them by the ton.
A Fayette County CTexas) jury hav-
ing decided that a man was guilty of mur-
der in the first degree were divided as to
~
three life imprisonment. In order to ar
rive at a conclusion they drew lots, result
ing in the death penalty. This proceeding
having leaked out, a new trial has been
granted.
The logging business on the Ocklock.
once and other rivers. in Wakulla
County, Florida, is assuming large proper
tions. Several hundred men and about a
hundred teams are engaged in cutting and
hauling timber. The logs are RATED down
to Carabella and Apalachicola, and sold at
from So to Sc per thousand feet.
The Prussian Government has Sc
lected Aiken, S. c., as one of the stations
for the observation of the transit Of Venus,
which takes place on December 8, 1892. Thq
scientific members of the expedition will
arrive in Aiken about the end OF October
and remain until the middle of December.
Last year Chattanooga, Tenn, ship
ped ten thousand pounds of strawberries
and 250,0O0 pounds of grapes, besides other
fruit, and this year the shipments will be a
third greater.
AS a pleasing proof of the growth of
home industries, Charleston Is. O. paper
mentions the building of a steamer and the
construction of all her machinery in that
city.
At Tampa the cattle trade is brisk.
Ca6tle are being concentrated near Tampa
from all parts of Southern Florida.
St. Andrews Bay is the Long Branch
for West Floridians. 1t is about midway
between Pensacola and ApaIachicOla.
A 3-months-old negro child, at Frank
lin, Ky, was attacked by rats while asleep,
and its nose eaten off and holes gnawed in
it's forehead and eyelids.
While prospecting in the neighbor-
hood of Kings Mountain, North Carolina,
one day last week, man found a crystal
which has been pronounced a diamond of
great value.
The quarrying interest in East Ten
nessee has doubled within the last seven
years.
Ground has been broken at Columbus,
Ga, for a new cotton factory.
Mobile, Ala, makes female violators
Of the law work out their fines on the chain
gang.
A number of ponds in Mason County,
Kentucky, are being stocked with German
carp.
The first installment of Georgia wa
termelons sold for 81 and S1.25 apiece.
Mrs. Logan, whose mind has been
I IL.
her existence by shooting herself-in the
head with shotgun, near Lancaster, KY,
a few days ago. She left five children.
The Clayton County, Georgia, con-
victs were sold at auction the other day for
$45 per head per annum.
The new whisky law of Tennessee is
drying up the trade in many places in the
State.
Atlanta, Ga, enforces vaccination.
A Louisiana negro, Wash Phenix,
perpetrated some very clever forgeries in
Natchez recently, victimizing Britton &
Koontz's bank to the amount OF $50. He
was arrested and the larger part of the
money, besides several forged checks, were
found on his person.
The orange crop in Florida viii be
very light this season, owing to the ravages
of a dangerous insect in many plantations.
Many years ago this insect caused infinite
trouble in the orange groves, and at one
time it was thought that orange culture
would have to be abandoned.
Polk County, Georgia, has thirty saw
mills, employing 1850 hands
A negro living in Jefferson County,
Florida, went to church recently and lis
tened to a sermon from the text which ad-
vises the plueking out of the eye and cutting
off of the hand when offensive. and upon