The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-05-25
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.


A strange suicide occurred the other
day at ShelImound, small station few
miles below Chattanooga, Tenn. A genteel
stranger reached the town in the afternoon
and, feeling i'll, asked to lie down in cot
tage. A few minutes afterward he handed
the lady package, selling her it was hers if
he died. Soon afterward he was found in
the room dead, having severed his iugular
vein with small pocket-knife. The pack
age was found TO contain S640 in currency.
There is clew to his identity. 1t is thought
he is Michigan man, and killed himself
while under temporary alteration Of mind
from extreme pain.
A correspondent writing from Hicko-
ry Valley, Union County, Tenn, tells of two
young ladies living in that vicinity who he
thinks deserve special mention. One is Miss
Sarah Lett, who weighs 257 pounds, and tEse
other her sister, Miss Lucinda Lett, who
weighs 2O7 pounds. These women are re-
markably strong and healthy, performing all
kinds of outdoor labor, swinging the ak
and using the mattock and hoe as well as
stout men. They raised last year 700 BUSH
els of corn besides large crops Of wheat oats,
and hay. They have mother and two sis
ters living.
On the petition of wealthy citizen of
New Orleans, the publishers Of a pictorial
weekly were recently enjoined from assaii-
ing him by order of Judge Fighter. The
offenders repeated their assaults, and were
jailed for contempt An appeal to the Su-
preme Court caused decision in their IA
vor, Judge Fenner stating that no court in
England or America had In modern times
issued general order to prevent publica-
tion by a newspaper.
The Tampa (Fla.) Tribune says that
Capt. Sam Ellis and W. S. Whitehurst
went down the bay recently and succeeded
in capturing one of those huge monsters
known as devilhsh, near Point Pinellas.
Capt. Ellis says that he had a six hours
chase after striking it with lily iron. The
head and tail were brought up to town.
The mouth is three feet wide, and the cap
tain says that the fish was eighteen or
| twenty feet across. It was the intention Of
Capt. Ellis to skin him, but before the fish
could be tOwed to shore the sharks had fed
so ravenously on it as to defeat the purpose.
Its estimated weight was between two
thousand and three thousand pounds.
The Birmingham (Ala.) Age says:
"About So, 600 in gold is coined every day,
or 81 ,00O,O0 annually, not from the Govern
| ment mint, but from the blast furnaces in
Birmingham, in the shape of pig iron, (which
is melted from the everlasting hills of Jeffer-
son County, the generous soil of which
| yields also each year three quarters Of a mill
| lion more in diamonds, not the gems thai
| sparkle upon the brow of beauty, but black
diamonds which serve the more useful pur
pose Of driving the wheels of commerce and
| industry"
A man named Andrew Allen, residing
| in Fayette County, Ala, separated from his
wife for several months past, recently visited
her at her mothers house and deliberately
shot and killed her. A brother OF the woman
entered the house a few moments later sand.
| seeing his sister lying dead upon the floor,
| fred double barreled shotgun. Alien fell
1 dead by the side of his wife. His slayer sur
rendered to the police.
The colored troops of Georgia are to
go into encampment at Macon in June.
About fifteen companies are expected to re.
port to the camp.
Some of the finest walnnt trees in the
mountains of North Carolina. have been sold
/ at $40 each just as they stand in the woods,
the purchasers reserving the privilege to
take them away within a certain number of
years.
Memorial Day was observed at Co.
Iumbia, S. c., with unabated interest. The
| graves of Confederate soldiers were deco
rated by children, under the supervision of
committees of ladies. Business was sus-
pended and the church bells were tolled.
The Wilmington Star claims that the
people of North Carolina have never yet
| elected Governor who was not native of
the State. One Governor was born abroad,
but he was elected by the Legislature.
The yield of wheat and oats IN South
Carolina and Georgia will be larger this
year than any since the war.
| Pensacola, Fla, will soon have an
establishment for creosoting timber. All
timber of this kind now used in that city
comes from Pascagoula, Miss, and as much
as $50 apiece has been paid for creosoted
piings.
w. R. Bickerstaff, of Mount Hilliard,
Ala, recently took his family to a travelling
photographer to have their pictures taken,
when the little 2-year- old son got hold of
some poisonous mixture, drank it, and died
In two hours.
Virginia G. Penny, of Louisville, a
lady of fine literary abilities, has been sent
to the lunRtic asylum of Kentucky. One
brother, q navy lieutenant, is in an insane
retreat in Pennsylvania, and another, DIR.
| Penny, killed himself with a revolver.
One of the most extensive rice-plant-
ers near Georgetown, S. c., has planted his
entire crop this year by machinery. So rap.
id has been the termination and growth of
the rice that it is now being hoed. This is
said to be perhaps the first instance in South
| Carolina, if not in the entire South, in which
a whole rice crop has been planted with ma
| chimes.
The whipping-post was established
! the other day at Lexington, KY, by con-
| cont Of a oOIored man uamad Fnh Woods
| who stole goods from B. F. Dawson. Go to
Jail or take a acowhiding was the punishment
| for the negro, and he chose the latter.
He unshirted himself and took forty lashes
| on the back, drawing the blood freely.
Cicero Collins has been arrested in
Kingston, N. c., for the murder of four
year-old child.
Growing crops and fruit trees at Eu-
taw, Ala, were nearly entirely destroyed by
a severe hail-storm a few days ago.
Monster sharks enter the Savannah.
During the month of April So, 1OO, 900
pounds of ore passed over the Nashville &
Chattanooga Railroad through Chattanooga,
Tenn. and since Jan. l, 1881, 200, 900, 900
have passed over the road.
Arkansas has 123 newspapers and
periodicals, consisting Of ITO weeklies, eight
dailies, three semi -monthlies and two month
lies.
Judge Clark Howell, one of the best
and most prominent men in Georgia, died at
his residence in Atlanta, few days ago.
| He was 70 years old, and had been i'll for
several years.
Charlotte, N. c., has a man with sew
enteen children by one wife.
An enterprisinU and deVOut citizen of