The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-10-05
SOUTHERN GLEANlNGS.

/ a hio SUI ID ALOAA bAlC EAAdllIACG IN
| C.) Cleaner: Recently there was a camp
meeting in Bethel, and Bob Tawner, a deaf
mute, 10 years old, was a regular attendant
Of the camp services. Many people Won
/ dered what Bob was doing there, as be
could hear nothing, but he told them what
he was about before the camp meeting was
| over. At the last call he came up to the
mourners' bench, opened his mouth, and
sang the hymn: HE Proclaimed His Con-
version" 1t is stated there was general
amazement, and all the sinners present were
| converted. According to this, the boy Bob
| got his bearing, and speech, and voice cul-
ture all at once, although he had never heard
the human voice before.
A duel was recently fought at Peters
| vile, Lewis County, KY, between J. E.
Lang and Milton Lykfns, rival tobacco
dealers. The weapons used were tobacco
sticks four feet long and three inches in di-
| ameter, and the contest lasted seventy min
utes, three rounds being fought. Lang won
the battle, but both men were terribly pun-
ished. After being arrested the combat
ants made up and paid their respective
| fines. The left arm of each Of the contest
ants was broken, and their heads showed
of frightful wounds.
A negro in the Jail at Forsyth, Ga, it
| is said, has eaten nothing in two months.
! The editor who vouches for the statement
says: ''He has lost about sixty pounds in
flesh, and is merely skeleton. He can not
walk a step, and can only get up with as
sistauce. When lying quiet he has the ap-
| pearance Of dead man. His temperature
and pulse are far below normal, and his res
piration is only eight per minute. The blood
/ has settled about in spots under the epider-
mis-, and he looks somewhat like a Calico
circus horse in trance"
The Texas Rangers are home guards
! peculiar to themselves. There are two hum
dred of them in all employed by the State
! Government to ride rOughshod over lawless-
ness. They enlist for year, and are re-
quired to furnish their own horses, saddles,
| brides, rifles and pistols, and clothing, not
uniform. The dress is go-as-you- please.
| They get $50 month and raticns and do
good service.
Probably the youngest farmers in the
country are two children living near Shreve-
| port, La, who have eight acres in cotton
and ten in corn, and will make good crops.
! The children are brother and sister, aged
respectively IS and 10 years, and have done
! most Of their own work.
The 'tBig j." road is now sending
cars loaded with lemons through from New
| Orleans TO San Francisco without transfer.
The run is made in from thirteen to sixteen
days, and it appears that the fruit trade OF
New Orleans will extend much further than
the most sanguine dealers expected.
The box deposited in the cornerstone
of the college in Manchester, Tenn, was
robbed recently by some miserable thief,
who cut through the stone.
A gentleman at Lexington, KY, fnds
that it costs about $40 per acre to grow a
wheat crop, and that one acre which is made
to yield thirty bushels is more profitable to
the farmer than three acres which yield
! twenty bushels each.
The Selma, Ala, cottOn-mills have
Just shipped five carloads of goods to China.
! Fortv-nine nurses are now in the pay
of the Pensacola (Fla.) Board of Health.
They are blasting for silver at Mineral
| Wells, Jack County, Texas, and coal is said
/ TO be abundant near by.
/ English real estate men are negotiat-
ing for forty thousand acres of land in Ar
kansas.
The first Jewish synagogue built in
| East Tennessee was consecratcd at Chatta-
nooga few days ago.
It is claimed that pears grow to great
'er perfection in Shelby County, Alabama
| than in any other portion Of the United
States.
A curious-looking specimen of the
bovine race was exhibited on the streets ot
| Greensboro, N. c., recently. The animal i;
| a Devonshire bull calf, months old, with
tail and hide similar to those of an elephant
| The calf is about the usual size, and appar-
emily we'll and hearty. Its hide is entirely
destitute Of hair, lies in heavy folds like ar
! elephants, and is of about the same color.
The tail is short and spiked.
Two Louisville urchins, one aged
and the other 8 years, were arrested the
other day for stealing from the change boxes
| of street. -cars. . d.. -.
At Moore's Chapel, Bedford County
Tennessee, a few days ago, during divine
service, a stray swarm of bees made an at
tack on the horses, and caused a complete
stampede, stinging some Of them almost Il
death. The meeting was broken up for the
time. af
A school of domestic economy is to be
opened this season at Clark University
Atlanta, Ga. A t'model home" is to be es-
tablished in a convenient cottage, and all tht
domestic processes conducted therein in the
best manner. - -t- .4
A 7-year-old colored boy fell into 8
thirty-fOot well in Marion County, Ken
tucky, and then, without assistance, climbed
up the sides to the top. He was wet, bu
not much injured.
"A pig with horns like cow excitel
wonder in Marion County, Mississippi.
The recent storm was very destruc.
tive to the sparrows in some portions ot
Georgia. In Troup County they were killed
by thousands, having been blown against
trees and houses.
A negro of Lebanon, Ky.,5 recently
caught stealing chickens, had nine~In I
sack, one in each Of his breeches pocket:
and two in the bosom OF his shirt,
A New Orleans washerwoman has In
the past fifteen years raised a family of faith
erless children, given them all good educa.
tion, purchased a handsome house, and
has $4,000 laid away for a rainy day. Hel
entire possessions were earned at the wash.
tub.
Wolves are numerous in Mississippi
Craig Skidmore, of Stanford, KY,
was charged with forging the license under
which he was recently married, but the tFia
resulted In his acquittal. 1t came out tha
the paper he offered as a marriage license
was not inspected by either the bride'i
father or the officiating clergyman, and as 1
had disappeared there was no proof that
forgery had been committed. 1t was stated
that the preacher who tied the knot got
half gallon of whisky for the job.
The Georgia tax returns show an in.
crease OF property valuation OF over SIG, ,000,.
600 this year-S2s7, ,0O0,OO0 in all.
The trade in cotton in Montgomery,
Ala, last year footed up Sc, ,000, 900.
A correspondent writing from More
head City, N. c., says there is not wagon
or a buggy in the town, and very few IN the