The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-04-06
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

beauty. A mutual friend desired to bring
them together in marriage, and, in order to
give the doctor a chance to WOO successfully
in spite of his physical disadvantages, ar
ranged a correspondence between them be-
fore they met. Lewis made by his letters
the good impression anticipated, and when
the young lady at last saw him, she was
ready to overlook his unple asing physique.
They became engaged. This engagement
he broke, and she sued him for damages.
At the trial, the defendants counsel dwelt
at length upon the ugIiness of his client
and descanted with equal ferTor on the love-
illness OF the plaintiff. This was done to i'm
press the jury that Miss johnson ought to be
glad Of release from such an unsightly
lover, and th1t it was no damage to lose him
as a husband. The verdict, however, was
for 50, ,OO).
Mr.. Job NJ. Nash, of Cincinnati, re-
Gently addre essed the members of the Mem
phis Cotton Exchange on the subject of
public library. The philanthropic gentle
man proposed to subscribe SIS, ,0)0 toward
furnishing library, provided the citizens
expend like sum in purchasing lot and
building fire-prOOf structure for the recep-
tion of the books. A subscription was taken
and $4,000 subscribed, Mr.. Nash leading OIL
with 81, ,00), in which movement he had
eleven followers for a like sum.
In the winter of 1854, twenty-eight
years ago, DIR. w. G. Avery, of Greensboro,
Ala, while hunting, lost a gold watch,
hunting-case English lever. This watch
was returned to him recently by a colOred
man, who found it about one mile from the
house, in the woods. The watch is in good
condition and, considering the length Of
time it has been exposed to the weather, is
comparatively bright. 1t was identified by
the initials of the owner, engraved on the
outside of the case.
An interesting social event in Char
lotte, n. c., lately, was the marriage of a
blind girl to deaf mute. After the first
difficulties of an introduction had been sur
mounted, the courtship is said to have ad-
vanced smoothly, and their mutual sympa-
thy and understanding are now so deep that
when they are together each readily supplies
the others lack, and their combined senses
are equal to any emergency.
The State of Texas recently bought in
$442, 900 of its per cent. bonds, due in 1904,
at 140. 1t has within a year reduced its
debt 81 100000.
Commissioner Walsh, of Texas, esti-
mates that certificates have been issued for
5,008, go acres above the public domain open
to location.
The Augusta (Ga.) Nea0S tells the fol
lowing dog story: ''The poor old fellow has
been bowling for a week with neuralgia OF
the jaw, and when his master, who is a
thoughtful and cOnsiderate surgeon as well
artist, discovered the cause of the ca
nine's grief, he set to work to extract a
whole row of decayed teeth. Now this may
seem absurd to some very ignorant people,
but it is all true, and the poor dog held his
mouth open and sat perfectly quiet while
the teeth were being drawn"
The CommissiOner-Genera of the
Texas Land office recommends that the
Panhandle and Texas Pacific reserves be
thrown open for location. This area will be
needed to satisfy certificates already is
sued.
George Biggerstaff, of Glasgow, Ky,
having lost an eye in an election day row in
November, 1880, sued his assailant for $780,,
900, and jury has just given him $500.
Mississippi has changed her Lien
law. Liens on personal property for rent or
supplies are repealed.
The Texas Comptroller's annual re-
port of railway companies for 1881 shows
forty-one railroads, with a capital stock OF
$247, ,122, 100 and 500, 279, 100 paid in stock;
total Indebtedness of the corporations, $780,
SGD, ,273; expended for purchase of land, con-
structiou of road, buildings, engines and cars,
S16O, ,239 ,957; due the companies, So. 1872 $50;
freights, passengers and mails, $40, 800, 95G;
tons carried, Abs, ,597; killed by accident,
85; injured by accident, 3t2.
Pamela County, Texas, is out of debt,
and its county tax is only ten cents on the
300.
In Butler County, Ala, this year there
are ten acres OF oats sown this year to every
one sown last year. Every farmer seems
determined to plant more corn than usual.
There are over 10000 men and 100,-
900 horses and mules employed in railroad
building in Texas. There are about 1900
miles Of road under contract, and about G,0J0
more to be contracted for.
Roasting-ears for dinner and ripe
watermelons for desert is the present bill of
fare in Manatee County, Fla.
On Sunday last the thermometer in
Charleston, S. c., reached SO deg, a degree
of heat unknown there in March for many
years.
Georgia has seventy-odd gold mills at
work. One is giving a monthly product of
about $500.
1t is estimated that more than 200, 900
cattle VIII De driven nOItn lIOHl Texas bltS
spring.
At the outer bar of Mobile Bay there
is now % feet OF water, and the Collector of
the Port states that the channel is contin-
ually deepening.
A large number of cross-ties for Mexi-
can and South American Railroads are being
cut in Levy, Bradford, Clay and Alachee
Counties, Florida.
A citizen of Marion County, Georgia,
has between $1,000 and 80, 900 trees boxed
in his turpentine orchard.
Finley McKenny, supposed to be very
poor, was dying at Morgantown, Ky. With
his last breath he told his wife to break an
old jug that had long stood in the CRIME OF
the smOkehouse. She did so, and 81 200 in
gold and silver rolled out
Bottom lands are not in request.
In a neglected spot in Athens, Ga.
which marks the location where once ex-
isted the botanical garden of the State Uni
versity, stands a weeping willow, grown
from a sprout cut from the famous tree over
Napoleon's grave in st. Helena, an elm
from the noted elm in Boston Common, and
an oak which grew from an acorn brought
from England by DR.. Ward.
Near Elizabethton, Tenn, a negro ate
two raw mackefel, Two ooZen naru-DOlleo
eggs and drank two buckets of water. The
physician pronounced it case OF 90 death
from over-eating."
The oldest paper in Virginia is the
Alexandria Gazette, established in 1900.
There alighted from the Piedmont
Airline Railroad at Gainesville, Ga, few
days since, three hundred people, who were
TO settle on five thousand acres of land near
there, purchased by them through the inf1u-
ence of Gen. LOngstreet. They are Ger
mans aud Swiss from New York suburbs
In Dnral Conntv Elnrida drrells a