The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-09-28
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

freak or one OF the sisters, Martha Taylor |
aged 30. The immense audience which was |
present aroused her enthusiasm in the first |
place, and as Brother Williams opened with |
prayer she became thoroughly enraptured. |
There were others who were laboring under |
the same spell. but there were none so Wild
ly demonstrative as she. The seats had all
been occupied before she reached the church, |
and she was compelled to take her position |
in an outside aisle near a window which had |
been raised. The shutters, however, were |
drawn, but still it a very dangerous |
place for the old woman, under the circum
stances. Brother Williams had not proceed
ed very far before Martha's excitement
reached its climax. She abandoned all re-
straint, and shouted and tossed, rs the spell
moved her. Suddenly she gave pitch for
ward through the shutters, and landed in
the yard, Is feet below. A cry of horror es-
capped the audience, and a scene of great
disorder ensued. The enthusiast was found
lying on her back, unconscious, and nearly
dead. She was picked up and carried into
the church, where she revived somewhat
under the treatment of physician.
The premium tobacco sale at the
Louisville Exposition a grand success
in every particular, the quality of offerings
being superior, prices realized good, and
competition lively. The Farmers house
sold about 300 hogsheads and the Ninth
street house probably $50. making a total of
about $50 hogsheads. Offerings included
nearly all types Of the leaf, from all sections
of the State. The best lines of burleys were
from Owen and Henry Counties, KY, and
from Brown County, Ohio. The hogshead
of cutting leaf which won the first prize, of
500, was grown in Owen County, and
brought $66 per 100 pounds. The best hogs
head of shipping leaf was from Logan Coun-
| ty, and brought 5000 per 100 pounds.
Among the sales were twenty-five hogs
heads OF Brown County (Ohio) leaf at from
S25 to $33; a lot of Henry County hurley at
from $27 to $3.50; a line OF Green River
burleys at from So to S15, and two Christian
County black wrappers at $3.50 to So. 10. An
| idea of the extent of the sale may be formed
| by statement of approximate value of to-
| bacco sold: Each hogshead averages about
800 pounds weight and the average price
realized is not far from $500; the $50
hogsheads sold represent nearly 100000.
In slavery days, the chimes of st.
Michael's Church, S. c., were rung at Z
/ p. m. In winter and in summer as a sig
nal to negroes that their bedtime was nigh,
and again an hour later to warn them to dis
| appear from the streets, after which all
blacks found abroad were arrested. The
custom was continued until few days ago,
though nobody has Obeyed the bells since
the war. The Mayor has now cut off the
salary of the ringer, and the act is exciting
considerable discussion among the old resi-
dents.
At Greenville, S. c., the people let
their hogs run in the streets during water
melon time, in order to dispose OF the rinds,
which would otherwise furnish green and
! slippery pavement.
A story comes from Staunton, Va,
that few days ago a stranger asked Chief
| of Police Waters if he knew of a Mrs. Eliza
| beth Bailey in that city, explaining that he
had, twenty five years before, when boy
years old, run away from his home in
Staunton, and had not heard from his fam
lily since. Capt. Waters knew the lady, and
took the stranger to the house, and there
was a joyous meeting of mother and son.
Virginia's 172 tobacco factories con-
sumo $4,000, 900 pounds of the weed annu-
ally.
In Henry County, Ga, recently, Hen
ry Willis had occasion to reprove a coored
/ farm laborer. The negro used bad Lam
guage, and Mr.. Wilts's son, a mere boy,
threatened to knock him down. At this the
fiend grasped the boys right hand, with a
grip of iron, and before the father could in
terfere, drew large knife and hacked the
hand off at the wrist-joint. He then es-
| capped.
The bluegrass farm of the late H. P.
McGrath, near Lexington, KY, containing
over four hundred acres, was bought at
auction by Milt. Young, the turfman, for
$112.5O per acre.
mysterious serenade, apparently
coming from the clouds, delighted as well
as excited the people of Madison, Ga, few
nights since.
It is estimated that over one-half of
the new manufactures started in the South
during the past two years belong to North
ern capitalists.
A farmer at Valdosta, Ga, has made
two crops of corn on the same land this
year.
Half-pound peaches are common in
San Sata, Texas.
Forty vessels from Key West are
gathering sponges off Arclote al Clear
! Water harbor.
The apple crop of North Carolina is
unprecedentedly large.
About two years ago Commodore
Watson, of the De Barry Line, on the St.
Johns River, Florida, directed that no
more shooting be allowed from his boats
This was done not only for the protection of
the passengers, but that the game should
not be driven from the banks of the river
The order has had good effect, and now
alligators and birds may be seen as OF yore.
Mad-stones appear to have a market
value in North Carolina, where a local pa
per records the sale Of half interest in one
for So, adding that clouded title lessened
the value of the share disposed Of.
Sumter, S. c., will shortly be CON
nected with Charleston, via the South Caro-
lima Railway. Twenty thousand dollars
have been subscribed.
The recent decision of the Supreme
Court of Florida, making all railroad prop
erty liable to taxation, will add about So
600, 900 to the taxable property of the State.
Texas stockmen dread the screw-worm
When the Chinese Iaborers on the
Texas & Pacific Railway misbehave them
selves they are taken into a box
car and soundly thrashed. They were sent
from China to an agent in San Francisco,
who advanced the money for their transport
tation, $50 per head. He charges them so
much per cent. on the fare. They are his
property and are hired out by him.
A terrier at Americus, Ga, has for
saken his home and taken up his.lot with a
herd OF goats, confufng himself, as far as
possible, to their habits and customs, and
refusing TO associate with other CANNES.
Memphis has cne-seventh of the cot
ton-seed-oil mills in the entire country.
Mrs. Mary Anderson, aged 79 years,
lost her way on Lookout Mountain, Walker
County, Virginia, and for eight days wan
dered aimlessly about, exposed to a pitiless
rain-storm, which ragged almost constantly.