The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-11-16
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

Despite the fact that early in the
season the prospect for the sugar crop Of
Louisiana was disheartening, favorable
summerhas materially changed the aspect Of
affairs. The yield thus far has been phenom-
email. Two hOgsheads OF sugar to the acre
for the plant cane may prove an average,
unless some untoward event should curtail
the yield. The plant, Notwithstanding the
warm weather of the fall, has not come to
such maturity for many years. II is now
ripe clear to the topmost joints, and exceed
ingly rich in saccharins matter. Through
out the winter it was checked but little; the
season was exactly right for cultivation,the
rains came Just when wanted. and the cool
summer months brought it to maturity. The
weather since grinding has commenced has
been excellent for field operations, and the
work of saving the crop and preserving seed
is now we'll advanced.
Mary Anderson, a school-teacher in
Louisville, KY, committed suicide by shoot
ing on the 9th. Immediately after taking
breakfast she put on her wraps, prepara-
tory to going to school, and stepped into
one Of the rooms near her own. A shot was
heard, and when the room was entered she
was found lying on the floor, with deadly
wound in her side, near the heart. Miss
Anderson was engaged to marry a gentle
man in Hardin County, and received let
ter from him the day before the shooting.
The contents of the letter are not known.
| Friends Of the deee ased believe that the
shooting was the result OF instantaneous
emotional insanity. The victims mother
| disappeared some years ago, and is sup
posed to have committed suicide.
John Holmes, of Alabama, has raised
eleven children, seven boys and four girls.
He has seventy three grandchildren, forty
three boys and thirty girls. Mr.. Holmes
| is 70 years old, weight SOC pounds, has killed
| fifteen hundred deer and one bear. The en-
tire family live in Morgan County, except
one son, who lives in Blount. All the older
ones belong to the Missionary Baptist
Church.
The skeleton of a fu1-grown mastodon
has been found in the Cowee tunnel, on the
| Duckland branch of the Western North
Carolina Railroad. When the monster was
| discovered the conviets fled in terror, and it
was by hard work that they could be in
duced to return to their picks. 1t was found
six feet below the surface Of the earth. 1t
was in perfect state of preservation, and
crumbled TO dust as soon as exposed to the
air.
Mrs. Elizabeth Crow wanted the
'heart blood'' of Miss Louisa Price, of
! Nicholas County, Kentucky, because the
latter reported the misconduct of a young
| Crow to his teacher. With that end in view,
Mrs. Crow sought Miss Price and shot her
through the head, the ball penetrating be-
tween the eyes. Miss Price is in precari-
GUS condition.
The Southern Pacific has made an
| offer to the Santa Fe Company for a half in
| terest in the Sonora Railway.
The development of the best lands in
| Texas by the recent competition of the diff
| ferent lines of railway has fairly turned the
tide of immigration into the State, and the
mildness of the climate, coupled with the
! variety Of the soil and its products, will un-
doubtedly add to the already increasing
| numbers.
An ordinance is being prepared in
Louisville to prohibit peddlers from pulling
| door bells.
The dedication of st. Michael Gene
terry makes the tenth burying ground for
Louisville, Ky. the Eastern Cemetery has
! thirty thousand graves. re --~
Henry Clay, a grandson of the great
| Kentucky statesman, who was a member ol
/ the Howgate expedition to. the north pole,
/ gave an illustrated lecture before the Poly
| technic Society of Louisville, the other even
! ing, the house being crowded to its utmost
capacity.
Every daily paper in Texas was rep
resented at a conference in Austin, the 9TH
er day, at which it was determined to send
| Frank Grice, of San Antonio to arrange for
| news from the Western Associated Press
and sever relations with the New York As
| sociation.
Montgomery, Ala, expects to handle
! I4O, 600 bales of cotton this season.
The secretary of the new Carolina,
| Cumberland Gap & Chicago Railway Com
/ pany states that work will begin very soon
/ on the Aiken end, and that that portion OF
the road lying between Aiken and Edgefield
/ S. C-,-all but three miles Of which is graded
will be completed by July 1. he viii open
i an office in Aiken in a few days.
A Covington (Ky.) man, whose child
/ died with Group, has sued DIR. J. J. Dulaney,
who promised to call aud attend him, but
/ failed TO do so, for $4,000 damages. The
/ plaintiff alleges that the chiid's death was
/ due to the doctors neglect.
A Houston, Texas, miser named Mike
/ Rallerand, was found dead in his house
nude and emaciated. He died OF exposure
| and starvation, at the same time having over
| $1,000 in cash in the house he called home.
! The gas company at New Orleans,
after wearily waiting for 5000, 900 due from
! the city, has turned of the lights in all the
/ public buildings and streets.
There is not a vessel at Mobile for
cotton and none on the way. 1t IS said that
| the city is losing her cotton trade, which is
! gravitsting to New Orleans.
While New Orleans policeman was
taking quiet nap, recently, on some salt
barrels on his beat, a sneak-thief relieved
! him OF his watch and badge.
Several white men of Anderson Coun-
| ty, Kentucky, induced an old negro named
/ Sam Bohannon to drink a pint Of CHEAP
whisky at one drink. he did so, and died.
Half the distillers of Kentucky have
signed an agreement to reduce the reduc-
| tion of whisky for the next five years.
Lee, Bloom & Co., wholesale liquor
/ and cigar-dealers at Louisville. Ky, have
made an assignment to S. Grabfelder, with
| liabilities OF $4,000.
The monument marking the point
where New York, New Jersey and Penn
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