The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-05-31
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.


blown there by the recent cyclone.
Houston, Tex, will soon advertise
for bids to pave some of the principal
streets.
The Texas Press Association, during
it's interesting session at Dallas, elected the
following officers for the ensuing year:
William Yandeu, of the Seguin Times,
President; w. A. Field, of the Meridian
Blade; J. w. Booth, of the Decatur Trib-
une, and J. F. Elliott, of the Dallas Herald,
Presidents; A. w. Clifford, Of the San
Antonio Ligbt, Treasurer; w. A. Abey, of
the Longview Democrat, Secretary. The
convention adjourned to meet in Dallas
again next year.
The Adiutant-General of Texas re-
ceived telegram the other day from Lieu
tenant Hoffer, commanding the frontier
battalion, saying the formidable strike
among the COW boys up there had ended
peaceably, and they had gone to work at
the old wages. The danger of blOOdshed
was all over.
The census of Denison, Tex, taken
on the 1st of May, shows a total popula-
ton of 1893, an increase of ], ,452 since the
census of 1882.
In answer to letter of inquiry Comp
troller Swain, of Texas, replied as follows:
81 am of opinion that wine-grOwer who
manufactures wine from grapes of his own
raising can sell wine so manufactured in
unbroken packages, that is by the barrel,
keg, or bottle, without payment Of occupa-
tiOn tax, as liquor dealers, but if he sells
such wine by the drink, or permits wine to
be drank on the place where it is sold, he
will be liable to the tax. Also if he makes
wine from grapes that he purchases from
rtx ra0ardlaEg of Uyb0 raised
| them" The license is 5000 a year.
One firm in Dade County, Fla, pro-
poses to plant one hundred thousand cocoa
nut trees.
At Austin, Tex, recently, an italian
organ-grinder with a monkey drew
crowd, and the monkey, in attempting to
kiss a pretty colored girl, bit her on the
rheek The Italian was arrested and fined
| for assault.
Jay Gould is said to be desirous of
| acquiring the East Tennessee, Virginia &
/ Georgia Railroad, which will furnish his
railway system with a seaport outlet in the
! South.
| A Virginia paper reports mother IN
| it's bailiwick who named her baby Malone,
/ because its reputed father repudiated it.
A Lynchburg (Va.) paper of a recent
date says: NEARLY every farmer we have
seen this week-and we have seen them
from nearly all of the surrounding counties
reports the tobacco-plant beds both late
and badly eaten by the fly. While such
reports of more or less extent are circulated
nearly every spring, we think we are war
ranted in saying that the acreage planted
this season will be considerably reduced on
| that account. In a number of instances the
lands prepared for tobacco have been re-
plowed and planted in corn because of the
scarcity of plants"
1t is said that a company will soon be
formed at Houston, Tex, to build a canal
for drinking and hydraulic purposes to San
| JacintO River. The canal is to be twenty
eight miles long, and is to cost $3.50, 900.
Several companies stand ready to build
cotton-mills when the canal is completed.
Considerable excitement prevailed at
Belmont, Tex, recently over the arrest Of
Mrs. johnson and her five children. They
were induced to join a sect of sanctified
people, who had created much trouble by
inducing women to leave their families and
Join the fanatical order. The captured
parties would be sent home.
In Mount Ida, Ark, DR. Burch and
Jerry Witt, who had an old grudge, met
the other day in the Courthouse. Burch
drew dirk knife, and Witt threw stone
at him. Then they clinched, and Witt
pulled his pistol and killed Burch instantly.
The largest single sale of mules ever
made in the United States recently took
place at Columbia, Tenn. The purchaser
was w. B. Leonard, who paid S1S5 head for
155 animals, making an aggregate of go.
They are for use upon sugar plantations,
and will be taken TO Louisiana in August
next.
The other day a pilot boat off Calves
ton, Tex, picked up man sixty-ive years
old who had been blown out into the Gull
of Mexico in a skiff by gale. The old
man was nearly exhausted and could not
have held out much longer.
In Jerusalem, Southampton County,
Va, the other day S. Lewis, white, killed
James Newsom, coIored, because the latter
amount due him. Great indignation pre-
vailed among the colored people and lynch
ing seemed imminent.
George johnson, a son of BradisE
johnson, of New York, died in the Airing
ton Hotel, Hot Springs, Ark, from the loss
of blood occasioned by his falling upon the
sharp point of a broken pitcher, which sev
cred the femoral artery. He awoke be
mig and got up to get drink from larg,
pitcher, the mouth of which was broken anC
had a sharp point. He was able to say tha
the last recollection he had was of taking
, the drink of water and falling WheI
found he was pulseless and speechless, anC
his blood ran in streams over the floor.
The contract for building the Oper'
House at Dallas, Tex, was let to A. Brown
lee lately for $4,000. 1t is to be completed
. and ready for occupancy by October l.
An old feud between the Lanier anC
Curley families, in St. Helena Parish, La.
/ led to the killing tht'Other evening, of GuioI
and Pierce Lanier on one side, and vii
liam Curley on the other. The father of tn
Laniers and a brother of Curley had pre-
3 viously fallen victims of the feud.
5 Arkansas is shipping many berries.
4 colored boy, while sitting on the
iron railing of the Amherst end of tn
4 Lynchburg (Va.) free bridge, recently, fel
E backward a distance of some forty feet int
the water. He got out unassisted and wa
apparently unhurt, having turned a com
S plete sOmersault before he struck the wa
= ter.
T. Anotherrusty gun gotin its work nea
Brownsville, Tex, a few days ago. Three
7 BOYS were out hunting and one of then
( pIayfully pointed his gun at another whel
S it accidentally went off and killed him in
1 stantly.
There is a craze for cotton manufac
turing in South Carolina.
In the case of the State of Texas vs.
J. D. Woodward, from the District Court o
Russ County, for manslaughter, Governo
] bag he fO re