The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-08-23
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

Mrs. q. w. Woodland, of Omega, La.
who gained renown for her ministrations
to yeIlow-fever sufferers at Vicksburg,
Miss, the other day ended her life by
taking laudanum.
Explorations of recently discovered
cave at the base of Lookout Mountain,
opening at low water mark of the Tennes-
River, three miles from Chattanooga, is
said to have developed wonderful cave
of unknown depth. At the extreme point
of the exploration a very large lake was
encountered, into which fall 80 feet high
poured its water with the voice of thunder.
Other waterfalls and other interesting phe-
uomena were discovered.
Allen p. Morris was the first Con-
federate soldier to draw a pension under
the Tennessee law allowing ten dollars per
month to COnfederates in the army Mr..
Morris had both eyes shot out in the battle
of Stone River, December 81, 1862.
There is a gold ring in the Ransdale
family of Orangeburg, S. c., worn by Miss
Alice Ransdale that is computed to be not
far from two hundred years old. 1t was
the wedding ring of Mrs. Pou, the great
grandmother of the young lady now
wearing it.
The United States District Court con
vened in Greenville, s. c., the other day,
when between 100 and POO informations
were filed against moonshiners. A vigor-
Gus campaign has been successfully waged
against the Illicit dfstillers in the mountains
for the past six months.
During a recent storm in York
County, S. c., Mrs. Mary F. Starr and Miss
Irene Starr, her daughter, were struck by
lightning. The mule attached to their buggy
was killed, but the ladies escaped with
we're injuries only. r-.ssss---s#-aa.szz-z@
The other afternoon four boys named
Englehart, Steen, Hume and Halfpenny
went out onthe river at Wheeling, w. Va,
in boat, and rowing to the waves of
passing, steainery the boat was. upset, and
all the boys but Englehart were drowned.
Englehart was fifteen years old, and the
others were all under twelve
DR.. Daniel Asbury, of North Carolina,
is pluming his pinions for a public aerial
| ascensionand sail. The tw6 canvas wings.
of his flying machine stretch thirty feet
broad from tip to tip, and all the man-bird
| has to do to regulate his flight is to work a
| pedal like that on a sewing
A stylish colored wedding took place
| the other evening at Columbia, 5. c., the
principals being a daughter of Postmaster
| Wilder and a school officer of Washington
named W. G. Montgomery.
The executive order consolidating the
Second and Fifth Internal Revenue Dis
! tricts of Tennessee went into effect a few
| days ago.
Major f. Burke, in a letter to the
| Board of Managers of the Worlds Indus
| trial and Cotton Centennial Exposition at
/ New Orleans, acceUung the position of Di-
| rector General, suggests the organization
| ofan auxiliary committee in each paTis1of
Louisiana and in every State CT the Union,
that tliere may be complete representation
of the products and manufactures of the
| country at the Exposition. He also hopes
! that foreign Governments and peoples MAY
be Interested in the grterFn-ise.
Quincy, Fla, seems to be a bad place
for Swedes. Of one hundred who went
there in 1874 the last-one has died.
1t is estimated that the growing to-
bacco crop of Kentucky will not exceed
three-fourths of lastyear's crop.
pure African woman died in
Orangeburg County, S. c., recently, aged
10 years.
Upward of one hundred delegates
were present at the opening of the annual
session of the Texas State Grange at Dallas
the other morning. Sixty counties were
represented.
An earnest effort is sbemg made in
Georgia tohaike funds by snlstaiI Iai On for
the purchase of Liberty Hall, Alexander
II. Stephens late residence, the intention
being to erect there monument and to
keep the property as nearly as possible in
the coHsHtion ia which Mr.. Stephens left it.
| The property can be had for SIC, 900 if taken
before tie 4st -efs November next, and this
| includes the library, which cost 600
Fyl,a ,Sl4,4, Of
higlrseh hoolsm the grounds. "a restr.e
r. y SBurdick, Of BoscobGl, Wis,
was arrested at Memphis, Tenn, the other
day, on, a charge of bigarry.-- ----fte had mar
ried tAe daughter Of a. Galway Station mer'
chan6s Miss Maggie Fh0masss some time
| ago, and it was only recently discovered
i that he had deserted a wife in Boscobel
! Wis, had been arrested in the West on
several charges, and, although young, was
an experienced crook
In his speech at the reunion of tho
survivors of John H. Morgan's command il
Lexington, KY, recently, General Basil w
Duke concluded as follows: tWe often hear
it said that the men of both sides believed
they were right. This plea may be regard
ed as sufficient. But / am sometimes in
clined to believe that, paradoxical as it may
sound, both sides were right, and that his
tory will so declare"
Recent advices from fsrty-five coun
ties in Georgia and Florida upon the con
dition of the cotton crop, state that th'
drought is generally broken and the out
look is brighter. There is some fear O
rust and damage by worms and caterpiI
lars in some counties. The prospects il
Florida are better than in Georgia, owing
to more frequent rains. CateTpiIlars ar,
numerous in the latter State. Picking ha
begun to a limited extent. Labor is gen
orally in good supply.
An artesian well at Waynesborro
Ca, has struck a vein of sharks teeth a
four hundred feet depth. The fossil ed i
quite thick, and other bones are occasion
| ally Brought up. Fr
Key West consumes 20 cattle weekly
There are two ladies in the neigh
borhood of Newbern, Ala, who were Iivini
in that section before Alabama was State
That was before IS19.- The- act organizing
tbs territory dates two years previously
During the fiscal year ending Jun
So there were S366, ,107.6S received at TIA
| United States land office in Gainesville
Fla. The number of homestead entrie
was $50, embracing 212, ,s95.GG acres; mum
Der of final proofs, sl3; number OF cash en-
tries, 2,1S1, embracing 2l5,74T.63 acres