The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-07-26
SOUTHERN GLEANINGs.

There is a community of some fifteen
families residing in the neighborhood of
Eauvoo, Marshall County, w. Va, which
profess the Mormon faith and act accord
ing to its teachings to a great extent.
They are not thorough polygamists Not
long since one OF the old sisters was afiict-
ed with an ailment that baf1ed the skill Of
her physicians. She then insisted that one
Of the prophets of her church from the
'aCdty of the Saints'' should be sent for.
He came and laid his hands upon her, and
she at once declared herself greatly better
Whether the Improvement was permanent
was not stated.
The registration of voters in Louis
vile, KY, is 23,372 white and A, ,737 co1ored,
| a total Of 2S, ,109, or about 1000 more votes
than have ever been polled in that city.
Apples are falling off the trees in
Kentucky to such an extent. it is feared the
crop viii be short.
A deaf mute of Mercer County. KY,
has invented an electrical instrument which
enables him to hear an ordinary converse
tion.
A queer accident happened to little
girl in Atlanta, Ga, the other day. She
was working with a sewing machine, and
was running it at a good rate of speed,
when the driving-rod, which was made of
wood, snapped in two, and one piece pene-
trated the feshy part Of her leg below the
knee, tearing the flesh N terrible manner.
| AS soon as the broken rod entered the
child's flesh the machine stopped, and in
/ order to remove the wood the wheel of the
machine had to be turned by hand.
Two young men of Woodstock, Ca,
were such desperate rivals for the hand of
/ a lady that a duel became the only means
,f -o4+I;,,s~
were selected as the weapons, and Mount
| Carmel graveyard as the place. Principals
and seconds were on time, but soon became
/ involved in f1st-fght and broke up in dis
ORDER
The prosperity of the Louisiana sugar
! planters is shown by the fact that 100000
lis being expended in and around Donald
son for improved machinery, new sugar
houses, bagasse burners, etc.
A FluYanna County Va) farmer
who rents out his land and manages his
I tenants cleared fourteen dollars an acre on
his land last year.
A turtle was brought into Cedar Key,
Fla, few days ago, that weighed 425
pounds.
Information has been received at the
Treasury Department at Washington that
"flled' twenty-do1lar gold pieces have APP
peared in Tennessee and other parts of the
South. ~
Bob Parsons stepped out of a window
at Dallas, Tex, the other night to slip up
| on a supposed burglar, who was trying to
/ get in the front door. He stepped on the
spout of an oil can which carpenter had
left under the window. The spout entered
the bottom of his foot and came out at the
top, and his physician feared lockjaw
/ would yee7,1t
An epidemic among hogs in the vicin-
4 ity- o f Austin, Tex, is saids to be carrying
off large numbers. They take sick and die
very suddenly.
During heavy storm in .Talcott
County, Nd, the other day the dwelling of
Frank Willis, near Wye Mill, was struck
by lightning and his eldest daughter was
killed.
On narrow-g gauge road in Dodge
County, Ga, few days ago, four cars went
through a burning bridge, by which three
men lost their lives and ten others were
wounded.
Fire at Monroe, La, the other morn
ing destroyed a restaurant, the old POST
office, two residences and a number of
tenements. The property destroyed was
valued at about $1,000. At one time the
entire town was threatened with destruc-
tion, a high wind prevailed at the time
of the fire.
A Georgia negro, a few days ago,
coughed up cocklebur that has been
lodged in his throat for more than three
years, giving him much pain. -
( After a married life of .sixty-seven
years, Amelia Sanford, of Milledgeville,
Ga, died recently at the age of eghty-eight
years. Her husband is ninety-two.
If Il lorOV0cod ar0ouo tho cotton fac
tors of New Orleans to set aside two cents on
the bale on their cotton receipt to the stock
of the Exposition. Such subscription would
amount to 1000. If this is done, other
cotton associations and the sugar and rice
interests will assume similar tax, all OF
which, it is estimated, would raise about
500, 600 more.
Near. -Paducah, KY. the other day a
negro herb doctor named Fletcher stabbed
and killed his wife and mother-in-law with
a butcher knife and then made his escape.
His children gave the alarm.
A most remarkable case of deter.
mined suicide was recently reported from
Hampton, Ga. A negro climbed ten feet
up tree and launched himself the third
time from limb, after adjusting a rope
about his neck, before successfully hanging
himself. At the first two attempts he touch
ed the ground.
The bark Menrovia sailed from New
York the other morning for Liberia with
fifteen negro coIonists. The negroes were
all from the South.
A handsome college building that
will accommodate six hundred students is
going up at Decatur, Tex.
A citizen of Gallatin County, KY,
has watermelon patch containing 2,7O(
hills. A few years ago he sold 500 worth
of melons-the product of one. acre.
BY boiler explosion in Clarendon
S. c., the other day, a mule which was
hitched to a water-cart standing a few feet
from the engine was blown out of the shafts
a distance of twenty yards or more, and
alighted on his feet none the worse for his
rapid transit except few scalds on his
legs.
A Virginia dog died of sunstrolze.
Bids for the hire OF Texas convict.
were opened at Austin a few days aga
Hawley and Allen bid for all convicts ane
two penitentiaries for six years, at eighty
thousand dollars per annum. There arr