The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-03-22
MisceIIaneous Items.

The Northwest Texas StOckmen's
Association held an interesting meeting at
Fort Worth recently and much business of
interest TO cattle men was transacted. The
following officers were elected: c.. l.. Car
ter, President; c. c. Slaughter and j. r.
Stevens, Presidents; J. @. Levtng,
Secretary and Treasurer; F. r. Sherwood,
Assistant Secretary. Dallas was selected as
the place for the next meeting and the sec
ond Tuesday after the second Monday in
March, 1884, the time. .s....tl
Foxes are said to be multiplying very
rapidly in the Kentucky bluegrass country
after having been almost unknown for many
years. ...
The Texas Legislature has sold the
lease of the two pepitentiaries for ten years
at $4,000.
A fire at Danville, Va, the other day
destroyed the tobacco factories of W. T.
Clark, w. f. Patton and L. L. Strauss. The
buildings were tenaBted by eight firms, who
lost their stock and fixtures. The total loss
was estimated at about $4,000; insured.
One million cubic feet of timber was
brought out of the Big Sandy River, Ky,
on the recent rise which sold for S13), 900.
An advance of fifty cents and 81 per
ton for pig-iron was demanded recently by
the furnace man of Alabama and Tennessee,
who supply the Cincinnati and tributary
markets. .##. s.ra -..H-
The first shipment of corn ever made
on a through bill of lading from Savannah,
Ga. to a British port was made per steam
ship City of Augusta, few days ago.
Richard Howard, of Chattanooga,
Tenn. took offense at the reports of scan
dalous suit in which he was involved, pub
lished in local paper recently, and as
saulted G. W.Ochs, the city editor, with a
| cane Ochs drew pistol and shot Howard
| in the groin.
| The result of a late election for coun-
ty officers in Falls County, Tex, was de-
| cided by the votes of Seventeen naturalized
| Cinnamon, and the defeated candidates were
contesting the election upon the ground
/ that State law passed in 1878 limited the
/ issuance of naturalization papers TO white
| foreigners, and it was claimed disfranchised
! Chinamen who had already taken out nat
uralization papers. FEa aEf -.1 .s.
The Sanitary Council of the Missis
sippi Valley Will meet in Jackson, Miss, or
| Tuesday, April 3. q
At Austin, Tex. the jury in the case Of
the State VS.. Waller Morgan recently returned
| verdict OF guilty of killing Henderson il
. | LnaB pace OH january - anu gave Mn
five. years in the Penite ntiary, as it was dOn'
while he was drunk. .-...
d. r. Musselman & Co., tobacco
manufacturers, Louisville, KY, made al
assignments few davs ago for the benefit o
their creditors, with liabilities OF $40, 900.
Felix Wilson, colored, has been sen
tenced to be hanged April 20 for the murde
of Nose Rnd Imam at Charlotte, n. G.
Charles Ashley, watchman of tn
steamer wyoming, fell oveboard near Vicks
burg, Miss, the other night and wa
drowned. sa
A student of the State College at Lex
ington, KY, named FuRate. got drunk th
other night and while flourishing his pisto
recklessIy an officer undertook to arres
him. Four companions came to his rescu
with rifles, but after some parley they wer
persuaded to surrender and were suspend
ed By the Faculty, while Fugate was ex
PEELED.
The colored driver of a coal car
named French, was thrown from the cart
Louisville, KY, the other afternoon, an
falling on his head, broke his neck.
The gin house and fifteen bales of col
ton belonging to w. j. Anderson, at Ne
Orleans, La, were destroyed by fire fe
/
Jay Gould has gone to Florida.
The Texas Press Association has bee
called by President GosIing to hold its al
nual meeting and festivities at Dallas, con
menciug May 16. The President announces
his success in completing arrangements Il
an excursion to Monterey, Mex, imm,
: diately after the adjournment Of the con
vention.
|
The six coon dogs that were the faitl
ful friends OF John Barnes in his poyeri
are TO be kindly cared for in the magnifice
house he is building near the spot in Moor
County, n. G., where he has discovered
: gold mine.
, Secretary Folger has accepted a ST
for the new public building at Dallas Tes
The remains of Colonel Harry Gi
|, more. whose funeral took place at Bali
more, Md, few dayslago, were escort,
by an imposing procession Of State MilIi
and ex- Union and Confederate soldiers. A
the city Offices were closed as . mark of r
j spect.
a patient in the Lunatic Asylum
; Edgeaeld, s. c., managed to free his han
from the maHaeles with which his han
8 were confined the other morning and be
$ another inmate so horribly that he died so
4 after. He then attacked keeper and nes
: ly killed him.