The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-06-07
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.


Tenn, a few days ago. Its business re-
lated principally to the Worlds Industrial
and Cotton Centennial Exposition, to be
held at New Orleans next year. The COM
nittee confirmed its six United States Com
missioners whose names will be forwarded,
together with the seven selected by the City
of New Orleans, to the President of the
United States for appointment as members
of the United States Board of Manage
ment.
The largest sale of Georgia gold lands
ever made has been consummated in Lon
don, Eng. Negotiations between Dr.Josiah
Curtis, of Washington, D. c., the repre-
sentative of the Nacoochee Mining Com
pany, and an English company have been
pending for several months past and have
resulted in the purchase of nearly eight
thousand acres.
Two men at Monroe, Ga, made away
with 108 oranges one evening recently, one
devouring fifty-five and the other fifty
three. The affair began in a contest to see
who could eat the most, the loser to pay
for all.
The Surgeon General of the Marine
Hospital Service has established quaran-
tine station at Pensacola, Fla.
The cotton mills at Admission, Ala,
have lately shipped thousand bales of
goods to China, and have orders for six
hundred more.
The Texas Treasury is certainly in a
very healthful condition. A recent inven-
tory showed the following condition: Cash,
$275,00O; school fund bonds, $1,000, 900; uni
versity and asylum fund, $500, 900; land
notes, 100000; university land notes,
$250,000. This makes a grand total in
Treasury of $12,O00,OOO in actual cash and
valuable securities.
The press of Georgia is commenting
upon the increase of lunacy in that State,
especially among the colored people, and
the lack of facilities for the proper care
and treatmant of insane persons.
The Post-office at Forney Station,
Tex, was entered by burglars the other
night and robbed of seventy dollars worth
of stamps and about 500 in money.
A perfect model of a steamship with
the stern and side propellers, a recent in
vention at Dallas, Tex, was placed in a
tank of water, steam raised, and the stern
propeller first put in motion. 1t crossed the
tank in 1O6 seconds. Then all three
were set going, when the tiny ship crossed
in six seconds. Thus the speed was in
creased forty-five per cent. and the fact
demonstrated (apparently) that steam
ship which crosses the Atlantic in seven
days can with this new attachment cross it
in four. The inventor is confident of in
creasing the speed of steamships sixty per
cent. 1t runs much faster with the side
than with the stern propellers, and runs
away with the stern wheel working in re-
verse.
Chief-Justice Waite has rendered a
decision in the Greenbriar (Va.) White
Sulphur Springs case, sustaining the action
of Judge Bond, Of the United States Circuit
Court, in appointing Receiver for the en-
tire property, with the exception of two
acres of ground, located Immediately be-
tween the hotel proper and the Chesapeake
& Ohio Railroad Depot. Estimated value
of these two acres Sc, ,1O0, 900.
sThe old stone mansion situated in
ThorOughfare Gap, Va, which had been in
the possession of the Chapman family for
over one hundred years, was destroyed re-
Gently by fire occasioned by a defect in a
fue.
The Washington Artillery, battal-
ion of historic fame in the Mexican and
civil wars, held the twenty-second anniver-
sary of its setting out for the seat of war in
Virginia by public parade and dinner in
New Orleans, La, few days ago. One of
the features was the presenting of the
original battle flag Of the Virginia army to
the battalion by Judge Alfred Roman in
behalf of General Beauregard.
Mrs. Lena Rapp, an aged German
woman, of Louisville, KY, was killed by
lightning the other night. Her husband, in
the same room, was uninjured.
The boiler in a saw mill in Water
ford, Spencer County, KY, exploded few
days ago, fatally wounding several work
men and instantly killing John Purcell,
owner of the mill.
The past week closed the strawberry
shipping season at Chattanooga, Tenn. 1t
has reached 500, 600 pounds.
An old resident of Hot Springs, Ark,
says the supply of hot water has more than
doubled in thirteen years.
A man and three boys were acci-
dentally drowned at Martins Ferry, W.
Va, the other day, by a team the man was
driving in the river becoming unmanage-
able.
At a recent contest in Mobile. Ala,
for the twelve largest and heaviest heads
of cabbage the winner produced twelve
heads weighing 212 pounds.
~ w AGO. 4CA-y IBCGQLIys FTcd OCnG-
nick was trying to put on the end of a smaH
pencil what seemed to be a common mus
Aet cap. 1t exploded and blew off one joint
of thumb and two joints of his finger. On
examination of the box from which it was
taken, the innocent-lOoking caps all proved
to be dynamite cartridges. Schenick was
clerking in a hardware house, and no one
was aware that the caps were filed with
dynamite
A fund for the benefit of the families
of the Phoenix Park assassins executed re-
Gently is being collected by Irishmen at
Galveston, Tex.
Extensive frauds in the entry of pub
lie lands in Louisiana have been alleged
against J. B. Watkins, of Baton Rouge.
About four hundred thousand dol
lars of the old Indebtedness of Memphis,
Tenn, had been filed to a recent date to be
funded.
The circus fiend is abroad.
w. NJ Hodges. of Hart County,
sold six hogsheads of white hurley tobacco
on the market In Louisville, KY, a few
days since, at an average price of S21.60
per hundred pounds. The best hogshead
realized ST per hundred. The entire lot