The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-07-05
SOUTHERN GLKANINGs.

The death of Fl M. Ogden, aged
forty-three, occurred at New Orleans few
days ago. He was Attorney-GeneraI under
the Nichols administration, and figured
prominently in the politics of Louisiana
in 1874 and 1875.
Emma Key, eldest daughter of ex-
Postmaster-GenersIK Key, was married the
other night at her fathers home in Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, to NJ. B. Thompson, Superin-
tendent Of the Mail Service of the United
States.
Rev. j. c. Hartshorn, of Providence,
r. l., has offered to erect building to cost
$4,000 at Richmond, Va, to be given the
BaPtists for a school for the education of
colored girls.
E. V. Logan, of Mitchellsburg, KY,
fell off a train near Lebanon while drunk
the other morning, and was frightfully
mangled.
At the meeting of the Executive Com
mittee of the Sanitary Council of the Mis-
sissippi Valley, at Memphis, Tenn, the
other night, it was decided that when the
National Board of Health closed on the 30th
of June, to maintain the inspection service
by river and rail as now enforced. It's
rules for that service would be adopted
and maintained intact by the Sanitary
Council of the Mississippi Valley. 1t EN-
braces inspections at Memphis, and also
the river between Vicksburg and the
Louisiana State line and at New Orleans.
The President has recognized James
Hunter as Vice-Consul of Portugal at Mo-
bile, Ala.
The fifty members of the Texas Legis-
lature indicted some time ago for poker
playing have about all settled their cases
without trial by payment of fines and
costs.
Miss Colista Hopewood, the sixteen
year-old daughter of a prominent Balti-
mOrean, has married William Obendorfer,
wealthy young Hebrew of Norfolk, Va,
against the consent of her family.
Another natural gas well has been
struck at Wheeling, w. Va.
The Kentucky Central road has COM
pleted its Richmond extension, the last
spike having been driven at Paris few
days ago.
An experiment has been recently
made in securing wool at Fort Worth,
Tex, and the clean product forwarded to
Boston for inspection. Thirty or forty
million pounds will be exported from Tex
as this year in an unsecured condition. An
allowance of fifty per cent. for dirt and
grease IS said to be obtained.
A genuine tiger was slain in St.
Landry Parish, La, lately which meas
ured nine feet from tip to tip.
The ''peen-tO," or flat peach of Chi
ma, is revolutionizing peach culture in
Florida. 1t is fiat like biscuit.
Recent information from Dallas states
that within the past few days northern
capitalists have been looking over Texas in
a quiet way, and have been reported from
different points prospecting for locations
for themselves and those they represent
Northern railroads are organizing plans
for sending large parties on such tours into
the State to investigate the country in
telligently as possible.
A few days ago there was sold on
the trash wharf at Key West, Fla, &c.,
1920 worth of sponges.
A reeler of silk in New Orleans, who
has hitherto employed some nineteen hands,
proposes to go into the manufacture of silk
fabrics, and to organi re a joint stock com
pany for that purpose. He has already
reeled !, 900 pounds of silk and has an i'm
portation of cocoons on the way from
France of POO pounds
A sixteen foot shark, of the hammer
head variety, has been recently killed at
Fernandina, Fla.
OF the 5,100 Episcopalians in Ken
lucky, it is said 1900 are in Louisville.
Minnie Mitchell committed suicide
at Shreveport, La, recently. A local paper
relates that her death in Shreveport, and
the killing by a railroad accident of the
man who brought her to that city, on the
same day, was a singular coincidence, par
ticularly as it was thought her suicide was
caused by him.
Twenty thousand pounds of zinc
were shipped one day last week from
Knoxville, Tenn, to Connecticut.
Moses Stuart, while fishing near Rod
dy, KY, few days ago with dynamite,
was injured by the explosion, fell into the
water and was drowned.
At the National Cemetery near Mem
phis, Tenn, the other morning George
Fletcher, section boss of the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad, was shot and killed by
William Kennedy, a negro. Fletcher's
little boy was roughly handled by Kenne-
dy, and when Fletcher expostuIated Ken
nedy, without warning, drew a pistol and
fred, the ball striking Fletcher in the side,
from the effect of which he died soon af-
terward. Kennedy made his escape.
Judge Pardee, of the United States
day rendered decree in the case of New
Orleans vs.. John A. Morris ct al, by whiC b
the city RECEIVERS 4,944 shares of stock O
the Waterworks Company which had been
seized and sold by various parties, who are
now ordered to restore the stock to the city.
The Supreme Court of the United States
decided that the stock was held in trust by
the city and not liable to seizure and sale.
Fourteen judgment creditors, stock dealers
and brokers who sold and purchased the
stock are ordered to restore the bonds to
the city, which, together with dividends
since 1879, amounts to nearly half a million
dollars.
Cleburne County claims the tallest
average set of officers of any county in
Arkansas. The average is about six feet;
the Sheriff, Assessor, Treasurer, Surveyor
and Coroner viii fall a little short of six
feet. The Judge, Clerk and Deputy Clerk
win measure eighteen feet six inches, and
all combined win measure ffty-four feet
Crops promise well in Eastern Texas.
A branch of the Southern Historical
Society has been organized at Houston,
Tex. This is the first branch organized in
the State. General George z. johnson, of
Georgia, in a speech, said that he was as
sured that Mississippi and Alabama would
soon follow the example of Texas in donat-
ing 5000 to the society, as would eventu-