The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-08-09
NEGOTIATIONS Itelns.

are reported yet.
miscellaneous Items.
An aged lady applied to the police of
Wheeling, w. Va, the other day for aid to
reach Washington, where she hoped to Sc
cure admission to a charitable institution.
She stated that her father was Vice-Presi-
dent William r. King, and that she was the
widow of General Hunter, whom President
Jackson sent to Russia as minister, and
that the first six months of her married life
were spent at the American embassy in st.
Petersburg. She was given ample funds
to proceed on her journey.
The State Board OF Education in
Texas has resolved to purchase for the
school fund $150,OOO in registered four per
cent. bonds of the United States.
1t is understood that the negroes of
Tidewater, Va, are making preparations
for the performance of funeral services at
an early day in memory of John F. New
som, the colored man who was killed by S.
Lewis in an alteration at Jerusalem some
weeks ago. The services will be conducted
according to the Masonic ritual, and it is
expected that an immense number of ne
groes viii participate in the services,
which viii take place at Franklin, South
ampton County.
A mutilated check for $4,000 on
national bank at Raleigh, N. c., was found
on the streets of Billings, a few days ago.
a swimming-master, giving exhibi-
bitions in Lake Pontchartrain, at New Or
leans, recently encountered a sword-fish,
which he succeeded in capturing. In the
saw were forty-two teeth.
At Brighton, West Tennessee, thir-
teen flying squirrels were killed recently
in the yard of house to which they had
come for crumbs.
An unknown negro attempted to as
sault Mrs. w. G. w. Hill near East Point,
| Ca, the other night and was arrested. On
the way to the court next day the guard
said he escaped, but it was believed he was
! Iynched.
A fire occurred at Vicksburg, Miss,
the other day, resulting in the destruction
of three frame two-story buildings, aggre-
eating loss of fully $4,000. The Anchor
line elevator also came near burning.
d. M. Eslick, one of the most promi-
nent and wealthy citizens of Lincoln Coun-
ty, Tenn, was killed by lightning near
| Fayetteville the other evening. His skull
was split in twain and his shoes torn from
his feet.
George NJ. Silsbee, of San Antonio,
who, on October 27, 1881, robbed the mail
on the Texas Central Railroad of forty
packages containing 81, 300 and afterward
escaped into Mexico,w was arrested in Silver
City, Col. He was returned to San An
tonic the other day.
Figs in St. Augustine, Fla, sell al
three dollars per bushel.
A sulphur-water saloon has beer
opened in Lebanon, Tenn.
A horse became fastened between the
ties Of the railroad bridge near Murfrees
boro, Tenn, recently, delaying the train sew
eral hours. He had undertaken to run
across the bridge.
Swallows took possession of the roo
of the Central Hotel at Charlotte, S. c., il
such numbers thatit was necessary to sent
a man on the roof with a whip to dislodg
them.
New Orleans policemen are provided
with poisoned sausages, and have exter
minated so many ours that the streets ar
now poisoned with the odor of decayini
carcasses.
Simon Furgerson, an illiterate negro
eoal-miner, residing near Charleston, w
Va, claiming the power to cast out devils
called at the house of a sick woman re
Gently, and declared that she was in tn
hands of Satan. He won her confidence
and prescribed for her n quart bottle O
poke-root, angle-worms, grasshoppers an
grubs, well stepped in hot water, wine
glassfuI to be taken every four hours. TIL
patient took the medicine until her alarm
ing condition caused a physician to b
called.
Theslign alias Ernest Mayer, hailin
! from St. Louis and Cincinnati, was car
} tured in Shreveport, La, a few days ago.
: was charged that he obtained money i
Texas by falsely representing himself q
the agent of w. J.. Lemp, of st. Louis, an
other business men.
, Ben Hardy and two other mer
. whose names were not known, Govern
, ment pile-drivers, fell overheard and weI
drowned at MaysvilIe, KY, the other day
near where five men were drowned by tt
capsizing of skiffs few days before.
A New Orleans physician assures tb
: citizens who are dreading the approach.
t the cholera that the safest place in Il
! world against the disease is the pin
woods.
: Kentucky has but 2,o59 paupers.
r A few days ago an insane convict
,. the Virginia Peniten tiary attempted
i burn the buildings, in W which seven hundre
persons were confined, but his efforts WEI
r defeated by steward.
4 In Atlanta, Ca, the other evenin,
r Hawk Scarborough, a policeman, while
: s drunken frenzy, fired into a crowd of &C
ored people, wounding a woman and bo
2 it was thought fatally. He was locked u
e He had been sent to arrest Rev. Richai
) Fambo, the colored preacher, who was a
a cused by his daughter Of having murders
her mother.