The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-03-15
SOUTHERN GLEANINGs.

made sales to he amount Of $4,000 in one
month recently.
John Stump, of Preston County, w.
Va, recently died at the age OF sixty eight.
About fourteen years ago, while physician
was probing for a roach which had crawled
into the ear Of the deceased, a sharp piece
IF steel was broken off the point of the in
strument aud lodged in his ear, the effect
Of which finally resulted in death.
The Texas Legislature has passed
resolution 10 purchase the old Alamo build
ing and grounds at San Antonio for the State,
at $40, 600. The Governor, Attorney Gen
eral, and the Commissioner of Insurance,
Statistics and History are appointed a COM
mission to make the purchase and secure
the title, and also to appropriate $1,000 for
inelOsing the cemetery in which FannIng,
who fell at the Goliad massacre, is buried.
The Governor and Adjutant- General
of Virginia went cunning for oyster pirates
recently with two steamers and force of
troops and captured five oyster vessels as
prizes and forty men as prisoners.
A. d. West, of East Tennessee, was
robbed of $40 by two fellow passengers,
strangers to him, on the south bound Mis-
souri, Pacific train, near AlYaradO, Tex,
the other night. They grabbed his pocket
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Officers were in pursuit and it was thought
the rascals would be caught.
A San Antonio CTex.) special re-
ported Sheriff Benito Gozales, Of El Paso
County, about s., 900 short in his accounts
the other day, and County Clerk Manuel
Flores was also said TO be a defauter. Both
were suspended. The bondsmen of w. w.
Mills, Justice of the Peace, made good his
deficit OF 300.
The nomination of George N. Tell
man, to be United States Marshall for the
Middle District of Tennessee, has been COM
| firmed, and James A. Meek has been con-
| firmed United States Attorney for the East.
! ern District.
The champion stallion stake organ
lied by Pierre Lorillard for the proposed
! Worlds Fair has been awarded to the
! Louisville (Ky.) Jockey Club for $40, SIS, and
! will be run at the September meeting.
Mary Hall, q maiden lady of New
! port, KY, became insane recently because
OF the loss of 500 through Archbishop Fur
| cell.
Levy County, Florida, is planting
! heavily of Irish potatoes.
Several letters which had been ad-
| dressed by the postal authorities at st,
! Louis, NO., to the Postmaster OF Casey
| vile, Ky., town of about $40 inhabitants,
! had met with no response, but a few days
ago there came a letter dated February 81,
telling the following tale of destitution.
! "I have sent two replies to you. I was taken
| sick and have been down for ten DAYS. Your
! last is about the Office. We had to move in a
| hurry. Water ten feet deep in the office At
| such a time papers get mixed. l received the
! package and It has been delivered. What
! more do yOu want? / have not been land
| for two weeks Have had to send to Evans
- nf Z n a n m y
| home. have a large family, and am i'll the
| upper story of a business house. The country
/ people can not get in to bring anything to
! eat. Ship me box of something to eat.
have been hungry for four or five DAYS. Only
three families are trying to stay IN town. All
| the others are out on the hills"
The fourteen year-Old son of Ed. T.
Holman, of Nashville, Tenn, returned from
hunting the other afternoon, and while
| playing with his gun shot his four-year- Ol d
sister through the brain.
In the suits to compel Louisiana State
officers to levy a five and one-half mill tax
to pay bonds of 1874, the United States Su-
preme Court has denied the writ prayed for.
The Supreme Court of the United
States has affirmed the consttutionality of
the 'Riddleberger law'' of Virginia, rela-
tive to an adjustment of the debt Of that
State.
Fritz Lewis, stock and note broker OF
Baltimore, Md, has failed, having been on
the wrong side Of the market for Virginia
consols.
w. II. Pratt, President of the Bank
of Mobile, was killed at Birmingham, Ala.
a few days ago while attempting to pass be-
ween the cars of freight train.
Work has been begun on a railroad
for Transporting stone to the site of the new
State capitol of Texas at Austin, the base
ment story of which is to be completed next
January.
Colonel Harry Gilmor, the famous
| Confederate cavalry officer, died in Baltf-
more, Md, few days ago; after a pro-
lOnged and painful illness.
A brother of the late Governor Viii
liams. OF Indiana, died at Jae5sboro, Tex,
the other day where he was once County
Judge. For six months previous he had
been insane.
Mrs. Caldwell, of Louisville, Ky, was
lately converted through the efforts of Rev
George o. Barnes. As a result, she has
named her twins after the Savior and the
"Mountaln Evangelist"
| Noah u. Smith, ex-Deputy Surveyor
of Customs of Memphis, has been sentenced
10 the Penitentisry for two years for a long
series Of official peculatious.
1t is said that the papers in the Mas
Wise contest for seat IN Congress for
the State of Virginia at large, will make a
book as large as the code of Virginia.
A fire at Raleigh, N. c., the other
night destroyed five Of the buildings of the
St. Augustine Normal School for colored
students, involving a loss OF about $40, 900.
The flood at Memphis, Tenn, caused
the HanaCer Ol-works to settle about two
feet the other day, and labor had to be sus-
pended.
Henry Ellis, youth of sixteen years,
while duck hunting with some companions
near Memphis, Temp, the other day, was
accidentally killed by the dis
charge of gun held by one OF his comrades.
Miller & Cargill, queensware and
crockery dealers, Chattanooga, Tenn, have
failed for s., 400.
d. NJ. DubOse, Augusta, Ga, is dead.
Captain Eads' Tehuantepec ship-canal
project was warmly euIOgfzed by General
Diaz, ex-President OF Mexico, at banquet
Eizeu in his honor BY Captain Eads at New
Orleans the other evening. General Diaz
was most literally entertained by public men
and capitalists of the Crescent City.
The other afternoon, near Gratz, KY,
a seven-year old son OF Dan Criswell, while
playing with some other children. hid in a
straw-stack, and the others, while under
taking to smoke him out, accidentally fred
the stack, and the child was burned TO death
before he could get out.
Six or seven hundred strangers are
arriving daily at Jacksonville, Fla.
Two Austin, Tex, bows inaugurated
a system Of highway robbery in Hayes
County recently, and succeeded in getting
some money and two horses from negroes