The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-02-08
SOUTHERN GLEANINGs.
Memphis Taxing District.

| proposed 10 compromise with the creditors
at the rate Of fifty cents on the dollar, with
six per cent. interest, the Legislature to en-
power the taxing district to issue bonds in
| settlement of the debt, the coupons OF which
to be receivable for taxes, was rejected, and
in lieu a resolution was adopted offering a
compromise at fifty cents on the dollar, with
three per cent. interest and three per cent.
to be added to the principal Tor period of
three years; then four per cent. interest
with two per cent. to be added to the prin-
! cipal for three years; then six per cent. in
! terest for the remaining twenty -four years,
| by which time the debt will have been paid,
the bonds would be thirty year bonds;
| ami instead of the taxing district issuing the
bonds a commission was to be appointed by
the Governor or Legislature to carry out the
provisions of the (which the Legislature
would be called upon to pass.
miscellaneous Items.
At Pine Hill, Ky, the other day some
workmen attempted to dry Hercules pow
der cartridges, the result being the loss Of
! three lives.
A. c. Kemp, of Atlanta, Ca, killed
himself in the presence of his wife the other
night and it was said she had since threat
ened to suicide.
At Beaver Dam, Ky, the other day,
in a quarrel about horse, C. c. Hoskins
shot and killed Thomas Stevens.
In answer to a recent letter from ST.
Louis. Mo-, c. R. Morehead, President Of
I the State National Bank at Ell Paso, Tex.
stated that there were but few cases of
smallpox in El Paso, and that there had
! been but few there at any time within the
! past two years. The city. he said, had a
| good pest-hOuse and an efficient Board OF
! Health, and the health of the town. was good.
| August Hampe, City Marshal of New
| Braunfels, Tex, who was shot by a negro
named Pitts lately, died from his wounds a
few days ago. There was much excitement
upon the receipt of the news Of HamIoe's
death, and it was feared Pitts would be
! lynched.
The steamer Silver City swamped a
! skiff in which there were four colored per-
sons the other night, three miles below
Shreveport, La, and three Of them were
drowned.
A fire at Atlanta, Ga, the other night
destroyed the building containing the Ma
sonic Hall and the stores of w. A. Pipe and
Proctor, dry goods, with stocks. The ad-
joining store was also DESTROYED with part
OF the stock. Loss, $4,000; insured.
An inquest on the body of a negro
Crown, some miles above Vicksburg, Miss,
a few days ago, resulted in The finding of a
verdict to the effect that the deceased had
come to his death through neglect and bad
treatment on the part Of the guards under
whose charge he had been placed. He be-
lOnged to the Mississippi Penitentiary.
Two MeXicans named Florez, father
and son, were stopped by an American near
San Antonio, Tex. the other day, and robbed
OF horses and reyolvers. The old man was
killed and his son was severely wounded.
The death of Mrs. William L. Yancey,
widow Of the late Senator Yancey, of Ala
bama, a noted secession leader, was an
pounced at atlanta, Ga, few days ago.
Carloads of machinery were recently
shipped to Victoria, Tex, where a COM
pany was about to commence the slaughter
of cattle and sheep, to be sent in refrfgera-
tor ears to New Orleans and the northern
cities
1t was reported lately that the noted
Indian mound at Tuscaloosa, Ala,
was to be eXcavated. It was expected that
some interesting relics would be unearthed.
Two Mormon missionaries were
warned to take their departure from Rock
HILL S. c., the other day or be treated to tar
and feathers.
There are 3,4OO,O 900 acres of United
States land for sale in Mississippi.
A woman at Greensboro, n. c., fifty
three years old, recently bought pair of
spectacles and began attendance at school.
Noah D. Smith, Special Deputy Sur
veyor Of United 5 ates Customs for the port
OF Memphis, Tenn, was arrested in Chicago
the other night on the charge of embezzIing !
Government funds to the amount OF s., 900
to S6, 600. He claimed he was innocent
The morning following the recent |
wedding Of Miss Hulda Martin and Joseph |
Guthrie, in the village OF Halifax Court
house, Va, the guests, having tarried over
night in the mansion, owing to inclement |
weather, assembled in the. breakfast-room |
and waited for the happy pair. Suddenly |
shrieks were heard in the hall, and they has |
tened out to find the bride almost crazed |
with grief, and crying "My husband oh, |
my husbandl' She had wakened and found /
him dead by her side. The four groomsmen |
acted as pail bearers that day, and the min
lister who married them staid to bury him. |
A meeting of Tennessee bond-holders |
was held in New York City the other day |
which adopted resolutions declaring that !
the people of the State demanded the repeal /
of the eleventh article of the Constitution as
the best way to restore their former good |
name and credit; that the meeting ap-
proved Of the resolution introduced in Con-
gress by Mr.. Moore, Of Tennessee, making /
provision for the repeal of article eleven and /
for the enforcement of obligation Of con-
tracts; that the Senate be petitioned to
adopt the resolutions, and the various ex-
changes invited to cooperate in urging their
passage.
A family of nine persons that lived on |
plantation in Lawrence County, ). c.,
killed and ate a goose few days ago that
had been bitten by dog that had hydro
phobIa. Five had since died and the other
four were not expected to live
Russell County, Va, reports a Iynching
w. Weise went to the house of j. n.
Hook, at Newport, KY, before daylight the
other morning to deliver bread. but enter
ing at an unusual place Hook mistook him
for burglar and called to him, but Weise,
being closely muffied, did not hear. Hook
receiving no answer fired at the supposed
burglars and Weise was mortally wounded.
Mrs. Inglin, who was injured by the
recent locomotive explosion at Mansfield,
La, died few days ago. It was said the
Mansfield Company would enter suit against
heavy damages.
A colored post-office clerk in New
Orleans, La, is reported in trouble.
Anna Brown, a negro woman of Louis
vile, KY, 1O4 years Of age, deaf and al
most blind, was burned to death few days
ago by her clothes catching fire from an
open CRATE.
The law providing for compromising,
committing aud settling a portion OF the
State debt OF North Carolina expired before