The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-02-07
NEWS IN rnE srAre.

y FIRE at Chattanooga On ,he morn
ing Of February 3d, destroyed about
! So, 800 worth If property Insurance
about 50 200.
y reward orSI00 for the ares. Of
Geo. Thomas, alias Dickens, charg-
Cd with felonious ass mt on Vim Russell
on Jan. 10, has been offered by the
! Governor.
Shelby coanty Appropriated $500
double the Amount requested by Com.
missioner McWhirter for the exhibit
tion Of her products at New Orleans.
American.
Mr.. john d. McCanaIan of Ma.
son Depot, has Bought car + ad of
fine brood mares in Kentucky aud
shipped them to MGsops, and will sell
them to farmers Of that vicinity.
A fury composed entirely Of col
ored men tried the case Of Frank
Lewis who killed his mistress, Lou
Hill and found him guilty of murder
in the second degree and fixed his
sentence at sixteen years in the per-
itentiary.
Geo. Hooper, noted counterfcitcr
who escaped from the coanty Jail
several weeks ago, was captured to-
day, at his home on SAINT Mountain.
He was regarded as the most desperate
criminal incarcerated here at the time
and is thought to have organized
the plan of es 'are'-Ame,icn.
A special to TIE Scimitar of Feb.
81, says L. +. Moore, Of Put
nam county, was bitten by a mad
dog a few days ago and tried the viz
tue of mad stone belonging to Green
Fletcher, OF Coffee county. The
stone adhered tightly to the wound
and Mr.. Moore believes all danger
| has been removed.
a gil of 10 or 2Osycars, named
Josie Mac. driven to fury, tried to
shoot Constable James Madden in
Esq, Winters office, on Poplar street,
but was prevented by the Justice, wh no
caught her arm. The lady has lived
with her mother here for some time
but was reared, and she claims 10 have
surrendered her chastity under prom
Use of III arriagc to Maddes. Ledger.
A detective agency has been organ
lied in Memphis to collect duty on
the young men. The record OF every
young man in that city will be sys-
tematically kept, giving his habits,
the places he visits each night in The
week, his associates, otc., and business
mon and fathers with marriageObie
daughters will have a sure way of get
ting at the characters OF young men
whom they are interested in,
There is an organized band of
chicken thieves in Nashville, who
have been stealing chickens for some
time. They have been making
nightly visits to the henhvuscs in and
arouna that city and after night or
two of ''bizuis' have chickens to sell
at wholesale" There were three
arrested who gave their names and
were put in jail. There is also a
"sllent partner" III the firm who has
not been caught.
At Franklin Saturday, $4,000
| was subscribed to form stock c4m-
pany for the manufacture of sorghum
sugar. At Hillsboro, Williamson
county, sorghum works will he built
costing S25, 900. At Nashville, the
American says, the books have not
been formally opened but the whole
amount. $780, 900, for the erection of
sorghum mills has been guaranteed
and the work VIII he pushed forward q,
The sorghum fever Is raging in Mid
die Tennessee, out the Western part of
the state has so far escaped infection.
There's millions in it,-Avalanche.
Early last Monday morning, while
the work train Oh the c., O., y S. w.
Railroad was lying at Coyington,
Tenn, a negro cook OIL the boarding
car nam Jim Griffith p!ayfully point
ed a pistol at another negro named
George Orr and sail, Il am going to
shoot yon, George" At the Same
moment he pulled the trigger and
the pistol fired, the ball striking Orr
in the head. The result was fatal-to
the bullet-as it is now fiat as a pam
cake and entirely worthless. The
thickness of his skull saved Orr's life
, DR.. James Il Sanford attended him
and took the bullet out finding that
1t just ranged around under the scalp
but did not penetrate the skull.
Bloomington Call.
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