The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-02-21
SOUTHERN GLEANINGs.

are organizing a new National bank with q
capital of 5000, 900.
Representatives of fire insurance COM
panies meeting at Atlanta, Ca, decided in
favor of insisting upon the erection of
heavy walls to prevent extensive cotton
fires and on increasing rates in order to
bring about this Improvement. b..
Five coons, nine squirrels, and one,
rahbit'wefe' killed in a tree cut down re-
Gently near Fulton, KY.
4 Exactly 158,b38, 468 pounds of tobae-.
co were raised i'll Kentucky during the
year 1883 So
A large number of robins are cap
tured in nets in North Carolina. One firm
of Newberne recently received 1929 of
these birds from Morehead City so en-
I trapped. +
4 A young Englishman. supposedly
named TrustOn, was killed recently near
Stoneville, Miss, W the falling of a pile
driver. His only exclamation was, when
hurt: "Oh! if I could only be at home.'
His home was not known, and the only
possible means of Identification found up
on him was visiting card bearing the
name: "Thornwald n. Haugreen.'' I
The Texas Legislature, before itsfinal
adjournment, passed bill to lease for sew
en- years, at five cents per acre, 365 sections
of school lands belonging to .Rnorganized
counties; also law making it a misde-
meanor to fence lands not owned or leased,
or to herd stock on the same.
Another electric girl, Matte Lee
Price, Lailing from Stileboro, Barlow Coun-
ty, Ga. few nights ago gave an exhibi-
tion of singular powers at CartersviIle, and
so electrified the crowd that after THE show
r "a gentleman engaged her services for one
i year for $4,000. She is fsafdto strfass the
wonderful Lula HRS and her manager
proposes to play her all over the United
States. szs7 = St-A - EfE-e
A recent alleged attempt to poison a
young lady at Fort Worth, Tex, is how're
4 ported to have beemma de. if with criminal
intent at all, with the object throwing
s. 1.-The blame on an Innocent person by means
Of a forged signature to slip Of paper ac-
companying the box.
The residence of Asbury Vann, on
! Kenesaw Mountain, Ga, burned to the
ground few days ago, and Vann's charred
body was found in the ruins. He had re-
turned home drunk, beat his-wife, and put
the family out of the house, when he piled
the furniture into the fireplace, the fire thus
communicating with the floor and resulting
as stated. &
James Graham, a lawyer, killed his
wife and then committed suicide in New
Orleans few days ago. Drink and domes-
tic trouble led to the tragedy.
The Adiutant-G General of Texas is or
ganizing an active campaign against the
fence-cutters.
While a lot of men were sheIling corn
a few days ago the farm of W. Pryor,
six miles south of Jasper, Tenn, with
four horse power shelter, the balance-wheeI
broke, striking thirteen-year-old boy by
the name of Charles johnson across the
bowels, almost severing him in twain. He
has since died.rA man by the name of John
kilgore had his arm broken, and was 9TH
erwise badly bruised.
- Burrell Brown shot and killed his
brother-in-law, a boy twelve years old, near
Santa Lucca, Ga, a few days ago.
The Steamer Timmje Baker sunk in
the Mississippi few miles above Trenton,
La, few days ago, while landing. No
lives were lost. r--s
A new disease, the nature of which
puzzles the farmers, has appeared among
the horses and mules in some parts of
South Carolina - -
a young South Carolinian named
Walker committed suicide in the wine
room of variety theatre at San Antonio,
Tex., recently.
Reports of buildings under contract
in Georgia cities show that over $5,OOO,O00
will be thus invested in 1884. OF this sum
over 100000 will be expended in At
Ian a. .--.. .-
Mrs. Gordon, residing near BlufftOn,
S. c., now III years Of age, walks four
miles to partake of the monthly Lords
Supper at the Baptist Church.
The Houston, Tex, Cotton Exchange
and Board of Trade have offered $500
prize to be competed for by Texas militia
companies in the coming Interstate drill
in that city.
w. a. Nunnery, of Kershaw County,
S. c., has been sentenced to ten months in
the Penitentiary for changing 81 Nation
al Bank note into a $40 note.
In Austin, Tex, a few evenings since,
John Gardner, a timer, who was anus ng
himself by firing into d. A. Schmidt's
dwelling was fatally wounded by Schmidt.
John Hartigan, a well known bust
ness man of Vicksburg, Miss, died few
days ago. He was for some years Super
L lntendent of the Vicksburg amidst Louis
Anchor Line.
At the DEVILS Glen on the Chatta-
hoochie River, Ga, a few days ago, man
who had kidnapped two children of Jacob
@. Worthington, a wealthy turpentine far
mer of Madison, Fla, was shot dead while
resisting arrest. The children are safe.
Emigration from South Carolina to
Texas and Florida is said to- have been quite
general among the negroes throughout the
former State for some time. One party of
| eighty-two colored men went from Barn
we'll to work at railroad construction.
John Yonker, man fifty years of
I age and a German by birth, committed sui
eide at Austin, Tex, a few days ago by
taking poison. No cause for the act is
! known.
Noah Jackson, convicted in East Car
roll Parish, La, of the murder of Emma
Jacks, will be hanged March z VIM. Moore,
| of St. Marys Parish, who escaped a short
time before the dav fixed for his execution
and was recaptured, had the Goth inst. set
! for his execution.
Vitriol fiends have invaded Atlanta
South Carolina runs 1912 cotton
spindles and 3,652 looms, producing manu-
| featured goods annually to the value of
! 100000. Other mills are soon to be built
adding $1,000 spindles and 740 looms. Up
I wards of 5000 hands find employment in
| the mills.
i Religious statistics from Atlanta, Ca,
show the total valuation of church prop
erty in that city to be about 81 ,00), 900.
Two white churches pay pastors salaries
4 of 5000. Among the colored churches one
! pastor gets a salary of 1900, two get
! $1,000, and several get $50.
A post-office has been opened at
CASTOR, formerly East Dalls, Tex.
William 6. Russell, 6. and Thomas
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