The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-02-19
SOUTHERN GLEANlNGS.

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The Houston CTex.) Light Guard have
decided to go to Mobile in May next to COM
pete at the Interstate drill. Prizes ag-
gregating $4,000 are offered. They hope
to meet their close competitors, the Tired
way Rifles, of st. Louis. The Light Guards
are now the champions of the United
States.
While praying during a recent storm,
says the Natchez (Miss.) Democrat, ''old
Katie Hightower, who had been blind for
fifteen years, had her sight suddenly re-
stored, and can now see as well as when
child"
AT the University of Virginia there is
no prescribed course of study, no entrance
examination, no vacation, except the sum-
mer one, and but six holidays
A movement is on foot for the erection
Of a soldiers monument at Atlanta, Ga,
by ex-Confederate and Union veterans.
The books printed in the South during
the war are now in demand among collec-
tors. One of these was a spelling book
printed on common wallpaper. Another,
more ambitious, was illustrated with the
old trade cuts found in newspaper offices,
producing a comical effect. Upon the
title-page is the legend: "Printed in the
fourth year of the war of independence"
VIM. Robertson, a young man living in
LOuisburg, N. G., while in a grog shop
few days ago made a wager that he could
drink a quart of whisky inside forty
minutes. The money was put up and he
slipped the liquor from the quart measure,
getting through in thirty-one minutes.
He died two hours afterward.
The carelessness of negroes in regard to
their children is becoming every day more
apparent. Every week come reports from
zI-s1 Il
through the negligence of their parents.
Within the past month three were burned
to death in Kershaw County, two in
Sumter, two in Orangeburg, two in Rich
land and others in other counties in
South Carolina. 1t is becoming such
common occurrence that legislation on the
the subject has been demanded.
The commandment TO love your neighbor
as yourself was recently fully exemplifed
near Barnweu, S. G. While Mr.. w. T.
Cave and his wife were absent from home
their dwelling house and kitchen we're
consumed by fire, their children barely es-
Gaping with their lives. The next day
thirty or forty of their neighbors turned
out and cut logs, hauled them to a mill,
had them sawed into lumber and during
the next week built for Mr.. Cave a new
dwelling as comfortable and cOmmodious
as that which burned.
Edward Grieves, one of the freight de-
partment clerks of the Galveston, Harris
burg & San Antonio Railway at Houston,
Tex, wrote letter to his wife few days
ago limiting suicide, and since that time he
has not been either at home or at the rail-
road office. The opinion prevails that he
has committed suicide. He was a man of
fine address and education.
A bill was introduced in the Texas Leg
islature recently donating all the public
lands to the free schools; but a similar bill
failed during the last session and it will
probably meet the same fate at this.
To -counteract the effect of a dose of
poison accidentally administered to man
near Beattyville, KY, there being no
emetic remedy on hand, woman thought
the nicotine found in a pipe-stem would
answer the purpose. She broke an old
stem, scraped out the inside, and gave it
to the patient, who died in ten minutes.
Citizens of White Rock, Tex, passed
resolutions requiring a Mormon elder to
leave.
Dennis Boyd, colored, who shot and
killed Davis Haas, white, storekeeper on
Gold Plant plantation, Bossier Parish, La,
last Christmas Day, was captured a few
days ago in Red River Parish below Cou-
shatta, by E. J. Gibbs and A. J. Johnston,
of Sabine Parish, where he had been hid
ing for some time.
The Chattanooga Pipe Works have re-
sumed work after several months stop.
page, employing seventy five hands, and
seventy five more will be added at an
early day day. In the past few weeks the
Citico Furnace, cotton factory, five saw
mills, the South Tredegar Nail Works
and a stove foundry have resumed opera
tions, and now give employment to nearly
700 men.
A bold attempt at robbery occurred
few days since at the Garvia Savings
Bank in San Antonio, Tex. Three young
burglars effected an entrance, in broad
daylight, by way of a window, and had
opened the door of the vault when they
were accidentally discovered by one of the
bank clerks passing by, but he was so
overcome by his great astonishment and
fear that he could not give the alarm until
the bold gang had escaped. The burglars
did not have time to secure any booty.
France had her day at the New Orleans
Exposition on the 8th inst, and it was the
largest crowd gathered within the grounds
Nearly all the prominent Creole and French
citizens were present, with the officers and
seamen of the French men-of-war in the
harbor. Viscount d'Abezac, the French
Consul, opened the ceremonies by an ad-
dress, in which he made a formal transfer
of the exhibit to the Exposition. Director
General Burke responded. On the COM
pletion of the ceremonies salutes were
fired.
A negro boy, who boarded a T xas Pa
cific train at Abilene few days ago, was
arrested on the tr ain near Palo Pinto on
the charge of the theft of Iady's gold
Tha of or VVaafha-f1,.x9
telegraphed to look out for the party.
They boarded the train, but failed to find
him, and it subsequently transpired that
he was secreted in the closet of a coach
After passing Weatherford he came out of
the closet, when an officer placed him un-
der arrest and accused him of the theft.
The culprit marched to the water cooler
and, reaching down into the tank, pro-
duced the stolen watch.
Lent commences February 18th.
The West Tennessee horticultural So
ciety has Just closed an interesting annual
meeting. Henderson c. NJ. Marvin. a
leading fruit grower, was elected Presi-
dent for the ensuing year. Delegates from
every county in West Tennessee gave en-
couraging reports of the future of the
fruit crops.
The trial of Hance B. Penn, at jackson,
Miss, charged with participating in the
murder of r. P. Reals some months ago.
at Haziehurst, resulted in his acquittal
Dr. r. P. Penn, brother of Hance and in
dicted with him jointly for the murder,
was sentenced to be hanged
One million of the cattle in Texas are
owned by men who live outside the State.
few nights ago burglars entered the
drug house of Patton & Co., at Sulphur
Springs, Tex, and succeeded in blowing
open a small safe, taking 81, ,435, and made