The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-12-10
SOUTHERN oLEANINos.


an eight-mOnths-old heifer calf which
/ gives One-half a gallon of milk per day.
! In Decatur, Ala, recently, a man was ar.
rested who put counterfeit in dollar the
contribution box and took out genuine
coins in change.
The Jail at Somerville, Tenn, was de-
stroyed by fire, lighted by a prisoner, a
few days ago. Nine men in confinement
there were transferred to Memphis.
Louisiana boasts the largest plantation
on earth-one hundred miles long by twen-
ty-fve wide.
F. II Levy, a prosperous merchant at
Baton Rouge, was accidentally shot and
| killed few evenings since.
A. & S. ROsenfeld, clothiers at Atlanta,
Ga, are insolvent, their debts and assets
balancing at $4,000.
Granville Brown, a boy of Mt Vernon,
| KY, was caught in burning barn few
days ago, and perished in the flames.
In quarrel at Petersburg, Va, a few
days ago, Mary Sprigg threw a lighted
| kerosene lamp at Susan Sparlock, who was
almost roasted alive by the burning liquid.
A collision of trains near Greenwood,
| Mo, few days ago, caused the death Of
Elijah A MagOfin, postal clerk, a nephew
! Of the Ex-Governor Of Kentucky.
| The destruction of the Winn Parish (La.)
! courthouse by a fire of incendiary origin
occurred a few days since. The building
| hadbeen saturated with coal-oil, and burned
| so rapidly that no time was given to save
the records, all of which were destroyed.
| What is known as t'the wholesale block, :"
| in Montgomery, Ala, a new building Occu-
| pied by wholesale merchants in different
! branches of business, was burned a few
nights ago. The block is situated in the
| centre of the business portion of the city.
The wind was very high and the fire was a
! fierce one.
| Fresh cucumbers are being shipped from
| Florida to Northern markets.
! A Georgia farmer has partridge that
follows hen and her chickens about tha
yard.
There are only thirty-three inmates in
the Mississippi Blind Asylum. The build
| ing cost the State $4,000.
A couple of spOrtsmen in Lowndes Coun-
ty, Ala, recently killed 143 squirrels in one
day.
The Arkansas Supreme Court has decid-
ed that Sunday can not beignored by those
| who observe Saturday as Sunday
| Little Maggie Hill, of Fayetteville, Tenn,
although only six years old, plays the
violin almost as well as the best teacher
in the State.
During the past few years land in many
Florida counties has doubled in price. The
population has also doubled.
One of the richest men in San Antonio,
| Tex, is Chop Hop, Chinaman, who has
| an English wife. He is now on a visit to
the Flowery kingdom.
| Mayor Guillotte of New Orleans has sus-
/ pended Chief of Police Pachemin for in
competency, charging him also with en-
bezzlement.
DR.. Bradshaw, of Longview, Tex, was
recently relieved of his wallet, containing
/ $4,000, atDallas, by pickpOckets.
The Cape Hatteras On. C.) fishery was
very successful in catching porpOises this
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! pOrpoises were caught. They are caught
for their skins, which are converted into
! leather.
! The recent fire at Raleigh, n. c., in the
| cotton yard, in the heart of the city, de
1 stroyed 1919 bales, causing loss of S48,.
/ 900, all save $1,000 covered by insurance
/ Salvage viii not exceed ten per cent.
! A negro inmate of the poor-house at
! Admission, Ala, is attracting a great deal
/ of attention by his peculiar actions, which
+ Rre said to be similar to those of a dog
He eats, drinks and barks like canine,
I and it seems to be his chief pleasure to as
+ BOciate with one.
Four years ago Fred Therwanger was
/ the poorest man in JeffersOnville, KY. He
didn't have a dollar, but his son had four
teen dollars and with this Fred bought q
keg Cf beer, jug Of whisky, some glasses,
/ md riEged up rough bar. He is now
. worth over $4,000.
The cotton planters in lower North Caro-
lima are said to have experienced much
trouble in securing labor this season. Last
year labOrers were paid thirty-five cents
per hundred pounds for picking, but this
year they demanded fifty cents per hun
dred, and a number of planters refused to
pay that amount
On Lookout mountain, few days since
man named Bryant lost his life by thaw-
Ing dynamite in a fire, Both his legs were
torn off by the explosion which followed.
Immense forest fires recently rava ged
. Bladen, Brunswick and Columbus coun-
ties, n. O., and large tracts Of timber have
been burned.
Two Cinnamon secured wives by elOping
with white girls from Augusta Ga. Out
of these events grew a feeling of hostility
which led to attempts with fire and dyna-
mite on the houses occupied by the Chinese
colony.
In Winston County, Miss, recently, a
young man concluded to get married in a
now suit of clothes without paying for
them. He went to a tailor, obtained the
clothes on credit, got married, and re-
turned them to the tailor the next day.
Ginning that they did not fit him.
Willie Hines, the seventeen-year-Old son
Of a well-to-do farmer Of West Point, Ga,
eloped with and married Mss Newsome,
ten years his senior, a few days ago. In
! order to keep his father from following
him, the young man smashed the family
carriage and threw the sadd le into the
well.
There was a serious fire at Aiken, s. c.,
few days ago. Eight buildings were de-
strOyed The total losses are estimated at
$4,000, and the insurance at S22,000
The residence of Mr.. George Phillips,
near Oddviue, Harris County, Ky, burned
to the ground few days ago, with all its
/ contents. Loss about $3.50, on which
. fbpvp wa q n of G5O0 Tho rn
is supposed to have been the work of an
| incendiary.
A parti-cOlored baby is reported to have
/ been born recently at Aberdeen, Miss. Its
father is a very black negrs; its mother a
I light mulattO Half the child's body is
hair on one side of its head is kinky; on
the other, light and straight, while one
/ eye is black and the other blue.
Georgia has had her first Arbor day.
Hon. Jordan Stokes, one of the most dis
| tinguished lawyers in Tennessee, died at
his home in Nashville a few days ago, aged
| siXty-nine years. He was a man of unu-
sual attainments, remarkable information
and great force of character. Judge
/ Stokes was native of North Carolina, but
/ removed to Tennessee at an early age. He
leaves six children.
Joel Wright, a Cherokee Indian, left
I Fort Smith, Ark, a few days ago with an
OK wagon, on which was $500 pounds of
-four He was drunk About six miles
from the city, while asleep sitting o. the
front of the wagon, he fell of, and was run
| over and killed.
a railroad to Mammoth Cave, KY, has
been completed.
Citizens of Chattanooga, Tenn, are be-
coming interested in a story to tho effect
that some years ago a miser buried tin
! box containing $1,000 in gold in the earth
/ near Old Stone Fort, and several parties