The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-09-03
SOUTHERN GLEANINGs.

All election tickets in Louisiana must be
printed on paper furnished by the Secre-
tary of State at five per cent. more than
actual cost, this little item being one Of
the secretary's perqnisites.
A large watermelon recently arrived at
baltimore, Nd, from Augusta, Ga. 1t
measured thirty 1.-TWO inches in length, fif-
teen inches in depth, fourteen inches in
width, and weighed eighty-four pounds.
The total loss from therecent gulf storm,
as now known to Texas, Isl Human lives
lost, thirty-eight; loss to crops, 81, ,000,O00i
loss to city and town property, s., 00,O0O;
loss TO shipping and harb0r improve
ments 100000. Total, 50 100000.
A resident of Columbia, n. c., has gone
into the cultivation of the suEfower on
large scale. He has several acres planted
with different varieties of the fowe-, and
expects within a short time to be able to
supply the SoutEeIn markets with the
product. He says they make splendid
feed for stock, and horses and cattle are
quite fon of them.
Alexander Stewart, of Stanton, Va,
aged ninety zone years, recently attended
the funeral Of S. G. Wayland, aged eighty
one years, who had been his best friend
for half a century. The nexs day while
Mr.. Stewart was recalling to party of
visitors scenes and incidents in which he
and his friend Wavland had participated,
he fell over on the ground and died in
few minutes.
While Mrs. Kairns and her ten-year-old
daughter were attempting to cross the
Tennessee river about ten miles below
Chattanooga q few days ago in a small
skiff, while in a strong current, the boat
capsized and both were drowned.
An Atlanta (Ga.) Taper sums up the re-
suit of thirty eight days of prohibition as
follows: "Less money in the city and
Stale treasury, less business houses occu-
pied, less people in the city, less morality,
more drunkenness, more crimes and Grim
inaIs, more poor people out OF employ
ment, more taxes, and more dissatlsfac-
tion among all classes than has ever ex-
listed before" Buying whisky by the jug
instead of by the glass appears to have
worked an astonishing change for the
worse in GEORGIA.
In Athens, Ga, the yellow flag is hung
cut to indicate the presence Of diphth eria
There is q veteran GEORGIAN in Ameri-
Gus who has fifteen children, ffty-one
grandchildren and twenty-four great
grandchildren.
John and Leander Nelson, colored, were
Iynched for murder st Nc agnola, Miss, a
few days AGO.
Judge Simrall has been nominated for
Congress by the Republicans of the Third
Mississippi district.
A colored lad shot and killed his little
sister, at Hot Spl ings, Ark, recently, be-
| cause she refused to give him part Of her
candy.
There is a mOven' ent among the business
men Of Chattanooga, Tenn, to form a
l. Of
each to take 500 stock, for he purpose of
! erecting a large cotton factory.
The University of Mississippi pays
larger salary to its professors than most
of the Northern Institutions do, yet it has
four vacant chairs-Latin, Greek, mathe-
MATES and literature.
The wife Of Gilbert Babb, prosperous
farmer living near AGairville, Ky, COM
mitted sui ide by hanging herself in an
| clubhouse a few days ago. The suicide
! taint was hereditary. Her father, Wm.
/ Perry, shot and killed himself, and a
! short while afterward her mother hanged
| herself. She has a sister in the Nashville
! asylum.
John KeicheT, of " ashington County,
| Tenn, wealthy farmer and aged sew
en:y-fve, committed suicide a few days
! go by taking "Bouph en- Rats" He left
| no excuse for his rash act.
Cons ant Bencit, young Swiss who re-
| Gently arrived in America, was attacked
! ly u vicious boar in the Island Farm
! Home, near Knoxville, Tenn, few days
! ago, and received injuries from which he
soon died.
The letter carriers of New Orleans are
/ irving TO get the str eet-Car companies to
| grant them permission to tide free over
| their lines In the performance of their
| duties. The force have a territory eight
! miles up, six miles down, and two miles
! across, and two miles east of the river to
| cover.
a little tornado whirled through Colds
boro, N. c., the other day, and finding the
front door Of u fine residence open, dashed d
| into the house, gathered up a lOt Of furni-
| ture, burst open rear door, and flung the
whole lot in a heap in the hack yard.
James Mclaughlin, tryina to ford the
| Alana river during a recent Florida
freshet, found himself unable to go for
ward or backward, and so climbed a cab
| bage palmetto and there roasted for forty
seven hours. He tied his wrists to the
stalks. and thus was able to sleep without
| falling out Of the tree.
When The passenger train from Opelika
to Macon passed through Columbus, Ga.
! n few davs ago, there were three NEGROES
l
said he he'd no authority to put them out
At Geneva the train was boarded by a
party of young men, who kicked the ne
/ groes out.
Alex. Williams, a strong, viciou5 look
ing negro, who was once member of tie
| South Carolina Legislature, was sent tc
the county jail few days ago, in default
! of bond for assault with infent to murder
The Prohibitionists Of Georgia recently
took the lead in holding a conference al
Atlanta with their opponents, about forty
! prominent men eing present 1t is said
| that the provision for a wholesale and
quart license will be presented to the Leg
islature as a compromise.
The City Council of Galveston, Tex.
has appropriated $4,000 for the relief o.
the sufferers by the recent storm, and citi-
zens have subscribed 5000. 1t is said thai
only three houses in IndianOla escaped
destruction, and nearly all the cattle and
| sheep on the island were drowned.
Waterspouts are common off Key West.
Captain Quinn Capeheart. who was en-
ploved in the construction OF the Nash
vile & Chattanooga railroad and has beer
running as conductor for thirty years
was killed few days agonear Bridgeport
on that road. He was attempting to make
a coupling when he fell and was crushed
to death. He was the Oldest railroad mar
in the State.
The Pioneer Mills, at Abilene, Tex, un-
dismayed by the total failure of The grair
crops this year, have commenced erecting
an elevator capable of storing 10000 bush
els Of grain, and viii have it completed il
time for next crop.
A seventeen year old 10y IN Bibb Coun-
ty, Ala, is six feet and nine inches high
Mr.. Lester, a white man, and Ben New
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