The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-10-08
SOUTHERN GLEANINes.

A ten-year-Old lad in Henry County.
Alabama, got hold of a quart-bottle Of
whisky one day recently and drank it all.
The next day he died.
The President has appointed Mrs. Anna
B. Cheatham, widow of the late Gener al
B. F. Cheathem, postmaster at Nashville,
Tenn.
The only act in reference to Confederate
soldiers in Mississippi is one exempting
crippled or disabled veterans from the
payment of a privilege tax to carry on
business:
At prayer meeting in washington,
Ca, a few nights ago, two young men
querreled about their right to escort home
a female worshiper, the result being
murder.
Fire broke out in Deland; Holus Coun-
ty. Fla, few days ago and destroyed
thirty buildings in the business part of the
town. The loss is estimated at $4,000.
Charles Hinllle and Joe Clark quarreled
at Louisville, KY, few nights ago, and
Hinkle knocked Clark down with chair,
and stabbed him eight times in the back,
while his victim was insensible: Clark
will die.
Reports from several counties in the
Texas cotton belt tell of the disastrous re-
tinuous rains, also Of considerable dam
age resulting from the cotton worm, which
is ravaging Washington and neighboring
counties. It is believed large quantities
Of cotton have been whipped out and dam
aged by rain.
A bread war in st. Augustine, Fla, rec
suits in eight lOaves for a quarter.
John Kemp, ex-chief of police, was
killed at Fort Smith, Ark, few days ago
by Officer Wiley Cox.
One of the finest Lon bridges in the
South is being put up at london; Tehh:
There are $40 inmates of the Georgia
State insane asylum.
Immense beds of oysters are said to
have been found off the coast of North
! Carolina.
One-t third of the Atlanta (Ga.) police
has been dropped since prohibition went
into effect in that city.
A Florida newspaper brought out it's
| biggest rooster to celebrate the victory Of
the Yacht Mayfower.
One dealer at Winchester, KY, has
handled 2,20O, 900 pounds of tobacco since
before the war.
The yield of rice in Louisiana is said to
be considerably below the average this
season.
A live Charleston Is. c. merchant heads
his advertisements in the daily papers as
follows: "Earthquakepricesl Shake 'em
downi'
The prominent young men of vicksburay,
Miss, are taking steps toward organizing
a literary and library association, some-
thing the city HASN'T had since before the
war.
The wealthiest colored man in the United
States is Tenie Luton, a Fren ch quad
room of New Orleans,
The North Carolina State fair, to be
/ held at Raleigh on October 26, bids fair to
be one Of the grandest exhibits ever made
of the products of the Old North State.
Lamar Fontaine, Yazoo City, Miss, has
a postal card containing 1900 words,
! written by him upon one side of the card
/ with pen.
/ $4,000, having but twenty y-ffve dollars of
( assets. AS a business man in that line he
/ Is an eminent success.
/ During the excitement over the debate
I between the Taylor brothers the public
( has overlooked the fact that Tennessee
/ has an Attorney General named George
/ Washington Pickle
Two young japanese employed in the
! Japanese village show in tie Louisville
! (Ky.) Exposition, were recently made
one by matrimony-the first instance of
the kind in this country.
The East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia
tunnel under Missionary Ridge, which
caved in last winter, has been entirely re-
built and trains are now running through
on schedule time.
An epidemic of hog cholera, it is re-
ported, prevails throughout North and
Northeastern Virginia. In several 10.
calities farmers report the loss of the en-
tire stock of hogs. One man in SpOttsy1-
vania County lost forty, the smallest of
which weighed over $50 pounds.
Willie, the sixteen.y .year-old son of John
! Campbell, a farmer near Harrod sburg,
KY, accidentally discharged Flobert
rifle few days since, the ball entering his
right breast, killing him Instantly.
When the war broke out there were but
| forty colored insane in Georgia. The
coIored people before the war were clean
and sober by enforcement; the colored peo-
pie of to- dav, says the Atlanta COnsHt1t-
ton, are filthy and drunken. The result
is an increase from forty -four to $50.
In the rotunda of the Richmond (Val
capitol there is old stove made of iron
which is said to be one of the oldest stoves
in existence. It was made present TO
the colony of Virginia in 177O, and was
spoken of at that time as a warning-ma-
chine. 1t is seven feet high, and has as
much ornamentation as a Queen Anne
house.
The steam laundry of John Lands, at
Shelbyville, Tenn, was completely de-
stroyed by fire a few davs ago. Pix
Bros grocery and Samuel Akin's hotel
were also consumed. The fire was the
work of an incendiary. The total loss is |
$500; Insurance, 81 800.
A shell of a large mOII ask was found in
Eo hot f oil
few days ago. "This fossil she'll" saws
the NeUS, "discovered at such depth be- |
low the surface, is another link in the |
chain of indisputable evidence that this |
section Of the American continent was at |
one time the led of the ocean"
John MalloY, a carrepairer on the Louis |
Vile & Nashville railroad, was killed at
Mas hville, Tenn, a few evenings since /
The top of hIs head was taken off, and /
both legs were broken. An engine backed /
against the car under which he was work
ing.
Charleston still has the shakes.
Some time ago DR. Bertling married Mrs.
Kemp, a rich widow, at Athens, Ga. The
lady died recently, and the reading of the
will created a sensation by cutting Oft her
husband withoat a cent and distributing
her entire fortune among distant rela.
tives. It is probable that the doctor will
make an effort to break the will.
In Manatee County, Florida, they have
an original way of locating the county
seat. Tho county safe, weighing seven
thousand pounds, is at Wauchula, and, as
it is Impossible to move the safe to the
Court house, it is thought be It to move the
Court house to the safe.
Philip Men-u was arrested near Austin,
Tex, for coin M spurious half-dollars.