The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-07-02
SOUTHERN GLEANINos.

has been taken to the asylum.
DR.. A. K. Taylor, one Of the most prom
inent physicians of Hot Springs, Ark, and
very influential citizen, died few days
since. He leaves many friends and rela-
tives to mourn his death.
A Kentucky farmer says he gathered
about twenty of the cut-worms which
have been devastating the crops in his
section and put them in cigar box half
filed with dirt, covered the same with a
pane Of glass, and set it in the sun. The
result in less than two weeks was brood
of grasshOppers.
carload of Alabama manufactured
cotton goods was recently shipped to
Portland, Ore.
Wash Barnes, a convict from Harris
County, Tex, escaped from the plantation
OF Messrs. Rogers & Hill few nights ago
and was found asleep the next day near
the Navasota bridge, by some of the
guards. Upon being asked to surrender
he made another break for liberty and was
shot and killed.
The Governor of Louisiana has signed
the Sunday law. 1t goes into effect jan
uary next.
a tramp recently arrested at Dallas,
Tex, turned out to be a murderer for
whose capture there was q standing re-
ward of 81 900 offered.
The grand jury, recently in SESSION al
Vicksburg, Miss, returned seventy in
dictments, covering all classes Of offenses,
largely against poker players.
The life sentence passed on Cliff Cook
for murder has been affirmed by the Court
of Appeals at Austin, Tex.
From Eve thousand to eight thousand
green turtles are shipped yearly from
Florida and adjacenti,lands to New York,
where they sell at an ayerege of fifteen
cents per pound.
On telegram from the Navy Depart
ment, the revenue cutter Forward recently
left Mobile for Mississippi Sound, to inter-
cept a schooner loaded with men and arms
for flibustering il Cuba.
Miss Maude JettOn was bitten a few
months ago in Galloway County, Ken =
tucl<y, by a neighbor's dog. A few days
since she developed all the symptoms OF
hydrophObia and died in great agony.
There are now in Swain and other ex-
treme western counties of North Carolina
1881 Cherokee Indians. They hold 10000
acres Of land by deed Of trust. They are
urged to go to Indian Territory, and are
considering the matter.
The truckmen of Norfolk County, Vir-
ginia, are enjoying a very successful cab
bage season. One man alone set out 1,500,-
600 plants on his four farms, and he ex.
poets to gather over l, ,250,000 head.
The boilers Of the international cotton
press at New Orleans exploded a few days
ago. blowing out the Peters street side OF
the building and killing two employees.
Hon. Thos. Seay, Democratic nominee
for governor Of Alabama, is less than forty
years old, served as a private during the
war, finished his education after peace
was restored, and is one Of the most sue
cessful planters in the State.
A New Orleans citizen a few weeks a go
put doubIe-yelked egg under a setting
hen. The other day a little head came e
through each end of the egg, and when the
shell was removed two chicks were found.
They were slightly united, but were easily
separated.
A public meeting of citizens residing on
swamp lands in the Ouachita and Red
river valleys, Louisiana, is to be held at
Troyville on the 81 of July to devise
means for closing the Atchafalaya river
and protecting the plantations from over
flow.
Mr.. J. J. Grissom of Sparta, Tenn, re-
ports that lightning struck the house of a
neighbor few days ago, completely tear
ing off one corner of the structure and
uncovering a bed where the children were
sleeping. The children were unharmed
and some members of the family did not
even awaken.
A Richmond paper notes that the skin of
cold Sorrel" Stonewall Jackson's war
horse, has not yet been returned from the
North, where it was sent to be stuffed
The taxidermist has sent word, however,
that he will make the old charger look .as
though he was alive.
Reports received from every section Of
Tennessee say that very great damage has
been done the wheat crop by the unusual
" heavy rains, streams overtlOwing their
banks and causing considerable loss. The
Cumberland river rose seventeen feet at
at Burksville, KY, few days ago, and
was advancing one foot per hour.
A great waterspout burst on the line of
the Chattanooga railroad a few days ago,
and swept away all but five shocks of
wheat in a twenty acre lot.
Robert Brown, a miner employed al
Bevier mines, went to Central City, KY,
a few days ago, and before leaving be-
came intoxicated. On his way home he sat
down on the Chesapeake, Ohio 81 South
western railroad track, short distance
from the town limits, and went to sleep,
a
O'Clock ran ov,r him, crushing him into a
shapeless mass. His dog, which accom-
panied him, was also killed. Brown
leaves a wife and two children in destitute
circumstances.
From planters of Madison, East Carroll
Richland and Tensas Parishes, La, as well
as from the delta counties in Mississippi,
we get gloomy reports of the prospects
for a good outcome to the cotton crop,
No plowing has been done during the
past few weeks, and the grass is not only
outgrowing the cotton, but many Of the
fields are standing fun of water. Imme-
diately ON the banks of the Yazoo river
in the sandy land, the prospect is some
what brighter, though by no means good.
Early corn win pull through, but other
crops can not reach the acreage.
Watermelon harvest has begun.
The judicial convention recently held by
the Kentucky Democracy at Lebanon was
a turbulent one. Fist fights were frequent
on the floor, and oaths were directed at the
chairman. The commissioner of the Louis
vile Chancery Court knocked down lead
ing lawyer, and was himself f1oored with
a cane in the hands of another prominent
attorney.
Heavy rains have prevailed recently
throughout West Tennessee which have
seriously interfered with wheat harvest
ing. Crops generally are looking well
especi lIy cotton, throughout that section
of the country.
A Georgia citizen, aged twenty eight
recently bought his first pair of shoes.
During the recent stay of the American
Opera Company in Louisville, KY VIM
Candidus, the eminent tenor, visited a
colored asylum and selected boy to take
with him to Europe and educate. The boy
was TO be sent to him during his stay II
the East. An investigation Of the by
laws of the institution, however, showed