The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-07-30
SOUTHERN oLEANINes.

age, who was in the boat with him.
Coroner Hudiberg heard of the drowning
and went to the house for the purpose of
holding an inquest. He was met by the
dead boys father and promptly elected
from the premises.
Old Fort Marion. at st. Augustine, Fla,
is to mount six new guns, to be placed on
granite caps water battery in front Of
the ancient Spanish fortress.
Bryan Strickland, of Gainesville, Ca,
was shot down and killed in that town a
/ few days ago by a party headed by Town
1 Marshall Puckett.
W. H. Gigger, who shot and killed Cap
| tain J. W. Higgins, of the Internal Rev
enue Service, at Carthage, Tenn, last
months, for an alleged insult to Mrs. Gig
| ger, attempted suicidein the Carthage jail
a few days ago, cutting an artery in his
arm. His act was discovered in time tc
! prevent his bleeding to death.
A destructive cyclone passed over the
upper portion of Lunenberg County, Va, a
| few daya since. The storm covered a
large area and wrought great destruction
in its path. Some farmers had their en-
tire crops of corn and tobacco blown down
and completely ruined, while others snf-
fered heavily by having their fruit trees
blown down or stripped of their branches.
Atlanta (Ga.) capitalists propose estab-
fishing a large piano factory.
The annual sales of tobacco at Danville,
Va, the head center of the trade, averages
forty million pounds.
A New Orleans citizen claims to have
won the prize offered by the Government
of India for machine that would prepare
the fiber of the ramie plant.
A deed covering thirty three pages of
oa,o ma mar auaT-a ot0or aIauaT1 word c
to the line and thirty two lines to the
page, thus containing 11,616 words, was
recently recorded in Mcintosh County,
Georgia.
A blue crane, measuring six feet from
tip to tip, was recently captured in fish
pond near Gainesville, Ga. A carp eight
inches long and weighing quarter of a
pound was found in its stomach.
A young man who had grown up within
five miles of johnson City, Tenn, without
ever seeing the town, visited it last week.
After returning home he was asked what
was the biggest thing he saw there, and
replied: 81 seed a whole lot o. fellows
with red clubs strackin' at a ball"
A report from London, KY, says the
French and Eversole factions fought at
Hazard few days ago, and that at least
one man was killed. The report says the
EIGuCu IdCblOu lOluS Tie bOWus
A black cloud emptied itself in the
'piney woods'' of Laurens County,
Georgia, recen tly, on a space not exceed
ing half acre, and miles from any pond
or creek; and with the water were deposit
ed over fifty soft-shen turtles and striped
head terrapins, nearly all as large as the
bottom of a peek measure.
Frank Mcdonald, aged fifteen, and
Essie O'Niel, aged thirteen, both of Knox
vile, Tenn, were married a few nights
ago. The parents of both objected to the
match, and the ceremony was performed
beneath tree in the suburbs of the city
by a magistrate.
Samuel Smythe, nephew of a rich plant
er at olon, Panama, cut a swath at Mo-
bile, Ala, recently, as George Henry, and
at New Orleans as Rev. H. j. Nethercott,
of Honduras, having stolen the clothes
and papers of the latter. He was arrest
ed, exposed and has returned to Colon.
The Howard and Turner factions at Har-
Dor Courthouse, Harlan County, KY,
have been repeating the Tolifer- Martin
act. The families occupied houses on
either side of a road, under cover of which
they have been firing at each other. Alex.
Bailey, of the Howards, was killed. 9th
ers were wounded.
has a curiosity in the form of a worm. 1t
has eight horns on the top of its head
about an inch long. The worm is about
six or seven inches long, of a greenish
color, with black horns half inch long
all over the body. It's head is shaped
somewhat like that of a rhinoceros, and
it has eight legs about an inch long. 1t
was found in a persimmon tree.
Geo. Causey, jealous of Lydia Creecy,
knocked II enry Brooks into the river at
Hampton, Va, a few days ago, and the
latter was drowned. Brooks, though
married to Miss Creecy's cousin, paid her
improper attentions. She was to marry
Causey. The death was a mystery until
confession was elected from Miss Creecy.
One hundred and thirty five men at work
IN mattresses for the protection of the
South Memphis river front struck a few
days ago for higher wages. They were
getting S1.25 and demanded $1.5O. They
we're employed by the citizens committee,
which raised the money by subscription
Tor the work. No previous demand has
been made, and the contractors were taken
Utterly by surprise. Work is entirely sus-
pended.
A horrible accident occurred a few DAYS
since on the incline railway being con-
structed up Lookout mountain. John
Jones, son of the superintendent of the
road, was coming down the mountain on
train of cars loaded with rock. 1t became
unmanageable and flew down the steep
side of the mountain with frightful veloc-
ity. Young Jones was thrown twenty
feet in front of the flying cars, where his
body was crushed into a shapeless mass.
Mr.. James J. Grove, Of the Anderson 6
Nelson DistilIery Company, Louisville,
KY, and Miss Katie ScanIon eloped to
JeffersonviIle, Ind, few days ago, and
were married by Esquire John Ware.
Great pains were taken to keep the matter
quiet, the Squire and John House, the
atrimonial drummer, being literally feed
to suppress the marriage. The young
couple inadvertently betrayed themselves,
however.
Cotton viii be a partial failure.
a Texas Judge has decided that when a
man in that State approaches another with
his hands in his pockets it is an invitation
to shoot. A Virginia judge, of happy
memory, once decided that calling a man
a liar was equivalent to knocking him
down, and he could thereafter govern
himself accordingly.
j. a. Crawford, of Jackson, Tenn, deli
berateIy took a pistol and shot himself
through the head few days, inficting a
fatal wound. He leaves a wife and one
child Crawford was from Michigan. No
cause assigned for the act. He was har-
nsss-naker by profession
Frank James, the -highwayman of
Missouri, is visiting friends in Texas.
Patrick Monohan, aged forty years, shot
and fatally wounded Miss Laura Carney,
aged twenty, wounded her mother, shot
himself in the head, and tried to kill his
rival, Miss Carney's sweetheart, at Nash
vile, Tenn, a few days ago. Monohan
was once engaged to Miss Carney, but for
come raason the encaeement was broken |