The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-10-01
SOUTHERN oLEANINas.

cars. Thomas had been living there
about two years and was generally popu-
lar. He was about twenty -one years of
age, and was raised principally in Indi-
ana, where his relatives reside.
Martin Duke, the man who murdered his
brother law, James Finn, in a rough
and-tumble fight at Old Deposit, KY, on
August 26, was captured few days ago at
Old Deposit, and lodged In jail here at
Louisville. 1t was learned that Duke had
returned stealthily to his home to see his
wife, and Justice Miles surrounded the
house with a squad of men and captured
the murderer.
This has been the greatest tobacco year
in point ofreceipts in the history of Lynch
burg. Va. By October 2, when the fiscal
year ends, the sales will have reached
50 100000 pounds.
If Prof Virgins is to be credited the
people of New Orleans, Mobile and Macon
would do well to brace themselves for the
coming shock, as he: declares that on the
Doth inst. those three cities will be in the
line Of a violent earthquake disturbance
which viii reach from ocean to ocean.
A call he's been issued for a new Demo-
cratic State convention in Texas to meet
October 7.
peach tree in the orchard of D. S.
Blackwell, of Cobb County, South Caro-
lima, is forty years old, and this year bore
two crops of peaches.
Jennie Lemon, who lives near Dallas,
Tex, is but fifteen years old, yet she bad
the pluck the other day, single handed,
to attack and kill "a rattlesRake that~was
six feet five inches long, twelve inches in
circumference, and that carried sixteen
rattIes.
extra BiIly'' Smith, twice Governor Of
L l.
last week. He is still quite active, physic-
ally and mentally, and daily walks to
Warrenton, Va, a distance of nearly
mile.
Secretary Lamar has had a vacation in
New Hampshire. Gossips assert that he
is about to marry Mrs. Holt, a handsome
and wealthy widow of Macon, Ga, to
whom he p5 id attention in his early years.
The Governor of Texas has been asked
by the relatives of the deceased to ap-
prove Of papers claiming from the Mexi-
can Government damages of 100000 for
the murder of Erresures by the orders of
Captain MOndragOn.
A party of tn irteen moonshiners, includ-
ing several women, were taken into Nash
vile, Tenn, from the mountains few
days ago. They had given the officers
much trouble for some time, but were
finally forced to surrender.
The root of a tree recently dug up in the
city of Richmond, Va, was found to have
grown around a short piece of lead pipe.
The pipe was in good condition, and ran
through the center of the root, which was
nearly fifteen inches in circumference.
Young James Dougherty, son of the
sheriff of Frio County, Tex, was chasing
stock a few days ago, when his horse fell
upon him, inf1icting injuries from which
he died.
George w. Rogers, one of the proprie.
tors of the Vicksburg (Miss.) Commercials
Herald, was stricken down recently with
attack of Bright's disease, and it is
thought that his recovery is doubtful. He
is a veteran newspaper man.
The Dallas Opera-house, the finest place
of amusement in Texas, has been con-
demned as unsafe by a committee of ex-
pert builders. The structure was put up
only three years ago with a seating ca
paclty of 1900, and all modern convent
ences and elaborate fnishings and fur.
nishings.
Three fatal accid entR occurred at Louis.
vile, KY, few days ago. Dan Callahan,
a laborer, had a building -stons fall upon
and crush his head; VIM. Ameling was
caught in a fiywheel Of a cotton factory
and torn to pieces before he could be re-
leased, and Fred Meyer, farmer, was
gored to death in a stable by a bull.
Twin girls were born August 81 to one
John Williams and wife, living near Wal
nut Hill. Ark. They were grown togeth-
er from the sternum downward a distance
of six inches. They weighed eleven
pounds. The integument passed uninter-
ruptedly from one to the other. With
this exception they were very natural.
four. The mothers weight is two hum
dred and fifty pounds.
Julia Leonard (colored) and Dora Leon
ard, her daughter, were arrested at
Weatherford, Tex, recently for the mur-
der Of the new born female child of the
latter. Sheriff Baylor found the child
buried in a hole where he was directed by
the mother, who is seventeen years of age.
The dead babe was buried head down
ward. The parties are in jail.
4 National bank with a paid up capital
of $50, 600, to open for business October Is,
has been organized at Yazoo City, Miss.
L. Iippman, of New Orleans, is president;
Charles Mann, of Yazoo City, vice. -presi-
dent; L. B. Warner, cashier. Directors:
The officers above and E. o. jackson, Ed
Drenning and J. G. Hausman.
w. f. Speir, Inspector of Public Build
ings in the supervising architects Office
of the Treasury DepaI tment, and Captain
Pixley and Lieutenant Abbott, of the En-
gineer Corps, who have assisted in in
specting damaged buildings in Charles
ton, s. c., have completed their lsbOrs and
returned to Washington. Their work was
done thoroughly and expeditiously, and
has given general satisfaction to all con-
cerned.
near Laredo, Tex, recently. A sheep
shearer named Mata was in the act of
shearing a sheep when the animal began
to struggle violently, and in some manner
unaccountable forced the shears into
Mata's abdomen, from the effects Of which
he lied in few minutes.
"San ctilgumption" is the latest.
The citizens of Biloxi, Miss, recently
held a mass-meeting to denounee all
towns which established quarantine
against the alleged yellow fever, and to
to take steps TO secure the indictment of
Dr. Holt, of theLouisiana State Board OF
health. for misstatements.
at was very d fiicu1t," the Augusta
,Ga.) Chronicle thinks, "to stop the ca
nard, now going the rounds of the press,
that our (Augusta's) higblan suburb has
risen since the quake. The earth has not
settled or risen the fraction of aH@inch.
Cutting down the forest changed the view.
Tn ats all there is Of IT,"
Forty thousand colored people live in
Louisville, Ky.
Three broth ers named Morgan, aged
twenty -four, twenty -one and eighteen,
were bathing In the Chattanooga river,
near Chattanooga, Tenn. a few days ago,
when the youngest one was seized with
cramps a Id sunk twice. The tw o brothers
tried TO rescue him, when all three were