The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-12-24
SOUTHERN oLEANINGs.

Free tuition in the South Carolina Col
lege has been in part abolished
A citizen Of Charleston, S. c., is making
money by selling earthquake sand'' at
twenty-five cents per pound.
A Beaufort (Ga.) bride is the groom's
third wife, and the groom is her third hus-
I band. Each has one son, and the sons are
of about the same age.
The negroes of Grant Parish, La, are
holding meetings and organizing for the
purpose of forcing landowners to rent
their lands at less than four dollars per
acre.
The Supreme Court Of Texas, in decid.
ing that Fit Davis is the legal county seal
of Preside County, rendered void $4,000
in bonds given to the contractors for the
| courthouse, some of which were recently
sold at par.
On the 1st of January the sum of s265, ,OOi
interest on the bonded debt of Tennessee
will be due. At present the State Treas
ury is empty and overdrawn, but Comp
troller Pickard announces that the interest
will be paid
The Gate City Guard of Atlanta, Ca, the
most famous volunteer company in the
Southern States, has closed a contrac'
with steamship company for transporta,
ton to Antworp. Thence the command
| intends to make tour of the continent.
AAASANOAA4S d MAR Gil dCEO5S lIf0 alps 1IOL4i
Switzerland into Italy. Eighty members
will probably take the trip. Governor and
Mrs. Gordon have been invited to accom-
pany the organization.
An outgoing accommodation train on the
Viclzsburg q Meridian railroad dropped a
spark of fire in the dry grass near the
Jewish Cemetery, one mile east of Vicks-
burg, few nights ago. The fire soon
spread to the cemetery. consuming about
ho1 of "a iTCr oh five
hundred dollars worth of ornamental
shade trees.
Ex-Governor Preston Il. Leslie of Ken
lucky has been nominated Governor of
Montana.
In the Savannah (Ga.) markets shad are
selling at eight cents each.
A gourd IN Barron County, Ky, holds
twelve gallons.
A cow in Owen County, KY, four and a
half years old, has given birth to four
calves in three years.
A citizen of Athens, Ga, recently paid his
subscription to the local paper fifty years
in advance. There are but few like him.
Texas towns are experiencing great
scarcity of coal through lack of transporta-
tion facilities.
1t has been discovered that the weight
of cotton has been increased by dishonest
Southern dealers by sailing it.
Tennessee's peanut crop this year is
worth S700,O00. The average yield per
acre is forty-two bushels.
E. L. CASTOR, a prominent farmer of
Coweta County, Ga, shot and killed his
son-in-law, w. W. Estes, in a fight few
nights ago. Both men had been drinking.
''Aunt Amy Gordon, who was born in
Amherst County, Pa, in 1116, died recently
near Lynchburg, Va, where she had
| lived during the past seventy years.
There are seven Swiss colonies in Ken
lucky, and all the people are doing well
and living comfortably. A large number
of Swiss are now on their way from Eu-
rope to found another colony near Lin
coin.
At Gree nville, Ala, a few days since,
/ Mayor Perry and some friends made a
brutal attack upon two temperance speak
ers who had given offense. One of the
lecturers was knocked down on the rail-
road track with brass knuckles; the other
was in the act Of shooting the mayor when
his arm was seized.
Representative Oates, of Alabama, is
brave enough to advocate the allowance of
a clerk for each member, at d salary Of
800 per month, the aggregate cost to the
people being 81 600 per day.
The planters of the Teche region of
Louisiana, at a convention recently held
can be protitably manufactured, tariff or
no tariff, by means of central factories
using improved machinery.
A sheriff, deputy and four policemen
made raid on a negro gambling g-den near
| Birmingham, Ala, few nights ago, when
a fusilade occurred between the occupants
! of the house and the officers. The result
was that five of the gamblers were capt
ured and two were killed. None of the Of
/ ficers were hurt.
The handsome resideace of r. K. Car
| ter, of Tuscola, La, burned to the ground
few nights ago. 1t was unoccupied at
the time. Loss, s., 500; insured in the
Royal, of Liverpool, for g, ,250. The fire
was undoubtedly the work of an incen-
! diary.
| The residence and clearinghouse OF
Mrs. Porterfeld was burned in Delta,
/ Miss, few evenings since. It was a clean
| sweep. She has kept a boarding g-hOuse in
| that place for many years, and her busi-
ness was her only support
Turfmen from every section of the
| United States gathered at Lexington, re-
Gently to attend an auction sale of thor
! oughbreds, at which eighty-five were sold
for an average of 1000 each. Blue Wing
| brought 1900, the Duke of Bourbon $3.50,
and Bob Fisher S5,050, all going to Sam
| Brown, the coal king Of Pittsburgh, Pa.
The Henderson CKy.) Buggy Company.
| which was closed down several weeks ago,
| throwing fifty men out of employment, has
! resumed operations with full force Of
! hands, but work only eight hours per day.
| The wages of the men per hour are the
/ same as paid before the suspension Of
| work
! AS Lindsey Hall, white farmer, was
! proceeding home from Pine Bluff, Ark, a
| few nights ago, with his cotton money,
| 500, he was waylaid W hen three miles
| from town, and robbed and dangerously
| shot, by three negnOes. The scoundrels
| have been arrested and lodged in Jail
| General W. @. Harding, proprietor of
| che Belle Meade stock farm, located six
| miles from Nashville, who died few days
! ago, aged seventy-eight years, was one of
| the best known breeders in the United
/ States He had been in ill-health for
| several years, but, nevertheless, mani
/ tested great interest in turf matters
! generally, and in the success of his great
! breeding establishment, where many of the
| best horses inthe land were reared. Gener-
/ al Harding turned over the management
/ of Belle Meade some years ago to General
/ W. H Jackson, his son-in-Iavv, who has
| since added much to the value Of that fine
| farm.
Louisville, Ky, has a haunted house.
| Suit has been instituted in the Federal
/ Court at Jackson Hiss, by the United
! States Government against the bondsmen
| of L n. Kimball, to recover 3,20O. The
/ Government claims that he is short that
| amount as receiver OF HuDl1c Money OF
/ Mississippi John T. Hull succeeded him
/ as Receiver of Public Moneys in 1888.
At the convention of the tobacco grow
/ ers Of Kentucky recently held at Lexing-
| ton, it was decided that the supply and de-
/ livery should regulate the tobacco produc-
ton, and to relieve the present distress in
/ prices it was recommended that at least
fifty per cent. of the crop of 1886 should be
withheld from the market indefinitely.
The pecan crop in Texas is very light
/ this year,