The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1888-01-27
SOUTHERN GLEANINGs.


Nichols having beaten McEnery in the
preliminary campaign in Louisiana, the
adherents of the latter are demanding
that Nichols retire and allow some third
man to be nominated for Governor.
Richard Dent, an old man sixty years
of age, who lived a few miles from Chat
tanooga, Tenn, has been missing for sew
eral days, was found dead half a mile
from his home. He got lost in the dark
Oess and was frozen to death.
j. ii. Whiting, of Boston, Mass, said to
be a staff correspondent of a newspaper
in that city, was run over by train at
Sorrento, Fla, a few DAYS since, and in
stantly killed, both legs being cut of and
his body otherwise horribly mangled.
Leroy Tucker died a few days ago In
the McMinn County Aims House at
Athens, Tenn. at the advanced age of
one hundred and three years. He was
born in North Carolina and lived sixty
one years in McMinn County. He was
| very we'll to do financially at one time,
and only went in the poor house three
years ago. About two years ago he mar
ried an inmate of the poor-house, who
survives him at the age of Gfghty-one.
c. Dubose, the Oldest merchant in Mo-
| bile, Ala, died a few DAYS ago, aged
| seventy-eight. His drug house is the old
est in the United States doing business
under the original name. The business
was established in 1884.
Seven hundred thousand boxes of
| Florida oranges are expected to be this
seasons crop.
There is a woman in Watkinsville, Ga,
who, within the last eleven months, has
| given birth to five children. Her husband
| is about discouraged.
| The bodies of boy and a girl about
| twelve and thirteen years of age, sup.
| posed to be brother and sister, were found
| floating in the river near Huntington,
| Miss, few days ago. 1t is thought they
| were murdered.
| The most profitable piece of fruit land
| for its size in the United States is said to
/ be the Speer & CHM grove, near Sanford,
| Fla. 1t comprises four and One-haIf acres,
and this years yield of lines sold for
| $4,000.
! Evans Sherry, who was held to answer
| without bail for the murder of Mrs. Steve
Moore, at Bandana, KY, last October, has
! been released on a writ of habeas corpus
| by Judge Ransle, of the Circuit Court at
| Paducab. His bail was fixed at $1,000
Eugene Couch, a WELL known young
man Of Atlanta, Ga, recently swallowed
| one and half ounces of laudanum. 1t de-
veloped that Couch was bridegroom of
but day and half.
The Circuit Court at Mt. Vernon, KY,
has adjourned. With all the murders COM
mitted in the county within the past two
months, not a case has come to trial and
no disposition has been shown to bring
| important matters to focus.
| The police authorities of Atlanta, Ga,
| have information that Ben Burton, the
| young man who b. ad married five women,
elOped with two more, and escaped from
| the court room where he was on trial for
bigamy, picking up fresh charmer on
the way to bear him company, is in
| Birmingham, Ala
The famous case of HOlcombe VS.. Strick-
land was on trial last week in the Su-
| perior Court at CartersviIle, Ga. This
case originated in the Justice court for
Altoona district in 1885 over the possess
sion of a heifer not worth ten dollars. Tt
now carries with it long transcript and
pleadings, and costs amounting to 5000,
and no end in sight.
Simon Higdon aud Frank Martin got
into quarrel over a young lady at the
home of Mrs. Wardburger, in South Pitts :
burg, Tenn, a few nights ago, when the
former was shot in the stomach. Higdon
only lived few hours. Martin made his
escape.
The latest results at the Government
diffusion experiment station at ex-Gov-
ernor Warmouth's Magnolia plantation in
| Louisiana, show that the diffusion proc
ess is a great success, producing thirty
pounds more sugar per ton of cane than
is prod uced by the most advanced milling
process.
The telegraph line between Titusville
and Jupiter Inlet, On the east coast of
Florida, is now open for business. It is
about one hundred and fifty miles in
length, is owned and controlled by the
United States Government, and is in
charge of Lieutenant B. NJ. Purcell.
Walter Mendenhall, who was recently
tried for Arson at Memphis, Tenn, was
-
setting fire to the cotton congresses
which were destroyed on the night of
November II last, entailing a loss Of
$500, 900.
Frank Irion, the clerk and register of
the City Court at Birmingham, Ala, is
short in his accounts $4,000 or mora. He
left the city, ostensib!y for Atlanta, three
weeks ago, since which time he has not
been seen or heard of. Real estate spec
uIation is supposed to have led hlm into
this trouble. He was very prominent
citizen.
Mr.. Henry Hicks, of the Providence
Steam and Gas-Pipe Company, at Green
ville s. c., while at work in the Hugue-
not Cotton Mills a few days ago, was
standing near shaft with his back to the
coupling. Leaning too far back, his
clothes were caught in the coupling
winding him around the shaft FIVE or six
times. His ankle was badly sprained and
back and legs painfully bruised. His
clothing was completely torn from his
body. His injuries, though not danger.
ous were very painful.
The report of the Commissi ners oi
Agriculture of Georgia for 1887 shows q
decrease from 1886 in the amount of farm
supplies purchased by the farmers as
we'll as in the indebtedness of the farm.
ing classes. The report shows that
farmers who have bought bacon and corr
on time have paid thirty per cent. ad
vance on cash prices for bacon for -four
months, equivalent to ninety per cent
per annum, or seven and One-haf pei
cent. per month, and thirty-six per cent.
for corn, equal to 10S per cent. per annum
or nine per cent. per month. The farm
ers are giving more attention to diversi
fled crops. The credit system keeps then
poor.
The frost reached Baton Rouge, La.
Warden Pearcy Of the Tennessee Stat,
penitentiary at Nashville, recently dis
covered a desperate plot among the con
victs to murder the guards and escape
Bob Mckinley, who has headed two othe
; such schemes, was the rin2leader. Nc
Kinley was placed in solitary confine
ment, and all is quiet at the prison.
A number of members of the Forty-firs
Kentucky regiment, which, it is said
never was mustered out of the United
States service, have had a meeting, ant
} have appoin ted a committee to pros ecut
their claim for an honorable discharge
} with pay for the time they have beer
: legally bound to the Government
Kentucky is agitating the question of
new constitution.
An attempt was made a few nights ag
TO wreck anorth- bound passenger train OF
: the Georgia division of the East Tenues
e see road, near Forest, Ga. Several rail
7 and ties were piled upon the track. I