The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-03-29
SOUTHERN eLEANINos.

Inc movement r6c64G1y started Dy Sow
eraI prominent steamboat men to estab- !
lish an independent cOtton-seed oil mill
in New Orleans is assuming definite |
shape, and there is every reason to be- |
lieve that a strong company will be or
ganized.
John Davis, aged seventy 1.-TWO years, an
inmate of the And rson County IS. CO.
poor-house, elOped recently with Mrs.
Margaret Compton, another inmate (both
white), and were married in a neighbor'
ing village. The officiating minister de-
clined TO act until he had obtained the
consent by telegraph OF the Anderson
County Commissioners.
The negro exodus from North Carolina
is about to take the form of colonization
of negroes in Arkansas. Negroes are
holding ss-meetings almost nightly,
and negro orators and preachers are urg-
ing them to colonize. A circular was is
sued recently calling meeting to organ
ize the 'tNOrth Carolina Emigrant Asso-
ciation,'' for the purpose of securing or
ganized action toward cOlonizing all the
negroes in the State in Arkansas, where
they are offered lands for a trihe. The
circulars say that white people do not
want them here and they have determined
to go.
Governor Lowrey of Mississippi is try
ing to secure for his State the new navy
vided for by the last Congress.
In the City Court at Birmingham, Ala,
Samuel Stephens has filed a suit for
divorce against his wife, Mary Ann
Stephens, on the ground of desertion.
The plaintiff is over seventy eight ears
old and his wife Is over seventy.
B. Lacy Terry, who formerly lived at
Florence, Ala. committed suicide at Rad
ford, Va, a few days ago. Young Terry
was son of ex-Congressman Terry, of
Virginia.
Isham Cannon, who shot and killed his
wife in Tuscaloosa, Ala, last spring, has
just been captured and lodged in jail al
Tallahassee, Fla.
DR.. James Rodman, who has been SUI
perintendent of the Western Kentucky
Lunatic Asylum at Hopkinsville, KY, for
twenty-six years, will retire from Office a.
the expiration of his term next month.
Owing to an appeal to the Supreme
Court, the hanging of Harrison Blackburn
and Sylvester Clarke, convicted of the
murder of Captain Hamilton, did not take
place at Aberdeen, Miss, March %, ac-
cerding to programme.
The City of Now Orleans has sued. the
members. of the former Board of Assessors
and their sureties for $50, 900, the amount
alleged to have been paid to persons who
were carried on the city rolls as clerks,
but who performed no service for the city.
The large estate of the late w. A.
Thomas, at Richmond, Va, has been.
placed in the hands of a receiver. This
| is the latest legal move in the case in
which the immense property is claimed
| by a colored natural daughter OF Mr..
| Thomas.
A contract has been closed at Florence,
| Ala, between the Florence Railroad &
| Improvement Company, the Florence
/ Cotton & Iron Company and Philadel-
/ phia cotton manufacturing company for
/ the erection of a $400, 900 cotton manu-
| featuring plant at that place.
| The Governor of Alabama has appoint
| ed Hon. VIM. l.. Martin, of ScottsbOrO,
| Jackson County, Attorney General to fill
| the vacancy caused hg the appointment
Of Hon. Thos. N. Mcclellan to the Su-
preme Court bench.
Carrie Rose, the ben-year- daughter
of Rev. w. L. Rose rector of ST. Mary's
Episcopal Church, at Birmingham, Al a.,
! was burned to death few days ago. She
| was playing near the CRATE and her cloth
ing caught fire. She was fatally burned
before assistance reached her.
The total coal production in West Vir-
ginia, Maryland, Kentucky, Alabama
Tennessee, Virginia, Georgia, Arkansas
and Texas in 1888 was 1901, ,567 tons
valued at the mines at SIS, 1916, TT, agains
| a total production of 1921, 743 tons IL
1887, valued at SIG, sos, ,697.
| Mr.. Wethers, member of the corps o
| engineers engaged in surveying a new
railroad line from Montgomery to Annis
ton, Ala, was drowned in the TallapOos;
| river. a few evenings since. The party
we're sounding the river for foundation
| for a bridge, and Wethers' boat sank Will
| him. The body had not been recovered
| Pitts Jones, a prominent young man o
| about twenty five, fell dead while walk
ing along a road near Pikeville, Tenn,
| few evenings since. The cause is sup
| posed to have been heart disease, as n
was in reasonably good health, to all ap
| pearances, an hour before. He leaves
wife and child.
Colonel Gabriel Monhegut, superin
tendent of the mint at New Orleans, ha
forwarded his resignation TO Washington
| When asked his reason for resigning
| Colonel Monhegut stated that four year
ago he believed that 'tO the Victors be
long the spoils," and that he was still c
| the same opinion.
Wing Lee, who has been running a
| opium Joint with a laundry front at Louis
Vile, KY, for some time past, was arrest
ed, few nights ago, and his place raideC
! | He was caught in the act of preparing tn
| pipe. Two women were in the house 8
the time. They were fined and Wing LIE
was held to answer.
/ General Jas. T. Holtzclaw, of Mont
: gomerv. Ala, recently received lette
9 from General Marcus J. Wright askin
l him to be one of one hundred incorpOra
! tors of a society to preserve the battle
: field of Chickamapga- All the State
4 which had troops in the famous battle al
9 | TO be represented-ffty from each of tn
= two contending armies. It is proposed |
t obtain q charter from the State of Geol
/ gia and model a society somewhat upO
T the plan of the Gettysburg Association.
q James Evans, a white boy in the en-
+ ploy of G. W. Harrison, living on IL
2 Wade Lyon farm, three miles west
n Jackson, Tenn, plowed up an old frui
J. jar, few days since, containing 81 400
D gold and silver, supposed to have bee
. buried by a negro during the late wa
The dates on the scoins ranged from IS
3 to 1856. Most of the silver pieces wei
dimes, half dimes and quarters.
Captain Jack Hardy, the weIl-knov
sporting man, died at New Orleans, r
l. Gently, after a short illness, of paralys
le of the brain. Captain Hardy was born
9 Hillsboro, Scott County, Miss, hfty-fo
n years ago.
le Colonel Enoch Ensley, Of Memph
E. Tenn, has commenced the erection of a
rt other So, 900 ore-washing plant near Ru
{ | sellviIIe, Ala. This is the third plant Il
) has been recently built at that place, t.
le of which are already in operation.
l. Information comes from Troy, Ten
B. that Judge Swiggert sentenced Thom
rt Condor to be hanged May 10, and III
j. Martha Riley to life Imprisonment,
l. the murder of Jeck Riley, husband Of |
K | woman.
George W. Childs, of Philadelphia, y
permit the use of the harp that belong
to the Irish poet, Thomas Moore, at
m Scotch Irish congress to be held at {
1a lumbia, Tenn, May to 1s- Mr.. Cni
al has made the tender through d. Z. FLO
- | -ncrnfar-rr Of the con prreEs.