The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-21
BOLIVAR, TENN.
The Late Prot Price Further Details
Of the Yellow Rabbit Horror, Etc.

The Late Prof Price Further Details
Of the Yellow Rabbit Horror, Etc.
special Dlspat h to The Appeal.
BOLIVAR, Tenn, Feb. 20.-Prof. +. W.
Price. who died Sunday at his residence
in this county, was in! many respects re-
markable man. lie graduated in the law
at Lebanon in 1858 but never practiced,
prcierring the vocation OF teacher, lie
taught in this town for years, and went
hence to the Jackson city schools, where
he filed the ofp'acj hcadmastcr in mathe-
mates. A man without guile, without
ostenlaton; he was, Notwithstanding, in
icrior 10 no one in Tennessee in the knowl-
edge Of mathematics. His bent was in
that direction and lac could solve the most
difficult problem ia q moment without
res1ring 10 slate or pencil. SocXpcrt was
he that he could add up great columns OF
figures OF five or six lines and give the cor
rect result IN moment without separate
addition OF each line. He died OF heart
disease an his death is a sad blow to the
educational interests OF this section. Ills
pupils invariably when sent oil TO college,
took the highest stand in mathematics.
And there are many young men and wo-
men now in prominent positions who owe
all 10 the training received from Proi
Price.
The details Of the burning Of Thomas
Wclons's four children last Thursday, near
Yellow Rabbit, south OF salisbury, are
even more horrible than first reported. Mr..
Wellons Is prosperous farmer, aud with
his family had retired for the night The
! younger children occupied bed on the
ground floor with their parents, but the
| older children were sent upstairs TO sleep.
| The wind blew furiously and the wooden
house was rs dry rs a finder box. In
| the night Mr.. Wcllons and his wife
were suddenly awakened by rushing
| flames from the dining-room which
swept madly into their bed cham
| Der. While Mrs. Wellons grappled
the sleeping children 10y her side and es-
capped, her husband ran TO the door lead
ing to the upstairs to give the alarm. No
sooner had lac forced open the door than
the flames furiously gushcd through the
open aperture, and, igniting the beds ut
the head OF the stairs, in u few moments
suiIocatcd the four sleeping children, and
almost ia the twinkiing Of an eye they
passed from the rcposc OF sleep 10 the re-
| pose OF death. The oldest child was
fourteen, and the others twelve, ten and
eight respectively. Their charred remains
were taken from the debris, but so mutt
| lated M to be unacceptable.
Cincinnati parties are here TO establish
a hub aud spoke factory. The forests OF
/ hard wood near town afford incompaably
superior material. Hickory, white oak,
cedar aud locust are found here in great
abundance. and 80 cheap aud suitable is
our pine, oak, ash and poplar that almost
all the lumber used in the Insane Asylum
has been cut and manufactured here.
We labor under one drawback here
which cripples Us and TO some extent hurts
Memphis, our natural trade center. We
have but one railroad, the Illinois Central,
/ aud ninc-tcnths OF our cotton aud market
able products, instead OF Memphis. 40 10
New Orleans, n. Louis and Chicago. II
some astule capitalist could be In
duccd to build a spur.mck from White.
vile or llalchic, on the Midland road,
| to run via the Asylum 60 Bolivar we would
send you 10000 bales OF cotton that gu
elsewhere, aud lay down at your dooi
building material at prices greatly reduced
| from those you now pay The distanc,
from Whilcvillc to Bolivar Is only eleven
miles and no steep grades or ills would b,
| encountered.