The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-03-08
SOUTHERN oLEANINes.

4oh uafS ago, TWO ITe1gnb trains met on
curve on the Knoxville & Ohio railroad.
John Maggott, a fireman, was instantly
killed while in the act Of throwing a
shOvelful of coal in the ire-box. He was
horribly mangled and roasted almost to a
crisp.
When Rev. Sam Jones, the Georgia
evangelist last preached in Nashvilfe,
Tenn, he started a movement looking to
the erection of a union tabernacle. GEN.
tlemen representing eight denominations
have secured a charter AID will soon be-
gin the erection of building that will
cost between $4,000 and $4,000 and seat
$500 people.
The post-ofice at Rockingham, N. c.,
was blown up by an explosion of gun
powder few nights ago. Taylor & Nc
Neil had 81, 800 worth of goods in one
part Of the building ALI were destroyed.
The building was blown to pieces, the con-
cussion shaking the whole town. Every
thing in the post-ofics was consumed By
the fire which followed the explosion.
The attention of the country is being
turned to Memphis just now on account Of
! her cotton receipts, which since the first
of September have amounted TO GAG, ,255
bales. This is 43, 615 bales in excess of
last year up to this date, and Memphis,
outside Of being the largest i1ferior cot
ton market in the world, is the second
| largest receiver of spot cOttOns in the
United States. Memphis this year will
receive fully rs, 900 bales of cotton, which
/ will be by over 10000 bales the largest in
4 her history. Ten railroads and forty
! steamboats, contribute to her growing i'm
| poFtance as business center.
/ Robert MOOre's wife, near Springfield,
| KY, recently left him. The other day he
| went to get her, swearing he would make
i her live with him. He met her brothers
/ and is dead.
/ Ex-United States Senator John w.
/ Johnston died at Richmond, Va, recently,
in-the seventy eighth year OF his age. He
married daughter of Governor John B.
i Floyd, and was a nephew Of General Jo-
seph E. Johnston.
The negro exodus from South and North
/ Carolina and Virginia is growing in a re-
markable degree.
The residence and household goods Of
/ Mr., Thomas Crabtree, eight miles from
Owensboro,. KY, were totally destroyed
| by fire few nights ago. Loss, s., 800, on
which there was no insurance.
Rev. John F. Hughes, a well-known
minister of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, and pastor Of the Method
list city missions, died at Nashville, Tenn,
a few days ago, after a severe illness of
about week. Mr.. Hughes was born in
Stokes County, N. c., in 1914.
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three street-railroad companies in Knox
vile, Tenn, has been fled at NashviI Q
for registration. The capital stock of the
consolidated company is placed at $780,
900.
The first regular train over the Yazoo
| branch of the Georgia Pacific road made
the trip from Greenville to the Yazoo
river a few days since. Trains will be
run three times week.
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the camp, mile from Charlotte, n. c., a
few days ago. Three were shot down by
the guards. One succeeded in getting
away. The three were fatally wounded.
Howard Anderson was hanged at Colds
l-boro, n. c., a few days since. Death oc-
Cured in seven minutes. The neck was
broken. The prisoner was stubbornlY un-
communicative to the last, and maize no
talk or profession whatever. He was a
white man, and his crime was the murder
of poor old barbecue vender named VIM.
Porter. at GoldsbOrO, last July.
Rev. B. W. Mcdonald, D. D., La D.,
Of Lebanon, Tenn, one of the most dis
tinguished divines in the Cumberlan
Presbyterian Church and very accom-
plished literary man, is dead. He was
native of Overton County and spent the
greater part of his life Of over sixty years
in Tennessee.
The colored citizens of Florida recent.
ly decided to invite Fred Douglass, Nine.
Salika, the colored singer, and Miss Hal
lie Q. Brown, the colOred elocutionist, to
visit the Subtropical Exposition. A COM
mittee of invitation was sent to Washing
ton to bear the message.
Reports from Henderson County. Tenn,
confirm the news of the assault and MUIR
1er of Miss Virginia F. Meals. The man
under arrest, charged with the terrible
crime, is Joe Grogan, single man. Cir
cumstantiaI evidence is strong against
nim.
George Foster, a leading young attorney
Of Tuscaloosa. Ala, committed suicide re-
gently by shooting himself through the
head upon the grave of his wife in Ever
green Cemetery. When found he was
lying PROSTATE across the grave with the
pistol firmly grasped in his right hand.
Bette Lore, the fifteen-year- old daugh-
ter of John Lore, of Davidson County
suffered terrible death in q grist-mill a
few days since. She was in the mill with
her uncle, who left her there alone while
he went away. During his brief absence
the girls clothes came in contact with a
rapidly revolving shaft and carried her
around with each revolution, striking her
/ mead upon the floor with terrible force,
When her uncle returned he found hel
Head and her head beaten to a shapeless
mass, striking the floor many times each
minute.
The Alabama Legislature has adjourned
sine die. During the session $50 bills were
passed, chiefly of a local nature. The
Legislature reduced the tax rate from five
mills to four and q half mills for the next
fiscal year and four mills thereafter. II
made an additional appropriation of 500,
300 for the support of the public school
system, making about one-third. of the
States revenue subject to the cause oi
education. It appropriated $4,000 to re.
build the buildings of the Agricultural anC
Mechanical College, established a nae.
ehanicaI department in the Blind Insti
tute, and appropriated 500 to aid in the
completion of the monument on Capito
Hill to the dead Confederate soldiers o.
Alabama.
Horace Butts, quartermaster-serge
Of the Second Artillery, United States
army, who deserted from Jackson Bar
racks, New Orleans, taking with him 500
of money belonging to the post, was ar
rested at Mobile, Ala, upon description
given of him in the New Orleans papers
Governor TAYLOR Of Tennessee has Of
fered a reward Of $3.50 for the arrest 0
George Dunnaway, who shot and killec
! James Dunnaway, probably fatally
wounded Mrs. Dunnaway and assaulted
Miss Melissa Dunnaway near Lascassas
Rutherford County.
> In one day, recently, 6s6 alligator hide.
were taken into Fort Ogden, Fla, 70
sale. There is money IN the saurfan, AM
, the massacre goes on
Mrs Thomas b. Bafnbridge, Of Knox
vile, Tenn, gave her daughter, age
/ fourteen, half a teaspoonful of aoonite
! / instead Of paragoric, a few days since
The mother did not discover her mistak
I for some time, and the best of medics
attention could not save the child's lif'
: She died in three hours