The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-01-10
STATE NEWS.

the fact that the negroes in Tennessee were
not emancipated by Mr.. Lincoln and were
not included in his proclamation of Janu-
airy ], 1863 In his proclamation freeing
the slaves, President Lincoln excepted the
slaves i'm the State of Tennessee, and in
cluded only the slaves In the States of Ar
kansas, Texas, Louisiana, with few par
ishes excepted), Mississippi, Alabama,
Florida, Georgia, North and South Caro-
lima and Virginia. The slaves in Tennes-
see were not freed by Mr.. Lincoln on
January !. 1865, or any other time. They
were emancipated by the State of Tenues-
see in 1865, and before the adoption of the
Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution
of the United States. Thus it will be seen
that emancipation and negro suffrage in
Tennessee were granted by the State. Mr..
Lincoln in his proclamation not only did
not free the negroes in Tennessee, but by
excepting them kept them longer in
slavery.
THE Supreme Court last week decided
the case of the Louisville & Nashville
Railroad Company VS.. j. NJ. Wilson, adj
ministrator of W. NJ. Wilson, deceased.
Wilson was employed as a baggage
master by the Louisville & Nashville Rail-
road Company, and was killed in an acct
dent on the Decatur division by the negli-
gence, it was alleged, of an engineer who
was running a single engine which coll
lided with the accommodation train on
which Wilson was employed. Wilson was
riding in the cab of the engine. By leav-
ing his car Wilson broke one of the rules
of the company, and the court thought he
was out of the line of his duty. The SUI
preme Court said the lower court should
have instructed the jury that if Wilson
was baggagemaster his duty required him
to remain in the baggage-car, and should
he be injured while violating one of the
rules he could not recover damages. The
court held that in the trial the judge was
in error in not SO charging, and the case
was reversed.
NAT BAXTER, JR., President of the
Southern Iron Company, is authority for
the statement that in few days furnace
will be put in operation at Chattanooga
to manufacture steel by the open-hearth
process. The company has bought every
charcoal iron furnace in Tennessee-eight
in number-besides one in Alabama, and
the Roane Iron Works of Chattanooga
1t will manufacture steel extensively from
Southern ores exclusively.
S. W. PILE is in Jail in Nashville charged
with completely the murder of United
States Commissioner Mcdonald in one of
the upper Cumberland counties three or
four years ago. 1t is claimed that Piles
brother did the killing, and that S. w.
Pile was party to the crime. Pile was
under bond to appear before the Circuit
Court at the April term last year, but
oHipnaA bond Ia a in
Southern Kentucky by Deputy United
States Marshal A. b. Logan. Pile will be
held until the April term of the Circuit
Court for trial.
MANY a household in Nashville is now
being visited by Influenza Business men
were first to display symptoms of the
epidemic which is accounted for by the
fact that they first came in contact with
travellers from the infected sections. There
are q few cases under medical treatment.
The majority of the people treat the dis
ease as they would cold, and do not call
in physician. The type is mild. DR.. J..
Berrien Lindsay, Secretary of the State
Board of Health, recalls that the cholera
followed the last visitation of the in duenza
in Nashville, but this he regards as mere
coincidence, and does not have any appre
hension that it will be repeated this year.
WHAT amounts to panic exists among
the farmers of Davidson and adjoining
counties in Middle Tennessee. A splen-
didly organized band of horse thieves has
been operating there for months without
let or hindrance. 1t is estimated that
within the last six weeks 200 horses have
been stolen and run into Kentucky fast
nesses, where it is next to impossible to
follow them or the thieves. Not one of
these animals has been recovered. 1t is
supposed that tue thieves have a regular
underground route into Cincinnati where
the horses are sold. Gen. w. H. jackson,
of the famous Belle Meade Farm, John
Overton and the Cockerills are preparing
q farmers association, which, with an
abundance of money to back it, will en-
ploy adequate and competent forces to
snnihilate the robbers.
JUDGE MCALLIsTER last week delivered
d verbal opinion in one of the damage
suits of W. T. Ownby against the Union
and American Publishing Company, which
came up on a demurrer filed by the de-
| PENDANTS. Judge McAllister overruled the
demurrer to the second, third and fifth
counts of the declaration, and the case
will go to trial before a jury on these
counts. This was one of the three suits
brought by Mr.. Ownby to recovera$25 900
in each case, alleged to have been sus-
tanned by slanderOus publications pub
lished in the American.
A TALL brick flue extending above the
seventh story of Baxter Court, Nashville,
but not tied to the building, fell last week,
and crushed in the roof of the Banner
office, doing several hundred dollars worth
of damage and destroying considerable
material in the Banner composing rooms.
The paper had not gone to press, and some
news matter was pied. Tom Clark and
Battle Clark were sitting on opposite sides
of table in the composing room, and a
heavy beam crushed the table to splinters.
Several men were slightly injured.
The postoffice at rutherford, station
two miles north of Trenton on the Mobile
& Ohio Railroad, was broken into last
week. large lot of jewelry was taken
from the store, together with several dol
lars worth of stamps and S1.30 in money.
No clew to the robbers.
THE authorities o. Nashville are trying
to cut a dash with electric lights on the
streets. The city already has $50 arc
lights in operation, and the Board of Pub
lie Works have just issued an order for 100
more. This will dispel the darkness pretty
thoroughly. The cost is twenty three and
one-half cents for each arc light per night
THE Cherry Morrow Manufacturing
Company, which is named for two men,
neither of whom is member of the cor.
poration, have taken charge of the wagon.