The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-02-14
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

| in corporations, which is of interest. The
style of the case was Cartwright VS.. j. NJ
Dickinson. This was a bill filed by Dickin
SON as assignee of the Grubbs Cracker
Company to enforce the collection of S6, ,00C
| subscribed to the capital stock by Cart
| wright. Mr.. Cartwright subscribed S., ,000
and paid $1,000. He then asked II. B.
Grubbs, secretary, to release him and place
his stock. Grubbs secured other subscribers
and had an entry made to show that Cart
wright had been released. Cartwright also
insisted that by reorganization of the corr
poration and issuance of preferred stock,
Dickinson, who authorized this organiza-
tion, and allowed the new company to use
machinery of the former corporation was
estopped from this suit. The court held
that this insistance was not well taken.
The court held that after organization of
the company liability became fixed on the
shareholders, and they could not be relieved
without the consent of all the shareholders.
Cartwright's stock was never transferred.
and cancellation by the secretary was in
operative. 1t was insisted that the charter
was violated, but the court held that this
would be no relief to Cartwright. The de-
cree of the Chancellor was affirmed.
A SERIOUS encounter took place near
Nashville one day last week. DIR. w. I.
Gaines, q prominent physician recently re-
moved to that city from Wilson county,
where he for a number of years lived, and
where he had a difficulty regarding pro-
fessional fees with a wealthy farmer
named John Wright. Gaines met Ammon
and Thomas Wright, sons of John Wright,
on the street, when Ammon dI ew a istol
and Thomas struck the Doctor with rock, ,
who in turn knocked Ammon down twice.
Interference prevented bloodshed. A few
days later DR.. Gain' visited brother four
miles out on the Lebanon Pike, and while
standing at the gate talking to his brother
the three Wrights drove up in a wagon.
Seeing Gaines, they stopped, and with
curses, jumped out and started toward
him. The Doctor drew his pistol and showed
fight. He shot old man Wright in the
breast, very dangerously wounding him,
and also seriously wounding boy in the
wagon. The WriGhts fed, and DR.. Gaines
went to town, where he gave bond for
trial. The old man may die. Gaines was
hurt to some extent by rocks thrown at
him.
FRANCIS ToLLY, who lives in Cannon
Murfreesboro last week, and from his bat
tered appearance it might be supposed that
he had been engaged in a prize fight His
face and head were fearfully cut and
bruised, and his right arm, which was
badly bruised, was carried in sling. He
had been in bed three or four days. but had
ventured out to seek the assistance of the
law in righting some of his wrongs. He
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first district of Cannon county at night,
put lassO around his neck and dragged
him from his house with the apparent in
tention Of hanging him. They resolved,
however, to treat him otherwise, and plac-
ing rocks in his mouth to gag him beat him
with sticks until he became unconscious
and apparently dead. He was picked up
and taken to his home. He said that he
recognized four of the White Caps. He is
a respectable farmer.
The Board of Aldermen of jackson have
agreed to subscribe 100000 to the Birming-
ham, jackson 81 Kansas City Railroad,
and an election is ordered to be held on May
8, 1890. There is practically no opposition
to this measure. A proposition will soon
be made to Dyersburg to vote "A 500 to the
same road.
The superintendent of the capitol is hav-
ing the Senate chamber and hall of the
House of Representatives cleaned up and
is arranging the desks of members. The
Governor has not told any one on the out
side concerning his intention, but the pre-
1iction is again made that the prepara-
lions mean that in less than two weeks the
Legislature will be convened in extra ses-
sion.
For the accommodation Of the fruit and
vegetable industry that is largely on the
increase at Bell's Depot, the Louisville g.
Nashville has decided to place a roof over
the large cotton platform, so that the truck
can be handled without damage by rain or
sun. 1t will be great advantage.
Nor long since Judge Ridley, of the
Criminal Court of Nashville, announced
that hereafter he would show no mercy
toward persons tippling on Sunday. Soon
after Mrs. Josephine Bokern was found
guilty of this charge and sentenced to
thirty days in Jail besides fine. She ap-
pealed, and last week the Supreme Court
affirmed the decision, and to Jail she goes.
Judge Ridley's firmness has succeeded in
closing many saloons on Sunday, but not q
few are still secretly in operation. The
Criminal Court Judge says he means to
keep up this fight until he wins.
A VERY clever counterfeit nickel, evil
IDENTIFY made by some convict at the State
has been discovered. The
warden recently obtained it, but the makers
are not known. A good deal of counterfeit
money has been discovered in the prison
from time to time, and moulds have been
found secreted in the shops.
THE Rev. S. Woodbury. Mitchell, late of
Zion Church, Maury County, died at
smyrna, Rutherford county, February 2,
Of heart disease, aged 20 years, and his re-
mains were taken to Columbia for inter-
ment in Rossell Cemetery. The deceased
went to Columbia from the State of Maine
some years prior to the late war, and was
a gallant Confederate soldier, being pri-
vate in Capt Bill Gordon's company from
Maury county.
ATHERE was an important and largely at
tended meeting of the Farmers and Labor
ers Union at Brownsville last week. Much
interest was manifested in the proceed
ings, though much that was done was not
made public.
Mrs. DR.. r. F. Cook, of Athens, died
suddenly last week from an over dose of
morphine administered by her husband,
DR.. Cook, to relieve the headache of le
frem grippe, which she was suffering.
MAJ. OvERroN, of Nashville, last week
refused $4,000 for the horse Bow Bells.
Bow Bells is by Electioneer, dam Beautiful
Bells. Bell Boy is full brother and sold
for sol 900.
Frvrv thousand dollars in bonds of the