The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-02-28
TENNESSEE STATE NEWS,

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The property was mostly covered by in
surance. This is the third time the
town has been burned in the past fifteen
months.
A NEW postoffice has been established
at Fews. jefferson county, with VIM. R.
Fews as postmaster.
THE newly organized Farmers and
Merchants Bank of Ripley has consoli.
dated with the old Bank of Ripley.
Col. P. T. Glass was elected president,
and w. L. Neil cashier. Mr.. Neil was
i the cashier of the old bank, which had
been successfully managed and had de-
| clared good dividends. The new bank
will begin business with a capital OF
$685. under most favorable auspices.
HENRY RICE was last week blown up
| by dynamite at Martins works, OF the
Knoxville Southern Railway, near the
place known as the Penitentiary, on the
Hiwasse river. Rice was passing by a
pile of dynamite cartridges which were
/, placed in some hot or warm ashes, pre-
paratory to being capped, when an ex-
| plosion occurred, tearing up earth and
| rocks and inflicting terrible injVries on
| the man. An arm and a leg were almost
| torn to pieces and his face mutilated
beyond recognition.
THE Louisville & Nashville Railroad
is having all the timber removed along
the right of way of the Memphis di-
vision. There is a large amount OF
heavy timber, and every tree that could
| fall across the tracks will be felled.
Every foot of rail between Memphis and
Bowling Green, KY, is now steel, the
last mile and half of iron having been
removed recently. Fifty miles have
been ballasted with gravel, and as soon
as the weather settles this work will be
continued, so that by the close of the
year there will not be a smoother piece
of track in the South.
IT is estimated that the drop in Rock
island, Louisville s. Nashville, and
Tennessee Coal has struck Nashville
people for over $5O0,O These stocks
have been the three favorites for local
speculators, and the sudden decline has
brought seriously heavy losses. :. y
THE Columbia Real Estate and I'm
provement Company has purchased IS
number of lots, and will Immediately
place buildings thereon. Columbia now
has a population of spar inhabitants.
and increasing daily.
Gov. TAYLOR has appointed Hon,
Walter Smith, of Cookville, Special
Chancellor of the Fifth Chancery Di-
vision for sixty days on account of the
illness of Judge Wade, that gentleman
having certified his inability to hold
court, Judge Wade has heretofore re-
fused to certify his inability, and no
Chancery Court has been held during
his illness, which is very frequent.
THE distillery of Easteswood & Grant,
of Franklin county, was seized by reve-
nue. officers last week and 5000 gallons
of whisky destroyed. Distillers have
been removing the liquor from the cis-
tern room and selling it without paying
the tax.
THE Convention of the Union Labor
party met at Nashville last week. Mr..
Fl. P. Osborn, chairman for the State,
made an address in which he said that
the Conyention was held for the purpose
of effecting State organization.
WELL-PosTED fruit growers, including
President Harris, of the West Tennes-
see Horticultural Association, are au-
thority for the belief that the fruit has
not been damaged to any appreciable
extent. The fruit industry has become
an important one in West Tennessee,
thousands of dollars being realized from
it annually, and its escape so far from
injury is a subject of much rejoicing
among the people generally.
A BILL has been prepared and will be
presented at the special session of the
Legislature authorizing the city of
Knoxville to extend it's corporate limits.
This has caused considerable opposition
among the people of West Knoxville
and North Knoxville. Two separate
corporations will be absorbed if the bill
passes. A lively triangular fight is out
and the end cannot be predicted.
PATENTS have been granted to the fol-
lowing Tennesseeans: Daniel B. Vance
and j. w. Brenard, Woodbury., adding
machine; John V. SIusser, assignor OF
half, o. M. Dunn, Memphis, railway car
replacer; P. Semonin, Jr., Memphis, as
assignee, railroad track and tie; Solo
mon Heyman and B. PResser, Fayette-
vile, car coupling; Dewitt Holden,
Franklin, anti-rattler for drill couplings
Lucius A. Farrar, Shelbyville, cal
coupling.
THE three ice manufacturers of Chat
tanooga have combined to dispose of all
their product to the Central Ice Com
pany, organized for the purpose of the
trust The price of ice has been ad-
vanced 662S per cent. Consumers are
raising stock to build an independent |
mandatory.
A REPORT from the Court of Claims in |
favor of the payment of S370 to Felix |
Branagan, of Lauderdale county, was |
sent to the House last week.
BROWNSVILLE is infested with burg |
lars. Several houses have been broken |
into of late and money and valuable
jewelry stolen.
II is thought the planting of tobacco |
in the Clarksville district this year will |
be small; possibly not one-half a crop |
will be set out. Farmers last year who
planted small crops and attended to them
well and brought their tobacco into
market in good condition, received 81 or
So per hundred more for it than they ex-
pected, owing to the very low prices
ranging on the market. As soon as the