The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-12-19
Miscellaneous.


the State prison will show that there
were, September 1, 1890, 314 convicts in
the main prison. At Tracy City there
were 375; at Inman, 300; at Dr. Nor
rows farm, 1O2; at Oliver Springs, 1853; ;
at Etna, 72, and at Coal Creek, 126.
Total, 1,46S. This is an increase of 105
over two years ago. The death rate has
been materially reduced during the past
two years. The annual death rate per
/, 900 in the walls was Is, while all over
the State 1t was 22
SUPERINTENDENT QUARLEs of the
capitol building is in daily receipt of
letters from members of the incoming
Legislature asking for good seats, and
many of the best ones in each hall have
been thus reserved. There are seventy
nine Democrats in the next Lower
House and twenty Republicans, and in
the Senate twenty-five Democrats and
eight Republicans. Thirty-nine of the
Democratic members of the House are
members of the Alliance, and eleven
Democrats in the Senate are members
of the same order.
THE malady which for several weeks
has been playing havoc with horses in
adjoining counties, has made it's ap
pearance at Nashville. Numbers of
horses are affected at various points in
the city, and several have died.
THE Woodward Lumber and Manu-
featuring Company of Chattanooga as
iaG
assets, S97, ,367. Cause, inability to col
| lect accounts.
THE State Board of Prison Inspectors
announces that it desires bids for the
erection of new shops at the State
Prison. The Board has determined to
rebuild the shops recently destroyed by
| fire.
STEPS are being taken to raise funds
TO build a monument over the unmarked
! grave of the lamented General William
| L. Haskell among the many fine
tombs and stately monuments in River
side Cemetery, at Jackson. There is not
| even the commonest foot and headstone
| to show the last resting-place of this
once brilliant soldier, statesman and
gifted orator.
| ALARGE eagle was killed recently by
| Charles Wallace near Gallatin. The
bird measured three feet three inches
from it's beak to the tip of its tail, and
eight feet between the tips of its
wings.
| THE Bookwalter spoke concern at
Union City, now owned and operated
by the American Wheel Company, is
running day and night to fill large
| order.
AN effort will be made by the citizens
| Of Savannah to have a special act by the
Legislature to empower the people of
/ that school district to levy sufficient
tax to keep up a free school for ten
months of the year.
| AUNT ANN GRUNDY, who was formerly
4 slave in one of the most prominent
| families in Tennessee, and since the
war midwife for numerous aristocratic
families of Nashville, last week cele-
| brated her hundredth birthday. Hun
dreds of people called upon her, among
them the female members of many
prominent families.
MANY good horses continue to die of
blind steggers in Madison County,
caused by eating damaged corn.
Mrs. NANCY n. MCWEIRTER died at
! Clarksville last week at the advanced
age of ninety-four years. Mrs. Nc
Whirter's history is a romance as inter
esting as her life was charming. She
was born in Fort Mulherrin, near Nash
Vile, in 1896, being the daughter OF
Samuel Blair, a noted Indian fighter and
one of the founders of Fort Mulherrin.
She was the mother of Capt. A. j.
McWhirter, who served as Commissioner
of Agriculture under Gov. Bate.
| GRAHAM T. HATzCLAM, of Chatta
nooga, was the victim last week of 1
very peculiar accident. He went out tc
the wood shed to split some kindling
taking with him large and very sharI
hatchet. He stood piece of wood OF
end and holding it up with his lef
hand struck heavy blow. The block
turned and the hatchet struck his lef
wrist fairly at the joint severing tn
| tendons and skins, and the hand fell Il
the ground Medical attention wa
promptly secured, but the young maj
win go through life dismembered.
CORN is selling Tor SOC per bushel a
! Union City.