The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-10-03
miscellaneous.

THERE is general good feeling among
the people in the neighborhood of Ores
den at the prospect of an unusually
bountiful crop this year. If the SPLEEN
lid weather continues cotton and to-
bacco will thoroughly mature. Corn
was never finer.
REUBEN WHEELER, VIM. Sanders and
Pie Donelson, the three negroes who
assaulted and robbed F. Nj. Atkinson,
two miles south of Nashville some
weeks since, were convicted in the
Criminal Court of Davidson County last
week. All three entered a plea of
guilty and threw themselves upon the
mercy of the court. Wheeler, who shot
Atkinson, was sentenced to fifteen years
in the penitentisry, and Sanders and
Donelson thirteen and eleven years, re-
spcctively.
AT A. b. Bradford's steam gin few
miles north of Brownsville last week,
Jack Thurmond in some way got caught
in the machinery and had one arm and
one leg broken and received other severe
injuries. He died in few hours. Thur
mond had been living in the community
several years and was generally highly
esteemed by his neighbors.
THE boiler of a locomotive attached to
Il freight train on the East Tennessee,
Virginia & Georgia Railroad exploded
at Sherman Heights, five miles from
Chattanooga, last week. All that can
be found of the engineer and fireman is
a coat. The brakeman was seriously
injured. The engine was blown to atoms.
THE Baptist Central Association met
at Trenton last week. There we're
about 125 delegates present, besides
preachers and visitors. Every Church
in the Association but one was repre-
scented.
WHILE William Caruthers, a wealthy
farmer, was driving to his home at
Nolensville, fifteen miles from Nash
Vile, accompanied by a young colored
boy, they were attacked and terribly
beaten. and Mr.. Caruthers robbed, by
four unknown men. Mr.. Caruthcrs died
the next day. The boy is in precarious
condition.
+. NJ. ALLEN, the defaulting teller of
the Capital City Bank, of Nashville,
made a definite settlement last week
with the officials Of the bank. Allen and
his friends refunded $40, 600 in cash and
the bank accepted his. note for s21, 600
for the balance, OF which $4,000 is sc,
cured by collaterals.
CHARLES. MITCHELL, an all round
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figured in the recent jail delivery at
Chattanooga, has been captured, being
taken up in hack after an exciting
chase as he was leaving the city. He
said that outside help was given "a
break the jail, and that the cell door
was not opened with a wooden KEY. He
claims TO feel better in Jail than when
avoiding the pursuit of officers. His
captoF yin be paid the reward of $50 Of
fered for his apprehension.
The State convention of the w. C. T.
L. Wilt be held at McMinnville some
time in October,
ALUCKY streak Of FORTUNE has fallen
to Mrs. G.. w. Combs, of Humboldt. Her
Scotch grandfather recently died in New
York, leaving an estate in money and
property valued at over $500, 600 TO Mrs.
Combs and sister. She has forwarded
proof OF her relation to the lawyers
managing the estate and viii receive
her share Of the, estate, before long.
Mrs. Combs is the wife of a carpenter.
Scarlet fever is said to prevail at Las
grange furnace, on the Tennessee river,
in malignant form. The people Of
Dover have quarantined against any one
moving there from the furnace.