The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-08-08
Miscellaneous.

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| CONSTRUCTION work on the Clarksville
Mineral Branch of the Louisville &
Nashville has begun. This road will
extend from Clarksyille to point near
Dickson, so as to develop the numerous
iron deposits in that section and rebuild
and operate the iron furnaces that were
in use there previous to the late war.
THE Farmers Alliance of Henry
County had grand barbecue at Jones'
| Bend, near Paris, last week. Horny
| handed farmers from all over the county
were there, and grand time was had.
Dinner was served on the ground, and
there was plenty and to spare. The
crowd was estimated at about 2,OOO
ONE of the most unusual cases OF
| blindness on record occurred recently at
| Spring Creek. Mrs. Amanda Woods,
aged about 20 years, retired in her usual
good health, and next morning when
awakened she was found to have been
stricken stone blind during the night,
and has not been able to see since. II
! is mysterious case, and is not &C.
counted for by the doctors.
A STATE ROAD CONGRESS has been
| called to meet at Nashville on August
Is, to consider ways and means of i'm
proving the highways of the State.
The gathering is of great Importance
and of especial interest to farmers.
Mrs. ETA DOWNING, of Clarksville,
took dose of aconite last week, mis-
taking it for dysentery medicine and
died forty minutes afterward.
A REUNION of Confederates will be
held at Memphis on October 2, during
the Interstate Fair.
FORTY-FoUR head of the Fairview
yearlings, the property of Charles Reed
& Sons, of Gallatin, Tenn, were sold in
New York last week. The colts and
fllies were fine looking lot, taken as
a whole. Bidding was quite brisk and
prices realized were pronounced by the
auctioneer as being satisfactory. The
whole lot of forty-four head brought
S35, ,375.
For the fourth time Union City has
been successful in the courts in the
county seat contest. Chancellor Liv-
tion suit prayed by Troy to restrain the
transaction of all county business and
to move the records back to Troy. The
injunction was dissolved and all busi-
ness will now be transacted at Union
City.
The little village of Sharon is being
scourged by an epidemic of flux, there
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citizens there.
NATHAN and Woodville Tarver were
convicted at Dyersburg last week of
murder and sentenced to be hanged on
September 10Th. The prisoners are cit
izens of Kentucky, and killed a man in
Lake County in the spring of 1889.
This is the first death sentence passed
at Dyersburg since the war.
A MAMMOTH mortgage was filed for
record at Nashville last week. 1t was
from the Louisville & Nashville Rail-
road Company to the Central Trust
Company of New York, giving the Trust
Company lien on all the rolling stock,
tracks and property of the Louisville &c
Nashville Railroad Company for $751;
600, 900 advanced for the purpose of lift
ing all other membranes. The mort
gage bonds are in series from 81 900 to
$1,000. They run for fifty years, draw
ing per cent.
Hon. THOMAS L. JAMES, ex-Postmas-
ter General of the United States and
now President of the Lincoln National
Bank of New York, has accepted the
Presidency of the East Tennessee Land
Company, made vacant by the death of
Gen. Clinton b. Fisk.
S. p. MOORE, prominent farmer Of
Madison County, was the victim of
serious accident last week. While |
picking at brass shell which had
failed to fire it was discharged. 1t is
feared that the sight of both eyes will |
be destroyed.
MEMPHIS will soon have communica- |
tion with the outside world through the
instrumentality of telegraph company |
not controlled in any way by the West
ern Union. The Postal Telegraph and |
Cable Company has petitiOned the city |
council for the right to erect poles and |
wires in Memphis.
r. n. MCBRIDE, of Maury County, |
died suddenly last week with paralysis.
He was gallant soldier under the Con
federate flag, a lifetime Methodist, a |
good man and good citizen.
MILAN mas recently thrown aside her
lazy garments and now rises upon the
wings of progress to hold her head high |
among the thriving little cities of the |
State. The streets have been graded |
and rocked, sewers put in all over the
city, and things have taken on a new
appearance. Almost every house in
town has been repainted and new build
ings are going up as fast as material car
be gotten. There is not vacant house
in the town. The most recent acquisi.
tion is a sawmill, with the latest im-
proved machinery.
THE two compress companies of Mem
phis have consolidated.