The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-10-21


has been completely paralyzed, but to-
day was able to move his arms freely
and hope is entertained.
1t is learned that the cause of the as
sassination was the seizure on August
| 81 and "a of nine barrels of apple brandy.
| Six of these were hidden near the
| licensed distillery of the man Patrick,
who was killed, and are supposed to have
belonged to him. He had hidden them
out to evade paying the tax.
Miscellaneous.
AT Dunbar's Cave, a well-knOwD and
| very popular summer resort, three miles
east of GAINESVILLE, was erected at con-
| siderable cost about two years ago, a
very commodious and convenient hotel.
| The season at the cave closed Septem-
| Der 1st, and since then the manager, o.
d. Thompson, and his family have alone
been staying in this hotel. Last week
when all but one lady member of the
| family were away from home, the fine
| hotel caught fire and was completely de-
stroyed, together with almost the entire
| contents.
A SLICK picture swindler, claiming to
represent the Southern Portrait Com
pany, of Atlanta, Ga, has victimized q
large number of ladies and others in
GAINESVILLE. He demanded half cash
with the order, and received from $8 to
$12 each from many persons. When the
customers refused to pay him the bal
ance due on his second call, no pictures
having ever been received, he left, and
nothing has been heard of him. Letters
| addressed to the company at Atlanta
have never been answered.
An engineering corps is in the field
for the purpose of locating a route for
the extension of the Paducah, Tennes-
| see & Alabama Railroad from Lexing"
The grading is nearly finished on that
road to Lexington, and the officials claim
they will have trains running through
from Memphis to Paducah by the 25th
inst.
A SEARCH for buried gold is being con-
Quoted under peculiar circumstances by
a man and woman, seven miles from
Nashville out on the Nolensville pike.
The parties engaged in the search are
E. C. Bardsley, of Pittsburg, who claims
to be geologist, and Mrs. l.. A. Cook.
of New Orleans. Tho story goes that
Mrs. Cook had a dream that a slave
trader buried $185, 600 in gold in earthen
jugs during the war, and that this
fact and the location of the gold was re-
vealed to Mrs. Cook in dream.
THE famous Col. Woolford court of
inquiry at Coal Creek presents humor-
Gus side. The colonel was tried four
weeks ago, but the matter has fingered
without settlement. Now it develops
that the pretty typewriter who took the
evidence sent it c. o. D., $50, to the re-
corder of the court. The State did not
have the money. The package now
lies in the express Office at Coal Creek
awaiting the $50. The law requires
that the evidence be read to the court
before being sent to the governor, hence
the courts delay.
SOME time ago the relatives of the
late J. A. K. Williamson, who died
thirty years ago last March, had the re-
mains disinterred and taken to Jackson.
The body was buried in an alright iron
casket, and, when inspected it was
found to be as hard as bone. The eyes
b ad fallen in, and, with the exception
of slight cavity on the tip of the nose,
the remains retained their original
features, so much SO that parties who
knew the deceased during his lifetime
could recognize the features as those of
the late Mr.. Williamson. The body
was not embalmed when buried, and as
hauling it in wagon over rough road
ten or twelve miles did not jar it to
pieces, it is believed that it is petrified
THE schooner Mary, formerly the City
of Clinton, Capt Bettes, carrying Ten
nessee exhibits for the Worlds Fair,
arrived at Chicago last week. The craft
is loaded with products of East Tennes-
see gold, silver, copper, zinc, fifteen
kinds of marble, onyx, ETC., and carries
relics from the Tennessee battlefields.
The boat was built at the city of Clin-
ton on the Clinch river, said Capt.
Bettes. 81 did the work myself because
our State appropriated no money for the
exhibit, and / did not want old Tennes-
see to be unrepresented. We loaded her
up and came down the Tennessee, and
through the Ohio to the Mississippi then
up the Illinois to the canal. That's
voyage of over 1000 miles and 100
miles of it we came by sail.
A MOST horrible death occurred at the
Earhart farm, six miles south of Bristol,
last week. Mrs. James Pearce, wife of
a respectable farmer, while in an cpl
leptic fit fell headforemost into the fire
and was burned to death. Mr.. Pearce
and wife constitute the family. He left
as usual for his work Immediately after
breakfast and did not return home till
noon. When he reached the house he
expected to see smoking dinner on the
table, but there in the fireplace among
the glowing embers lay his dead wife,
whose face and head were burned be-
yond recognition. Mrs. Pearce was 50
years old.
WILLIAM RITTENBEBRY was fright
fully injured while shaking down hick-
ory nuts in the top of a tree in the