The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-07-08
miscellaneous.

met at Chattanooga last week.
A MILITARY company of about forty
members was organized at Milan last
week, and will be mustered into service
at once. This is rather the reorganiza
ton of the old Milan Guards, one of the
oldest companies in the State.
A PASSENGER train collided with a
train of freight cars near Erin last week.
Eleven of the freight cars and the en-
CINE of the passenger train were de-
molished. No one was seriously In
jured. The loss will amount to about
$50, 900.
The presidency of the University of
Utah, at Ogden, made vacant by the
resignation of Rev. Sam Small, has
been rendered to Rev. L. E. Prentiss,
pastor of the First Meth odist Church of
Chattanooga. To the second tender DIR.
Prentiss has given conditional accept
ance.
RELIABLE reports from all parts of
the GAINESVILLE tobacco district. COM
prising the counties of Montgomery,
Robertson, Christian, Todd, Logan,
Stewart, Dickson, Cheatham and Hous-
ton, state that the wheat crop is the
finest raised for many years. The work
of harvesting is about completed. 1t is
estimated that the crop will average 25
bushels to the acre, entirely free from
the effect of rust and smut.
WHILE advancing upon Kit Beasley
with a drawn knife, Dave Mayners was
shot and killed last week eight miles
west of Murfreesboro. Mayners had
tended Beasley's crops and they had
ifferenco in settling. Mayners went
to Beasley's and demanded 50. After
few words he attacked Beasley, who ran
into the house and secured revolver.
Mayners was about to enter in pursuit
when he was shot in the neck and died
soon after. Mrs. Beasley attempted to
prevent trouble but was pushed aside.
AFTER going to pieces recently, the
Southern Jellico Coal Company, pool
of companies doing business at Coal
Creek, reorganized in Knoxville last
week. Tho place of the Proctor Com
pany, which withdrew, has been taken
by the Falls Branch Company, and S.
l.. Woodbridge has been elected presi-
dent, with headquarters in Knoxville.
The pool is said to be in as strong finan-
cial condition as ever, and it's reorgani
zation has caused great deal OF sur
prise.
J. w. MAJORS, one of Chattanooga
best-known and oldest citizens, met
with horrible fate last week. He
roomed on the third floor of the Central
Block. He had been drinking heavily,
and when ne went to his quarters he
was very much under the influence of
whisky. The weather was very warm.
and he sat down by a window to cool off.
He fell out, striking the granite pave
ment sixty feet below. His skull was
crushed and he was seriously injured
elsewhere.
An accident occurred near. Union City
last week, causing the death of little
Charlie Swiggart, the 14-year-old son of
Judge w. FL. Swiggart. Charlie was
home bound from Columbus aboard of
the Mobile & Ohio passenger train, and
was standing on the car steps holding
the hand rail and swinging out to see
the train in motion. His body came in
contact with bridge, knocking him of
and into a creek. The creek was
dragged to recover the body, which,
when found, was in horribly mu tilated
condition.
THE Ohio Valley Railroad has as
sumed control of the GAINESVILLE &
Princeton branch of the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad, and the first Ohio
Valley train went over the road last
week. According to the terms of the
deal, the Louisville & Nashville was tc
relay the road and put in wider rails.
This has been about completed. The
extension from Gracey to Hopkinsville,
now under construction, will be finished
and put in operation by August L. AS
soon as this is done, work will be begun
on the Nashville extension. In less
than year Ohio Valley trains will be
running through from Evansville to
Nash vile.
For the first time since 1885 the State
is able to pay the interest on the State
debt without borrowing dollar. There
is now balance of s232. 600 in the treas
ury. In 1889 there was floating debt
of $3.50, coo, which has been Cancelled,
and but for the East Tennessee mining
trouble there would be a balance of
S41, 500, after paying the July interest
JOE L. RUSHING, who has been coroner
of Madison County the past ten years,
died last week aged 81 years. Deceased
was the Oldest citizen of Jackson and
the oldest in the county except one.
He was for many years member of the
county court
A MURDER was the outcome of dog
fight at Big Sandy, Benton County, last
week. Bob Lowrey, son of DR.. Lowrey,
and other boys were watching the fight.
One Of the dogs belonged to Frank
Dowdy, and while the fight progressed
young Dowdy came up abusing the boys,
charging them with causing it. Boz
Lowrey resented it, knocking Dowdy
down. just then Dowdy's brother ap-
peared with shotgun and began
scuffiing with young Lowrey, when DR..
Lowrey separated them. Frank Dowdy
then stabbed the Doctor several times
in the liver, INJECTING fatal wounds.
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