The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-09-02
miscellaneous.

Miscellaneous.
A FoURTH-cLAss postoffice has been
/ established at Bishop, Warren County,
with William I'll. Simpson as postmas-
ter.
WILLIAM T. MURFREE, father of the
well-known authoress, Miss Mary Muir
free Charles Egbert Craddock), died
near Murfreesboro last week.
| GENERAL MANAGER HUBBLE and Ben
4 L. Dulaney, of the Bristol & Elizabeth
town road, have been appointed re-
ceivers of the same by Chancery Judge
Smith. The road runs from Bristol to
Elizabethtown, twenty-five miles, and
has just been completed.
| RUMoR has it that at last the Tonnes
see Midland road, which has been stag
mated so long by violent opposition, is
to be built. 1t is reported that the con-
tract for its completion to Bristol has
been taken for IS, 900, 900 from Perry.
vile to Bristol. Norris Bros, of Pitts
burg, are the contractors. One of them
travelled the whole length Of the line in
buggy. No other particulars are given,
but work win be begun at once by the
contractors.
| j. w. RUTHERFORD, an old citizen of
GAINESVILLE, died last week, aged ~
years. His vitality was remarkable.
About ten years ago he was stricken
with paralysis, and for eight years he
| had not been able to lie down to sleep,
but sat up in an invalid chair all the
time. Recently his throat became par
alyzed so he could eat nothing, which
caused his death.
| A SENSATIONAL murder was commit
ted last week at Talley's Station, eight
miles south of Lewisburg. George
| Brooks, a merchant, was eating supper
at his home when Thomas Cummings,
who is prominent farmer, rode up to
his gate and called for him. Brooks
answered, and as he stepped. out of the
| door Cummings raised double-barrel
shotgun and emptied two charges of
buckshot into his body, causing death
instantly. The two men had had a
trivial misunderstanding in trade the
| previous day.
| A BRISTOL fraud, who has been wanted
for months, has turned up in Denver,
Col. He went to Bristol more than two
years ago as an agent for the Equitable
Insurance Company. He had not been
there long before he was deep down into
the confidence of the people. He was
soon president of the chamber of COM
merce, leader of the Knights of Pythias,
editor-in-chief of the Bristol Daily
News, leading member of the Presby-
terian church, prominent society man,
etc. One fine morning the citizens were
shocked that he had skipped out and
| had defrauded different people out of
| about $4,000, and poor widow was loser
to the amount of $3.50. He was seen in
Denver last week, but goes by the name
of Noble. He claims that he is part
owner of a big mine at Crede, near
Denver, and has made $4,000 in the
last year.
| ARCHIE MURPHY, the noted desperate
and murderer, who is wanted for nu-
merous crimes, is now at his mothers
| house, two miles from Niles ferry. He
roams the country at will, armed with
! Winchester and brace of pistols. He
accompanied girl to a dance near the
Blount County line one evening last
week. He spent the evening with his
| wife and baby in his lap, chatting pleas
antly to those around him. In the
grave yard near Berry's toll gate, seven
| members of his family are buried, all of
| whom died with their "boots on in
| duels, or in encounters with officers of
the law. Murphy is at present specially
wanted for killing tim Der ranger named
Midland and Deputy Sheriff Charles r.
Shea. The officers of Monroe County
made no effort to apprehend him.
THE title to the Lookout Mountain
properties, recently sold at auction in a
chancery suit, has been confirmed by
Chancellor Mcconnell, as no exception
| to the report of the sale made by the
clerk and master was fled. The report
| was confirmed and decree ordered,
which will vest the title to the hotel
and to the land company's stock, pur-
Oh ased at the sale in the Boston syndi-
cate. The title to the broad gauge rail-
road was confirmed in the Union Trust
| Company. 1t is not probable that there
will be an appeal from the decision. In
any event the title to the properties
| purcha sed cannot now be disturbed.
Mrs. MARY BUMPAs, aged 80 years,
| died at GAINESVILLE last week.
CONTROLLER ALLEN come time since
requested Gov. Buchanan to appoint
some expert to examine his books, in
which it was rumored there was short
| age. Gov. Buchanan offered the work
to Frank Goodman, but that gentleman
| declined to undertake it on the ground
that thorough and satisfactory exam
| ination of the accounts, footing up over
Sc, 900, 600, would require several months,
cost several thousand dollars, and he
was unwilling to risk the Legislature
| paying for any work not specially Or
dered by that body.