The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-12-16
TENNESSEE STATE NEWS.
Miscellaneous.


f, isfaction.
| SHELBY County contains more people
than any other county in the State
112, 740-of whom 81. 1876 are male. and
IS, 544 females; 51.1O0 white and 6l,64O
! black.
OBIoN CoUNTY's new Jail has just been
completed. It is magnificent building
and consists of twenty substantial cages,
| all of which are about filled with law
| breakers.
A cow belonging to Henry Lurton, OF
GAINESVILLE, dropped calf last week
| that is a wonder. 1t has two we'll
formed and developed heads on two
separate and distinct necks. The calf
is alive and getting along splendidly.
Lurton will exhibit his freak.
Mrs. CHARLES WALL, living in War
rem County, gave birth to triplets-
two boys and girl. The weight of the
girl is eight pounds. while the boys
weigh seven pounds each. Mrs. Wall is
very small lady, weighing only 100
pounds.
AT its last session the State Bar AS
ISOLATION appointed a committee of ten
members to draft bill for presentation
to the Legislature to establish an inter-
mediary court, to be designated as the
court of chancery appeals, with the OBJ
ject of relieving the Supreme Court OF
considerable work.
A FEW days ago the body of Mrs. VIII
son was exhumed at Idlewild, seven
miles from Milan, which was in re-
markable state of preservation. She
died with fever in 1865, and was inferred
in common pine coffin. The coffin was
slightly decayed, but was not broken.
The face and form of the corpse was of
the color of marble, and as firm as the
day of burial. The friends of the lady
came and recognized her. A new coffin
was procured and the body reinterred.
the exposure to the air having no per-
ceptible effect on its appearance.
THERE are three counties in the State
in which there are more blacks than
whites: Fayette, 4.38 per cent. blacks;
Haywood, 66.74 per cent black; Shelby,
SO. 70 per cent. blacks. The county that
has the largest population to the square
mile is Davidson, with 212.54 per cent;
second, Shelby, with 1884 per cent;
third, Hamilton, with 121. IS per cent;
fourth, Knox, la per cent. The pro-
portion of blacks to whites in the State
is 25 per cent.
HON. GEORGE A. WASHINGTON of
Wessyngton, near Cedar Hill, Robert
son County, died last week at the age OF
n years. Col. Washington was one OF
the most prominent men in Tennessee,
and leaves an estate valued at 81, 600, 900.
Among his children are Congressman
j. e. Washington and Mrs. f. Y.
Ewing, formerly of Chattanooga. Col.
Washington was member of the Legis-
lature in 1878, and years ago when Ten
nessee bonds were almost worthless he
helped to reassure her credit by buying
$3.50, 900 of them.
II. L. CORNELL, of Montgomery County,
tells of finding a large deposit of coal
on his farm, resem bling anthracite. In
making a search over his plantation he
dug into the top of an elevated piece OF
ground and found an Indian grave wall
ed up all around with stones. Further
examination disclosed numerous SINH
lar graves. In some of them two skele-
tons were found. Cornell took the skull
of squaw to GAINESVILLE, which was in
almost perfect condition, the teeth
being we'll preserved. He states that
nearly 100 skulls have been unearthed
on his farm. He has numerous relics,
consisting of arrow heads, pottery,
images made out of shells and pottery
beads, tomahawks, etc.
THE police raided gambling den at
Nashville one night last week and were
surprised to find at the head of the
stairway heavy iron door, securely
fastened with three locks. They sent
for a sledge-hammer, and after laboring
for Is minutes, were about to force it
open, when the fastenings were re-
moved. Once on the inside, the officers
found ten men reading and engaged in
social conversation. ALI were arrested
and appeared in court this morning.
The police were unable to swear that
they were gambling, and the prisoners
refused to testify, SO they were dis
charged. 1t is understood that other
houses will be provided with iron doors |
and hog chains.
LOOSE tobacco is being received at |
GAINESVILLE from the surrounding to- |
bacco district thick and fast. A few |
nights ago 100 wagons stood out all |
night in drenching rain, having come |
in too late in the afternoon to unload |
before dark. The farmers have been |
rushing to the stemmeries to unload |
their loose weed. More strips have |
been received into the GAINESVILLE |
market this season than for many years |
past, and this years output will prob |
ably be the heaviest of any year in the |
history of the market, and this is say
ing good deal, for GAINESVILLE is the |
second largest tobacco market in the |
United States and the third largest in /
the world. One buyer reports having |
purchased alone about 100000 pounds, |
and the purchase averaged about cents /
per pound.
SENSATIONAL Developments come from |
Cook County in regard to Wash Boyer,
who was recently sentenced to the peni- !
Tertiary for twenty years for killing his
father and throwing him in a cave,
where he was found in terribly de-
cayed condition several months later.
1t is said that Boyer not only MUIR
dered his father in cold blood, but that
goods of peddler who was found dead
several months AGO have been found in |