The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-06-03
NIiscellaueous.

WALTER INeE, of Humboldt, while in
a somnambulistic condition. walked out
of second-story window of his bed
room one night last week.
A BAND of professional thieves and
crooks is operating in Clarksville. The
citizens are aroused and have given
notice to all crooked people that sum-
many Justice will be meted out to them
if this state of affairs is not stopped.
ABOUT sixty of the leading physicians
of West Tennessee met at Humboldt
last week and organized the West Ten
nessee Medical and Surgical Associa-
ton. The meetings will take place
semi-annually. Six months hence the
association meets at jackson.
The ninth annual shoot of tile Knox
Vile gun club was held at Knoxville
last week. Sportsmen were present
from all parts of the country. r. Mil
Ter, of Elizabeth, n. j., carried off the
honors in the expert class. d.. Rhea
won the record in the amateur class.
ONE day last week while its mother
was out picking peas, the S-months-old
child of Wash jackson, living near
Raleigh, was attacked by a rooster,
which pecked its face, horribly lacerat-
! ing and disfguring it. The babe was
left alone in it's crib In the house, and
the door open, when the fowl entered.
Its screams attracted attention, and the
timely arrival of its mother saved it's
lite.
THE case of James Durham against
last week. The plaintiff was given
Judgment for IS cents. Melon made
Durham saddle with the understand
ing that Durham was to pay for it by
hauling, and was to receive the custom
ary wages for the same. They differed
as to the customary" price and went to
law. The costs in the case amounted to
several hundred dollars.
REV. DR.. JOSEPH B. WEST, pastor of
the Clarksville Methodist Church, died
last week. Since last December the
reverend gentleman has been confined
to his home almost continually. DR..
West was an Alabamian and was born in
1925. For thirty-fve years he has been
leading light in the Methodist minis
try. He was as noble Christian man
as ever lived. Deceased was for many
years president of the Clarksville fe-
male academy and afterward of female
school at Murfreesboro.
In the criminal court at Knoxville
last week James Sizemore was sentenced
for seven years for sending a challenge
to fight a duel. Sizemore did send a
challenge to one johnson to meet him
at secluded spot near Concord, and
fight out their differences squarely
johnson went unarmed, and no sooner
appeared than he was shot five times by
Sizemore. He was arrested and tried
for murder, but was acquitted, Judge
Sneed being so astonished at the YER
dict that he ordered all the jurors never
to be summoned again. The charge on
which he was sentenced was never
thought of at the time Of the murder
trial.
A VERY important decision was rem
dered in the supreme court at jackson
last week. Mrs. NJ. E. Powell VS.. the
Illinois Central Railroad Company was
the style of the case. The plaintiffs
husband was brakeman on the road
and was killed two or three years ago
while performing his duties as brake
man. Mrs. Powell entered suit for
damages, and in the lower court received
Judgment for s12, 800. The case was ap-
pealed to the supreme court and the
Judgment of the lower court was affirmed
with S4s7 interest. Mrs. Powell lives
at Jackson and ia in very poor eircum-
stances.