The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1893-05-19
Miscellaneous.

y. w. BECKWITH, assignee OF the Jas
| per Bank, of Jasper, publishes notice
that he is now ready to pay Is per cent
| to depositors of that tinstitption.
TWENTY-FIVE persons nave been in
dicted by the grand jury of Hamilton
| County for the part they took in the
hanging of Blount. The list includes
one policeman and a number of promi-
nent citizens.
THE Covington Mercantile Company,
| doing a general merchandise business
| at Covington, has made an assignment.
| The liabilities amount to So. 300, also
| paid-up stock SIS, 400, making total liabil-
tiles $13, 700. Assets $4,000.
DIR. GEORGE WILLIAMS, of Davidson
| County, has received letter from his
| sister at Fincastle, Va, that by the
death of her uncle, Isaac Norman, of
| that place, they have fallen heir to a
| fortune of So, 500, 900 in stocks and bonds.
THE outlook for good fruit crop a
| few weeks ago was most flattering, be t
now the caterpillars have come in great
| numbers, and are playing havoc in many
localities. The apple crop will be cut
short at least one-third in Lauderdale
County by these tireless destroyers.
DIR. J. f. TowNEs, venerable and
| respected citizen of Huntingdon, died
last week. DIR. Townes was IS years of
age, and years ago was useful and in
| fuential citizen. He has been an invalid
for several years, and his death, which
resulted from dropsy, had been patiently
awaited.
THE 14-year-old son of J. J. Thomas,
farmer living five miles north of Ken
ton, was instantly killed last week by
falling from the top of tree. He
climbed the tree to procure poplar bios
soms limb broke and he fell fifty feet
to the ground.
THE case of Mrs. Cora Scates VS.. the
Louisville g. Nashville railroad for
damages sustained by the loss of her
husband, who was killed at Milan in
1890, wad tried at Huntingdon last week.
After hearing the testimony in the case
the jury was out a day and night and
returned verdict for the plaintiff in
the sum of $1,687Os5S. This is the
third verdict rendered the plaintiff in
this suit. The first one was for 81 900
and the second for 81, 500.
THE drought of last fall, and the
severe winter following, have conspired
to make longer than usual the period of
winter feeding of stock, which do not
come out of the winter in as good con-
dition as last spring. Sheep, especially,
are in thin condition. The prevailing
high prices have caused nearly ali hogs,
which were available as pork, to be sold
and shipped, and there is, hence,
decided scarcity of hogs. The crop of
pigs, however, is very large, and they
are being fed and attended with the
greatest care, in order to prepare them
for market as soon as possible. Good
milch cows and beef cattle are in
demand, at fair prices, in most sections
of the State. Hog cholera has begun
it's ravages in about sixty counties.
Cattleand horses are generally healthy,
but the latter have suffered from dis
temper in many localities.
Mrs. MARY FLOWERS, of Tabernacle,
Upton County, a highly esteemed old
lady, died last week. Mrs. Flowers was
in her SD year.
ONE hundred and fifty negroes left
Chattanooga last week for Florida,
where they will in future reside. There
has been considerable dissatisfaction
among that race ever since one of their
number was lynched at Chattanooga
last February, and as result emigrant
agents have been at work on them, and
eco negroes, headed by Rev. g. d. olden,
left recently for Colorado, and another
party is being organized to go to Cali
t0rnia.