The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1893-04-14
miscellaneous.

SEVERE nall ana Wlnu SGOrm StruCK
Pulaski last week.
HARRISON IRBY. SR., died at Collier
Vile last week. He came to Tennessee
from Alabama forty years ago, and set
tied in Shelby County.
MANY negro families are going from
Carroll County to Oklahoma. Some
who owned farms have sold them and
gone to that Territory.
MARTIAL. Conn, an aged and wealthy
lady, died suddenly at Gallatin last
week. She complained of feeling badly,
and before doctor arrived she was
dead. She was 70 years old and of
enormous weight.
CJ. C. NoRvELL, of Nut Bush, who was
wounded at Murfreesboro in 1862, has
lately gone totally blind. Much SYM
patty is manifested for Mr.. Norvell,
who has a large and dependent family.
IT having become generally under
stood that at an early date United States
District Judge Key, of the Middle and
Eastern districts of Tennessee, would
retire, candidates for the place are
coming forth rapidly.
THE Southern Baptist convention,
which meets in Nashville on May 18th,
next, is one of the largest religious
bodies that ever gathered in the world.
Already correspondence is going on
with people from every State in the
Union wishing to visit Nashville in
May, and the attendance of delegates
and visitors is expected to be large.
The cotton acreage will be largely
reduced in West Tennessee the coming
season for several reasons. Seed will
be scarcer than ever before known. The
mills are paying Is cents per bushel,
and are getting all in sight. Then the
farmers are learning more regarding
the cotton market, and see that the past
season will be no indication as to the
future. The numerous canning fac
tories will inspire truck farming on an
extensive scale, and this in itself will
reduce the acreage hundreds of acres.
RUDE RICHARDS, living twelve miles
east of Milan, returned from his work
one evening last week in a partially in
toxicated condition. He violently cursed
his wife and ordered supper, threaten
ing her life If it was not prepared in a
certain time. When the meal had been
eaten his little daughter asked for pop
corn, and with an oath her father as
cended to the garrett to procure it. A
ioist gave way and he was precipitated
with great force to the kitchen floor,
his head striking a stove, breaking his
neck and causing instant death.
THE collar factory and tannery of
Marsh g. Sons, Nashville, was burned
last week The establishment was an
extensive one, and the loss will proba-
bly, reach 5000
AT Milan 10000 daily capacity can
ming factory is being erected; the Roper
shook factory, employing 25 hands, has
just been completed; the 10O-barrel
roller flour mill is running at full ca
pacity; furniture factory employing
so hands, and patent gate factory en-
ploying so hands will locate there in
the near future. The town promises to
greatly improve during the coming
summer months.
IN 1878, twenty years ago, the County
OOurb VI Sumner NOuHbJ en- pIOycu
Lawyer Fox. of Louisville, to collect
claim of the county against the Louis
Vile e. Nashville Railroad, promising
him one-half IL he collected it. The
amount was SIS, ZOO, and the matter
dragged along until it was almost for
gotten. Last week at Quarterly Court
a letter was received from Fox inclosing
a check for $4,000 payable 20 the sink
ing fund committee. No such committee
being now in existence 10 receive the
check, the chairman has to appoint
some one to receive the money.