The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1893-10-27
Miscellaneous.

MAJ. e. S. HosFoRD died suddenly OF
paralysis at Jackson last week, aged SO
years. : Deceased was for many years
the popular superintendent of thesouth-
ern division of the Mobile & Ohio Rail-
road, and at the time of his death he
was the general adjuster of claims of
stock injured and killed by the Illinois
Central Railroad.
Gov. TURNEY, Treasurer Craig and
Comptroller Harris were in consultation
with the attorneys of the. penitentiary
lessees last week, and it is understood
that they have practically agreed to pay
the past-due lease money, amounting to
$15O,0OO, without further litigation.
The only difference now is about SO, 600
paid out by the State for rewards in cap
turing convicts, which expense, it is in
sisted, should be borne by the lessees.
THE Grand Lodge of Independent Or
der of Odd Fellows of Tennessee met at
Pulaski last week. The election of
officers resulted as follows Ben Bing
ham, of Memphis, grand master; w. A.
Barry, OF Nashville, deputy grand mas
te; j. w. Holt, of Peyton, grand war
den; j. r. Harwell, of Nashville, grand
secretary; j. ]. Weakley, of Nashville,
grand treasurer; John L. Nolen, of
Nashville, grand representative to the
sovereign grand lodge.
ONE of the most daring highway rob,
berries which has occurred this side OF
the border country was perpetrated one
night last week in Gibson County by
some parties unknown. A young man
by the name OF Harper was returning
from Humboldt to his home, some miles
southeast of Trenton, when he was
halted and his horse and buggy taken
from him by two highwaymen and driven
off. No track of either has been found.
THE meeting of the State Association
of Confederate Veterans was held az
Jackson last week. DR.. Joseph e. Mar
tin, rector of st. Luke's Church of Jack
son, delivered grand grafton on "Stone-
wall Jackson" The association meets
next year in Gallatin. The following
officers were elected: Hon. S. f. Will
son, president; P. p. Picl1ard, first vice
president; B. f. Roberts, second vice.
president; John p. Hickman, secretary;
George f. Hager, treasurer; DR.. w. A.
DUNCAN, chaplain; Frank Anderson, SER
geant-at-arms. A barbecue was given
the veterans.
THE State Baptist Convention met at
Jackson last week and adjourned to
meet next year with Edgefeld Church
at Nashville. The session of the con-
vention was harmonious, and much good
was accomplished. The reports showed
that the Baptist denomination in Ten
nessee is in a growing. progressive con-
dition. There are in the State about
115,OOO Baptists. Rev. II. ]. Holt was
elected secretary of the State mission
board, and Rev. o. L. HALEY was re-
elected secretary of the Sunday school
and colportage board.
In the Methodist Episcopal Confer
ence at Lebanon last week, DIR. Morton,
secretary of the church extension board,
made an address in which he said: The
Tennessee conference had paid for
church extension $50, ,000 making it the
second on the list, Louisville only lead
ing. The conference board had helped
eighty-six churches. The general board
helped seven churches in the bounds of
the conference, making ninety-three in
all, to which has been paid about S21,-
500. The total amount received by the
board in the eleven years of its exist
ence is about S625, 600 and assisted nearly
5000 churches and parsonages, making
about one every fourteen hours of the
twentyfour.
Rev. o. p. PARKER, Methodist min
lister, died at Gibson, few miles east of
Hum boldt, last week. Uncle Perry"
as he was better known, was one of the
first settlers of Gibson County and one
of the most prominent citizens of Glib
| son. He was 20 years old.
GOLD has been discovered in paying
quantities in East Tennessee and is to
be mined by syndicate of Cincinnati
capitalists, who, after thoroughly pros
pecting, have leased several thousand
acres of land. The find is about thirty
miles east of Athens and near the Great
Smoky Mountains, and the assays show
that the ore Is very rich,