The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1893-05-12
Miscellaneous.

Miscellaneous.
THE Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias
of Tennessee met at jackson last week.
REV. THOMAS F. GAILoR has formally
decided to accept the position of bishop
coad jutor for the diocese of Tennessee,
to which he was recently elected.
Gov. TURNEY has offered a reward~of
5000 for the apprehension of the party
or parties who burned the barn and
horses of William Scott, of Shelby
County.
AN election was held at Ripley last
week for the purpose of ascertaining the
wishes of the voters of the corporation
with respect to the levy of school tax,
which resulted in 40 for and % against.
WHISKY was at the bottom of fatal
stabbing at Dover last week. Morgan
Edwards and Harvey Miller, each aged
IS years, bosom friends, quarreled.
Miller plunged knife several times
into Edwards heart, causing instant
death.
JAMES EPPs, Morgan Petty and An
drew Patrick, three of the men charged
with the assassination of Internal Rev.
enue Officers Spurrier and Cardwell,
will be tried at Nashville May %, with
Judge Taft presiding. Justice Jackson
decided some time ago that they could
be tried in the Federal Court.
Mrs. CYRUS MCCORMICK, the moving
and reaping machine mans widow, of
Chicago, has decided to locate in Ten
nessee. She will erect mansion at
Knoxville something on the plan of
George Vanderbilt's palace, now being
built near Ashville.
INTERNAL revenue collections for the
Nashville district amounted to sos, 777 68
during April. During the same
month last year collections amounted
to $72, 1853. 90, decrease for this year Of
over So, 300. A falling off has been
noticed in all branches of the depart
mentsof late.
THE commissioners of the Chicka-
mauga National Park, accompanied by
a number of regular United States army
officers and the Confederate Colonels
from Tennessee, visited Chickamauga
last week to determine the lines of bat
tie and attend to other important bust
ness of the park. Gen. Carnes of Mem
phis, Col. J. w. Hale of Huntsville,
and Col. ]. w. Williams of Nashville
are the representatives from Tennessee.
P. J. O'REILLEY and Peter Sherlock
are under arrest at Nashville charged
with setting fire to two barns, owned by
Michael Hayes, the sexton of Mount
Calvary Cemetery. The fire occurred
while Hayes was preparing a grave for
the reception of corpse. The mourners
were crowded around the grave when
the fire broke out, and Hayes ran to
save his property, leaving the grave
diggers to finish the burial. O'Reilly
and Sherlock were drunk in one of the
barns, and were smoking and striking
matches to light their pipes when the
straw caught fire.
Mr.. MULLINS, a deputy sheriff Of
Hancock County, went to the distillery
of Wash Livesay, near Bristol, last
week, to arrest one Ray, when the pro-
prietor of the still interfered. A row
ensued and the deputy sheriff was seri-
ously wounded. The deputy sheriff's
little brother, who was standing near,
whipped out pistol and shot Livesay.
WILLIAM CLEGG and another boy were
monkeying with loaded gun she'll at
Nashville last week. They drove a nail
into the brass cap, the shell exploded,
80 horribly burning the Clegg boy that
he died the same night. The other boy
10 not seriously injured.