The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-11-02
miscellaneous.

Capt. David Hastings, who has farm
near Memphis, has raised $500 bushels
of Triumph potatoes, which averaged
about thirty barrels to the acre, and
will sell for 81. so per barrel.
The county tax books of Davidson
County were completed last week, show,
ing the value of taxable property in the
county to be over SAT, 500, 900. The total
tax, including polls, is fixed at $461,-
5S4.1 -.
A magnificent specimen of the bird
of freedom was killed on Lookout Noun
tain near Chattanooga last week by a
hunter, the only eagle seen in this Sec
tion for years. The mammoth bird
measured eight feet from the tip of one
spread out, measured over seven inches.
Milan is infested with a gang OF
thieves and burglars. For the past
three weeks it has been a nightly oc
bed by the gang. Five attempts were
made in one night between the hours
of and 9. Vigorous efforts will be
made to apprehend the thieves.
'Thomp." Crosser, city marshal OF
Obion, lies in critical condition on ac-
count of a pistol shot wound in the right
breast which he accidentally received a
few nights ago. Crosser went to one Of
the public wells in Obion and drew up
bucket of water to get drink. While
STOPPING over the bucket in the act OF
drinking his pistol fell from his coat
pocket and was discharged, the ball
going through Crosser's right breast and
lodging under the shoulder blade.
A. j. COllingsworth, prominent and
wealthy farmer living near Humboldt,
was dangerously if not fatally hurt by
young horse. Mr.. Collingsworth was
holding the horse for his son to mount
him, when it made wild jump, bring
ing its head in violent contact with Mr..
Collingsworth, breaking the outer layer
of the skull and otherwise injuring him.
Shelby County is in better financial
condition than she has been for years.
Her assets are about equal to her liza
bilities, and her warrants are today sell
ing at par. None of them are on the
market, either, the people holding them,
realizing that they are worth dollar
for dollar in the county trustees Office,
and taking them there for redemption.
Henry Billings, Jack Billings, Spruce
Billings and James Street, young men
of Upton County, charged with being
Whitecappers, and indicted for burning
the fences around the farm of j. With
erington, were convicted in the Circuit
Court at CoVington last week.
There were offered for sale a few days
ago on the streets of Lexington, some
hose, knit by Granny Thomas, who
lives in Henderson County, and who
will be 1O2 years old on the Goth of next
March. Last year on her centennial
birthday, there were gathered together
five generations of her family. Granny
Thomas has been blind for some years,
but otherwise she is as active and spry
as many people a generation younger
than herself.
g. 7. Davis. who IS charged with
having killed Special Deputy Garner,
of Selmer, in the raid of United States
officers on the morning of the oath of
June, 1892, surrendered to United States
Marshal Manson at Jackson last week.
Davis claims that Garner was killed BIZ
his own men, who had gone to the rear
of Davis house when the attack was
made; that the halls which aid the kill
ing passed through the nouse. He
claims that he was in the yard when
the officers approached and began firing
from front and rear, and that he re-
treated into the house and returned tie
fire, but had no Winchester rifle. Davis
gave bond and will be tried next April.