The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-12-14
Miscellaneous.

Miscellaneous.
After twenty-five years of arduous
and faithful service, DIR. John II. CAL
lender has resigned the superintend-
ency Of the Central Hospital for the
Insane at Nashville.
Representative Washington, of Ten
nessee, has introduced in the house a
bill appropriating S15O,OOO for govern
ment building at the Tennessee Centen-
nial Exposition to be held in Nashville
in 1896.
During a storm at Panther Springs,
Granger County, one night last week,
lightning struck a house in which a
dance was going on. Roderick Lyon
was killed and four others injured.
The ninth convention of the Sunday
School Association of Tennessee met at
Tullahoma last week. Over 500 dele
gates were present. The statistical Sec
retary submitted report showing that
there were 4,644 schools in the State,
4,1s1 teachers, and 3O2, ,O16 scholars, a
total of 343, s34 persons engaged in this
worI. This &c an increase in the past
year of 42O schools, 3, sc2 teachers, and
Is, $50 scholars.
The 6-year-old child of Mrs Corrigan,
of Memphis, met with distressing ac-
cident last week by the overturning of
a kettle of boiling water upon his per-
son while playing. He had been haul
ing sticks in his play wagon to be used
in keeping up fire under the wash
kettle, and in some way dislodged the
bricks under the kettle, causing it to be
overturned and it's contents poured all
over him. The child was frightfully
burned.
Deputy United States Revenue Collec-
tor John Ii. Trice, with posse of depu-
ties, made a successful raid in Hardin
County last week, capturing Marian
Rollins, a Mr.. Badgett, and still an
other man, and destroyed one of the
largest wildcat stills in Tennessee. It's
capacity was seventy-flve gallons per
day. The men are in Jail at Selmer.
The still was located IN the same neigh
borhood where United States Marshal
Brown was wounded and Deputy Gard
ner killed last year.
The receipts at the State treasury for
November were So, ,31O.5O, of which
$50, s05. 50 came from county court clerks
and -, s2S. A. from trustees. The dis
bursements footed up SAB, 593.T3, of
which 50, 31s. 10 went for State prosecu-
tions, s7,6O5O2 for judicial salaries and
2,5S0.4f TO asylums for the insane.
The receipts from county court clerks
for November. 1898. were S34, s41.G7, an
increase of about s., 900 in favor of this
year.
Aunt Fanny Grundy, the oldest person
now living in Nashville, last week cele-
brated her 1O4th anniversary. Aunt
Fanny came to Nashville in 1907, when
only 16 years of age, and OF course re-
mbers the now proud Capital City
when it was in its infancy. She then
belonged to Felix Grundy, one of Ten
nessee's pioneer citizens and greatest
advocates. She is enjoying perfect
health, and her sight is yet fairly good
in fact, Aunt Fanny promises to live
several years longer.
John Biggart, a workman at the West
Tennessee Spoke and Lumber Companys
factory at Obion, while attempting to
throw a belt on the equalizer last week
was caught between the bolt and shaft
and fatally injured. One leg was broken
in two places, one arm broken and his
bead and breast terribly bruised. He
was wound around the shaft at such
rate that when extricated every thread
Of clothing, together with his shoes had
been torn from him.
1t used to be common sight at this
season of the year for strings of Gov
cred wagons to pass through the State
going to the West. This fall there have
been more covered wagons than have
been seen for years. They are not
bound westward, however, but south
ward. to this land OF promise. Many OF
these immigrants from the cold North
west are buying farms and settling in
Tennessee.
Uncle George Irvine, colOred, whose
home is about two miles east of Dres-
den, went out to his corn crib. carrying
a lantern, to shuck corn for his hogs.
His son heard cries OF distress from him,
and on reaching the barn found the old
man in blaze all over, the shucks on
fire and his body caught in the doorway,
where it seemed he was trying to escape.
The old man died soon after, never hav-
ing regained consciousness. The origin
of the fire can only be surmised 1t is
thought he fell asleep and turned the
lantern over, or maybe had a Fl t of some
kind. lie was well-to-do and much re-
spected negro.