The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-04-27
miscellaneous.

The judicial convention which met al
Nashville last week nominated Judges
Snodgrass, Caldwell, Beard, Wilkes and
McAllister for the supreme bench.
A county agricultural society has beer
organized at Gallatin, with Capt. A. E.
Bell as president and A. A. belong Sec
rotary.
Capt. H. G. Ward, U. S. A., recently
made tour of East Tennessee, where
he looked after military matters. At
Sparta and Crossville new companies
were sworn in, and at Knoxville two
new infantry commands and battery,
forming battalion, were sworn into
the State service. At Chattanooga
Capt Ward inspected the recently estab.
lished rifle range.
A telephone line has been completed
from Chattanooga to Cleveland, thirty
miles. Ultimately the line will be ex-
tended to Knoxville. This line was
begun last fall. It's completion has
been delayed by litigation between the
East Tennessee Telephone Company and
the City of Cleveland, which demanded
of entering the town, but Judge Key
decided that the demand was illegal, so
the company will enter without the
payment of a cent.
Coffee County officials last week took
Allen Gum and Myra Holt to the David
son County Jail for safe keeping. The
men are charged with the murder of
Lafayette Dixon, at Tullahoma, Oct. II.
Lew Bell and Harry Gibson are in jail
at Manchester and Murfreesboro, re-
spectively, charged with being accom-.
plices There was considerable excite
ment at Tullahoma over the prelimin-
airy trial which was held recently, and
for awhile there was talk of lynching.
The greatest fear was that the men
would be released by their friends.
Will Harper, son Of H. r. Harper,
keeper of the Carroll County Asylum,
was accidentally shot and killed near
Huntingdon last week. While some
young men were shooting in the woods
to brighten Harper and two other boys,
bullet struck Harper, infiicting a
wound from which he died an hour
afterward.
The Tennessee Board ot Pharmacy
met at Nashville last week. The next
session will be held at Chattanooga
May Is.
In blowing for the purpose of sowing
oats on his farm near Uno, last week,
C. w. Combs unearthed an old kettle
containing s497 in silver quarters and
121I-cent pieces. The land has been
plowed over for twenty years.
Ex-Gov. Porter denies the rumor that
he is a candidate for the Senate. 81 do
not know how the report originated. 1
never intimated any such intention.
have held no correspondence to that eff
feet, and as to running for Senator L
have never given the subject thought
1t is all mistake. / have simply come
home from my post in Chilli to attend to
spme important private business.
The Grand Commandery of the United
Order of the Golden Cross met in annual
session at Nashville last week with
about $50 representatives from subordi-
nate Communicates present
Ground was officially broken for the
new Pythian College at Gallatin last
week, in the presence of large crowd,
which included many distinguished
Pythiaas R. L. C. White, grand keeper
Of records and seals, first handled the
spade, and then Grand Chancellor of the
State w. H. Griffin took it. The usual
beautiful ceremonies we're observed,
The college il to cost slaQ,QQa,