The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-02-23
Miscellaneous.

For the first time in many years Bear
| Spring Iron Furnace is in operation.
Employment is given to 800 men, and
| 100 tons of pig iron will be the daily out
put. This furnace, which has been re.
modelled with all the modern improve
ments, is situated down on the Cumber-
land river, about thirty miles below
| Clarksville, in Stewart county.
Dent Porter, a negro boy, aged II.
was burned to a cinder last week at
the CiticO Furnace, east of Chattanooga.
| He had fallen asleep near the narrow
gauge track, over which the iron cars
! or cauldrons of seething hot Stag are
\ hauled after each charge from the fur
mace. As the engine puffed past him the
| door at the bottom of one of the cars
opened and a fiery stream of molten iron
gushed over the prone figure, bringing
| death without a moment of warning or
pain.
Mrs. c. A. Washington, of Cedar Hill,
wife of the late G. A. Washington. died
| at Nashville last week, aged 81. Mrs.
Washington was the mother of Congress
man Joseph f. Washington and was a
lady of wealth and distinction.
NJ. Loeffer, a leading ieweler and pawn
broker. of Chattanooga, was fined $25
to comply with a recently enacted city or
dinance requiring pawnbrokers to make
daily reports of pawned articles. Loef-
fer's counsel holds the ordinance is in
conflict with the State law. and appealed
the case. He will be arrested every morn
ing till he complies with the ordinance.
The case has much significance to pawn
brokers.
The effort to inaugurate tri-State fair
in Chattanooga this fall is a success. The
organization is now complete and the
work in charge of board of nine direct
Ors About $1,000 has been subscribed
in SO shares, and $4,000 of the $1,000
capitalized stock must be raised before
the enterprise is gotten under way. Sew
eral hundred thousand visitors are booked
for Chattanooga next September, drawn
by three rival attractions, the fair. Grand
Lodge meeting of Masons and dedication
of the Chickamauga National Military
Park.
Whitecaps have posted several notices
on the houses of negroes near Gibson
warning them to leave inside of twenty
four hours under penalty of being swung
mp to a limb. A negro by the name Of
Bob Banks had q notice posted on his
door. but he announced that he would not
ledNe, WnefeupOn the WnltecapS. went to
of holes procured an ak, broke down the
door, tied 4 rope around his neck and
dragged him out of the house about fifty
his house and after shooting the door full
yards, where they swung him up three
times before he would promise to leave
The whitecaps all wore heavy mask
Latham, Alexander & Co, fiscal agents
for the State of Tennessee, have sold to
Blair & Co, bankers, of New York. the
100000 AZ per cent. penitentiary bonds
at par and accrued interest Among
leading inanciers this sale is ia.
vorably regarded and shows deserved
improvement in the credit of Tennessee.
1t will doubtless insure the prompt re-
funding of the , and per cent bonds on
. AZ per cent. basis There are 100. 900
of these bonds outstanding, and the saw
ing in interest will amount to oyer S10.-
600 per annum. The State authorities
will now be enabled to begin work upon
the penitentiary at once, which will prove
beneficial to many Industries all over Ten
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