The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-08-24
Miscellaneous.

The signal officer at Nash Vile reports
that the weather on the 18th was the
hottest since 1881, the thermometers
marking 90 Clio degrees.
Gibson County will raise one of the
largest corn crops that has been raised
in ten years. With plenty of hogs and
corn the county is in better condition
than it has been since the war. Farm
ers are out of debt and are in easy cir
cumstances.
One hundred negroes employed at the
government works on the Tennessee
river struck last week, demanding
shorter hours. They surrounded the
contractor and the foreman, and display
ing pistols threatened to kill them.
Officers were sent to the scene and they
quelled the riot
Mr.. E. T.. Cressey, a Tennessee sol
dier who served in the Union army, liv-
ing at Sioux Falls, S. D., has in his
possession cavalry sword which he
found on the battlefield of Mills Springs,
KY, which was fought January 1920,
1862, and he would be glad TO return it
to the owner if living, If not, to any
members of his family entitled to it.
The belt is brass-plated and has an eagle
with olive branch and arrows. On the
inside of the belt-plate are the lotters
"A. L. M. r." plainly scratched, as with
the point of knife blade.
At Grandview, near Spring City, mil
lions of grasshoppers have taken the
fields by storm, and are working de-
struction upon the crops. The insects
are three inches long when full grown.
They are of reddish color, and as
result the woods are of lurid hue.
Residents of the mountains have ceased
all other work in their efforts to exter-
inmate them.
The Senate committee on the judiciary
has made an adverse report on the NOM
ination of Hon. James u. Porter to be
United States Judge of the Eastern and
Middle Districts of Tennessee. 1t is
understood that the opposition is based
upon the ground that Mr.. Porter, while
a resident of the State, lives outside
the district over which he was appointed
to preside.
Gen. Walter M. Cooke, judge-advocate
on Gov. Turney's staff, died at Knox
Vile last week. He was one OF the
leading attorneys Of the State. Owing
to his position on the governors staff
he was given military funeral.
Mack Randolph, the most noted
and wealthiest negro about Gallatin,
died last week. Ten or twelve years
ago he was the victim Of gold swindle
that cost him So, 900. negro went to
him saying he had gold in box which
had been buried by his master during
the war and he had found and dug it up.
He was afraid to be seen with much
gold, and offered to exchange it for pa
per money. Randolph went to the woods
near Saundersville with him, the
stranger leaving Randolph with the box
while he pretended tohave something to
do about the depot. He then disappeared.
After waiting a long time Randolph
opened the box and found nothing but
stones in it, He spent a good deal of
money hunting for the swindler.
j. S. Bobo, aged go years, had his
neck broken at Tullahoma last week by
being thrown from bicycle. He had
little girl on the wheel with him, when,
from some cause, he lost control Of the
wheel and ran into fence. In falling
he saved the child from injury, but bis
head struck the brick pavement, killing
him almost instantly.
A sensational rumor reached Jackson
last week to the effect that Rev. g. T.
3. Howard, of European claims fame,
had gained the confidence of his guards
and escaped from the Columbus (ohio)
penitentiary, where he was serving
nine-year sentence of the Federal Court.
His friends at Jackson know nothing OF
the matter, and it is probable that the
news is fake.
In shooting affray at Old Jefferson,
Rutherford County, growing out Of an
election for magistrate which had re-
suited in a tie, West Smithy fatally
wounded George Duke. There was an
old erudge between the men, and the
election was only used as pretext
The annual meeting Of elders aud
deacons o. the Western District Presby-
terry was in session at Jackson for two
days last week. The reports showed
the churches to be In prosperous con-
dition. The convention adjourned -
meet at Concord church, in Gibson
County, the second Wednesday AieaF ~
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