The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-07-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings Of Interest in This and
in Other Countries.
THROUGH THE SOUTH.

dled July 4th.
Southerners are preparing to can and
save their fruits.
There is no yellow fever at Tampa
says a strong denial.
Two girls caught shark, feet in
length, at st. Augustine, Fla.
1t is rumored that the Southern Rail
way will absorb the Seaboard Air Line.
Glenn Sherman, a negro preacher,
murdered his wife in Lee county. Ala,
Rev. ]. A. Forest has been appointed
Roman Catholic bishop of San Antonio,
Texas.
Incendiaries burned the court house
at Centre, Ala. Loss $50, 600; insurance
s., 200.
Reports from Alabama say the cotton
crop is greatly injured by excessive
rains.
In the bond market the Savannah and
Western first certificates fell from SO. 3S
to 511<.
There is a movement to build a tele-
phone line from Thomasville to Talla-
hassee, Fla.
The Southern Biblical assembly is to
be held at Ashville from July 18th to
August 14th.
A home for needy women is to be
erected at Athens, Ga. The building
will cost $4,000.
Patrick Henry committed suicide by
jumping in well at Marshville, Fla,
few days since.
Secretary Hoke Smith has consented
to address the Cordele, Georgia, Sound
Money Club soon.
DIR. Talmage lectured before the Lou
isiana Chatauqua Sunday, which is in
session at Ruston.
The Young Peoples Baptist conven-
ton. with 1000 delegates, will meet in
Baltimore July Is.
w. L. Garner, prominent citizen of
Montgomery county, Ala, dropped
dead Saturday night.
Jacksonville has again decided to in
vite the National Editorial association
to hold their next meeting z there.
Mrs. Ben Cogle shot and killed her
husband at Chattanooga. He was ad-
vancing upon her with hatchet.
The Alabama Midland railroad is fig
uring on building an extension from
The plans for the new union depot
to be erected in Atlanta, Ca, by the
Southern Road have been published.
DIR. J. B. Guln, of Hughes Mills, Ala,
Tuscaloosa county, is dead. He was
good citizen and prominent physician.
The flour mills at Opelika are una BILE
to supply the demand for their product.
They are continually behind with
orders.
The comptroller of the currency has
given authority for the reorganization
of the Commercial National bank of
Eufala, Ala.
ing off the grounds and getting things
in shape for the alcohol plant at Round
Mountain, Ala.
]. w. Newman, of Collinsville, Ala,
has been appointed chairman of the
board of equalization for DeKald coun-
ty by Governor Oates.
Sheriff Mcmillan, of Escambaia coun-
ty, Ala, was killed by a negro des-
perado, Railroad Bill Friday He
was shot from ambush.
The steamer, Geo. W. Childs about
which so much has been said in connec-
ton with a filibustering expedition,
has arrived at Key West disabled.
Texas crop reports from 425 points
show that not for twenty-five years
have the conditions been so uniformly
bad for cotton or so good for corn.
Augustus Fields, formerly editor of
the Polo post, in Caldwell county, Mo-,
murdered his wife and child and then
committed suicide at Wheeling, Mo.
Rev. DIR. NJ. HI. Lane, for some time
pastor of Jacksonville Baptist church.
has resie ned to assume the presidency
of Monroe Female college at Forsyth,
Ga.
Wesley O'Gonnor, Georgia superin-
tendent of deaf schools, has been made
president of the American Association
of Teachers in session at Flint, Michi-
gan.
The finances of the Cotton States &
international exposition are in fine
shape. Many new attractions have
recently been added and its success is
assured.
]. Minis Sullivan, who shot and killed
Hermer Gilreath at Greenville, S. c.,
three years ago has been acquitted. He
wept like a child when the verdict was
rendered.
In beat 1, Lee county, Ala. Glen Sher-
man, a negro preacher, who had just
recently been released from the state
penitentiary, shot and killed his wife
and escaped.
Chief Engineer Bjorswic, of the Unit
ed States monitor Amphitrite, lying at
Hampton Roads, is in the hospital at
Norfolk, for repairs for attempted sui
eide by cutting his throat.
The Methodist, Baptist and Presby-
terian pastors in Wadesboro, n. c. have
agreed to close up all but one of their
churches on each Sunday night during
the summer, and all worship together.
II has been judiciously decided in
Tennessee that Sunday is Sunday and
that the Adventists Of that state must
observe il. A move will be made to
change the statute so as to exempt
them.
The National Afro-American Press
association, Of which nearly all of the
colored editors of the country are mem
bers, has been called to convene in an
nual session Tuesday of next week in
Baltimore.
Governor McCorkle has been in re-
ceipt of several messages from the
strike region in West Virginia, all of
which state that everything is quiet
and that there Is no probability Of
trouble at present.