The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-11-01

keHeTdI convention IN CIarkSYllIe next
December. The attendance was large
and several speeches were delivered
Resolutions were adopted inviting all
Tie separate interests to unite and
work for the common benefit of the
producer, buyer commission merchant
and broker, and inviting all to visit
the farms Of members of the associa-
tion and solicit or buy and give in
spiration to the growing and selling
OF Clarksville's great staple.
Patent Law Unconstitutional.
Chancellor Mcconnell of Chatta-
nooga decided the State law passed in
1897, in reference to purchase and sale
of patent rights to be unconstitutional.
Inc court held that all such matters
come under the control of congress.
This is the first time this law has
been passed upon by q Tennessee
court.
Healthy Showing.
In the past twelve weeks but five
graves have been dug in the two cem-
eteries at Union City, one being for a
stillborn infant, and one for McMakin,
colored, who died in Colorado. Can
any two graveyards in the State, used
by fifteen or twenty thousand people
snow such a record?
Artillery Post at Columbia.
The chances seem favorable for the
conversion Of the arsenal at Columbia
into an artillery post. Eight COM
panies of artillery were to have been
located in Kansas, but an investiga-
tfon proved that the cost of fitting
up the post there would amount to
$750,000, whereas the Columbia ar
senal could be converted into a post
for only $4,000. Gen. Miles strongly
recommends Columbia for the post.
Carnegie's Offer to Nashville.
The Nashville Chamber of Commerce
is in receipt of a letter from James
Bertram, private secretary to Andrew
Carnegie. dated at Skilo Castle, Scot
land, October 4, which says that Mr..
Carnegie stands ready to give 500, 900
tor the erection of a library building
in Nashville. The offer is accom-
panied with the usual proviso that the
city furnish an annuity for running
expenses.
Dead at 81.
w. E. Hudson, aged 81 years, died
at his home in the Seventeenth dis
trict of Madison county last week.
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native State, Georgia, about 1880, and
has resided there continuously since.
He reared large family, all of whom
are grown and settled in life with COM
potency accumulated by their father.
With one exception Mr.. Hudson was
the oldest citizen of the county.
Brothers Die the Same Night.
Jesse Coppeck, native of Ohio, who
has resided near Allegheny Springs
FOR twenty years, died suddenly last
week. He was found dead in bed by
his wife, who at once wired his
brother in Ohio as to whether he de-
sired the remains shipped to his ma
tive State. In reply Mrs. Coppeck
was informed that the Ohio brother
had died the same night.
Electric Line from Knoxville to Sevierville.
w. T. Goff of Toronto, Canada, after
careful investigation, announces that
Canadian capital will build an electric
freight and passenger line from Knox
vile to SevierVille. The line will be
forty-eight miles long, and according
to Goff's estimate, will carry 100 600
tons of freight and 100000 passengers
the first year. Not dollar is asked
from local people.
Monument to Tennessee Soldiers.
The monument of Tennessee marble
erected to the memory of the $4,000
Tennesseans who enlisted for service
in the federal army in the civil war,
5000 Of whom never returned home.
was dedicated in the National Gene
terry in Knoxville last week. The ora
tor was Judge Newton Hacker of
Jonesboro. 1t had been expected that
Secretary of War Root would formally
receive the monument as the repre-
sentative of the government, but he
was detained by illness.
Rewards for Fugitives.
Gov. McMillin has offered reward of
5000 for the arrest and conviction of
Lewis Upton and Charles Upton of
Roane county, for the alleged murder
of Henry. Bowling on October 12, and
$3.50 for Walter Cathey of Houston
county, wanted for the alleged murder
of Afford Beacham, October 10, and
$500 for Huse Ausmus and Hughy
Ausmus of Claiborne county, charged
with the murder of Reason Kits.
Tennessee Banks.
The abstract of reports made to the
comptroller of the currency showing
the condition of the fifty-five national
banks in Tennessee, at the close of
business on Septemb Der, 80. shows the
following: Resources, loans and dis
counts, s26,029, ,S65.n. United States
bonds tc secure circulation, s., 3,652 $50
Total specie, s1.519. .O03.54. Resources
S43, 1888, 79S.09. Surplus fund, s1.799- :
1887. Undivided profits. less ex-
penses and taxes paid, 81, ,226. .663. .Ss
Dividends unpaid. Sl3. .O69 40 Ind,