A Temperance Alliance was organized at Pocahontas last week.

Work has begun on the iron bridge across Hatchie at Statler’s Ferry.

On Saturday last, the first day of May, there was a good deal of frost here, but it did not damage vegetation any.

Mr. G. M. SAVAGE was up in town last Monday for the first time in two or three weeks. His many friends were glad to see him out.

A party of fishermen from Hickory Valley spent two or three days of this week at Statler’s Ferry.

Rev. Mr. Hope preached on last Sunday to a large and attentive audience at the Presbyterian Church. Hope his services may be secured as their pastor. We give him a hearty welcome.

Maj. W. B. RUFFIN, postmaster at Toone, is very ill, and is not expected to live many days. He had a stroke of paralysis sometime ago, and has gradually grown worse.

John BOYD, the colored barber from Toone, who is charged with stealing the money from Mr. W. F. FULLER, has been brought back to Jackson and lodged in jail. His brother, George BOYD, is said to have told on him, and George is being held as a witness. It is claimed that the prosecution is in possession of sufficient evidence to secure his conviction.

The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 07 May 1886, Page 3. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.