There was a considerable decrease in the number of white persons who had died from cholera during the twenty-four hours previous to five o’clock last evening, as reported at the office of the sanitary police. Only two fatal cases of white persons were reported, and fourteen colored. Five white persons,
On the 15th of the present month, the voters of Shelby County are to determine whether or not Memphis shall be the county seat of said county. In all probability, the vote will be cast in favor of Memphis. The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 08 Sept. 1866, Page
The following is the report of cases of cholera in this city, for the twenty-four hours ending at 6 pm yesterday: Cases reported in the city, eight; deaths reported in the city, five. No report from the City Hospital. (Memphis Avalanche, 27th) The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 01
Last Saturday, while Col. M. C. GALLOWAY, editor of the Memphis Avalanche, was at the office of Monsarrat, Lanier & Co., Assessor M. H. WOOD, who had taken offence at publications made in the Avalanche, took the occasion to call Col. GALLOWAY to account for the same; a difficult ensued,
M. COMBS, Jr. of Memphis, claim agent, has been bound over in the sum of $2000 to answer before the criminal court of Shelby county for attempting to commit a rape upon one Mrs. PRIM. The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 25 Aug. 1866, Page 1. Chronicling America: Historic
A bale of cotton, the first of the season, was put upon the Memphis market on the 18th. It was from Arkansas. The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 25 Aug. 1866, Page 1. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
On the 9th, a desperate encounter took place in the town of Sweetwater, east Tennessee, between Capt. William JENKINS, late of the C.S.A., and two brothers, named MCGAUGHEY, and a friend of theirs, in which all four of the combatants were killed. Capt. JENKINS was mortally wounded, but succeeded in
It is our painful duty to chronicle another terrible railroad accident, this time occurring on the Memphis, Clarksville and Louisville Railroad. The train which leaves the latter city at 4:30 pm, and known as train No. 2, ran off the track two hundred yards north of Budd’s Creek. The engine
A most unfortunate affair occurrence transpired a few hundred yards above the Ferry on last Wednesday evening. An old gentleman by the name of MORGAN, a renter on the place of Wiley FORT, about three miles north of here, in company with his sons, some three or four in number, went into
Capt. Thomas R. POLK, a worthy descendent of the POLK family of Tennessee, and one of the best citizens of Moorehouse Parish, says the Monroe Telegraph, was thrown from his horse on the morning of the 25th and died in a few hours. The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.),
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