The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-04-09
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The steamer Lizzie Lea struck a snag
near Butler Landing on the 27th, and sunk
She is a total loss. The second engineer was
drowned. No other lives lost
Robert McKenna, of Memphis, has
been sentenced to the penItentiary for five
years for marrying his foImer wifes grand
| daughter, in violation of the state law.
Col. D. A. Butterfeld, in personal
difficulty with one OF his employees, was struck
on the head with a stick and killed at Hot
Springs, Ark, Saturday night.
A jury, the majority of which were
cOlOred, have given a verdict of 5000 against
New Orleans cOnfectioner who refused to
serve a colored woman with cakes and soda
water.
In a quarrel between two men in Ma
con county, Kentucky, a few days since Sam
Hahn cut Merritt Lepier with a knife, and
Lepier took up spade and split Hahn's head
open, killing him instantly.
At New Orleans, in the civil rights
case against Robbins, clerk of the steamboat
Seminole, for refusing cabin passage to Louis
Cheralier and wife, the United States COM
missioner sent Robbins before the circuit
court, under one hundred dollar bond.
Judge Waite, of the ninth judicial
circuit Of West Virginia. has granted an in
junction staying the removal of the capital to
Wheeling. The capital will remain at Charles
ton until the courts have an opportunity to
pass upon the validity of the act OF removal
II. T. Tuckins, postmaster at Mason's
Depot, on the Memphis and Louisville rail
road, has been sentenced to one years i'm
prisOnment in the penitentiary for embezzle-
ment. NJ. H. Koch, letter carrier, of Memphis,
has been found guilty of embezzling money
from letters, and judgment suspended.
On Thursday night Louis A. Middle
ton, editor of the West Point, Miss. Times was
shot and killed by D. L. Love, editor Of the
West Point Citizen, for an offensive article
published by Middleton. Love demanded re-
traction, which being refused drew pistol
and shot Middleton four times and then made
his escape.
If sold all in a lump, the stock of
cotton now held in this city would bring So
$50 600. The cotton already sold here since
the season opened has brought an aggregate
of $23, 600, 900, nearly all of which has long
ago been sOrter loose" among our rural
neighbors.- Memphis ADdldHcbe.
A dispatch from Richmond, Va, says
officers of the United States secret service
made a raid into the counties OF Scott, Wise,
Russell, Buchanan, Smythe, and Montgomery
and arrested nine manufacturers of counter
felt money. A large amount of counterfeit
coin, bills, dies, plates, etc, was captured.
The leader of the gang, Joe Mullins made
desperate resistance, attempting to shoot his
captors. The prisoners were brought to Alb
ingdon, and committed to jail.
A telegram from Key West announces
that the yellow fever had greatly increased
within few days that all naval vessels were
quarautined and that soldiers garrisoning the
forts would leave Immediately for colder quar-
ters that the epidemic was spreading, and
that deaths were occurring III Key West. In
structiOns have been sent to the surgeons at
Pensacola, Mobile, New Orleans and Galveston
to be on the lookout for yellow jack, and
promptly to report it's appearance.
Matt Morris, alias Pittsburg Matt,
the last OF the quartette engaged in the ex-
press robbery the fret Of February, have ar
rived at Memphis and are now in jail. As the
four men have already been indicted, they
will have a speedy trial, and it is generally
believed that Morris and Johnson will pay the
penalty OF their crime upon the scaffold.
Johnson who was at first bold and defiant,
has completely broken down since learning
that his ofTense is punishable with death, and
shrieks and yeils like madman.
Gen. Augur's attention having been
attracted to the associated press kilograms,
giving reports OF Mexican raids into Texas,
and being still in command of that territory,
telegraphed the commandant at Fort Brun,
Brownsville, as to the truth of the reports,
and received the following reply: There are
many reports Of raids on the ranches in the
vicinity OF Corpus Christi and a threatened
attack upon that place. Some ranches doubt
less have been robbed and burned, aud some
people have been killed and some taken pris-
Oners. The prisoners are reported to have
escaped. These marauders have been driven
from the vicinity OF Corpus Christi by the
citizens in pursuit. have sent all my mounted
force to intercept the robbers. and Gen. Hatch
has sent troops for the same purpose. Many
depredations have been committed along the
river above this point OF late, and several
persons have been killed. I believe these
robbers are Mexicans, and that most OF them
are from the other side Of the river. There
are probably several parties out for stealing
cattle and robbing ranches. No reliable in
formation as to numbers. II. POTTER,
Col. path Infantry Commanding.