The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-11-06
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

sine Gle on the 10Th after an adjourned seS-
sion Of 106 days, during which time two i'm
parchment trials took place. Also con-
demnatory and very damaging reports were
made by other special investigating commit
tees against the heads Of other departments,
making this the most memorable Legislature
in the history of the State.
Miss Ruth Wood, beautiful and ae-
complished young lady of Granville Court
house, n. c., recently eloped with blind
man, named Weaver. The latter is a we'll
to-do farmer, young, handsome and intelli-
gent, and the only objection Ruth's parents
had to the marriage was that he was blind.
Collector Wade, of the Third District Of
Georgia, informs the Internal
Revenue that a special force in attempting to
destroy an illicit distillery in Ebert County
were repulsed by body of armed men and
obliged to return to Elberton for additional
aid and arms.
The Memphis AodIaRche proposes that
the old town be entirely depOpulated and
destroyed, and that a new Memphis be built
at place known as Bartlett, II miles dis
tant. 1t suggests that "half a dozen rail-
road tracks" could do all the transporting
between the new city and the river.
In Martin County, N c., ON the 14th, Peter
Freeman was waylaid and shot and killed by
Robert Outeridge. Freeman's wife was ar
rested as an accomplice in the murder, heI
object being to get rid of her husband so as
to marry Outeridge. The guilty parties are
all under arrest.
AT Corsicana, Texas, Rev. T. NJ. Good
night, of the New Holiness sect, who last
winter published pamphlet purpOrting to
be the visions Of prophecy, has been adj
judged crazy bya jury, and viii be sent to
the asylum.
"A fiOurishing whisky ring is reported to
have been unearthed in CASTOR County, n.
c., by United States detectives. The local
revenue officers and the distillers were work
ing very proftably together, so it is said.
John Mills went to Mooresville, n. c.,
with bale of cotton, sold it, drank heavily
during the day, and in attempting to getin-
to his wagon to go home he fell to the ground,
striking upon his head, and was instantly
killed
king Fisher, the notorious ruffian and
frontier murderer, who escaped from the
Rangers, near Laredo, has voluntarily sur
rendered to the authorities at Uvalde, Tex
as, and will stand trial on numerous indict-
ments.
/ AT Moorehead, Ky, recently, Alvin Bow
/ ling, a saloon-keeper, shot and killed Joshua
Hammond, while the latter was rushing al
him with large butcher-lnife. The killing
was considered iustifable.
Col. John NJ. Wade, one of the members
of the Convention which framed the Declare
ton of Independence of Texas, and vet
eran of San JacintO, died at his home il
Austin on the 9th inst.
in a shooting encounter at Hardinville
! Shelby County, KY, on the 18th, between
] I,a Lot 70
was fatally wounded. Bright was the ag
gressor, and fired twice at Bentley, but tn,
latter was the better marksman. He wa
not hit.
"A Wilmington IN. CO. dispatch of tn
18th says: To-day William and John Fish
er, brothers, two of the most notoriou
criminals in the State, were arrested ant
sent to Jail. They have to answer for nu
merOus crimes. The one for which tn
/ brothers were arrested to-day was the seclu
sion of Tom johnson, one of the gang of out
laws to which the two brothers belonged
and subsequently abducting his wife an,
| carrying her OFF to South Carolina. o.
the night she was abducted, she wa
carried just outside the city limits, and KEEP
locked up in an old cellar for three days
The object of aDducting the woman does no
! appear, and the Fisher brothers will not Civ
any elew. At the time that johnson wa
run off by this gang he was charged with tn
assassination of George Harper, prOminen
man in this county. JOhnson's wife state
that he was murdered in a difficulty with
man near Cheraw, S. c.
AT Waco, Texas, on the 18th, d. B. Ken
nedy, editor of the San, had an altercatiol
with William Brooks, another newspape
man. Brooks struck Kennedy; the latte
then drew q revolver and the former a knife
with which he stabbed his antagonist in tn
neck, breaking off the blade of the knife bu
not inflicting a serious wound. Kennel
meanwhile fired two shots at Brooks, neithe
of which took effect. Both of the belliger
ents were subsequently arrested.
Christian Engelhard, a worthy youn!
German of Coryell County, Texas, was mos
fOully murdered near -Berne on the 10th
The crime was shrouded in mystery.
Albert Granger, son of one Of tn
wealthiest fOundTymen of Louisville, KY, oil
the night of the 18th shot and dangerousl,
wounded his Wife Mt Woodland Garden
Jealousy was the cause.
-Frisbie, a white desperate, has beef
sentenced to be hanged at orsicana, Texas
for the murder of a negro, near Chatfield, il
that county, short time ago. This make
| three men in Corsicana to be hanged, tn
others being Henry (colOred) and Doran.
AT San Antonio, Texas, on the Goth, intel
ligence was received of shocking TRACED
twenty miles southeast of that city. A Mr.
Holdusen shot his best friend, f. S. Magnill
killing him instantly. Holdusen had lost hi
wife and daughter recently, and went crazy
Magnill paid him visit after night to sit III
with him, and was shot through the hear
while entering the gate. Holdusen has beeI
adjudged insane. Both were citizens of higI
standing.
AT Memphis, on the goth, Police Officer
T. d. jackson, colored, shot and killed Greer
Smith, colored, 4 chicken thief, who resisted
arrest. He attempted to stab the officer with
a Bowie knife. The verdict of the Coroner.
jury eXonerated Jackson.
TO Opelika, Ala, there occasionally
comes a spotted wo man. Her whole face
neck, hands (and she says her entire body ar,
covered with large dark brown, white and
cream colored spots. The woman lives
| about four miles north of the town and ha:
been there several times.
THE old, old question as to whether
fall or spring transplanting is better
now comes up again to perplex all who
are about to take their first lesson in ex
perience. There are good arguments il
| favor of each-some against fall trans
planting-one against spring transplant
| ing. We need scarcely repeat them
| they have been told so many times. lie
us say, however, if TRANSFORMING is tC
| be done this fall, do it as soon after tn,
! leaVeS have chauOpd color aS pOSSible