The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-12-04
SOUTHERN GLEAEINGS.

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sale, or exhibition of any kind of indecent
literature. TlAe Solicitor and Judge of the
/ Circuit Court had consultation, and de-
/ termined that such papers as those indicated
| above were indecent, and that their sale or
distribution was a violation Of the law. All
newsdealers and newsbOys in the city were
| therefore notified that they must not deal in
such stock, and some Of them were request
/ ed to destroy those on hand. Some Of the
dealers viii appeal to the courts.
] AT Frankfort, KY, on the 18th, the
/ blacksmith shop of j. +. Wilson burned and
the remains Of a little 4-year-old son of Mar
Gus Jones were subsequently discovered in
the ruins. Wilson was suspected Of the
murder Of one Hezekiah Gardner, who mys-
teriously disappeared few days previous,
and it was suspected that he burned his shop
in order to destroy the body of his victim. It
was while search was being made for the re-
mains of Gardner that the little boys fate
was discovered. 1t is not known how the
little fellow came to be in the shop at the time
of the fire, and Wilson, who is an ex-Peni-
Tertiary convict, was subject to no little sus-
picion in connection with the affair. He was
arrested ard locked up in Jail to await fur
Their investigation.
"A fire at Paducah, KY, on the night Of
the 18th, destroyed the hub and spoke fac
tory of Davis & Hefron. Loss about $40, 600,
with but small insurance.
The Times office, at Brinkley, Ark, was
burned on the 18th. w. w. Folsom, editor
of the paper, estimates his loss at s., 200, and
charges the disaster to incendiaries.
| AT Covington, KY, on the 18th, Miss
Annie Hoff shot and instantly killed Charles
Schurer, her former lover, whom she charged
with having betrayed her under a promise of
marriage Miss EIoff is q years of age and
is described as a handsome brunette In
| company with her brother she went to
/ Schurer's place of business and requested a
private interview, which was granted. In a
few minutes afterward the report of pistol
was heard and Schurer was found dead. Her
only explanation of the terrible affair was
g He betrayed me and I shot him!' Miss
Hoff then voluntarily surrendered herself
and both she and her brother were locked up
for examination.
! Edward c. Palmer, late President of the
Louisiana Savings Bank, was arrested on the
18th, upon two indictments by the Grand
jury, one charging him with embezzlement
and the other with publishing false reports
and wiIlfully eoncealing facts as to the con-
dition of the bank to deceive the public. He
was held to bail in the sum of $50, 900.
AT Hopkinsville, Ky, on the 18th, James
2. Ferguson shot and killed j. H. Coombs,
and then surrendered himself to the author
tiles. The murderer justifies the killing by
the fact that COOmbs had seduced his sister
and then refused to marry her.
! The Bishops of the Methodist Church
at their recent meeting, adopted the follow
ing plan of visitation for the spring of 1880,
in the States named: Arkansas Conference,
at RussellvilIe, Feb. 4, Bishop Merrill; Ken
lucky Conference, at Danville, March
"A, Bishop Haven; Lexington Con-
ference, at Paris, KY, March 81,
Bishop Haven; Little Rock Confer
ence, Jacksonport, Ark, Feb. II, Bishop
Merrill; Louisiana Conference, at New Or
leans, Jan. IA, Bishop Harris; Mississippi
Conference, at Macon, Jan. 7, Bishop Har-
ris; North Carolina Conference, at High
Point, N. c., Feb. 4, Bishop Simpson; South
Carolina Conference, at Charleston, Jan. 81
Bishop Simpson; Virginia Conference, al
Norfolk, March 3, Bishop Merrill
Five prisoners in the jail at Dallas
Texas, on the evening of the 10Th, over.
powered the guards, seized two revolvers
and escaped to Trinity bottom. The Jailer
Dean, as soon as the alarm was given, fol-
lowed the prisoners, and a running fire was
kept up between them when they were finally
recaptlred.
About $50 negroes from the adjacent
country arrived at Longview, Texas, recent.
ly, en- route for the happy land of Kansas
On being told the price of railroad tickets
they found themselves minus the requisite
amount to proceed further, and they there.
fore settled down in camp near town, appar
emily in rather destitute circumstances.
is said many of them left comfortable homes
Many others are reported TO follow. One O
) them being asked through what source the
had learned so much about Kansas, replied
t'from dat book " that had been sent to them
The planters of st. Landry Parish, La.
| are realizing from one and half to NOR
2 than two hogsheads of sugar to the acre OF
their crop, and are happy in proportion, a
this heavy yield was quite unexpected to tn
? most of them.
| The steamer .. w. Pierce, en- route from
{ Shawnee Village to Memphis, on the 18th, il
making the crossing at FOgelman's, strucl
: the wreck of the MinneOla, which penetrated
= her hull forward and raked her to her boil
; ers, turning over the same, the hull hangin
2 on the obstruction. She will prove a tota
q loss, with the exception of part Of her ma
: chinery.
The boiler of an engine attached to
, material train, on the Greenville and Column
, bia Railroad, exploded near Bolton, on tn
18th, and instantly killed the engineer, fire
man and another man.
Miss Annie Hoff, who shot Chas. SEIZURE
at Newport, KY, on the 14th because h
would not marry her, has been discharges
from custody, after brief examination, il
accordance with the popular verdict that sh
served him right.
Considerable excitement has beel
+ caused by the reported discovery of gold a
: Magnet Springs, Is miles south of Ho
: Springs, Ark.
! The receipts of cotton at Memphis o.
the 18th were 1927 bales, the largest numbe
ever received there in a single day.
s Mrs. John Dutlinger of Memphis die,
from the effects of a spiders bite.
Samuel Aimes of ChilIicothe, Mo. manage
Of the Globe Comedy Company, was throw
from his carriage at Milledgevill, Ga, on tn
= 18th. and instantly killed.