The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-02-19
SOUTHERN GLEANINGs.

Hughes, were arrested at Madison, Ga, on
the 9th, charged with encouraging emigra-
ton from Georgia to Mississippi. The law
provides that emigrant agents shall pay tax
Of $500 for carrying on such business. The
two were subjected TO trial and fined in the
aggregate S1S3. Evidence showed that these
agents had made quite an inroad into the
working class Of the community, causing
scores Of violations Of contracts between
farmers and their laboreTs.
"A few days since, r. f. Avery & Son,
plow manufacturers, Atlanta, Ga, received
two barrels, which, being opened, were
found TO contain three corpses, packed in
charcoal. AS they dealt in no goods of that
kind the police were notified, and search re-
vealed the fact that they were shipped to
Avery, druggist, for the Atlanta Eclectic
Medical College. The circumstance, with
the recent graveyard transactions, created
unusual excitement.
Andrew Irwin, Georgia wife-murdeFer,
was arrested in Kaufman County, Tex, on
the 18th, and win be turned over for trial.
AT Sherman, Tex, on the night of the
9th, City Marshal Sam Ball undertook TO
eject from a place known as the ''Red
Light" a young man named Aft. Johnson,
who was on ''hurrah." johnson pulled
a revolver and shot the Marshal through the
right breast, when the latter fired and shot
johnson three times, causing instant death.
Another man, supposed to be JOhnson's
brother, then shot Ball in the face. The
latter's injuries are very serious, but the
physicians say he may recover. johnson
was % years old and the son of a respectable
farmer Of Bonham, Fannin County.
Serious rioting occurred recently at Col
umbia and Liberty Furnaces, Shenandoah
County, Va, on account of the substitution
of colored for white laborers. The white
workmen attacked the negroes, two of the
latter being shot and seriously wounded.
The Sheriff called on the Governor for mill
tary assistance, and company was ordered
from Winchester to the locality Of the at
tack.
S. o. Edmonson of Enterprise, Miss,
has received letter from A. S. johnson,
Land Commissioner at Topeka, Kansas, re-
| questing him, 9spossible, and for humanity's
sake, to prevent any more negroes from
leaving for Kansas, the condition of the large
number of those now there being described
as truly pitiable.
Extensive car-works Fare to be estab-
lished at Marshall, Tex, backed, it is said,
by capital stock of 81 200, 900. The COM
pany is styled the 81 Marshall Car and Foun-
dry Company, with Charles Cobb of New
York President and John F. Dickson of
Marshall Vice President and General Man
ager. Jay Gould is said to be fostering the
enterprise, with special reference to the ex-
tension of the Texas Pacific Railroad.
In Grantham Township, Wayne County
n. c., Haywood and Wright Rainier, broth
ers, quarreled regarding horse and buggy
owned by them in partnership. Haywood
picked up bar and struck his elder brother
a blow on the head, crushing his skull and
killing him. The murderer escaped.
Rev. P. Cyrus Lundy, colored, has en-.
tered suit against the Texas Central Rail
road Company for $1,000 damages under the
CiVil-rights act, for election from q first
class coach at Dallas, Tex.
The Virginia Republican State Conven.
ton has been called to meet at Staunton OF
the Dist of April.
e. w. Cole, President of the Nashville
Chattanooga and ST. Louis Railway, has beer
rendered the Presidency of the Cincinnati
Southern, and will probably accept it. B,
this means he will secure control of
through line from the Ohio River to Savan
nah via the West Atlantic and Georgia Cen
tral.
The principals and seconds in the Burke
Hearsey duel at New Orleans have been ar
the law for fighting a duel in Louisiana il
5000 fine and Imprisonment for two years
seconds, 500 fine and imprisonment for ont
year.
John Koerber, a music teacher of At
lanta, Ga, committed suicide on the 27th b,
shooting himself through the head at hi
residence. Poverty and intemperance tn,
cause.
An act to prevent and punish the inter
marrying of races, passed at the last session
Of the South Carolina Legislature, provide
that any persons so offending shall be sub
jet to a fine of not less than $500, or i'm
prisonment for not less than one year, o
both, at the discretion of the Court. An
elergymen or magistrate who shall unite il
| the bonds Of matrimony persons of differen
2 races is subject to the same penalty.
/ The Arkansas State Convention of tn
Christian Temperance Union met in Littl
5 Rock on Jan. 30, nearly every county in tn
State being represented. The total member
shi pin the State exceeds 81, 200.
Joe Starnes,a Deputy United States Mar
: shall, who was looking for illicit distillers
= was shot and killed recently near GAINESVILLE
: Ga, on the Airline Railroad, by Bill Bolton
: another Deputy Marshal, in personal diff
2 Guilty.
The Methodists of Georgia have decides
= to erect a monument to the late Lovic
! Pierce, d. d. 1t will be located in the yart
f of st. Luke's Church of Columbus, whicl
, church was some years under the pastora
= care of DR.. Pierce.
Miss Mildred Lee, daughter of the dea
' Confederate General, is visiting in Washing
ton at the house of w. w. Corcoran, tn
4 banker.
= The final report of R. NJ. T. Hunter
e Treasurer of the Lee Monumental Associa
ton, shows the total receipts to have bee
S O,569.61.
, The ice factory in New Orleans has in
s troduced new way of shipping fish, pan
! ticularly red-snappers. They are frozen i
cakes Of ice, or rather cakes of ice al
frozen around the fish, and in this conditio
i they are forwarded to all sections of til
: | country.
The South Carolina Board of Agricd
ture has employed permanent chemist
: order that uniform analyses of commerce;
fertilizers may be obtained.
\ Now Save the Rags.
The most noticeable, perhaps, Of al
the advances during the late "boom'