The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-09-29
ARKANSAS.

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sellville, Texarkana, Arkansas City,
Monticello, Kensett and Fort Smith.
The gang who went through a
train on the Iron Mountain road, near
Hope, Thursday night, are yet at
large, though Governor Churchill in
person leads the posse in pursuit.
The State Fair promises to be the
most successful ever held in Arkansas.
All the wheelhorses are hitched up
and they'll pull through or break a
trace. The exposition opens on the
l7th proximo.
Ed. johnson fatally stabbed Thomas
f. Galloway at Arkadelphia on the
night of the 2lst. Johnson escaped,
but should he be captured it will 90
hard with him, as the people of the
town are very indignant at what
they consider an unprovoked murder.
A number of farmers are already
planting rye and winter wheat for
feed, and we hope to see large addi-
ton to these people soon, as nothing
can aid the situation made by the
failure of the corn crops more than a
general growth of these articles
Helena World.
Tuesday night man, evidently in
sane, jumped from an Iron Mountain
train, at the time passing over the
trestlework north Of the. Ouchita
river. A slip of paper found on the
body leads to the belief that the name
of the unfortunate was VIM. Golden
Bennett, of Texas.
Mr.. e. G. Robertson reports cotton
averaging $50 pounds per acre on the
Poteau bottom, along the Oak Lodge
and Eufaula mail route, and from
600 to 800 pounds per acre on the
Sugar Leaf Mountain side. Corn is
selling in that section at 70 cents per
bushel.-Fort Smith Eiecdtor.
AT about l o'clock this morning,
the building used for hospital stores
for the United States, near the arsenal,
was discovered TO be on fire. A large
crowd quickly gathered. and the fire
departments were soon on the ground {;
but the flames had made TOO much
headway to be checked. The build
ing, and nearly all the contents, were
destroyed. The loss viii reach $1,000
or $3000.-Little Rock Democrat, 2J.
j. ii. Morrison, who has for six
/ years past been terror to the good
! people living near Toledo, Dorsey
/ county, has been arrested for a mur-
! der committed eight years ago in Ala
! bama, and is on his way to the scene
of the crime III charge of Deputy
! Sheriff Walderstein, Of Pine Bluff
| The fellow has only one arm, but if
he had a dozen it is hardly possible
that he could have raised more Cain
than he has.
Thos. Farley, who has had thirty
years experience as q farmer in that
section of the country, and is one OF
the best farmers in the country, says
this is a worse drought than 1851 OF
1874 either, particularly as to cotton.
He says that he will not gather over
two bales from fifteen acres. This is
upland. He says he raised eighteen
bales to the hand in 1854, on river bot
tom land. This year the same land
will not produce over half a bale tC
the acre.-Arkansas City Democrat
A Malvern Hill special says that a
Jail deliverd took place in that town
on Sunday morning. The guards
had gone to breakfast, and the prison.
ers pried away the grating iron and
escaped. The following are the names
of the fugihves, with their sentences
term of the Circuit Court: John Har
dage, one year; Thompson ahd White
four years each; James Taylor, three
years; Wesley Murphy, five years
All white except Murphy.
Two men, Jetton and Fuller by
; name, were lying in ambush a few
miles south of Fort Smith the othe
day to get a shot at a couple of negrOe
against whom they had a grudge
As it grew dusk two brothers, ROber
and William Handy, passing the roaC
| in front of the "blind," were fired up
on by the assassins and killed, bein,
mistaken for the negroes. The shoot
ing was done with the guns of tn
z Handy boys, who had loaned tin
. weapons to Jetton and Fuller. TIL
, murderers are in Jail at Fort Smith.
Little Rock Gazette: A thing nam
ed J. ID. Valling, from Kansas City
was arraigned before the Police Judg
S for cursing the President when new
e of his demise reached the city. "YOi
are the most depraved man that
have ever seen," said the Judge. 81
u don't know how to express the con
= tempt which a community feels 70
= you. Such a nature does not deserv
NOlI iltlSSiOtts NJ OtAG LeiD SN HI l1dtLlL
with you. In full possession of YOU
faculties, strictly sober, you have nj
tered sentiments that shock the sensi
bilities of this city. l fine you TWEEN
ty-five dollars, the full extent of tn
.. law; l wish that l could fine you
: thousand dollars. You cannot pa
4 ! your fine, you say. Then so to til
!. rock pile and stay there; you are to
: groveling to live with free men.
II Last Monday morn NJ the body of
e dead man was found beside the raj
IS way track. four miles east of Clark
;. vile, and as the indications Shove
e that fowl work had been done, IL
N coroner was at once notified. He Ell
-e paneled jury and after spending a
> Monday and Tuesday, they returne
II a verdict which decided that one WI
IS Tripp, boss of section No. II, L. r.
II +. S. railway, and j. W. Smith, i
IS borer of his crew, murdered the ma
e, Last Sunday, Tripp, Smith, Charl
s HoIberts, John Smith, the murder,
lie man. and two negroes, went down Il
l. road on a hand car, aud before the
return, the whole crew became vel
drunk and quarreled some, in Il
l. melee Tripp knocked Smith from &
oar anI fko ofhov Smith 1sfolra1 s4n