The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-13
TIE SOUTHERN STATES.

about tWO-thlrdS.
Fayetteville, since the building of
the railroad, has taken new leaseof
prosperity.
A bridge at Van Buren is to be
erected by the Little Rock and Fort
Smith and Frisco roads.
Hogs in Ouachita and Saline river
bottoms are fat enough for meat as
soon as the weather will serve to
cure it.
Whr. Shelton Watson, of Searcy,
ite county, was killed by an acci-
dental fall from a second-stOry win
dow last week.
Colonel Nat Holmes, of Walnut
Lake, estimates the shortage in cotton
and corn in Desha county, to be. at
least tWO-thirds.
Colonel Met L. JONES' ,Eof Pine Bluff,
had his arm broken by fall from his
buggy near Warren, Bradley county,
few days ago.
a bale of MatagOrda silk cotton
sold i'll OsceOla the other day for 2515
cents per pound, and was taken to the
st. Louis fair.
Mr.. Paris Pipkin, a Tennesseean
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tending to put up a sawmilI, was
killed by falling limb last week.
Doc. Lee killed bear the other day
in Saline river bottom, near Sheridan,
Grant county, that weighed over five
hundred pounds.
Abe Withers was shot and mortallv
wounded by Lewis Anderson last
Tuesday, Oh the Roberts place, Wa
taseka bayou, Jefferson county.
A party of benevolent ladies of Lit
tie Rock are trying to put in operation
a cOtfeehOuse, to cOunteract, if posi-
bic, the allurements offered by saloon
keepers.
Captain Drake, of Pine Bluff, has
named his new boat j. A. Woodson,
in honor of the Superintendent of the
Little Rock, Mississippi River and
Texas road.
E. G.. BIedsoe was arrested near
Alma, Crawford county, last Wednes-
day. He is said to be wanted in Ala
bama for horse stealing and in Texas
for murder.
Mr.. William Ward, living south of
Fayetteville, lost his barn, corn, wheat,
reaper and mower, and several
Supposed incendiary.
The safe of Wann s. Henderson, at
SpriL gfield, Washington county, was
blown open recently by burglars and
$1,000 abstracted. One Of the thieves
has since been arrested.
The Iron Mountain train robbers
will be confined in the penitentiary at
Little Rock until they have a hearing
before the Hemstead Circuit Court,
and possible for a short time thereaf-
ter.
Asbury Mission, Cherokee Nation,
was destroyed by fire on the night of
the 9th ultimo. There were over
one hundred students in attendance
at the mission when the accident oc-
CURED.
The second annual Exposition of
the Western Fair Association opens
at Fort Smith next Tuesday. Indian
ball play will be one of the many
attractions. Round trip ticket from
Memphis during the week, $I3 so.
w. W. Martin, employe of Smith
81 landlord, Little Rock, lost all the
fingers and portion of the thumb of
his right hand while attending a cir
cular saw last Monday morning. Mr.
Martin recently went to Little Rock
from Clarksville, Tennessee.
Robert Grindord, years ago a pawn
broker. on Beal street, in this city, is
now a Justice of the Peace in Little
Rock. Likewise belI-hanger, key-fitter,
umbre Ia-mender, telephOne-adjuster,
ginsaw filler, drOve-weH engineer, and
amateur inspector of: weights and
measures
Webb City and Hacket City Sebas-
tian. county, have each had a small
cutting and killing scrape. On last Sat
urday, at Hackets, Bill Bates killed
Phillips, and at Webb City two disOr-
derly drunken negroes were cut, stab
bed and killed by Perry Harwood and
George Hughes.
Little Rock Gazette: In the north
fern part of this State, some time ago,
a United States deputy marshal dis
covered smoke issuing from a large
| branch of a tree. An examination
disclosed an illicit distiliery in a cavi-
ty neatly dug under a bluff and ar
ranged so that the hollow of the tree
| served as a chimney.
Speaking of the trial and punish
ment of the Iron Mountain train rob-
bers, the Little Rock Gazette says {:
| "The limit or punishment for assault
/ with intent to commit robbery is 2I
/ years. AS each person robbed was
| assaulted, in the meaning of the law,
a fine opportunity is furnished for Gu
| mulative sentences.
/ Reports received at Fort Smith from
! the Indian country say that the drOuth
/ continues. In some places cattle have
| to be driven five or six miles for wa
! ter. There is some feed for cattle on
/ the prairies in the shape of dry grass,
| but that is being burnt off by parties
/ travelling through the country. In con-
! sequence of this they are going into the
/ bottoms and eating the winter range.
Little Rock True Democrat: a lit
/ tie boy named Willie Dorby was
/ found dead i'll a cotton gin near town
/ on Tuesday. He had lost some of his
/ playthings in the cotton, in which ii
/ Is supposed he dug a large hole to
| look for them, and the cotton falling
/ in on him caused his death by smoth-
/ ering.-The two wells Of the Little
! Rock waterworks company have
reached the depth of 100 feet and pure
water found.
/ Little Rock Democrat: The cow
ardly tiend, William Wilkerson, who
assassinated Charley Brunck, post
master at Galloway, in this county,
on the evening of the Sd ofJune, 1880,
was captured yesterday at Gadsden,
! Ala, by Detective J. II. Wood, and
r is now in Jail at Chattanooga. Five
/ hundred dollars reward was offered
/ for his capture. Wiikerson is a col
Ored man, and murdered Brunck
/ without the slightest cause.