The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-12-21
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

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deavor to rob the safe Of the store. ----
Two prison guards shot each other
recently near Memphis, Tenn, in a drunken
brawl. - --s- z---.eS i
Louisville, KY, has sixteen distller-
les running and several others ready tostart
up. 1913 -
Two hundred thousand head of sheep |
were driven from New Mexico recently to
Texas.
A riot occurred at Opelika, Ga, a few
days ago between the two factions which |
recently contested for the municipal author
ity of that town. During the quarrel ten
men were shot, seven it was Thought Ia
| tally. --.r H. --- --.--
The crops in South Alabama, of all
kinds, are abundant, and the planters and
farmers are in better condition, financially, \
than at anytime since the war.
Covington, Tenn, had a $4,000 fire
the other morning.
At LouisvileS KY, a few afternoons
/ ago five year old colored girl, left alone in
q room, Approached the CRATE aud her cloth
ing caught fire. Before the flames could be
extinguished the child was burned to death
The clothing of Lucy, the four-year-
old daughter of Mrs. Robert James, OF Chat
tanooga, Tenn, caught fire the other day,
while her mother was absent, and before as
distance arrived the child was burned to
death.
w. r. Hammond has been elected
Judge of the Atlanta Circuit, the most i'm
, portant circuit in the State of Georgia.
The bronze statue of the late Senator
Hill, to be erected in Atlanta, Ca, will cost
about $4,000.
Over l, 200, 900 orange trees are said
) to have come into bearing condition this
year in Florida.
r An election was held recently at An
napolis, Md, on the question OF local OPP
: tion, and the ladies thronged the polling
5 places, distributing tickets and singing tenn
? perance songs.
Edward Keefe, workman in a ee-
ment mill at Louisville, KY, was caught in
+ the cogs of the stone elevator wheel a few
4 evenings ago and crushed to a shapeless
mass. He leaves a wife and two children.
4 The engines and machinery of the
e Charleston Is. c. cotton factory, begun in
= August, 1881, were successfully tested the
other day, and spinning has commenced
1 The mill has $1,000 spindles, with capacity
for 10, 900 more. II is the first cotton mil
! erected in Charleston since the war.
Passenger trains on the Texas & Pa
Y cific Road are hereafter to carry strOn!
= force Of State Rangers between Fort Wortl
and FL PasO. 1t has been ascertaiDed tha
u one of the men who recently attacked
J, Gulf train near Dallas died at Clebourn
and was buried by his confederates.
# Trains on the Kentucky Central Roat
IN collided near Falmouth the other evening
Ben Early, an engineer, and William Gray
~ a fireman, were instantly killed, and a mum
40 Der of passengers were injured.
ID The official vote of North Carolina a
of the recent election for Congressman at
% Large gives Bennett (Dem.) III, 743, an
Dockrey (Rep.) III ,295-Bennett's S jority
or 448. So says the Raleigh Ne,cs.
D. The Southern States have raised thei
d, own supply of breadstuffs this year an
er have a surplus to sell.
re The Santa Rosa ranch, in Camera
he County, Texas, comprising 60, 900 acres {
OF land and $4,000 cattle, has changed hands 8
rit $4,000.
IN During the recent cold snap sewers
deaths from freezing occurred in Virginia.
A jury at Arkadelphia, Ark, has az
eh quilted Sallie Stokes OF the murder of Ms
}" linda Stephens.
The passenger train which left MacoI
~ Ga, FOR Montgomery the other morning ra
ne off the track one mile east of Georgetown
flaIaQlds
oil The entire train was thrown one hundre
yards from the track down an embaukmen en-
ed Every person on the train except the engiI
pm crew were more or less injured.
'er General Sidney Burbank, Unite
!. States army, retired, died the other night
- his residence in Newport, Ky. He gra,
.Ale p. uated at West Point in 1929; served in Il
-, Black Hawk and Seminole wars, and in Il
-: army OF the Potomac during the war, al
was breveted Brigadier- General. His a
was seventy-fOur years.
The other night the jail doors
Bastrop, La, were broken down by boz
the Of indignant men and Thomas Robinso
md William Cephas and Wesley Andrews we
rO- taken out and hanged. Public opinion W
ice in sympathy with the lynchers.
uc- The steamship Carmona cleared fro
New Orleans for Liverpool recently with
nat cargo valued at $642, 900, comprising 10,
Who bales OF cotton, u, 900 bushels Of wheat, a
ach 1850 slaves.
ON A negro man named Couch ONE;
cial living five miles from Dublin Lawn, Ga. v
sh taken from his house the other night a
ers shot to death, his body being riddled W
buckshot The killing was done by negro
the because several days before O'Neal b
Fhe committed a criminal Offense.
or A SOC, 900 fire occurred at Columb
and : c., the other day.
,ted John Trinler, a German, residing
rat, Louisville, ky., cut his wife's throat (
,ic- nights ago, and then served himself in
mo- same manner. Both were dead when foul
Insanity was supposed to have been
-eTe cause Of the tragedy.
lila Davis and Farmer, two Kentuc
yave Deputy Marshals who recently went to
hos. mountains to seize Illicit distillers, were
'ere tackled by party OF thirty moOnshineTs
|. driven twenty-five miles, to Frenehbu
ated They escaped unhurt.
vio- Andrew Scruggs, of Lynchburg, V
lab a promising boy Of fifteen, accidentally 8
was himself in the abdomen with a toy pist
had few DAYS ago. He would probably die.
oc- Georgia Legislature has adjourned
'eu' R. S. Champion, paymaster of
''sh- Little Rock & Fort Smith Road, was
Gays Gently charged with defalcation to
'Ner amount Of $4,000. Champion had been p
we're master Of the road FIVE years, is an old r.
mere dent OF the state, and heretofore had b
ana ana regardedas a man of strict integrity, z
= NO ,essing the fullest confidence Of the offc
Of the road.
A negro child eighteen months {
80, The step child Of samuel Bad, froze to de-
4 few nights ago IN the miserable house
80, cupied by its mother and step-fsthe
80 Oanville, Ky.
The business portion of Calhoun, {
dino was destroyed by fire recently.
por- During dance in Dennis, Tex,
ire a other evening Riley and Kemp QUAR-
about the payment Of the fiddler. A I
s at followed. Riley had a silk handkerc