The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-12-07
SOUTHERN aLEANINGs.

morning in search OF his wife, who had run
away from his bed and board at Louisville;
Ky; with former lover named SeRafer;
He gave her name as Mrs. Eta Sample, aud
exhibited d photograph and letter which led
to her discovery and Identification in less
than half an hour. Mr. Sample felated the
story of his troubles as follows: He was
married to Miss Eta Altman on the ID OF
November, and on the 7th went across the
river to Jeffersonville, Ind, to look after
some lumber interests. His bride was to
follow him the II O'Clock boat, but he
waited for her all day in vain, and when he
returned home at night he learned she had
disappeared, saying to her mother that she
would take the boat for JeffersonyilIe. She
was tracked to several places south on the
lines OF railroad, but she could not be To-
Gated with certainty. A few days ago Mr..
Sample received a letter from Memphis,
signed 'sEtta Altman Sample" asking for
money. The writer stated she
taking lessons in elocriiion with the inten
| tion of preparing herself for the stage. De-
teetives soon discovered her living with
! Schafer, as his wife, and both were ar
rested. She is about twenty years of ages
of buXom appearance, rosy cheeks and
full black eyes. Sample wanted a divorce
at first, but after a short talk with Mrs.
/ OatuPiC ApECSSGu U1nSeAA WltiiH5 To tAkS
her back to Louisville. The young woman
seemed undecided. To Chief Davis, who
asked why she left home, she said it was a
case of ''lovevs money! Schafer had been
her beau for years, and she loved him bets
ter than the old mans money. The girls
mother forced her to marry Sample against
| her will. After little deliberation Scbafer
was allowed to go and Eta went home with
her husband.
The family of Thomas Hughes, living
near Spottsyille, KY, went to church the
other day, leaving an infant in chargs of a
colored girl. The girl went to a neighbor's,
leaving the child on pallet on the floor.
When the folks returned they found the
child dead and horribly eaten by fats.
Rev. j. G. Wharton, of Carthage,
Mo-, has been arrested at Elizabethtowu,
Ky, in company with Mrs. Maggie McGill,
on charge Of embezzlement.
| A farmer in Statesville, N. c., has
raised five successive crops of strawberries
from his plants this year.
THE new Anchor line steamer City
of st. Louis was launched at Louisville the
other day.
r. W. Barnwell, formerly Senator
from South Carolina, died few days ago,
/ aL COtimDla, IN his Slst year.
A State convention of Prohibitionists
is called to meet in Louisville, Ky, on Feb.
10, 1888, to nominate candidates for Gov.
ernor, Lieutenant Governor, Auditor, At
tOrney General, Register OF the Land office,
Treasurer and Superintendent of Public In
/ struction. The basis of representation Is one
delegate for each 800 voters in the counties.
A citizen of Wilcox County, Georgia,
having had several of his chickens and tur-
keys destroyed by aligators decided to try
the efficacy of strychnfne. He spIinkled the
poison on pieces of fresh meat and suspend
ed the pieces from limbs about four inches
from the water, and the result was every
/ 'gator in his pond was sent to his long
! home.
The most interesting features of the
| programme for the coming commencement
of Washington and Lee University, at Lex
ington, Va, will be the unveiing Of the re-
/ cumbent statue of Gen. r. e. Lee. Ex-
/ President Davis has been invited to deliver
an address on the military record of Gen.
Lee, and Mai. John w. Daniel an oration on
the civil services of the distinguished com
mander of the Confederate forces OF North
ern Virginia.
Capt. T. P. Leathers, of the steamer
Natchez, and an associate of Capt. Cowden
in the outlet scheme, testified before the
| River Commission in New Orleans that he
had been on the river forty-six years, most
of the time running between New Orleans
| and Yicksburg; made usually I2) landings
! going up and eighty coming down; the river
was constantly changing its channel; banks
/ cave at low stages; often two or three acres,
! with trees growing on them, fall into the
water at one time; the greatest deposits were
] H. 4ls, n
tion Of high water the greater the deposit Of
sediment. After last season the average
| depth between New Orleans and Vicksburg
was twelve feet at low water. The river
| rose fifty feet in the flood Of 1882, and is
| deeper now than when he first saw it years
ago, and navigation has been improved.
| This effect he ascribes to the levee and the
| confining of the water. The construction OF
! the jetties and the works in the Southwest
Pass have backed up the water in the river,
and the disastrous effects OF the flood in 1882
were due to these causes.
E. 0. Glenn, stOre-keeper at Bowl
| ing Green, KY, has been held in $500 bail
for shooting John Valentine. Valentine and
| two companions, while drunk, went to
Glenn's store, beat and otherwise abused
! him, helped themselves to his goods, threw
some in the street and carried others away.
| They made three visits to the store, in each
Of which Glenn was mistreated. The last
time Valentine started toward the store,
! pistol in hand, Of which fact Glenn was
warned When inside Valentine took
stone from his pocket and threw it at Glenn,
striking him the shoulder. The latter
fired two shots in rapid succession, one
striking Valentine in the abdomen Ply
sicians pronounce the wound probably fatal.
Brick CaywOod, who escaped from
Jail at Mount Sterling. KY, a few days ago,
returned and gave himself up, saying he
preferred Imprisonment to starvation in the
bush.
Dock Erd, young man employed in
the freight department Of the Chesapeake &
Ohio Railroad at Lexington, Ky, shot him.
self in the temple, the other evening, caus-
ing fatal wound. Mental depression, the
result Of oveTwork, is the cause assigned.
At Marblehead, Mass. the other
evening, Mrs. Martha Chapman, as the
result of an election wager on Butler
canvass, wheeled Mrs+sPerry in a wheel
barrow from her residence on Front
street through State street to the
square. around the Town Hall and re-
turu. The vehicle was tastefully decor
ated with Chinese lanterns. Mrs
Moses Sweet carried a ]arge banner
with the picture of fighting cock and
the inscription, " IS, 600 clean sweep"
Fully l ZOO men were in the procession,
and cheered the women Justify.
"A Johnstown man lost his pocket
book containing 8, 500, and rewarded
the honest finders with the nlunifcent
sum of 81. The finders feel very CRATE
ful over the fact that they were not
charged interest on the money while the