The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-12-14
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crnor was S1,ST7. This is caa -iIerably less
than ne-half OF the entire. vote 10 the State;
which, according to the cansn~ OF 1850, wa.
25a Ts9. At the election OF 1876 the total vote
cast was 1S2GS2. In ISSJ the total vote for
President was 1926. t-.'.
Col. w. @. Young is starting Il ranch
I'm GAIA County, Texas, which oltt in thai
country is looked upon a. rather small
sized affair. IIs beSia7 with oaly 121, u0C
acres and S225,00) WORTH oi cdue.-r
A Tennessee law protSJits the sale oI
loose cotton between sunset and sunrise, the
object being to project planters from the
theft OF their cotton by night. Under tuis
law thirty indictments were returned against
q. N. Trust, doing business near Memphis,
who had been buying loose cotton at night
from colored men whom he knew had stolen
it. Six negroes who testified in the cases
were held Tor perjury
The jailer at Louisville, Ky, ascer-
tained that life prisoner. named George 81.
AlsOp, who had been kept heavily ironea
had filed his shackles apart and sectfred a
model key with which L. escape, the othar
day. lie is a sArewd, educated nan, very
desperate. This is his second almost suo-
cessful effort to escape. He is now confined
in close cell, With sixteen pound shackies
on his lin IS. ..--.-
The grand jury at New Orleans found
indictments against the following. persons
for election fraud: Edmond j. ID upaVuier,
Bartholomew Thames, ,Jr., r. Uirich,
Dan Rees, Prosper Grand, -Jr., Charles
Cune, Gustave BuGel Jr., William Lyons,
James Daigman, Louis Kathman, William
II. Buckley, John A. Bre ennan, John Yigers.
Rees and Dupaquier gave bail in $4,000
each. The remainder fled bonds OF y, 600
each. -..-
just prior to his deatlrgau ElbeIton,
Ga, man hill large-amount OF money in a
secret place in his house, known only to
binl. All efforts TO discover the treasure
have, so far, proved futae. GA
The scene of the Dade massacre, in
Florida, historic feId, IS being plowed FOR
cultivation. CannoH audi mu sl1eta balfs,
muskets and other broken weapons are
found iir great nGmbers.m E-r# ~
The9overnoro Of Alabama- has ordered
an election for TUESDAY, Jan. ?, 1855 int be
EJghth District, to- Gil The vacancy caused
BY The death Of William N. Lowe, who had
. been seated in the place OF Gen. Joseph
Wheeler. ..- n .#sH
The Kentucky Public Elevator, owned
and Operat ed by stock company Of Louis-
Vile, the first of the Kind erected there,
opened the otter day, and is ready to receive
graia OF all descriptions. The capacity is
half million bushels. There are half a
dozen other elevators in the city, owned by
private parties, but this-one will issue grain
oertilicates, as is the custom in othercities.
Admiral Strong, retired, died at Co
runbm, s. C.s the other day, from HEM
orrhage Of the lungs Tor some time he
a ri
rheuniatiSm,
Mrs. Senlers, of Chattanooga, has be-
come a maniac over the sentence Of her son
to the penitentiary for horse-stealing.
In Coffee County, Georgia, the other
day, hlwl fell to the ground, and upon
investigation was found 10 have black
snake wound around its neck.
The St. Louis & Texas Narrow-gauge,
when completed, viii reduce passenger
rates in Arkansas to cents a mile.
1t is alleged that gold mine in For
syth County, Georgia, was recently sold for
Sl,000,0)o, the purchasers being syndicate
of English capitalists. The claim is made
that the mine is richer in ore than any of the
California mines.
There are hundreds of acres of cotton
between Austin and San Antonfa, Texas,
on the international line, which viii not b g.
picked, owing to the scarcity of labor. Hun
dreds of thousands ofdOlIars Will be lost in
the STATE this season ON this account.
The North Carolina peanut crop will
this year reach 10000 bushels.
Moses Lockhardt, colored, was hanged
at Edeefed. :. c., on the lst, for the muir
der OK Moses Blalocll last Aprth The cause
ofthe murder was. jealousy.
At Mayersvile, Miss, recently, Joe
Thomas WAS found guilty Of the murder of
Charles N. Murphy, editor OF the Rolling
Fork Rerielr Sentence was fixed at life
Imprisonment.
John w. Dorsey, a young man widely
known in the social circles Of Baltimore,
having sunk "a large Inheritance i'm the grain
business, took lis life recently with a re-
volver.
Burglars the other day raided the
post-oilice aud three stores at RinggoId, Ga,
obtaining nearly $4,000 in goods and stamps.
Near Maplewood, La, few evenings
ago John Morgan (wuite) killed two colorcd
men. The parties had a difficulty about a
beef just slaughtered. Morgan fed. 4
large posse wa, in pursuit.
Mayor Johnston, of Danville, Va, has
hecu acquitted of the killing OF the Chief Of
Police.
Eli Mcconnell, a drunken carpenter,
residing at Noacherford, Texas, recently
took his wife and lis two -ycar-oId child out
IN buggy. AS ~oon-u- they were out of
town he hegan ahU- jAg hel, and finally fell
to beating her with pis 'ol, and acciJeutIv
suuck the chid on the head with the
We Ipou, killing it instantly. To cover the
crime, he old Liszssife is she did not tell
thst the child vas kiUel by the bugsvfurn-
ing over ON it he would kin her, l,ut on
reaohiag home Mcconnell became right
ened, and, lnouning a Horse, flsd Mrs
Mcconnell then went before the Grand Jury
and told the truth about lhe natter.
The total expense to the Stsdeof Ken
lucky arising from The Neal, Craft aud f8llis
trials will afnoput to SGo01O.
Ceorgians are seeking homes in Texas.
The Virginia State Board of Canvass
ers thew osass dc vote ot Gloucester County
and gaye certificate OF election 20 Adaso,
Coalition. The GongreSsfonat delegation
san ds, six Caution, four Democrat.
While workmeu were engaged in tear
ing joyvn the walls of a baii,3ia.s at Louis
vile. lEg.. a few days ago, Patrick Burke
1ea into the cellarot the same without the
knowledge of the others. The wall was
thrown down, hurying Burke under the
ruins. He.was taken out an hour afterwards
dead, but, singular enough, no bones were
broken.
The Texas corn crop is three hundred
per cent above last year.
A negro man named Couch O'Neal,
living i've miles from Dublin Lawn, Ca. was
taken from his house the other night and
shot 10 death, his body being rid3Ied with
buokshot. The killing was done by negroes
because several days before O'Neal hai
committed n cri minal offense.
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