The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-07-12
SOUTHERN GLEANINGs.

out of jail, at Mount Sterling, for the pur-
pose of hanging them, and who has since
been lying in the jailer's room, has now
been removed to his home. He had his bed
lifted in q covered wagon, and got home
without any serious trouble. Charlie, son
of Sheriff Ringo, aged fifteen years, has
been acting Sheriff of Menifee County
ever since his father was wounded. Charlie
summoned all of the witnesses in the Bar
net trial.
Forsheimer Brothers, of New Or
leans, dealers in tobacco and whisky, have
suspended payment, with liabilities of $+0,-
600.
The Sheriff of Upton County, Tenn,
the other night dreamed that the prisoners
in the County Jail were making efforts to
escape by the aid of a wooden key and
pieces of iron. He went into the jail and
by threats forced a confession that the
prisoners had concealed four or five bars of
iron from eight inches to three feet long,
and also a welI-made wooden key. Planks
had been Ioosened and plans for escape had
been matured.
Three brothers, Rodriguez by name,
who have been stealing horses in the vi
cinity of San Antonio, Tex, for some time,
were captured and jailed a few days ago.
Frazier Lane, an industrious colored
man of Montgomery County, KY, was
| remarked the other day to his wife, who
| was sold away from him forty years ago.
/ In the meantime he has been married twice
and she once. Both had been single some
/ time when remarked.
d. McAylerworth, formerly of New
| York City, employed as a stenOgrapher in
the Louisville g. Nashville Office at Louis
vile, KY, wound up debauch a few days
ago by taking an overdose of chloral. He
leaves young wife in New York
At Rolling Fork, Miss, Nathan Ayers
insulted Mrs. Chisolm few days ago,
when he was killed by her son Thomas.
The Live Stock Protective Company
has filed charter at Austin, Tex, with
S25, 900 capital stock. 1t will employ the
best detectives to bring stock-thieves to
justice.
A colored woman is creating a sensa-
ton in Holmes County, Miss, by her
preaching.
The burning of saw-mill at Fernan-
dina, Fla, the other day caused a loss OF
$4,000.
An Augusta paper says that about
nine out of ten truck farmers in Georgia
have lost money this year.
An old lady in Georgia having lost
all her patience, has sued neighbor for
eight dollars for coffee borrowed, cupeul
at time.
The city of New Orleans, La, would
have been forced to default on its July in
terest to the amount of nearly 100000,
through changes in the tax laws, had it not
been for public spirited citizens, who
agreed to advance the amount required
from their own pockets.
Two incendiary fires occurred in Dali
las, Tex, few days ago, one of which de-
stroyed the cracker factory of Goldsmith &
Winter, valued at $50 900.
! Edward Wittick, of Covington, KY,
: made desperate assault on Prof. George
A. Yates, a veteran teacher in the public
schools, the other evening, for whipping
him when boy.
, Miss Ella Carter, a young lady O.
z Austin, Tex, has recently won a suit in
volving the ownership of city lots valued
at about $4,000. Hon. Bird Holland, de
ceased, Secretary of State before the war
t got mad at his relatives and willed all hi'
property to Ella Carter in 1864. She wai
then little girl.
A day or two since a negro man was
a hired to convey a sick brother to the hos
q pitaI at Lexington, KY. On the way h'
:, robbed the sick man of $3.50 and skipped
leaving the poor fellow on the street. Th
!. sick man subsequently died.
:, An ex-soldier of the Confederacy, OF
trial for larceny at Beaufort, S. c., tn
F.; other day was defended by a colored law
v yer, who made a pathetic appeal for th'
man who had lost an arm in the service
+ but all the same the court gave him twt
a years in the Penitentiary.
Q An authority in iron matters says tha
f no less than 5000, 900 has been diverte
" from Pennsylvania within the past tw
years and invested in the mineral deposit
i of Southwest Virginia.
e Late accounts from the tobacco-rais
: ing counties of Virginia and North Care
lima say that 'under the inspiration of tn
g recent rains the tobacco crop is improvin
/, and growing rapidly"
a A herd of four thousand cattle, mOstl
cows and heifers, passed through For
l. Worth, Tex, the other day, for the Ne
l. Mexico Land and Cattle Company, Bo
ton corporation.
l. A company organized in Washington
d D. c., lately has purchased six thousan
acres of land in Polk County, Fla, and wi
5 raise oranges, lines, lemons and other troI
n ical fruits.
A number of counterfeit dimes an
u nickels have been put in circulation at Ne
N Orleans recently.
J. t Brown, Jr., late United State
- Marshal of the Eastern District of Arkal
! sas, has been sentenced on two counts fl
!. forgery and perjury in vouchers while de-
uty. Total Imprisonment, five years at D
q troit, and 81 900 fine.
A circus billboard at Bowling Green
<. KY, fell and killed man a few days ag
v. and the jury assessed $4,000 damages.
The fees of the Arkansas State Ian
ol Office average 1920 per month.
as The Garrett Davis property, at Pari
W KY, has been sold for $500. The pla
contains twenty two acres and beautif
n residence, built by the late Senator.
re Louisiana has big potato crop.
What may prove to be an importal
discovery was made near Vicksburg, Mis-.
Z 4 few days since. In digging in a grav
pile substance believed TO be kaolin W
. found, and is now in the hands of a scientii
gentleman for analysis. The result of Il
II analysis so far is encouraging. If th
sr proves to be kaolin, it is the first and on
IS bed ever discovered in that State.
A colored horse-thief, in the custoC