The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-04-12
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.


City a few weeks ago, and jointly indicted
with him for murder, surrendered to the
authorities of Hin County a few days ago,
saying that Varnell would also surrender
A fire at Gatesville, Tex, the other
day destroyed buildings and stocks valued.
at $4,000, on which there were only $4,000
insurance.
It was rumored at Laredo, Tex, "a few
days ago that a party of five Americans
who left for the interior of Mexico to buy
stock were murdered in camp near SaltilIo.
The Attorney-GeneraI of Texas has
informed the State Treasurer that he had
no right to receive money for schools uni
versity or asylum lands where part of the
purchase money had not been paid before
the passage of the act of February 3, 1888,
withdrawing such lands from the market.
The Attorney General held that no vested
rights were acquired by applicants for
these lands until part of the purchase
money had been paid into the State Treas
Iry.
The Legislature of Arkansas has en-
acted a law that invites competition from
any part Of the Union for the State print
ing, there being no provision, even, that
the work should be done at the capital of
the State.
The Governor of Tennessee has signed
the bills passed by the Legislature for the
settlement of the debt of the old city of
Memphis according to the terms recently
submitted and accepted by the creditors.
Under the provisions of the bill the first in
terest falls due July 1, 1883. 1t was said an
ample tax had been levied and the interest
would be promptly paid.
Forty armed men entered Lexington,
Ga, a night or two ago to lynch Jones, the
wife murderer, but left when they found the
Jail was heavily guarded. Jones could not
sleep.
General S.B. Buckner has announced
himself as a candidate for the Democratic
nomination for Governor of Kentucky.
G. +. Hightower, an informer and
guide to a party of revenue officers in
search of a band of moonshiners, was shot
and killed by one of the band in ambush
the other day in the Saluda Mountains,
Greenville County, S. G.
Elder Morgan, Presiding Elder of the
Mormon Church, left Chattanooga, Tenn,
the other day with $50 converts for Utah,
from all parts of the South. Ninety mis-
siOnaries in the South claimed 600 converts
annually.
Stephen G. Howard. of Hoosier Mil,
Tenn, was accidentally shot in the shoulder
at st. Louis, Mo-, the other day while nego-
| tiating for the purchase Of a revolver.
The Supreme court at Washington
has rendered decision in the case of the
Mayor and Aldermen of the city Of Savan-
nah, Ga, against Eugene Kelly, which
was a suit to enforce the guarantee of the
| city indOrsed by a series of bonds of the
Savannah, Albany & Gulf Railroad issued
| in 1859 The court holds that the act of the
State Legislature of 1888 authorized the
| guarantee made by the city upon the rail-
road bonds, and that it constituted a valid
! and subsisting liability. The Judgment of
the Circuit Court was therefore affirmed.
The Mississippi Board of Health has
given its Endorsement to the National Board
| of Health and recommends thatthe expendi-
ture of the contingent epidemic fund be
| placed in the hands of the latter.
The old Augusta Opera-house at Au-
| gusta, Ga, was destroyed by fire a few
| days ago, involving a loss of $4,000.
The Trustees of the University of
! Georgia have accepted the donation of
! $4,000 in bonds of Senator Brown on the
| same conditions as proposed when the mat
| ter came up in the Legislature last fall.
Southern muIe-buyers are driving off
| all purchasable mules in the vicinity of Pa
! ducah, KY.
! A man named Anderson committed
4 suicide at Fort Worth, Tex, the other
morning by blowing his brains out with a
| charge of buckshot; cause not learned. This
made seven persons who had suicided at
| Fort Worth in as many days.
The tobacco manufacturers at Lynch
! "a Of
| the proposition of the strikers to resume
work at modified prices, rejected the prop
| osition, discharged the conference commit
| tee and refused to treat further with the
| laboring association. White labor was in
| troduced into two more factories. The man
ufacturers had sent for skilled operatives
! to train this class of laborers. The strikers
number 200 and it was believed were re-
| ceiving outside assistance.
A fatal affray occurred at a ward
meeting at Raiville, La, few days ago, in
which M. A. Jones, a prominent citizen,
/ and n. L. Collins, a Deputy Sheriff, were
! both killed. The trouble arose between the
| parties regarding the selection of a candi-
| date for Clerk of the District Court. Collins
! killed Jones with pistol and party un-
! known shot Collins, killing him instantly.
! There was considerable excitement.
1t has transpired that o. f. High
tower, who was shot by a moonshiner a few
| days ago while acting as guide to revenue
! raiders, was not killed, as reported by the
/ Associated Press from Columbia, S. c., but
| only slightly wounded in the hip, and
would soon he in the saddle again, in pur-
suit of his former companions in illicit dis
tilling.
A late dispatch from San Antonio,
| Tex, says Joe Shepherd, the railroad mail
! carrier recently murdered in Mexico, was
killed by a Mexican for shooting his dog.
Colonel James i. Corley, graduate
Of West Point, who held a, commission in
| the army before the war, and was General
| Lees rMaster-Generalo of the Army
of Northern Virginia, committed suicide at
| Hampton, Va, a few days ago by cutting
his own throat. He was a member of the
! City Council of Norfolk, and leaves wife
and three children.
Texas has 3, 500, 900 in her Treasury.
B. c. 0. Benjamin, colored lawyer,
/ applied for and obtained license to prac-
tice law at the Albemarle County CVa.) bar
a few days ago. He was the first colored
man who ever applied for a license in the
| county.
The engine, tender and caboose of q
freight train on the Philadelphia, Whining
ton g. Baltimore Railroad dropped through
the draw of Bush River, at Baltimore, Nd,
the other morning, and was badly wrecked.
| The signal that the draw was open was not
| seen by the engineer until it was too late to
stop. The damage was considerable.
John NJ. johnson has been commits
stoned Postmaster at Grayson, Ark.
Three incendiary fires occurred at
| Louisville, KY, the other evening
within two hours, each being in a hay loft
over stables The losses were cOmDara.