The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-01-25
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

LdLCdtAOu anu Lt2 III rum NaSHNlllS8 1Ch-A'S
was announced a few days since, give td9-
ulated statement of the amount which should
have been in the Treasury January Sd as
nearly 100000. In the safe they found
about So 900. According to their state
ments the banks held on deposit about
S200, 200, leaving the amount Of the deficit
about $500, 600. Polk was arrested in Texas
II few days ago.
Four-ffths of the hands employed by
the Galveston. Houston & Henderson Road
at Houston, Tex, quit work the other day
owing to a reduction in their wages to Sl.25
by the newly installed Road Master.
Two electric-light companies it was
said lately were soon to hav competitive
exhibition at Louisville, the loser to pay
81 900 for expenses and give "a, 900 to the
Polytechnic Society of Kentucky.
A silver spike was driven the other
day on the Mexican Pacific Railroad extern
sion, connecting it with the Southern Pacific
and giving a direct line from San Francisco
to New Orleans.
John Morgan (white), an alleged
notorious desperate, horse-thef and muir
derer, was shot and killed while resisting
arrest, four miles south of Pleasant Hill,
De Soto Parish, La, the other day. It was
SAN luAJ q SNORT lliu6 SliiCO AO eAAOO w. a
and ruthlessly murdered in cold blood, in
Minden, Webster Parish, two cOlored men,
without the slightest provocatiOn, and made
his escape. He had previously burned
barn, murdered a man in Texas, and stolen
a number Of horses and mules. A posse
! headed by an officer attempted his capture,
when he fired upon them, mortally wound
| ing Mr.. John FurlOw, reputable citizen O.
| De Sofa, who was aiding in his arrest. Two
of Morgan's comrades named Duke Crump
and Jim Rigby, who were with him at the
time. were secured and jailed.
A poor white woman and her three
ANAL children were found a few days ago
! frozen to death in the woods, twenty miles
above Atlanta, Ga. The woman and one
| child were stone dead in the snow, and the
other two children were gasping in the last
| agonies of death. Their names were un-
| known, and no one knows whence they
came or where they were going. They were
clothed in rags, and their lectures were
| pinched as if from long suffering from hun
ger.
GreenvilIe, Tex, had shipped 13, ,250
bales Of cotton to recent date, and eX-
pected TO send off 5000 more this winter.
David Griffin, a stout young negro,
took whisky as pay for his work from Tom
lin, Newman, Ga, saIoon-keeper, few
days ago, and late in the afternoon
started home, drunk. Attempting to climb
8 high fence, he fell backward into mud
puddle, W ere he was found next morning,
| frozen to death. The same day an aged
negress left Newman, on foot, for Fayetville.
The next day she was found by the wayside,
frozen to death.
Several years ago Louisa Lewis, q
colored woman, moved to Milledgeville, Ga,
carrying with her little boy whom she said
was given to her by his parents, who died Of
yellow fever at Nashville, Tenn. A few days
ago the Coroner was notified that the boy
was dead. A jury was impaneIed and rem
dered a verdict that the child had been
starved to death. Louisa was sent to Jail.
The First Presbyterian Church at
Memphis, Team, was destroyed by fire a
few days since. Loss, about $25 200.
Dallas, Tex, is to have a State Saen-
gerfest in May. committee of ten citi-
zens met a few days ago and organized for
its management.
A wrecking crew in a surf boat
boarded a schooner ashore off CObb's Island,
near Norfolk, Va, a few days ago, and
while on board the boat broke adrift and
they were compelled to take to the rigging.
They were rescued, but since that time
three Of the men had died from the effects of
the exposure, and the Captain was not eX-
pected to live.
The Sailors Smallpox Hospital near
Chrisfield, Nd. was burned the other morn
ing. One of the patients, while delirious,
knocked a lamp off a table and then jumped
into the river. A nurse rescued him, but
the man died soon after.
On the death of John Broad and wife,
Of Atlanta, Ga, who left $4,000, no will
could be found. A nephew was approached
by letter and offered the missing document
on payment Of $500 without questions He
made the purchase and the will was placed
on record. The administrator brought suit
to break the document, and the Superior
Court recently decided that it was a forgery.
Two witnesses to the will were arrested.
At jefferson, Tex, child of Charles
Terrence fell into the fire from a rocking
chair and was burned to death few days
ago.
L. T. Maddox, an attendant at the
Insane Asylum at Anchorage, Ky, ducked
a refractory patient from the effects Of which
it was said he died. A jury before whom
Maddox was tried the other day returned
a verdict against him o+ involuntary man
slaughter and fixed his punishment at four
months in Jail and fine OF 800.
Atha Thomas, a prominent lawyer OF
Franklin, Tenn, was elected State Treas.
urer by the Legislature few days ago.
NJ. T. Polk, the alleged defaulting
State Treasurer OF Tennessee, arrived a.
Nashville the other day, accompanied by
Marshal Gosling, the detectives and Polka
son. Polk was Immediately conveyed te
iaiI, where he was turned over to the Sheriff
The Grand Jury had indicted him for en-
bezzlement Judge Quarles called the
Grand Jury before him and reinstructeC
them, charging them to indict all persons
who received money from Polk, knowing
that it belonged to the State. 1t was under
stood application for bail would not bt
made for a few days.
Marcus & Son, Mobile, Ala, failed.
The stock farms around Lexington
Ky, were lately reported alive with Eastern
and Northern hOrsemen in search of trotter'
and roadsters. Breeders in that section, II
was said, disliked to sell to each other. A
6-year. old-mare was sold the other day fol
S1,JOO.
John johnson and Martha johnson,
both coored, living together as man and
wife at Baltimore, Md, had a fight with
/ raZors day or two ago. Johnson received
sixty distinct wounds and would die. The
woman was wounded in twelve places, but
} not fatally.
Emory, Tex, will ship 1,8OO bales OF
cotton this season.
The San Antonio CTex.) EUeninQ
Light-of a late date says: The bonded in
! debtedness OF the City Of Austin is S91. o %.
The amount Of outstanding warrants to date
is $40. 691. SO. When comnared with fhe