The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-11-29
SOUTHERN GLEANrNGs.

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Tex, exploded recently, killing D. Cooper,
wounding j. B. Jones fatally, and danger
ously wounding two other men.
Aztec, famous running horse, vail
ued at ZOO, died recently Of lung fever.
at Lexington, Ky. IL was owned by Pow
ers & Son, of Decatur, IN.
Hunger and cold caused the. death Of
colored woman and child at lexington,
KY, a few days ago.
Charles Warren and Murdoch Mall
ley, of Charlotte, N. c., quarreled recently
over a game of cards, and Malley killed
Warren with a knife.
BY the giving away of the wallsof a
graveI-pft at Dallas, Tex, five men We're
instantly buried. One of the number was
killed, and all the others sustained severe,
injuries
Samuel Wheeler was sentenced a few
days ago at Gilman. Tex, to be hung for
the murder of r. Q. Short, last fall.
Governor Ireland, of Texas, has is
sued proclamation raising the quarantine
throughout the State.
During the demolition of an old resi-
dence at Richmond, Va, few days ago,
wall fell, crushing three laborers. VIM.
Tallaferro, aged ninety, was fatally m
Jure :.
The ladies of Macon, Ca, declined to
appear at musical festival with the cor
netist, Levy, because Of his marital rela-
tions. -
In Alexandria, La, a few days ago
Frank jackson was killed and Henry I'm
derwood wounded while endeavOring to
evade arrest. They were the only two of
the notorious Sam Bass gang who survived
the campaign by the Texas rangers in 1878,
and regarded as the worst men who ever
went on the road in the Southwest. Two
thousand dollars reward was standing on
the head of each for several years, and is
believed to be still good.
Lehman & Rothschild's mammoth
store at Black Hawk Landing, Concordia
Parish, La, burned with contents a few
nights ago. 4l
At Comanche, Tex, few nights ago,
while the Sheriff was absent, fifty armed,
masked men battered in the jail door with
a heavy pole, overpowered the guards af-
ter hard struggle, and taking out the two
Bailey brothers hanged both to tree in a
graveyard a mile from the town. 1t is
not stated what the Baileys we're charged
with.
The magnificent residence of Major
Henry Crumbliss at Kingston, Tenn, was
burned a few nights ago The blaze was
discovered in the roof by passers-by about
midnight, and the alarm given in time
for all of the family to make good their es-
cape, but the entire contents, and the house
was elegantly furnished, were consumed
The loss to Major Crumbliss can not be less
than $4,000, but he had some insurance.
Kleinston, suburb of .Vicksburg,
Miss, was almost entirely destroyed by
fire a few days ago.
Miss Fannie Hillurn, of Chattanooga
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clothes igniting by too close contact will
an open CRATE fire.
The safe in the post Office at Lisbon
Tex, kept in the store of w. d. Cast, wat
robbed a few nights ago of between $40
and $500. Postmaster Cast is a merchan
and claims the loss falls on his persona
property and not the Government. tn,
burglars escaped.
+. Dawson, stock grower of Cha,
Comfy, Tex, has made an assignment
liabilities S2S7000
Joe Barbour, of Charlottesville, Va.
in a saloon fight few nights ago, cut tn
throat Of ReynoId Jackson from ear to ear
A fire at Harrodsburg, Ky, few day
ago swept away hotel and six stores Of
Main street, causing a loss of 1000.
The bridge over Salt Creek, on tn
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Rail
road, at Alabama Furnace, near Talladega
was burned by ncendiaries IA few night
ago. .u
John Lee, who was arrested for tn
murder OF Anna Moore, at Petersburg, Va
last summep, iand who afterward escaped
has been re-arrested in Texas. .eeat
Sumter, S. c., had disastrous fir
recently which destroyed large part q
the business quarter. ''
The supper to the Cotton Planters
Convention in Vicksburg, Miss, will b
prepared BY the ladies of the Presbyteria
Church Plates viii be laid for 400 guests
Four years ago Texas stood third i
wealth among the Southern States. To-da
she stands first, having property valued q
100000
Perry Jeter, one of gang of seve
negroes who fired the plantation house {
their former master in South Carolina, wa
hanged at Union a few days ago.
A. Deffenbaugh, of San Antonio
Tex, has a mulberry tree literally we
loaded with ripe fruit of the second croI
and his strawberry vines have a large
yield than in the spring. The fall has bee
and is still very mild.
First Lieutenant John II. Tod6
Eighteenth U. 5. Infantry, died a fe,
days ago at Frankfort, KY, aged thirty-si
years.
Mays Hotel, at El;zabethtown, Ky
was burned to the ground few days ag
by an incendiaFy fire. All of the guest
lost everything save che night-clothes the
wore. II. A. Sommers, editor Of the Neir!
fractured an ankle jumping from a win
dow. Charles Rim received dangerous il
juries from falling wall; he will probabl
die. Watkins & Co, grocers, in the lowe
story, lost heavily; insured for 81 600. Mr.
Dumavan's house was crushed by a fallin
WALL The hotel cost over 900; insure
for $4,000. Total general loss, $4,000; il
surance unknown.
Floridians favor barb-wire fences.
The New Orleans Times Democrat e,
ploring- expedition through the Florid
Everglades had not been heard from sine
November the l. Fears are entertained f.
the fate of the explorers.
The Jail at Charlottesville, Virgins
has had to be guarded recently by a con
pany of militia to prevent the negroes frol
lynching colored murderer named JC
Barbour.
The. Wilmington and Weldon Raj