The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-11-15
SOUTHERN GLEANINGs.

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to the door by Ben Razener and two of his
brothers, on pretext of making up an old
feud, and was fatally beaten with clubs and
left for dead.
A large meeting of colored citizens
was held at Memphis, Tenn, few nights
ago to protest against the recent Supreme
Court decision on the civil rights bill. Let
ters from several Congressman were read.
Wash DensmOre, a farmer of Walker
County, Ga, had his back broke by being
thrown from wagon carried down a de-
clivity by runaway mules.
All work at building in Austin, Tex,
save that on the new State House, is re-
ported at a stand-still, because of the high
price of brick.
The Memphis region has been visited
by killing frost
Over 500 delegates have now ex-
pressed their intention of being present at
the Vicksburg Cotton Convention, which
begins November 21.
Robert Robinson, a prominent negro
of Hanover County, Virginia, was muir
dered by Charles Lewis, another negro,
few days ago.
A Mr.. Tinsley, of Ellington, Ga, has
mysteriously disappeared.
The penitentiaries of Texas now con-
tain over 1900 convicts.
A young man passing himself off as
cousin of Fred Gebhart got himself in
trouble at Memphis, Tenn, recently for
getting a watch from jeweler under false
pretenses.
The first frost of the season was re-
ported on the I'd at Charlotte, N. @. 1t
stopped the growth of cotton.
VIM. Block, of Spencer County, KY,
attempted suicide a few days ago by cut
ting his throat, and viii probably die.
All ''P Line boats on the Mississippi
have been ordered to transport delegates to
the Vicksburg Cotton Convention at half
fare.
An International Bench Show will be
given in Exposition Hall, New Orleans, be-
ginning December Is.
A murderer named Long made his es-
cape recently from the jail at Comanche,
Tex, and is said to be on his way to Mis-
souri,.
An eccentric old man named Jerry
Smith, who lived alone in Chattanooga,
Tenn, was found dead in his house a few
days since. The door had to be battered
down to reach him.
A youth named Maynard Smith was
caught ia the machinery of saw mill in
Knox County, Tenn, a few days ago, and
was almost literally torn in pieces.
OF the 16z students in the Texas Uni
versity, forty are women.
A construction train on the Terre Aux
Boef Railroad, in Louisiana, jumped the
track few days ago, injuring ten men,
three of them fatally.
Joe Brown, a horse-dealer of Austin,
Tex, was sentenced recently to nine years
in the Penitentiary for horse-stealing.
Captain Robert Joslyn, once Private
Secretary to Jefferson Davis, and lately
Executive Clerk to Governor ireland, of
Texas, is reported dying at Austin.
The State Land Board of Texas passed
resolution recently requiring those op-
Grating mineral lands to report monthly.
A south-bound freight train on the
Cincinnati Southern Road few days ago
ran over and killed an old man named
Rhodes Powell, near Flat Rock Station,
Tenn.
A man named Brown, lately arrested
by Sheriff Duson, of st. Landry Parish,
Miss, has confessed to the murder, two
years ago, of Page, a wealthy planter of
Montgomery County.
Sir Edward Reed, of England, is re-
ported to have recently purchased 1000, 900
acres of land from the Florida Land I'M
provement Company.
L. A. Nasty has filed suit in the
United States Circuit Court at Dallas, Tex,
against R. f. McNulty, for $4,000, alleg-
ing breach of contract in cattle transac-
tion.
The hot-air tank in the pork-packing
establishment Of Gessel, Ahren & Co., at
! Memphis, Tenn, exploded few days ago
I Il
The warehouse of r. b. Hutchcraft,
at Paris, KY, valued, with its contents, at
| $4,000 was wiped out by fire recently.
| A negro woman, named Cornelia
! DAYS, has been sentenced to the Charles,
ton, S. c., Penitentiary for life, for muir.
dering child which she was unable to care
| for.
Samuel Lee, a mulatto, of Alabama,
| who was appointed special agent of the
| General Land-office, reports that in the
mountain region of his State no one who
knew his position would give him bed or
a meal, for fear of revengeful acts by land
sharks or illicit distiIlers.
A large number of Catholic citizens
| of Galveston, Tex, met a few nights ago
and decided to form a stock company with
! SIS, 900 capital to publish a weekly paper in
the interest of the Catholics Of the State.
Frank Hiland, of Youngstown, o.,
who recently escaped from jail, where he
was held on charge of wife murder, has
zen re-arrested in Georgia and sent North.
| William Rains, of Atlanta, was ar
| rested in Gainesville, Ca, few days since
charged with forgery. He is wen con
uected.
Reports from various parts of Texas
say that the second crop Of cotton IS max
ing and will be a large one, il frost does
| not soon interfere.
The Dallas, Tex, branch of the Ma
tional Land League, is raising funds fol
the defense of O'Donnell,. the slayer of Ca
/ rev, the informer
North Carolina has had a frost.
In a fight recently between Noble Tul
ford and John Hatton, IN Powell County
KY, Tulford shot and mortally wounded
Hatton. Tulford was also shot and wound
ed by one of Hatton's sons. The cause O.
the difficulty was not learned, but wai
supposed to be the result Of an old feud
which It was feared would be continued
with more serious results.
The concrete foundation of the new
Texas Capitol at Austin is completed. L
has cost $4,000, and has consumed 2.6e
barrels of sand 9 500 barrels OF cement ans