The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-04-26
SOUTHERN GLEANINCS.

! Iy convicted at San Antonio of presenting
\ false accounts, has been sentenced to the
Penitentiary for two years.
While putting a roof on new stable
being erected by Mann Foster, at San An
tonic, Tex, fifty feet of roof fell in the 9th
er day, seriously injuring three timers
who were engaged on the work
The steamer Merida with 100 passen-
gers from Vera Cruz collided with a
/ schooner and was much injured that she
! had to be beached in Hampton Roads. No
lives were lost.
Pink-eye was reported to be raging
in certain parts of Arkansas recently. Sew
eraI valuable horses had died, and great
apprehension was felt among st6ckmen.
The Supreme Court of Mississippi has
decided that, the Secretary of State having
declared Manning elected to Congress from
the Second District, the court has no juris-
diction of the suit of Chalmers for a writ OF
mandamus, and that the question as to
whether Manning or Chalmers was legally
elected must be decided by Congress.
j. M. Robinson, lately a Deputy
United States Marshal, has been found
guilty in the United States Court at At
lanta, Ga, on nineteen counts of an indict-
ment for falsifying his accounts.
Owing to a deficiency in the apprO-
priation for the payment of expenses, all
witnesses and defendants in the South
Carolina election cases have been dis
charged from further attendance at this
term of the United States Court.
The following charters have been
fled with the Secretary of State of Texas
recently. The Central Elevator Company,
of Dallas; capital stock, $40 00O The Cor
pus Christi & Nueces Valley Railroad, with
headquarters at Corpus Christi; capital
stock, 81 900 OO0 divided in shares of Il 900.
The line of this road and telegraph to be as
follows: Beginning at Corpus Christi, in
/ NueCes County, running in a nOrtherly di-
rection to some convenient point at or near
Uvalde, in UvaIde County, on the Southern
Pacific section of the Galveston, Harris
burg & San Antonio Railway, through She
Counties of Nueces, San Patricio, Bee or
Live Oak or both, McMilIen, LaSalIe, Trio,
Seavilla and Uvalde. In all the distance is
not to exceed 200 miles.
An exodus of cattle began from South
ern Texas a few days ago. Seventy-five
thousand head would be taken over the
railways from Milhern to Wichita Falls.
} Two hundred and fifteen trains would be
required to move the herd.
John r. Lynch, Chairman of the Mis-
sissippi Republican State Committee has
called a meeting of the leaders of different
parts of the State at Jackson, June y.
Chalmers has called a meeting of Republi-
| cans July 4.
Buffalo gnats are beginning to disap-
? pear from lately infected districts of Ar
kansas under the influence of the clear
1 weather and increasing warmth.
. OF the six little negro children pois-
t oned at Dermott Station, eighteen miles
from Arkansas City, Ark, recently, by
' using strychnine instead of salt at a play
b, dinner they had cooked, four have since
3 died. The others were likely to recover.
l While Mike McCabe was digging a
= well at Louisville, KY, the other day and
when at a depth of fifteen feet, the walls
Caved in, burying him beneath about nine
Z feet of earth and sand. After the body had
. been partly unearthed, but before he could
be released, the poor fellow called for a
1 priest, and one being summoned was low
i cred into the pit and confessed the unfor
/ tunate man, who was thought to be in ex.
u tremis. When removed prompt medical
+ aid was extended and it was believed the
5 man might recover.
At Fort Worth, Tex, the other after
: noon two children, Willie White, aged five
years, and Minnie Howard aged seven, got
. into a large dry goods box on empty lot
:. playing what they called jail. The boy
! was supposed to have lighted a match,
: which caught the dry hay in the box, when
d, both children were burned to death in
: few minutes. A numbcr of persons stoOC
on the street and saw the box burning, but
: did not suspect the children were in it.
} Judge Mcdonald, Mayor of Athens
a Tex, died a few days ago. The recen
e municipal election in Athens resulted in th'
e election of a colored Mayor, City Attorney
s and Marshal. All the Alderman were
white men, who refused to qualify ant
serve with the colOred portion of the city
Government. The colored officers-elec
never came forward to demand possession
of the Offices to which they had been elected
~ and it was understood that the old officer
would continue in office another term. Bu
70 the death of Mayor Mcdonald has compli
a. Gated matters The rightful Mayor is a full
blOOded African, who is a waiter in tn
@ Dean Hotel He says he will not have tn
Office so long as there is any objection t.
y him, although he was elected by whit
- votes.
). Recently a child died in the family O
a man named Westbrook, at GraysvilIe
y Ga. Soon thereafter other members of tn
- family were stricken with singular Gis
ease. A few days ago the mother and fou
children died, and the next day two NOR
children, making seven members of tn
= same family, were lying dead at the sam
time. Only one member was left, tn
father, who was crazed with mingled fea
- and grief. It was not known of what dis
- ease they died.
e Gilbert Bros. tobacconists, Atlanta
Ga, have failed, with estimated liabilitie
= of $4,000; assets, $4,000.
- Early the other morning, at Mont
- gomery, Ala, William Dorsey mistook hi
wife for burglar and shot her fatally.
or The failure of Dillingham; & Wuerget
Or general cotton and produce brokers, Ne7
's Orleans, La, has been announced.
Henry A Lewis, of Wichita Falls
N Tex, has been granted patent on a ne7
la stock car.
The Texas Legislature has adjourned
10 A dispatch from Lynchburg, Va
g says a freight train on the Norfolk & Yves
IS ern Railroad was derailed the other da
q % and several cars wrecked. Fireman Gi
q more and Engineer Michael SpilIan wer
killed. The track was maliciously oil
90 structed.
August KlapPenback, for many yeaI
,+ Postmaster at Castroville, Medina County
Tex, and who had been suffering frol
7 heart disease, took his accustomed wal
: the other morning and did not return
Search was made and his body found
Medina River.
A. A fig-tree growing at HarrOdsburs
of KY, is bearing fruit.
w Loo Chang & Co, Chinese me
he chants of Waynesboro, Ga, whose prol
an efty in that town was recently destrove
as by mob, have petitioned the Chinese Nil
Is. lister at Washington for redress against tL
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