The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-03-08
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

ty from the effects of the late cold weather.
WatGr holes were filled with dead animals
/ and every hour added to the mortality.
Several parties who recently purchased
cattle at high prices to embark in the
business would be bankrupted, as they were
unprepared to feed and shelter animals, and
had not the means to bde the time neces-
sary to recuperaie.
The failure of Yearger, Petty & Co.,
dry goods, Raleigh, n. c., has been an
noUnced. They expected to pay all their
creditors in full.
Rufus Butler, of Glasgow, Scotland,
went to Dallas, Tex, few days ago in
search Of his son, who was Kidnapped five
Years ago and brought to America. Mr..
Butler had spent five years Of time and a
great deal Of money in the effort to find his
son, but without avail. He was much dis
cOuraged, but will not abandon the search.
Two wOod-choppers named Frank
Blake and Sam Webb had a difficulty near
Belmont, Ky, few days ago, about job
of work they had on hand, when Blake
struck Webb fearful blow in the face.
Webb then seized an ak and sent the blade
into the base of RIake's skull, and the lat
ter's death was expected. Webb escaped.
Dinah Smell, colored woman aged
lO1 years. VINO ECSlueS AT OynJnlauas Nv,
was granted some money recently by the
County Court, and two negro women, on
hearing of it, garroted the old woman and
beat her nearly to death in a vain effort to
get the money from her.
At the recent sale of trotters at Gym
thiana, Ky, sixty -one head were sold at an
average of 1916. Martha w. sold for g, $50;
Halskin, 81 500; Ethan Wilkes, three years,
S1,10o; yearling Wilkes, $500; two Mann
brinO Wilkes, 81, 100 each.
In the recent shooting match at Lou
isvile, KY, between DR.. Carver and Bo-
gardus, 100 birds, thirty yards rise, the
former won by one bird, the score being SO
to 50.
The giving way of a trestle leading
up to Raccoon Bridge, on the East Tennes-
see, Virginia & Georgia Road, near Atlanta,
Ca, the other day demolished about TWEEN
ty cars, killed R. Tidweu, engineer, and
Charles Walker, a negro brakeman, and
dangerously wounded two passengers.
The derailing of a freight engine
drawing seven ears at the Short Line juno
ton, South Louisville, KY, lately, threw
all the cars on the main track, tore away
part Of the depot platform, damaged the
waterman and splintered the seven cars.
The Knoxville Branch and Nashville trains
were delayed until track was laid around
the wreck. No one hurt.
Tom Lamb, a negro desperate who
admitted having killed seven men, was
fatally shot at Fort Worth, Tex, recently.
Henry Watterson, editor of the Louis
vile Courier Journal, by invitation of the
Democratic members of the Tennessee Leg
islature, delivered an address in Nashville
the other night on tax reform and tariff.
Within nine miles of Memphis, Tenn,
Daniel Townsend and his wife, Minerva,
while sleeping, were shot and slain few
days ago by Alexander Hill, youthful farm
hand, who slept in the same room. lie fed
in his night clothes, but was captured.
The contract for building the walls
along the creek at Hot Springs, Ark, has
been let to the second lowest bidder, an Ar
kansas contractor. The bid was S72, 900. A
Government engineer, who prepared the
plans for the work, says it will cost S95, 900
to accomplish it as the Government desires
it done.
One of the most celebrated murder
cases in Texas was closed the other day by
the Court of Appeals affirming the decision
of the lower court that Andrew J. Walker
must endure Imprisonment for life. He
murdered Green Butler, prominent stock
man, near Galveston, in May, 1882.
The Mayor of Austin, Tex, has ap-
pointed a committee of aldermen to provide
a pest-house, anticipating the introduction
of small -poX at that place.
John Barrow, a quiet, peaceable citi-
zen of Pike County, living near Barnesvil1e,
Ca, went into town the other day and sur
rendered himself saying that he had killed
a negro named Jerry Collier the night be-
fore. The Coroner summoned a Jury and
held an investigation, and the verdict
was that Jerry Collier was wilIful-
ly murdered by John Barrow.
The Coroner's inquest developed the fact
that the negro was shot in the face, but that
the shot that killed him entered his back
and pierced his left lung. The cause Of the
trouble some words between the negro
and BarrOw's father. His father told him
about it, and they both went to the negro's
house and the difficulty occurred.
Books were opened at Galveston,
Tex, recently for a mortgage bank, and
subscriptions to the amount of $2,OO0,UO0
were made.
An inexhaustable mine of kaOlin has
been discovered lately in mountain slide
in Towns County, Georgia.
Burglars at Howe Station, Tex, after
preparing a safe for explosion a few days
ago, piled sacks of coffee about it and
wrapped them in wet cloths. Two doors
were thus blown off, and no one was
alarmed by the noise.
DR.. John NJ. Duke, one of the ablest
physicians in Kentucky, died at Maysville
recently, OF paralysis.
Samuel o. Fowler, a veteran of the
successful struggle Of Texas for independ-
ence, died in Louisville, KY, few days
ago.
w. II. II. Holly was arrested near the
Arkansas line and taken to Shreveport, La,
the other day, charged with robbing the
mail coach between Shreveport and Minden
on the 9th of last July. He was also
charged with horse-stealing in Bell County.
Tex, some time in 1877, and was arrested
then but escaped from the Sheriff while en-
route to that county.
Water, water everywhere!
A San Antonio, Tex, paper of a re-
cent date says: "The price Of cattle has
advanced $50 per cent. in the last five years;
it is now believed the maximum has been
reached. The drive this year will be the
last OF any great magnitude. Hereafter the
cattle product will be sent to market by rail
or sail.
Baughman Brothers, stationers and
printers, Richmond, Va, have assigned. Liza
bilities, 100000; assets, S92, 900. The embar-
rassment is attributed to losses sustained in
New York, where two years ago they estab-
lished a branch house.
John Taylor has been appointed Post
master at Richmond, Ky.
For alleged failure to collect licenses |
and taxes, suit for $40, 900 has been brought
against the bondsmen OF the ex-Sberiff at
Nicksburg. Mis-. recently. Similar action |