The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-01-18
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.
Miscellaneous Items.

ten had the honor of being the first woman
ever elected to Office in that city.
The Machinists' building in New Or
leans, La, was recently transferred to the
Louisiana State University. 1t was there
that the Constitutional Convention met in
1866, but was broken up by the police, aud
over 100 men were killed. 1t was subse>
quenuy used by the Legislature.
Three colored laborers on the
Kentucky Central Railway extension put
wet danamite in a stove to dry the other
morning near Winchester, Ky. 1t eX-
ploded, blowing two to atoms and seriously
iniuring the other. The house was com
pletely demolished.
Several cases of small-po with four
deaths were reported by the Osceola CArk.)
Times at that place a few DAYS ago, causing
quite a scare among the people and the
closing of the school.
8 The other morning while a well dig
ger named Albert Hofan was being lowered
by a windlass at San Antonio, Tex, the
handle Of the windlass slipped from the
grasp of the man holding it. HOfan fell
sixty feet, breaking his neck, both legs, an
agIn ana several ribs, dying before he was
reAQvered from the well.
SAMUEL Siebert and Robert Wright,
aged about twelve years, Of Louisville, KY,
quarreed the other evening. Siebert cut
Wright on the neck, arm and breast, in
flicting dangerous wounds. The boy was
sent to the city hospital. sicbert escaped
arrest.
The Marshal of Plano arrested John
Green at Dallas, Tex, the other day on the
charge OF killing an old man named Coles,
| in Plano day or two previous. The two
men became involved in a quarrel, when
Green struck Coles on the head with a
/ Ratchet.
L. G. Wood, who killed j. B, For
! gettson at Greenville, Tex, last spring and
/ was convicted of murder and sentenced to
4 the penitentiary for forty years and
/ three months, was the other day granted a
i new trial.
4 John Elmore, sixteen years old, was
4 killed the other day on the plantation of Mr..
/ ITby, in Laurens County, S. c., by being
! packed in a bale of cotton. While the hands
were at dinner Gilmore got into the press
and went to sleep, and upon resuming work
the hands, without knowing Elmore's
whereabouts, threw in more cotton to COM
plete the bale, run the press down and
| crushed the sleeper to death. The horrible
! discovery was made when the bale was
taken out and a portion of the sleeper's
clothing was seen prOtruding from the bale
The other day Harrington Williams
colored, walked into Governor Stephens
office at Atlanta, Ga, and stated that b,
wished to give himself up to the authori
ties. He said that he was charged will
burning the town of Millen, and would havt
surrendered to the Burke County authori
ties, but feared lynching. Millenis in Burk
County, and was partially burned on th'
18th Of December by an incendiary. vii
liams was placed in Jail at Atlanta unit
the Governor could communicate with tn
Burke County authorities. Harrington
said: 81 gave myself up for protection.
didn't burn the town, and was not there a
the time. don't know anything about
except what 1 dreamed in my dreams.
see the burning town, the officers following
me and the mob fixing to hang me-"
Dallas Carter, q colored hand at Liz
ingston's turpentine still, about eight mile
from Orangeburg, S. c., was the other da
burned to death under very peculiar cir
cumstances. In working around the sti
? he got considerable crude turpentine on hi
feet, and in the evening, while standin
near a fire, he put one OF his feet in the blaZ
to warm If, when the turpentine instantl
, caught fire, and before he could think tn
poor fellow found himself envelOped i
flames. He ran and Jumped into an oil
' well, but was so badly burned when take
r out that he died. -
Colonel Ed. G. Anderson, ex-Mayc
of Savannah, Ga, and President of tt
Ocean Steamship Company, died the Otht
morning. He was formerly an officer in tf
United States Navy, and afterward a Con
tederate Colonel.
At a ball in Bedford County, Va, th
other night, a young lady named Idel
. Read said to Scott Clayton, who was callir
d the figures, that he was not calling correc
= ly. He made some sharp response, whiC
9 was resented by one of Miss Reads admi
g ers, Armsted Barksdale. The latter calle
IS Clayton out and hot words passed. Bark
@ dale drew a knife, sprang on Clayton al
= inflicted a horrible cash from the right e.
e to the back Of the neck, severing the jugul
vein and causing immediate death. II
q scene in the ballroom was sckenin
2. Women in fancy ball dresses tainted, faI
ing into pools OF blood, and regular mel
o followed among the partisans of the ty
,r men. Barksdale escaped unObserved, an
i wandering to another part of the count
DOETON6u u uAR rum All acquaintance al
10 completed the tragedy by shooting himsc
n through the bowels. He died shortly afte
ward.
D. w. L. FernOld, Collector of Intern
l. Revenue of the Fourth (Va.) District, hea
20 quarters at Danville, was suspended f
days ago. A special agent was examini
"a his books. Fernold was on trial for luna(
a. A company known as the Wharf II
3 proYement Company was the other day {
a. ganized in Galveston, Tex, with an authC
ne ized capital of So, 900, 900. The object of /
OF company was TO construct wharyes up
the south side of the island, the wharves
IN be supported on iron piers and carried O
rs 10 deep water. The company had applied
rs Austin for a charter.
ca The Texas Legislature met January
:. Mortgages for S17, 10000 were 7
4. Gently recorded in South Carolina by t
a. Carolina, Cumberland Gap & Chicago Roa
formed by the consolidation OF six road
Mt which it was said was intended to compile
n a track from Aiken northward into he
lucky.
IL At George H. Hayman's turpenti
s. farm, twenty miles from Darien, Ga,
a. negro entered the house while the fam
or were at dinner the other day and snot Hs
on man,n the abdomen. Hayman knock
90 the negro down, took the pistol and 81
him dead. ~
e. Moses Grant was killed by the cars
is Fulton, KY, recently. -
as a tract of fifty acres in the CaIumt
re VIVA, region was recently sold for TOO. .0
It. and there was said to be excellent az th0r
lie for the statement that an ext tensive nail
re would be established thereon by a Whe
'Eg firm at a cost Of 81, 900, 900.
lst r. a. McWhirtir, who few ye,
n ago prepared himself for the ministry
ys Tehuaeana College, was few days ago eC