The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-05-24
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

colored boy, living on John NeaI's place,
and, throwing him upon his back, forced
sand down his throat, choking him to death.
The Juvenile criminals were taken before
Judge Mitchell, who dismissed them on the
ground of irresponsibility on account of ex-
treme youth.
Governor Blackburn, of Kentucky,
has pardoned James Sizemore, sent to the
Penitentiary in 1880 for six years, charged
with murder. Sizemore went to Jail to
save his brother, the real criminal, in order
that his large family might not suffer. The
brother died the other day and made a full
confession.
Five miles from Austin, Tex, two
Mexicans killed each other with the same
knife few days ago. Becoming involved
in a quarrel, one stabbed the other near the
heart, leaving the knife sticking in the
wound. He quickly drew the knife from
his own breast and stabbed the other. Both
parties died within few minutes.
The President has removed G. Irving
Deity, Collector of Internal Revenue at
Baltimore, Md, and appointed John FL.
Sellman in his place. The change was
made upon a report from the Secretary of
the Treasury that Deity was physically un-
able to perform the duties of the Office.
Among the incidents at the National
Stock Yards at st. Louis, Mo-, the ether
day were sales of 230 head of corn-fed
Texas cattle averaging 1902 pounds at six
dollars per hundred; 800 head of Texas
horses at thirty-eight dollars; 100 Texas
mules, fourteen to fifteen hands high, at
sixty-eight dollars.
At Weightville, Ga, recently, Mr.. A.
T. Fountain had been plowing all day, and
was taking the harness from his horse when
he took a fit, to which he was subject, and
fell with his face on the plowed ground and
was smothered to DEATH His face was
buried in the earth.
A herd of $50 stock cattle recently
sold in Navarro County, Tex, for $4,000,
the largest sale ever made there.
1t is said that the State of Texas will
net $l3,5OO,0OO from the increase to her
sheep farms this spring.
Two young ladies of Crystal Springs,
Miss, are shipping rosebuds to Chicago.
Danville, Va, has two cotton mills in
operation, and is erecting a third one.
A Philadelphia company has pur-
chased a farm in Accomac County, Vir-
ginia, which is to be devoted to the raising
of geese, so as to secure a supply of feath-
ers for making pillows and down quilts.
1t is proposed to commence with two
thousand geese, and to increase the number
to ten thousand as soon as the necessary
arrangements can be perfected.
There is plan to purchase a four
thousand-acre farm in the neighborhood of
Huntsville, Tex, for the employment of
convicts whose length of term and physical
condition fit them for outdoor work.
The amount now in the Louisiana
Treasury, together with the current col
lections, it is said, will pay all warrants to
date and the State Treasury, so far as the
general fund is concerned, is now upon a
cash basis.
Quite a novel spectacle was witnessed
at Pensacola, Fla, recently in the way of
funerals. A drayman died and his brother
draymen attended his funeral on drays.
DIR. c. l.. Haywood, Boston human
itarian, has been examining the brands on
the cattle in Western Texas. He thinks the
cattle are tortured with more brands than
are necessary.
The Georgia Historical Society at Sa-
vannah has been notified by the executors
of the Telfair estate that they were ready
to deliver the legacy bequeathed the socie-
ty, the will having been sustained by the
United States Supreme Court. The legacy
consists of the elegant mansion of the Tel
fairs, opposite St. James Square, with the
entire contents, and one thousand shares Of
Waynesboro s. Augusta Railroad, valued
at 81 100000, with accumulated interest of
seven per cent. for the past nine years.
The Decatur & West Texas Railroad
Company, capital stock 81, 900 200, has filed
a charter at Austin. The object is to con-
struct a road from Decatur, Wise County,
through Jack and Young to point on the
west line of Throckmorton. J. r. Gearing,
Chicago, and r. E. Montgomery, Council
Bluffs, To-, are among the incorporators.
The Mcleod House, in Crab Orchard,
KY, owned by 5. A. Higgins, was burned
to the ground the other evening. Loss,
$1,000; no insurance.
II is estimated that the amount of the
claim of Texas against the United States
for the protection of the frontier will reach
y, $4,000
The Exchange National Bank of Den
ton, Tex, with a capital of $4,000, has been
authorized to begin business.
The death of General Josiah Gorgas
occurred at Tuscaloosa, Ala, a few days
ago. He was a native Of Pennsylvania, a
graduate of West Point, served through the
Mexican war, cast his fortunes with the
COnfederacy and was Chief of Ordnance.
The safe of j. b. Kizer & Co., at Tex
sional burglars the other night and robbed
of about 800 in cash. Two notes for 5000
payable TO bearer, were not taken.
Because of prOtracted ill-health Miss
Bragg, a niece of General Bragg, the other
day saturated her clothing with coal oil
and then applied match, at Bonham, Tex.
She would die.
The other morning a party of eight
men rode up to the house Of Vaughn Hilton,
near JeffersonvilIe, niue miles from Mt
Sterling, KY, and awakened him, saying
they were looking for a hOrse-thief While
he sitting the edge of his bed, some
of the men fired, killing him instantly. The
party was not known, but was supposed to
be in the interest of the Barnett family.
which had a feud with the Hiltons.
Measles are ragingin in Russellville, Ark.
In digging a railway ''cut'' in Ascen-
sion Parish, La, recently, three skeletons
were exhumed, supposed, from articles
found i'll the graves, to be those Of Indian
warriors. Beside one of the skeletons was
an old fint-and-steel musket, and in a
battle-ground near the graves was found
silver medal, with a Latin inscription,
partly obliterated by long use.
Smugglers have become so trouble
some on the Rio Grande, in Presidio Coun-
ty, Tex, that the Adiutant-G General has
sent a company of rangers to suppress
them.
The cattle movements from Georgia
and Alabama for Texas points keeps up.
Ford Cook, the negro who was con-
victed Of murder at Willis, Tex, lately,
but was granted a new trial, escaped from
Jail the other night by digging under the
wall. c. NJ. Moore, while trying to make