The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-10-25
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.


Railroad at Augusta, Ga, exploded a few
days since, Starr, the engineer, and Wat
kins, the fireman, each receiving supposa-
bly, fatal injuries.
A negro woman living in Lowndes
County, Ala, lately gave birth to child
on Thursday, and on the following Satur-
day gave birth to two more.
Sheriff Tucker, of Williamson County,
Tex, accidentally shot himself while on the
cars near Austin recently, the bullet pass.
ing through his body.
The region east of Vicksburg, Miss,
is reported suffering from a protracted
drought. Cattle were dying from thirst.
John Dixon was arrested few days
ago at Weatherford, Tex, for stealing a
horse at Dallas.
w. j. Barlow, of Live Oak, Fla, is
102 years old. His father lived to the age
of 106, and his grandfather, it is said, was
126 years old when he died.
An alleged hardware drummer from
St. Louis has been successfully playing
confidence games near Marshall, Tex.
The Tallahassee & st. Marks Rail
road, in Florida, was recently sold to John
A. Henderson for S25, 900.
Owing to Over-production the rice
mills of New Orleans are to be run on half
time
John A. Ferguson, tried for the muir
der of Policeman Parks, at Danvil1e, Va,
has been declared not guilty. The jury
acted on the instructions of the Court, that
a man has a right to defend himself, even
to killing, if an officer endeavors to arrest
him without a warrant.
The prisoners in the Jail at Dallas,
81.
Jailer while he was giving them supper and
half the number escaped. The whole town
turned out and succeeded in rearresting
three of the fugitives. Henry Trigg, a no
torious horse-thief, and John Maston,
charged with forging school vouchers,
were the names of those who escaped. In
the flight Trigg overlook boy on horse
back. Hastily pulling the boy off, he took
his place in the saddle, and waving his hat
at his pursuers was soon out of sight.
Five noted murderers made desper-
ate attempt to escape from the Penitentiary
at Frankfort, KY, few days ago. -Four
got over the walls. One escaped entirely,
one was killed 200yards from the wall, and
two were badly crippled. The attempt was
made just previous to returning the con.
victs to their cells.
Henry Lipscomb and John Dyke, of
Grapevine Prairie, Tex, while returning
home in their wagons from Dallas a few
days since with the proceeds of two loads
of cotton in their pockets, were halted by
two mounted and masked men and made to
disgorge. The robbers got something over
5000, and turning into the timber were soon
lost to view.
George Malin Davis, an old and we'll
known citizen of Natchez, Miss, promi-
nent lawyer and very wealthy, died few
days since.
Major w. H. Smythe has been ap-
pointed Postmaster at Atlanta, Ga, vice
Benjamin Conley, suspended. Major
Smythe was United States Marshal for
Georgia during the two terms of President
Grant.
United States District Attorney
Evans, of the Western District of Texas, it
is understood has been rendered and will
accept the Judgeship of the Eastern Dis
trict.
The Governor and Secretary of State
of Texas are preparing list of delegates
to attend the Cotton Planters and Agricul-
tural Convention at Vicksburg.
Surgeon Stone, of the Marine Hos
pital service, and physician selected by
been investigating the epidemic at Brew
ton, Ala.
Levi Mccormick, who has served for
thirty-two years as a conductor on the
Cumberland Valley Railroad, has been re-
tired by the Company on full pay for the
rest of his life.
1t is said that $4,000, 900 have been
invested in mines and machinery in the
gold regions of Georgia, while the total re-
turned value of the present assets of all
kinds of mines in the State is $127,0oO.
A forest mathematician has figured
out that there are enough pine trees grow
ing in the South to furnish the whole coun-
try with lumber for two hundred and fifty
years to come.
An eccentric individual of Dooly
County, Georgia, is seventy-six years old,
but has never in the whole course of his
life spent one night from under the roof of
the house in which he was born.
A negro girl about five years old lost
her life in a singular manner at Bellview,
La, recently. She climbed fig tree, and
in descending slipped, the collar of her
dress caught on broken limb, and she was
choked to death before assistance arrived.
Henry Pale was instantly killed by
the cars at Pinta Station, Texas, a few
nights ago.
City Marshal Ambrose Wilson of Sa-
dieville, KY, was shot dead recently by
James Creighton, who was drunk.
Rev. L. Fisher, Moderator of the
Presbyterian Synod lately in session at
Denison, Tex, fell into a deep cistern at
the house where he was being entertained,
and was fished out badly bruised.
In Russell County, Alabama, few
davs ago, Thomas Prince instantly killed
his father-in-law, B. S. Jeffries. The kill
ing was done in self-defence and in defence
of Prices wife and Jeffries' daughter.
The rear coach of an accommodation
,rain was deraiIed few days ago at Mar
shall, Tex, rolled down an embanlrment
and turned bottom upward without serious
" injuring any of the passengers,
One Mormon superstition is that
children when Ill may be cured by the
laying on of hands. More than five