The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-11-01
SOUTHERN GLEANINGs.

The miH of the Indiana Lumber Com
pany. at Nashville, Tenn, valued at SIS, 900,
was recently destroyed Fhy fire.
=. A man named Frank johnson was
arrested at Vicksburg, Miss, a few days
ago, for killing a negro and wounding a
white man at McCool's Station, in the State
named. Is a.4s .aoz
Sparks from the locomotive of a
nail-train fired a cotton-traiIr and destroyed
about 200 bales of the staple, near Marshall,
Tex, few days since.
Edward Miller was run over and
killed near Dallas, Tex, a few nights ago
by Central Railroad train.z e8d4tu.i :. .
Several thieves in Greenville, Tex,
who were ''hard up'' for something to wet
their dry throats, stole the Bible and lamps
from church in that city, recently, and
pawned them to barkeeper for a half-pint
of liquor. skk "
sbPaulaa Vfllars, a veteran journalist of
New Orleans, nearly killed a colored lad
few days ago who was stealing nuts from
a pecan tree in his yard. 80 4 -
Cork, solive and almond trees were
planted some time ago near Brownsville,
Tex. A report comes now that the cork
and olives are fourishing and the almond
trees are. dead. N i.3Ev15s1 asstiA
The City CouRcilof Nashville, Tenn,
has fixed the salary of the Board of Public
Works and Affairs at 900 each, and elect
ed Mike Nester, DR.. I. A. Atchison and
Robert Ewing. Strictly business princi-
pies, not politics, will govern the city. The
gentlemen elected are the best talent to be
obtained .4
= A fatal alteration occurred seven
miles from OsTehton, KY, recently John
M. Palmer, an. old man, found Ben iCrutth-
low, aged twenty-five on hisT farm and or
dered him off. Crutchlow reluotantly
Obeyed. As soon as he got out of the field
hot words ensued. Palmer shot and
CrutchlOw threw stone at the same mo-
ment. The latter fell dead, shot through
the heart, ,Palmer's skull was fractured by
the stone. Itwas thought he would die.
Lewis Rabb, a Texas negro, twice
convicted of murder committed five years
ago, and whose case was reversed each
time by appealing to the court for various
reasons, the sentence each time being i'm
prisonment for fifty years. pleaded guilty
to manslaughter at Brennan, recently, the
jury assessing the penalty at two years in
the. Penitentiary. Most of the witnesses for
the State had disappeared.
The body of Louis Foster, colored,
was found few days ago hanging to tree
near South Union Church in Laraca Coun-
ty, Tex. with charge of buckshot in his
neck and pistol ball in his head. Foster
is said to have been screening an escaped
murderer and had borne bad reputation
for years.
JEFF Hays, a young brakeman on the
Missouri Pacific Railroad, while passing
over the train to deliver an order of the
conductor to the engineer, few nights ago,
fell from the train and was instantly killed,
h hno 4 bos1 II
most disemboweled by the trucks of the
cars passing over him. He was not missed
until the train reached Highland Station,
Tex, when search was instituted and the
body. of the unfortunate young man found
lying beside the track near WebsterviIle
Station, in Harris County. After an inquest
was held the body was taken to Galveston
and decentIy inferred by the railway COM
pany. Hays was about twenty-five years
old, and this was his second trip over the
road.
VIM! Carroll shot and killed James
Hall at Johnson City, Tenn, recently.
Two roughs named Wordy invaded
Russellville, Tenn, few days since to
stake the town. In the resultant fight
VIM. Cranch was killed.
The Postmaster and Express Agent
at Big Springs, Tex, who is also Clerk of
EI1OWdIu county, 1SLb ING pIttC0 Suuu6n1y
"a few days ago, and is reported short in
his accounts. .t.-t.t l -
Two negro thieves were put on trial
at Frankfort, Kentucky, at two p. m. one
day recently, and two hours later they
were at work in the Penitentiary.
r LINES weighing six ounces are grown
near DaytOna, Fla, -''
The finest Jewish synagogue in the
i 70 h = 10. p
Fla. The interior is beautifully and artisti--
eally decorated. -
The salary of the Maysville, KY,
Postmaster is precisely what it was fifty
years ago. Nicholas d. Coleman was post
master in 1883, and received for his services
$1,000 year. ,-----z-== u
The GoFernorsof Georgia has appoint
ed a delegation to attend the Cotton Con-
vention in Vioksburg7 next month.
The Georgia Penitentiary 1essees have
obtained temporary injunction, restrain
ing the further delivery of CONFLICTS to the
Marietta & Northern Georgia Railroad.
The Grand Jury at Houston, Tex,
has instituted an inquiry into the construc-
tion of the new Court House at that place.
1t is alleged that the county has lost $780,
600. a atta oh .s. aG4 IEtf @ri''l
Charles A. Eusor, of Baltimore, Md,
while trespassing, was shot by Mrs. Mary
j. Hundertmarx. Mrs. Hundertmark was
arrested. ---- fszff.
The Governor of Texas, who regards
separate railway coaches for the negroes as
ESSENTIAL to the peace of society, is dis
pleased with the refusal of the manager of
the Gould roads to give the colored people
special cars, for travel.
Governor Knott, of Kentucky, went
to Washington recently to urge the claims
of his State for military supplies furnished
during the war.
IA mile of Goodrich and Clarkson'
pasture fence in Falls Cennty, Texas, has
been cut by %nesters." This county has
been heretofore exempt from such raids.
Three counterfeiters caught in Mobile.
Colonel Grasty, managing editor of
the Vicksburg (BIiss.) Plaaters' Joar7Jatg
returned recently from the jute farm of the
Delta Juts and Fibre Company, whittier he
had gone in company with Franz Luft, in
ventor Of the jute machine of New Orleans,
and S. D. Vogt, Luft's agent. They report
a very bright outlook for the jute industry
in that bottom.
Rev. Allen Allensworth, a colored
clergyman of Bowling Green KY, wants