The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-03-29
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

/ Bank Of HOtOpp Il Hoidsworth, Elizabeth
town, Ky, disappeared recently, ami it was
said the amount of his defalca ion was esti-
mated at s., 900. The bank was not affected
| by the matter.
Mrs. Mary Car, maternal grand
mother of Mrs. Potter Palmer and Mrs.
Fred D. Grant, died at Louisville, Ky, the
other day at the age of eighty-nine years.
The Prince of Wales has written the
managers of the Louisville, Ky, Southern
Cotton Exposition to say that there was no
foundation for the report that he intended
to visit America.
Daniel Sanders died at New Liberty,
Ky, the other night of hydrophobia. He
was bitten by rabid dog last July.
Mrs. Ellen Birmingham died in Louis
vile, a few days ago,aged 107 years. She was
a native OF Tipperary, Ireland, and came to
America forty years ago.
Captain w. II. G. Williams, probably
the oldest stcamboaiman on the Mississippi
River was buried at Memphis, Tenn, a few
DAYS ago.
The Attorney-General has appointed
John 5. Wise, OF Richmond, special counsel
to assist in the prosecution Of the Virginia
election cases.
o. T. Bugg, Southern Commissioner
Ky, was cordially received by the mer-
chants and manufacturers OF Memphis,
Tenn, recently, nearly all of whom ex
pressed determination to make a fun cX-
hibit of the products of that section Of the
country at the ensuing exposition. One ma
chine would be exhibited and thoroughly
tested which, il successful, would reduce
the cost OF the cotton crop to the South the
enormous sum of SOD, COO, 900 annually.
The bill to settle the State debt at
fifty cents on the dollar at three per cent.
interest has been passed by the Tennessee
Legislature.
Atlanta, Ca, had an $4,000 fire the
other day, six buildings being destroyed, ,
and at New Orleans, La, w. E. Sebold
suffered the loss of his stationery, picture
and fancy goods store, valued at $50, 900.
The other day James Wrenn, an en-
gineer on the Parkersburg Branch OF the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, saw a large
stone on the track near Bridgeport, w. Va,
as he was running his train through a deep
cut, and after reversing the engine he
jumped off, but fell back under the train
and was horribly crushed by twenty two
cars passing over his body.
A Raleigh, n. c., youth of eighteen
years is six feet eight inches in height.
|
night Fremont Oaks and a companion rode
by George Allender's house and fired six
shots into it. Allender returne the shots
and Oaks was shot through the bowels, it was
thought fatally. There was no previous
quarrel between the parties.
The State Treasurer of Texas, acting
on the advice of the Attorney. General,
lately refused to receive any more money as
| first payments school, University or asy-
lum lands. The courts would probably be
called on to decide the legality of the ques
tion.
At Franklin, Ky, United States Dep
utY Marshal T. w. Campbell arrested David
Mink and Calvin Johns the other day
charged with belonging to band of coun-
terfeiters, several of whom were captured
some days ago.
The other afternoon a saw in a mill
at Beaumont, Tex, flew in pieces and one
| of the fragments completely severed, just
below the thigh, the leg of young man
standing near. His name was James Rad
cliffe, and he was from Clinton, Mich.
A few days ago a young man from
CoTsicana, named j. B. Upton, dropped
} dead in the Union Depot at Houston, Tex.
He was originally from Knoxville, Tenn.
? John AdkersOn, a harmless fellow,
: was drunk and playing with a lot OF boys at
r Camp Shannahan, on the Kentucky Central
Railroad extension, recently, when Pleasant
I Dennis came along and ordered him to drop
! q rock which he had in his hand. As the
rock was not dropped soon enough to suit
{ him Dennis drew his revolver and shot Ad-
J kersOn through the body, killing him in
; stanty.
D Eli Sachs was fatally shot in a store
r at Baltimore, Nd, the other night by Law
= renee Fleischman, from whom he was buy
t ing a pistol.
A fire which originated in the brick
store occupie by J. H. Stephens and owned
by j. BosseaU, at Shreveport, La, recently
, destroyed $4,000 worth of groceries and
produce and damaged the building down
stairs to the extent of $4,000; all insured
, | The adjoining stores and stock were injured
to the amount OF ST 900.
The Secretary of the Interior decided
recently that the New Orleans Pacific Rail-
way Company was the legal assignee of the
New Orleans, Baton Rouge & Vicksbura
O Railroad Company, and therefore entitled
to the land granted by the general Govern,
> ment to the last-named company ia 1877
(lnown as the backbone land grant,, so fal
i as said lands had been earned by the con
/ structiOn of roadway. The New Orleans
Pacific Road is now owned by the Texas
1 Pacific Company.
4 Jane Williamson and little daughter
I were missing from Raleigh, n. c., lately
and it was supposed they had been mur
a dered. The husband of the woman and the
mother of the husband were arrested.
. A Deputy United States Marshal il
: South Carolina was in trouble recently, be
ing charged with arresting a dozen well
known citizens Of Clarendon County anC
locking them up for some election offense
refusing either to make known the charge
. against them or to accept bail.
y Max Thompson, a young train ROBBIE
= who assisted in robbing train at Austin
Tex, a few weeks ago, was captured anC
u. jailed the other day. All four OF the young
~ rascaIs were in Jail. The youngest wa
IL thirteen andthe oldest only sixteen years old
L Orange, Tex, is to have an ice-factOFy
!; In a difficulty at Midway. KY, tn,
q other night between Pres Driver and Alb
It Frazier, both cOlored, the latter was seri
l., ously stabbed by the former, and woul,
i likely die. Driver escaped, but officers wer
in pursuit.
T The other day John Kuller, a collecto
II for a Bridgeport W. Va.) firm, returne
r, from a trip through Ohio and reported tina
d he had been assaulted, robbed OF $500 an
l. left for dead. While the police were search
d ing for three men he described as his assail
l. ants Kuller confessed he had appropriate
n the money himself.
1t Charleston, S. c., is striving to secur
a complete system Of sewerage.
= DR.. Donald Mckay, who went to tn
Dallas County CTex.) Poor-farm the other da
- in preference to paying his fine, changed hi
mind after getting a good look at conviC
y life, and concluded to settle with lucre in