The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-04-05
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

A most horrible crime was committed
at San Antonio, Tex, about five O'Clock the
other morning. A young man named Rich
ard Cowley, slightly demented for the past
two years, but considered harmless, forced
his way into his aged and widowed mothers
bedroom and split her head open with an
old ak obtained in the yard The young
man was at one time in the lunatic asylum
at Austin, but was released about a year
ago and had been with his mother, who kept /
a clearinghouse, until some two weeks
'ago, when she became afraid Of him and |
had him confined in the county jail for a |
short time and thence moved to the county |
poor-farIn. He escaped from the latter the |
other night with the above result.
Ed O Brien, watchman at the Delta |
Point Government works, near Vicksburg,
Miss, was shot dead by Thomas Sullivan
the other day in a drunken braW1.1 20
A New York corporation lately
bought seventy-five thousand head of cattle
from Texas stockmeh the consideration
being nearly S2f00O,O90.
A man in St. TammanY, La, freed a
wildcat a few days ago and set fire to the
bushes to smoke him out. The flames
soon got beyond his control and burned
| forty panels of fence for a neighbor. The
| wildcat escaped. H-tf
w. E. Moore and bride, Of Peters
burg, Va, started on the day of their mar
| riage, in January, for a visit to the West
! They had not been heard from to recent
| date, and their families were very much
concerned.
squire Dungerfield. of Delta, La.
issued writ the other day for the arrest of
negro named John Holmes. While as
sisting an officer to execute the writ he
was attacked in a desperate manner by the
negro with a pistol and brier hooks and
was forced to retreat to his house. BE
secured rifle and killed the negro ard
wds acquitted by the Coroner's Jury.
A man named Jake Ashley was muir
dered in Barnwen County, s. c., few
nights ago. He was lying asleep in his bed
and was riddled with buckshot. -Four per-
sons were supposed to have taken part in
the murder, and six shots were fired One
of his children was in bed with him at the
time. He was acquitted last fail of bur
gIary, and it was supposed this led to his
murder.
Fred Fink, colored boy aged twelve
years, was accidentally drowned in pond
the other evening, on the farm Of Mr.. Wood
son, three miles from Frankfort, KY.
James G. Tracy and s. S. Ashe, Of
Houston, and Joseph E. Dwyer, of San An
tonic, have been appointed a commission to
examine and report upon the property of
fered as a site fer a new public building at
, Galveston, Tex.
w. V. McCracken has resigned hts
! position as Superintendent of the East
Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad tc
{ become Assistant President.
/ At Dallas, Tex, fire was discovered
5 in the grain elevator of D. T. Rainwate1
S about seven O'Clock the other morning, anC
= the building and contents were totally
9 DESTROYED. The loss was estimated at abou
$40, 900; insurance 5000. Mrs. MARSHALL
, private clearinghouse was also destroyed
j Loss :, 600
= The Eureka Cotton Mills at Noun
Airy, n. G., were burned the other morn
V ing, causing loss estimated at 100000; in
n sured for $4,000. One hundred men wer
thrown out of employment.
a Two members of the Baltimore (Md.
e bar having banded epithets and blows L
L an Auditors Court recently, the expecta
ton had arisen that they would resort t
IF the field of honor to settle their differences
n The Commissioner General of tn
l. Land Office has issued an order opening
,e settlement and entry, under the homestea
laws, the lands Withdrawn for but Nc
l. needed in the final adjustment of the graz
~ made to the State of Arkansas in aid of til
7s Little Rock & Fort Smith Railway.
;. g Backlog was reported to hay
w broken out among the cattle in Harr
:, County, Tex, recently, and some valuab
= stock had been lost. IN the Northern pa
- of the county one farmer had lost sewers
= very valuable cows and yearlings. TT
!, disease had not made its appearance in IL
II lower part of the county, where there wei
Il thousands of cattle, horses and other stOc
~ Stock owners were viewing the slow spres
of of the disease with much uneasiness, al
were apprehensive of the result should
gain foothoold in any Of the large herd
and every effort was being made to eonfil
the disease in the section in which it hi
ed originated.
rt Henry Porter, a wealthy farmer Ii
ing near Chattanooga, Tenn, was visited
n four masked men the other night,who, ,beil
nd refused $500 that Porter had hidden in t
p house, set the building fire and it w
It's consumed Its value was $4,000.
Philip Samuel Fleming, twelYe-ye
C old boy, was sentenced by the United Stat
TO- Court at Shreveport, La, recently, to fl
he years in the boys House of Refuge in
to Louis, for extracting mail matter from
he post-office box of 81. F. Doll.
in In the Hastings Court at Petersbur
Va, few days ago, Judge Mann appoint
he Emmett w. Couch, Readjuster, City TTe'
at urer of Petersburg, which office the
He preme Court Of Appeals of Virginia
,en declared vacant, the duties of which h
5he been discharged by Virginfus Johnst'
the Democrat, who contested Couch's right
. qualify Couch qualified, giving bond
To- the sum of SlSo,OOO with Senator Mahe
9TH as one of his bondsmen.
ner At Louisville, KY, Maggie Welch
de- child aged two years and six months, l
at alone in a room by her parents, who w
ca to work, ignited her clothes from the stC
4 a the other morning and received bul
on which resulted in her death.
Charles o. Lamotte, of the Savan
in (Ga.) Morning Nelcs editorial staff, v
ved drownded in the river below that city
1m- other day by the swamping Of boat.
hey Texas Legislature adjOurns March
lgh Captain George w. Levi, one of
parties Of the alleged Louisville (Ky.) c
'eu Hall conspiracy, in whose case the j
ays failed to agree, has been admitted to bal
INST the sum of $500.
Charles w. Wills, brother-in-law
lal Senator Kellogg, died suddenly at
Jin- home, near Jeanette, La, few days a
was He was captain in the 103d Illinois dur
e II the war.
A fire at Memphis, Tenn, the OF
heir night destroyed the Yates Mill, on Va
tied inqton street, causing a loss of some S15,t
lsed insurance, $1,000.
"Frenchy" johnson, noted 0;
zed man, died the other day in Florida.
au- Cuthbert, Ga, has a bed Of mari.
ems. A most daring robbery occurred