The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-08-02
Personal AND GENERAL.

to marry the daughter of Stewart, and his
subsequent desertion of the girl led TO the
slaughter Of her father.
GENERAL L. o. G. ORD, Of the United
States Army, who took passage on the
steamer City of Washington at Vera Cruz
for New Y orlz, and was taken down by yel-
low fever, compelling his removal to the
shore while the vessel was at Havana,
Cuba, died in that city on the 23d.
TwENTY-FoUR loaded coal-cars on
the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad were
pushed of a high trestle at the Elizabeth
port IN. j. dock into Stanten Island Sound
the other morning and totally wrecked.
A HOTEL and livery stable at Ports
mouth, N. H., were destroyed by fire the
other morning, the guests of the hotel es-
Gaping with difficulty. Twenty-six horses
were cremated in the stable and number
of vehicles were burned.
A SEVERE storm struck Asbury, Park,
! N. j., on the afternoon of the 23d. The
Madison, Gilsey and Howard houses were
unroofed and six carriages loaded with
people were upset and wrecked. A num-
ber of tents were blown down at Ocean
Grove and an unknown colored man was
blown out to sea in boat.
/ SEVERE thunder storms prevailed
4 over a large sweep of country in every di-
rection from Chicago, Ill, on the 23d, and
! telegraphic communication was greatly
! impeded.
tr was reported on the 23d that seven
| ty-five deaths from flux had occurred at
| Byhalia, Waterford and Victoria, Miss,
three small towns adjacent to each other
and a short distance south of Memphis,
/ Tenn.
A SPOOL factory, the storehouses in
connection, also two dwellings, burned
/ down at Peticodiac, Quebec, the other
night. The loss was heavy; the insurance
small.
BY the breaking down of a pier at
/ North Point, ten miles from Baltimore,
Nd, on the night of the 23d, an excursion
party of several hundred people was pre-
cipitated into deep water and about
seventy were drowned.
THE Washburn & Moen Company
has begun suit in the United States Court
at st. Paul, Mimi, against hardware firm
for infringement of the barbed-wire patent.
AT Pittsfield, Mass, on the oath En-
erson Watson was placed on trial for man
slaughter and criminal negligence in caus-
ing the death of eight men in a collision on
the Troy & Boston Railroad, on which he
was engineer. The court ruled that the
prosecution must proceed under the COM
mon law, which necessitates that malice be
proved.
THERE was a very destructive fire at
Memphis, Tenn, on the 24th, Humber of
fine business houses being burned down.
It was thought the total loss on stock and
buildings would reach 900.
A MOB of masked men entered the
jail at Harlan, the county-seat of Shelby
County, Iowa, on the oath, and taking
| Hardy, the man who murdered Postmaster
Clingan at Polk City on the night of the
10th inst, hung him to a tree and then rid
died his body with bullets.
A FARMER named Floyd, living near
Rushville, Buchanan County, Mo, was
lynched on the night of the oath. He had
sold another farmer horse which had
been stolen from st. Joe man.
Four lives were destroyed n few
days ago by a tornado near Eaton Rapids
Mich.
A DESPERATE prize fight was broken
up at Nanticoke, Pa, the other'evening by
crowd of women who invaded the arena
brandishing knives and revolvers.
A DISPATCH from Washington on the
25th said the steamship Aud4in, with vel
low fever, had arrived at Newport News
Va, and had been ordered below TO the
quarantine station. All foreign vessels
entering the capes would be stopped il
there was sickness on board.
THE jury in the case against Orth IL
Stein, late city editor of the Kansas City
(Mo.) EreRiRg Star, who killed Georg,
Fredericzs in that city June 9, has returned
, a verdict of murder in the second degree
and fixed the punishment at twenty-fiv,
years in the PenitentiarY.
A BAD case of pension fraud wa!
nipped in the bud at Philadelphia, Pa, th
I other day. Two men and a woman secure,
s., ,TS5, but quarreled about the divide ant
were all locked up.
e A BOAT containing eight men and tw'
1 girls, all colored, who were crossing tn
S James River at Claremont, Va, the othe
d, day, upset and eight OF the party wer
:, drowned.
/, IT is reported that the late Henry L
/, Kendall, of Providence, r. l., has left 5000,
- 900 to the public library in that city.
q CAPTAIN MATHEW WEBB, the famou
, swimmer, lost his life in the Magyar
! Rapids on the path.
( WATSON, the Troy & Boston enginee
s: on trial at Pittsfield, Mass, for man
4 slaughter for carelessness resulting in
T fatal collision, was acquitted under in
n structions of the court.
g RICHARD O'CoNNoR, n Chicago (Ill
private watchman, the other night she
a and mortally wounded boy thirteen year
old because he was prowling around a wl
. termelon car. O'Connor was locked up.
8 IT is stated that under large tree i
It Ilano County, Tex, was recently found
It carriage with the skeletons of three adult
l. and two children. The belief prevaile
i that they were English tourists, and weI
It struck by lightning at least year ago.
COLONEL j. NJ. KING recently sold
. mammoth ranch near San Antonio, Tex
to an association Of British capitalists fC
- S4,OO0,OOO.
n A YOUNG man named i. A. Pond,
h. railroad hand, was found dead the oths
K night at Sandstone, Jackson County, Mich
n hung by the neck, with hands tied benin
s. him. It was called suicide, but w5
At thought by some improbable that he shOul
70 have killed himself in that position.
BRAIDwooD, H., came near havin
d another frightful mine disaster a few day
IA ago. just as a fire in the Eureka shaft WI
n extinguished, after raging three days,
"A heavy rain storm caused another hoodiT
4. of the mines and the miners barely ha
y time to escape, number being seriousl
n injured in the scramble TO get out.