The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-13


Mrs. Mary A. Green, wealthy, &c
centric aged lady, living alone in Louisville,
KY, was burned to death few nights ago.
Her clothing was ignited by a candle, it is
supposed, as no one was in the house at the
time. The clothing was burned off her
limbs. Her head was burned so that the
bones were laid bare. When found she was
seated in a chair, the room showing evi-
dence of a severe struggle against her ter
rible fate.
family of seven persons were pois-
oned at Louisville, KY, recently, by eating
food in which some drug had been placed.
There is a good rush of tourists to
Florida. Five hundred people are said to
arrive daily at Jacksonville.
The nomination of Hon. J. G. Car
Isle as Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives, was made the occasion of an
impromptu celebration when the news was
received at his home in Covington, KY.
The wife of E. T. johnson, a special
pension examiner for the district of Ten
nessee, killed herself with revolver in
indianapolis, few days ago, because her
husband remained out all night. She was
a woman of rare beauty and high culture,
but is known to have been insane.
The new Produce Exchange at New
Orleans has been formally dedicated.
A. A. Nicholson, in jail at Fort Worth,
Tex, accused of cattle-stealing, has con-
fessed, showing the depredations of his
gang to have been on an extensive scale.
A reward of $500 has been offered
for the arrest of any member of the mob
who recently hung the Bailey brothers in
Comanche County, Tex.
A negro man, accused of the murder
and robbery of J. R. Light, near Grand
Gulf, Miss, recently, was taken to Port
Gibson and jailed. He narrowly escaped
lynching
L. b. Harris, a stOck-raiser and bank
er of Tom Green County, Tex, informed
the Governor recently that twenty miles of
his fence had been destroyed by fence-cut-
ters, and that 10000 posts and two car loads
of wire were burned, with hay and other
property.
AN engine on the L. & N. Railroad
exploded few days ago at Montgomery.
Ala, killing a man named Allen. The en-
gineer was fatally scalded and the fireman
seriously injured.
The City Council of Galveston, Tex,
has appropriated $4,000 to check the en-
croachment of the Gulf of Mexico upon
the shores of the harbor.
Sheriff Boyd, of johnson, County,
Tex, recently lodged Dock Martin, of Gle
burne, in the Dallas County jail for safe
keeping. The prisoner had a misunder-
standing with Robert Haley a few days
before, and beat him to death with an ice
pick. It is claimed the killing was brutally
murderous.
Simon Wilson has been convicted in
the Dallas CTex.) District Court of murder
ing Anderson Thomas, and has been SEN
fenced to fifteen years in the Penitentiary.
He was convicted at former term of the
court and sentenced to sixty-seven years,
but was granted new trial by the Court
Of Appeals.
John Trebane, a coIored man in fair
circumstances in Shelby County, Tenn,
has been sentenced to one years imprison-
ment in the County Jail for brutal treat
ment of his daughter, eighteen years old.
The offense, as established by evidence,
was taking her into an clubhouse, compell-
ing her to divest herself of every garment,
tying her thumbs together, throwing the
cord over a beam, raising her to her tip
toes and beating her with a bull whip,
every stroke of which lacerated her body,
for over one hour. The deed was done at
four O'Clock in the morning, and the cries
and shrieks of tho girI aroused the neigh
bors living some distance away, who went
to the house and compelled the black fiend
to desist, otherwise it is believed he would
have beaten her to death.
The tramps are southwark flying.
General Butts, Receiver of the Missis-
/ sippi Valley Bank, at Vicksburg, has fur
nished a statement OF the condition of the
bank. The assets in cash, bills receivable.
overdrafts and real estate are about $40,
! 600. Liabilities due depositors on demand
savings department, protested exchange
returned, about S915, 900. There are offsets
and claims against overdrafts and bills re.
/ ceivable which W i'll materially decrease the
/ amount of assets.
Mrs. Mary A. Miller, Of New Orleans,
has been refused license as master Of q
! steamboat,