The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-02-22
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.


! j. nj. Miller, Gonzales, Presidents; William
! North, Austin; c. L. Carter, PaIo Pinto;
/ Henry Jones, Corsicana, Vice Presidents;
/ Geo. Loving, Fort Worth, Secretary; J. NJ.
/ Day, Austin, Treasurer. y constitution and
! bylaws were adopted fixing Austin as the
domiciIe Of the association, and the time OF
meeting the first Tuesday in January OF
each year.
Two men named Laubert and Simp-
son, who were suspected OF being the same
parties who robbed the Birmingham, Ala,
Post office recently, were arrested in Nash
vile, Tenn, the other day. They, had
! complete set Of burglars tools in their pos
session.
A fifteen-year- old boy named Hawkes.,
a mail carrier in Wythe County, Va, was
| arrested few days ago on a charge of steal
ing letters. f
James johnson and Andrew jenkins
were killed by the derafment of material
! train near Petersburg, Va, a few days ago.
A physician who had kept a register
Of the doctors who have died in Texas dur
ing the year 1882, as furnished by newspa-
pers, reported thirty-one deaths. OF this
| number three were assassinated, five sui
| cided, while the.remainder died OF common
| complaints.
party of South Carolina moonshin.
ers were captured by revenue officers in
the Saluda Mountains, few days ago. Four
/ distilleries were raided, two OF which were
captured and destroyed, along with about
1900 gallons OF beer and 100 gallons of whis-
ky. Jack GOsnel was captured, as were his
son, WELDON Gosnel, James Brown, Dock
! TTummel and John Cox.
Ex-Judge William Lewis. a noted
character of State celebrity as politician,
lecturer and author. died in the City Hos
pital at Dallas, Tex, a few days ago,
| whittier he was removed from a miserable
hOvei. He was a friend Of Sam Houston,
veteran of the war of Texas independence,
and had just completed life of General
! Houston when he died.
A shooting affray occurred near Pilot
Rock, fifteen miles northeast of Hopkins
vile, KY, the other day, between Ed Lacy
and his sons Wallace and WoodsOn on one
side and ROmee Martin and his son Isaac
! on the other. Ed Lacy was knocked on the
head and badly hurt, Romele Martin
| was shot and killed and his son was NOR
tally wounded, it was said by WOodson
! Lacy, who escaped and was still at large.
James Ballew lost his wife and two
! children in Arkansas from smallpox He
! then returned to his former home near
| GreenvlIe, 5. c., since which time seven OF
| the family had been stricken with the dis
! ease. Great excitement prevailed in the
| surrounding country the other day, and 1t
was feared the disease would spread, as
many people had been in contact with it,
| The State Treasurer of Texas the
! other day refused to receive 1920, go as full
! payment on 1 ,002 surveys of land. He re-
fused on the grounds that the lands applied
for were Withdrawn by law passed the Sd
| inst, Withdrawing school lands from the
market. The tender was fOr lands claimed
under he celebrated Gibson will.
L. M. Frazer was drunk and living OF
MiIlard Irwin's doorstep at Louisville, KY,
the other night. The latter ordered him
away, and during fight which ensued II
wins throat was cut. 1t was thought he
would die. Frazer was jailed
Governor McEnery suspended w. w.
Bradley, Sheriff and ex-officio State and
Parish Tax Collector, East Carroll Parish,
La, a few days ago, it having been charged
that ne was a defauIter for Sc, 900. Bradley
would be prosecuted.
Burglars entered the store of B. Rode.
ker at Austin, Tex, recently and made an
effort to open the safe, but it resisted Fail
ing to get into the safe they stole some ra-
zors, hatchets, etc., and set fire to the build
ing. The fire was extinguished without
much damage. The thieves escaped.
At Uvalde, Tex, the other day, while
prisoners in the Jail were taking their morn
ing exercise within the wall surrounding
the cells, the Jajler went to an adjacent sa-
loon for a match and on returning all had
escaped.
A fifteen-year-Old boy named James
Jarvis, while telling trees near Charleston,
w. Va, the other day, was crushed to death
by tree falling on him, mangIing his body
in a frightful manner.
Captain Rafe Moss, the oldest pilot on
the Cumberland River, died at his home, a
few miles above Smithland, Ky, the other
day. He began plotting on the first TalIey-
rand, Captain Jake Hunter, and had been
on the river ever since.
The City Hospital at Austin, Tex,
was totally destroyed by fire a few days ago
caused by the explosion OF a lamp. A child
OF the hospital cook was burned to death,
and the mother seriously injured in attempt.
ing to save it.
A petition has been presented to the
County Court Of Greene County, Tex, bv !
the citizens OF Paragould asking that the |
place be Incorporated.
What was said to be an incendiary
fire destroyed Robert JohnsOn's handle |
factory at Dalton, Ga, the other day, caus-
ing loss of $50, 900; insurance, $1,000.
DR.. Hugh BrOwnlee, formerly of !
Illinois, was convicted of theft in the Dis |
trict Court at Mckinney, Tex, the other |
day and sentenced to five years. imprisOn- |
ment. He pleaded kleptomania, but his |
plea had no weight with the jury.
The house of J. c. Myrick, of Helena,
Ark, was closed the other day with 49,. 900 /
of attachments upon it. The assets of the
house were given in at about S45, 900. 1t |
was one OF the leading houses Of the city.
At Chattanooga, Tenn, the other
evening, Tom Virgins, coored, cut his
wife's throat and then cut his own. JeaI-
ousy caused the deed. Both were thought
to be dying.
Arkansas has over 900 blind persons.
Three cousins, named Hightower, in
Greenville County, 5. c., fought a triangu-
lar duel with axes the other day, in which
one received a cash in the left side six inches
lopg, through which the left lung could be
seen. He would die. Another had cash
in the back.
At Louisville, Ky, Henry Peck, a
German aged fifty-two years, whose mind
had been in a morbid condition for some !
time, the other night drank a ladle full Of
doubly concentrated lye, it was said with
suicidal intent, and died some hours after
ward in horrible agonies.
A Texas man intends to corral 10000
antelope and ship them alive to St. Louis.
Governor Bate stated a few days ago
that the Treasury of Tennessee was COM
paratively empty, and recommended that
the contingent debt be settled at fifty cents
on the dollar. to bear three per cent. in