The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-05-17
SOUTHERN GLEANIEGS.


worth eight dollars acre two years ago,
are now selling for twenty-five dollars.
PrestOnburg, in Floyd County, al
though one of the oldest towns in Ken
lucky, has never had church.
A difficulty which grew nut of 8 re-
cent quarrel between Frank Godfrey and
David J. Baird, farmers living few miles |
west of Harrodsburg, KY, was settled the
other day by Godfrey stabbing Baird, iu-
/ dieting mortal wound.
| Rugby, Tenn, after all its troubles |
i and drawbacks, now shows unmistakable |
signs Of a steady and sound growth. 1t is |
said to be filing up with people who are !
both willing and able to work
While party of ladies and gentle
men were shooting at mark, near Tus-
cumbia, Ala, the-other day, cry for help
was heard on the opposite side of cedar
grove. and, rushing to the spot, the young
| men discovered that a stray shot had hit
and mortally wounded Leroy Downs aged
seventy years.
At late meeting of the BdatviEsE Re
gents of the Texas State University, at
Austin, Prof. R. L. Dabney, of Hampden-
Sydney College, Virginia, was elected to
the chair of Mental and Moral Philosophy.
The sum of $4,000 was voted for procuring
chemical and philosophical apparatus, and
steps were taken looking to the completion
of the University buildings in time for the
opening session in September.
1t was reported the other day that
the cattle in certain sections in West Texas
were affected with strange disease which
| resembled, and was called, hydrophobla,
and was proving very fatal
NJ. Franklin, Wholesale notions, At
Ianta Ca, made an assignment the other
day, with liabilities of 10000; assets NOM
inSIIy $4,000. Fraud was alleged and
receiver was appointed.
The Wheaton House, at Henderson,
Tex, with its entire contents, was destroyed
by fire the other night. Incendiarism was
suspected.
At the annual session of the Georgia
l State Sunday-school Association, at Au-
: gusta the other day, President Shepard an
nounced that Mont Eagle, Tenn, had been
2 selected for the Southern Chatauqua. Re
b ports from delegates showed an increase IN
p Sundav-school work and number of schol-
u ars The Convention represents about 1OO,-
600 scholars. The next meeting will be
d held at Columbus.
e Some twenty thousand people are e2-
g pected to attend the Lee memorial exer-
cises at Lexington, Va, in June.
l. A peculiar case of poisoning occurred
Is at Stony Greek, about five miles from
0. Frankfort, KY, the other day. William
O. Marshall, a Young unmarried farmer, had
ie been afflicted for a long time with boils
,r and was recommended to use a certain kind
Is of root as a remedy. The other morning
r while blowing he turned up root that an
swered the description, and ate freely of it
n He was shortly after taken sick, and re
:, turning to the house soon died in convul
sions The root was what is known as the
IF poisonous hemlock.
of The Deputy Collector of Interna
n Revenue at Frankfort, KY, reports that hi
has collected $3.50, ,63S.6O on whisky takel
o- out of bond from February 20, 1882, to Apri
s. 80, 1888.
IN Comanches have recently been com
mitting depredations upon stOck-growers il
ld Garza County, Tex.
T. j. T. Van Slyck, of Texas, was latel.
i'll at Albuquerque, N. NJ, making arrange
he ments with the Albuquerque Bridge Com
he pany for the passage of 1000 sheep he ha
lust bought in Arizona and was preparin
orc to drive into Graham County, Tex Th
k, sheep cost him seventy-fve cents apiece, o
I'm So, 900 for the whole lot.
ed A party of masked men lynched
Young negro at Hanson, Hopkins County
he Ky., the other night for an assault on Mrs
- w B. Haywood, wife of prominent farm
in er living near that place.
to Nick Elliphits, of Marion County
lor Ark. was found dead in the woods near h
on place the other day, whittier he had gone
yia look up his stock, and examination Shove
ON that he had been kicked in the forehead b
on. mule.
7as A section-hand came so near bein
run over by an engine that his hair was CT
off by the wheels at Bryan, Tex, fe
days ago.
There has been considerable Gavin
eA- in the banks of the Mississippi River
J.' Greenville, Miss, lately. Island No.
which has hitherto acted as kind of brea
he water to the town, is almost entlreI
lad washed away. Owners of property on ii
ain river front are becoming seriously alarme
the The Vicksburg (NIiss.) Grand Jul
le" the other day returned four indictmen
against Charles Lehman, Clerk of the Ci
Id cult Court, charging forgery in issuing W
ion ness certificates. Lehman was remov'
rue and arrested, and gave bail in 5000.
Che If is related of a citizen of GeOrg
that he was born in Early County, W
10 raised in Calhoun County, and now lives
, lno the age of ffty-fve in Clay County, a.
'Uh' vet has always lived in the house he w
en- born in. The counties have moved" i
"hI he.
nal In a fracas at a colored ball sever
miles above Shreveport, IN boSSleT IaTlS
ar La. the other night two negroes were sh
ma, one of them, named Jap Hill, it was 81
pre- posed mortally. The attacking party we
six or eight strange negroes, who fired II
the the ballroom.
i to The wife of a Mr.. higgins, living
orr tor+ 4;stapca fr7n Cambridge. Nd, 1
NED ,aror+11- diad a few davs ago. and was l,
re- out for burial. In the evening, short VIII
before night, she was observed to moves
de- actually got up and talked. 1t was not lol
'eek however, before she again became unc
we're scious and soon after died.
Hot Springs, Ark, wants library
ghJ Ella Arnold, an actress in the HOr
H. Shoe variety theater at Waco, Tex, d
d suddenly the other morning of deliri
OF tremens. Her father, Dick Parker, is
in proprietor of the American theater, n
s of York. Her husband, Billy Devere, is m
aeer Of Slensby's theater, Milwaukee.
ado Six hundred pounds of silver ore W
mop shipped from Bolton, Tex, to New Y
uan the other day via Galveston and the n
we're lory line. 1t was supposed some par
re- had discovered rich vein of silver in
vicinity of Bolton, but its whereabouts
Mn matter of mystery.
lIth Near Charlottesville, Va, a Jer
"a red boar and sow sold recently for S1S9
i,,,.,- The first shipment of Charlest
sT-e Is. C.) truck to the West by the Aus
refrigerator-car took place few days
+bo the car leaving Charleston on the west'
- bound train of the South Carolina Rally
in the charge of the agent of the cOmpa