The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-06-14
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.


Visitation at Baltimore, Md, for forty-fve
years, died few days ago at the age of
eighty-five years. She was noted for her
piety, and was related to some of the most /
prominent families of the South.
Robert Smith, one of the brothers |
who killed the two Cecil brothers at Helen |
wood, Tenn, was killed the other day |
while resisting arrest.
The other night Glenroy Henson |
(colored), keeper of the city hay scales at
Petersburg, Va, was murdered by his step
son, Joseph Henson, a lunatic, who killed
his victim by striking him on the head with
a fence-paIing. Several nails penetrated
the skull.
The body of William Lenders, rich
PhiIadelphian, was found in Gulph Greek,
six miles below Hot Springs, Ark, few
DAYS ago. He had evidently wandered
away temporarily deranged and fallen in
to the creek.
An inspection of the Post-office at
Savannah, Ga, by the United States In
spector the other day developed a shortage
in the accounts of L. B. TOomer, colore9.
superintendent of the carriers delivery.
ToOmer was prominent Republican poll
tician, heads the colored Masonic order in
Georgia, is Adjutant-GeneraI of the First
| in the Episcopal colored Church in Savan-
nah.
G. F. Wing, the young lawyer of
/ Princeton, KY, who killed City Marshall
/ Conger, was indicted by the Grand Jury for
murder a few days ago. An attempt at
his rescue was feared and the guards
around the jail were doubled.
De Bardeleben, the great iron master
! Of in Ala has recently DUR
chased $4,000 worth of iron-Ore lands in
the vicinity of Gadsden.
At Memphis, Tenn, the other after
noon, verdict of guilty of murder in the
first degree was rendered against Alexan-
der Hill, a negro, who, on February 22,shot
| and killed Daniel Townsend and his wife,
| Minerva Townsend.
The aggregate of gifts to the Univer-
sity of Virginia, since 1867, in connection
with the Leander Mccormick Observatory,
amounts to $143, 900.
The mystery of the murder of Michael
Defour and his wife near Atlanta, Ga, in
1879 was explained the other day by the ar
rest of man named Johnson, who was en-
ployed as a gardener by Defour, and who
has confessed that he and two other men
named Brown and Slovenger committed
the deed for the purpose of securing the
money the couple were supposed to pos
sess.
A ten-year-old girl, of Dennison, La,
studied night and day to excel in her class.
Suddenly her memory left her recently,
and now she is an idiot.
Hendersonville, Sumner County,
Tenn, it is said will ship this season over
thirty thousand barrels of early potatoes.
At Vicksburg, Miss, Ellen johnson
III. -.
istered by DR.. J. c. Mcconnell, dentist, g
few days ago. Both were colored. Ellen
went from Ben Lomond Landing to Vicks'
burg to have tooth pulled.
The family of John Newman, con-
sisting of himself, wife and child, living il
Galveston, Tex, were poisoned by canned
beef recently, and were only saved from
death bv the most unremitting care of two
physicians.
There is a peach orchard near Wes
Point, Miss, containing seven hundred
acres.
, John Mahoney was taken to Dallas
, Tex, from Hutchins recently and placed
in Jail, charged with insanity. He refused
to talk or eat, and had not broken his fas
for eight days.
Mrs Haynes, of Isle Piquant, lberi;
Parish, La, was killed by lightning latel!
while in the act of throwing clothes over
wire line fastened to tress.
Granville W. Burke, who before tn
war was one of the most notorious coun
terfeiters, without warning shot dead Hen
rv Madison, ferryman of the Suwanee Riv
er, at Branford, Fla, few days ago.
During the prevalence of sever
storm at Whites Station, nine miles cas-
of Memphis, Tenn, the other day, the wifi
t of Luke Nance, a colored blacksmith, wa
, struck and killed by lightning. She wa
5 ironing clothes at the time, when the elet
tric current struck the chimney and othe1
. wise shattered the dwelling. At Crysta
q Springs, Miss, Mrs. Mayfield's store wa
4 struck and Miss Clara Cook was killed. Sh
was surrounded by several young ladie
;, none of whom were hurt.
Sheriff Maddox arrested three horse
9 thieves at Fort Worth, Tex, the other da
;. who came from Red River County. J.
Grimes, one of them, had 5000 in none.
4 The party had four fine horses.
The Hope (Ark.) immigration Assc
i citation has fled articles of incorporate
in the office of the Secretary of State. L
object is to aid, procure and protect imm
- grants within the State of Arkansas. III
o trustees are: w. T. Foster, T. M. Hur
: phrevs, T. c. Black, J. T. Writ, G. 1
Bridewell, J. F. Hartin and B. F. Kenned
y The Commissioners appointed to Il
= cate Lunatic Asylum in North Texas hi
l. reported the purchase of 642 acres of goC
ground at Terrell, Kaufman County, pa
q ing $3.50 per acre. On the grounds is
le pond and springs, and water power wi
be plenty by sinking wells for a large
n populated asylum. A reservoir will
rt necessary, and sewerage by force pump
n' A difficulty occurred the other eve
i ing at lockwood, Tenn, between GeorI
: Hathaway, an extensive dealer in catt
u and horses, and John B. Baker, in whi'
3 Hathaway received injuries that results
re in his death next morning. The cause
y the trouble was unknown. Baker is a mel
re Der Of one Of the best families in Rockwoo
Hathaway formerly lived at SmithviL
10 Tenn.
be Georgians are eating watermelons.
- Samuel J. Connor, Of st. Michae.
- Talbot County, Nd, was recently fined 81
he for selling "corn beer" which ''lOoked Il
whisky, saelled like whisky, and tast
- Ike whisky, but was not whisky"
or Colonel Buckner II. Payne, who 2
2, pears to have combined in himself the
tributes Of scholar, seer, and sophist, dt
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