The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-09-06
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

shelter under tree in a storm. Lightning
killed the mother and elder child, but the
babe was found clinging to the arms Of its
lifeless parent.
Six prisoners escaped from the jail at
Lake Village, Chicot County, Ark, few
nights ago. Three were murderers, two
were charged with grand larceny and the
sixthwas a burglar from Mississippi. False
keys did the business.
DR.. Abrahams, prominent physician
and ex-COnfederate surgeon, was shot and
probably mortaIly wounded by a negro
named Clark in an affray recently, at
Houston, Tex, in which both parties fired
several shots. The negro claims to have
been the victim of a system of petty perse-
cutions. The doctor alleged that Clark
looked through a window at Mrs.
Abrahams while making her toilet.
A. M. Sydes, a negro, shot and dam
gerously wounded his father, D. Sydes, a.
few days ago at Portsmouth, Va. He
claimed that his father deserted and aban.
doned his mother.
James Gouldman, ex-member of the
Fire Department of Lynchburg, Va,
arrested few days ago, charged with fir
ing the Norvell House stables.
John BOwdin. a cOlored railroad
railroad track near ShelbyvilIe, Tenn, a
few days ago, and was run over and killed
by switch engine.
Henry Jones was hanged at Raleigh,
N. c., few days since for the murder of
Deputy Sheriff Avis II. Blake last year.
The execution was private. Jones made
profession of religion, and was remarkably
self-possessed before the execution and on
the gallows. Death ensued in twenty min
utes from strangulation. Jones was twen-
ty-three years old, and leaves widow and
infant.
O'Brien's circus exhibited at La
grange, KY, August II, and while there
Ben Alexander, a colored attache, was ar
rested for carrying concealed weapons. In
default of the fine inflicted he was sent to
Jail, where he remained until few days
since, when, getting hold of a rope by
some means, he hanged himself. When
discovered he was dead.
The Texas & st. Louis south-bound
passenger a few nights ago jumped the
track near Waco, Tex, and the whole
train, engine and all, landed at the bottom
of fifteen foot embankment, wheels up.
All lights were put out. The passengers
grouped their way out of the windows as
best they could. Strangely, no one was
fatally injured.
A report recently gained currency
that several Revenue Officers in the upper
part of South Carolina had been SYSTEM
atically swindling the Government for
some time. 1t is charged that the officers
in question lured persons to put up old stills
in remote places and then captured the ma
terialin the night time and obtained the Gov
ernment reward of fifty dollars for each
seizure. The same material was then put up
in another part and seized again. 1t is al
legged only a few stills captured in the
mountains of South Carolina have really
been used for illicit distilling. An investi-
cation had been ordered.
District Attorney Gutheridge, for the
Eastern District of Texas, handed in his
immediate resignation a few days since to
Special Agent Wiegand, who had been in
vestigating the Hough assassination and
other matters in that district.
The immense herds of cattle in the
Panhandle in the southwestern portion Of
Texas had been suffering terribly from the
drought. The grass had been completely
parched and the streams dried up. Thou
sands of cattle had died, and the stock-rais-
ers were driving their herds to the north
and west as rapidly possible, in.order to
save them.
The growing cotton crop throughout
| Shelby County, Tenn, had been benefited
by recent rains, and the outlook was more
promising than a few weeks ago. With fa-
vorable conditions the yield in that imme-
diate section would average within twelve
and half per cent. of last year.
A comprehensive and complete re-
port, through correspondents, of the cotton
crop of the Nashville District, including
Middle Tennessee and a portion of West
Tennessee and North Alabama, has been
received. Seventy per cent. report crops
better than at the same date last year,
twenty-three per cent. as good and seven
per cent. worse. Last year the crop of Mid
die Tennessee was the poorest for many
years. The reduction of acreage this year
is twelve and-a half per cent, but with fa-
vorable weather the prospects looked fair
for larger aggregate yield in the Nash
vile District over the crop of last year.
Henry Hertel and his wife were
found murdered in their store at Atlanta,
Ca, a few mornings ago. The crime was
committed for robbery.
G. B. Clifford, engineer on the Louis
vile s. Nashville Railroad, was fatally
| hurt few days since in a collision at Leb-
| aIuDn, KY.
William Middleton, a prominent citi-
| zen of Lower Carolina, died in Greenville,
| s. c., aged seventy-five years. He was
| son of Henry Middleton, who was Governor
/ of the State in 1910 and 1912, and Minister
| to Russia from 1920 to 1881, grandson Of
Arthur Middleton, who was a Representa-
tive in the first Congress and signer of the
/ Declaration of Independence, and a brother
| Of the late Admiral Middleton, U. S. N.
Two Mexicans attempted to rob Pat
/ Kinney, the owner of coal mine eighteen
miles from San Antonio, Tex, while he
was asleep under wagon. Kinney being
aroused fired on them. The robbers fed,
| one falling not far away. The wounded
i man was arrested. The recent robbery of
/ a jeweler named Meechan excited much
/ interest, and the shot made by Kinney may
/ solve the mystery surrounding it.
! Ex-Governor Pease, of Texas, is dead.
bundle of grasses and grains meas
uring over ten feet in height was shipped
/ to the Louisville Commission from Fort
Smith, Ark, a few days ago, and one stalk
/ of millet, taller than all the rest, was
| planted on upland June 10th by John W,
1 Lewis.
Joseph Clarke, a Nelson County (Ky.)
/ farmer, while returning to his home from