The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-10-18
SOUTHERN GLEANINGs.

and Pride, Barton County, have been dis
continued. The name of Brady Springs,
Ellsworth County, has been changed to
Winston, and that of Marshall, Sedgwick
County, to Cheney.
Texas audiences are delighted with
lectures by a seven-year-old girl named
Jennie Scott.
A child born in Savannah, Ga, re-
| Gently weighed one pound and a quarter
and is nine inches long. 1t is in very good
health, apparently.
Three glass Jars, containing a small
child, human heart, and piece of human
flesh, were found in the suburbs of Knox
vile, Tenn, recently.
James A. Bradford, prominent eiti-
zen of Columbus, Ca, died a few days
since from the effect of poison taken by
mistake.
William Barnes, aged seventy-three,
one of the publishers of the Milledgeville
(Ga.) Recorder, committed suicide a few
days ago.
The house of Tenny Henderson in
the suburbs of Duck Hill, Miss, burned
few days ago and his two children were
cremated.
Elias Tilman, the colored Captain of
the militia company organized by Gregory
at the beginning of the race disturbances at
Marshall, Tex, had been found in the south
ern part of Harrison County with his body
riddled with bullets.
The cotton crop of the Memphis dis
trict is estimated to fall 80 per cent. short.
Mrs. Margaret Humphrey, of Gym
thiana, KY, committed suicide by hanging
few days ago.
The Sheriff of Carter County, KY,
having applied to Governor Knott for a
company of militia to aid in preserving or
der at the hanging of Ellis Craft, October
II, the latter refused to give the order, say
ing it was the duty of the Sheriff to use the
means within his power by summoning a
posse if necessary. and by arresting and
prosecuting any who refused to obey his
orders.
A colored mechanic named Mack
| Sterrett, living north of Marshall, Tex, at
tempted suicide few days ago by hanging,
but as he swung off the rope broke and he
fell to the ground, when, snatching re-
volver out of his pocket, he sent ball
| crashing through his brain, killing himself
| instantly.
Up to Oct. Sd there had been but one
rain in Yazoo County, Miss, since last
spring.
The Board appointed to fund the
| bonded indebtedness of Tennessee under
! the act passed by the last session of the
Legislature, have about concluded their
work, having funded only twenty sixth
| part of the debt The bondholders have not
sent in their bonds to the extent that was
anticipated by the Legislature.
Col. Bryan H. Evers, of London,
England, was in Vicksburg, Miss, recent
| ly. Col. Evers is largely interested is
lands in the Yazoo Delta, having pur-
chased some 100000 acres of land, which
| Col. Evers stated would be developed at an
early day. 1t is contemplated to establish
! English colonies on the land.
The jury in the case of w. M. Albrit-
| ton, on trial at the Criminal Court of Mem
phis, Tenn, for torturing his step-son by
roasting him In front of a fire last Decem-
| ber, returned a verdict of guilty of assault
and battery, and assessed a fine of 5000,
leaving Judge Greer the fixing of the pen
! atty in the York House.
A negro working on a Georgia rail-
road is twenty-five years old, weighs 225
| pounds and measures seven feet three and
| one-half inches high.
An ear of corn containing 1,1O0 we'll
matured grains was grown in the Crosse
! Tete, La, this season.
A negro bigamist escaped from Gus
| tOdy few days ago at Marshall, Tex, and
| got away from pack of hounds put on his
| trail, as the ground was too dry to hold the
scent.
| Congressman Reagan. of Texas, was
presented at a banquet recently with a
| jeweled Masonic badge by the Palestine
| Commandery.
| James Williams, a colOred man, was
/ killed by flying block of wood in a bucket
factory at Nashville, Tenn, few days
! since.
There is promise of large attend
ance at the coming Convention of Cotton
Planters at Vicksburg, Miss. Invitations
! have been sent throughout all the cotton
growing States.
Intense excitement prevailed among
Catholics at Washington, Ga, because of
malicious injury and defilement of the
Catholic Church edifice atthat place.
The County Attorney of Dallas, Tex,
has announced his intention to put stop TO
gambling in that city.
The New Orleans City Council has
Professionally appropriated 100000 in aid
of a Worlds Industrial and Cotton Centen-
NAL Exposition.
Con Mahoney, excavating in sand
bank at Dallas, Tex, few days ago, was
crushed to death.
In Austin, Tex, recently Henry
Pfaunkerphon, German Alderman, and
French brickmason named Jette concluded
an ancient grudge by shooting each other
fatally.
The new retail dry-goods establish
ment of B. Lowenstein & Brother, in Mem
ph;s, Tenn, was totally destroyed by fire
few days ago. Loss 900; only par
TALLY covered by insurance.
1t is stated that the drought in the
cotton States is more severe than since 1851,
no rain of any onsequence having fallen
for three months.
A state of war exists in Limestone
County, Tex, where cattle-raisers have lost
$50, 900 worth of wire fences through the
efforts of malicious'persons.
Fences are not fashionable in Georgia
James Freeman met with peculiar
accident recently at Natchez, Miss, that
caused his death. He was riding spirited
horse and suddenly reined him up, throw
ing the animal backwards. The horse fell
on Freeman, the pommel Of the saddls
striking the man in the breast, crushing
him to death.