The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-04-03
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

there is no doubt that the plan Of Cap: ain
Eads for deepening the harbor would prove
successful, and intimates that be could do
the work himself for much less than the
sum asked.
The death took place in Louisville,
KY, a few days ago, OF l.. l.. Warner, the
oldest merchant of prominence in the city.
He was a native Of Massachusetts, and sew
enty-six years of age. The largest church
in the place was named in his honor, be-
cause of his upright life and many acts OF
charity.
A vigilant night watchman frightened
off gang o. burglars few nights ago just
as they were about to secure $4,000 worth
of diamonds from Louisville (Ky.) jew
elry store. The thieves lett their tools and
booty behind them.
Civil Service Commissioner Thoman
will leave Washington about Apr 10, to
superintend the examinations to be held in
Texas and Arkansas. These will be the
first examinations held i'll that section of
country. Examinations will be held at
Galveston, April Is; Austin, April IS; Dal-
las, April %, and Little Rock, April %.
BY mistake four children OF Esquire
g. D. AIsoP, living near Louisville, KY,
we're given opium for powdered rhubarb
few days ago by the mosher. Two of the
children have died, and the others were not
expec: ed to live.
The police arrested a man few days
ago at DanvilIe, Va, who, while drunk on
a Midland train, confe5 5sei that he had
killed two colored men, named Sam AMI
Henry Clark, and wounded United States
Bailiff Lee Jones.
Maria johnson, colored, an inmate
of the Eastern Kentucky Lunatic Asylum
at Louisville. committed suicide at the Asy.
lum few nights ago by hanging herself
to an iron window bar, with a rope made
of her clothing, while standing on the bed.
She then stepped off the bed and cholzed
herself to death. She was admitted to the
Asylum in 1888.
At a recent sale of bloode stock at
Louisville, KY, the black mare Cathedral
sold for $4,000 to John Cline & Sons, of
RENSSELAER,, Mo; bay colt Jim Rather, for
81 800, to $. 3. Black, Lexington; T. .oneer
Boy, three years, for 81 500, to N. B. Bowles,
Saline County, Mo-; the yearling colt Brig
noH Wilkes, for 81 800, to A. G. Remy, In
dianapOlis; thoroughbred stallion Strath-
more, to L. Duvall, Richmond, Mo.
Near Briensburg, Marshall County,
KY, few days ago, J. E. McWaters,
while telling a tree, was struck by part of
the tree and so badly injured about the
head, the side of his head and skull being
crushed, that he can hardly recover. The
injured man is forty-five years old, a man
of family and an ex ,elIent and popular cit
iZen.
A passenger train on the Missouri
Pacific from Tyler to Palestine, Tex, tel
escoped a few days ayowith freight train,
smashing badly the front part of the en-
gines and cars. Minnie Hauk and company
escaped with some bruises.
A severe wind and rain storm passed
over the city of New Orleans few even
ings since. The roof of the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad depot blown off
and considerable damage done to fences,
signs and trees throughout the citv.
The funeral ser ryices in Louisville,
KY, of the late Bishop Kavanaugh were
very largely attended.
The Tennessee Handle Factory of
Chattanooga burned a few days ago.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $1,000.
Meridian, Miss, has offered $500, ,OGO as
an inducement to have the capital of the
State moved there.
Colorado County, Tex, has finished
planting corn.
John Stagel, tried recently on a
charge of deserting the mails at Garret
Station, Tex, was acquitted.
Hun reds of boxes o: orange blossoms
are now sent North from jacksonville, Fla,
to do duty as wreaths on the heads of hun
dreds of fair brides.
Handy Sing eton sh)t and killed Ca
vim Young at Chattanooga, Tenn, few
nights ago. The shooting was the result of
jealousy over a woman named Mandy
Green SenteTs.
Tie Directors of the Louisville Board
of Trade recently took action favoring the
bonded whisky bill, and appointed COM
mittee to prepare suitable resolutions for
transmission to Congress.
Strawb r.ies are becoming plentiful
in the Jacksonville (FIa.) market, utprices
still remain firm and the demand good
Fifty cents quart is what is asked.
Warner Williams. better known rs
1.-THE baby giant" died at Anita, La, few
days ago. He was child six years of age
and weighed 200 pounds
James Ha milton, the greatest short
horn stock dealer in the world, died re-
Gently at Mount Sterling, KY.
The railroad and cattle men of Texas are
endeavoring to organize a Union Stock
Yards Company at San Antonio.
Twelve hundred cases containing
4C1UOO CdllS VI by SJCLSS were SulDpeu III one
order by a Newbern, n. c., firm one day
recently.
Fifteen companies will compete in the
military drill at Houston, Tex.
Prof j. A. Smith, Superintendent of
Public Instruction in Mississippi, it is re-
ported, is to be impeached upon charge
Of intemperance.
A cyclone passed over the country
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recently. Considerable damage was done
farm property. Eye witnesses say the
storm approached with a terrible roaring
sound, bursting upon the people almost as
soon as seen. G. T. Taylor, hearing the
storm coming, called his wife, who jumped
from bed and ran in the next room, fol-
lowed by her husband. Almost Instantly
the building was levelled, and heavy
timbers pressed Taylor and wife to the
floor. Both were severely injured.
The levees have broken again.
Vicksburg, Miss, charges that every
boat from Memphis leaves a quantity of
spurious coin in that city.
Riley Horde has been arrest ed at Lex
ington, KY, at the instance of the Sheriff
of Green County, Tenn, on the charge of
numbering Mrs. Hunter, who was murdered
February "A in that county, by a gunshot
fired through a window. Horde is very
nervous, and evidently knows something
about the murder. His brother, Alfred
Horde, was arrested in Green County and
bound over to the Circuit Court on the
same charge.
The Virginia Legislature has ad-
ieurned.
A preliminary investigation near Nc
Bean, Ga, of the killing Of five negro chill