The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-25
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

County murderers, The first one is a col |
ored man named Hills, who chopped a |
ballroom rival to death. The second one |
is Jerry Marshal, who beat three-y ear
old child to death.
For some time past rumors have been in
circulation regarding w. J. Duncan, Cash |
ier of.the Louisville (Ky.) Banking Com
pany, being short in his accounts about
$4,000. Duncan resigned a few days ago.
The Directors met and make public the
statement that Duncan does not owe the
bank anything. He is said to have made
Overdrafts with the full knowledge of the
bank, for which he settled in full.
A young man named Robert Cook, ma
chinist, while out hunting near Vancluse,
S. c., few days since accidentally shot
and killed himself. 1t appears that the
ramrod had become fastened IN the barrel,
and in attempting to draw it the load was
discharged, the ramroad entering the left
breast, passing through his heart and COM
ing out at the shoulder, completely drilling
the young man, who died instantly.
Two conYicts were brutally beaten and
killed at the Louisville (Ky.) waterworks
reservoir few days ago by guards.
Their names are Jim Smith, colored, from
Hardin County, and John O'Brien from
McCracken. Smith, it was claimed died
from sunstroke, and O'Brien from a whip
Augusta, Ga, is considerably exercised
over the suspension of the Enterprise Cot
ton Mill, by which 40 operatives are
thrown out of employment. Rumors of an
assignment and of the formation of a syn
dicate of other mills to keep the Enter
prise in motion current. President
Jackson declares that cotton goods can
not be manufactured profitably at present
prices of cotton, but hopes arrangements
will be made to resume soon. Other mills
may suspend if the market does not soon
improve.
A few evenings since while Thomas
| Grifiths, an empIoye of the South Trede
| gar Nail Works at Chattanooga, Tenn,
was showing a red-hot iron bar, several
feet long, his hand slipped and he fell
| against the point of the bar, which passed
through his abdomen, entering the cavity.
His terrible screams brought immediate
assistance. His body, where the red hot
bar entered, was terribly charred and
torn. He lived but few hours.
Fire destroyed $4,000 worth of poplar
and walnut lumber belonging to the In
diana Lumber Company, at their yards in
| Nashville, Tenn, few days ago. Total
insurance, S22,500.
Joseph McGee, of Anderson, S. c.,
nineteen years of age, was shot and in
stantly killed day or two ago. He
had discharged one barrel of his gun, and
having twice attempted to discharge the
other barrel without success, he sat down
on the door step to reload the empty bar
rel, and while so doing, by some unac.
countable accident the loaded barrel,
which had previously resisted the efforts
to discharge it, was fired off, and the
tire charge tore through the lungs of Nc
Gee, killing him almost instantly.
/ fri nj int OFaY7
burg County, S. c., few days ago. The
children of Mr.. Brown Shuler were alone
in the dwelling. One of the little boys
took single-barreled gun from its place,
and straddIing it, jumped around the room
playing horse. Suddenly the gun was dis
charged, killing one child instantly and
mortally wounding another.
Julius Thomson, VIII Dixon and Will
Mathis, coIored, of Abbeville County, S.
c., recently comprised a hunting party.
They had with them old gun which had
been left about the yard for the children to
play with. Just as these old guns gener-
ally do, this old one went off accidentally,
while in the hands of Thomson, depositing
TIE load of shot in Dixon's mouth, tearing
away his tongue and knocking him down.
The wound was no doubt of fatal char
acter.
At Abbott Station, Tex, few days ago,
two stock men fought duel to the death
with bowie knives and dirks.
The Danner Lead and Lumber Company
of Mobile, Ala, has asked indefinite ex-
tension.
A. F. Roberts, proprietor of Cameron
Mills, Alexandria, Va, was kill ed few
days ago by passing train.
Payne and Wiley, the Louisville commits.
sion merchants who were indicted, are re-
ported safe in Canada.
There is enough water power in Georgia
to supply ten thousand times the number
of mills and factories now operated in that
State.
By the explosion of boiler in a Cotton
Compress establishment of Eufala, Ala, a
few days ago, four men wero killed, and
the building burned, with 400 bales Of cot
ton.
At Cangeies, Ca, few days ago Tom
Masden desecrated graves in a cemetery,
burned a church and tried to fire the town.
He was wounded by citizens, but not seri-
ously,
The Great Eastern will sail October Is,
bringing from Europe Government and
individual exhibits free to the Worlds Ex-
position at New Orleans.
} Henry johnson, alias Yellow Henry,
who committed brutal assault on little
girl in Brazos County, Tex, was riddled
Clay.
job Gunter, one of the wealthiest stock
men in Texas, shot and killed Dan Thomp-
son, proprietor of a saloon at Sherman, a
few days ago. The latter, it seems, had
threated to shot Gunter, who armed him
self and went cunning for Thompson.
Major Joseph e. Dwyer, one of the
most prominent Democrats in Texas, died
a few days ago of congestion of the brain
at the age of forty EIGHT. He leaves con-
siderable property to a widow and four
children. He had long exercised a con-
trolling influence in local politics, and was
a member of the National Notification
Committee for TiIden and Hendricks,
Hancock and English, and Cleveland and
Hendricks.
New Orleans is booming.
Fire a few evenings since destroyed the
stable cf Smith & Merrill, at Lexington
KY, and eleven horses and two mules. Loss
IS, 500; loss on stable, $4,000; fully in
sured. The flames spread to a stable in
the Fair Grounds, which was destroyed
Loss, $500; fully insured.
-Four negroes, Tobe Cross, BurrelI Scrog.
gins, Aaron Jackson and Tilman Greer
have been arrested at Albany, Ga, sus
pected of wrecking the special train on
the night of August oath, going from Al
bany 60 Dawson to suppress a Threatened
riot. The evidence is thought sufficiently
strong to convict.
Pretty gloves~Are made in Paris from
the skins of young Florida aIligators.
A Joint stock company has been organ
lied in Chattanooga, Tenn, for operating
the recently discovered gold mines in the
northern portion of Georgia. Expert,
have recently visited these mines, anC
pronounce them rich, and an English com