The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-06-12
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

A contract has been made for putting
the capitol at Tallahassee, Florida, in
thorough repair. The basement viii be
paved with marble or fag-stone, and
everything put in 1rst-class order and re-
painted.
Two young ladies of Sardis, Miss, had
lots of fun one day recently. They
dressed themselves up in the guise of
beggars and scooped the town for three
dollars in cash and something to eat and
drink.
There were ,12O bales of leaf tobacco
and 3,054 gallons Of wine imported into
Key West, Fla, from Havana last
month.
A sport of Vicksburg, Miss, Cffers to
bet $3.50 that a gigantic Vicksburg me-
gro can whip either Sullivan or Ryan.
John Wolf, son of the Circuit Court
Clerk of Scott Courty, KY, has been SEN
fenced to five years. Imprisonment for for
gerry on the Georgetown Bank? Fifteen
similar indictments are pending against
him.
Five South Carolina counties are two
thirds good pine, but have no railroads.
The wholesale grocer and liquor house OF
L. Boyer & Co. at Mobile, Ala, burned a
few nights ago. Loss about $4,000; in
sured for 1000.
H. T. Duncan, editor of a daily newspa
per at Lexington, KY, has been fined 5000
for malicious libel because his journal pub
lished the card of a citizen casting refiec-
tions on the Judge of the Circuit Court.
Duncan was away from home when the
card was issued.
The commencement exercises of the
Memphis Conference Female Institute at
Jackson, Tenn, begins June s with a
commencement sermon by Rev. Josephus
Anderson, of Arkansas. The graduating
exercises will take place Wednesday,
June IL.
At Starkville, Miss, the jury in the case
of the State against William Cranberry,
charged with killing Ike Sharp, few days
ago, returned a verdict of guilty of murder
in the first degree after being out about
sixteen hours.
Ina collision, a few nights ago, near Palat;
xa, Fla, between the steamers Anita and
Princess, the latter was disabled. A pas
senger named Hall, from Boston, was
knocked overheard and drowned.
Mumford R. Ligon, freight conductor
on the Houston g. Texas Central Railroad,
was killed few nights ago on the road,
between Hampstead and Navasota, Tex.
He was running train that was water
bound at Courtney, and was on the loco
motive when it ran into a cow, throwing
the engine from the track and killing
Ligon.
Six prisoners broke Jail at Eastman, Ca,
a few days ago, and escaped by breaking
off heavy iron bar from the beds5ead in
one of the cells, prying through the cor
ridor bars, knocking a hole through the
gable of the jail and letting themselves
down by blankets. Following are the
names and crimes for which they were i'm
prisoned: Amos Bryant, murder; George
J. Fuller, murder; Brass Wright, highway
robbery; Frank Matthews, attempted muir
der; Lewis MacFsae and Joseph Durr, rob-
berry.
DIR. Thomas Griffith, a distinguished sur.
geon of Louisville, KY, died few days
ago.
A. conhagration at Paducah, KY, few
days since, destroyed $4,000 worth of
property.
Green corn is being shipped from Flori-
da.
Gilbert G. Wright, an attorney of Dal.
las, Tex, has been indicted on a charge of
completely in the cotton swindles.
H. w. Thaler, editor Batesville (Miss.l
Blade, shot and killed Julius Porter few
days ago. The act was in self-defense.
VIM. Cook, VIM. Defus and Eddie Loven
were drowned few days ago while sailing
on Lake Ponchartrain, La.
Joseph Schaefer of GAINESVILLE, o., ar
rived in Houston, Tex, a few days ago.
While crossing a bridge at midnight he
was attacked by ruffians and knocked
senseless, robbed of $3.50 in gold, and
thrown into Buffalo bayou. He was res.
cued by a negro, and at last accounts was
lying in a critical condition. The robbers
escaped.
The dead body of an old man named
Jno. Hassett, an Irishman, was found a
few nights ago two miles east of San An
tonic, horribly mutilated by being dragged
over rough ground and through the woods.
His head was mashed. all the limbs bro
ken, and body bruised. His wagon and
camp were near by. Two mules were
grazing-one with long rope dragging.
1t is supposed the old man was tying them
out and became tangled in the rope and
the mule ran away. He had been freighting
in the vicinity several years. He had on
his person $780,
A special from CIarksville, Tenn. re-
ports the discovery of band of outlaws
who have been depredattng for fifteen
years in Montgomery County. The chief
was Ransom Morrow, a prominent farmer
sixty years old, living fifteen miles from
town. Two of the gang under arrest have
made full confessions, (which are startling
in the extreme. They give the particulars
of nearly a dozen horrible murders, while
the accounts of robberies, arson and other
crimes would fill book. The gang made
their headquarters at big cave, which,
seven hunered yards from the entrance.
ends at a precipiee forming a bottomIess
cavity called "Hell's Hole" On the edge
of the precipice lay the body of a man
named Overton, whom the gang had re-
Gently murdered for his money and then
circulated report that he had left for Ala
bama. 1t is supposed there are some eight
or ten members of the gang. The confess
sion duplicates several hitherto highly re-
spectacle citizens as being intimately iden-
titled with the numerous murders and other
crimes. Intense excitement prevails in
Montgomery County.
Florida blackberries are ripening.
The Belmont coal mines, in Jackson
County, Ala, which were purchased by
Grant & Ward from General John B. Cor
don, have been shut down, throwing sever
al hundred men and boys out Eof employ.
ment.
An old feud, agitated by "moonshinen
whisky, was revived between John McKin
and Mat and Ben Bryant, at Poplar Grove
Church, about eight miles northwest of
Barboursville, KY, a few days ago, re-
sulting in shooting affray in which the
Bryant brothers were dangerously wound
ed. McKin also received an ugly wound
in the neck.
Reports from the overfowed districts of
Mississippi indicate good crop prospects.
John Watson, Hamilton County (Tex.)
sheep man, was found murdered in that
county a few days since. His body was
rlddled with bullets, and his money and
all other valuables were taken from his
person.