The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-12-11
SOUTHERN eLEAHINes.

ne steam GIN OF -. A. GefOkl0s dG bn6
Louisiana line, near Bartrop, La, with |
eighteen bales of cotton, was totally de= /
stroyed by fire a few days ago. The loss /
is estimated at $4,000; insurance, $1,S00.
Miss Rebecca OrreIl, of Clarksville, Tenn, |
was horribly burned few days ago by her
dress being ignited at a CRATE, She died in |
few hours in terrible agony. Her mother |
was painfully burned while endeavoring to |
extinguish the flames.
H. J. Timon, of Corpus Christi, Tex, |
discovered a Mexican a few days ago |
riding carriage horse of his fathers. OBJ |
tanning help he pursued and caught him in
the brush with another Mexican named Es-
pineso. They were ordered to surrender and |
Espineso complied but his companion
fired on Timon and the party and retreat.
ed He was afterward captured and
killed. Espineso was jailed.
DIR. A. G.. Haygood, President of Emory
College, Oxford, Ga, resigned recentlys
At a meeting of the Board of Trustees, DR..
Hopkins, President was elected Pres |
ident. DR.. Haygood will give his entire
time TO the John F. Slater fund. He an
nounced that northern gentleman inter
ested in the Slater work had given $4,000
to Emory College. DR.. Haygood was made
President of the Board of Trustees.
Mr.. John Wright, living near Kelton
! S, c., lost his dwelling by fire a few days
ago under circumstances as singular as
the kick of Mrs. O'Leary's COW. The
fire occurred from q cat lying in the fire.
| place, where some smoldering embers set
/ fire to her hair, and while on fire the cat
| ran into some loose cotton which was
! spread on the floor, and from this occur
renee the dwelling was fired and de-
stroyed.
The Tennessee Prohibition State Com
/
! for signatures to thousands of petitions
asking the General Assembly to submit a
constitutional Amendment prohibiting the
manufacture and sale of liquor. Hon.
| John p. st. John, General Clinton B. Fisk,
| John b. Cough and Miss Frances Willard
have been invited to take part in the cam
paign.
Captain William Robson's store, on his
plantation, twelve miles below Shreveport,
La, on the Red River, was entered by
burglars few nights ago, the safe broken
into and large sum of money a8d various
valuables stolen. The burglars, who from
work done on the safe seem to have been
experts, escaped with their booty
The Eastern and Northern mail leaving
New Orleans few nightss ago burned, and
a large number of permits for space in the
Worlds Exposition were destroyed. The
managers were issuing duplicates as rapid
" as possible.
Several military companies of Peters
burg, Va, were ordered out a few nights
ago by Major ]. S. Cary, at the instance of
Mayor Jarratt, to resist any attempt that
might be made to do violence to Eugene
Glenn (negro), who murdered Wilmar
Holland (white), and who was confined in
the Jail.
Despite the fact that two of their mum.
bor-1 Ia ar An
gust, Mormon Elders have resumed opera
tions in several counties of the State, and
manifest determination not to be intim-
idated. They conduct their services in a
quiet manner, and are seemingly careful
not to arouse any antagonism. The Nor
mon converts in Lewis, Hickman and Will
3 son Counties who refused to obey notices
warning them to leave on pain OF death,
have not been molested and it is thought
{ they will not be interfered with again.
Although a reward of 81, 200 has been Of
fered by Governor Bate for the arrest and
f apprehension of one or more of the parties
q engaged in the Lewis County massacre, no
effort has been made to earn it, it being
a apparent that the slayers of Elders Gibbs
and Berry will resort to any measure in
order to prevent the infictiOn of the
penalty of the law. 1t is more than like
: ly that no attempt will be made to dis
\ cover the perpetrators of the crime.
f James B. Reilly, who shot and killed
- Robert Bates in a tent Immediately after a
+. performance by Barnum's circus last year,
was acquitted on trial at Memphis, Tenn.
4 Bates was killed while holding his child in
= his arms.
+ A disastrous fire few nights sago at
k Troupe, Tex, destroyed a row of six busi-
z ness houses. Total loss, 900. Insur-
ance, S6,5OO 1t is supposed to have been
incendiary.
Charles Barnes, a colored x-convict
who seriously stabbed another negro in 8
g gambling dispute at Marshall, Tex, re-
i sisted arrest and shot Officer McGovern
!. breaking his jawbone. Barnes escaped.
n A few nights ago, near Spring City
Tenn, q handsome residence was burned
( bv incendiaries A citizen named Ma
Copel, while running toward the burning
Q building, saw a man secrete himself. Sup
5 posing that he was the incendiary he or
o dered him to surrender. The man jerkec
out pistol, but before he could fire Cope
o shot him dead. He is unknown.
n Julius Rable, farmer residing neal
Somerset, Ky, was instantly killed by {
= meteor a few days since. Descending
n through tall tree it cut a huge limb of
and then passed through Rabies body
:, from the shoulders obliquely, and burieC
several feet and was dug out. The aerolit'
It was about the size of a teacup.
Mr.. J. f. Fem, electrician of tn
$ Western Union Telegraph Company, was
= Union soldier in the late war, and in bat
tie near Grenada, Miss, was shot in th
= leg. For twenty-five years he has carries
It that ball in his travels, North, South Eas
and West. While travelling in South Caro-
= lima. few nights ago, his wound paine'
q him so severely that he resolved to try
- desperate remedy. After sharpening hi
d peuknife he made an incsion in the calf o
I. his leg and the bali dropped out. He nov
d exhibits the bullet as a valuable mement
l. of the
l. The drought in South Carolina is ended
A few days since in a dispute betwee
10 two carpenters and a man named Williams
h for whom the carpenters were doing som
n work at Lyons, Miss, words arose as
the pay, which resulted in a fight. vii
4. liams was killed by a pistol bali fired b.
=. one of the carpenters.
=, A collision of two freight trains on tn
be Chesapeake, Ohio & Southwestern Rail
in road at a point forty eight miles northeas
of Memphis, Tenn, few days ago, wa
is attended with the killing of four persons
Of the serious injury of three others and th
almost complete destruction of two engine
20 and eight freight cars.
e. Large consignments of exhibits are bein
IN received daily at New Orleans.
h. Governor O'Neal of Alabama was in
auuurated for a second term in the pres
o. ence of the two houses of the Legislator
e, on the 1st inst. His remarks were almos
entirely in reference to State matters an
Sc CONGRATULATIONS upon Alabama's brigl