The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-05-08
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.


Fire few days ago destroyed the upper
stories of Baker, SIoo & Co.'s wholesale
saddlery and harness establishment in New
Orleans. The loss is estimated at $4,000;
insured.
Returns so far from the various sections
of the State indicate a majority of $4,000
for the Democratic State ticket and the
adoption OF all the constitutional amend
ments. Returns for the city of New Or
leans Indicate a majority for the regular
Democratic ticket approximating $4,000.
4 few evenings since a dispute arose be.
tween Jack Shelly and Jack Sneegog in
Nashville, Tenn, each aged about thirteen
years, over a game of marbles. Shelly
Obtained a small target rife and fired at
Sheegog. The ball passed through Shee-
gOg's lungs, causing a mortal wound.
Shelly was arrested and committed to Jail
without bail.
A few days ago Jesse Gum killed his
father at Monroe, Ga. The father was
widower, and he and the son courted the
same lady. The son married her two weeks
ago. The father sent him word to be on his
guard as he was coming to kill him. This
morning a child saw the father enter his
sons house, and told the son, who fired on
his father as the latter was taking aim.
The Grand Jury a Memphis, Tenn, has
indicted Walker and Charles Winston for
assault and battery with intent to commit
murder III the first degree upon The person
Of Henry Weaver, who was so terribly
beaten in that city recently. Judge Greer
admitted them to bail in the sum of $1,000
each. Weaver was con fined to his bed from
the injuries lie received.
The west-b bound freight on the Texas &
D. 1 1
ings since three miles west of Fort Worth.
Three lumber cars were thrown from a
bridge and broken to pieces. Seven or
eight cars were more or less damaged
The cause of the accident was broken
axle. No one was injured.
Stockmen in the vicinity of Corpus
Christi, Tex, report large numbers of cat
tie dying on account of the scarcity of
water and grass in pastures. If the drouth
continues it viii entail heavy loss upon cat
tie men in some sections. The appearance
of the army worm is reported, which is de-
stroying young buds, leaves and shoots of
mesquite trees.
The United States Court at Browns vile,
Tex, has adjourned. Five petty Snug
glers were fined and one man for running
an Illicit cigarette factory. The accounts
of the Receiver OF the Rio Grande Rail
road were disposed of, and he was or
dered to pay over a balance Of S27,OO0,
which was deposited in a New Orleans
house, and which temporarily suspended.
The heaviest suit ever filed in the courts
at Dallas, Tex, was entered upon the
docket of the United States Circuit Court
recently in the cause of w. NJ. Wyeth ct
al, of st. Joe, Mo-, aud Philadelphia,
against J. G. Halseu & Bro, of Wise
County, tor the sum of s. 100 damages
alleged to have been sustained by a failure
OF the defendants to comply with con-
tract for cattle and horses, which the
plaintiffs aIIege to have purchased of
them.
In Russell County, Va, few days ago,
Geo. Gibson, his cousin, VIM. Gibson,
James Powers and Wayne Powers bought
a bucket of brandy in the mountains and
got into a dispute about who had paid the
most for it, Knives and pistols were
drawn. VIM. Gibson was shot and killed.
The other three built a fire over the body,
burning it to a crisp. The three murderers
were jailed, and with great difficulty lynch
ing was prevented. The people were terri
bly, aroused, and the murderers may yet be
taken from Jail and hanged.
The Commissioner of the General Land
Office is in receipt of information to the ef-
feet that land brokers in New York and
Chicago, in order to sell Texas land certif-
rates issUeI to disabled Confederate sol
Iiers and railroads at a high figure, are
representing that the same can be located
IN Green County, Tex. This, he says, is a
fraud, as the land laws expressly provide
against such locations. Only certificates
ssued to Texas veterans can be located in
Green County.
Two benefit performances given at a
Louisville theater, recently, in aid of the
Richmond Home for Confederate Soldiers,
called only $1,000.
Henry Curry, colored, was executed a
few days ago at Monroe, Ga, for the muir
der of negro who had aroused his jeaI-
0usy.
Thomas Wolf, a notorious horse-the:
who has been operating in Texas and the
Indian Territory the last five years, has
been caught.
Parties in New York, Philadelphia,
Chicago and st. Louis hold bonds of
Madison County, Ga, issued ten years
ago, to aid a railroad from Canton to
Vicksburg. The road was never built,
and the bonds never legally issued. The
present Board of Supervisors has en-
gagged counsel to resist payment.
The Texas Comptroller has ruled that the
drummer tax is personal tax, not trans
ferable, and must be paid in advance.
Two coIored politicians were arrested at
Garysburg, n. c., few days ago when
about to f -ht duel.
Colonel VIII Lam bert, Secretary of the
Texas I've Stock Association, says there
viii be one hundred Texas COW men at the
Convention in st. Louis next November.
Telegrams state that Mullican and Clark
convicted in Ouachita Parish, La, of the
murder of old man Rogers and wife last
month, were taken from Jail at Monroe a
few nights ago and hanged.
At the last sitting 0 the Medina County
(Tex.O Grand Jury, fifty-three men were
indicted for 100 misdemeanors and forty
one cases of fence burning, fence cutting,
conspiracy to murder State witnesses, etc.
BIackberries are plentiful in Florida.
An old white man named Milledge
| Vaughn, was murdered near Chunky S a.
tion, Miss, a few DAYS ago. Clarke Sut
ton. colored. admit ed the crime, but re
sistiug arrest was shot dead. Vaughn's
remains were horribly mutilated. The
head and feet were separated from the
body.
John Hogan, an aged bachelor living on q
plantation across the Georgia line from
Columbia, recently died Of epilepsy on a
pallet Of straw. In leather pouch on his
person was found 5000 in currency, and
in his trunk lay S58j in gold. He could
neither read nor write.
A DR.. Morton, of Dallas, Tex, recently
found a basket on his doorstep containing
a child about ten days old.
Miss Nary E. Brown, of Abbevine Coun
tv, s. c., has sued Mr.. John Mcneil for
breach Of promise, laying damages at So,
90. Both are prominent in the com
muuity.
Harry Deakio, manager of the New Or