The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-10-23
SOUTHERN GLEANINGs.

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| Jordan was killed.
Uncle Ned Graves, of Montgomery,
| Ala, is seventy years of age, and is
said to be the oldest locomotive engi-
neer in America, having served forty-fve
| years in that capacity.
| During a quarrel about their work on
| the Summerford plantation, near Vienna,
Ga, few days ago, Ed Triple killed
| Frank Collier, colored.
Payne and Riley, the Louisville mer-
chants who fed to Canada, have been ex-
| PEELED from the Board of Trade.
The Louisiana State Board of Education
| has decided to locate the State Normal
| School at Natchitoches, that town having
| given buildings and grounds valued at
100000.
A fire at Covington, Ca, a few nights
ago, destroyed the Georgia Railroad
depot. Loss, $4,000. The safe, contain
ed $4,000 in securities.
George Levy, ex-Chief of the Louisville
| (Ky.) Fire Depar ment. who was sem
fenced to the PenitentiarY for completely
in the City Hall frauds last year, has been
pardoned by Governor Knott.
| r. L. Sullivan, a farmer living ten miles
south of Weatherford, Tex, lost 400 bush
els of corn and all his fodder, hay and oats
by fire a few days ago. His neighbors
kindly subscribed each a load of corn
toward repairing the loss. No insurance.
singular case of spontaneous combus-
tion occurred at Canton, Miss, few days
| ago. A barrel of whisky exploded in the
saloon of VIM. o. Hargon and ignite1.
The room was enveloped in flames, but no
serious damage occurred. There was no
light or fire in the room prior to the ex-
plosion.
The Illinois Central Road has ordered
the survey of a line from Yazoo City to
| Memphis, to tap the territory tributary to
the Mississippi & Tennessee Road, which
recently passed into the hands of a rival
company.
A coIored convict at the Nashville
| (Tenn.) Penitentiary defied the guards a
few days ago and was shot in three places.
H arm had to be amputated. His wounds
| were regarded as fatal.
Two masked men robbed Walkers store
at Leander, Tex, few days ago and were
overtal1en in Williamson County by a
posse of citiz Ems. They showed fight and
one of them, who turned Sut to be a farm
er named Clifton residing near Laylor,
was shot down and killed. His comrade
was taken alive.
William Ellerson, a desperate who was
serving a sentence in the South Carolina
Peniteniia iary and escaped, has been recap
tured. While EIlerson was in Williams.
Ourg JAIL previous TO his JTIdis ne dt'
tempted to escape Jail by knocking the
Jailer down with a bottle and taking his
keys, but before he could get out the Jailer
recovered, shot him down, one eye being
entirely shot ou', and recaptured him.
The barn and sheep-sheds of T. j. Will
son, nine miles east of Co cana, Tex,
were burnt few days ago, together with
100 tons of hay; about 60 sheep and a
large lot of wool. The sheep had been
brought up to be sheared, and while the
workmen were at dinner the fire started,
so that its origin is unknown. There were
1000 sheep in the barn and sheds at the
time, only % being saved. The loss is es-
timated at $S, 900; insured for $4, 100.
Thurlow Gardner, who killed another
white man named Pitts in Lancaster, S.
c., last spring, surrendered to the Sheriff
a few days ago. Gardner has been living
in Louisiana since the killing, and no one
knew of his wher, abouts, but his conscience
would not let him rest away from the
scene of the homicide.
An old feud between Harrison McQuis.
tion and J. A. Mccarthy, two farmers Iiv-
ing near Ccrsicana, Tex, eliminated a
few days since by NJ QUESTION shooting
the latter with revolver, the bullet
entering McGarity's face to the right OF
the nose and coming out behind the left
ear, infiicting a mortal wound. NJ Quis-
tion and Mccarthy have both been con-
sidered good and peaceable citiz ms. Nc
| QUESTION was arrested at the scene of the
shooting.
Mrs. e. A. Jones, wife of a lawyer OF
Waco, Tex, committed suicide few days
ago.
Don Carter, prominent young man of
Longview. Tex, committed suicide re-
Gently.
There were 100000 cigars shipped to
New York from Key West in one week
recently.
A new industry on the Mississippi coast
which promises to succeed is the making
of wine from dew and blackberries.
A Georgia man shut green snake up in
a glass bottle about three months ago.
The snake is still alive and ''doing well''
Tyne Best committed suicide at Fort
Worth, Tex, few days ago and left or.
ders for his body to be shipped to Point
Lick, KY.
DR.. c. G. Graham, of Louisville, KY,
who recently celebrated the one hundredth
anniversary of his birth, personal
friend of Daniel Boone, and has been a
hunter, soldier, and scientist.
Mrs. Louise P. Mallory, wife of B. E.
Mallory, the prominent steamship owner
of New Orleans, committed suicide a
few days ago, by jumping from train
into Lake PontchaTtraln.
The bonded warehouse of J. G. Roach 6.
Co., at Uniontown, Kentucky, containing g
over two thousand barrels of whisky, was
burned a few days since. The loss is $780,
600.
A saw-mill boiler exploded in Harrison
County, Georgia, a few days ago, killing
J. C. Rogers, proprietor of the mill, James
Eson and Bud Pardon. Several persons
were wounded.
Since July b a drouth has prevailed in
Lower East Tennessee, North Georgia and
North Alabama, and all farming interests
have been seriously imperiIed, and unless
there is rain soon the result will be disas
trous. Grazing lands burned up and
creeks are dry. The Tennessee River a
Chattanooga was within three inches ol
the lowest point known.
Cotton is marketing freely.
Jane Hamilton, colored, of Pickens
County, South Carolina, died recently
from an injury received while she was
shouting in the CoIored Methodist Church
In her excitement she jumped and fel
against a bench, by which she fatally
injured. The negroes look upon her death
as the confirmation of her shouting re
ligion.
A few nights ago the residence of VIM
Muller, Of Vicksburg, Miss, was destroyed
by fire. So rapid was the progress of the
fumes that Mrs. Muller and daughter
barely escaped with their lives. The ori
gin of the fire is unknown.
Georgia mosquitoes attack canaries and
mocking- birds. and even kill chickens.
The town of Liberty, twenty five miles
west of Lynchburg, Va, suffered partia
destruction by fire few days ago Origin