The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-06-19
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

| tired in blue leans pants, blue 'voolen
vest, cheviot shirt and suspenders. No
| traces of violence were discovered. The
remains were placed in a coffin and inter-
red in mound near the river bank.
The body of Captain Atkinson, formerly
| Assistant Superintendent of the Houston
Direct Navigation Company, who was
| drowned in Trinity River May 26sh, was
| found a few days ago two miles below
where he fell of the tug.
In Brown and Coleman Counties, Tex,
great damage is reported from recent
rains. Fencing, driftwood, bedding, farm
| products, and animals are to be seen
| Coating down the stream.
A fatal accident occurred a few days
| ago at a handle factory being rebuilt in
| Chattanooga, Tenn. 1t became necessary
| for Peter Norris, carpenter, to cross the
| building, and he attempted to walk a mar
row strip that had been nailed down;
| when he had walked short distance the
rafter turned, precipitating him to the
| ground about thirty feet. He fell on his
head and shoulders and died in twenty
| minutes. -ssse st-k
Notwithstanding the serious damage
| done to orchards by the numerous high
| winds and the -tornadoes of the past spring,
| the fruit crop of South Carolina will be the
| largest in that State for ten years. Cher
ries, peaches, plums and berries are flood
| ing the market, and melons viii soon come
in. The farmers are jubiIant over the
| prospects of cotton and other plantation
| growth, but the recent cool nights has de-
| layed cotton, which was on boom in
| growth.
Jack Brock acquitted in the Federal
| Court at Dallas, Tex, of a charge of rob-
/ bing stage near Henrietta. This is the
fifth aequittal of the alleged Black Hollow
| robbers. M
Bennett, one of the convicts who escaped
from Penitentiary Agent Oglesby, near
| Jacksonville, Tex, recently, was subse-
| quently arrested in Dallas. Bennett goes
up to serve a fourteen years. sentence for
horse and cattle theft and assault to Kill in
! Wise County. = u @ H
At LOngview, KY, few days ago Ed
ward E. Steger, young man about twen-
| ty-three years of age, shot aud fatally
wounded Jesse Bullock (coIoredl He
went to Steger's house and attacked him
about a settlement involving $3.50, and
snapped pistol at him, Steger then drew
pistol and fred, the ball taking effect in
BullOck's side. The latter then fred at
| Steger, and missed him.
| A few days ago, in the County of Ches-
! ter, S. c., negro man named Isaac Wise
| bolt of lightning. Isaac was sitting near
the front door and the girl was at the back
door of the house when killed. The shoe
on the right foot of the girl was torn into
shreds, but only two or three burnt places
could be found on the person of either of
them. There were five other negroes in
the house at the time, three of whom were
so badly shocked that they remained in
sensible for several hours.
Large prairie fires are reported in Texas
between Houston and Galveston, doing
much damage a t#aas.
The cornerstone of a new Cotton Elk
change building in Houston, Tex, was laid
few days ago with imposing ceremonies.
An excursion to Kansas City, Mo, COM
| posed of about 121 Southern merchants and
others, left Memphis, Tenn, few nights
| ago.
The Kenesaw Manufacturing Company,
of Memphis, Tenn, has transferred $55, 900
worth of machinery and buildings to se.
cure debts of $4,000.
The wooI-growers of Texas are making
efforts to hold a worlds fair at Fort Worth
in 1887.
A grand cotton concIave, the greatest the
world ever saw, begins February 10 next
in connection with the Exposition in New
| Orleans.
G. D. Brooks, a farmer near Brownwood,
| Tex, accused Of stealing a wagon, resisted
attempted arrest by a squad of State
Rangers few days since. He was shot
and instantly killed. Brooks opened fire
first, when one of the Rangers quickly re-
| sponded.
Texas fever has broken out among Jer.
| sey cattle at Blossom farm near Mobile,
Ala. and carried off the fine bull Gilderoy
and a number of other valuable animals
| A great deal of money is invested in this
breed, and the owners are much exercised
about the outbreak. eR - Is s
| A preliminary meeting of the Georgia
lawyers, of which Hon. L. N. Whittle
| Vice President of the American Bar Asso.
citation, was chairman, has called a meet.
ing for the 14th of August, at Atlanta, to
organize a State Bar Association. The
movement starts with ninety members.
Thos. T. Land, Jr., a planter on Rough
and Ready place, in Bossier Parish, near
Benton, La, committed suicide by shoot.
ing his brains out few days ago. He was
! a son of Judge T. T. Land, a prominent
lawyer Of Shreveport. The only particu.s
lars received are that his wife left him in
bed while she was preparing for breakfast
and hearing the report of pistol ran into
the room and found him lying on the floor
in dying condition.
| While William McClendon was crossing
the railroad track at La Grange, Ca,
| few days ago, the cow-eatcher of a passing
train threw him distance of Atty feet,
| killing him instantly.
The Louisiana Board of Health has
adopted resolution reciting the necessity
ofprotecting all the interests of the Worlds
Exposition to be held there next winter,
and deprecating the damage that would
ensue to it by the introduction of yellow
| fever into the city of New Orleans, and
therefore requiring vessels from Mexican,
West Indian and South American ports
which are now subjected to ten days de-
tention, to be, after the 10th of July, de-
tanned forty days before being allowed to
enter that port.
San Antonio, Tex, has a glass factory.
A few days since at Glencoe, KY, a ne
gro boy was shot by another, accidental
", while foolng with a pistol. Neither is
over sixteen years of age The shot took
effect in the forehead, causing the brain to
ooze out. The wound was considered IA
tai.
About thirty ladies of Marshall, Tex,
have enrolled their names as members of
an Exposition Society and elected Mrs.
John J. Dickinson, President; Mrs. J. u.
Fraley, vice-President, and Miss Mary j.
Lane, Secretary. The county is considered
safe in the hands Of these ladies and will
be fully represented at New Orleans
The New Orleans Sugar Exchange is
open.
Hill, Fontaine & Co.'s report Of the con.
dition of the cotton crop for the Memphis
district makes a favorable showing. Ar
kansas is the only section from which COM
plants were resolved, rain and cold nights