The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-04-24
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

posed by Jack Thornton, CoIOred, of his wife
and baby Thornton was under indictment
for seduction and married his victim,
Marie Glenn, the day previous, to escape
legal results. He is still at large.
Two negroes, Lewis Carter and CLARK
Thomas, got into a difficulty on the levee at
Vicksburg, Miss, a few mornings since,
during which Thomas pulled his gun and
shot Carter, the ball entering Carter's left
breast above the heart, infiicting an ugly
but not dangerous wound. Thomas was
lodged in jail in default of $500 hond. Car,
ter was fined SI5.
Near Chico, Tex, few nights ago, a
band of armed men went to the home of
Smith Drew, a noted character, and with
out passing any words commenced firing a
fusilade at the building. Drew's nephew,
lately from Missouri, attempted TO run
from the house, when he was shot through
the neck and instantly killed. There have
been nine arrests, including some of the
most respected citizens of the county.
Estimates of the sosses by the forest
fires in North Carolina vary widely. The
damage to farm-houses is light, but to fenc-
ing heavy. Much lumber was burned in
| Moore County. In the lower counties tur-
| pentine farms are considerably damaged,
but not to the extent of affecting the trade
except in the region swept over. The tur-
Pentine yield will be disminished, but
not enough to affect the market.
At a recent meeting of the Legislative
| Council, of Memphis, Tenn, the ordinance
which closes barber-shops on Sunday was
amended so as to permit the shops to keep
| open until 10 a. m. After five days publ.
cation the ordinance was to go into effect
and citizens would then be able to get a
clean Sunday shave.
The Wholesale oryororxy bO,,So oF n II
| Allyn & Co., at COrs icana, Tex, was de-
! strOyed by fire a few mornings since. The
safe was recovered from the ruins and the
| contents were found intact. Loss, S4I 800;
insurance, S32, 80. Tue adjoining building
! occupied as a saloon by G. r. Barch, was
also totally destroyed. Insurance on
building, $500; valued at $1,000.
A few nights ago the two-story frame
building known as Good Templar Hall, in
Denison, Tex, burned to the ground. It
was occupied by S. B. Lake as a carriage
shop, and contained a stock of new and
secondhand vehicles, part only of which
were saved. The origin of the fire is a
mystery. This is the third time Mr.. Lake
has burned out in that city.
w. T. Dowda has been sentenced to the
Georgia Penitentiary for seven years at
Decatur for kidnapping. Dowdais a school
OSeSCAACAg ol[AGy bAlI &C years VI axe anu wear
ing flowing beard. He taught in Litho-
mia year ago, where his attentions to a
thirteen-year-oId pupil, Miss Ragdale, de.
veloped into unholy love. EIoping one
night with the child be led the officers
lively race from place to place, and was
not captured until alter he had reached
South Carolina, where he had married the
girl at midnight.
George Long, one of the parties who es-
capped from the Madison County (Ga.) Jail
a few weeks ago, was run down by his pur.
Suers and his capture effected after consid-
erable picket-firing from doubled -barreIed
shOt-guns. He received several shots; two
in the back of the head, one in the right ear.
one in the left arm, and others. Long had
a large navy six-shooter and small pistol
with six chambers well filed, giving him
twelve rounds. He is now chained in Jail.
Alabama is now the leading producer OF
pig-iron in the South
The recent forest fires in Georgia have
caused a loss of $50, 900 to the State.
Canteloupe planting is the craze among
the farmers around Austin, Tex.
1t is said that over two hundred ounces
of morphine are sold annually by drug
store at Washington, Ga.
The proprietor of a hotel at Keowee S.
c., is engaged in preparing large storm
pit for the benefit of his guests in case of a
cyclone.
The Illinois Central Road has completed
a branch of forty miles from jackson,
Miss, to Yazoo City. and will soon run
regular trains.
The colt Farondale, entered for the !
Louisville Derby, ran away a few days |
ago and fell, fatally injuring his jockey
w. w. Taylor committed suicide at
Gainesville ,ETex., a few nights ago by taking |
morphine. Family trouble is supposed to |
have been the cause.
One Friedman, a Russian Jew peddler, |
was fatally stabbed at Nashville, Tenn, by |
an unknown person a few nights ago.
Tensas and Concordia Parishes, La,
though badly overfiowed, will probably |
be able to raise a cotton crop. The |
water is slowly draining off.
The Executive Committee of the Re |
publican Whig Party of Georgia has is
sued a call for a convention to meet |
May /, for the nom nation Of State officers
and Presidential electors.
A few days since Charles Sanders. A |
colored young man of Fort Worth, Tex, |
went home, took pistol from his pocket /
and remarked to his sister as he sat down: |
Would you like to see me kill myseIfY'
She told him: "No, put it away" He put
the pistol to his forehead and sent a ball |
through his brain, dying almost instantly. |
Stephen Moore, a Wichita Falls (Tex.)
cattle man, was killed few days ago bv
Ben Shanklin. The killer escaped. He is
described as five feet nine inches high,
light complexion, blue eyes and sandy mus
tache. Moore was rich and formerly re.
sided at Dallas. A reward of 81, 900 is of
fered for the capture of Shanklin.
Captain ALI. G. luther, Of Memphis,
Tenn, has been missing for several davs.
The gentleman is widely known, and has
wife and four children in Memphis. Cap
tain luther was Adjutant-General under
General James G. Veatch, who commanded
the Federal forces in Memphis during 1864.
He afterwards marched to the sea with
Sherman, and was popular officer in the
army.
This is cyclone year in earnest.
1t is estimated that the peanut crop OF
the South this year will be worth $1,000
OJO.
At Wharton, Tex, a few days ago, c. S
an esteemed young citizen,
was shot and killed by James L. Mattison,
a professional gambler. The men met in a
saloon. Mattison remarked: 81 can whip
any man in Wharton County" Blythe
wood asked if he referred to him, where
upon Mattison opened fire with a revolver,
shooting him five times, twice through the
heart, and then ran to a railroad bridge
across the Colorado River, about half
mile distant, and escaped.
The Atlanta (Ga.) building at the New
Orleans Worlds Exposition is to cost
s., 600
Franklin County, Ga, is agitated over
sensational suicide. Mr. and Mrs. Guilford
Ritchie, but recently married, had taken a