The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-07-31
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

the Value or ner aSSeSSaDie properly thlS
year over last.
Joseph Williams Of Raleigh, N. C., has
been found guilty of murder for killing
Willie Watkins, whom he mistook for
man engaged to his cousin.
Ex-Governor Hubbard, of Texas, de-
clines to be candidate for Governor of
| that State in the coming campaign.
The mail between Round Mountain and
| Fredericksburg, Tex, was robbed few
days since by two men supposed to be
| Mexicans.
A few evening since, in quarrel at Con-
zales, Tex, Bud Zeigler cut Peter Marsch
in the abdomen, causing the intestines to
drop out. Zeigler was arrested.
Police. Lieutenant. Arnold, of Athens, Ga,
shot Sam. Taylor, colored, fatally a few
days ago, for resisting arrest. a large
crowd gathered and trouble was feared.
| The jury rendered verdict of justifiabIe
homicide.
A formal presentation of the flag sent to
Ascalon Division, Knights of Pythias, by
the Fort Dearbon Division, Chicago. was
celebrated in New Orleans by full dress
| parade and ball in the Spanish Fort.
An incendiary fire at Lexington, KY, a
| few days ago destroyed the Blue Grass
cooper shop and the dwelling houses of j.
D. billiard, Mrs. J. Il. Campbell and Phil.
B. Thompson, Jr. Total loss, $31, 900; in
surance, $l4, 800
| At CoOperstown, KY, a few days ago,
William Faulkner was fatally shot by
Ben. Miller. The shooting resulted from
revival of old difficulty.
Colonel Ed Richardson, of Vicksburg
Miss, having visited many plantations on
/ the Mississippi River south of Memphis
| gives a discouraging account of the crop
| prospects.
| A few evenings since, at a point ten
| miles east of KOsse, Tex, LeeWright and a
| young man named Hamilt on, out hunting,
became engaged in dispute, resulting in
| shooting affray in which both I were
killed. Wright leaves family. Hamil-
ton, boy of sixteen, was shot down twice
before giving Wright fatal shot.
| Richardson, one of the contestants in.the-
Fourth of July walking match in Angus
ta, Ca, died a few days ago. He had
] walked about three hours when he sudden
/ ly fell down on the track and had to be
carried away. He had not been out of
bed since, and died from loss of blood. He
| had ruptured some internal organ in his
efforts to get the first place.
The Georgia Board of State House Com
missioners recently opened the bids for
! the erection of a new State House in
Atlanta, in accordance with plans made
|
| two bids were received for the building
entire. The HaIlowell Granite Company,
Chicago, bid 81, 1852 and Chas. Pierce
& Co., indianapolis, $1,19S,202. Thirty
! eight other bids were received for parts of
! the work. OF these fourteen were from
! Chicago contractors, and both bids for the
whole were below the aggregate lowest
proposals for separate branches of the
work.
Albert Miles. colored, was hanged in the
| jail enclosure at Natchez, Miss, few
! days ago. The execution was private.
! Miles stabbed his wife to death at the
church door in September, 1881, on ac-
count of jealousy. The gallows was put
up some time ago. Miles recently at
tempted to escape by tunneling under the
Jail. He was caught while climbing the
gallows to get over the wall.
Cherokee County, Texas, has a giant
gum tree forty nine feet in circumference
and nearly seventeen feet in diameter.
| At Newbern, N. c., is a manufactures of
plates and dishes of gumwood, consuming
each week 450 sweet-gum logs forty-eight
inches long.
OF the native population of Texas, nine,
| ty-three per cent. is of Southern and seven
per cent. is of Northern extraction.
A negro thief near Macon, Ga, who had
stolen 81 900 from his employer recen tly,
received 175 lashes for his work.
The new Mayor of Monroe, La, refuses
to accept his salary, and has covered it
back into the treasury. The City Attor-
ney has followed his example, and is serv
ing the corporation without price.
Preston Sexton, a sexagenarian, was shot
by unknown parties and killed few days
ago near Junction City, KY.
Robert, alias Sonney Mosley, William
Mosley and James Gillland, Texas horse
thieves, have been arrested.
! Sam Williams, a colored man, was ex-
ecuted a few days ago at Waynesboro,
Ca, for the murder of Glenn Bush.
Francis Lowries, Peniten ntiary convict,
while at work with a gang on the Texas
Pacific Railway, near Sherman, Tex, a
few days ago, in attempting to escape, was
shot and killed by a guard.
Mrs. Eliza c. Henson, wife of John c.
Henson, living eight miles southwest of
Cleveland, in White County, Ga, was
shot few days ago by Newt Daniel with
a dOuble-barreled shotgun. About twen-
ty small shot hit Mrs. Henson. Daniel
was lodged in jail.
Thomas Johnson, at Iron Gate, Va,
stripped his son to whip him a few days
since. The boy and jumped in the
river, the father after him. Both were
| drowned.
The Southern Exposition Association of
| Louisville, KY, who hold their exposition
/ from August Is to October %, this year,
/ have issued circulars to the National
| Guard Militia throughout the country an
nouncing a competitive infantry drill to
| take place August %, p and %, with prizes
| of S, 900, $1,000 and $500 for first, second
and third respectively. Companies are to
drill twenty-four men, with two guides
| and three commissioned officers, and no
credit will be given for extra men drilled.
| Transportation will be furnished uni
formed men at the rate of one cent mile
each way, and tents and camp equipage
| will be furnished free of charge by the
/ Kentucky State Guard.
Florida farmers are packing figs.
| Henry Burke (colored), who attempted
/ to outrage little white girl at Tuscaloosa,
Ala was captured in the garret of an old
house. A mob at midnight took him from
| Jail and hanged him to a tree in the street
and fired five bullets into his body.
S. w. Logan, a fugitive from justice,
who is charged with killing George Foster
| on the 10Th of May, at Rosedale, Miss, has
been arrested at Memphis, Tenn. Logan
| confesses to having killed the negro, but
| says he did it in self-defense. He is held
awaiting the arrival of an officer from
| Rosedale. He fears mob violence on his
| return.
Louisiana has about 4s, ,OOO, 900, 900 feet of
| pine in her forests.
Calvin Elmore, formerly a respectable
citizen of Pilot Point, Tex, was arrested a
few days ago at st. Joe, Montague County.
| Tex, on charge of stealing six mules at
Fort Smith, Ark. He was taken to Fort
Smith for trial.
A few nights ago, near Centreville, Wal