The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-04-10
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

recently seems to have been that in the
Bluegrass region of Kentucky, which de-
stroyed the villages Colmansville, Conroy,
Antioch, and Mount Nebo. Four persons
were killed and five mortally injured near
Pltman.
ALsa,om Watkins, of ChattInoOga
Tenn, died few days since. He had Ior
many years been connected with Cincin-
natl, Louisville and Chattanooga newspa-
pers.
Aired Dav.s, a wealthy farmer of
Sequache County, Tenn, was beaten to
death by a tramp whom he sheltered a few
nights since. The tramp is in Jail.
Moor q Swenford's saw-mill at
Orange, Tex, caught fire a few nights ago
from furnace while the watchman was
asleep. The buildingw was consumed. Loss,
$4,000; insurance, 5000.
A Miss I et,t,a Smith, living several
miles east of Lexington, Ga, killed her
newly born infant child few nights ago,
and the COroner's Jury returned a verdict
of infanticide.
John johnson, a German laborer in
the capital quarries at Austin, Tex, was
killed few mornings since by a falling
derrick.
The bus mess men of Dallas, Tex, re-
| Gently teIegraphed the Texas delegation in
Congress requesting them to vote for the
extension of the bonded whisky bill, as
they thought the defeat Of the bill would
produce panic. The panic can now mate
rialize.
Savannah, Ga, has the oldest opera
houss in the United States.
THE people in the vicinity of Athens,
Ga, have been afflicted for some time past
with female tramp. She passes under
the name of Mrs. Glanter, the name of her
third husband, now living in ElbertOn.
She has raised great excitement among
| the negroes and ignorant whites by her
curious tales and revelations, and crowds
of whites and negroes flock to the house
where she is stopping to have their for
tunes told. negro preacher left his pull
pit to see ''that woman what tells peoples
| fortunes" She is taking it cowboy fashion,
and is armed with two pistols, which she
drew on a negro, whose opinion was not
dattering to her Iadyship.
A citi. en- o the County Of GreenviIle,
S. C., has written to the Commissioner of
| Agriculture in Charleston rendering speci-
mems of iron for exhibition at the New
| Orleans Exposition. The writer offers to
furnish ore of the same kind which
kC~ruth smelted and forged into musket
barrels for the United States Government
| for use in the war of 1912. the works still
! existing at or near a paper mill in Green
Vile County. The ore having been used
tor that purpose, 1t must have produced
| iron of superior quality. The writer says
he could furnish a sufficient quantity for
Exposition pUI poses OF the ore dug by
Korruth himself, if preferred. The offer
has been accepted by the Commissioner
I
the South Carolina exhib IS.
Springfield, Robertson County,
Tenn, is to have ell sIow April l..
A quail with white wings was killed
near Sparta, T-nn.. a few days ago
There are fifty Illicit distilleries and
! only three licensed ones in one district in
| North Carolina.
! At n recent fire in Starkvillc, Miss,
| the young ladies OF that place formed a
! bucket-and--ub brigade.
| An Augusta (Ga.) editor says that
/ five men III the Southern States NOW read
the newspapers where one man read them
! ten years ago.
| Michael Burns, n h tel wa ter at Dali
| las, Tex, was shot dead a few days ago 10y
! a st. Louis drummer named Willis Adams.
! There was a woman in the case. as usual.
wiser counsels prevailed.
Pearce & Brothers hub and spoke
! factory at Chattanooga, Tenn, burned a
| few days ago. Loss $4,000; in R5urance,
| $4,000. Fifty hands are thrown out of en-
! plovment.
In Fayetteville, n. c., few day.
! ago, great excitement was caused by tie
! at empted assassination of General Brady,
who was in the city on a visit. The affair
! is mysterious, the would-be slayer being a
| woman. General Brady was leaving a
/ house in the center of the city when he
| heard pistol shots fired in rapid succession,
| and one after another the balls whizzed by
] his head, but did not touch him. He called
| for the police and when they came up and
| made search they found a woman con-
/ Cealed under the porch of the house. She
/ held in her hand a revolver, the barrel of
which had been just discharged. She re
fused to make any explanation.
! A commerc al traveller who arrived
in Knoxville, Tenn, a few days ago and
! registered in the Atkins House as ''Tuns
| Way, Philadelphia was found dead on
the floor of his room. Although man of
apparently strong physique, he had been
complaining Of sickness since his arrival,
but was walking about the premises ut a
| late uOuI Tue previous evening MT. W II
son, of the Atkins House, at eleven O'Clock
called to give him medicine, and found
| Way laying dead on the floor. Coroner
| Uardinburg stated that Way had died OF
| congestion of the lungs, and that there was
no indication of poisoning.
A man half dead was picked up under
the bridge over Trinity River at Dallas
Tex, a few days ago. He was taken to the
| jail and medical attendance given him.
He returned to consciousness sufficiently
to state that his name was James Wilson,
| of Collin County; that he had been at work
in Dallas several days, and that while
/ walking across the bridge the night before
! some one struck him with sand bag,
knocking him off. He believed the party
who struck him to be Lewis Bransford
who, eleven years ago, killed his (Wilson's)
/ father in Lamar County, Tex. The wound
ed man was in a precarious condition.
Strawberries plenty in New Orleans.
1t Is almost certain that Morgan
/ Commack, one of the Dallas (Tex.) cotton
/ swindlers, who was released on 5,020
witness bond on promising to turn States
evidence against his pals, has left. 1t was
| supposed he had gone TO New Mexico. De
tectives have been employed TO hunt him
/ down again.
Dick Lindsay and j. NJ. Cooper
quarreled at Jacksboro, forty miles north
of Knoxville, a few days ago over a game
of cards. The latter was shot through the
stomach, and it was thought he would
| cert ainly die.
Moe~schaum has been discovered in
some parts Of No. tn Ga olina.
TheO Dali was shot and mortallv
wounded by the accidental discharge OF
his gun while hunting near Shreveport
La, few days ago. The whole charge en-