The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-01-10
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

object of testing the cOnIpany'S right %
sell lottery tickets in the State.
John Agnee was stabbed to death by
James Hamilton, at Red Hill, S. C., a few
days ago, and Agnee's father had his knee
bone fractured and arm broken in quarrel
between the Hamiltons and Aghees.
In an affray at Vancluse, S. c., few
days ago, a man named Scott was shot and
killed.
The jury in the case of J. NJ. Ed
wards, on trial in the Memphis, CTenn.)
Criminal Court for the murder of Sam. Z.
Roberts, at Kerrville, were discharged, after
being locked up four days and six nights,
being unable to agree to a verdict, and a
mistrial was entered. 1t is said seven of
the jury were for acquittal and five for
punishment.
Pitts Webb, coIOred, entered George
Moore's saloon in Nashville, Tenn, lew
days ago and asked Charles Jones, the bar
keeper, for Christmas gift. "I'll give youa
Christmas gift" replied Jones, and he dis
charged pistol at the negro. The ball en-
tered the eye and penetrated the brain,
causing a fatal wound. Jones claims he
didn't know it was loaded. 1t is said he
had previous difficulty with Webb.
In Fayette County, Ga. Andrew
Lively was sitting by his hreside a few
his window and placing shotgun against
the glass, fired on him. The gun was
charged with a mixture of shot and bullets.
One bullet took effect in Lively's head,
back of the ear, and one side of his head
and face was literally filled with shot.
Suspicion pointed to Bob Allen as the muir
derer, and investigation developed the fact
that he had skipped out. He was subse-
quently arrested near Hampton, and lodged
in Fayette County Jail.
Sam Palmer, a notorious cOlOred out
law, stabbed Frank Miller (white) to death
in a cOloTed den at Dallas, Tex, few
nights ago and made his escape. Just be-
fore the killing Palmer had a fight in
colored gambling den and had piece of
his right ear shot off by Bill Davis. He
was fleeing from the police when he killed
Miller.
A street fight occurred at Allendale,
| s. c., Christmas, in which two persons
were killed and five others wounded. John
Hudlett, Marshal of the town, and his sons
| John and Tom and his grandsOns Evan and
! Joyce Strange, had an alteration with
| Frank Weaver and UIry Middleton, III
which the two Stranges were wounded.
Returning from this fight, which was car
| ried on until Weaver and Middleton got
| nearly out of town, they met L. B. and
! Frank O'Brian and Gus Allen, returning
| from a dinner party. The Strange boys in
| suited them, and a general fight ensued,
! sticks, knives and pistols being freely used.
Evan Strange and Tom HudIett were killed
outright. The two John Hudletts were
severely wounded, and the two O'Brians
! slightly.
Peter K. Morgan, aged min Gty-eight,
a veteran of the war of 1912, died III Rich
! mond, Va, n few DAYS ago.
| A cOlOred man was committed to Jail
in Columbia, S. c., few days since, for
boating a colored boy to death with a club.
In Northampton County, Va, recent
| Iy, Tuck Barns was murdered by his BROTH
er, who is believed to be insane.
The Mayor of Petersburg, Va, has
instructed the police to.arrest all persons
buying or selling lottery tickets in that
| town.
A few days ago two negroes under
arrest in BrookvilIe, F.a., charged with
shooting two white =, were taken from jail
and SHOT dead.
John Frank, while riding through
| Wilkes Ccun y, Ga, recently, discovered
a quantity Of jewe.ry and other valuables
which are believed to be the treasure con-
cealed by the Confederate Government
| shortly be fore its collapse.
Farra, fourteen years old, accidentally
shot and killed little girl named Jesse
| Bryant with shotgun which he was tax
| ing out Of a room where the children were
| playing.
Two months ago T. H. Weathersby,
Sheriff of Madison County, Miss, was bit
en- by a mad do :. A violent case of hy-
| drophobia developed, and his death is an
| uounced.
The examining trial of DIR. F. H.
| Ayers, Postmaster at Waxahachie, Tex,
charged with detaining a registered letter
in his office, terminated in his discharge
from custody.
The Abilene (Tex.) stage was halted
a few nights 20 near Colorado River by
masked men with drawn revolvers. Nine
passengers, comprising a variety troupe,
were robbed of S4OD.
At WhitesborO, Tex few days ago,
a fire, of supposed incendiary origin, de-
stroyed fifteen business houses, including
| Marnett's hotel. Loss, $35, 900; insurance,
| $1,000.
Taking as its basis 1927 replies from
625 counties in the cotton-growing States,
| covering about nRety-eight per cent. of the
whole, the Boston Journal Of Commerce's
estimate Of the present seasons crop is D.
| 792, 900 bales.
The mississippi Teachers Convention
after a three days session at jackson, ad-
iourned. a resolution was adopted look
ing to a more perfect system Of public edu-
cation, the same to be laid before the next
| Legislature.
The stores of Draper, Son & Co,
Draper, Mathis & Co., Phillips & Barley,
| r. NJ. Warner & Son. at Oxford, Ala, were
damaged by fire a few days ago. Loss
| $4,000; insurance $4,000.
A desperate attempt was made neal
Prentice, Ca, few nights ago to derail
the East Tennessee south bound pa senger
train. Several rails sprang up Immediate
ly after it had passed over. Investigation
showed that the spikes had been entirely
drawn out.
Now for the next crop.
Most Rev. Napoleon Joseph Perche,
Roman Catholic Archbishop of New Or
leans, died few days ago, aged seventy
eight. Bishop F. X. Leroy will be his sue
| cessOT.
At Justice JEWELS court in Craw-
| ford, Ga, recently, a case was on trial, and
the veracity Of a witness having been ques-
toned free fight with fists took place. the
entire crowd going out on the street for the
| purpose, leaving the Judge the sole occu-
| pant Of the room. No deadly weapons
we're used. 1t was a genuine sIugging
match.
Several business houses at Arcadia,
La, burned few days since.
D. j. Peed, railroad cross-tie con-
tractor, walking through field near Fort
| Valley, Ca, fell into old well covered
with rotten rails. The well was eig y-four
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