The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-12-04
SOUTHERN cLEANINes.


win be adopted.
Vicksburg, Miss, is to have thorough
system of water-works at the end Of eight-
cen months, the contract with parties in
Philadelphia having been signed by the
Mayor.
When the COnfederates evacuated Co
lumbus, KY, they threw six heavy pieces
of artillery into the Mississippi River.
Low water recently disclosed the guns,
and one of them was secured in time to
fire salute in honor of Cleveland's cleo
tion. ~ % .l 'sHa 81 ss
Mrs. A.. s. Phillips, who has been living at
Houston, Tex, for three months, was ar
rested few days ago for blaclznail on
requisition from the Governor of Kansas
and on warrant from Governor Ireland,
and taken to Osw ego, Kas. The amount
involved is $1,000.
A citizen Of Kershaw County. South
Carolina, few days since sent a Federal
Marshal at Camden steel plate for print
ing two-cent postage stamps of the old is-
sue, with a vignette of President. Jackson,
| IL was found among the effects of dead
planter, and was well worn from use.
In the wreck of a freight train on the
Mobile & Montgomery Railroad, the brake
man, III. A. Davidson, was killed, and the
engineer, Henry Ray, and Fireman Joseph
Dow, seriously hurt. Seven cars and the
engine were demolished. = ~~' y q
The international freight depot at Aus
tin, Tex, with. contents, together with
nine cars loaded with fruit trees, hay and
miscellaneous merchandise, were totally
destroyed by fire a few nights ago. The
| fire is supposed to have been caused by a
defective iue. The loss to the Company
is estimated at over $50 900; no insur ance,
except ON building valued at 5000. ga
In Marshall County, Alabama, a few
days ago, R. A. Howard went to settle a
difficulty with Farmer Peake, who shot his
caller. Howard, though mortally wounded,
shot and killed both Peake and his wife.
A man answering the description of one
! of the parties engaged in the robbery of
| the safe of the Texas Express Company at
| Bryan, Tex, on the night of the 18th, was
| arrested in Galveston, a few days since
and lodged in Jail. He gave the name of
| G. w. Smith. When arrested the Chief of
| Police notified the authorities of Brazos
| County and gave a description of the pris-
| Oner he had in custody, and Sheriff Dawson
| went from Bryan and secured his man.
Forest fires have recently been burning
in Greensville County, Virginia, and in the
| neighborhood of Hicks, Ford. Consider
! able quantities of timber have been de-
| stroyed, some few houses and a large
amount of fencing. In consequence of the
| protracted drought the grass and under
| growth has become so dry that the least
! spark will ignite it.
! Official returns from seventy EIGHT coun-
ties of Texas gave Cleveland, 13S, sos;
! Blaine, 53,522; Butler, 2,3O4: st. John,
| 2,468. The same counties gave Hancock,
| 101 ,255; Garfield, 80, ,153; Weaver, 1928.
| This shows total increase in the above
counties of Al, ,2SS votes over the Presiden-
tial contest of 18SO-an increase of thirty
! per cent.
Three drunken men attempted to cross
the Ohio River at Hickman's Landing, KY,
| few nights ago. One of them capsized
| the skif, and before assistance could reach
! them James Grimsley, aged nineteen, and
George Logan, aged thirty-five, were
/ DIR owned.
New Orleans is excited about the smoke
nuisance.
Florida oranges are said to be better than
ever this year.
Bills are before the Alabama and Geor-
! gia Legislatures prohibiting the importa-
tion, manufacture or sale of liquor in tn ose
| States.
The police at Dallas, Tex, recently ar
rested three thieves who have been rob-
| hing people in many parts of the State,
and recovered a lot of money and vaIu-
ables.
The prisoners in the County Jail at Ty-
Ter, Tex, overpowered the Jailor few
nights ago, fifteen escaping. Officers and
many citizens were searching for the fugi-
! tives.
The Okechobee Drainage Company re-
Gently opened one of its canals, lowering
the waters of Lake TohopekaIiga twelve
feet and opening to navigation a rich ter
| rito1.xr in he iufari0T Of tho State sH H
The store of Henry Leisure, at Marshall,
Tex, was entered by burglars few nights
| ago. The safe was blown to atoms, but
the burglars were scared away without
getting any money.
| One of the most remarkable deaths from
a gun-shot wound which has, perhaps,
ever occurred, took place in Newberry
County, South Carolina, a few days ago.
Two brothers, Charles and Yancy Floyd,
were out hunting. While in a canebraKe
| Yancy Floyd fired at bird, and one of
tn shot, No. bird-shot, penetrated the
eye of his brother Charles, causing death
in a short time. s
Memphis received in one day recently
1880 bales of cotton, the largest single
days receipts in the history of the city.
| The previous largest receipts. were 1912
4 bales on the oath Of November, 1879, Just
five years Intervening. From the present
indications, this years receipts will ag-
| gregate fully 900, 600 bales, which will be
! an excess of 80, 600 bales as compared with
the season of 1SS3-S4, and thus maintain
ing the preemihence of Memphis as the
largest receiver of cotton of any inland
city in the United States.
At NegIey's rancho, fifteen miles from
| Eagle Pass, Tex, the body of an unknown
/ man was discovered a few days ago, the
| head beaten in and two bullet holes in the
| body. The corpse was in the brush near a
| stream of water, and had been exposed
| about ten days. It was impossible to fix
| the age or nationality. 1t was decentlv
dressed in pants and shirt, with broad
| stockman's hat and boots with heavy
spurs.
Gophers are delicacy in Georgia
A burglary and safe robbery occurred at
Libbie's saloon, at Denison, Tex, few
nights ago. The thieves took from the safe
nearly $1,000 in money and considerable
jeweIry. It is the opinion that the job was
not done by novices.
In the Circuit Court at Memphis, Tenn,
few days ago, the case of Ida Wells,
colored, was on trial before Judge J. o.
| Pierce. She sued the Chesapeake, Ohio &
| Southwestern Railroad for 81 600, for dam
ages she sustained in having been elected
| from the ladies' coach that road ard
compelled to go into the colored peoples
car. Decision was reserved.
Georgia viii occupy four thousand feet
of room at the New Orleans Exposition.
1t is said that Columbia County, Florida,
has phosphate rocks similar to those in
South Carolina
Hon. A. c. Coffee, a member of the Ala
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