The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-10-09
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

lew nights ago.
The drought in Southern Virginia has
been the severest experienced IN many |
years.
Virg'n'a's exhibition at New Orleans |
does not promise to be very extensive, |
owing to a scarcity of funds and lack OF
public interest
An oppressive rise of rents in New Or-
leans has already set in.
Mrs. Jennie Van Horn, daughter of re-
spectacle parents at Memphis, Tenn, has
mysteriously disappeared.
George Hill, who chopped rival to
pieces at a colored dance, has been sen
fenced at Canton, Ca, to hang October
3lst.
The steam Clubhouse on j. II. and G. j.
Fosters Seweu place, Bossier Parish, La,
and thirty bales of cotton, burned a Jew
days ago. No insurance.
Homer Perry, a colored boy of fifteen,
has been convicted at Covington, Ga, of
an outrage on a seven-year-old child, and
sentenced to be hanged on November 7Gh.
Aaron and Charles Baswell, brothers, OF
Ta1adega, Ala, quarreled few days ago
about the affections of young lady.
Aaron shot Charles through the heart,
killing him Instantly.
A freight train backed into the packing
| es ablishment OF Patterson, Henry e Co.,
at Louisville, KY, a few days ago, knocked
| the wall down and fatally. injured George
| Russ, an employe in the building.
The Franklin County (Miss.) Jail re-
| Gently became too full of hard criminals
70 suit a mob of forty persons, so they
/ took the law in their own hands and exc
| cuted four men and left word they would
clear the Jail unless the court did so at the
next term.
/ Bud jackson and John Barlow, two Off
GERS, while attempting to arrest party
named Allison in the Indian Territory,
few days ago, were shot and instantly
killed.
Warren Price, who killed his son -in-law,
| ROmanus F. Perry, in Johnson County,
| Ga, has been sentenced to be hanged NO
vember 195h.
BliIif Louis Nelson arrested Green
franklin, a negro gambler, at Macon, Ca,
a few days ago. At the Jail gate the ne
| gro stabbed the bailjff twice, inflicting Sc
rious wounds, and then ran. The bailif
fred four shots. Other shots were also
fired. The negro received one ball in the
back and was mortally wounded.
Considerable excitement prevails in the
neigbborhood of Buffalo Valley, Putnam
County, Tenn, over the murder of an un-
known pedIler, whose goods and some
blood stained clothing had been discov-
cred. As the goods were not touched the
motive for tho murder is a mystery.
Thomas Jackson, colored, while blowing
near Hargrove, Ky a few days ago, be-
came entangled in the lines aud his horse
| ran away, dragging Jackson nearly a
mile. He was kicked to death by the
horse and horribly mangled by the plow
point.
W. r. Cleveland, of Grayson County,
Tex, fell out of the cars on the Sunset
Road a few nights ago, and was instantly
killed. D-cease I'd acted strangely before
boarding the cars, and it was supposed he
ATTEMPTED to jump off while the cars were
in motion.
Miss McWilliams, young lady OF
beauty and accomplishments, was drowned
d few DAYS ago in the river, four miles
above Galesburg, Tex. She was from
Louisiana, and was visiting relatives il
the city.
, A few nights ago Thomas Marion
charged with robbing the United States
/ | mail, and put in Jail in Vicksburg
| Miss, last June, and George Randolph
y charged with grand larceny, made theil
escape by cutting thrOU 5h tae walls. Ih'
= prisoners had been allowed by the col
n ored guards at the jail to receive througt
. the mail and by express letters and pack
/ ages, some of them without being exam
q ined A splendid outfit of tools, used il
, making their escape, were found in tn
h cell, which were no doubt received il
g some of the packages mentioned.
e The Governor of Kentucky has decline
to call an extra session of the Legislatu
l. 10 consider the pleuro-pneumonia prob
h lem.
( Samuel Lee, who shota killed william
Warford, near Nashville, Tenn, recently
d was arrested at Kingston, twenty mile
distant, ami lodged in jail. He hat
g walked to K ngston, with the intention o
e boarding a train there and leaving tn
State. He admitted that he had kille
Warford.
The authorities of c lay, Putnam, Jacl
son and Smith Counties, are in search of
, desperate band of robbers .who have beeI
9 operating in the Upper Cumberland sec
tion for some time past. These men hav
o secret hiding places in the mountains, an
% send stolen property to Kentucky to
= disposed of. The last robbery reported
: that of Fowler, PlumIee & Co.'s safe
Butler's Landinr, Clay County, $500
= being taken. A large portion of tn
:. money belonged to farmdrs, who placed
Q on deposit for safekeeping.
&c John Vineyard, young man who wa
arrested recently charged with havin
I attempted to murder his brOther-H
"a law in the Indian Territory, had an ar
entirely severed at Brady's gin, Gaine
% vile, Tex, few days ago. Vineyard wd
IA feeding the gin. when it became choke'
and reaching in the feeder to draw the co
# ton out his hand was caught, the saw Ii
,- orally saving the hand to pieces.
Mrs. Barbara Becht, a widow aged se'
n. entv-seven years, was fatally burned
n her residence in Louisville, Ky, fe
nights ago. Her night clothes were igni
"A ed from candle, an l in an instant she W.
$, enveloped in flames, and before assistant
"a | could reach her, her night clothes ha
nearly burned off of her, and her bod
e from the waist up presented terrible a
h pearauce, being burned to n crisp.
VIM. UNDERSTOOD, United States Intern
Revenue Collector at Marshal, Tex, W
be succeeded October 1st by Webb Elan
/. gan.
= Virginia,s tobacco crop is being cut.
- The oldest English church now staudiT
- in America is said to be in Isle
Wight County, Virginia, between Smit
field and Suffolk. 1t was probably built
u 1882. I walls and tower are still stror
. and promise t. remain flor a long time
wv come.
~ Having lost the whole Of both legs in t
war, and subsequently living in power
for twenty -one years on his pension
:, Nashville (Tenn.) man hit upon the idea
- making a side-shOw curiosity of hims
, by attaching deceptive wax feet to
- stumPs and figuring as a freak OF natu
- He is now prosperous.
- PIeuro pneumonia has broken out amo
the hogs in Western Maryland.
:. The infected herd Of Frisbie & Lake,
or Kentucky, has been appraised at $50
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