The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-04-17
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.
No State or County Official in 1Iissis

Western Mississippi. Deer are fleeing to
the high lands of Arkansas to escape the
pests.
Hortensia Mason, colored school
teacher of Shelbyville, KY, has sued the
Louisville & Nashville r BAD for $4,000 for
refusing her the privilege of the ladies'
coach after she had purchased first class
ticket.
A fatal boiler explosion occurred a
few days ago at the Marine dry docks in
New Orleans.
Dallas and Fort Worth are engaged
in desperate contest for the railroad cham
pionship.
1t was reported in Dallas, Tex, a few
nights ago that Morgan Commack, impli-
Gated in the cotton swIndles in that city,
had been rearrested at some point on the
Lower Rio Grande.
Five prisoners broke jail, a few DAYS
since. at Lexington, Ga.
Southern cotton mill owners met re
Gently at Augusta, Ga, and adopted reso-
lutions looking to a curtaiIment of manu-
factureS.
Frank Elliot, a negro who assaulted
white girl in York County, North Caro-.
lima, was taken to Rock Hill for examina.
tion. The citizens overpowered the Sher'
ifs posse and lynched the offender.
j. T. Ransdall, Postmaster at New
castle, KY, is a defaulfer to the amount
of $500. Ransdall has disappeared. A
| Government agent is in possession of the
office.
At Newport. Tenn, shortly after dark
a few nigats ago w. c. Fowler shot and in
stantly killed John Rutherford. Ruther-
ford and associates were engaged in rcck-
ing Fowler, when the latter fired at the
crowd, killing Rutherford. Fowler had
not been arrested.
At Fairview, KY, a few davs ago,
John w. Gibson walked into the grocery
of John McCoy and shot him dead. A
large party of citizens went in pursuit of
the murderer.
THE Attorney-General of Texas has
brought suit against A. A. Talmage and J.
NJ. O'Donnell, of st. Louis, Mo-, to recover
$1,000 acres of valuable sugar land in
Brazoria County, claiming that the tract
was obtained by the use of fictitious
names.
Alfred and James Mccullough. con-
victed of the murder of Ephraim Soxon,
| at Greenville, S. c., have been sentenced to
hang May Is. Riley Anderson, who muir
dered Leon Griffith and an infant, was SEN
fenced to hang the same day. Anderson's
! crime was cold-blooded, and several at
tempts were made to lynch him.
The EOdv of a woman was found
floating in the river at Memphis, Tenn, a
few days ago, by some men engaged in
getting out drift wood. The remains were
entirely nude with the exception of a red
handkerchief bound around the head and
were in a very advanced state Of decom-
position. A small rope was tied around
the waist, indicating foul play, as a weight
! may have possibly been attached to the
rope.
Captain William H. Robinson, Demo
cratic candidate for Congress in the Eighth
Alabama District against General Joe
Wheeler, committed suicide at Scottsboro,
| Ala, few days ago, by sticking a pen
knife i'll his heart. He had just returned
from an electioneering tour, and it is sup
| posed the excitement affected his mind.
John COffey, Jr., who shot and killed
| Alfred Gossett, colored, October %, 1888, at
| New Orleans, while Gossett was in charge
of an officer on the way to the Courthouse
to receive a life sentence for the murder of
Policeman John Coffey, father of the ac-
cused, was tried recently and acquitted.
| There was much sympathy for the accused,
who is only twenty years of age, and al
most the sole support of his mother and
| brothers and sisters.
Antonio Lopez, a well-knOwn Mexican at
| Laredo, Tex, was recently tried for mur-
! der. After many delays jury was secured
| and he was acquitted. He was tried for an
! atrOCiOus murder committed in Hidalgo
| County in 1891.
| Fire destroyed the Merchants Bank and
several stores and offices at Pensacola,
! Fla, few days since. Loss, $50, 800; in
surance, S2S, 900.
S. L. Harley, formerly a merchant of
New York, convicted at Petersburg, Va,
last January of bigmay, his punishment
being six years in the Penitentiary, has
been granted a new trial
A party of 100 excursionists, from Michi-
/ gan, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and
| Pennsylvania, looking for sites for new
| homes, are looking around in Texas.
! Captain Eads has informed Direct or
| General Burke of the Worlds Exposition
that the Great Eastern steamer can be had
| for the Exposition Hotel. Correspondence
/ is now passing looking to bringing the great
/ ship to New Orleans.
| Joe Noel, drunken man, shot little
negro, Tom Bridges az Harrodsburg, Ky,
/ a few days ago for laughing at him The
/ ball entered the back of the neck and
lodged. Noel was caught and lodged in
! jail.
! The steamer Harry sunk her barge in
| Deer Creek, Miss, with 1000 sacks of cot
| ton seed for the Memphis Oil Exchange.
! Freiburg & Workum's distiuery burned
| recently at Petersburg, KY.
! Six counties in North Carolina have been
! swept by fires. Many houses were de-
/ stroyed.
! Confederate Decoration day was OBJ
served in New Orleans in the usual manner.
Joseph A. Mower Post, Grand Army Of the
| Republic, participated in the ceremonies.
| Nancy Mouse, coIored woman of Dali
las, Tex, aged thirty, dropped dead on the
street a few days ago.
Caledonia Chevarria was placed on trial
for murder at Laredo, Tex, and convicted
of murder in the first degree.
| Chattanooga, Tenn, has new furnace
with 100 tons daily capacity.
| s. Sugar lives at Monroe, La.
! The sentence of John Thomas, sentenced
to be hanged in Fairburn, Ga, has been
| commuted by Governor Mcdaniel to i'm
! prisonment for life.
! In a railroad accident near DeackitilI,
Miss, caused by a rail being torn up and
laid across the track, the engine, baggage,
! express and smoking cars were con. .pIetely
/ wrecked. The engineer and firemen were
/ seriously injured. The baggage master
1 and three mail agents were slightly in jured.
/ Passengers escaped unhurt. The railroad
/ company has offered $500 for apprehen-
| sion of the party guilty of tampering with
| the track.
! Colonel Breckenridge of San Antonio has
/ purchased :, so, 900 acres Of land in Tamau.
| lipas, Mexico.
! The grocery firm of CIere & Addison
| Louisville, Ky, was victimized recently by
New York sharp to the amount of SI2o,
! He Pretended to purchase the store and