The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-11-13
SOUTHERN oLEANINes.


during the past four years at the rate of
$160,OOO,OOO a year.
A young lady in south Georgia inserts
the following advertisement in a local pa
per: 'Wanted, by a young lady not thir-
ty, a husband, be he bachelor, widower or
dude. 1 am good-looking, weigh 11O
pounds, can cook, wash and IRON"
Colonel J. G. O'NeilI, who commanded a
Tennessee regiment in the rebellion and
was a leader in the Fenian raid into Cana
da, died in Galveston a few days ago of
hemorrhage of the lungs.
Geo. T. jackson, President of the Enter
prise cotton factory, Augusta, Ga, is re-
ported defaulter to the amount of $4,000
or more.
Bob Williams, the negro murderer, ar
rested in st. Louis in June, was convicted
at his trial in New Orleans.
James Marshall and Max Price were ar
rested at Houston, Tex, a few days ago,
charged with embezzling money from the
Fargo Express Company.
The house of Mr.. James Cochran, at Ell
Hjay, Ga, was destroyed by fire few
nights ago. His mother, eighty three years
of age, who was an invalid, was burned to
death. Nothing was found but charred
bones and the spinal column.
DR.. MunhaIl, of Indiana, has been con-
uuCbAlA5 O1lC VI bA10 4AAOSD pow AuA AOFAfetAo
ever enjoyed by the people of Jackson,
Tenn. Nearly a hundred persons have
been converted, and the meeting still goes
on with increasing interest.
A brakeman on the Illinois Central Rail-
road and a highly respected citizen of
Jackson, Tenn, by the name of William
McAlexander, aged about twenty-five
wears, was crushed to death while coup
ling cars a few nights ago at Fulton, KY.
James Mattison was sentenced a few days
ago to five years in the Penitentiary for the
murder of Sheriff Blythewood last spring,
in Wharton County, in a street alteration.
Mattison claims to have shot in self-de-
tense.
Henry Roberts, colored, was found dead
in aB empty room in a house in Louisville,
KY, where his divorced wife lived with
her children, few days ago. He had been
shot. The two had not been living togeth-
er for several months. 1t is supposed that
he went to see her and that she shot him.
She denies that she killed him, and says
she don't know how he came to be in the
room.
Samuel Arnett, prominent citizen of
ReadyvilIe, Tenn, was murdered a few
days ago by Beverly Bivens. The two re-
/ newed an old feud, and words led to blows,
whereupon Bivens seized an axe and struck
| his antagonist on the head.
| A detective employed by the Mobile &
| Ohio Railroad arrested man named Field
ing, near TupelO, Miss, few days ago who
is believed to be one who displaced the rails
on that road between TupeIo and Satillo on
the 18th, and caused the run off in which
several persons were severely injured.
There are 126,690 negroes in the State of
Florida.
An apple-tree that has borne four crops
this year and has a prospect for a fifth will
furnish fruit at a Georgia Thanksgiving.
John E. Duffy stabbed and killed Ed
ward Gardney in New Orleans few days
ago.
The defaIcation of George T. Jackson,
President of the Enterprise factory at Au-
gusta, Ca, amounts to $4,000.
Water in the streams of Florida is low,
and the big alligators are coming to the
surface. One killed near Tallahassee a few
days since was as big as a -four barrel and
fifteen feet long.
Perry Melton and his son William were
found guilty of murder for the killing of j.
W. Perry at Spearville, La, and the death
penalty affixed.
George Webb, colored, and his wife, of
Anderson, S. c., went to church few
nights ago and left their children at home.
When they returned the house was in
ashes and two of their children burned to a
crisp.
A terrible riot between whites and blacks
is said to have occurred a few days ago in
Seneca City, S. c., on the Air Line Road.
Rumor placed the number of killed at
twenty.
The Board of Management of the Worlds
Exposition at New Orleans has set aside
the sum of $4,000 to meet the expense in
eidental to a grand encaHPment of vet
Grams of the late war between the States.
Oranges are coming in fast in south
Florida, and though still unripe are wei
advanced for the season, and remarkably
bright and free from rust.
Peter johnson, a clerk in store in g
village near Brackett, Tex, was assassin
ated few nights ago and the store robbed
: The Sheriff was in pursuit of the mur-
, derers.
: Vice Chancellor Simra1, of Louisville
: ! XIV, in the case of w. H. Dulaney anC
J others, asking for an injunction against tn,
city of Louisville for collecting taxes, ow
ing to the alleged flaw in the tax law of tn
State refused to grant the injunction. Th
amount involved was about S1000,000, ant
the decision makes necessary the paymen
of taxes long withheld by certain citizens
p The Savannah through freight train o.
: the Central Road collided few nights ag
. with a way freight on Sun Hill (Ga.
= bridge, killing Phil Young, train hand, Sc
> riously wounding two others, smashing
. two engines and demolishing fifty bo:
cars.
h The work upon the Greenwood, Lauren
& Spartanburgh Railroad is progressing
a most satisfactorily. The road win be com
n pleted to Laurens by the middle Of Novem
Der, and to Spartanburg by the 1st o
A March. The Savannah Valley branch t
Anderson, in an opposite direction, vii
also be completed at an early day. Thes
!. two roads will contribute largely to tn
a prosperity of Augusta, Ga, at the ex
a pense of South Cardinals two principa
| cities-Columbia and Charleston.
a First snow for Kentucky On the Sd.
n Virginia sportsmen are reported to b
having fine time hunting cartridges, rah
II bits and wild turkeys, game being abun
! dant everywhere. Wild ducks have begu
to gather in great hunters in the creeks c
% James River, in the neighbOrhOod of Clair
n mont, Surrey County
A colored woman n Union County, S. G
n few days since lefther two children, age
> ten wears and SIX months, in the hous
while she went to a spring to do som
n washing. During her absence the hous
II took fire, and before she returned her hous
was in ashes ard her youngest child roast
. ed to death.
he Texas expects to make $4,000, 900 th
year in her cattle business.
- Some. people have no use for railroad
III A middIe-aged white man and wife wake
: into Acworth Gs., the other afternoon I
do little trading. They stated that the
% left Rome a little late the same morning
o and had walked every step of the wa.
III