The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-03-13
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.


While out hunting A. H. Bernathy found
cave and evidence of gold. Over 5000
worth of nuggets are ON exhibition in
store. Miners and railroad men are flock.
ing in. Erin is small place on the Louis
vile & Nashville Road near the Tennessee
River.
Enoch Brown, sentenced to be hanged
at Halifax, n. c., has been reprieved to
March q. The sentence of death upon
Robert Pratt has been commuted to life i'm
pris onment.
A Georgia court has decided that
| copies of art productions of the old masters
are not obscene in the legal acceptation of
the term.
A new bank, with 800. 900 capital, is
projected at Vicl<sburg, Miss. Hon. Tnos.
c. Catching is reported as at the head of
the enterprise.
A quarrel over the possession of a
dime with hole in it led to the fatal injur-
ing of Henry Smith by Leonard Jefferson
few days ago near Selma, Ala.
A few nights ago at Fort Worth, Tex,
a lamp exploded in the house of Lew Tay-
lor a Palo Pinto, and the dress of Mrs.
Matte Taylor, his wife, caught fire. She
! was very severely burned and died the fol-
| lowing morning, after lingering through
the night in great pain.
Adviees from Culiacan, Mexico, give
| the particulars of the recent killing of ex.
/ Senator Henry Cooper of Tennessee: Coop
| er aud companion were attacked by two
| bandits. His companion Immediately fired,
killing one. .robber. The other robber then
| fired, shooting Cooper through the heart.
| The robber then fed and had not been cap
tured, though the authorities have made
! every effort.
A few nights ago Carry Stitch. a
negro policemen at Vicksburg, Miss, ar
rested Harry Johnson, a steamboat engi-
/ neer, who was very drunk, and while con-
| veying his prisoner to the calaboose was
cut in the left leg by johnson, severing
the femoral artery from which he bled to
death. He managed, however, to put a
| bullet through JOhnson's heart before sue
cumbing to loss of blood.
The body of a white man, supposed
to be David Crouch, of Sample, Hamblen
! County, Tenn, was found on the railroad
track at Newmarket, Tenn, a few days
ago. It was literally torn to pieces by a
passing train.
A shooting aafray occurred at Win
ston, Va, few days ago, in which three
men were fatally wounded.
The most heartrending accounts of
suffering and death continue to be received
from the various sections in South Caro-
lima and Georgia recently devastated by
tornado. Women and children, who but
recently were living in plenty and COM
fort, are now begging bread and shelter
from their neighbors. Houses. furniture,
and provisions, the earnings of years, and
in many instances of a life time, have been
swept away in an instant. These sufferers
are now unwilling but inevitable pension
| ers the charity of their,neighbors.
James Campbell, a native of Leith,
Scotland, stpne-cutter by trade, was killed
at Lexington, KY, i'll bar-room fight a
| few days since.
Tennessee has money enough in the
treasury surplus to pay the interest on her
whole debt if it was all funded.
A fruit-canning company, with $780,
coo capital will soon begin operations in
Vicksburg, Miss.
Alabama newspapers are agitating
the question of moving the State capital
from Montgomery to Birmingham.
There had been no rain for weeks in
the vicinity of Brownsville, Tex, and a
failure of the crops in that region is feared.
The steamer st. Francis Belle burned
recently on Bayou Bartholomew, Louisi-
ana
The Naire House at Denton, Tex,
was destroyed by fire a few days since.
Loss $4,000; insurance unknown.
The Weatherford (Tex.) Courthouse,
including the records of the courts and all
other public documents, was destroyed by
fire recently. The loss is estimated at $40,
600.
Rudd and Champ Fitzpatrick, to have
been hanged Friday, the 29sh ult., at Co
lumbia, Adair County, KY, for the muir
der of Miller Brewster, were reprieved by
the Governor till March IL.
Two negroes camped near the depot
at New Bradford few nights ago, and the
next morning both were discovered dead in
camp. One was shot through the head and
the other terribly mutilated, half of his
head being chopped off with an AK.
Chas. Z. Coon, formerly employed as
a steward on one of the local packets at
Memphis, Tenn, has been arrested on a
telegram from San Jose, Cal, charging
him with the larceny of valuable diamond
pin and large amount of money.
A cablegram dated London, Febru-
ary %, mentioned John and Richard Lys-
ton, of Denison, Tex, among Irish sus-
poets under the surveillance of the French
police. A Denison special says that John
Lyston is still in Denison, where he has
been over year. He is young fellow of
peaceable intention and is unable to think
who is wearing his name. Richard Lyston
is not known in Denison.
Eliza HarrOd, colored, died at the
residence of her daughter in Lexington,
Ky, on February 2S, with paralysis, in the
18th year of her age. She was born in
Clark County, in June 1771. She belonged to
William Mcdonald, who died several years
ago near Versailles. She was the mother
of ten children, six of whom still live, four
in Lexington and two in Bowling Green.
The youngest of her children is now sixty
eight years OLD. Eliza Harold was un-
doubtedly the oldest inhabitant in Ken
lucky. She was able to walk about in
the house up to the day of her death.
Texas fence-cutters getting scarcer.
In Harris County, Ca, have lived on
adjoining farms for many years three
brothers, Fred, John and Stephen Terry.
These brothers were aged respectively
seventy-eight, eighty and eighty-two years.
On January 81, Fred, the youngest, died.
His brother John was so affected that he
also died on January so, and Stephen, the
eldest, died day or two ago, supposedly
from grief at the loss of his brothers.
The large warehouse filled with hemp
and grass seeds belong ing to Thomas Brent,
Paris, KY, burned a few days ago. Loss,
$40, 900; insured for SIS 600.
The business portion of IredelI, Tex,
was recently destroyed by fire.
A fearful accident occurred at Mill
Creek trestle, two miles from BlakeIy, Ga,
a few days ago, where a party of railroad
hands, in charge of Major Pool, were driv-
ing piling. The engine connected with the