The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-11
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

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| driver and four passengers of the stage be :
| tween Weatherford and Graham, Texas,
a few days since and was hotly pursued
| by bloodthirsty posse.
! Several firemen were injured by falling
walls in a recent conhagration al New
| iberia, La.
Fifty feet of shelving in Guiteau s. Wal
| dron's drug store, at Denison, Tex, loaded
with jars and packages of drugs, fell with
crash few days ago, striking Mr.. Wal
drOn on the head, filling his eyes with ir-
ritating liquids and inflicting a financial
damage to the amount of $1,000.
The first new bale of cotton raised with
| in the Memphis district was received
| few days since. 1t was raised in jefferson
County, Ark. It cIassed as middling, and
was sold at auction, realizing twenty cents
per pound.
On the Alabama line, near Fort Gaines,
Ga, a negro, while cleaning out well, re-
Gently had all the skin of his forehead
| knocked down over his face by plank
which broke loose from the curbing and
struck him glancing lick. 1t was a mi
raculous thing the negro was not killed in
stantly.
Sam Small, of Atlanta, Ca, has eighty
odd scrap-books, running back forty
years, and which he adds to daily. He has
the record of every public man who has
ever figured in Georgia politics, correctly
indexed. One of his books shows that
Senator Colquitt's father voted for and
approved two bills that his son voted
against in the United States Senate.
a fire at Buckridge colliery near Mount
Carmel, Tenn, was located a few days ago
and three pumps set to work forcing water
into it. The management say it will take
of oio +bg e. ,fcI
the fire. Over 800 men and boys are idle.
The damage will be over 900.
The health officer of Nashville, Tenn,
says that diphtheria is confined to one or
two localities in the eastern portion of the
city. 1t is rapidly dying out, and he does
not expect any trouble in entirely sup
pressing it. No alarm whatever is felt.
A fearful fight took place at Marysville,
! Tenn, few nights ago, among members
of the Quaker Church about the possession
of the college buildings. Three men were
badly beaten and bruised up, and more
trouble was expected.
A few nights ago a posse of men caught
the man who a short time ago robbed Joe
Davis at Glen Mary, Tenn, of $1,000, shot
him and placed his body on the railroad,
where it was horribly mangled. It was
discovered by accident how the man met
his fate.
The Farmer Mill, at Sherman, Tex, was
| destroyed by fire q few days ago. The
building is a total loss.
A fire at Midlothian, Tex, a few days
ago destroyed the store and stock of mer-
chandise of A. w. Moore. Loss. s., POO;
insurance, 500. A building owned by j.
S. Wilmer also burned; loss, $1,000; in
surance, 800. The fire was of incendiary
origin, and two suspicious strangers were
arrested charged with the crime.
Bill Burwell, a cOlored porter at the
Bost House, Newton, S. c., died of poison
few days ago. His wife Ida is charged
with the crime and has BEEN imprisoned,
together with Thomas Boykin and his two
sisters, Ellen Boyhin and Francis Yount,
who are charged with being accessories.
Daniel S. Reid fatally shot VIM. He'd
rick on the Courthouse steps at Charlotte,
N. c., a few days ago.
Mrs. Stages and Mrs. Pully, of Paducah, 4,
KY, quarreled about their children. Mrs.
Stages settled ~the sdispute by stabbing
Mrs. Pully, killing her instantly.
All the prisoners in the Denton (Texas)
Jail, eleven in number, escaped a few
nights ago by overpOwering the jailer.
The car wheel and foundry works at
Marshall, Tex, burned a few days since,
the loss aggregating 100000.
1t is the intention of the ladies of Louis
lana to collect all the relics possible
which are in any way connected with tn Q
history of Louisiana from the days of her
earliest infancy to the present time.
For the year ended August 80 Memphis
received 450. OFT bales of cotton. The total
value of the years receipts was S23, ,O00,-
300. Home consumption for the year, 2, ,206
bales.
z+oro-,,.o,,, ,,ar,o4 I27obo~5 N,so,, n 4
tempted suicide at Cisco, Tex, few days
ago by taking morphine. He said he was
tired of life.
A telegram from Murphysville, Presidio
County, Tex, announces the death of
John Anderson from stroke of ligh timing.
Anderson was formerly a member of Gil
lespie's company in the Ranger service.
warrant has been issued for the arrest
of Marcus McClain, charged with being
one of the party of men who, few nights
ago, attacked the village of Maddoxtown,
KY. fired number of shots aud mortally
wounded Henry Nichols, colored, who was
standing IN his doorway.
Bishop G. F. Pierce, senior Bishop of the
M. E. Church South, who has been lying
i'll at his home, t'Sunsbine," three miles
from Sparta, Ga, for several days past, at
last accounts was not expected to live, his
physician having no hopes of his recovery.
The Bishop has been a sufferer from an
acute disease of the throat for the past four
years. 1t has gradually grown worse, and
now he is unable to swallow enough to
keep him alive.
The dead body of a negro was found on
the railroad track near San Marcos, Tex,
a few days ago, with an arm and leg cut
Off and head terribly cut. 1t is supposed
a. 4I,o
track, as no blood was found near the
body.
The Texas oat crop is about all threshed
out. The yield will average about fifty
bushels, against sixty last year. The pro-
tracted drought has cut corn and cotton
fully twenty per cent The acreage of
cotton is about fifteen per cent. less than
last year, and the yield twenty five per
cent. less. The increase in corn is about
ten per cent. greater and the yield fifteen
per. cent less.
Augusta, Ga. now has electric lights.
Captain J. NJ. Stone, Of Greensboro,
Ca, some weeks ago caught and Gagged
rattlesnake with eleven rattIes. Desiring
TO see how long the reptile would live
without food, it was put on Tanner treat
ment. On the thirty ninth day it died.
The snake was then cremated-
A bloody ARRAY occurred a few nights
ago at Dayton, Tenn, between two coal
miners. They quarreled over some trivial
matter and fell upon each other with their
knives. One was overpowered by the
other and he stabbed him twenty-nine
times, lacerating his entire body in a
shocking manner.
A tabernacle having no respect or creed
Is proposed at Atlanta, Ga.O
Mr.. A. Cox, a well known business man
of Butler, Ga, committed suicide a few
days ago by taking twenty six grains of
morphine.