The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-01-03
SOUTHERN GLEANINGs.

+. Judge Erskine, Of the Southern Dis
trict of Georgia. has resigned, on salary. as
his age exceeds seventy,
Major Copper. Chief Engineer of the
Florida Southern Road, was fatally stabbed
a few days ago by Contractor Burchfeld,
in quarrel, at Leesburg, Fla.
Memphis estimates put the cotton
crop of this year at 1885, $50 bales.
The town of Kyle, Tex, has recently
been infested with all sorts of tramps, and
not being Incorporated, and the citizens
getting tired and not being sable to sleep
with open doors, certain lot of them were
taken from a freight car and a good whip
ping administered, with the request that
they leave town. They left.
Jim George, colored: residing five
miles from Clinton, La, returned home a
few nights ago, and found his daughter,
aged seventeen, dead, and another woman
mortally wounded. The latter has since
died. The crime was committed by a man
who called at the house, founSe the woman
in bed, and shot them both. Ed Eli, color
ed, has been arrested. Suspicion against
him is strong.
Pat Haley, a young Irishman fourteen
years of age, who last June stabbed and
killed an old negro named Alex. Dunlap,
has been convicted in the Memphis (Tenn.)
Criminal Court of murder in the first de-
gree, which carries with it the death penal
ty.
Howard, who killed Flynn, at Skip
with, Miss, few days ago was tried the
next morning. and was committed to jail
without bail. William Goodwin and Israel
Brown. both colored, were -deputized to
carry him to Greenville. Soon after leav-
%l,r-
Steel's Bayou by party of colored men,
who forcibly took Howard from them.
Since then nothing has been heard from him.
Some blood and Howard's hat were found
in the. vicinity. This is the only case on
record where colored men have lynched
one of, their own color for the murder of a.
white man. The only. explanation for this
is that Flynn was verY popular among the
negroes.
A horrible accident occurred a few
days ago at New Canton, Hawkins County,
Tenn. While William. Hord, one of the
wealthiest and most prominently known
citizens of the county, was sitting in a
chair in front of the fire in his room, he fell
face forward into bed of hickory Goals,
and the flesh on his face, chest and arms
! was burned to a crisp before assistance
reached him. Mr.. Hord was Just recover
ing from a severe spell of sickness, and it
is supposed be tainted from weakness and
fell ntotIefire. E He fingered seven hours
when he died. sSe 1 ~
A gang OfsburgIars are operating IN
Nashvihe, Penn They recently. entered
the store of Webb, Stevenson & Co., tin
ware dealers, blew open the safe and ex-
| tracted Skis. The. book-lZeeper of Webb,
+ Stevenson & Co. states that the day previ-
Gus AMMAN representing himself as an gent
for q safe company, asked to be allowed to
inspect their safe. Permission was granted,
and the bogus agent inspected it thorough
Iy. Thessame man had visited other bust
ness houses on the same pretext, and more
burglaries were looked for.
4 few nights ago three masked men
went to the house of Thomas Langston,
| living on Sand Mountain, near Rising
Fawn. Ga, and forcing an entrance they
| beat Langston nearly to death to make him
divulge the whereabouts of his money. He
/ denied having any,-when they ransaclIed
| an drawers, set the building on fire and
| fed. The flames were distinguished by the
sneighbors before much damage was done
Mr.. Langston was seriously injured and
his wounds may prove fatal. -
Demorest 81 Co.'S fruit store burned
in New Orleans few. days ago; insured
for 80, 900.
j. w. Voolfolk, cotton factor of
Columbus, Ga, recently suspended pay
ment on 100000 liabilities.
In a fence cutters fight in Coleman
County, Tex, few days ago, two men
were martally wounded.
| AN. Bell, a conductor on the South
Carolina Railroad, was killed at Columbia,
! S. c., few days ago. He was thrown un-
der the wheels and horribly mangled.
The Milburn Gin Machine Company's
storehouse at Memphis, Tenn, was de.
stroyed by fire a few days ago. Loss, S35,.
| 900; Insurance, S22,500.
Silas Lane, who was to have been ex-
ecuted at Rolling Forks, Miss, on the 21st,
was granted a reprieve for thirty days by
| Governor Lowry.
City Treasurer Walsh, of New Or
leans, has. been reinstated, the City Council
failing to sustain its impeachment resolu-
ton. ss..ts.r.
Near JellicO, Tenn, few days ago,
Frank Brown was killed by being struck
| by the branches of tree he had just felled.
He was a brother of ex-Lieutenant-Go Cover
nor Brown, of Ohio.
Yazoo County, Miss, has $1,000 ne
groes, 5000 whites and five Chimes.
M. Parks, planter near Lancaster,
Tex, had a horse stolen and his house bur
glarized of nearly 5000 few nights ago by
| Henry Lawrence, whom he employed as a
farm labOrer. ..-
For several months past the iron
| trade of Chattanooga, Tenn, has been
rather depressed, as we'll as all over the
country An effort was made there re-
Gently to bring about a resumption of BUSH
ness. A meeting of the several manufac-
turers of Chattanooga, furnace men, min
ers Of the raw material and the managers of
the Dade Coal Company, was held. The Dade
Coal Company agreed to reduce their prices
ION coal and coke twenty per cent, and the
produceEs.of the raw material the same.
TIE question of reducing wages ten per
cent all around was discussed but without
result.
At Greenville, S. c., few days ago,
Thomas Hamell, aged seventy two, was
married to Miss SaIlie Green, aged twenty
three. -.s>s +,
Brownsville, Tenn, has eighty widows.
While a cage containing twenty con-
Wet Iaborers was descending the shaft of
the Pratt mines at Birmingham, Ala,
few days ago, the engine running the cage
became unmanageable when the cage went
rapidly to the bottom, 200 feet-rebound-
ing sixty feet. Most of the menfeH out.
Joseph PheIan, colored, was killed. Two
white men and eleven negroes were in
iured. go fr-l.
In the Criminal Court at Nashville,
Tenn, a few days ago, Judge Reid de-
clared the Sunday law recently enacted by.
the City Council unconstitutional.
The entire business portion of Neehes,
Tex, was destroyed by fire few days ago.