The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-07-24

entirely clear. When he saw Lusk ap |
preaching, he said, "George, I fell between !
the cars and tried my best to get out of the
way, but could not do it. 1 have been
working with you long time, but will
never help you couple any more" His
agonizing groans were piteous to hear. He
begged them to move his feet, and said he
could get up if they would help him. He
clutched convulsively to those bending
over him, and prayed for His Maker to
stand by him in that trying hour. This in
tense agony lasted for forty minutes, when
he began to weaken, and fell back with the
death damp on his forehead. He became
quiet and expired fifty minutes from the
time he was run over. Billings was
twenty-six years of age, and leaves wife
and one child, now living at Roanoke, va.
An extra mail service is to be provided
by river between Vicksburg and Green
! vile, Miss.
James A. Chandler, Postmaster at Du-
/ pre-, Tex, was found dead in his house
few days ago.
San Antonio (Tex.) capitalists propose
to build a new railroad to connect that city
with deep water on the Gulf.
An attempt is being made to borrow the
centennial organ for use at the New Or
| leans Worlds Exposition.
The authorities of Port Gibson, Miss,
will resist the delivery of $4,000 in bonds
to the Louisville, New Orleans & Texas
Road.
Newton Carpenter and Ned Macks, ne
groes, of StarksviIle, Miss, were arrested
recently for poisoning two boys in 1882.
While on the way to jail they were hanged
by a mob.
A petrified hog has been discovered in
Rawson's Creek, about seven miles from
Harrisburg, Miss. It will be sent to the
New Orleans Exposition for the purpose of
bringing into notice the peculiar petrify-
ing properties of that stream.
William j. Crump, a son of the Judge of
the Virginia Court of Appeals, was muir
dered in a Baltimore restaurant few days
ago by a sporting character named George
W. Sonner. Jr.
Miss Sedalia Lock, the seventeen-year-
{ old daughter of Deputy Sheriff Lock, of
/ Austin, Tex, who disappeared from her
homo a few weeks ago, has been heard
from at Kansas City, Mo. She is reported
married to John Fletcher, member of a
patent medicine concert company.
James Sims (coIored) who murdered his
wife in Miller County, Georgia, and fed to
Florida, has been captured and lodged in
Jail at Bainbridge.
Advices from the west tern part of Texas
confirm the report that the sheep and cat
tie industry of that part of the State is
threatened with annihilation by drought.
Sheep men with flocks were arriving daily
2 at Eagle Pass seeking ingress into Mexico
water holes. The streams on the American
side of the Rio Grande are dried up.
Hardin, the Troup County (GeorgiaI
. rapist, was lynched by citizens, who
wrested him from the custody of the
Sheriff.
A little girl near Branchville, S. c., was
awakened few nights ago, when she told
her mother that something had bitten her
and that she had pulled it in two. A ligh
was procured, when about eight inches Of
L garter snake was seen writhing near heI
pillow. 1t was supposed to have beer
placed upon the bed by cat, which had
been seen eating the tail part. The child
:, lied the next day from the reptiles
wound.
Fig trees flourish in Florida.
Fifty men representing the Gates faction
> in northern Louisiana recently took fOrci
BILE ssession of the Courthouse at New
Iberia while the Fontelieu party were il
: an adjacent saloon. As reinforcement
= were summoned by both sides, bloody
- encounter was only averted by a com
promise between the leaders, who promis
Z to let the courts decide the issue.
George Aiken, who left Louisville, KY.
eight years ago, poor, has returned 70 tha
= city rich, and is now aching to find hi
only child, left in an orphan asylum, bu
loaned or given to some family and nov
;, lost trace of.
. A fifty thousand dollar fire is reportc
from Chattanooga, Tenn.
"A A dentist of Chester, S. c., several year
ago extracted tooth for gentleman j
at that county, kept it out one hour and te
r minutes, long enough to excavate the dc
cav and insert two filings, and then II
is placed the tooth in the cavity. Il is a
it. good to-day as any tooth in the patient
mead and has never given any troubl
"a The Doctor has recently been successful
h. two other cases of a similar kind.
O. While masked men were forcing the ia
70 hang Dick May at Owensboro, KY,
VI few days ago, Jailer Lucas fired on ther
ng killing one and wounding another. IT
crowd fred on the iailer and killed him.