The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-02-14
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.


Gently arrested at Jefferson, Tex.
The famous brood mare Midnight
dam of j Jay y-Fye-Ses and Noontide, died at
Palo Alto, Texas, recently, aged nineteen. /
In Galveston. Texas, Philip Davis
was recently sentenced to twenty years
in the Penitentiary for barn burning.
Smallpox is reported as prevailing
generally among the colored people Of the
western part of Washington County, Miss.
At remote spot on the East Bay
shore, twenty five miles from Galveston,
| Texas, hunter, named Lewis McComb,
| eating supper in a lonely cabin, owned by
| Mrs. Barrows, was shot and, killed few
evenings since BY an unknown person
! w. B. Barker, H. L. Barker and S. L.
! Barker were recently sentenced by the
| United States Court, sitting in Austin,
| Tex, to life Imprisonment in the Peniten.
tiary at Chester, H., for robbing the mail
| near Lampasas, and jeopardizing the life
| Of the carrier.
Thomas Wilcher, colored, has been
sentenced at Rome, Ga, to fifteen years.
Imprisonment in the Penitentiary, for
criminal assault upon young girl.
Frank Nyeman, of Walker County,
| Ga, was given 81, 700 recently for delivery
to third party. Obstacles were put in his
|
ing the money that he has become a raving
maniac 'rti
During a quarrel at Hawesville, KY,
a few days ago, between r. l.. Bruner, a
clerk in a dry goods store, and Charles
Newman, the latter was stabbed and soon
died. Bruner was captured.
The Texas House of Representatives
has passed bill to punish fence-cutting
with from one to five years. imprison-
meut.
A gold watch and chain recently
stolen from young lady of Dallas, Texas,
were recently found in possession of a
Fort Worth gambler and returned to their
owner.
The Board of Management of the
Worlds Exposition, at New Orleans, re-
, jected all bids for the construction of the
main building, and instructed Director Gen
eral Burke to advertise for proposals for
materials for the structure. Fhe work on
f the building will be commenced at once.
The Texas Land Office fees for Jan
uary were $3,477 80, the Treasurer's looks
showing a balance of $S7, 800 in the vaults
: Governor Ireland, of Texas, has par
: doned w. j. Brown, sent to the Peniten
tiary in 1877 for seven years. His tern
= would have expired in August, but he wa:
e pardoned because of good behavior.
The number of business failures il
9 Georgia for the week ending the 29th wa'
) startling. No less than fourteen bad one
e were reported, the largest number of any
y one week since the panic of 1873
S Rev. j. w. Malone, a Baptist Minis
ter was fatally stabbed by John Boatright
; in Henry County, Ala, few days ago.
Officer R. Cra'g of the New Orleans
O1i few iUh
> ago, by falling through hole in the Texa
& Pacific freight wharf.
The Madison County (Ga.), Jail wa
= empted of its inmates by outsiders fey
~ nights ago. It is supposed the object wa
to secure and lynch Simon Childus, colOred
q who recently married fourteen-year oil
white girl.
q William Hone Mackinz;e, State Ian,
N Inspector for the Corbin Banking an
Mortgage Company of New York, wa
o thrown from his buggy in Aiken County
i S. c., few days ago, and instantly killed
Meridian is ambitious to become tn
7r capital of Mississippi. .s---
Of The body of a white infant was fOun
IL in a sewer by the police of Atlanta, Ca,
few days ago.
rs An eight-months' old pig recentl
w butchered near Suffolk, Va, weighed g.
IS pounds dressed.
at JEFF Rogers, a negro ravisher, wa
er hanged by a mob a few nigh ago at l.
n fayette, Ga.
tn The United States Circuit Court {
Mobile, Ala, recently dismissed all say
tn one of ten cases pending there since IS
es for alleged violations of revenue laws.
oy Four men arrested a few days ago fC
blowing open safe at Houston, Tex, we
ne discharged, the evidence against them b
on ing only circumstantial.
The extreme cold weather in SOut
Carolina seriously damaged the oats Gro
destroyed early vegetables and kill'
H. doves, mocking- birds and poultry.
~ John Haisn, of Lancaster, Tex, w;
a. murdered few days ago by mani
m brother whom he had cared for for yea
as rather than send him to the asylum.
re Easton and Cammack, the allegt
,l cotton swindlers, in jail, at Dallas, Texa
d. were placed in separate cells previo
IT. to being taken before the Grand Jury,
be prevent any collision with reference
ID. their statements. 1t now transpires tn
a the prisoners frustrated the object of t
es separation by constructing a paper te
re- phone of sufficient length to reach frc
he one cell to another, through which tn
of held Accommodation at night, the tube
in ing taken down and drawn up, after t
m fashion of a juggler's sword, in the da
re- time.
ort John A. Kline, one of the founders
ly Vicksburgand the Mississippi ~ ValleylBar
mt died at Vicksburg, Miss, few days ago
re- j. L. Matthews, alias John Leonar
81 charged with the murder of his aged graz
Ns father, in Henry County, Tennessee, W
On arrested a few days ago at Mckinney, TIE
,u- and lodged in Jail to await the action
ieS the Tennessee authorities.
Isaac and Minerva johnson were
ng rested in Chattanooga, Tenn, few da
1ut ago charged with the murder of Elb
opl Thomas, five-year-old boy whom tn
wn had adopted The evidence before
AT Coroner's jury showed that the child W
ro- starved and slowly tortured to death.
eI Balmy weather in New Orleans.
re- The negro Sandy Robinson, who MI
dred Deputy Sheriff James Lathrop
Id Gently in Leon County, Texas, was tab
from the Jail at Crockett by 100 mask
d horsemen and hanged near the gravey5
at the edge of the town
ka- A few nights ago when the steam
Natchez was four miles above Bal
in Rouge, La, a steam-pipe exploded, tear
on. up the floor of two staterooms and ga
re way, and filling the cabin with steam.
colored boy was killed, and passeng
,yb r. w. Adams, of Louisville, KY, was
t. verely scalded.
Bloodhounds are still used in Te1
ted for capturing escaped criminals.
the At Davenport, Tex, George Romicl
eek ! q -aD,,tab1a German farmer in good