The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-05-22
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.


him and the boy hasn't been seen since.
The cotton crop report for the Memphis
district shows a decreased acreage
planted.
A Louisville attorney named Lewis G.
GarEigus has sued A. Frazier of that city
for s., 900 damages for shooting him at
Russellvile, KY, last year.
The heirs of Thomas A. Scott sued the
city of Shreveport, La, for $50, 900 with ac.
crued interest since 1870, but Judge Board
man rendered decision against them.
James Murray shot and killed D. Hardin,
ex-Sherif of Crittenden County, Tenn,
few days ago in a quarrel growing out of
lawsuit Murray was shot in return and
died soon afterward.
An attempt was made a few days ago by
a Sheriff's posse Of forty men to capture
W. B. Cash, the Chesterfield Is. o. out
law. The Cash mansion, Cash's depot, was
surrounded and a thorough search of the
premises made, but the murderer could not
be found.
J. R. Wolf, of Georgetown, KY, was ar
rested at Lexington a few nights ago on
tue charge of forgery. He had forged the
name of T. J. Burgess, Cashier of the
| Georgetown National Bank, to checks to
the amount of several thousand dollars.
| The bank will lose heavily by it.
Austin Bull, raftsman from Pennsyl-
! vania, was found murdered under pile of
straw in the eastern part of the city of
! Louisville, KY, few days ago. He had
! been struck in the head, then choked to
| death with towel and his body hid under
the straw. There was clew to the MUIR
derer or cause of the crime.
! John Ashley, farmer, while at work on
l. 8 i t,c
was shot in the face by some unknown
| party, the ball lodging near the ear, but it
is thought not to be serious. 1t is supposed
| to have been a stray shot from some one
! out hunting.
! The trial of School Superintendent
Carter NJ. Lauthan, of Richmond, Va, for
| engaging in politics in violation of law
resulted in a verdict of guilty. He was
fined fifty dollars in addition to forfeiture
of his office. Lauthan will appeal.
One of the little girls of Mr.. Geo.
| Reeves, of Waynesboro, Ga, went out
into the yard, few days ago, carrying
one of the smaller children in her arms.
| There were two large pots of boiling
| clothes in the yard. As she neared the
| pots, holding the little one in her arms,
| peeping over the edge, she released her
| grasp and dropped the little fellow into
! the uOJ "dGeTs II was SCdluSu 10 uedblfs
The mills of the Kentucky Lumber Com
| pany at Williamsburg, Ky, burned a few
days ago. Loss, $1,000; insurance, $4O,-
OOO.
The Postmasters at Flag Springs, KY,
and Walnut Ridge, Ark, have been arrested
on charges of embezzlement
AT the Houston (Tex.) drill member of
the Columbus Guards tainted and stabbed
himself seriously in the neck with his own
bayonet.
A welI-dressed man giving the name of
c. H. Anderson attempted suicide at Dal-
las, Tex, few days ago, on account of a
| love scrape.
James Seaman has been arrested at Car
rollton, Tex, as an accessory TO the muir
der of George Moore, which occurred about
the middle of April.
The wives of Dick Crouch and James
Sullivan of Paducah, KY, quarreled and
Crouch shot and fatally wounded Sui.
livan.
The coffee imports into the port of Gal
weston, Tex, from July 1, 1873, to May 1,
1891, were 7,373,454 pounds, valued at $685.
90.
A peuitentiary guard was killed in Ken.
lucky a few days ago hy one of a gang OF
convicts whom he was taking to prison.
! Already in the season there are known
to be $4,000 head of cattle that will be
driven north in the course of the year
from Texas.
The German citia,ns of Dallas, Tex
held grand MAY festival, beginning on
the 18th with a grand parade and picnic
Plans have been agreed upon for the
erection Of a new hotel at Austin, Tex, by
| a Chicago syndicate. The building is to
cost $5)O0IO.
The pioneers of Dallas County, Tex, in.
Guiding all who came to the county prior
to 1850, are making arrangements for a re
union July II.
Crescencio Bales, a Mexican barber al
Eagle Pass, Tex, committed suicide a few
days ago by blowing out his brains with a
reovIver. The act was caused by tenn
porary insanity, owing to the cares of g
large family, depression in business and
too much mescaI.
An aged Frenchman named Peter Car
burett, who has been in the country only
three months, committed suicide a few
evenings since at ashville, Tenn, by cut
ting his throat. The reason given was tha
he had no one to talk with, not speaking
English.
Miss Sallie Peoples, young lady TWEEN
ty- eight years of age, residing with hel
widowed mother at SommerviIle, Tenn.
suicided few days ago by shooting her
self in the forehead with a Colts revolver
III health is said to have been the cause o
her rash act. She belonged to a highly
respected family. and was general favor
ite of a large circle of friends.
A few nights ago at CotuIla, Tex, c. B
Mckinney, Sheriff and A. L. Shirley anC
George Edmunds surprised two Mexican
desperadoes in the act of driving off some
horses belonging to James COtulIa. The
Mexicans were ordered to halt and throw
up their hands, but drew their weapons
and opened fire. The officers promptly re
sponded, killing one of the thieves anC
badly wounding the other, who is now il
jail. The horses were returned to theil
! owner.
Louisiana has negro State college.
c. A. Van Nordan, a business man of At
Ianta, Ga, who was indicted for carry
ing concealed weapons, forfeited his bono
and hid beneath his house. He grew tired
of his position and killed himself with I
revolver.
A Virginia lady who has just entere'
upon her Tooth year takes from six to eigh
cups OF coffee a day.
Masked men at Elizabeth, KY, a few
nights since, took from jail a negro wh'
had committed an outrage on a whit
woman, and hanged him to a tree outsid
tho city, with placaIu OEueFlhS no one q
/ touch the corpse.
Yves Barksdale, a Laurens County (Mis
sissippi) negro, recently tied his foot K
the trigger of a gun and blew of his head
| The arrest of Geo. Bird in New Orleans
dav or two ago, has led to the arrest of hi
newlv-made wife, Augusta Bird, in Al
riers. her father, Roosevelt Shepperd, his
wife, two sons and a daughter. In thei
house was found large lot of watches anC
iewelrv, with a quantity of new coin bear