The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-01-24
SOUTHERN GLEANINGJs

Mrs. Lucretia Patterson, wife o. OK
Senator Patterson, of South Carolina,
died in Washington few days since.
Sam Wheeler, of Gilmore, Tex, sem
fenced to b. hung on the Ilth, was respited
for thirty days, having, it is alleged, be
come a lunatic.
The J. J. Powers OiI-milIs at Vick5-
burg, Miss, have been sold to a stock COM
pany, and viii hereafter lie known as the
Warren Cotton-miIls.
a young girl named Fclipa Lescania,
living at Brownsville, Tex, was So badly
burned a few days ago that her life was de-
SPARED Of.
The young women Of Biountyille,
Tenn, have organized with motto: ''To-
tai Abstinence or No husbands"
Thirty-siXsquare miles of school lands
lying in one body are advertised or sale in
Clay and Archer Counties, Tex. They are
ut present inclosed by the Wichita Land
and Cattle Company.
Ed Atchison; incarccrateI for stab
bing Sidney hickman, was taken from tnc
Monroe (Va.) jail by a mob Il few nights
ago and hanged. The body was then rid
died with bullets.
Wesley Posey, negro rapist, sentenced
to be hanged at Birmingham, Ala, on the
1lth, has been respitcd f6r thirty days.
Edwards Opera-house. at Selma, Ala,
burned few nights ago. Loss, SI40Jp; in
| surance, 5000. Two fremcn were injured
by falling walls.
In Gordon CoUnty, Ca, recently, at
a social party, John Heath was ON the floor
awaiting TO commence a qHadrilIc. He sud
denly recled and fell 10 the floor, and in
stantly expired.
Henry Hunter, Of Oglethorpe, Ga,
had ch Id burned to deatn IL few days ago.
Tho mother went on visit, ana left sew
eral small children in the house around
the fire. When she returned she found
one burned 20 badly that all its skin peeled
/ off.
! a State Convention of stock mon was
! held last week in Austin, Tex, at which
! representatives Of all the stock-raising sec
tions were present and their interests thor
| oughIy discussed. The officers of the Con-
! vention werc Hon. j. D. Sayers, Of BIs-
| trop, President; John N. Simpson, Of Dali
las, first ice-Rresident; ". f. North, Of
! Austin, SECOND Nice-President; Seth Ma
! bry, of Kansas City, third Nica-President;
/ Colonel M 1t Lambert and D. c.. Bentley,
/ Secretaries; Doc Day, Of Austin, Treasurer;
! ". II. Crane, Scrgeant-at-Arms Execu-
| tive Committee, Doc Day, Austin, Chair
/ Il0ns A. Me- Bt'tJ. on IafIJnb OOunLNs u 9
NJ. Mathis, Victoria County; w. T. Lewis
Mitchell County; E. d. Lott, Goliad; H. B.
/ StOddard, Brazos; D. F. Moore, Galveston;
J. NJ. Brown, San Antonio; B. B. Groomes,
Pan; j. Kard, Clay County. A resolution
was adopted asking the passage of a law
! making fence-cutting felony, anda strong
| sentiment was manifested in opposition to
the passage of Il herd law by the LegisIa-
ture, and it is said that a powerful lobby
viii remain III Austin during the session OF
the Legislature to defeat any such.
Adiutant-General King Of Texas has
issued an order forbidding all officers and
men attached to the Rangers carrying side
arms except when actually on duty, or to
visit saloons or dramshops except on strict
Iy official business.
Edward Grcavcs was waylaid and
murdered near Crystal Springs, Mi -s., on
his way home a few nights ago.
General Hancock and wife went to
| Coahona County, MSS, recently to visit
their son, plan cr.
Major Charles M. Campbal, of JEFF
ferson, Tex, las been al pointed 20 st-otice
| Inspector for that State.
Ed Kennedy, a man said to have sew
era names. is in H Uston, Tex. under ar
rest for robbery. He s reported to'be. al
wanted in St. Louis, Mo-, for gIa d lar
ceny.
w. P. Rathburn, a bank President OF
! Chattanooga, Tenn, who ideut fed
with several large interests in that region,
! died recently.
The wife of Colonel II. Coulter CabcI!,
Of Richmond, vi. giuia, was fatally burned,
a few evenings since by her clothing TAX
ing fire at a CRATE.
The recent cold snap was singUlarly
severe in the South, but it does not appoa az
to have caused as much damage as WI; S
| first supposed. 1t is thought THAT the care
has not been materially injured, though q
had a very close escape; and the latest re-
ports say chat the orange crop with some
few local exceptions has suffered but little.
A considerable loss of sheep and young
cattle is reportedin Texas, but it is not gen
eral. Strange to say, the only deaths OF
persons from freezing in any Of the States
| North or South, occurred III Louisiana,
where there were four cases of that kind
The exploring party which has re-
Gently been operating in that vast and am
| bigUous region known as .'the Everglades, -
in Florida, does not give very lattering
account of the condition down there. Ii
/ is simply a melancholy waste Cf bogs,
| quicksand and saw grass, we are assured,
useless for any purpose, and beyond reach
| of any process of reclamation. The sug.
gestion is added that in the course Of a
century or two the forces of nature may
turn the bogs into firm soil and replace the
saw-grass with something else; but that
can hardly be said to give the country any
| practical interest.
James Wosten, n farmer, was found
dead a few mornings since a few miles
| from Beauregard, Miss, shot through the
| heart. There was no trace of the muir
| derer.
Governor Lowry, of Mississippi, wants
the Legislature of that State to pass a law
| authorizing an expenditure of ii 800 in any
case where a man charged with a high
| crime runs away and can not be reached
| by ordinary official effort.
EXcursiOnists are heading southwark.
In the Legislature of Texas bill has
been introduced making justifabIe homi-
| eide the killing oC a man found cutting a
| fence. The cattle men, in convention at
| Austin, declared against a herd law, but
opposed the doctrine Of free grass.
At a social gathering in the residence
! of William Perdue, at Americus, Ga, a few
| nights ago, an alteration between two
| jealous rivals terminated by Mr.. Boyd
Williams shooting Mr.. William Adams,
the ball passing through the body three
inches below the right nipple. The wound
/ was pronOuu ced fatal.
Nearly 1000 employees of Petersburg
! Na.,) tobacco factories are on a strike.
A boiler at the Arkansas cotton-press
in New Orleans, belonging to D. P. White
& Co., exploded a few days ago, injuring
/ four men.
The Texas Senate committee on