The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-10-02
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

uaYS ago. IelCuaiu " 6ASHs a hA6Aiy ~
spected citizen, was thrown from his
wagon and instantly killed. He went to
that city with the army in 1867, and was
discharged the same year. He had re-
Iations and friends in st. Louis.
A terrible accident occurred near Bridge
vile, Ala, a few days since. While twelve
men were putting a roof on barn OF
Hughes & Summerfield, it fell in and the
entire party were thrown to the ground.
Eight of the men were seriously hurt, and
it was feared that g. w. Hughes, j. Il.
Hairless and three colored men were fatally
injured.
A posse of five men attempted to arrest
VIM. Searcy, charged with the murder of
two men, in Nelson County, KY, few
days ago. Searcy was heavily armed aud
refused to surrender. He was shot and in
stantly killed by the posse.
Ulysses Grant, of Dallas, Tex, son of
William Jesse Grant, and young but
chronic crook, who passes most of his time
in jail, abstracted a check for $3.50 from a
letter, few days ago, addressed to Mrs.
D. E. Beck, care of the boys father, got
the cash and skipped.
Meyer Moskovitz, convicted at Nash
vile, Tenn, as accessory before the fact
to the recent murder of Meyer friedman,
has been sentenced to imprisonment in the
Penitentiary for life. Moskovitz took an
appeal to the Supreme Court, which will
consider the case next winter.
Mexican independence was celebrated a
few days ago in Pedras Negras, opposite
Eagle Pass, Tex, by speeches, fireworks
and professions. As a boat-load of pas
sengers were returning to the American
side, it ran foul of the ferryboat and over
turned. Eight persons were pulled from
Frank Didlake's house, at Hamburg,
Tenn, was struck by lightning few days
ago and the building almost totally de-
molished. His two daughters fell on their
knees and became unconscious in that po-
sition, and at last accounts were in a criti-
cal condition.
A negro sneak thief named VIM. Hodge
was found in the sleeping apartment of
Mr.. p. G. Bigley, at Memphis, Tenn, few
mornings since. The room is on the third
floor of the De Soto building, on Madison,
near Main. The colored porter of the build
ing discovered the intruder, who finding
his escape cut off from the door, ran to the
front window and jumped to the stone
pavement below, distance Of over forty
feet. He broke his right arm and cut
deep cash over his temple. He was sent
to the hospital, but is not expected to live.
The thief had previo usIy robbed Mr.. r. W.
Leake's room, which is just across the hall
from Mr.. Bigley's.
A few nights ago Dick Brown, a thrift
less negro, who has been involved in
dozen shooting affairs and cutting scrapes,
made his way into a room occupied by
Della Knox, a young colored woman liv-
ing on the Linwood plantation, in Ascen-
sion Parish, Louisiana. Upon being dis
covered by the occupant he is said to have
crouched behind the door, whereupon the
woman ran out upon the gallery, seizing
q shotgun on the way. She called upon
Brown to leave her room, and receiving no
response fired upon him, wOunding him in
both legs. He walked off, and was discov-
cred next morning lying in the weeds 2J0
or 800 yards from the house, very weak
from the loss of blood. He was carried
into a neighboring cabin and properly
cared for, but died subsequently from the
| effects of his injuries. The Grand Jury
refused to indict the woman, deeming that
| she was justified in firing the fatal shot.
The large cotton seed oil mill of James
| N. s. Joseph r. Rushing, at Terrell, Tex,
burned a few days ago. Loss, $4,000;
| fully insured.
They can execute a prohibitory law in
! Georgia. Since the whisky traffic has
been tabooed in Johnson County there has
! been a steady decrease of crime and the
| jail is almost a useless appendage.
A notice was posted at the Soddy coal
mines near Chattanooga, Tenn, a few
days ago, announcing that the miners
would be paid only for lump coal, and
would be required to separate the slack,
on account of the decrease in demand for
coke. At once 400 hands quit work and
held a conference with the mana gers, and
| 81 70 IL,
and great strike was averted.
Rapid baptism Is coming to the front in
| South Carolina. Rev. Mr. Landrum, a
Baptist minister, in a recent letter from
| New Pros pect Church in GreenviIIe
County, says: "Ably assisted by Brother
| LewelIyn, of Louisville Seminary, l be-
! gan a meeting on Saturday before the
fourth Sabbath in August and closed on
! the 4th of September. l led seventy two
| willing converts down in the water and
baptized them yesterday morning, per-
forming the ordinance on the whole in
| thirty-three and a half minutes by the
watch, decently and in order. What about
our Pedo- Baptist brethren's argument as
to the three thousand. The Lord be
praised. Quite a number of Methodists
were among the baptized"
A tragic ending of sad romance is re
ported from Walker County, Ga, about
eight miles from Chattanooga, Tenn. Fol
several months Will Stoner, one of the
leading young men in his neighborhood,
has been paying devoted attention to q
beautiful young girl named Lizzie Wei
burn. It was currently reported that they
were engaged. A few days since the
young lady sent Stoner a note that they
must sever their acquaintance. The
young man, greatly dismayed, sought an
explanation, but she declined to see him
and in the depth of his grief and humllia'
tion he hung himself in his barn, and wh ell
found was stone dead.
Captain w. H. James, United States
Assistant Engineer of Upper Cape Fear
River improvements, shot himself at Will
mington, N. c., few days ago, and died
in few minutes.
Ware and Hulen, convict guards, a
Lake Washington, Miss, quarrelled few
days ago, and Hulen was killed.
The Jasper (Ala.) Courthouse burned
While engaged in working on the roat
near their home in Marion County, Geor
gia, a few days ago, Robert Rutherfor,
and Buck Parker renewed an old feud
Rutherford used a drawing knife an,
Parker hoe. Both were badly used up
the latter receiving several bad cuts Will,
rutherford was fatally wounded.
| ). +. hatnelds murderer ana raplS6 o
| Indian Territory, was captured by the
Sheriff of Montague County, Tex, a feS
days ago, and was taken to Burlington T.
be delivered to tho authorities in the Ter
tory. 1t was the general belief that Hat
field would be lynched.
In digging a well at Denison, Tex, re
Gently, the workmen struck gold.
Sam Clay, an old and respected schoo
teacher of Mount Sterling, KY, made a
attack on Miss Sallie Oldham and her sis
ter while in her buggy, near his house
few nights ago, and stabbed the forme
| saveral times indfcting probably fats