The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-01-31
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

AlAAALS u &C near dOuCdLg ny q lew va
ago, and appears now to be completely
dead from the hips down, while above he is
we'll as ever, suffering no pain.
A Dallas (Tex.) gambler paid 81, 400
fines recently under pleas of guilty.
Nero, a colored man shot in the brain
at Marshall, Tex, a couple of weeks ago,
died few days since from his wounds
j. r. Tucker, railroad emplOye at
Denison, Tex, caught his foot in a switch
frog few days since and was run over by
a freight car, losing one leg.
Mamie Mayen, of Louisville, KY,
died recently, and an investIg cation showed
that her death resulted from opium poison
ing. She sometimes took eighty grains
day.
The commissioners appointed to Sc
lect plans for a new Capitol for the State
of Georgia have recently been holding daily
sessions. The building is to be of stone
and must cost not more than $1,000,000
Plans have been submitted from architects
both North and South.
At Darien, Ga, a few days since, Bob
Anderson (colored) was sentenced to the
Penitentiary for life for the murder of
Chauncey Brown and wife.
Captain II. G.. Summers, an old Mis-
sissippi steamboatman, who was formerly
engaged in building vessels for the South
American trade, died at San Antonio, Tex,
on the 11th inst.
At Alexandria, Ky, Ed. Beler re-
Gently became engaged because his sweet
heart went to church with another man
that he tried to shoot her. Being prevented
he killed himself.
The North Carolina State Board of
Agriculture having considered the matter
of an exhibit at the Worlds Centennial
Exposition in New Orleans with favorable
results, it is probable the State viii make
fine display.
The number of sheep in Georgia in
creased 16 per cent. in the last year-6l1,-
$50 in 1882; and this, notwithstanding 80,
600 sheep were killed by dogs during the
year. 1t is not stated how much the dog
population has increased.
Mrs. Mary Grace Love, wife of John
G. Love, of Minden, La, committed suicide
a few days ago with strychnine. Cause,
family trouble.
Tip Wilson, found guilty of the muir
der of Henry johnson at Dallas, Tex, re-
Gently, was sentenced to forty years in the
Penitentiary.
George R. Ward, proprietor of the
Relay House at Birmingham, Ala, had a
desperate fight with a burglar a few morn
ings since, and was quite seriously wound
ed The burglar escaped.
While running his engine on the
Knoxville & Augusta Railroad in Able
vile County, s. c., few days ago, the en-
gineer discovered an obstruction on the
track ahead and managed to stop within a
few feet of the object, which he was horri-
fed to find was a four-year-OId white child,
tied fast to the rail. Swift punishment
awaits the perpetrators of this crime if
caught
The Kentucky Legislature has char
tered company to bridge the Ohio at Gov
ington.
Judge George NJ. Douglas, of Jeffer-
son, Texas, died suddenly at Lampasas in
that State, recently.
Hon. w. K. Spears, of Vicksburg,
Miss, a member of the State Senate, died
recently.
Eleven hundred bales of cotton
burned at MurreIrs Point, La, few days
ago.
The St. Charles Hotel, at Paducah,
KY, which cost $4,000 has been reduced
to ashes.
An engine and three box cars on the
Louisville, New Orleans & Texas Railroal
fell through a bridge near Port Gibson,
Miss, a few evenings since. Levi Coates,
the engineer. was killed.
Stephen Vidulich, an Austrian muir
derer in Jail at Dallas, Tex, tried to com
NIT suicide with some flour which had heen
given him by another prisoner, and which
he thought was arsenic.
Returns to the Department of Agri-
| culture show the damage to winter oats by
| the recent freeze sixty per cent. and wheat
thirty per cent. in Georgia.
Silas Lane (colored) who was to have
been hanged on the 21st at Rolling Fork,
Miss, was respIted again.
Jim Smith, a big Oglethorpe County,
| Ga, planter, made 1920 bales of cotton
! from which he realized $4,000. On corn
! wheat and oats he made 500, 900 more, max
ing tosal of 500, 900. He uses convict la.
! Dor.
Savannah, Ga, which recently adopt
| ed standard time, has returned to the old
! system.
The death occurred recently, at Alex
andria, Va, Of DR.. NJ. NJ. Lewis, a phys
! ician of prominence and, during the war
/ a division surgeon in the Confederate
army.
Seven members of Henry Kendall's
! family, living near Louisville, KY, were
! poisoned with "Rough on Rats" which by
| mistake was put in the biscuits. 1t was
| thought Kendall and a son would die.
Rev. Edward Fontaine, residing neal
| Pocahontas Station, La, died recently. he
! was a contributor to the science of by ydrauliC
| engineering and first suggested jetties fol-
| the mouth of the Mississippi.
Governor Crittenden of Missouri, re.
| Gently made requisition on Governor Ire
land of Texas for criminal convicted il
| the latter State, he being wanted in Mis-
| fouri for trial upon a graver charge, and
the prisoner was accordingly turned over
to a duly accredited officer and taken tc
! Missouri. He proved to be the wrong man
| however, and the Governor of Missouri
| coolly informs the Governor of Texas of the
fact instead of returning the prisoner and
/ thus rectifying the mistake, and Governor
Ireland is correspondingly indignant.
| The orange crOpis comparatively safe.
Henry D. Seaman, Second Clerk ol
| the Henry Frank, was accidentally shot ir
the thigh on a recent trip of that steamer
! row occurred between Jerry Wilson
| captain of the watch and another negro
! in which Wilson shot at his man, but the
| bullet struck Seaman. The difficulty oc
| Cured thirty miles above Vicksburg. Sea
mans wound was painful, but not danger
! Gus.
A large number of dead fish were no.
ticed in the Mississippi River at Vicksburg
a few days ago, supposed to have beer
| killed by the recent cold weather.
Eight buildings were burned recently
at Minnesota, Tex.
A cowboy named Love was badly
vorsted in a rough and tumble fight with
the proprietors of one Of the saloons at Big
| Springs Tex, a few days ago. He went