The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-07-17
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.


There are six counties in Florida that
have no bar-rooms, and of these four are
in South Florida-Sumter, Polk, HillsbOr
ough and Manatee.
Bills were recently passed in the Louisi-
ana House prohibiting the opening of
places of public business on Sunday, and
declaring unlawful contracts for the sale
of articles for future delivery. The bill to
prohibit priz s-fig ghting in the State was
lost.
At the residence of Mitchell Clark, near
BellevilIe, Tex, a few days ago, Zeke
Hutchinson killed Bell Simms, shooting
him six times with Winchester rife. The
killing was a cold-blooded affair. Hutch
insop escaped.
Rev. Noah Willis, a co1ored preacher of
Stewart County, Georgia, is in a series OF
domestic troubles. He whipped his wife's
mother and pointed a shotgun at his wife's
brother. When brought into court the
reverend gentleman appeared with his
wife, the latter carrying her broken arm
in a sling, which she received at his
hands. He has been held to answer here
after.
The Texas State Land Board has leased
forty-nine sections of land in the Pan-han-
die, nine of which were watered, at the
minimum rate of eight cents for dry and
Nine sections in Grayson County were
sold to actual settlers. The lands leased
up to June will bring in an annual revenue
to the State of $4,000.
Bernard Speh was arrested at Memphis
Tenn, few days ago on a telegram from
| Chicago, where he is wanted for obtaining
! $500 under false pretenses. He had not
| beeR in Memphis long, and when taken
into custody was employed in a bakery.
He waived the usual requisition papers.
Charles Goodwin, who was for a long
| time Receiving Clerl1lin the Central Rail-
/ road Office at Dallas, Tex, but who had
! domestic troubles and removed to Fort
| Worth, is supposed to have suicided by
| throwing himself into the river at that
| place and foated down to Dallas, where his
| remains were found. His wife produced a
| coat that orresponded to his pants and
/ vest and claimed him as her hus band.
! The Louisiana Legislature ordered to lie
| over the memorial of j. Madison Wells,
| filed asking for the impeachment of Dis
! trict Judge William T. Blackburn, Rapides
/ Parish, charging him with burglary, bal
! lOt-box stuffing and packing the Grand
| Jury in favor of his brother, who was
charged with rape, the lynching of young
| Cage and other crimes.
/ The continued rains in portions of
| Georgia have seriously damaged truck,
/ and without speedy cessation the melon
/ crop will be cut very short. No fruit has
been put on for several days, and many of
the vines are dead or dying. The present
outlook promises not over one-fourth of a
crop. The pear crop has also been greatly
| damaged by hard winds. The present
| promises to be the most unfavorable sea-
son for fruit and vegetable growers they
/ ba &c ind
! started. Cotton is also being injured.
Lewis Anderson, Treasurer of Antioch
| Baptist Missionary Church (colored), at
Houston, Tex, was recently found to be
| short in his accounts S405. He alleged that
the missing money had been paid to church
| elders, but had no warrants or receipts to
] prove the fact. Inc elders Indignantly de-
MED his accusation, and consequence
Anderson was expelled from the church,
and it is probable he will be prosecuted
criminally.
Louisville, KY, has abandoned standard
time, and all the city clocks have been set
forward eighteen minutes.
Howard & Stewart, merchants of Day.
ton, Tenn, were robbed a few nights ago
Of $4,000 by burglars.
Dick Henderson (colored), who tried tt
murder lad named Adams at Pinchem.
] hy.g 1dSb august was ldkeu lIOIl Jdl1 al
Russellville, a few nights ago, by mob
and hanged.
The Tennessee Bar Association, which
met recently at Chattanooga, elected Xer
Wheeler President.
U. S. Grant, relative of the ex-Presi
dent, was arrested and jailed at Fort
| w orth, Tex, few days ago, on charge
Of robbery.
A woman and two children were killed
| during great storm at Columbus, KY, q
| few days ago. A church and several other
buildings were demolished.
train went through burning bridge 8
few days since, on the Missouri Pacific
Railroad, near Checola, Tex. Ten cars
were wrecked and burned and brakeman
named Moore killed.
Hill, Fontaine, & Co.'s cotton report for
June, for the Memphis District shows that
the condition of the growing crop is not SC
promising as it was.
Two proba bly, fatal cases of sunstroze
o ccured a few days ago in Dallas, Tex,
where the mercury registered 102 degrees
in the shade, and the water supply was so
low as to cause great alarm.
AT Calera, Ala, few nights ago Ga
briel Scoles attempted to cross the railroad
in front of the East Tennessee train, when
he stumbled and fell, the train passing
over him, causing instant death.
Miss Jane Ooten, aged twenty years,
while in an epileptic fit at Chattanooga,
Tenn, few days ago, fell into the fire.
Her clothing ignited and she was burned
to death before being discovered.
The steam Touring mill of Hamilton &
Son at Paris, Tex, was destroyed by fire a
few days since, together with several
dwellings and large quantity of lumber.
| Loss, $4,000; insurance, s., $50.
The Confederate Veterans Be levoIent
Association was organized at Shreveport
La, few nights ago with the following
officers: President, Captain Jas. F. Utz;
Vice Presidents, DIR. J. G. Egan, Judge
J,rh.l w. Jones. L. r. Simmons, Arthur
! Newman, VIM. Kinny; Secretary, Jas. V,
| Nolan; Financial Secretary, Thomas B.
Case; Treasurer, w. c. Perrin; Executive
| Committee, Colonel J. B. Gilmore, Judge
| John G. Moncure, H. G. W. Kendall, DR.. R.
A. Gray ami V. GroSjean. The organiza.
tion starts off with fiattering prospects.
Milk at Waco, Tex, four cents gallon.
A difficulty occurred near Hickman, Ky,
few nights ago between Lucien Perry
and VIM. Perry, Jr., on the one side, and
| w i'll Oakley and Colonel Britt, in which
Win Oakley was shot FIVE times and in
stantly killed by W. e. Perry, Jr
Colonel Britt received three shots and was
dangerously wounded by Lucien Perry.
The parties had not been arrested.
John Anthony, laborer, was killed at
San Antonio, Tex, a few days ago while
excavating, by an immense rock which
toppled over the brink and fell distance
of sixty-five feet, striking him squarely on
the head and killing tim instantly.
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