The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-05-01
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.
The business quarter of Monroe, La, has
been entirelY DESTROYED by fire.

been entirely destroyed by fire.
A sign-5oard, marked 'tSix miles to Mont
gomery, Ala, - was found in the mountains
after the recent tornado, $50 miles from
Montgomery.
James A. Trumbull, General Freight
agent of the Galveston, Harrisburg & San
Antonio Railroad, died at Sherman, Tex,
few days ago. He was one of the oldest
railroad men in Texas.
Ten indictments have been returned al
Louisville, KY, against D. K. Mason for
fraudulent hypothecation of warehouse re
ceipts.
Bill Epps, desperate, who has been op
Grating in Texas for some time, and Under
wood, of the Sam Bass gang, were jailed at
Gainesville few days ago.
Dowse, whose five children were mur.
dered in his home near Waynesbcro, Ga,
some weeks ago, confesses the crime and
pleads emotional insanity.
John Bush (colored), the murderer who
was to have been hung at Lexington, KY,
on the 10th, was granted new trial by the
Court of Appeals which will probably
come up in May.
VIM. Todd was shot and mortally wound,
ed at Speedwell, Madison County, KY, a
few days ago by a man named Conway.
Thomas Shields, confined in Jail at Char
lotte, N. c., under sentence of death for the
murder of Joseph G. Sitton, with the aid
of outside friends, cut a hole through the
wall and escaped a few nights ago, but was
subsequently recaptured.
Two negroes named Willis Moore and
Henry Jackson, from Madison Parish,
Miss, while going to Vicksburg from
Delta in a skff a few days ago, were over
taken by storm and upset. Moore clung
to the skiff and was rescued by another
| colored man from the landing jackson
managed to get upon an empty coal fat,
| lying in the edge of the willows, but was
blown off by the terrible wind and nothing
| has been seen of his body since.
A few nights ago while Claude Patterson,
messenger on the East Tennessee, Vir-
ginia & Georgia Railroad, was passing
through the yard of the Cincinnati South.
ern Railroad at Chattanooga, he was struck
by a locomotive. A binding rain was
falling, and in his eagerness to seek shelter
he did not see the engine. Both legs were
severed at the knee, the whole engine pass.
ing him. He fingered in great agony
for several hours, when death relieved
him.
A man in Jacksonville, Fla, made $42.51
from a single rOse-bush this season.
Shad are now being caught in the Ala
bama River.
III StoA Aoi'A AlAS5oy uLAoS"g 10 SAAppALE ~
| quantities of strawberries.
The Georgia Central Road has started
movement for an airline track from At
lanta, Ga, to Baltimore, Md, $50 miles.
A strawberry measuring three and a
| half inches one way by four the other, was
| picked from Hawthorn (Florida) patch
| few days since.
San Jacinto veterans recently gathered
| at Paris, Tex, where they celebrated tha
| forty eighth anniversary of the battle OF
| San Jacinto.
! The orange crop of Florida this season is
| estimated at 60,000,000, netting $250,O00.
| East Tennessee marble is selling for 100
! per cent. more than Italian marble in the
leading markets,
General Gordon announces his intention
| to raise $1,OO1,OOO for the Confedera,e e Home
in Richmond.
| Washington County, Mississippi, pro-
! duces more cotton than any other county
in America; it yields 80, 300 bales. Yazoo
| County is second, with 5000 to $4,000
| bales.
| George Cotes, colored, who set fire tC
| Jere Green's house at Gadsden, Ala, while
| Green and his wife were at church, and
! burned their four children to death, has
| been captured. Threats of Ivnching caused
the Jail to be guarded by the local mill
| tary.
A. Lider, Dallas (Tex.) grocery mer
| chant, has been arrested on an indictment
charging arson, connected with the burn
| ing of his store about two months ago.
| Lider has been burned out three times in
Dallas, and this is his second indictment
for arson. 1t is alleged that all his fires
secured heavy insurance on small stock.
| He was liberated on 1859 bond.
| The recent fire at Carlisle, KY, destroyed
the whole of one business block. 1t orig
| mated in Mrs. McCracken's millinery
| store. Among the losers are Pyers' block,
| $4,000; insured for $1,000; P. S. Adair
| building, groceries, $4,000; insured for
| $I1 900; Simms & Campbell building,
! $500; insured for S1,S00; Peale & Chap
peIl, dry goods, $15, 900; insured for $12,-
600; Kennedy & Beck, dry goods, $4,000;
! insured for $4,500; Masonic Lodge, 81 900;
no insurance; Mrs. McCracken, millinery,
! $4,000; insured.
At Dallas, Tex, the grocery house of
| Fortune Brothers was robbed recently of a
/ large quantity of goods and the safe bur-
| glarized of S42S in cash and collateral.
/ The burglars were captured subsequently
| three miles southeast of Dallas, and gave
their names as William Albert, Charles
| Williams and Charles Gorham. The two
| first named are white men, strangers. The
last named is a notoriously bad negro of
Dallas. The stolen money was recovered
and the burglars jailed.
Texas is out of debt, but its cities and
towns, instead Of profting by the good ex-
/ ample, are issuing bonds as fast as possi-
BILE. Some of them are calling a halt and
| protesting against piling S5,000,000 debt
on a s., 100000 town.
A man named Jones, at Thornton, Tex,
under the impression that he was going to
die, made confession of one burglary and
an attempt at another, duplicating young
Freeman. His illness was not fatal, and
Jones and his accomplice were arrested
and lodged in Jail.
| The first recorded death from snake bite
for this season is that of Tom Johnson, col
! ored, who was recently bitten near Long
| view, Tex, and died the next day.
Texas has four million of sheep.
Barrett's circus train was wrecked on
| the East Tennessee, Virginia g. Georgia
Railway a few days ago. The elephant,
! several camels and number Of other ami
mails we're injured seriously. The cages
containing the lions and tigers were over
turned, but the animals were secured by
their keepers.
The Southwest Land Company, com
posed of Texas and Eastern parties, has
been organized at Dallas, Tex, capital,
S2O0,OC0. W. H. CASTOR, N. G. Hunter. Dal-
las, and w. II. Kernes, of st. Louis, are
among the incorporatOrs, and have APP
piled for charter.
Chattanooga, Tenn, expects to ship near
two million pounds of strawberries this
year.
Dr. Walker T. Davis has been found
| guilty of murder at Versailles, KY, and
| - h