The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-12-18
SOUTHERN eLEANlNGs.


| twenty years in the Penitentiary. Ander.
son, concerned in the crime, was yet to be-
tried.
/ Kratz's store, sixteen miles from San
Antonio, Tex, was entered by burglars q
| few nights ago, who carried off a large
amount of valuable plumber. A constable
and posse of citizens were out in pursuit
but at last accounts had not overtaken the
robbers.
John Dixon, a notorious horse-thief, who
| has given North Texas courts and officers
| much trouble for years past, was re-
Gently convicted in the Dallas District
Court and given six years in the Peniten-
! tiary.
A few days since David Davis, of Cat
lettsburg, KY, aged eighteen years, and q
| younger brother, were out shooting at 6
mark with a musket. The gun in the hands
Of David bursted, and a fragment strik-
ing him in the head, killed him almost in
stantIy.
Major Jas. R. Kelley, Captain of Com
pany H, Third United States Artillery, died
few days ago at Jackson Barracks, below
New Orleans, La, of cirrhosis of the liver.
He was buried at Chalmette Cemetery.
Major Kelley was born in Ireland, and was
fftyfive years old.
Governor Thompson of South Carolina
was inaugurated on the 4th inst with i'm
| pressive ceremonies. The Chief-Justice OF
the Supreme Court administered the oath
of office and the dueling oath also. The
same Oaths We're administered to Lieuten-
ant-Governor Shepherd.
The Key West (Fla.) Nelos says of the
tobacco clause in the Spanish treaty. ''If
the treaty is ratified with this clause, Key
West is a doomed city. 1t would close. up
every cigar factory, force about 1900 of
our citizens out of employment, and en-
tail loss of about s., ,O00,O 600 in property
A horrible tragedy was committed a few
nights ago at Camilla, Ga. Unknown par
ties entered the house of Stephen Goodwin
and killed him while in bed; also killed
Mrs. Malinda Gregory and son in their
beds. Their money was not taken. God
wins horse and buggy and shotgun are
missing.
The largest sale of timber ever made in
the State of Tennessee was consummated
few days ago. S. NJ. Winchester, of
Chattanooga, sold to Delvey & Son, of
Kalamazoo, Mich, the timber growth of
3,100 acres of land in johnson County,
Tenn, amounting to 20,OO0,OOO feet of
white pine. The purchasers will erect a
very extensive woodworking establish
ment in Chattanooga to work the timber
into merchantable shape.
A tragedy occurred at NechesvilIe, Tex,
few nights ago, resulting in the death of
L. V. Simpson and DIR. Calhoun Lawrence
both well-known citizens. The difficulty
grew out of the settlement Of a small
debt. Simpson fired first, mortally wound
ing Lawrence in the abdomen. Lawrence
fired three shots, each taking effect, the
last one penetrating Simpsons heart
T
shooting.
Joaquin Gadines, who on November %
1883, brutally assassinated Florencio
Lopez, a policeman, at Houston, Tex, was
recently arrested through a cur Gus cir
cumstance. 1t seems he stole a leg of veal
from meat ambulance and tried to run
away with it, but was overtaken and ar
rested. While in a cell awaiting trial for
petty larceny, his wife came in and mad
vertently inquired, not for the name given
when arrested, but for Joaquin Gadines,
his proper name. The police caught at the
latter name instantly, and Francisco alias
Joaquin will not soon be turned loose.
Dock Samuels, who lives about two
miles from Richmond, KY, killed hogs a
few days ago. His wife busted herself
in rendering the lard and their little
daughter, aged six, in her childish way
made herself annoying. The mother be-
came vexed and struck the child on the
head with small stick. The little girl
was Immediately seized with convul-
sions and died in few minutes.
A little son of Ned Brooks, of Kingston,
KY, was choked to death a few days
ago while eating a turnip. An unmasti-
Gated portion of the vegetable lodged in
his throat.
William Lawrence killed John Living
stone at Houston, Tex, few days ago, in
a saloon quarrel.
A resolution was recently presented in
the Alabama Legislature to establish a
Commission of Fish and Fisheries for that
State.
James Woodward and son, at Fair
mount, S. c., were poisoned and died
few days ago by taking morphine for
quinine.
The distillery of Viclzers & Sons, near
AIvarado, Tex, together with 11O barrels
of W hisky, was destroyed by fire a few
days ago. Loss, $4,000; no insurance re-
ported.
A correspondent of the Richmond (Va.)
Dispatch a few days ago saw a group of
more than twenty men standing accident
ally together at Tazewen Court house, not
one of whom was less than six feet in
height.
The Democrats Of Prince Georges Coun-
ty, Virginia, are making arrangements to
erect monument to the memory of DIR.
George E. Rives, who was candidate for
Congress at the late election, and died
during the canvass.
Lodge No. 30, Order of the Elks, consist
ing of some fifty members, was installed
at New Orleans a few days ago by Exalted
Ruler Thomas w. Keene. A grand ban
quet followed in honor of Mr.. Keene.
William Lawson, a railroad clerk IN the
Galveston, Houston & San Antonio Rail-
road general freight Office at Houston, Tex,
shot and mortally wounded John Living
ston, transfer agent, a few days ago, the
result of an old feud. Livingston fingered
a few hours and died. Lawson had not
been captured.
Senator Wade Hampton is reelected.
The Dallas (Tex.) Tunes felt constrained
to make this little explanation recently,
on account of conspicuous absence
from it's pages Of the poultry exhibitions
that have lately been so popular in Texas:
eve are opposed to making "a chicken
roost of the Times, but W g are enthusias-
tic all the same"
The Mayor of New Orleans wrote to the
Governor of Louisiana that the City Coun-
Gil had failed to appropriate money to
prosecute offenders against the laws
Governor McEnery thereupon offered a re-
ward of 81 600 for the conviction of the as
sassin of A. p. Murphy.
Texas has the greatest school fund of
any State in the Union.
The farm known as ''Springield," I61
acres, in Fairfax County, Virginia,
originally a part of the Mount Vernon
estate, was recently sold for the apparent
" small sum Of S2,7l0.
The city of Macon, Ca, was wild with
excitement a few DAYS ago over the ab- j