The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-02-28
SOUTHERN GLEANNGS.
A severe hurricane passed over p

Memorial services in honor of Wen
dell Philips were held, few nights ago,
in Galveston, Tex. 80
w. Emanuel, a broker, of. Atlanta,
Ga, is under arrest for alleged crooked
dealing with his patrons.
The Grand Lodge of the Knights of
Pythias, at its recent session, at Jackson
vile, Tenn, gave banquet, at which nearly
500 were present
Eight counterfeiters were arrested Q
few days ago in Louisville, Ky. They had
been passing spurious silver dollars and
half dollars.
L. D. Mowry &ySon, cotton factors,
Charleston, S. c., have suspended. Liza
bilities, S150,OO0.
The Rawley family, of Boyle County,
Kentucky, has within thirty years figured
in affrays in which ten men were killed
The feud with the Shearins resulted few
days since in the shooting of one of that
family by George W. Rawley.
Aaron Parrott. a faro dealer, while
standing in front of the Crockford Saloon
in Sherman, Tex, few days ago, was shot
and dangerously wounded by George Bur
gis, proprietor. Domestic trouble is said
to be at the bottom of the affair.
Dr. j. w. Drake shot and instantly
killed John A. Scarboro, at Clapp's Facto-
ry near Columbus, Ca, few days ago.
The killing appears to have been in self-de-
tense.
Dennis Reed, while trying to cross
Waller Creek, at Austin, Tex, which was
greatly swollen by recent rains, was, with
the horse he was riding, swept down by the
torrent and drowned.
In Brown County, Ala, few days
ago, Fred PIattenburg of Selma shot w. j.
Robinson, horse drover, from Murfrees-
boro, killing him instantly. The men never
met until few minutes before the shoot
ing. Plattenburg refused to lend Robin
sons friend s.. All were drinking.
Three fence-cutters have recently
been captured in Edwards County, Tex
One confessed. He says there We're six in
the band. The rangers who made the ar
rests we're after the other three.
S. f. Jones, a patient confined at the
Anchorage Insane Asylum, Louisville, KY,
committed suicide few days ago by hang
ing himself with a towel. One end of the
towel was secured to the grating which
barricades window of his room, and the
other he tied tightly around his neck. He
then stepped off of the sill of the window
and was strangled to death before he was
discovered by the attendant.
Henry BOOth was arrested a few
nights ago by the watchman for attempting
to saw away the piles supporting the new
bridge over Sunhower River at Rolling
Fork, Miss, on the L., n. o. 6 T. r. r. 1t
Seems that the culprit desired to saw the
bridge timbers in such a manner that the
structure would fall when train ran on
it. 1t is said that the man was instigated
by interested parties, who claim that the
bridge Obstructs navigation. He was held
to answer.
Frank FIRES, for many years in the
employ of the Wells-Fargo Express Com
pany at San Antonio, Tex, as money clerk,
has disappeared. His safe has been broken
open and accounts and cash found all right.
He was last seen on the main plaza atnigh6
alone. He was of a retiring disposition of
temperate habits and very powerful build.
The generally accepted theory is that he
was murdered to obtain possession of his
safe key, which he carried with him. He
was also known to keep large sums of mon
ey on his person. Some papers belonging
to him were found on the bank of the river
and the water was dragged. He was of a
fine family, well known in San Antonio,
and one Of the most popular and influential
young men in the city.
The unveiiing of the Lee statue in
New Orleans took place on the 21d. ~
Captain James I. Browning was shot
dead at Hampstead, Tex, a few days ago
while trying to stop a fight.
In a hotel at Lexington, Kentucky
recently, two intoxicated men blew out
the gas in their room and died in great
agony.
Five cars were wrecked and two
rakemen killed near Longview, Tex, few
days ago.
In Green County, Tenn, few nights
ago, an assassin shot Mrs. James Hunter,
firing through a window of her house.
The State Treasurer of Texas recent
ly received $4,000 interest on land notes, to
go to the credit of the school fund.
The Tom Green Land and Catt'e
Company, capital $4,000, with office at
San Angela, Tex, has been incorporated.
The Governor of Virginia has vetoed
the Congressional apportionment bill.
Articles of association were filed few
days ago for the Young Mems Building As
sociation Of Lampasas, Tex, with capital
stock of 100000.
Harry Miller, an old Texas & Pacific
freight conductor, of Dallas, lost an arm a
few nights ago in an accident near CoIora-
do, Tex, and received other injuries which
it was thought would prove fatal.
Burglars effiec. ed an entrance into the
store of Bradley & Cook, at Ennis, Tex, a
few nights ago, blew open the safe and Sc
cured upward of 1000 in cash. 1t was
thought a gang of professional burglars
we're operating in that section, and there
were fingers neryously itching to get hold
If some of them.
The handsome residence Of ~ MAYS.
on what is known as the Divine Farm, on
the north side of the Tennessee River near
Chattanooga, Tenn, was totally destroyed
by fire with its contents few nights ago
The loss was quite heavy, but the full ex-
tent was not learned.
Newport, Kentucky, reports 1887
houses inundated, the estimated damage
being 100000. Tlirty-three buildings
were washed away and 127 turned bottom
upward.
High water everyW here.
Reuben Hart and wife, living near
Crockett, Tex, went to church a few nights
ago and left six children asleep. Hart
locked the door and took the key with him.
At ten O'Clock the house was discovered on
fire and burned so quickly it was impossi-
ble to save it or the children, every one of
whom was roasted to death. The eldest
was a boy of twelve years.
The Governor of Texas has sent three
companies of rangers into the districts
which have suffered most from fence-cut-
ting, with the expectation that some funer-
ais Will follow their advent
The Copiah County investigation is
progressing at New Orleans. t.
Mrs. Stribley, the lady who was so
shamefuIly assaulted a few weeks. ago by a
negro at Montgomery, Ala, has since died