The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-03-26
SOUTHERN GLEANINos.


General Joseph Bell. one of the oldest
residents of Kinds County, Miss, died a
few days ago. In ante -bellum times he
was Secretary OF State, and filed the po-
sition of Register of the Land Office many
terms. 1t is said that he was the best
posted man on land matters in the State.
Convicts at Tracy City, Tenn, made
break for liberty few DAYS ago while be-
ing taken from the stockade to Lone Rock
Mine. The guards fred four shots, fatally
wounding Preston Sladen, who received
bullet in the brain. The rest were returned
to the stockade.
The town of Aurora, Tex, was visited
by disastrous fire few nights ago. Four
business houses were entirely consumed.
The heaviest losers are: Killaugh Bros,
S. 900; L. J. Randall, $4, 900; w. S. KIM
ball, 81 ,000-all about covered by insur-
ance.
A Iaborer IN Louisville, KY, named Per.
ry Garrison, beat his wife to insensibility
a few days ago, bound her to the floor OF
the cellar and left her without food or wa
ter until three days later, when a neigh
Dor heard her groans and the police burst
in the door. She begged that the brute
be not arrested, but he was locked up.
James Mccall, said to be refugee from
justice from the State of Arkansas, who
was arrested near Poolville, Tex, some
time ago, and who was subsequently shot
by citizen while attempting to escape,
has been placed in durance vile at Wealth
erford.
A few evenings since J. D. White,
passenger on an East Tennessee train,
was killed few miles east of Knoxville.
The train was crossing a covered bridge,
when White put his head out of the car
window and was crushed against the
timbers of the bridge White was twenty
two years old. He lived in Upper East
Tennessee.
Judge John W. AIberty, Associate Jus.
tice of the Supreme Court of the Cherokee
Nation, has been suspended from Office on
charges preferred for malfeasance in
Office Jackson Christie has been ap-
pointed to fill the vacancy until the Ma
tional Council meets, in November.
Shoaf, Hines and Upton, of Luling, Tex.
on preliminary examin alton for decoying g
two negroes half mile from town, on the
railway track, and then numbering them,
under the pretense that they were train
wreckers, in order to obtain tho reward.
were refu sed bail and held for trial.
Bishop Alexander Gregg recently had
his annual Convocation at Brennan, Tex,
in st. Peters Church. The Bishop re-
| pOIbo budb I'LL JuO EplSCOpdl SuuI NhCe
throughout the State are in as prosperous
a condition as could be expected, cons i'd
ering the financial stringency of the times.
The City Councils of both the Texas and
! Arkansas sides of Texarkana have passed
| ordinances that will probably result in
water works being built within the next
| six months. The contract is with F. w.
| Raider, of ST. Louis.
| Three negroes-Ambrose Young, Charles
| Latham and Frank Freeman-arrested OF
the charge of numbering Thomas Mont.
| gomery, a we'll known citizen, on Christ
mas Eve last year, were taken from their
| guards at Union City, Tenn, few nights
ago and hanged.
The bill to suppress gambling, which
passed the lower house of the Texas Leg
islai ure was killed in the Senate.
North Carolina spends S13, ,000,001 an
nually for liquor.
/ Several business houses were burned re-
Gently at Pulaski, Tenn.
The remains of a carnivorous mamma
were found near Mckinney, Tex.
Charters have been grant ed to build {
railroad from Pens acola, Fla, to Mem.
phis, Tenn.
The Southern Agricultural Works at At
Ianta, Ga, have made an assignment t.
secure debts of S196. 900.
There is no whisky sold in Schley Coun
ty, Ca, and the result is that there has no
been a warrant issued for three months.
Pierre Duval, of Rutherford County, N
c., is dead. He fought under Napoleon
and lost leg at Waterloo.
Knoxville, Tenn, claims to sell twice a
much beer as any other town of the sam
size in the South.
A negro named Whitfield has been con
| ,-;c+a6 If arSou con
fenced to be hanged on the 9th of March
Henry Hawkins was drowned in Cypru
| Bayou, near Smithville, Tex, a few n ghtl
| ago.
T. B. Cowark, deputy United State
Marshal, arrived in Highland, Ca, a few
days ago with five prisoners charged wit
| Illicit distillation. mob of mounte,
men went to the hotel where the part,
were and attempted rescue. They wer
repulsed by Cowark and deputies. One O
the party was killed, one wounded an,
three captured and jailed.
While party of gentlemen were hunt
ing in Lefiore County, Miss, few day
since, they were overtaken by a sever
hail storm, and J. D. Chickering, Circui
Clerk, was so severely injured by the hal
that he was compelled to take shelter in
negro cabin about five or six miles fror
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so severe were his injuries that he died i
a short time
There is a negro on John Mccullough
, plantation near Clinton, Ca, who iv
, years ago was as black as the ace q
spades. At that time small white splotche
began to appear on his body, which sprea
and enlarged until now he is a half whit
man, so far as color goes. He is in soun,
health and has never been known to hav
a day of sickness.
In the Texas Senate a few days age
during heated discussion, Senator Davi.
of Cook County, alluded to Senator Hous
ton, of San Antonio, as resembling
strutting turkey gobbler. Houston too
the floor and said that ''no personal al
lusion had ever been made in the Senat
until that yellow, sallow-faced mumm
and blackguard from Cook had seen fit t
do So" The intervention of friends pre-
{ vented a personal collision.
The Exposition is doing better.
, R D. Hargrove, constable of He
Springs Township, Ark, is defaulter t
the amount of 5000 of funds collected b
him on executions placed in his hands q
an officer. A report was current to th
2 effect that he had fed to Old Mexico. d
, | is addicted to gambling, and to this sc
f ductive vice is attributed his misfortune
News from Habershaw County, Ga
shows that the charges made against th
county officers of safe-cracking In ordt
to abstract damaging evidence, have bee
, sustained by the conviction of Groves, th
Ordinary. He has applied for a new tria
and will thus fight his case a little longe
, A project for starting a large publ
, library s on foot in CharIesto !, s. G.
William Pinson, young man aboJ
twenty four years of &c, while working
the saw-rniH Of Gaffney, Monday & Co
/ A. JafFerson Tax was eau aht in the bel,