The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-02-05
SOUTHERN eLEANINes.

back is the only mode Of locOmot1on.
Stephen Spence, a sheepman, living three
and one-half miles from Morgan, Tex, ac-
cidentally shot his little son a few days
ago with buckshot, killing him instantly.
The jeans manufacturers of Louisville,
KY, and New Albany, Ind, have decided
to open all mills now closed by agreement
on February 1st, running two-thirds time
till April.
There was an unusual civic and military
display at the installation of Governor
ShaIes of North Carolina at Raleigh. The
Governor, in his inaugural, sketched the
great Improvement of the State during the
past ten years.
DIR. Leo, the notorious counterfeiter, was
sentenced a. Nashville, Tenn, to fifteen
years in State Prison, on three indictments
Of counterfeiting. He created quite a
scene in court by appealing to the jury,
and for mercy.
A few days ago Pat Woods (colored)
killed Cons able Mike Bowen at McComb
City, and escaped. Woods was subse-
quently arrested and lodged in Jail. A
mob of masked men broke open the jail,
took Woods out and hanged him.
Wiley Fryar, the seventeen year-old son
of one of the leading magistrates of Hamil-
ton County, Tennessee, was drowned few
days ago in less than three inches of wa
ter. He was passing a pool when he fell
in pileptic fit, face downward, and
when found was dead. Drowning wa the
cause of his death.
DR.. Marken, of Adams County, Iowa.
and Mrs. Eliza Park, who elOped together,
| deserting their lawful partners three
months ago, were arrested at Jackson,
Tenn, few days ago and were taken to
Chattanooga. Marzen is believed to be
| implicated in bank robbery, and it is al
legged that s., 800 is offered for his arrest.
| The pair were sent bac ok to Iowa.
A singular fatality occurred at Royston,
| Ga, few days ago, in which spontaneous
combustion exploded crib of corn on the
| farm of James Shirley. He had packed the
corn very closely and left the crib uncov-
cred. Rain came, when the corn swelled
and burst the crib in every direction, some
of the corn flying thirty feet away, one of
the cobs striking a negro, who was stand
ing by, on the temple, killing him in
stantly.
The police of Memphis, Tenn, have sue
| ceeded in arresting Willis Cole, negro,
who on the night of the 22d of last Septem-
Der stabbed and killed Joseph Grimes, a
| plumber. The killing was very mysterious.
Grimes was in company with a companion
| going to a circus. He stumbled up against
a negro man and woman, when the negro
man drew a knife and stabbed Grimes,
killing him instantly. There was no clew
as to who the man and woman were, as
they disappeared in the darkness imme-
diately afterward.
Owing to the rapid caving of the river
banks on the Mississippi side a short dis
tance below the Refuge oil mills, two miles
below Vicksburg, Miss, the Louisville,
New Orleans & Southern track is reported
l.
from the river bank, which necessitates an
immediate change. Arrangements are
| being made for moving the track some dis
| tance back from the river until the tunnel
through Refuge hill is completed.
John Price and John Wright have been
arrested at Tyler Tex, for killing Con-
ductor Frazier and wounding Brakeman
! Powers
| Mrs. Carrie Winslow, of Newport, KY, a
few days since, choked her little boy to
death, beat her little girl into insensibility
and cut her own throat.
James Eddy and Robert Doherty quar-
relied in Louisville, KY, few nights ago.
| The former was fatally stabbed. Doherty
was not arrested.
The City Council of Galveston, Tex.
passed an ordinance awarding Captain
Eads $4,000 for every foot of water OBJ
tanned on Galveston bar.
| A special from Lenoir, n. c., says: w.
| A. Anderson, on trial for the mica mines
murders, in Mitchell County, was found
| guilty. Ed Ray, an accomplice of Ander-
son, was also convicted of murder
W. B. Nicholson, yard master of the
| Louisville & Nashville Railroad at Bir-
mingham, Ala, caught his foot in a switch
| frog few days since and fell, and pass
| ing train killed him.
/
| of Robert Wilson, of Butler, Ca, while
| hauling cross-tie to the railroad a few
| days ago, fell off the wagon, the wheels
| passing over his body, kill ing him.
While riding into Louisville, a few days
| ago from their country residence, Mr.. and
/ Mrs. Charles Lowell were thrown out of
a buggy by the horses running away.
| The wife was severely injured. The hus-
| bands skull was fractured and he was
| fatally injured. The injured man is a son
/ of General Lowell Ct the United States
army.
Wiley Cannon and his wife, living neal
| Bells Ferry, n. c., went off to the ferry
few days ago and locked their three chill
| dren in the house. On their return they
found the house in flames, and all efforts
/ to save the children proved fruitless, and
/ they were burned to death. The children
were aged oEe, five and seven years, re-
/ spectively.
DR.. D. E. Salmon, Commissioner of the
/ bureau of Animal Industries, visited ack-
son, Tenn, recently, to examine the
/ herd of Jerseys, removed there from
/ Cynthiana, KY, latsly. He says there is
/ no doubt but the cattle are affected. and.
/ having been exposed, the da niger will not
be passed for ei ghteen months. The cattle
are quarantined.
Robert Freeman, a muIatto boy, seven
| teen years old, was killed by the acci-
| dental discharge Of his gun, near Jackson,
/ Tenn, a few days ago. He had started
| hunting, and was standing in the door
/ leaning on the gun when it slipped, strik-
/ ing the hammers, and the entire charge
| entered his abdomen. He lived about two
/ hours.
Florida has a town named "Hurrah.''
The Tennessee Supreme Court has af
| frmed the Judgment in the case of Mrs.
/ A. F. Links, alias Rose Stadt, alias Mil
/ Ter. well known in Chicago police circles,
1 who was convicted of stealing diam ond
ring from a Nashville jeweler, and she
was sentenced to three years imprison-
ment.
J. Eastou, an empIoye Of the Texas Ex-
press Company at Dallas, was arrested
| few days ago and sent to Collin County
as a livestock thief V. Balls, accused Of
/ being in partnership with Easton in the
/ theft. has also been captured in Collin
| County.
| The cornerstone of the Texas CapitoI
/ will be laid March Sd, with due ceremony.
| At a recent meeting Of the Chickasaw
1 Guards of Memphis, Tenn, il was deter
mined to enter the prize drill TO be given
| at Mobile in April. The Chicks wiz 20 to