The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-01-08
SOUTHERN eLEANINes.

the fireman were severely bruised and
each had legs broken.
Five thousand cattle were sold in one
transaction at Henrietta, Tex, recently for
! $15O,000 - considered a remarkably good
| price.
A gang of drunken roughs took posses
! sion of Southern Pacific train near Pecos,
/ Tex, few days since and terrorized the
| passengers by shooting out the window
| panes, but injured no one.
| Benjamin Green from Bowling Green,
KY, was found dead in bed few days
| ago at a San Antonio (Tex.) hotel.
Captain Handy of the United States
| Navy died a few days since at Tarborro,
A white man and a negro, names un-
known, crossed the Mississippi River TO
! Memphis, Tenn, to purchase Christmas
articles, and attempted to cross back in a
| skif late at night The surface of the
river was covered with ice, and when
| about half way across, the skif was cap
sized and both were drowned.
st. Mary's Catholic Church, at Memphis,
Tenn, was damaged by fire to the extent
| of 5000 Christmas morning. The fire was
caused by defective 1ue. 1t was confined
to the rear portion of the roof, but the or
gan and portions of the altar were dam
aged by water.
| A difficulty occurred at Jacksonville,
| Tenn, a few days ago, between 0. J..
! Smith and H. Young, resulting in the lat
| ter stabbing the former beneath the right
! eye, infiicting dangerous wound. Smith
| then shot and wounded Young.
| DISTINCTIONS on the track of the New Or
leans Sc Northwestern Railroad near Pur-
| Wis, Miss, few nights ago, threw the en-
| tire north bound express train from the
track. The engineer, Robert Turner, and
the fireman were killed; others were in
! jured.
For some time past an organized band of
colored burglars have been working Nash
vile, Tenn, and a few nights ago Thomas
Mcknight and several other members of
the gang. were arrested. Mcknight con-
fessed to one or two burglaries.
The death of Mrs. Oswalt, which took
| place at Rome, Ga, a few days ago,
ended an unparalleled life of suffering.
| For thirty years she had been confined
to her bed with acute rheum atism, never
| once having set foot on ground during that
time.
Harlan Taylor, Town Marshal at Nor
garfield, KY, was shot through the head
and instantly killed by Sam Holman,
whom he was attempting to arrest a few
days since. Holman was drunk, and on
uOIS6DdCk anu u1dQ0 MS escape.
The trial of Henry Leo, the bank check
| forger, has been set for January 9th, at
Memphis, Tenn. At the urgent request
of the bankers of that city, Mr.. M. F.
Warren, Assistant Cashier of the Bank of
Buffalo, n. Y, has consented to appear
| and testify to the forgery of his sigma
ture to the checks passed in Mem phis.
Fire at Clarksville, Tex, few days ago
destroyed a number of business establish
ments.
A $4,000 fire occurred at Henrietta, Mis-
sissippi County, Texas, few days ago.
Arrangements are being made for BIZ
cycle tournament, to occur in New Orleans
during the Worlds Fair.
Miss Elvira Joy, of Augusta, Ga, is to be
tried for murder for killing a man named
McCauley, who came to her residence at
night, offered her 81 900 to run away with
him, and threatened to kill her if she re-
fused.
The Warm Springs Hotel, at Warm
Springs, N. c., burned few days ago 1t
was one of the largest hotels in the South.
Nothing was saved. Loss, $150, 900; insur-
ance, $4,000 Colonel Rumbaugh owned a
thirds interest. The hotel viii be re-
built.
A few nights ago at Clinton, a small vii
lage south of Houston, Tex, Willie Brown,
boy thirteen years of age, was fatally
shot by his uncle, John Manning. The
boy was walking in his sleep at the time
and was mistaken for a burglar.
At wedding reception given by man
named White to his son, near Lexington,
KY, few nights ago, the festivities were
interrupted by gang of five roughs, who
went in and committed various indignities.
Dan Hayes, a farm hand employed by
White, began shooting at the roughs and
killed one of them named Charles Black
well, and seriously wounded another
named Ellis. The others escaped and are
at large.
Society at Gordonsville, Va, is all agog
over the announcement of the engage
ment of a juvenile pair. The local pa
pers announce the fact that cards are
out for the marriage of Master Willie
Scott, of that place, aged four years,
and Miss Jennie Perry, of Charleston,
w. Va, aged six years. The young
lady is a fair haired little sprite of un-
usual brightness. Her father is a we'll
to-do business man of Charleston. If this
union ever takes place it will attract
deal of interest on account of the tender
ages of the two parties.
A few days since Mr.. A. w. Mills, re-
siding near Rome, Ga, was building a
corn crib with logs. He and his eldest
son were putting the logs up as they were
notched. His younger son, a boy of thir-
teen, standing by the side of the
crib. They had finished the wall except
the top log, and had it up on top and
attempted to roll it over, so as to make
it fit in the notch cut in the log belo W
In turning it over they lost control of
it, and instead of stopping at the right
,T,x, LII. Al IF I F-gT
ly on the head and shoulders of the boy
standing below. He lived only half an
hour.
Fence cutters are again on the war-path
in Kinney County, Texas. Joseph Jones
and C. c. Clamp recently lost half mile
of fence. 1t is thought to be the same
gang who destroyed the Dignowity pas
ture fence.
There are COO Masonic lodges in Texas.
Ex-Congressman Walls (colored), of
Florida, has had enough of public and po-
litical life, and devotes himself to profita-
ble kitchen gardening on the St. Johns
River, having already accumulated an es-
tate of So, 900 by raising early vegetables
for the Northern market.
Daniel Parker, colored, confessed that he
and his father, Jordan, wrecked the train
on the Northeastern Road near Purvert
Station, Miss, on the 22d inst, and that
Jordan instigated the crime out of feel
ing of revenge. Jordan was taken from
the officers tied up to a tree and riddled
with bullets. Daniel was released.
There is fighting chicken at Atlanta,
Ga, valued at $3.50.
A bill is pending before the Alabama
Legislature compelling persons carrying |
concealed deadly weapons to designate the |
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