The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-02-26
souTHERN eLEANINGs.

nights ago.
The farmers congress was the Interest,"
ing event at New Orleans last week. 1here
was a large number of delegates present, /
and the proceedings were both pleasant
and profitable.
WiIsonville, in Obion County, Tennessee, |
is excited over smallpox. About fourteen
cases had been reported.
Judge Savage, of Lexington, KY, Pros
ecutOr Kinner and Jacob Embry have seen
Governor Knott in opposition to petitions
to commute VIM. NeaI's sentence Neal Is
the last of the trio concerned in the raw
ishing, murder and burning of the Gid
bons children at Ashland three years ago.
The Governor will not interfere and Neal
will hang on the27th.
Governor Ireland of Texas declined to
interfere in the case of Jesse Jackson, SEN
fenced to be hanged at Houston, Tex, on
the 20th for the murder of sold man
Fisher"
Mr.. 7. Kelly and party of colored men
captured a beautiful white girl few days
ago in the woods near Granville, La. She
was in a nearly nude condition, ravlng
maniac, and from her piteous appeals 1t
would seem that she had been decoyed
from home, ruined and left to her fate.
A colored lawyer named Lyons was re-
Gently admitted to the bar of the Supreme
Court of Georgia-the first case of the kind
under Democratic auspices.
Mr.. VIM. Dudgeon, living near Ham
mondsville, Hart County, Kentucky, COM
mitted suicide a few nights ago by cutting
his throat. His even-mOnths-old child
died the day previous, and when it was
reported to him that his wife was dying
also, he was overcome with grief. he
went out behind the house, and in few
minutes a noise was heard of some one
struggling by those in the house. They
went out and found Mr.. Dudgeon lying on
the ground with his throat cut
Hardin Hall, a farmer, living near
Beardstown, KY, shot and killed his wife
few days ago and escaped. Jealousy
| was the supposed cause.
A runaway marriage occurred near High
| Bluff, Dale County, Alabama, few days
! since under somewhat difficult circum-
! stances. Edward Maby, the groom took
| his fiancee, Miss Macen, up behind him on
feet horse and, with license in his pocket,
was riding for the magistrate with the
| girI's father in hot pursuit An interven-
| ing stream was too much swollen to cross,
but the Squire was on the other side; so
| tying the license to stone he threw it
over and the ceremony proceeded.
Bill Beard, living near Dickson, Tenn.
. ] becoming enfdR6u
stepson a few days ago, pulled his hair
out by the roots, gouged out his eyes,
threw them away, gnawed his ears off and
then threw the bleeding trunk into the
fire, and it was burned to a crisp. After
seriously beating his wife and father in .
law, the inhuman brute was arrested and
lodged in jail.
Miss Sue Broome, living near Sparta
Ga, a daughter of the late Bryant Broome,
was intensely devoted to her father, and
-had been suffering from insomnia ever
since his death. She took forty grains OF
morphine a few days ago and was in a
fatal stupor when discovered, dying with
in an hour.
There lives at Louisville, KY, an old maL
/ named Asa Emerson, who was born Octo'
Der 22d, 1888.
The Glasgow Mills at Caryville Fla, on
, the P. & A. Railroad, burned a few nights
ago, and were damaged about $4,000. Nc
I insurance.
. Frank Clarke, senior partner of Clarke
RYAN & Howell, bankers, of Galveston
l Tex, committed suicide few days ago
= bv shooting himself. No cause assigned
as the bank is prosperous.
VIII Adams killed his eighteen-y ear
l old sweetheart near ShelbyvilIe, KY, and
, then shot himself. Both dead bodies wer'
D found.
A cabin on Cap. ain 3. G. Corners place
l caught fire a few nights since at Paris
Tex, and a little negro child was burned
9 to death.
!. While Mrs Holly Bloodworth, of Carnes
= vile, Ga, was arranging her toilet re
q Gently, her clothing caught fire and befOr
d assistance could be rendered she wa
u burned to death.
:. Sheehan's warehouse in Eufaula, Ala
n was burned a few days ago with 800 bale
= of cotton. Nothing was saved. The los
g is fully 800 900. The insurance was no
stated, but is supposed to be full
Commercial travelling men appointed
committee to make extensive arrange
, ments for celebrating their day, Februar
Il 25th, at the New Orleans Expositio
Grounds, when they meet in Nation'
Convention.
e General Stith Boiling was arrested
Petersburg, Va. a few days since on al
rival from Richmond, charged with bein
- about to engage in a duel. The name
the person with VIII ON General Boiling we
- TO fight was not made known. Gener
Rolling gave 81 900 bonds to keep the peat
three months. General Boiling is Pos
"a master of Petersburg.
"a Arthur Lloyd, charged with the murd
20 of a man named Ogle, was sentenced
O. few davs ago to forty years in the Pen
b tentiary at Arson Courthouse, the count
"a seat of Jones County. He has bee
IN taken to Colorado City for confnemen
Is | Jones County being new and not proper
n supplied with Jail facilities.
IF A sensation h as been created at A
N lanta, Ga, by the announcement tn
ia | sam w Small, the well known journa
If ist. and author of "Old 81" charact
ID | sketches, has abandoned the world al
N zone into training for the ministry in t
ia | Protes' ant Episcopal Church. Small w
i Secr,tarv of the late ex-President a
,t drew johnson, and later held thabpos
IA tion under Commissioner Mccormick
ID the Paris Exposition. He founded t
nj Houston (Tex.) Daily Age, and is we
~ known in every city of the Union as
lg versatile correspondent.
Il The Exposition is picking up.
n The Cotton Planters Convention at NJ
Orleans adopted resolutions urging Co
i qress to increase the efficiency of the 81
a. nal service and establish system of g
detrimental farms in every State, in t
"a interest of agricultural education. Than
we're rendered President Arthur for
GREAT interest in the Worlds ExpositiC
r It was also resolved that, in the event
the bill now before Congress, making t
a. Commissioner of Agriculture a Cabin
n officer becoming a law, "we respectful
recommend and indorse for said pOsiti
f. T. G. Morehead, President of the Natioi
10 Cotton Planters Association of Americs
The bill making gambling felony pass
ho the Texas House of Representatives.
la Fire recently destroyed five buildin
and badIv damaged many more