The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-01-29
SOUTHERN eLEANlNes.


the Governor refuses to interfere
The ceremonies of conferring the pallium
on Archbishop Leroy at New Orleans on /
the 18th inst, included a grand military and /
civic procession and imposing ceremonies
at the Cathedral, Archbishop Gibbons, OF |
Baltimore, officiating.
T. D. Wendone and wife, a young couple |
from South Carolina, were drowned few |
days ago while fishing on Lake Mineola, |
near Altoona, Ala.
The hanging of McLane, white man,
in Bossier Parish, La, by mob some
months ago is being Investigated by the
Grand Jury.
By order of Governor Mcdaniel of
Georgia the convict camp of B. G. Lockett
& Co., in Dougherty County, has been
broken up, and the prisoners sent to other
camps in the northern part of the State.
Major Alex. Moses, the agent and ad-
juster of the New Orleans Underwriters,
while getting out of hack at the Louis
vile, New Orleans & Texas Railway De-
pot at Vicksburg, Miss, few nights
ago, slipped and fell, breaking his leg
above the ankle and injuring himself in
ternally.
Petitions signed by $4,000 citizens asking
the Legislature of Tennessee to submit to
to the popular vote a Constitutional
amendment prohibiting the manufacture
and sale of intoxicating liquor have been
presented to that body, which has appoint
ed a committee to consider them.
Notwithstanding the massacre of Nor
mon elders in Tennessee, missionaries have
been working quietly in several counties
recently, and to-prevent the expounding of
their doctrine and guatd against other
possible deadly ARRAYS, bill has been in
troduced in the Legislature to punish the
teaching of the doctrine of polygamy by
fine of $500 and Imprisonment for two or
three years at the discretion of the Court.
| 1t is likely that the measure will become
| law.
CITY Marshal Nj. Bauer, of McComb City,
| La, having q warrant for the arrest of Pat
! Woods, colored called at his house a few
/ days since, when he was fred upon by
| Woods, the ball taking effect in his neck,
| producing wound from which Bauer died.
Woods escaped.
| The heirs of T. o. Jennings, conductor,
of jackson, Miss, killed in July, 1888, by
his train going through Mammoth Bayou
bridge, sued the railroad company for
| SjO, 1000. The last term of court resulted in
a mistriaI, the jury being equally divided.
! After trial at the present term, lasting
week, the jury returned a verdict in favor
of plaintiffs for 81.
Editor Clefton, of the jackson (Miss.)
| Clarion, recently made a fierce editorial
assault on john H. Miller, editor of the
| Tupelo Journal. The article contained such
expressions as 'Liar," s'Unwashed and
unkempt editor" "Cheap article black
| guard,' etc. The same was provoked by a
caustic article in Miller's last paper reflect
| ing on CIefton Friends of Miller thought
retraction or a fight would be the re-
suit.
While Joseph Guissea and his son were
sitting in their saloon in Vicksburg, Miss,
a few nights ago, some would-b assassin
fred pistol shot through the glass win
dow, striking young Guissea in the right
cheek, inaicting a very painful and dan
gerous wound, knocking out several teeth.
A man named Walter Gordon was arrested
for the act.
R. S. Buck, a prominent lawyer OF
Vicksburg, Miss, was stricken with pa
ralysis few days ago.
Florida is discus sing the erection of an
executive mansion at Tallahassee to cost
$40, 900 to $4,000.
Over three hundred dwellings have been
built in Montgomery, Ala, during the
past twelve months.
Burglars a few night ago secured $4,800
in cash by breaking into the safe of keno
house at San Antonio, Tex.
Alb Allen, charged with murder, re-
Gently sentenced at jefferson, Tex, tc
sixty years in the Penitentiary.
An effort is to be made to have at Least
half of the clerks in the Texas State De-
partments females, and bill having this
object in view has been introduced in th'
Legislature.
While the mail pouch was being take1
= from the Post-ofice at Lake Provi dence
La, few nights ago, to the mail boat
the carrier was waylaid and the poucl
carried off. 1t was found next morning
some distance from the point where it was
taken, cut open and robbed of all tb,
registered packages; also the report o
| Postmaster Jones of Lake Providence. Tn
pouch contained s., $50 in registered pack
ages.
A few days since fire was discovered il
q two-story frame building, in Mobile
Ala, occupied as a grocery store ant
sleeping-room by Mr.. Frank Cullen, wit
the upper floors occupied by George Phil
| lips. owner of the house, and family, wit
boarders, three in number. The flame
spread so rapidly that Mrs. and Miss Phil
lips were burned to death. Mr.. Phillip
died subsequently of burns received in en-
deavoring to save his family. Cullen ha
been arrested for incendiarism.
Rev. Charles F. Clark, a weIl-know
clergyman of Houston County, Georgis
while quarreling with colored man a fe1
days ago, was attacked by the latter wit
a knife. rhe preacher, who had a cane i
his hand, struck the negro on the head wit
it, killing him instantly. A COroner's jur
justified the preacher.
} In a fire at Paris, Tenn, a few night agt
} the Howard Block on the West side of tn
5 Public Square, was burned. w. F. Daw
sons grocery was also destroyed. A youn
man named Boofman and a negro, Will
trying to save the goods, were burned I
death. Fill Myers, a negro porter, wa
buried in the cellar, but was finally res
cued, having sustained a dislocated shoul
der. 1t was thought that three bodies WEI
buried in the ruins. Total loss over $50, ,0O(
light insurance.
New Orleans luxuriates in strawberrie
Negroes in Cumberland County, Tennes
see, formed a band for the purpose of rol
| bing and numbering white people. Two
/ the dusky rascals have been caught, an
. It was proposed to make awful exampI,
3 of them if the lynching plans did not fai
Filipe EsparaZo, a wealthy saloonist
/ Laredo, Tex, left home few nights az
: to be gone a short time, and was foun
dead the next morning near his residenc
{ II is supposed he was intoxicated and fe
, when near home, and when the liquor 10
effect froze to death. No marks of violen'
5 were found on the body, and money in Il
pockets was undisturbed.
y ssThe Hopping Disciples of the Devil'
], the name of a dancing club in Texas.
= Great interest has always been felt |
Northern travellers in the location of Il
: site of AndersonvilIe (Ga-) mil itary pri
: on. The site is located several hundrt
r -. r-,r,, 4t,s a track of the South yvestar