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

charged from custody on motion of the
commonwealth attorney.
The storehouse of S. Staicti at Marshall,
Tex, was entered a few nights ago and
about so worth of provisions and grocer
les stolen. The people are becoming
alarmed at the frequency of such occur
rences, and talk of organizing a Citizens
police to protect the town.
j. P. Mitchell, conductor on the Hender.
son Division of the Louisville & Nashville
Railroad, was crushed while coupling cars
at Red River, KY, a few days ago, and
died from the effects of his injuries.
A few days ago in Salisbury, N. c.,
white man named Hughes assaulted a lit
tie white girl. He was arrested and jailed.
Fearing mob, the jaiIer put a new lock to
the jail. "A mob attacked the Jail, took
Hughes out and gave him a severe whip
ping, and warned him to leave the State.
Marion Mcfarland, farmer living near
Geneva, Ga, was bitten a few weeks ago
by dog supposed to be mad. He suffered
but little from the bite until few days
ago, when he had commissions. He died
horrible death, after two days of suffer-
ing, with all the symptoms of hydro
phobia.
Mrs. Trautwein, wife of a prominent
manufactures. at Atlanta, Ga, died few
days ago. Mrs. Berron, a wealthy widow,
offered grave in her cemetery lot for the
burial of her friend, and went out with
Mr.. Trautwein to select the spot. During
the evening, by some accident, Mrs. Ber-
ronss dress caught fire and she was burned
to death, and the two ladies were buried
side by side.
The jury in the case of Deputy Sheriff
Hancock, which has been on trial in the
Memphis (Tenn.) Criminal Court, returned
verdict of not guilty. Hancock was in
dicted for killing negro named Daniel
Mckay, who resisted him while under ar
rest.
A serious row occurred at CIarksdale,
Miss, on the Louisville, New Orleans &
Texas Railroad, a few days ago. About
800 negroes, after being paid off, began
drinking, which resulted in a row. Floyd,
the negro Marshal of the town, and one of
the road hands began shooting at each
other, the former being hit in the head and
neck and dangerously hurt, while the other
man was mOrtally wounded.
Buck Scott shot and killed Thornton
Reed on the Gibson place, nine miles from
Vicksburg, Miss, few nights ago. Both
parties were colored. Reed was shot in
| the face. When found, his gun lying
by his side, with the stock broken in two.
y
working outside the walls at Jackson,
Miss, few days ago, escaped from the
| guards. One was shot and thought to be
mortaIly wounded, while the other made
good his escape.
Ninety three military companies have
made conditional entries for the Mobile
prize drill next May.
The people of Florida voted at the late
election in favor of holding a convention
to revise their State constitution. The
vote was: eyes," 81 ,8S4; "No," 28, ,13O.
George Frank, brakeman on the Texas
Pacific Railroad, was fatally injured few
nights ago by a coupling pin flying from
| its socket and penetrating his brain.
The Alabama Legislature will in all
| probability extend radical privileges to
women in the management of property.
| A person in Cumming, Ga, recently
| found pin in the center of a roasted po-
| tato, which had evidently been there from
the formation of the tuber, as it was quite
| rusty.
! A petrified rattlesnake was found a few
| days ago near Birmingham, Ga, in the
center of huge bowlder. The snake was
| nearly seven feet long and had nine rat
ties. 1t was perfect in every respect.
In one of the mountain counties of Ken
lucky a woman has held the office of JUS
tice of the Peace without legal authority
| for the last ten years.
| The Prohibitionists have just carried
| Union Parish Louisiana, by a vote of 900
| to 400. Liquor licenses are looked upon
! with little favor in very many portions of
| the South.
| There are in the Georgia Lunatic Asylum
| 1883 patients, and as soon as the new asy-
/ lum now building is completed the number
/ FVE.. r
| their maintenance is $1S0,OOO per annum.
| The steam saw-miu of Thomas Bros. &
! Co., near Clinton, Tenn, burned few
| days since. Loss, $4,000; uninsured.
| While ]. B. Mursom and James Maddis
were riding near New Iberia, La, a few
! days ays ago, Mursom drew revolver at
a bird, and the report frightened his horse.
Both grabbed the reins, when the pistol,
which Mursom still held, was again dis
/ charged and Maddis was fatally shot
| The knights of Honor Mutual Aid AS
| socation of Louisville, KY, has decided to
| dissolve, it's members having dwindled to
/ less than one thousand,
The Clubhouse and grist-mill of Mr.. Bar
ton Burt, in Russell County, Ala, burned
| a few nights ago, together with a large lot
| of cotton belonging to tenants and Gus
toners of the gin. The accident happened
| through the stupidity of a negro, who went
| into the Clubhouse with lighted candle to
/ push the cotton back that had piled up.
Immediately the whole house was in a
| blaze, and it was totally destroyed in a few
minutes. Loss, $4,000.
A most fabulous find has been made in
an abandoned gold mine in North Georgia.
| The tract was bought some months ago by
1 capitalists in Chattanooga, Tenn. They had
| specimens taken from a vein sixty-five
| feet from the surface of the ground, and
sent them to some of the leading chemists
| of the United States. One assay shows
the ore to be worth 800 per ton, and an
other places it at $500. The veins are said
| to be exhaustless, and an experienced min
| ing chemist says the mine will be. equal in
value to the bonanza mines of Colorado.
The Exposition keeps open Sundays.
Charles McCrary was walking in the
| street at Tullahoma, Tenn, few days
! ago, when he noticed that he was followed
! bv Charles Houghlette, who had a club.
| Turning he fired two shots into Hough-
| lette. who fell dead. The two men had
| Quarrel of long standing, and Houghlette
| had several times threatened McCrary.
The Georgia Legislature has adjourned
| to the second Wednesday in July, 1885.
| The general local option bill was post
| poned to the summer session. One hundred
| and eighty thousand dollars a year was
| appropriated for the new Capitol, and
| work will proceed steadily.
Ripe tomatoes are hanging on the vines
/ at Tallahass ee, Fla
The cigar manufacturers of Key West,
| Fla. representing a capital of about 81,
| 100000, will send a committee to Washing
! ton to present to Congress the objections
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