The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-03-12
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

ago.
Miss Mary Holbrook, beautiful young
lady of Buchanan, Ca, was burned to
death few nights ago. While she was
standing in front of the Fireplace her
clothing caught fire, and before help came
in answer to her screams she was literally
roasted alive.
The North Carolina Legisl ature has in
creased the annual appropriation for the
University of North Carolina $4,000 in
view of establishing the institution on
higher plane. The faculty will be greatly
increased. Permanent chairs of science
will be provided for.
Ex-Judge John Elliott, of Mobile, Ala,
died a few nights ago, aged ffty-five
years. He was a distinguished lawyer of
that State. He served in the Seventh
Louisiana under Stonewan Jackson, and
rose to the rank of Captain, being cap
tured in the battle of the Wilderness.
Under the reconstruction laws he was
first Judge of the Mobile Judicial Circuit.
After his term he resumed his law prac-
tice.
Governor Ireland of Texas commute d
the death sentence pas sed on Jesse Jack
son, who was to have been executed at
Houston on the 27th, to Imprisonment for
life. His Excellency's action was brought
about by the recommendation of the Judge
who tried the prisoner and certificate by
medical experts that the condemned
was a born idiot and not responsible for
his acts.
William Pittman, charged with forgery,
| escaped a second time from the Hickman
County jail at Columbus, KY, a few nights
ago. He broke his cell door from its
hinges and let himself down from the jail
window by blanket. He was heard of
| at his brothers., nine miles in the country.
but had not been recaptured.
The offices of the Denton County Clerk
and one of the court-rooms at Denton,
Tex, were broken into a few nights ago
and twenty criminal indictments and
five appearance bonds stolen. Much ex-
element was Occasioned, as the bonded
prisoners can now fee from trial and the
| bOndsmen feel secure.
Peter Franklin (coIored), while anding
beside the track of the Southwestern Rail-
road, near Georgetown, Ala, few days
ago, was fired at by an unknown party on
a passing freight train, one shot taEing
effect in the knee, which brought him to
the ground, when he crawled off into the
| woods. He has no idea of who the would
be murderer was.
| The encampment of all the Grand Army
| Posts of Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama,
met at Chattanooga, Tenn, last week. be-
ing the first assembly of the Posts in the
| South. There was a good attendance.
Resolutions were adopted urging the pas
| sage of the Mexican pension bill; the re-
tirement of General Grant; giving ex-
Union soldiers who were conscripted into
| Confederate service leave to join the
Posts. The ele ction of officers resulted
in the reelection of Colonel Ed. S. Jones,
| of Mas hville, as Department Commander,
and the officers were publicly installed.
In the Texas Senate a bill has been in
! troduced to prohibit the hiring of sailors
of foreign vessels in Texas ports to labor
| on the wharves beyond their ships tackle.
NJ. G. Smith, a lawyer of Marlin, Tex,
| and candidate for County Attorney of
| Falls County at the last election, since his
| defeat has been drinking very hard.
| few days since he was attacked with de-
| lirium tremens, and imagined that he saw
snakes and all other horrible things. He
| escaped from his friends and could not be
| found for some time, when he was discov-
cred almost dead in well, into which he
had fallen. His condition was critical
and he was not expected to live.
An effort is being made in the Texas
Legislature to incorporate in the school
/ law provision permitting women who
/ pay taxes to vote on the question of levy
! ing special county school taxes.
During the preliminary examination of
/ A. M. McBowlng at Mt Sterling, KY, a
few days ago, on the charge of abducting
! Miss Scott and killing Officer Gill, two at
| tempts were made by CLIPS brother to
| shoot McBowling, but the vigilance of the
| court officers prevented him.
Mrs. Cynthia Griffin, of Waycross, Ga.
is the mother Of twenty-six children, all
| of whom she reared to manhood and
/ womanhood.
The residence Of Charles Schultz, at
! Monroe, La, was entirely destroyed by
| fire a few nights ago. Loss, $1,000; in
| sured.
A gas war at Savannah, Ga, has result
ed in a reduction of the price of the article
to fifty cents per 1000 feet.
Israel Brown, colOred, postmaster al
HardeevilIe, S. c., arrested recently
charged with falsifying his-returns to in
| crease his commissions, was discharged.
A norther visited portion of Texas re-
Gently, and cattle were reported dying
| rapidly. Numerous failures among stock
! growers are looked for.
Strawberries are selling in Jacksonv lille,
Fla, at fifty cents quart.
John Smith, pioneer citizen of Yazoo
| City, Miss, and veteran who served with
| distin nctiOn through the Mexican war, was
buried in that city recently.
The new Treasurer of Habersham County.
| Georgia, has given his bond for $4,000.
There is just $3.50 in the Treasury.
| A gardener near Mobile, Ala, is said to
have raised ripe watermelons out of doors
from seeds planted in December.
A queer accident happened in johnson
County, Tennessee, a few days ago. Alex
| Raber felled a large tree on a steep hillside
near his house. After the tree fell it COM
menced rolling, and finally swept his
house away, with the whole family. All
were more or less injured, but none
| fatally.
The forty-ninth anniversary of the in
| dependence of Texas was celebrated on
| the Sd by the laying of the corner stone of
| the new State capitol at Austin.
Louisville, claims 1919 inhabitants.
Judge A. c. Mcintosh, of Powder
! Springs, Ga, was killed a few,days ago bv
| a train on the East Tennessee Railroad.
near Powder Springs. He attempted to
flag the down train by standing on the
| track in front of it and remained too long,
the train catching him and killing him
| instantly.
Colonel William Spence, formerly
! United States Marshal for the Middle Dis
trict Of Tennessee, was taken to the Peni-
tentiarv a few days ago to serve a life
sentence for killing his in-Iayv. his
successor in Office, on account of business
| troubles.
The policemen of Atlanta, Ga, are
wrestling with fully developed cock pit.
Brigadier- General Claussen and staff.
ACCOMPANIED by the South Carolina Vol.
unteers company, colored troops, visited