The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-04-23
SOUTHERN cLEANINes.

/ lex, recently ne was aTEes6e0 anu Il
now in jail.
Mrs. Malone, while alone at midnight at
her home in Thomson, Ga, was feloniously
assaulted by strange negro, who escaped
before help could come. A lynching party
was in pursuit of him.
In a row at Nashville, Tenn, a few
nights ago, over the Senatorial muddle,
James F. Turner one of the Senate guards.
was stabbed by Pink McCarver, who was
shot in the shoulder by Turner.
John O'Brien attempted to sell stolen
horses on the Dallas Tex, market a few
days ago, and was arrested. O'Brien is
an alias. The prisoner is regarded as one
Of the notorious Red River operators in
Texas and the Indian Territory.
The Western Road of Alabama recently
paid to Harrison Schell, of Atlanta, Ga,
81, 900 for personal injuries received. This
is the largest damage bill ever paid in the
South to colored man.
A posse of Deputy Marshals arrived in
Fort Smith, Ark, few days since with
thirteen United States prisoners from the
Indian Territory, among whom were
Amanda and Robert Jackson, for murder
ously assaulting Susan Cherry on the
streets of Muskogee. They had some con-
trOversy with Susan Cherry over church
matters, and attacked her with knives, cut
ting her breast and arms and shoulders in
a merciless manner before assistance could
be rendered her.
A sensation has been created by the an
nouncement that General Henry r. Jack =
son, the newly appointed Minister to
Mexico, is under precisely the same dis
ability as General LawtOn, whose ap-
pointment as Minister to Russia was not
confirmed on account of disabilities hav-
| inc, al Joo
states that he does not wish to complicate
matters, although he has been confirmed,
and will not assume the duties until his
| disabilities have been passed upon.
l.. K. Eldridge, a patient in the Nash
vile Insane Asylum, from Overton Coun-
! ty, suddenly seized floor mop few days
ago, and struck Everett B. Buchanan, the
| attendant of the ward in which EIdridge
roomed, crushing his skull and fatally in
juring him. The infuriated lunatic next
attacked Thomas G. Layton, a feeble cpl
leptic patient, aged twenty eight years,
crushing his skull. The Iunatic attacked
another patient, when an attendant from
an adjoining ward rushed in and secured
him. Both Buchanan and Layton died in
a few hours. Eldridge is only twenty
years of age.
Mrs. Barbara II. Deubler was run ever
by a hand-car on the Texas & Pacific
Railroad at Dallas, Tex, a few days ago,
| and instantly killed.
A terrific rain and wind storm swept
over Central Mississippi recently. 1t
came from a northwesterly direction and
| lasted several hours, blowing down trees,
fences and outhouses, and in some places
| washed up corn and other seeds that bad
been recently planted. The next morning,
at Canton and vicinity, a number of
strange birds were found lying, or sitting
| on the ground, some of them dead and
others crippled from being hurled against
| trees, houses and other obstacles. Again,
others were found apparently uninjured,
| although they seemed unable or indisposed
! to fly any considerable distance. Up
ward of hundred of these birds have
been picked up, and, as they are entire
strangers to the locality, the supposition
is, that they were caught up on the sea
coast by the wind and waited that way.
| Private letters from the chief of the
Seminole Indians say Thomas Cloud, in
command of squad of Seminole light
horse, crossed the Canadian River last
| week to arrest some Indian fugitives.
They arrested two, but were resisted by
Rector Rogers, Greek negro desperate.
Rogers fought like tiger, and killed Cap
tain Tom Cloud and mortally wounded
Sam Cudj 10 before he fell Rogers was
shot all to pieces, and died fighting des-
perately.
Ex-Mayor Pullen Of Paris, KY, was
found dead in a Lexington Hotel few
days ago, having committed suicide.
The Georgia Gazette, the oldest newspa-
| per in the State, was founded in Savannah
in 1863.
Frank France, of Wickliffe, KY, as a
possible warning to spring poets, adver
tises himself in his own paper as "editor
and undertaken
A monthly allowance of $3.50 for the
support of a cat was a recent item on the
payroll of the Lexington (Ky.) Fire De-
| partment
The Tennessee Senate attempted to dis
courage immigration by passing bill fin
ing Sunday base ball players fifty dollars.
John Rodgers (colored), of Northampton
County, N. c., for killing NJ. F. Pebbles
some months ago, has been sentenced to be
hanged June 5th.
General Bethune, of Colu mbus, Ca, has
been appointed guardia of Blind Tom,
the musical prodigy, now an idiot.
| Probably the oldest deed on record in
North Carolina is that at Hertford, given
byIKucatenaw, an Indian King, to George
| Durant, dated March 1st, 1861.
There is a salt lake in Hidalgo County,
/
| in circumference, and from three to four
feet deep. Its bed consists of crystals of
pure salt.
| Under the local option law 104 of the 1877
counties of Georgia have adopted prohi-
bition on trial, and the feeling in favor of
/ the local option system is said to be grow.
ing.
Malvin Tucker, a white boy about sew
enteen years of age, surrendered himself
| TO the United States Marshal at Fort
Smith for killing Nord Jones, a Choctaw
Indian, few days ago. The deed was
| done In defending his father.
Judge Pardee, in the United States Court
| at Atlanta, Ga, recently sentenced the
richest man in Polk County to three
months Imprisonment for contempt of
/ court.
| Garden-truck men are harvesting
At Dallas, Tex, a few nights ago, as w.
| N. Cole was making his way home ne was
halted by two footpads, who robbed him
| of q fine gold watch and chain, $64 65 in
money and other valuabIes. The city is
full Of thieves who are committing depre-
dations nightly
Albert HiIlar, a leading young man of
Spring Greek, Tenn, who had been miss
/ ing from home for two weeks, was found a
few days ago wandering along the high
way near Union City, nearly starved,
/ bruised and ragged. He is a hopeless
/ maniac. His widowed mother and broth.
ers are in deep distress
The population Of Atlanta, Ga, is in
| rreasing at the rate Of nearly 5000 year.
Sublowitch's jewelry store at Dallas.
Tex, was robbed few n ghts ago Of SOC
worth of money and valuables. A man