The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-03-12
SOUTHERN oLEANINes.

A man who lives in Harmony Grove,
Ca, and who served four years in the
late war, says he did not see a buzzard
during the whole time of the war.
A negro whose name is unknown, and
several head of stock, in a barn belonging
| to Carey Gilbert, at Prospect, Giles
County, Tenn, burned to death a few
nights ago.
| Rev. J. T. Sawyer, pastor OF the Bap-
! tist Church at Bank, a small hamlet in
Blount County, Tenn, has been arrested
for stealing the church records, and bound
| over to court.
| Robert Rose was shot in the face and
mortally wounded by Gus Moody at
CIarksville, Tenn, a few evenings since.
The two quarreled about an account.
Moody fed.
| r. J. Fitzgerald, court stenographer, liv-
ing in Macon, Ga, committed suici de in
that city few days ago. He arose from
his bed, took pistol off the mantel piece
and fired its contents into his head, in1ict-
| ing a wound from which he died in an
! hour
| The Virginia Senate has rejected by an
overwhelming vote a proposition to amend
the Constitution so as to repudiate all of
the bonds not funded under the Riddle
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ratification by the people to this amend
ment to the Constitution.
! a Florida woman pleads guilty to hav.
/ ing had forty two children.
| George Price and John Hutson, who stole
5000 worth of jewelry from Young & Doyle,
at Sparta, Tenn, were sentenced to five
| years. impr rsOnment.
| Near the line of Marion County, N. c.,
few days ago, D. 6. Bright, q wealthy and
prominent citizen, was beaten to death by
| clubs in the hands of Herbert Bird and his
/ two sons. Bright claimed a right OF way
/ through Birds land, and it was while he
was passing over it that he was set upon
! by the three men and pounded to jelly.
! Wiley B. Bryan, who was awarded Eve
| years imprisonm ent for writing and send
| ing obscene letters to Miss Fa nnie Dorman,
at Nashville, Tenn, has been granted a
new trial and released on a 800 bond.
/ A very solemn requiem mass was held in
! Chattanooga, Tenn. a few days ago for
Father McNally, late priest of that parish,
who died recently in Ireland. Bishop
Rodemacher and all the leading Catholic
priests in Chattanooga and neighboring
dioceses participated in the ceremonies,
which were the most solemn ever held by
the Church in the State.
EoOttst weeks ago IB'FG negroes LpCk u
contract from Mrs. Ur4ubart to pick out a
certain cotton crop on her place, near
Greenville, Miss. When the Job was COM.
pleted a few days ago q settlement was
made. Galloway, one OF the negroes, was
accused by the other two OF receiving too
much for his portion, when a quarrel arose
in which Galloway was shot in the head
and instantly killed.
a. Nj. Parsons, a stranger, about forty
i've years of age, tall and fine looking with
| long black whiskers, was found dead in o
house of bad repute, belonging to a mulatto
woman, at Vicksburg, Miss, few days
ago, and the evidence indicated suicide, as
three empty morphine boxes, from as many
different drug stores in that city, were
found near his bed.
The excitem ent created over the recent
Killing of Marshal Haygood by Mr.. Ennis,
at Milledgeville, Ca, continues undated
and criticism of Rev. Sam Jones both for
and against is heated. The city council in
view Of Haygood's murder and the fear
of others yet 10 follow, recently met and
passed an ordinance prohibiting further
street meetings on the question of pro-
prob ibition.
What the great woman philanthropist,
Margaret, was to New Orleans Mrs. Marths
A. Magale Flanagan was to Galveston.
Forty years of life had been hers when a
few evenings since this charitable lady
/ breathed her last hrs. FIannigGn's i'll.
ness was only of a few days, and when
first stricken with the heavy cold which
rapidly merged into pneumonia no one
had an idea that fatal results would follow
until death marked her for its own.
H. II. Gilley, OF Carroll County, Ga,
borrowed bird dog from his brot her,
Grant Gilley, L ecentIY. The latter de-
manded its return, WI en- II. II. Gilley
visited his brother in the field, and telling
him he had come to settle about the dog,
strucl, him on the head with a rock.
Grant GiIey then drew his knife and in
dicted seven deadly wounds upon his
brother, until the latter fell from loss of
| blood.
At Burdette Station, Miss, few even
.ngs since Mr.. Louis Stern, OF GreenviIIe,
had some business transaction with a ne
gro named Hubbard, the amount in
| question being about fifty cents, during a
controversy over which Stern shot at Hub
| bard several times without effect. The ne
gro, in the meantime, procured a pistol
| friends and opened fire on Stern. The
first shot entered Stern's back, and is
said to be OF a very dangerous and per-
haps fatal nature.
| The Mississippi Senate refused by vote
Of u to 10 to pass the House bill repeating
the free-pass bill, and the laws passed by
| the last Legislature on this question re-
main III fun force. 1t also passed a bill
comforting the Railroad Commissioners
and State authorities power to act as a
State Board of Equalizers, for the purpose
/ of equalizing and making more uniform
the taxes in differe MT counties.
CASTOR McCarter, one of the wealthiest
and most respected farmers OF Meriwether
| County, Ga, accidentally shot and killed
his oldest son, his favorite child and con-
stant companion a few days ago. Nc
! Carter, enraged a mischievous cow,
grabbed his gun and shot at the COW, but
instead of shooting the COW, hit and in
| stantly killed his nine-year- old boy, who
was beyond the COW in the woods.
Vicksburg is to have an inter- State drill.
| The recent killing of Marshal Hay good
by Mr.. Sam Ennis at MilledgevIIle, Ga,
1 has given a bloody elimination to one of
| the bitterest contests over prohibition yet
/ conducted in Georgia.
/ The jury in the case OF Hennessy, who
! beat Oscar T. Noel at Nashville, Tenn, on
! the gold brick racket, brought in a verdict
of guilty with five years in the peniten-
/ tiary. Hennessy's counsel Immediately
made motion in arrest OF judgment and
announced that they would ask for new
| trial. Meanwhile the prisoner was car
ried back to jail. Hennessy halls from st.
1 Louis.
Lily and Blanche are favorite names
/ among Southern colored girls.
During a drunken row at Glasgow juno
tion, Ky, a few days ago, VIII Cooke
fractured the skull of James DennisoE
with two-pound weight. The row was
the elimination Of an old grudge. Denni-
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