The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-01-22
SOUTHERN oLEANINes.

house near Jordan Station, KY, a few days
ago.
William McGavock, Of Franklin, Tentl.,
while hunting near that place a few days
since, fell and accidentally discharged his
gun. The contents entered his body, cans
ing death in a few moments.
A syndicate, Of which Colonel D. A.
Cooper is at the head, has purchased a
controlling interest in the NashV lille
(Tenn.) DotIg american. The paper viii
continue to be Democratic journal.
Irvine Flowers, negro charged with
the murder of Mr.. Hays, of Liberty Hill,
Jackson Parish, La, was arrested near
Vicksburg, Miss, few nights ago, on a
requisition from the Governor of Louisiana,
and taken to jackson Parish for trial.
Flowers admitted having killed a negro in
Arkansas after the killing for which he
was arrested
The dead body of an unknown man, aged
about forty, was found lying on the ground
in the woods near Louisville, KY, a few
days since. His clothes were burned off
him and his flesh was partially cooked.
At his side was the remains of fire. 1t is
supposed his clothing caught fire while he
was asleep. There was nothing to identify
him by.
W T. Blackwell, of Arkadelphia, Ark,
met during the summer Miss jamie Cham
bers, of Barnesville, Ga, daughter of
wealthy family. Her parents objected to
the young mans attentions, and the mat
ter was supposed to be at an ED. Mr..
Blackwell had arranged by mail, however,
for an elopement, and the two met at Grit
fin, Ga, the other day and were married,
departing for their home in Arkansas.
Joshua Ward, aged fifty years, employed
as a carpenter at the Memphis CTenn.)
City Hospital, and Fritz Smith, aged forty
wears, who works in a laundry, engaged
in a quarrel a few days ago, and
Smith hit Ward in the head
with a stick of wood. When they
met at dinner, the difficulty between them
was renewed, and in the fight which fol-
lowed Ward stabbed Smith in the left lung
with a Barlow knife, inficting a mortal
wound.
Rainey, the colored ex-Congressman
from South Carolina, is running a coal
yard in Washington.
Indictments have been returned at New
Orleans against the Presidents of the
Trades Union, Typographical Union and
Pressmen's Union, charging them with
libel.
Two men were killed and several others
seriously injured a few days ago by a
wreck on the Texas & st. Louis Railway at
Corsicana, Tex.
Sam Anderson, a Vicksburg (Mlss.J ne.
gro, has obtained judgment against ex-
Sheriff Beck for $40, 900 for false Oimprison-
ment, the defendant having ignored the
suit.
A man giving his name as Tyler was ar
rested at Brownsville, Tenn, few days
ago, charged with forging w. g. Wilson's
name to check, which he passed upon q
merchant. Tyler is supposed to be the
man who passed forged check in Mem
phis.
C. T. Tessier, the model-maker in the ea-
gineering department of Vanderbilt Uni
versity, at Nashville, Tenn, sued that in
stitution for three months salary, at $50
per month, and lost the suit. He claimed
that he was a professor, and entitled to a
vacation and continuation of his salary,
as other professors connected with the
! University. The case was decided against
him on the ground that his demands were
foreign to his contract. He loses both sal
ary and situation.
The Kentu cky DistiIlers' Association or
ganized at Louisville recently by electing
the following officers: T. j. McGibben,
Cynthiana, President; T. II. Sherley,
Louisville, Vice President; James Kim
brough, Lexington, Secretary; J. Bark
house, Louisville, Treasurer. The Di-
duction of whisky for the next year to 49,
100000 gallons.
Nashville (Tenn.) detectives have ar
rested VIM. w ebb and Lee Copeland near
! Nolensville, Tenn, the former on the
charge of burning the residence of Nc
! Dowel Crawford, prominent negro, and
! the latter for the attempted assassination
| of Crawford. The trouble grew out of
| law suits. Crawford's house was burned
| two years ago, and one night last Novem-
! ber he was fired upon, thirteen buckshot
taking effect. Webb gave bond and Cope
| land was jailed.
| The trial of Rev. J. G. Armstrong, rector
| of st. Phillips Episcopal Church at At
lanta, Ca, began a few days ago. Rev.
VIM. s. Hunter was elected President of
| the court. The trial was ordered to be
/ secret. Mr.. Armstrong is accused of i'm
! moral revelry during his vacation last
! summer, when he visited Cincinnati,
! though he claims to have visited the houses
cited in search of a daughter of a dear
| friend in Canada, and at his request.
While a freight train was passing
/ through the tunnel on the East Tennessee,
Virginia & Georgia Railway under Mis-
sionary Ridge, Tenn, few days since,
| locomotive which was loaded on a fiat-car
scraped the arch top of the tunnel and dis
| placed several of the arch bars, causing a
cave n. About thirty feet of arching fell
and BE train was split in twain. The en-
| CINE was derailed and one car loaded with
| merchandise entirely crushed.
! The recent cold snap is said to have been
the longest and severest ever felt in Flor
| ida. The loss in oranges on the trees, ac-
cording TO Captain Ives, manager of the
/ Florida Fruit Exchange, is 81 ,0O0, 600. The
loss to the vegetables is immense, some
| men having sixty to one hundred acres
killed. Water spOuts, tanks, ETC., were
/ frozen solid at Jacksonville. Skating was
INDUCED in upon the ponds, scene never
before witnessed in Florida. All the grow
/ ers say that the trees are in splendid con-
| dition to Withstand the freeze, owing to
| the severe weather previous to this.
Burglars blew open the safe of L. Cohen
| & Co., wholesale liquor dealers, at Atlanta,
Ca, few nights ago, and stole $4,000.
! Jack Frost made sharp call
/ Fire at Aiken, s. c., a few days ago de-
stroyed the store -snd stock of M. j.
| Moseley, B. w. Moseley, J. R. Hewlate
/ and F. B. Henderson. Loss, $4,000; in
surance, $3O,OOO- A keg Of powder ex-
/ ploded during the ere, seriously injur-
ing two negroes and a whiteboy.
John Connor and Adam McNab, of
/ Spring Place, Ca, were suitors for the
/ hand of Miss Jennie Henry, a local belle.
/ Connor secured the prize and was mar
ried on Christmas eve. A few nights ago
some one knocked at his door, and opening
it he discovered his rival, who shot him
dead and fed to parts unknown.
Kentucky has furnished eleven Speakers
Of the House Of Representatives.
! A Georgia negro havingtviolated some
ordinance at ssandersviIle, fed the town
some time ago. He returned recently,
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