The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-10-22
SOUTHERN eLEANlNes.

knife, fatally injuring him. She is in jail
and glories in her work, considering her.
self heroine. Both had over-induigod
in WING. Goldsby, in his frenzy, fought
the men who were dressing his wounds,
but finally succumbed to weakness result
ing from loss of blood.
A penniless white tramp named George
Morton was bruta1ly murdered by negroes
in Mobile, Ala, a few morning since. Ho
has been begging several days, his special
pl "a being rupture, which incap acitated
him from laboring. He obtained enough
money to get drunk and be locked up by
tie police. He was last seen alive with
some negroes. He had on a truss, which
they thought was money-belt. He was
murdered with an axe and razor, hia
throat being cut, his poclet rified and the
body thrown into the weeds on a street
side.
Marietta J ZONES, Lucy King and Matte
Barron, all of Henderson, Ca, were des-
perately in love with the same man. A
few nights ago they met and quarreled
as to the priority of their claims. Mari
etta Jones suddenly snatched up a carV-
ingoknife and second later Lucy King
lay on the floor corpse, with stream Of
blood rushing from a knife wound which
penetrated her heart. Matte Barron was
saved from similar fate by the lnterfer-
ence of a constable, who lodged both
women in jail
A good vein of coal has been discovered
near Decatur, Tex.
Two negroes in Sumter County, Ca, re-
Gently picked s72 pounds OF cotton IN one
day.
One gentleman in Tuscaloosa, Ala,
sends children to six different schools, and
has two representatives at two of these
schools.
Joseph Rosenburgb, aged 1O2 years, who
fought under BIucher IN the war with
apoleon, died recently at New Orleans.
A live rattl esnake six feet long is kept
on exhibition in the showcase of a grocery
store at Abbevilie, S. c.
Miss Hester Clarke, of Marion, Ala.
saye if she lives to see Christmas she will
be 123 years old.
A 800, COO bridge is being constructed
over the Cumberland river in Davidson
County, Tenn.
Varina Ann Davis is the name which
was given at her christening to the daugh.
ter of jefferson Davis, better known as
"Winnie.''
One of the three Knights Of Labor cam
didates for the Legislature was elected in
S avannah, Ga, at the recent election.
In 1864 there were eight daily papers
published in Atlanta, Ca; now there are
but three-one morning, the Constitution
and two evening papers.
Pretty Mrs. W. L. Bell, daughter of Rev.
D can, of Dubois, Ga.s has caused great
sensation in that locality by elOping with
Charley Lee, an ex- convict, who was a
suitor of hers before he became a criminal.
Judge McCord, of the Seventh district
of Texas, has been requested by eight
hundred prominent citizens to resign his
Office for releasing influential murd erers
on bail Of $4,000 zach.
Pinkeye prevails among the horses at
Lonoke, Ark, and young man there has
contracted the disease. No case of the
kind had eyer before been known in that
neighborhood.
A. B. BeIcher, of cambridge, Ca, owns
ten-year old OK having and wearing
three fully developed horns--two at their
proper places and the third growing out
of his shoulder. near the withers, and
probably fourteen inches long
The artesian well of G. j. Schlepegrell
& Son at Charleston, S. O., is completed.
It. is the first we'll in that city bored
by the hydraulic method, and although
but recently CO upleted, it flows four feet
above the surf ace. The well is 45S feet
deep and has capacity of $500 gallons of
water per hour.
Matt Roac h, colored, who got into a row
with a negress in North Nashville, Tenn
a few days ago. and in a ft of passion
stru ok and killed the baby of Lee Cope
land, was convicted and sentenced to two
years and FIVE months in the penitentiary.
As the train from Millington was ap-
preaching Kerrviue, Tenn, a few days
ago, some unknown person fired at Gran
vile Brewer, a colored boy, inflicting a
wound from which he died in a few MN
utes. No Gle W to the assassin has been
obtained.
One ofthe stables at Sligo stock-far1n
near jackson, Miss, was burned a few
nights ago. -Four horses and five mules
" ere burned, with milk and farm wagons,
hay-press aud large amount of feed.
Fortunately the wind was light, and the
stables and barn W ere saved. The dairy
was partly bur ned. Loss, S4,OO; supposed
incendiary.
A Charleston Is. CO. woman was strange.
~ affected by the earthquake. Her hair,
which is long and black, is falling out in
places, leaving the scalp exposed. The
physicians state that it is caused by
paralysis of the scalp caused from fright.
Some watermelons raised in Wilkinson
Comfy, Georgia, were taken to Macon re-
Gently eor sale. They were exc eedingly
fine, and when cnt proved to be as good
as the melons cut in July. Not drop of
rain ever fell upon them and they grow
upon sandy soil.
Editor Howard and Mayor Spearman OF
Kingston, Tex, met a few evenings since
and fred several shots at each other with
heavy revOlvers. Howard was wounded,
while Spearman was untouched. The
cause was an old feud.
John Allen returned to his home in
Dallas, Ga, from Atlanta, few nights
ago, drunk, and quarreled with a man
named Whitlock, whom he wounded seri-
ously. While Mr.. J. n. Din was on hil
way for a doctor to attend on Whitlock he
met Allen and vent for him with his knife,
inficting thirteen wounds altogether, OF
which Ave were mortal
Southern travel is becoming heavier.
E. E. Barnard, of the Vanderbilt OBJ
servatory, Nashville, Tenn, reports the
discovery of a new, comet in ten hours
thirty-six minutes of right ascension and
north declination no degrees and fifty
eight minutes. This makes the seventh
comet discovered by that gentleman.
Captain Thomas d. Cooper, a we'll.
known and popular master and pilot on
the Yazoo river. died at Vicksburg Miss,
few days since OF malariaI fever. The
deceased was a gallant Confederate
soldier during the late war, member of
Captain Raum's cavalry and served in
General Hardeess escort.
Lucy Grogan is to be hanged at Sails
bury, N. c., on the IS tn, for infanticide.
It is said that paris green, which has
been used extensively on plantation in
Bossier Parish, Louisiana, to destroy the
cotton worm, has poisoned several negro
cotton -pickers, and that two or three OF