The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-09-17
SOUTHERN oLEANINGs.

James Lanler, WhIUe magistrate, KllIeo
an old colored man named Warner for
voting the prohibition ticket.
Matt Roach (colored), while fighting
two negresses, at Nashville, Tenn, few
days since, accidentally struck Mary
Copeland (colored), aged one year, with a
chair, killing her.
Hardin County, Kentucky, has public
school fund of $4,000, one hundred public
schools, four colleges and academies and
three female seminaries.
Thos. N. Fowler, Major General of the
Alabama State militia, died at Mobile a
few days ago. He was Iieutenant-COl-
onel of Mississippi regiment during the
war.
Luther Jones committed suicide at Horse
Cave, KY, few days ago by shooting
himself through the head. Circumstances
show that the deed was accomplished de-
hbsrately.
The trial of Quincy A. Balm for the MUIR
der of his cousin, William P. Balm, in Sus-
sex County, Va, on February 27 last, has
just been completed in the court of that
county, the jury rendering a verdict OF
not guilty.
N. D. Monroe, familiarly known as
"Wild Neill,'' committed suicide a few
days ago. He lived with an old sister in
the woods, about fifteen miles from Fay
etvilIe, N. G. Before the war he was
man of property, but lost it in the con-
hict.
George Cornica, employed in the con-
struction of a railroad bridge over Mill
creek, short distance from Fort Smith,
Ark, fell from the structure few days
since, striking on his head twenty feet be-
low and sustaining injuries which result
ed in his death.
Iauo dafa
to put out candida tes for Congress.
A rattlesnake five and a half feet long
was killed few days ago near North
Perry, Ala, while in the act of swallowing
a spring chicken.
A rattl lesnake crawled into a bed at
M Mecklenburg, N. G., recently and bit
little child, and two days afterward the
child died.
The State Of Louisiana is overrun with
mad paupers, and there is not money
enough in the treasury to provide quar-
! teTs for them.
Hervy F. Price, the postmaster at Hook
/ ton, Miss, has been arrested on a charge
of forging his official bond.
/ w. S. Roby fell out of third-story win
dow of the Southern Hotel, San Antonio,
/ Tex, few nights ago, and was seriously
/ injured.
Hard Cash, Ty Ty, jug Tavern, Enigma,
Alligator, Pumpkin, Pay Up, Snapfnger
and Hat are Georgia post-offices. Tennes-
see has Sweet Lips, Defeated, Regret, Pea
nut, Quiz and Tut.
Bricklayers in Charleston, s. c., get
six dollars day, and the work ofrebuild.
ing the city will give employment to a
! great many men and stimulate various
! industries.
A young Atlanta (Ga.) couple went to
| n
ried and returned to Atlanta the same
evening. The marriage is not to take ef-
feet for two years, and all concerned in it
are bound to secrecy.
Judge Blandford, of the Georgia Su-
preme Court, is the only MANNED Confed-
crate in the State who declines to draw
the pension allowed by the authorities.
His arm is off above the elbow, and he is
entitled to sixty dollars every three years.
| He drew the first allowance, but has never
drawn any since.
Two heavy suits for damages growing
out Of the recent terrible disaster at
Dark's Mills, on the Decatur railroad, in
| Tennessee, in which seven men were
killed, have been filed in the Davidson
County Circuit Court. Mrs. Annie Lau-
man. widow of Henry E. Lauman, engi-
nesr of the Columbia accommodation and
administrator of n. L. Whittmore, flag
man who was killed, demands $4,000.
Another heavy suit against the Louis
| vile Sc Nashville Railroad Company has
been filed. John King, administrator Of
| Patrick King, a fireman, who was killed in
the wreck at Dark's mills, on the Decatur
Division, wants $5O,OO0
John Walker, residing on Anderson's
| Greek, LauderdaIe County, Ala, while
| resisting arrest by a posse a few days ago
was shot and probably mortally wounded,
Hugh O'Donnell, a stone-mason, resid-
| ing in the suburbs of Nashville, Tenn, was
| run over by two trains on the Louisville s.
Nashville railroad, near the East Nash
| vile yards, a few days since, and crushed
10 fragments.
A negro named Watts, living ten miles
from Gadsden, Ala, tried to kill his three
children, the oldestten years of age, a few
days ago, by knocking them senseless
with a large stick and then setting fire to
the house. 1t was before daylight, and
the fire was not discovered until the eld-
est one was dead. The others will prob
ably die. He is in Jail at Gadsden, and
| appears to be sane.
At Pembroke, KY, few days ago, a
| large two-stoTy frame building, owned
by R. B. Armstead, and occupied on the
first floor by negroes and on the second
floor by the Masonic fraternity, was dis
covered to be on fire. The flames spread
rapidly to the adjoining building, owned
and occupied by Bollinger g. Mccoy as
| dressed lumber warehouse, and before he
fire could be gotten under control both
buildings and their contents were totally
consumed The fire is supposed to have
been the work of an incendiary.
George Mathis, aged seventeen, who is
wanted in Owensboro, KY, for a murder
committed some time ago, and for whose
capture'a reward of one hundred dollars
was oeffred, was arrested al his home near
Gorin's Mill, KY, few days ago, by g.
A. Taylor, ex- county attorney. Mr.. Tay-
ior took his prisoner back to Owensboro,
where Mathis was surrendered to the au-
thorities.
Cotton picking is in full blast.
Jack Hoss, a citizen of Louisiana, living
about twenty miles from Allan ia, Tex,
cut his throat with razor few nights
ago while his family were at supper. He
had been suffering with erysipelas for
about a week and was very respondent,
believing he would die, and had made his
viii. He was worth about $50, 900.
Hon Chas. H. Simonton has been ap-
pointed United States Judge at Charles
ton, S c., in place of Geo. S. Bryan, re-
tired. Mr. Simonton is a leading member
of the bar of the State, and was recon-
mended by large majority of the law
yers and leading citizens.
There is talk Of setting apart Tallulah
as State park for Georgia.
The prospects for big crop Of cotton
were never better in the neighborhood of
Jackson, Tenn. It is opening and viii
soon be finding its way into market.