The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-03-26
SOUTHERN oLEANINos.

The Florida hotels get their meat and
vegetables, and even fish, from New York.
Colonel Robert A. Johnson, the we'll
known turfman of Louisville, KY, died
few nights ago of pneumonia, at Knox
vile, Tenn, in the sixty ninth year of his
age.
Daniel Smith, whose home was Nash
vile, Tenn, and who left there recently
with a car of mules for Dakota, is said to
have been killed in st. Paul, Mimi.
Rugby Colony, the colony planted by
Tom Hughes on Cumberland Plateau, in
Upper East Tennessee, is experiencing
revival.
Mrs. James Lills, residing sixteen miles
! northeast of Bainbridge, Ca, was found
dead few days ago in an old broom sage
field belonging to her husband. She took
her own life with strychnine.
The Virginia Legislature has passed a
local option law for the whole State. A
strongly supported amendment exempt
| ing cities of five thousand inhabitants was
defeated.
An old English coin Of date 173O was
| picked up few days ago on the beach,
near the Spanish lighthouse, at st. Angus
tine, Fla.
Joseph Hengel, German baker, COM
mitted suicide at Birmingham, Ala, few
days ago, having become disgusted with
himself for having sold out his bakery and
| getting swindled.
John Davis, son of the superintendent of
| the Trion cotton mills, the most extensive
| in North Georgia, was recently convicted
at SummervilIe, Ca, of the murder of
boy named Forrest, and has been SEN
fenced to hard labor for life. He is only
| fourteen years of age.
A thirteen-year- old boy living near Can
ton, Tex, blew his brains out a few days
| ago because he had been detected in the
| larceny of thirty-five cents from neigh
Dor by his father, who had punished him.
Pearl, Diamond, Ruby and Garnet are
the names of four daughters of a Georgia
! postmaster.
Miss Norman, who killed Arnold, her
r ecreant lover, at Memphis, Tenn, was
fined fifty do liars and bound over in So, 900
bail for the grand jury.
John Gillespie, the negro who murdered
| Mrs. Thomas Gray near London, Tenn,
was promptly lynched.
The sentence of Henry Scott, who was
| to have been hanged at Wilmington, N.
! c., was committed to Imprisonment for
| life
"OId Sorrel,'' the aged war-horse of
Stonewan Jackson, died at the Virginia
Military Institute a few days ago. His
| Soldiers Home at Richmond.
The available coal of Alabama, collected
into one lump, would be forty five miles
by twenty-five miles wide by ten feet
thick. A breaking off of 5000 tons daily
! from the lump would leave large part of
it untouched at the expiration of 6,OOO
years.
While Pat Hickey, an Atlanta (Ga.)
merchant was examining an old pistol
| few days ago, he snapped it at his friend,
Win Pinion. The ball went through Pin
ions heart, killing him instantly.
The grand jury at Vicksburg, Miss,
found a true bill against Alderman Wes-
| ley Crayton, colored, for shooting with
intent to kill Hannah c. Carter, colored,
some time since. He was arrested and
gave bond in the sum of $500. The last
/ grand jury ignored this case.
The Kentucky Board of Health recently
| ordered the slaughter of elevenhead of in
| fected Jersey cattle owned by MIR. Handy,
/ of Cynthiana. Arran gements were being
! made for the purchase and killing of the
remaining eighty head and the quarantine
ing of the premises for year.
/ w. w. Knight, of Shelbyville, KY, was
/ taken a little sick few nights ago. He
| purchased q bottle of patent medicine, of
! which he took too much, which caused his
sudden death within few hours. He was
about twenty-seven years of age.
The Red river and coast line steamer
! YazoO Valley sank a few days ago six
! miles from Grand Ecore on the Red river
/ in nine feet of water. The cargo consisted
/ of 240 bales of cotton and quantity of
| cottonseed oil and cake. No lives were
lost. 1t is believed the boat will be raised.
D. G. Slaughter, proprietor of the
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shot and killed John w. Baker, colored, a
few days ago. Baker was beating a horse
| when Slaughter demonstrated and Baker
drew a pistol while only six feet away and
| began firing. The first shot missed and the
second demolished Slaughter's watch.
| Slaughter by this time had drawn his
| weapon and shot Baker through the body
killing him almost instantly.
Police Sergeant Brooks, of Richmond
Va, was shot a few days ago while at
tempting to arrest burglar who was try
! ing to board a train. The burglar had
| been discovered attempting to blow open
the safe of Herman Schmidt, grocer, and
was traced to the depot. He escaped, after
shooting Brooks and exchanging several
| shots with another officer.
w. S. Miller, G. A. Ti1ley, Chas. Couch
VIM. Reeding and Henry Winters, of
fore United States Commissioner Baxter
at Memphis few days ago, on the charge
of hanging Amanda Burns, colored, until
she was nearly dead, to keep her from ap-
pearing as a witness against Miller, who
was charged with selling whisky without
license. All except Winters were bound
over for trial.
There is now in Atlanta, Ca, a negress
named Sarah White, who was born near
| Charlottesville, Va, in 1861, being thus
one hundred and eighteen years of age.
She carries a scar on her head, the result
of a fogging she received one hundred and
two years ago.
John Wagner, prisoner in the Louis
vile (Ky.) wOrk-house, was shot and
mortally wounded few days ago by
George Davis, guard, while making
break for liberty. He had only two more
weeks to serve a sentence of six months.
| He risked too much for too little.
They have strawberries in New Orleans.
Fire at Gallatin, Tenn, few days ago,
destroyed the Sumner House, Mahones
livery stable, Martins carriage factory,
| Hager's blacksmith shop, Houston's re-
pair shop DR.. Walkers residence, Dut-
toms saloon, Gaines grocery and Bryant's
shoe house and residence. The loss is es-
timated at S20, 900, with very little insur-
nnce.
It is said the United States authorities
have concluded to make Lookout Noun
tain, Tenn, the summer garrison for the
entire South Atlantic division, and that
about 900 soldiers viii spend the summer
months on the mountain.
A number OF ladies of Athens, Ga.. are
about to start On a trip to Europe.