The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-08-06
SOUTHERN oLEANlNos.

days ago, having been murdered.
A miser who died of starvation in Car
roll County, Ga, recently, had $4,000 Sc
creted in the cracks of his log cabin.
A ST ecial train, loaded with colored peo-
pie, was showered with bricks and stones
on leaving Vicksburg on Saturday eVen-
ing, and was subsequently fred into at
Bovina and Clinton, Mississippi.
At Fairview, Tenn, few days ago, the
body of the wife of Mr.. Samuel Merren, a
prominent planter of that section, was
found in Cane Greek. Her mind had been
affected for some time and it is supposed
she committed suicide.
By the falling of some scaffolding at the
the tunnel through Backbone Mountain,
on the Frisco extension, fifteen miles from
Fort Smith, Ark, few days since, one
m an was killed and four seriously in
juRed.
NJ. G. Gulluchat, local salesman for a
Baltimore cigar house, wrathfully laid a
buggy whip across the shoulders and back
of Q. Milligan, book keeper for the Allan
ia Elevator Company. The whipping Oc-
Cured at Atlanta, Ga, few days ago,
while a large crowd was passing, and
both men were arrested. Gulluchat says
that Milligan slandered him.
Colonel Rador White, aged seventy six,
died at his residence, a short distance
from Shreveport, La, a few days ago.
Colonel White was one of the best known
and most successful planters in the South,
ranking during his life with such men as
late Colonel Ed. Richardson, of Missis-
sippi. He owned and controlled large
plantations, but was a great loser by the
war, Notwithstanding which he leaves his
childen in comfortable circumstances, his
wife having died about a year ago.
Rain has fallen almost continually at
Savannah, Ga, since June 20.
Melons three feet in length are sold at
twenty-five cents each in florida.
Seven-eighths of the leading men of
Birmingham, Ala, are under thirty five
years of age.
The first bale of this years cotton was
sold at Atlanta, Ca, few days ago, at
ten and one-half cents pound.
Twelve hundred miles of railroads have
been constructed in Florida during the
past four years.
New Orleans papers print thirty two
columns of forced tax sales of real estate
in that city.
1t is reported that gold has been discov.
cred in paying quantities near McMinn-
vile, Tenn.
A Brunswick (Ga.) fisherman captured
293 fish in two and half hours time one
day recently.
The ounce crop in Virginia this year
will be very poor. The failure is due to
the ravages of the seventeen-year locusts.
A party of capitalists talk of establish
ing beer-garden in Atlanta, Ca, the
queen prohibition city OF the South.
Bedford County (Tennessee) farmer
claims to have harvested 112 bushels of
wheat from two acres Of ground this sea-
son.
A three. year baby at Chattanooga,
Tenn, fell distance of sixty feet one day
recently, but sustained no serious injuries.
San Antonio, Tex, is beginning to
handle cotton from the new crop.
Shipments of watermelons have been
larger this season than ever before.
A Jacksonville (Fla.) market report
runs to the effect that Northern cabbages
are beginning to come in and are retailing
at twelve cents a head.
The steamers New Iberia and Harry
Wright, valued at $25. 900, were destroyed
at Agiers, La, few days ago, by flames
which originated by the upsetting of
lamp on board the former.
On the exposition grounds in New Or
leans, eight thousand coIored people of the
Gulf States recently celebrated the thirty
ninth anniversary of the independence of
Liberia.
A boiler exploded few nights ago on
Honey Island, Miss, killing Henry
Dupuret, carpenter, another white man
and three negroes and injuring four
others.
On Barton's creek, near Stephensville,
Tex. few days ago, an eighteen months
old child wandered away from home. It
was found about one and a half miles
from the house, but was dead. It is
thought the child died of thirst, as its
little tracks were found in the mud near
water hole. but it could not get to the wa
ter.
Mr.. J. Fl. Tatum, from, Mobile, Ala, who
has been in the vicinity of Aberdeen, Miss,
for several months selling land, was found
dead on the floor of his room at Webb's
Hotel, Aberdeen, few days ago. Heart
disease is supposed to have been the cause
of his death.
Randall Vaughn, of Paulding, Ca, was
wounded in the battle of Waynesboro in
1864. A rife bullet entered his body be-
tween the hreast-bone and the point of
the heart. -Four years ago an abscess
formed in the abdomen fourteen inches
from where the ball entered, and the other
day the ball was extracted from the abb
dom en-, and Mr.. Vaughn is recovering.
Albert Shaw, a prominent lawyer of
New Orleans, a leader in the Republican
party, was assaulted in his bedroom a
few nights ago with tIacksmith's ham,
mer by some person unknown, receiving
wounds in the head which rendered him
delirious. Neither his watch nor pocket
book was taken. His neighbors, on hear
ing the alarm, saw some one in a Mother
Hubbard dress and a sun -bonnot leap the
fence.
Ward Petton, conduc or on the Cincin-
natl Southern, was killed a few weeks ago
by Isom King, a noted desperado, who es-
capped by 1eaping from the train. De-
tectives have Leen looking for him ever
since, and finally located him at his home
at Pine Knot, KY, where he was captured
after desperate resistapc and taken to
Williamsburg. There was a rev rd Of
fered of one hundred dollars for his cap
ture.
Cotton is wrecking meny planters.
There was an excursion of colored peo-
pie on the Mobile & Northwestern railroad
from Helena, Ark, to Jonestown, Miss, a
few DAYS ago. Seventeen miles out from
Helena the locomotive hit a hog, which
threw the engine off the track and wreck
ed train. The engineer was the only one
injured.
Peter J. Carter, one of the most prom
inent colored men in Eastern Virginia
died recently at Onanc3ck, aged forty
FIVE years, For years he has been a mem
Der of the State Legislature, and has fire.
quently presided over Republican State
conventions.
a Leesburg (Fla.) gun, loaded for bur
glars, was stolen by them lately.
Pres Turner and Brown Ogden querreled
over a game Of croquet at Needmore, KY,
a few days ago, and began shooting at
each other. Turner was killed aud Ogden
.as1..rnad iI-lflrrrh nfter havnng fuur shots