The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-05-21
SOUTHERN GLEANINGs.


first court at his home, jackson, Tenn,
had a novel experience recently with jury.
| damage suit for $4,000 had been
| brought against the Illinois Central rail-
way. After the evidence was heard the
| jury was perem mptorily charged to find for
] the defendant Retiring to the jury-room
verdict was quickly agreed upon, giving
/ the plaintiff $1,000. The court set aside
! the verdict.
A fire engine was sent up from Birming
ham Ala, few days ago to fight fire in
one of the mines of the New Castle Coal &
Coke Company, on the track of the Louis
vile g. Nashville railway. Before the
flames could be stopped three hundred feet
of the wood work was destroyed and a
good part of the pipes connecting with
the pumping machinery. The coal caught
from the timbers, and, at last accounts,
was still burning. The worst disaster viii
! probably be the necessary suspension Of
work.
Charles Jacobson, colored youth of
| twelve, died at Eufaula, Ala, few days
ago from injuries received by lamp ex-
plosion. He was endeavoring to light one
lamp with another, which caused the ex-
plOsion, the burning fluid saturating his
clothing. He rushed wildly into the
street, uttering heartrending screams as
he ran. When Overtaken he was a living
mass of flame, which, being entinguished,
left him blistered sufferer, in which con-
dition he fingered for twelve hours, and
then died in great agony.
Franklin CASTOR, a colOred man, con-
victed of criminal assault upon a lady, has
been sentenced at Salisbury, n. c., to be
hanged on July >.
A fire at Gainesville, Fla, few days
ago, destroyed all the buildings and con-
tents on the south side of the square. The
aggregate loss is about $4,000, with very
little insurance.
At Shelby IN. C.) court a short time
ago, the case was tried of a boy who had
been fined by the mayor of the town for
climbinga tree, there being a town ordi-
nance forbidding the climbing of trees.
| The boy RpPesled, and the judge reversed
the mayors decision, declaring tree-cIimb-
ing to be an inalienable right of boys, over
which municipal authorities have no juris-
diction.
A resident of Eastman, Ca, has twen-
ty-five-cent piece which has just returned
to him after an absence of seven years.
J. j. Haywood, the collector of Marion
| County, Tex. in the commissioners court
room at Jefferson, a few days ago, shot
Captain John T. Roots, killing him in
stantly. An inquest was held and Mr..
| Haywood, after a preliminary examine
tion, was released on a $3, 600 bond.
While Rev. VIM. Moore (colored) was
delivering a sermon at Cole Ridge, Tenn,
recently, an enemy attempted to assassin
ate him. Moore received a bullet in the
thigh, the shot coming through a window.
While experimenting blasting opera
tiOns in a sandstone quarry near Lam
pasas, Tex, few days ago, Antonio Va2-
dez was crushed to death by a mass of
loose rock and dirt which slid down upon
him.
i Robert Ray, eighteen years of age, was
| killed in Walton County, Ga, a few days
ago, by Sanf ord Manning. The latter
claims the killing to have been accidental,
but his story seemed to have a somewhat
PiscatOrial flavor.
A goose owned by a citizen of Telfair
County, Georgia, is twenty five years old,
and up to three years ago laid eggs as
regular as the day came around. Since
then her laying propensities have failed
her. Occasionally she viii build a nest
and set on it for three or four weeks and
then come off as proudly as if she had
raised a brood of goslins.
A reign of terror is reported as existing
at OsceOla, Ark, arising from recent de-
velopments and alterations caused by the
|
The town was reported as practically in a
state of siege, the members of each faction
being ready to fight on the slightest pro-
vocation.
Mr.. Engelke, of Lula, Ca, is an ardent
naturalist, being particularly partial to
snakes. In the fall he buries his snakes in
the ground and unearths them in the
spring The other day he dug up fine,
large rattlesnake, which recovered from
its torpor quickly and then struck Mr. En-
gellze on the head. The fangs went through
the mans fur cap and gashed the top OF
his head. Liberal doses of corn whisky
saved the snake fancier's life.
An unknown white man was found muir.
dered at a point near Redwood station.
Miss, few days ago. He was filed with
buckshot. He had in his possession an
expr ess receipt, dated New Orleans, for 6
package sent to Julia Warren, of St
Louis. No clew as to his identity or that
of the murderer. He was plainly dressed
in dark clothes, had mustache and light
whiskers, and was apparently thirty five
years of age.
Uncle Billy Day, of London, KY, who is
over eighty-one years old, the father OF
thirteen children, and who has seventy.
six grandchildren and 1S2 great-grand.
children living, is noted in his neighbor.
hood for the ability to read by ''firelight'
without spectacleS, and to jump up and
crack his heels together twice before com.
ing down.
The Governor of Louisiana, in his an
nual message to the legislature, suggests
that criminals be executed by some means
more humane than by hanging.
jefferson Da Wis is i'll at Beauvoir, Miss.
with fever and neuralgia of the head, from
which he suffers severely.
Mr. Bud johnson was shot and killed bv
James Cartwright at W oodberry, Ca, q
few days ago. There was no witness to
the shooting. 1t seems that Cartwright
has been under a sort of religious craze
for several days. He and Johnson were
sitting on a fence talking, and without the
least warning or provocation Cartwright
drew his pistol and fired, instantly killing
johnson The murderer claimed he was
commanded by God to kill johnson.
Mississippi nav igation is dying.
Rev. Isaac Wilkes dropped dead on the
street in Montgomery, Ala, a few even
ings since. His home is in BrierfieId, Ala,
and be was attending the Southern Bap
tist convention. Death was caused from
heart disease. He was about forty-fve
years old, and a minister well known
throu ghout the State.
Governor O'Neal of Alabama has issued
a pardon to Robert Wied erkeerhr, who
was tried in the city court of Mobile in
1877 for murder, convicted and sentenced
to the penitentiary for life. Wiederkeerhr
is a native Of Switzerland, and has re-
turned home.
Cold weather delayed cotton planting on
bhe Atlantic coast.
The Baton Rouge (La.) prison viii here