The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-05-14
SOUTHERN oLEANINos.

last winters frosts.
Judge Billings, at New Orleans, in deal
ing with John FL. Aufdemorte, late re-
demption clerk in the sub-treasury, and
another Federal conspirator, imposed upon
each a fine of $4,000 and Imprisonment
for two years.
difficulty which arose in the Office of
the county clerk at Williamstown, KY, a
few days ago, resulted in the death of w.
w. Wainscott and the wounding of Turner
Holbrook and Clay Wilson.
The police jury building committee of
Madison Parish, Louisiana, has awarded
the contract for the building of a brick
fire-pI Oof jail at Tallulah, the parish site,
to the PauIy Building Company of st.
Louis, the lowest bidders, their bid being
S6,999.45, the building to be completed by
October 1. At their last meeting the po-
lice jury appropriated $21 900 for the pur-
pose of building new courthouse, which
will be let as soon as the various plans
submitted are examined and acted upon.
Six thousand kegs of beer are tied up in
a Dal las (Tex.) brewery by litigation.
negro aged nineteen was lYnched near
Camden, s. c., few nights ago, for an
assault upon an aged lady.
An Egerly (La.) merchant ships 2,5OC
bird skins monthly to Newark, N. J..
where they are used for hat adornments
There is a movement in Louisiana to
adopt constitutional amendment abol-
ishing the State Senate.
Senator Malone has written a letter ad-
vocating a more judicious license system
for Virginia.
The new statue of Ben Hill, of Georgia,
represents him in a Prince Albert and
spring overcoat.
Virginia had greater number of cleo
toral votes than any other State till 1905
Now there are eleven States ahead of her,
and two others holding an equal represen-
tatiOn.
Ex-Governor Hubbard, of Texas, now
minister to Japan, has written letter to
Dallas paper in which he denies the in
jurions stories that have been circulated
concerning his conduct at the court of
Mikado.
Parsons, the Chicago Anarchist, was
postmaster at Waco, Tex, in 1874, and left
there in company with the mulatto woman
who has since figured as his wife.
The tobacco bug has made its appear.
ance in portions of North Carolina, and
in great numbers. In some places they
have almost totally destroyed the young
plants. The planters are greatly alarmed.
At Middleton, Ga, a yearling bull was
struck few days ago by a train moving
slowly and knocked into trestle, where it
fell between the ties, but caught by it's
horns and one leg, remaining suspended
in mid air three hours 1t was finally
pulled out and found to be unhurt except
for few bruises.
Atlanta, Ca, has recently been consid-
erably exercised over the attempt of a
cigarette manufacturer to advertise his
I,xva oA-
of men carrying pictures of the "Greek
Slave.' The procession was stopped by
the police, and all the judges in the city
have been called upon to express their
opinion of high art.
The famous "reservoir tragedy" at Rich
mond reached almost it last chapter when
the Supreme Court of Virginia recently
sustaine ed the Judgment of the Hastings
Court, which found "COusin Tommy' Clu-
verius guilty of Fanny Lillian MadisOn's
death. The shadow of the gallows under
which the defendant now stands can only
be lifted by the executive clemency of Gov
ernOr Fitz Hugh Lee.
The first steel rails ever made in the
South from SOuthern-made steel were cut
a few days since by the South Tredegar
Steel-works OF Chattanooga, I enn. The
company has just completed the erection
of the first Bessemer steel plant ever built
South and are now manufacturing steel
entirely from Southern ores. They have
begun man9fa cturing nails from this steel,
with splendid success, and will turn out
5000 kegs per week.
a fire broke out a few days ago in the
Cooper cotton press at New Orleans, one
of the largest in the city. No cause could
be assigned for it. The fire originated in
the upper portion of the press and, de-
spite the presence of nearly the entire fire
department. it was impossible to extin-
guish the burning cotton. 1t spread to the
compress and shipping room, destroying q
fine Moore press and other valuable ma
ehinery, and thence to the shed in which
there were four hundred bales of cotton,
all of which were consumed.
Frankfort, KY, has been enjoying a
sensation in a prospective duel which
grows out of a controversy between Major
Louis E. Harfiie, a wealthy and prominent
citizen, and Edmund H. Taylor, the
well-known whisky man and mayor of the
city.
A negro man named jim Latham, living
in the edge OF Birmingham, Ala. was
found by his neighbors a few days ago to
have received a terrible gun-shot wound
in one side of his face. He was shot by
y
been the victim of jealousy.
A most horrible murder was committed 9
few days ago near Fulton, Ky. The parties
concerned were Mrs. Wilkerson and her
step-daughter. The daughter made a
threat several months ago that if her
father married the lady she would kill
her. Her father paid no attention to the
threat, and the girl made good her
promise. Mr.. Wilkerson was away from
home. and the girl taking advantage of
his absence stole up behind her stepmother
while she was bending over the washtub
and buried an axe in the unfortunate
woman's brain.
The worst of the flood is over.
Charles Routh, a grocer and saloon
keeper, killed a drunken n egro, Alexander
Brown, at Vicksburg, Miss, few night
ago. He ordered the negro out of his
house, when he fired at Routh with pis-
tol, and Routh shot him with a shotgun
putting a load of buckshot in and around
the negro's heart.
Colonel s. L. Fremont, Government Su-
perintendent of Construction at Memphis,
Tenn, was found dead in his room a few
evenings since. When he was last seen
alive he was leaving the custom house.
From all appearances he dropped dead
from heart disease as he was dressing.
Aldermen at Springdale, Ark, receive
three dollars a year for their services.
Robert Spean was found dead in bed al
Louisville, KY, a few days ago. He was
a shoemaker by trade, and was seventy
years old. He was originally from New
York, but had lived in Evansville, Ind,
eight years. The coroner decided that he
came to his death from rheumatism of the
heart.
curious shooting affair took place in
Covington, Ky, recently. A woman