The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-07-09
SOUTHERN eLEANINGs.

/ 4n0 TOBACCO sales at DanVlll63 v Sss uuF a
ing the past year amounted to $41,O00,000.
Alex Board was shot to death few
/ days ago in a street battle with three men
at Will's Point, Tex.
Lee Brown, colored, shot and killed
Henry and Albert Morgan, white, few
| days since on the Peters plantation, above
| Vicksburg, Miss.
| Charles Miller, living near Sherman,
/ Tex. lost his residence a few days ago by
| fire, and two children perished in the
flames.
! The Roane Iron Company, of Chatta-
| nooga, Tenn, viii remodel its extensive
works into a Bessemer steeI-ran mill and
employ one thousand men. The plant has
| been idle for five years.
! An official test of the new water works
at Pensacola, Fla, resulted satisfactorily
amid general rejoicing. The system af-
fords fire protection to every part of the
city.
Major Penn, the evangelist, arrived at
/ his home in Palestine, Tex, a few days,
after his eight months visit to England.
The people were highly pleased to meet
and grees him back to his home.
| Terry Patty, a wealthy farmer of
| Cleburne County, Ala, committed suicide
a few nights ago. He had been despOndent
| for several days over some cause not made
public. About midnight he arose and
taking his Martini rife out into tho
kitchen, an explosion was heard, which
awoke the family. He had placed the
muzzle of the gun in his mouth, pulled the
trigger with a string and thus accom-
| plished his self-destruction.
Distress from storms is reported in sew
eraI parishes in Louisiana.
The Misses Austin, of Louisiana, who
o1o he IT nit tad
States, both hold departmental positions
at the capital.
The watermelon agents of the Northern
roads are busy at work in the Southern
melon patches, soliciting shipments for
their respective lines.
General Buckner has farm of fifteen
| hundred acres, six hundred cultivated, in
a quiet part of Kentucky. He lives there
most of the time, on the spot that was his
birthplace.
Jack Hale killed his sister n-law,
Louisa Cobb, near Morristown, Tenn,
few days ago. There were no witnesses
to the affair, and he claims to have acted
in self-defense.
The recent storm in Texas was very
| severe at Lorena. The dwelling house of
Mrs. B. Sherman was blown down and
badly wrecked. Other damage was done.
This makes the third cyclone to visit that
iu-fated village within fortnight.
Mr.. Joseph Belzer, a Louisville (Ky.)
express driver, seventy-six years of age,
died few days since from the effects of
injuries received in runaway accident.
He was taking his horses harness off in
the stable when the animal took fright and
ran, dragging Mr.. Belzier after it. The
wagon passed over him, breaking his leg
in two places. Owing to his age the shock
proved fatal.
In the famous Kate Townsend will case
at New Orleans, Judge Houston recently
rendered a decision decreeing the will of
Kate Townsend in favor of Troisville
Sykes null and void, because Sykes was
guilty of ingratitude Che having killed
Kate Townsend) and thereby forfeited all
benefits under the will, and giving judg
ment in favor of the State Of Louisiana,
desiring the State to be the heir-at-law
under the will of the deceased.
Thos. Watson, while hunting near Jack
son7ille, Fla, recently, was surprised by
a large bear, which rushed upon him. A
load of buckshot failed to stay the brute's
charge, but a faithful hound seized the
bear by the throat and, though fatally
crushed by bruins hug, caused sufficient
delay to enable its master to get in a sec
ond effective shot. The bear weighed over
four hundred POUNDS.
James N. Basmere, who lives near Wind.
sor, N. c., and his son, Stone Basmere,
quarreIed few days ago. The son fired
both barrels of a shotgun loaded with
buckshot into his fathers body. He then
broke open a safe, took therefrom $500 and
fed. The sheriff and large posse were
securing the country in search of him.
The father was alive at last accounts, but
will die. There is great excitement over
the awful crime.
A duel, fought with shot-guns, between
two brothers, Adam and Alphonse Reed,
who live five miles west of OpeIousas, La,
took place a few days ago. Adam re-
ceived two wounds-one in the face and
one in the bowels-which it was thought
would prove fatal. Alphonse was un-
touched, although Adam fred two shots at
him.
A party of masked men took a Rock
Castle County farmer named Joe Ramsey
and his wife from their bed a few nights
ago and brutally fogged them, giving
them notice to leave within ten days.
Ramsey tried to sell what property he had,
but could not. He disappeared soon after,
and the other night his decaying body was
found hanging to a tree in the woods. 1t
is supposed that he suicided on account Of
threats of the midnight mob.
Clay Tompkins, wealthy young man
residing in Walker County, Ca. COM
mitted suicide a few days ago by cutting
his throat from ear to ear and then blow
ing out his brains with a pistol. He was
engaged to be married to a Miss Rushford,
but a gay young Ightning-rod man
named Walker, while passing through
that section recently, met the young lady.
1t was a case of love at first sight, and, in
\
Tilted and she promised to marry the dis
penser of electricity. When Tompkfns
learned his fate he deliberately ended his
life. Miss Rushford became a maniac
when she learned of her former lover
death.
Savannah has a coachmen's club.
At a recent meeting of the rate commit.
tee Of the Southern passenger pool, held
In AsheviIle, N. c., a resolution was
passed providing that if the Grand En-
campment, G.. A. R., is held in Nash
vile, special excursion tickets viii be
sold to delegates all over the Southern
roads at two cents per mile each way.
William Friedel, workman in Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, was found lying on the
street a few days ago with fractured
skull, having been struck in the head with |
a large stone lying near by. His assaiI- /
ant was unknown. FriedeI was fatally !
injured.
The colored inhabitants of Florida pro. !
nose TO hold a State fair in 1897.
While. Reason Stamper and Mrs. Hattie |
Dinkins were being married at Ashland, /
Ky., a few nights ago, Frances Piles, a /
fitted anne of stamper, put in an appear
ance and denounced the latter as the muir
derer of Charley Black, who was killed /
two years ago.
David D. Atchison, clerk of the Supreme /
Court of Texas, while in Memphis, Tenn. 4