The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-02-19
SOUTHERN eLEANINes.

3 thorough organization throughout Ten
nessee, and an attempt is soon to be made
to force the adoption of the eight-hOur
system among the miners.
A terrible scene was witnessed in
Augusta, Ca, few evenings since when
huge bulldog grasped a boy named
Jimmie Gallagher in his mouth and shook
him like rat as he ran down the street.
A shotgun was brought into play, when
the dog dropped the laeerated child and
dashed into the crowd, biting left and
right. Another shot blew the dogs brains
out. The child was fatally injured.
In the case of Richard Backarrow, the
Louisville drummer recently tried at
Shreveport, La, on the charge of being
one of the parties to the abduction of Mrs.
Inez Watkins, of Nacogdoches County,
Tex, the jury, after being out an hour, re-
turned verdict of guilty.
Madison Wells, of Louisiana, has entire
Iy lost the use ofhis eyes.
Congressman Reagan, of Texas, is sew
enty years old and has lived forty-seven
years in the Lone Star State.
Near Dresden, Tenn, few days ago,
Robert Edmondson's daughter fell down
stairs and was killed.
1t isnot generally known, but the water
power at Columbus, Ga, is just about
equal to that of Minneapolis
General Wolford, of Kentucky, is an
original character and his speeches afford
the House more amusement than those of
any other Congressman.
Burglars blew open the safe of j. W.
Biggs at Burnsville, Miss, a few nights
ago, and secured $500 in cash and notes
to the value of SIS, 900.
At Mecklenburg, N. c., iron works few
days since, John Springs and Win Austin,
both colored, were instantly killed by the
falling of the elevator. Julius Brown, also
coIored, was badly injured.
In the United States Court at Memphis,
Tenn, NJ. R. Patterson, the young attOr-
ney who recently assaulted Mr.. Newman
Erp in court, was fined 800 and costs by
Judge Hammond for contempt.
A Pole named NJ. J. Powosky committed
suicide by hanging himself by means
of rope on the farm of Captain
Kelly, at OakJawn, near Dallas, Tex,
few days ago. Deceased was thirty years
old, and left no clew as to the reason for
self destruction.
Lille Shields, aged thirteen years,
daughter of Joseph Shields, died at Nash
vile, Tenn, few days ago from burns.
While preparing dinner her dress was
ignited at a CRATE, her side and back being
fearfulIy burned.
Thomas Henry, wholesale crockery
merchant of Mobile, Ala, who during the
war supplied the Confederate army with
drugs, and was noted for his hberality
toward Catholic institutions, died recently
at the age of seventy years.
The Grand Jury at Nashville, Tenn, has
indicted Ben Brown, Nelson Joslin, Simon
Fox and Foster J Joslin, all colored, for muir
der in the first degree. They are charged
n i
mutilated body was recently found in
ttHen's Half Acre" The quartet pleaded
not guilty.
Thornton Augustus Rudd and his wife,
Mary Marcissa an old colored couple, Iiv-
ing at Louisville, KY, recently celebrated
their golden wedding at their home. They
were married February IL, 1886. The old
man is eighty and his wife seventy six
years old. They have no children.
Green Gum. who, with four others, was
arrested for entering the house of Thomas
Burt, on Turkey Greek, Coffee County,
Tenn, in disguise and shooting him after
he refused to give up 1900 in his posses
sion, has made a confession. He impH-
Gated the rest of the party, and said Joe
Clark, his father -in-law, compelled him to
join in the raid
George Robinson, colored, who murdered
WittIe Parker, white, at Monroe, La,
about two months ago, was arrested at
Cleveland, Miss, few days ago, and was
placed in jail at Vicksburg to await the ar
rival of Sheriff MCGUIRE of Monroe.
The jury before whom VIM. Jackson was
tried at Owensboro, KY, for the murder of
Freeman Williams found him guilty of
manslaughter, and fixed his punishment at
twenty lone years in the penitentiary.
jackson was noted as one of the most des-
perate characters in Davies County, and
his conviction and sentence is hailed with
joy.
The Louisiana Senators are thus de-
scribed: Senator Gibson is an accomplished
man of the world, and represents more
particularly the old regime; Senator Eustis
the practical element. Both were COnfed-
crate Generals. Gibson is a courtier. Eus-
tbs would command court. Both are law
yers and scholarly speakers.
The House of Representatives of the
Mississippi lie gislature has passed a bill
granting pension of thirty dollars year
to "every soldier or sailor of the late Con-
federate States of America who entered
from the State of Mississippi and lost a
leg, an eye or an arm in the service of said
Confederate States; and to every such
soldier who is now or may be hereafter
otherwise incapacitated for manual lab,
service, and also the widow, remaining
unmarried, of any soldier or sailor who
lost his life in said service while a citizen
of this State"
The Georgia State Agricultural Society
met at Columbus last week. There were
about two hundred and fifty delegates
present, nearly every county in Georgia
being represented.
Hannah Hundley, colored, aged one hun
dred and three years, died at Louisville,
KY, a few nights ago.
A child was born near Somerset, KY, a
few days ago which weighed eight
pounds, and had a head, mouth and body
the exact counterpart of q frog. The low
er limbs were natural, but the hands were
webbed and like those of buIl-frog. The
child was born dead.
Florida gardeners are getting busy.
Hiram Harris, who murdered his
nephew, Willis Frank, in Marshall Coun-
ty, Tenn, last July, has been awarded a
twenty-year term in the penitentiary by
the Supreme Court, to which he appealed
from the lower court.
In Bibb County, Ga, few days since,
the family of W. B. Rogers heard a shot
gun report, when a little girl rushed in ex-
claiming, "Grandpa is dead" Outside the
body of Mr.. VIM. Laney was found with
the entire top of his skull blown of. He
was seventy six years of age and COM
mitted the act because he was too old to be
any longer serviceable.
Abraham Groesbeck, aged seventy -one,
Texas pioneer, died recently at Houston.
A negro boy, ten years of age, struck
comrade on the head with shinny stick
in williamsburg County, s. c., few days
ago and instantly killed him. The negro
whose head yielded to the blow was seven