The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-30
SOUTHERN cLEANlNes.

respectable young lady, on the street at
Wasson, Tenn, a few days ago, and in
suited her. She told her brother Lewis,
aged seventeen, about the affair. He
seized a shotgun and went in pursuit of
the Kents. When he came upon them he
emptied barrel into each of them. Dan
was mortaIiy wounded, while the other
will have to suffer the amputation of his
left arm. The boy was placed in jail.
A curious case of a judge turning wits
ness occurred recently in EchOls County,
Ga. There was a suit pending involving
a land title. Both parties were innocent
purchasers Both chains of titles ran
back to a common deed made nearly fifty
years ago. When Judge Hanson exam
ined both sets of titles closely he said,
holding up one chain: t'Gentlemen, here
are the genuine deeds to this land. I was
a young lawyer in those days, and I drew
this title myself for the grantor. This
other title pnrporting to have been made
by him is forgery"
Washington County, one of the largest
in Georgia, recently voted the dry ticket
by majority of 242.
The recent local option election in Fred
ericksburg, Va, resulted in favor of grant
ing licenses by 21O majority.
A carpenter named Joe Wofferd fell
thirty feet from the stack of the Will
Hanson furnace at Birmingham, Ala,
few days ago, crushing his head badly and
sustaining fatal injuries.
Pat Connolly, a Louisville & Nashville
switchman, was crushed between cars that
he was coupling in the y ard at Blooming
ton, Ala, few nights ago.
Two citizens of Gibson, Ca, went to law
about the ownership of a red rooster, val
ued at twenty-five cents. The case was
tried in a Justices court, and it has now
been taken to the Superior Court. The GUS
todian of the rooster presented it to a min
lister, who killed and ate it.
The jury in the case of Melvin Butler, at
Louisville. KY, returned a verdict of mur-
der and fixed a ife-sentence. Butler was
charged with numbering John B. Macoy, a
well-known gambler, who was found dead
in front of his house, with d bullet-hole in
his head several months ago.
A Georgia gentleman, who makes liv-
ing poisoning rats and tanning dogs
hides, advertises for a<wife. He frankly
describes his charms as consisting prin-
cially of a bald head and a cork leg. As
he has an income of only from three to
FIVE dollars a week, he must be a student
of Edward Atkinson's system of domestic
economies.
Inducements nave D06n EOuuQ III
County, KY, against thirty-two parties
who attended the Warren Barnes prize
fight from Louisville. The names of some
of the most prominent young men of the
city are in the list. The Louisville s.
Nashville railroad agents were also in
dicted for furnishing the train which car
ried the crowd.
The factory of the North Front Street Ice
Company, at Nashville, Tenn, was dam
aged $4,000 by fire few nights ago. The
building was fred near the top by in
cendiary, and owing to the great difficulty
experienced in throwing water between
the pipes, the firemen could do but little to
stay the flames. The insurance is $4,000.
The company was preparing forthe spring
opening.
Epps Pettus, a colored farmer, living
near Vicks burg, Miss, was attacked some
days ago by mad dog, and, in attempt
ing to kill the animal, was seriously bitten
in many places, his wounds being SO ex-
tensive as to confine him to his bed. Sub
sequently symptoms of hydrophobia ap-
peared and his attendants were forced to
chain him. After suffering horrible agony
for two days, he died.
Charles Mitchell was arrested at Mem
phis, Tenn, on a telegram, charged with
passing q counterfeit UIbF-NOlldE Dtll on a
lady named Mrs. Bond, living in Lexing-
ton, Miss. He admits passing the bill,
but says he did not know it was bad bill.
He SAYS he got the bill in St. Louis about
n year go from a man who gave it to him
in payment for a silver watch and plated
chain.
A remarkably bold robbery took place
near EddyvilIe, KY, a few days ago.
Isaac Gray, farmer, drew from bank S3,-
GOO, and taking it home placed it in a trunk
in his bedroom. While the family was at
supper that night noise was heard from
! the bedroom, and rushing in the family
were paralyzed to find the trunk as well
as contents missing An alarm was
sounded, and search revealed the trunk
about two hundred yards from the house,
broken open and the money gone, with no
clew to the robber.
VIM. Rust, a Dakota stockman in Texas,
has been arrested on suspicion of horse
stealing.
1t is charged that F. s. Harris, who re-
/ signed the office of Warden of the Main
Tennessee prison, has been receiving a
salary of one hundred dollars per month
from the co-lessees of prison labor, in ad-
/ dition to various other gratuities in the way
of supplies, provisions, etc, for his family,
in violation of the law and his oath of
office.
A train wrecker placed a cross-tie on the
/ East Tennessee track, near Silver Creek,
| Ca, a few nights ago, and then stepping
] back into the dark watched an approach
/ ing freight train strike it, roll down a ten
/ foot bank, killing one man instantly and
fatally injuring the other. The man who
was killed was Thomas Shenan, who was
/ I,
nooga to Atlanta. Shenan was mashed
/ and cut to pieces. Letters on his person
! show that he was a citizen of England.
| Jack Wright, the engineer, was so badly
/ injured that he viii die. Mike Wrinkle,
/ the regular firemen, was asleep in the ten
/ der and was not scratched.
/ The biggest food yet is coming.
John Burch, white carpenter, and John
| Donovan, a negro, quarreled a few nights
/ ago at the Nashville (Tenn.l Elevator
about some misconduct on the part of
+ Donovan. The negro, after cursing
/ Burch, attacked him with knife, inflict-
/ ing five wounds. 1t was throught Burch
would die. Donovan escaped.
! At Mueller, Wathen & Roberts dis
tillery, near Lebanon, Ky, a few days
ago, Jim Taylor, the fireman, while left
in charge, turned water into a red-hot
boiler, producing an explosion. Taylor
was fatally scalded, and John Wheeley,
assistant, severely injured. Loss, 5000.
Sam Jones is conducting a revival at Co.
+ lumbus, Miss.
There is a boy in Laurens County, S. c..
+ who possesses an elongation of the spine,
forming caudaI appendage about eight
inches in length.
+ During the recent food at Rising Fawn,
Ga, young miner named Thomas Ben
nett was shut in Lookout Mountain mine
by the waters and drowned. Since the