The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-23
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ne threw the rifle across his arm to place
new cap. The rife Went off by accident
the bullet going through Mrs. Quinn's
head, who fell dead among her six chill
dren.
At Ovens ranch, near Pearsall, Tex,
few days ago, Pedro SansheiI, a Mexican,
attempted to come out of q well he had
been digging. When thirty feet from the
bottom the rope broke and he fell, crush
ing one leg so badly that it was imm edi
ately amputated, and sustaining other and
fatal injuries.
Confirmation of Senator Jackson, of
Tennessee, as a Federal judge, has caused
much speculation in Tennessee as to the
appointment by Governor Bate of his sue
cessor in the Senate. Senator Jackson
was leader of the State Credit Demo-
eracy, who insist on the payment, dollar
for dollar, of the State debt.
Pretty Alice Watkins, who was recently
sentenced at Galveston, Tex, to one days
imprisonment in the penitentiary for
bigamy, has returned to Galveston, and
though she was welcomed by her sympa-
thizing friends, the ignominy of her con-
viction so preyed upon her mind that she
concluded life was not worth living. Her
first husband, who deserted her and left
neither maid, wife nor widow, had turned
her ace1ser, while the second husband, for
whom her liberty and reputation had been
imperiled, was dead. Sick at heart and
weary of the struggle against fate, she
sought the bay and Gin she plunged bold
ly, no matter how coldly the dark waters
ran" Fortunately she was seen and
rescued despite her struggles, and now is
endeavoring to reconcile herself to exist
ence. Mrs Watkins sentence was the
shortest incarceration in the penitentiary
ever inflicted in the State, and according
to ths7ew when she was released from her
prison walls she was given twenty five
dollars and a suit of clothes.
Daniel Arnold, of Macon, Ca, hid his
savings ($7OO) in a hole near his house
but the recent flood inundated the hole
and carried away Dams wealth.
The cars of the Capital City street rail-
road at Montgomery, Ala, are now COM
menced running by electricity. The trips
are regularly made and everything works
perfectly.
In a fight near EastIand, Tex, a few
days ago, Tom Ellison was killed and W.
g. Hardin and John Ellison seriously
wounded.
During the terrible rainstorm which
passed over Vicksburg, Miss, a few nights
ago, lasting about two hours, the large
dry goods house of Switzer, Newwitter &
Co. was flooded and stock damaged about
$4,000 by water.
The body of John Harris was found
few days ago two miles from Birming
ham, Ala, in a fish-pound with a bullet .
hole through his head. The cOroner's jury
rendered a verdict to the effect that he was
shot by someone unknown.
Near Webster, on the Western North
Carolina road, few days ago, John Mes
sier, Amos Sutton and John Mcmahon
were drinking. Messier had married SUIT
toms cousin and left her. He made a re-
mark derogatory to her character, when
Sutton struck him in the mouth. Messier
thereupon drew his pistol and shot Sutton
dead. He then escaped to the mountains,
and pack of dogs were put on his trail.
News comes from Bethel Ca, of the
murder of Mrs. Polly Miller by Alex Hug
gins. Higgins had married the woman's
daughter and during the day inaugurated
his superior authority by giving her a
thrashing. The young wife escaped to
her mothers. Higgins armed himself
with a gun and went over and called his
wife. The old woman had been praying
loud in the yard and ans wered. She asked
MN IL Su6 uaNI COlu6 ~ W Ii ~ ACt 0dus7HbSA
again under her own eyes. He replied
''Yes, and will whip you too" and rails.
ing the gun shot his mother in law down
killing her instantly, and then escaped.
A shaft of lightning set fire to the Beck
building at Vicksburg, Miss, a few nights
ago, burning out the upper story before
the fire department could check it, The
building adjoins the Commercial Herald
| The damage to the Beck building is aboul
| 1000. The Beck building is the same that
| stopped the cOnflagratiOn and saved the
| Commercidl- Herald in the great fire last
| April.
Three thousand dollars worth of dia.
/ monds were stolen from the Southern Ex-
! press Company some time about the 9th OF
| the present month. They were shipped
| from Athens, Ca, over the Richmond &
| Danville railroad to Charlotte, n. c., and
| were never received at that place. The
| manager of the company and the detect
| ives working the case all refuse to talB
! about the matter. The loss is supposed tc
| have taken place at Lula, while the pack.
! age was on its way to Charlotte. The ar.
! ticIes lost are as follows: One pair of gold
| bracelets, each set with five diamonds and
/ valued at $3.50 apiece; six pairs of solitaire
! earrings, valued at 1925; one diamond
! scarf pin, valued at S1O5; two diamond
/ scarf pins, valued at $40 apiece, and one
diamond scarf pin, valued at S65.
Hon. L. Q. G. Lamar, Secretary of the
! Interior in President Cleveland's Cabinet
has been visiting recently in Georgia, and
/ among other places stopped at Macon
/ where he was royalty entertained. Secre-
! tary Lamar says his visit South is entirely
! of a social nature. A rumor is in circula.
/ ton and gains considerable credence, tc
/ the effect that Secretary Lamar viii short.
i " wed popular society lady of Macon
] AS the romance goes, they were engaged
| in the long ago to be married, but were
/ parted by a triviality. Each married, but
1 the wife and husband of each respectively
/ is dead. Now their early love for each
other, it is said, viii find happy consum.
/ nation in marital ties.
The floods are gradually receding.
Suits have been begun at Raleigh, N. c..
! against the Governor and Auditor of the
State with the object of forcing the levy
ing and collection of the special taxes i'm
posed in several acts of the North Carolina
| Assembly of 1869, at which time the
special tax bonds of North Carolina were
| issued.
About two hundred miners employed al
| Woolridge mines, near Jellico, Tenn, have
struck against the usual summer reduc'
ton in wages. Operators refuse to con
cede, and all miners in the Coal creek and
| JeIlico districts have been called out by
| the strikers. Only few have responded
Laborers at San Antonio, Tex, have
! struck for an advance in wages.
John Fenton, who belonged to the sec.
| ton force on the Houston & Texas Centra
/ Railway at Houston, had been missing
| from his home for several days. When las
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