The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-08-20
SOUTHERN eLEANINes.

horse to let down fence. In remountlng
his gun was discharged, filling his breast
with buckshot. His children, hearing the
report, ran to the spot, and found their
father lying at the gap, dead.
Lewis Mccormick and Brown Scratchins
met at the store Of B. Bell, Hawkinsville.
Ca, a few nights ago, when former diff
fculty was renewed. Knives were drawn,
when fierce duel took place, ending in
Mccormick receiving fatal thrusts in the
neck and chest, from which he died in
few minutes. Scratchins is in jail.
Ground was broken a few days since on
the Deptford plantation, near Savannah,
Ca, for the Savannah & Tybee railroad.
The first spadeful of dirt was thrown out
| by Master Tommie Purse, the young son
of Captain D. G.. Purse, president of the
company. 1t will be the fiftieth anniver-
sary of the breaking of ground for the
! Central railroad, when the first shovelful
of dirt was thrown up by the late Hon.
Thos. Purse, grandfather of this young
ster.
The British bark Excelsior, Captain
Whitford, which was intercepted by
revenue cutter a few days ago on her way
from Colon to Mobile, when about to enter
Mobile Bay, and ordered to Ship Island
quarantine station, arrived there with nine
men sick, including the captain, out of
crew of sixteen. It has not yet been as
certained whether the disease is yellow
fever.
At Houston, Tex, few days ago, light
ming killed 81 Taylor, colored, and infict-
ed fatal injuries on James Lyles.
At Hot Springs, Ark, a staging fell
with two house painters few days ago.
One of them. Sam Murphy, was fatally in
jured.
The people of Georgia in the October
elections will be called upon to vote upon
a constitutional amendment authorizing
the Legislature to pension Confederate
soldiers.
George Mann stabbed his mistress in
the abdomen at Louisville, KY, a few
days ago, and then compelled her to walk
a block to her home. She will recover.
Dublin Ca, is the scene of a first class
strike. Eight or ten negroes were at work
upon.the streets at wages of one dollar a
day. The Town Council reduced the price
to seventy-five cents, and all hands struck.
The strikers are energetic in their efforts
to keep others from working.
The Polk street bridge across Cypress
bayou, at jefferson, Tex, fell through
few evenings since, while George Figures,
a negro, was crossing with a twO-mule
wagon. One Of the mules was killed and
Figures, it was thought, could not live.
Henry Code, a carpenter at work on Q
new building in the central part of Louis
vile, KY, few days ago lost his balance
and fell to the ground twenty-five feet,
fracturing his skull and breaking his neck.
He leaves family.
Mr.. Reuben Ford, a surveyor at Austin,
Tex, reports finding some very rich gold
bearing quartz thirty miles south of Bur-
nett, in the mountains. He thinks the find
will prove rich one.
A little girl named Maud W off, seven
years old, daughter of w. w. Wolf, a
Louisville CKy.) cigar manufacturer, was
badly crushed by a tobacco press a few
days ago. The machine was prOpped up
some distance from the floor. The little
girl in playing near it loosened one of the
props and the huge machine fell over her,
almost crushing her fiat as board. She
died from her injuries.
Nathan Lieber, popular young mer-
chant of K knoxville, Tenn, was drowned
in the Tennessee river a few days ago
while bathing. A. NJ. RlddelI, one of his
clerks, was almost drowned in attempting
to rescue him. Lieber formerly resided at
| Helena, Ark.
An Illicit dis tillery was recently found
in operation in the county jail in Atlanta
Ca, which had been worked successfully
for several months. An attempted es-
cape led to the investigation which devel-
oped the existence of the still.
The yard engine of the Louisville &
Nashville railroad at Lexington, KY, ex-
pIoded her boiler few days ago, wreck.
ing the engine The engineer, William
SuckIes, of Louisville, had leg blown of
and di ed a few moments after being taken
to the hospital. Pete Dair, the fireman,
was probably fatally injured
Rev. Edwin Gardner Weed was con-
secrated bishop of Florida by the council
of Protestant Episcopal bishops at Jack
sonville a few days ago. Bishop Quin-
tard, of Ten nessee, presided. Bishop Ell.
IiOtt, of Western Texas, preached the SER
mon. The attendance was very large
Six bishops were present.
Thomas w GODDARD, a well-known sport
Of Cynthiana, KY, attempted suicide a
nights ago by cutting himself in the
region Of the heart with a knife. This was
the second attempt. The other time he
tried to end his life by shooting himself
No cause is known for the deed.
State troops have for months been sta.
toned at Morehead, KY, to preserve the
peace between the Tolliver and Humphrey
factions. These leaders have recently
signed agreements to leave Rowan County
forever States Attorney Caruth agrees
to compromise by dismissing the prosecu-
ton.
A terrible triple Tragedy occurred at
Graysville, Tenn, on the inc of the Gin
cinnati Southern railway, a few nights
ago. The Rev. s. n. Bandy and John
Davis, the latter prominent farmer, had
q difficulty over the attentions of Davis to
hn loA
brother attempted to whip Davis and the
latter beat him to death, crushing his
skull with a stone. At this juncture the
minister drew a knife and attacked Davis.
Both men fought with knives and each
was mortally wounded. Bandy is dead
and Davis was dying. All the parties are
well-known.
More heavy storms are promised.
H. NJ. Sullivan, secretary of the board
IF trustees of the State university at Ok
ford, Miss, was shot and killed a few
nights ago by J. NJ. Howry, law professor
Of the university. The cause of the
difficulty is said to be differences that have
existed for some tim between the pro-
fessors and trustees.
There are now six creameries in the
State of Mississippi, while in April, 1885.
there was not a single creamery in the
South below Tennessee. Two of the above
are in Oktibbeha'County,o one at Aberdeen,
one at Macon, one at Meridian and one at
Bolton.
Chigces the size of flea are killing OF
chickens in Putnam, Fla.
The large store-house of s. Dover, at
AnguIlla, Miss, on the Louisville, New
Orleans & Texas road, was totally de-
stroved by fire a few nights ago. When
the fire was discovered the rear door of
the store was found open, showing the
place had been robbedsand then on set fire