The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1888-04-06
SOUTHERN oLEANINos


road up Lookout mountain has been COM
pleted, and trains are running. The road
bed Is said by railroad engineers to be the
most marvellous piece of engineering skill
ever exhibited in the South. The entire
road viii be completed May 10.
Horace Parker was killed by Robert
Youngblood, of Childersburg, Ala, a few
nights ago. The two men got into a dis
pute, when the latter killed the former
with a billet of wood. Youngblood claims
to have acted in self-defence. Young
blood was arrested.
a queer tale comes from Perry County,
Tenn. A man named Williamson stole a
hog from a butcher and made off with it.
Before he reached home he had fence to
cross, and, it seems, threw the hog over
before him. He had failed to take out the
s'gammon stick" and it caught him by the
neck, and when found next morning he
was dead and cold, with his prey on one
side Of the fence and his body on the
other.
William and Joe Hopkins were recently
convicted at Clayton, Ca, Of the unpro-
voked murder of Willie Thomas, whom
they stoned to death as he came out of
church at Mount Carmel. The crime, ar
rest and conviction only covered weeks
time.
A bale Of cotton recently received at
Bremen was found to contain I46 pounds
of seed cotton, and it was traced back to a
farmer named Snipes in Banks County,
Ga. The latter, however, declines to
settle the damage, and legal proceedings
viii involve more than the cotton is worth.
A terrible storm of wind and hail swept
over Boliver County, Miss, a few evenings
since, doing much damage to the planting
interests. Trees were uprooted and many
fences destroyed. The store-house Of E.
s. Mailer, of Kentucky Landing, was car.
ried of it's foundation and upset.
Advices from all parts of Georgia show
that the recent enormous rainfall through
out the State has resulted in great dam
age to railroads and farming interests.
Chas. F1oys, cooper by trade, aged
twenty-eight, fell under the cars on the
Louisville & Nashville road at Memphis,
Tenn, q few nights ago, and both of his
legs were cut off. His home is In Green
vile, Ind.
Rufus Settle, a special examiner of the
United States Pension Bureau, who arrived
at Gainesville, Tenn, a few days ago from
his field of labor in Georgia, died at his
fathers home, few miles west Of Gaines
vile, Of consumption.
The private banking house of Thos. P.
Miller & Co., at Mobile, Ala, after thirty
six years. existence amid all sorts Of
financial difficulty, has succumbed, and
leaves but a wreck behind.
1t has rained almost constantly In Mis-
sissippi, lately, interfering very ma
terially with planting prospects. All the
creeks are out of their banks and flooding
the country.
Andrew Jones, the eighteen-year-old
son of Mr.. VIM. Jones, of Brownville,
Ca, died a few nights ago. The young
man was stung on the neck by a spider
painful, and the neck and side of his face
were greatly swollen. Erysipelas set in,
which produced death.
Johnny Bertelkamp, twelve years old,
was reported dying in the City Hospital al
Louisville, KY, of trichinosis. Johnny's
parents are Germans, and the chief article
of their diet is pork. The boy preferred
this raw, and was allowed to eat the meat
that way.
It is not generally known, but it is,
nevertheless, true, that Georgia furnished
one regiment of infantry to the Federal
service during the civil war. It was not a
full regiment, and somehow the officers
and men were never paid for their serv-
ices. They are now before Congress seek
/ ing a settlement.
/ James Derossett, who is charged with
/ numbering Ras Smith at Dayton, Tenn.
/ was taken to Chattanooga and locked upIiL
! Jail to prevent him from being lynched. A
mob intended to hang him at Dayton.
1 A party of Louisville (Ky.) men have
i been working to develop lead mines il
4 Scott County. Silver prospecting was also
/ indulged in, and after six months Of
patient work silver has been struck on the
! Brown farm, about ten miles from George
town.
John Meyer, a tramp, boarded cal
filed with lumber on the Western g At
lanta road, at Dalton, Ca, a few nights
ago. While the car was en- route to Chat
tanooga the lumber fell on the man, kill
ing him instantly. His dead body was no
discovered until the train arrived at it
destination.
JEFF Sims, a farmer, and his wife, Hvini
near fernando, Miss, have been gettinl
along badly for some time. She was founC
| dead in her room a few days ago, witt
several knife wounds on her person Sim
claims that she killed herself, but he wa
arrested as the murderer.
The body of white man was found In
the Alabama river above Selma, few
days ago. It had probably been in tn
/ water a week. 1t was discovered By
boatman catching drift. No papers t
identify the man were found on his per
son. The neck was broken, through whicl
was bullet hole. He was properly buried
Nothing has developed to lead to his iden
tity.
In Chatham County, N. c., a few day
since, Deputy Collector Spence TaylO
captured and destroyed an illicit still
When they were near the still they sa7
five men, who hastily fed and escaped
Two Of them were playing cards and an
other was just passing a jug to his mout
to take drink when the officers were frs
seen. The still was very large one an
was in full blast.
At Sparta, n. c., the county seat of AL
leghany County, Joseph Lee was infOrme
that Geo. Sexton had gone before th
grand jury as a witness against him. LIE
waylaid Sexton, walked up behind hiI
and shot him twice through the body, kill
ing him. Lee at once fed towards Viz
ginia, but was pursued by the sheriff an
a large posse, captured and jailed.
Dick Tate still sojourns in Canada.
John Merna, aged sixty, was shot throug
the heart by his son, John, aged twenty
two, near Frankfort, KY, few days ag
The father began the shooting, they ha7
ing previously quarreled about the pul
chase of a pair Of shoes for the murdere
mans wife. The fratricide is in jail
} Frankfort.
Judge Thomas B. Hamilton, who reside
near Owingsville, KY, deliberately place
the muzzle of a shotgun to his forehead,
few days since, pulled the trigger al
blew away the entire top Of his head. i
was sixty even years Of age, and was r
! garded as one Of the most solid men in Il
community.
A family Of Florida clay-eaters is Il
latest circus attraction.
Several Of the judges Of Mississippi m
at Jackson a few days ago to consid
what action, if any, they would take r
| garding the bill which passed the rece
: Legislature redisTicting the State al
abolishing i've chancelors and three ci
] cult judges.
! Lee Rice, leading citizen Of Owing
! vile, KY, shot and mOrtally wound
} himself few days ago. Small hnanci
D resources Is the alleged cause.