The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1888-12-28
sourHERN eLEANINes.

Fredonia, KY, was struck on the head by
a falling tree, a few evenings since, and
so badly injured that he died IN a snort
time.
A passenger train on the Ohio Valley
railroad was wrecked at Marion, KY, a
few evenings since. One passenger car
was demolished and Conductor Coleman
was fatally injured.
John P. Baker, a German laborer, COM
mitted suicide at Louisville, KY, Few
days ago, by taking morphine he hao
been drinking and mistreating his FANNY
He recently married a second time, drove
his children from home and then quarreled
with his wife.
A shooting affray occurred recently
few miles from Grand COteaH, La. Two
men are reported killed and several
seriously wounded. The participants
were all white.
Thomas Davis, farmer from Graves
County, fell through the trap door OF an
open elevator shaft in the second story OF |
Davis grocery at Paducah, KY, rev
days ago His back struck the edge OF a /
tub in his descent. Surgeons said he could
not recover frOmhis injuries.
The finding on the bank of the river OF
the personal effects of Major II. n. Big /
ger. one of the four victims of the Euro
pean Hotel fire in Chattanooga, Tenn,
November u, confirms the suspicious OF
the police that the burning of the hotel
followed Bigger's robbery and perhaps
murder. The officers believe they nave
clew which will lead to the arrest OF the
criminal.
| The caving-ip of the river bank at st.
! Joseph, La, has extended beyond the
/ line of the protection levee laid off by the
/ Government engineers to protect the par
/ ish from an overflow while work is IN
Z progress at Hard Times and wilson's
! Point Prompt action is require to pre-
vent disastrous results.
Join c. Pybum was arrested at w mite
side. Tenn, recently for the murder OF
John Frost, whose dead body was found
/ near a saloon on the Georgia ana len
/ nessee Line. Pybum pleads innocence:
The relief committee at Gainesville,
| Fla, will return to the donors the sur
/ Dlus funds subscribed to yellow fever
| sufferers All factories have resumed
work and tourists are pouring in.
The South Carolina Senate recently re-
iected the bill to establish the home for
the disabled Confederate soldiers ana
sailors. and passed a bill amending the
present pension laws by limiting the total
amount to be paid annually to 'S0O,O0O.
The four Hicks negroes, whO>Were en-
gagged in the recent bloody fight, were ar
raigned for trial in Jackson, Tenn, lew
days ago Through their attorneys they
waived examination, and bond was liked
at 81 900. The trial was postponed to await
the result ofPeter Browns injuries.
Near ElizabethtOwn, KY, few days
ago, Riley Spencer and John Henderson
ouarreIed. Spencer hit Henderson over
+ the head with a bludgeOn, and Wash Hen
derson, who was standing by, shot Spen-
: Ger dead. Henderson gave himself up.
3 Spencer leaves q family.
John Isham was shot and killed in the
eastern portion of Putnam County, Tenn,
4 n few -davs ago, by Joseph Hudgins. Hud-
8 gins reproved Isham for dlsordefly con-
/ duct whereupOn Isham shot at him. Hud-
gins seoureJra gun andhllsd Isham's body
with shot
: A meeting of melon growers of Soutt
: Carolina was held at -Blackv1lle a teN
4 days ago, to form a watermelon alliance
n or trust. The melon growing region eX
tends from Branchville to Augusta, Ga.
h along the line of the South Carolina rail
II road. and is embraced in Barnweu ant
4 Aiken counties. Last year the shipment
: were over 1000, 900 melons. Colonel
y Brown was elected president.
The farmer element in the South Caro-
n lima Legislature won another substantla
a, victory over the lawyers, few days ago
d when the Senate passed, by a vote Of IL t
so * the House bill accepting the beques
rs to the State by the late Thomas g. Glenn
son. John C. Calhoun's On-in-law, of tn
re Calhoun homestead at Fort Hill, for tn
tn purpose of establishing an exclusiveI
e, agricultural college.
Or Captain A j. White, a well-knOwn raj
l. way man, died at his home near Milne
Ga, a few days ago. After the war
10 became president of the Macon & West
ed ern railway, and later accepted the pres
Id dencv of the Savannah, Griffin g. Mort
Alabama railroad. These positions
r held until the roads were leased to Il
en- Central in 1871. He was also one OF Il
s. original 1essees of the Western q Atlant
LT5a coy cTaAr
four years of age
The cornerstone of the Good Samarits
Hospital for coIored people, was laid
Charlotte, N. c., a few days since, in ii
l. presence of quite a number OF peopl
both white and black. The building
this hospital has been undertaken by viii
he persons entirely, and is under the al
M spices of the EpiscOpallchurch. Both whl
en- and colored clergymen assisted at the &c
is. emony and made short addresses. T.
5he colored clergymen expressed, on behi
5hc of their race, their gratitude at such
six evidence of true religion and charity.
,aa Great excitement was Occasi6ned f
,ad days since near the South Carolna III
- on the road leading from Charlotte, n.
| |oAi to Rock Hill. James Anderson, a farm
OsO discovered the head of man in the mi
. die Of the road. The head seemed to ha
er' been severed with sharp instrume
5 IS being smoothly cut from the shoulde
Ihe It had not been identified, but appeared
ON be the head Of young white man, abC
ERIK twenty-five years old, having black b
raj and mustache. The trunk had not De
,ol- discovered at last accounts.
be Two white men, W. K. Walker and
ar T. Melton, got into a dispute about
the woman on the street in Selma, Ala,
the days ago. John Riggs; a bartender, tr
,no TO calm the disturbance. Melton reacf
iIas over Riggs shoulder and slapped Wall
a. and the latter drew his pistol and FIR
- Riggs Jumped in front of the pistol to
I's and prevent the shooting, but too late, 9
oiu the ball entered his abdomen killing /
ii1 l9l almost instantly. The ball also woun'
III Melton in the leg.
1rth Prepare to welcome the New ear.
ing Jupiter Newburn, a cOlored farmer
her Leon County Fla, eighty-fve years
l33,- age, with one OK and no help, has rali
un- this wear and gathered three heavy ba
of Of cotton 100 bushels of corn, 50 bush
that of potatoes, 500 pounds of fodder,
reat pounds Of pork and 100 bushels Of p
nuts.
ara Mrs. Elizabeth Cobb, of Marysville,
ror. If report be true, is on many account
~, wonderful woman. Her age is put dc
L.. as I26 years: she has had seventeen C
-, dren. al of whom are living, and toget
- more than 800 descendants, of whom
-, assembled lately at her home to celeor
e'u' her birthday.
,opt White Caps are causing excitement
,red Lamar County, Ala.
ton. The steamer 7. Barksdale, Of the Par
nl,el Line. with 81 bales of cotton, 1.2O0 Sd
5int of seed, together. with the books and
pers OF the boat was burned recent
mia. Hendricks Landing, on the IaZoo r
4ar- Not more than five bales Of cotton y
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