The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-07-06
SOUTHERN oLEANINcs.


fired. A new invoice of rifles has beer
shipped to the scene of war.
The outlook tor a big crop in the vicin-
ity of Jackson, Tenn, was never better.
The cotton is looking very fine, with
plenty of blooms.
Charley Winters, a fisherman at Helena,
Ark, caught and landed one of the Iarg-
est fishes ever seen in that part Of the
cGantry a few days ago. 1t was q chan
mel catfish, weighed over two hundred
pounds and was caught in the St Francois
river
Near Bayou Pierre, twenty five miles
! below Vicksburg, Miss, few evenings
since, a gravel train on the Louisiana,
New Orleans s. Texas railway tackled
furious bull on a tres tie, which resulted
fatally to the bull and the piling up OF
the engine aud tender and seventeen
gravel cars in general smash. One ne
gro brakeman was killed and the engi.
neer received a slight wound in the head
The north and south bound passenger
trains were compelled to tranfer at the
wreck, which delayed them several hours.
/ At Maysville, KY, few days since,
domestic scandal terminated in Lucy Rice
shooting Barbara Ballinger to death.
Rev. J. Henry SmUthe, D. D., l.. L. d.
regent of Grant University, Athens,
Tenn, was reported lying dangerously i'll
at the Windsor Hotel, in New York.
Boston capitalists are negotiating for
the purchase of the charter of the Chat
tanooga & Augusta railroad, and if they
succeed in their efforts it will mean the
immediate building of the road.
George Deans, a negro, living near
Jacksonville, Fla, three of his own chill
dren and another child, were poisoned, a
few days ago, by some drug in their break
fast. Two of the children have died.
Three men were arrested recently in
Mason County, KY, charged with steal
ing $4,000 tobacco plants from their neigh
bOrs.
Three years ago Charles SeIhe, of Nor
ris Cove, Tenn, saved from drowning the
young daughter of rich New Yorker.
Now, by will of that gentleman, who has
| lately died, Selhe gets $4,000 in reward
for his bravery.
Blanche K. Bruce, formerly Senator of
the United States from Mississippi, and
later Register of the United States Treas
ury, received eleven votes for Vice Pres
ident in the Republican National cOnven-
ton.
The last spike of the Chattanooga, Rome
& Columbus railroad was driven few
days since. This road extends from Chat
tanOoga through Rome, Ga, to Carroll
ton, Ca, a distance Of 140 miles, and will
be extended to Columbus, Ga, and thence
to the sea.
young man ndulcu harris HdS AlllOu
in a stave factory near Pimeson, Tenn, a
few days since. The jointing machine
few to pieces while going at rapid rate
of speed. A large piece of casting struck
Harris in the breast, killing him tly.
Two other men were seriously hurt, but
| will recover.
Sam Alexander, colored, was shot dead
! a few nights ago in Walton County, Ga.
There was church festival, when quar-
J vsI IN yuhn ha1 ha at
work for the church. The combatants re-
tired to distance of $50 yards and fred
several YOlleys at each other, by which
Alexander was killed and others wounded.
The grand jury at Frankfort, KY, has
returned four indictments against Ken
tucky's fugitive Treasurer, James w.
Tate, charging him with defalcatiOn. The
charge of forgery did not hold because
the evidence showed that the bank book
which he used was his own private prop
erty.
Rev. w arren A. Gambler, associate ed
itor of the Nashville Christian AdUOcdte,
has been rendered the presidency Of
Emory College, located at Oxford, Ga.
Mr.. Gambler is regarded as one of the
ablest young diyines of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South.
Having just finished the mineral road
around Birmingham, Ala, and being hard
at work on the Huntsville extension, with
a letting a few days since of the contracts
! for sixteen more miles of the latter, it
develops that the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad Company is at work on another
| scheme, by which Bristol, Tenn, and
/ Birmingham will be joined.
| A destructive cyclone visited Todd and
Muhlenburg counties, KY, few nights
! ago, passing from northwest to southeast
| and on to Tenr essee. Vast tracts OF land
were laid waste, trees uprooted and houses
| blown down. The rain also fell in tor
rents, causing the streams to overflow,
doing great damage.
At anegro church three miles south of
| Davisboro, Ga, a dispute arose between
| two negroes, Hal Bryant and Sam Hunt,
| over debt of fifty cents, which it is
| claimed the former refused to pay the lat
| ter, as it was made at cards. Hot words
| caused Hunt to draw his knife, and when
! he did so Bryant shot him through the
| left lung, causing death in less than four
minutes. Bryant left Immediately after
| the shooting.
Eight years ago Henry Johnson, living
/ in Stafford County, Va, was made the
| happy father of twins and he named them
/ Grant and Garfield. A few days ago,
| while the usband and wife were absent,
| the boys got possession of their father's
| gun, and after fruitless attempts to fire it
| Grant found a percussion cap, which he
| put on the gun and with an old hammer
| succeeded in discharging the load into
the body of his twin brother, Garfield,
| tearing and mudlating it almost beyond
i recognition.
The Grand Temple Of Tennessee,
| Knights Of Tabor, the second strongest
| colored organization in America, was in
session at Nashville, Tenn, last week.
/ Rev. Moses Dixon, Of st. Louis, delivered
| an address, and the report Of A. McFall,
/ chief GRAND rneutor was read The Grand
| Temple Of Georgia, which has a member
| ship Of 800, was admitted to the jurisdic-
/ ton Of Tennessee. The Order Of Knights
/ Of Tabor, organized twenty yeRrs
| ago, has 10000 members in the different
| States.
Worms are hurting the cotton.
| The cornerstone Of the Masonic Widows'
and Orphans Home, which will be built
| by the Freemasons Of Tennessee at a cost
/ Of $4,000, was laid, a few days since, at
| Maplewood, five miles north of Nashville.
! Grand Master H. II. Ingersol, Of Knox
| Vile, conducted the ceremonies in tho
! presence of the Grand Lodge and about
! two thousand people.
Harry T. Griscom, postmaster at Chat
tanooga, Tenn, during the last two years
/ of Arthur's administration, and removed
| by President Cleveland for offensive par
| tisanship, died, few days since, Of con-
1 sumption. He was one Of the leading Ro-
/ publican politicians Of Tennessee.
Marion Bell is under arrest at New
| Albany, Miss, for mail robbery.
The police raided Matt Eison's keno
/ rink in Columbia, Is. C., few nights ago,
! Eleven men were captured. Three Of
| them, the proprietor and two dealers,
were fined so each, and the others $40
/ each. The police have gwen warning that
| the Sunday and gambling laws viii be
/ rigidly enforced hereafter.
A great sensation has been caused al
/ Raleigh, n C.. by the news that AIfriend