The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1888-02-10
SOUTHERN oLEANINos.

steam boatman between New Orleans and
ST. Louis. but later on the United States
steamer Newton, died recently at New
Orleans.
The motion to pass the Mississippi Con-
stitutional Convention bill over Governor
Lowry's veto failed in the Senate, the
vote standing 10 to 16s not the necessary
two thirds.
John Leslie, a we'll known business man
of Birmingham, Ala, was shot through
the head a few days since by man named
Ben Smith, while he was asleep on
lounge in the house of his mistress.
In Coffee County, Ca, few nights ago,
Wiley. Bird wealthy planter, while in
one of his oUthouses, was held a prisoner
by masked man. during which time five
confederates took from the house an old
chest containing 81, 500 in money, besides
valuable papers.
At Mckenzie, Tenn, a few days since,
Jasper Pope and F. c. Pate, two well-to-
do farmers, met and renewed an old
grudge. Both drew pistols, Pate firing
first, hitting Pope in the breast and par
alyzing him. Pate then fired three more
shots, killing Pope, after which he mount.
ed his horse and rode deliberately out Of
town.
A prominent young man named VIM.
Royster, reared in Memphis, Tenn, has
gone to the West Indies in company with
Nora Fitzgerald, a handsome young
woman. who went to Memphis from Chi
cago a year ago and claimed to be the
wife of grain dealer in that city. Roy
ster left a wife and one child, without
money, TO mourn his departure. He had
s., 200 as his total capital
Three New Orleans letter carriers are
under arrest for entering into a con spiracy
to systematically rob the boxes OD other
routes than their own and appropriate
and divide the valuable proceeds. The
postal authorities have been at fault for
some time to account for the disappear
ance of letters, but the systematic efforts
OF the secret service officers have been at
last rewarded by the capture of the
offenders.
Thomas Moore, colored sentenced to be
hanged at Georgetown, Ga, has been res
pited.
A young man in Louisville who smoked
forty cgaretts day has been pronounced
of unsound mind by the physicians.
AS result of prohibition discus sion,
Andrew Jenkins was killed few days
ago by James Warren near jackson,
Miss.
Blount McAlister, the ten-year-old son
of Judge W. K McAIister, while pl aging
on a raft in the river at Nashville, Tenn,
few evenings since, fell in and was
drowned.
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Louisville & Nashville railroad yards, at
Birmingham, Ala, fell from a moving
train a few nights ago and was crashed
to death. He was twenty eight years
old and unmarried.
Mrs. John F. Ching, of Daviess County,
Ky, was lrned to death few days ago.
She was standing near a CRATE when her
dress caught fire and she fatally
burned before asst tance could reach her.
4 1,rrsI 4 L.,
Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific railroad,
fell 4ffom the bridge at "Lake One," in
Madison Parish, near TalluIah. La,
few DAYS since, and broke his neck. His
remains were taken to Vicksburg for in
terment
The death of Captain Tilford Critten-
den Edwards, one of the oldest citizens
of Paducah, KY, occurred few days
since, in the seventy-second year of his
age, after an illness of five days, OF
pneumonia.
The Birmingham (AIa.) Board Of Alder
men have passed an ordinance prohibit
ing the buying and selling of pools, or in
any other manner betting on the game of
baseball. The ordinance was passed at
the request of the officers of the baseball
association.
Governor Gordon of Georgia commuted
the sentence of Eliza Randall, who was
to have been hanged in Clay County, to
imprisonment for life. Eliza had muir
dered her father, killing him with an
axe. All the details were of the bloodiest
description, and not one word of extenua-
tion was urged in her behalf.
VIM. Galloway was married to Miss Sal.
| ie Hubbard, at Owensboro, KY, a few
days ago. While the ceremony was being g
performed an officer stepped into the
room, and when it was concluded he
pl aced Galloway under arrest for robbing
a man named Sutton of large sum of
money, at CIovenport
The Artesian Water Company of Mem
/ Dhis, Tenn, which began operations six
/ months ago with capital stock of $780,,
| 600, has purchased the plant of the old
water company, which supplied the city
! from Wolf creek.
| Robert Smalls, who was the last of the
/ colored race to retire from membership of
! the National House of Representatives, is
| pushing his claim for a pension on ae-
count of his capture of the Confederate
/ steamboat Planter, in Charleston harbor,
and its delivery to Union officers.
The annual conference of the Methodist
| Episcopal Church (African) met last week
at Grenada, Miss, ex- Senator Revels pre-
/ siding as Bishop l.to tenn. There were
about four hundred preachers and lay
! delegates in attendance. This is the
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! Philadelphia in 1887.
In the Kentucky General Ass embly the
Senate resolutio protesting against the
| passage by Congress of the Blair bill,
! characterizng it as an iniquitous measure.
came up a few days ago, and after a
number of efforts to make it a special
order for different days, it was, on a call
Of yeas and nays, adopted by a vote of
48 to 20.
2 eshor+ AEa -oiIr.oa5 ooart a. KDox
vile station, on the Louisville, New Or
leans & Texas railroad. was assassinated
a few nights ago. The assassin fred
through a window. Short at the time
| was engaged in making out his monthly
| reports. His daughter, the telegraph
operator and his wife Were in the room
| with him. His wife was shot in the back.
Short was concerned in a shooting affray
at Knoxville not long ago, and the
! tragedy is supposed to be its sequent.
Are you going to the carnival2
A delegation, consisting of Mayor Bur-
| bridge of Jacks onville, President Krea-
mer of the Sub Tropical Exposition and
John ]. Stockton, representing the Board
of Trade, went TO Washington to invite
the President and Mrs. Cleveland to visit
/ Florida ON or about February p Con-
| 1dence is felt that tho invitation viii be
| accepted.
Eduardo H. Cato, the skiing of Havana
| cigar manufactured y will shortly build
in Key West, Fla, the largest cigar manu-
factory in tie United States. The build
ing is to be of brick, iron and stone, with
q capacity for 1000 cigarmakers, enabling
them to manufacture 200,00o cigars day.
Sallie Boyd has been indicted at Bir-
mingham. Ala, for killing Johu Leslie.
A colored woman, the wife of Willis
Ellis, of Albany, Co., gave birth the other
day to twin boys. They are said TO have
weighed the enormous amount Of thirty
seven pounds, one turning the scales nj
twenty pounds, the other at seventeen