The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-10-12
SOUTHERN eLEANlNes.

surrendered.
VIM. H. Bolton, hotel-keeper, was shot
and dangerously wounded by VIM. II. !
Bate at Horn Lake, Mss, few days
ago. The men quarreled over business
matter.
A boy while passing through the Hol-
lies, two miles from Virginia Beach, Va,
a few nights ago, discovered the SIX eleton
Of q man. From the scattered clothing,
papers and other articles found around,
it was identified as the remains of Alonzo
Lewis, the missing salesman of w. & B.
Douglas, pump manufacturers OF New
York City. The buzzards had eaten every
particle of flesh of. leaving only the
bleached bones. The presumption is that
Lewis committed suicide
A very strange suicide, if suicide it may
be termed, occurred in Yadkin County,
n. c., recently. A white man named
Rufus Reavis forced his way into aEroom
of Allgood's whisky distillery. Hiding
himself under a shelf, he put one end of
q siphon into barrel of whisky and the
other into his mouth and let the liquor
run into his stomach until and his throat
were filed, and in this position he was
found dead, with whisky pouring from
the end of the siphOn in his mouth He
had literally had his fill of liquor for
once. His appearance horrible in
the extreme.
JEFFERSON BAKER, bu6 4IOAu
near Russellyille, KY, who fell from
moving freight train at Hopkinsville
while attempting TO steal a ride, and had
his right leg crushed by the car wheels
passing over it. died from having the in
lured limb amputated. He never rallied
| srOm the operation.
The tobacco crop about Bradford, KY,
has been damaged one third by frost.
Tae Louisiana Prohibition State con-
Il uOuoirafaa fiCkat-
They say they can poll 1000 votes.
Robert Harris, a conductor on the
| Chattanooga s. Lookout Mountain rail-
road, was instantly killed a few days ago
| by falling from construction car.
Captain Jas. NJ. Wilson, a prominent
citizen living near Cropson, KY, fell
1 from a wagon few days ago, and was
run over and crushed to death by the
| wheels.
| Policeman Turner, of Henderson, KY,
has been arrested, charged with murder.
He shot a boy named Willie Miller to
death, who was running away from MIN,
after ju mping from the rear of a street.
| car where he and a companion had been
stealing a ride.
The North Georgia and Alabama Min
| eral and Industrial Exposition at Rome
was opened by Governor Gordon. De-
| spite the quarantine panic in the South,
the opening was attended by 10000 per-
sons.
Sheriff Lance fatally shot FIem Potts at
| Sparta, Tenn, a few days ago. Potts pre-
vented the sheriff from arresting his
brother, but walked away, arm in arm,
with the officer. The latter discovered a
concealed weapon in Potts possession,
and killed him as a precaution to pre-
serve his own life
There being no opposition, the election
for Governor and State officers in Geor-
gia passed of quietly. Governor Gordon
and the other officials were reelected.
The amendment to the Constitution in
| creasing the number Of Supreme Court
judges from three to five, adopted.
The pension Office at Louisville, KY,
has received notice to suspend paymen
of the pension OF Mrs. Sarah CrutcheT
of Pitts Point near BardstOwn, KY,
widow of Jas. Crutcher, a revolutionary
soldier. She died q few days ago. She
was eighty six years old and had drawn
a pension since 1853.
The youngest convict in the United
States is now in the State prison in Nash
vile, Tenn. His name is Daniel Jordan,
| and he was sent from Memphis. He is
less than eleven years old, and was con-
yicted of having stolen five dollars and
sentenced to three years in the peniten
tiary When the first night of his incar
I ceration came the guard did not lock hin
t in solitary cell, but allowed him to liz
{ on a blanket, where he sObbed himself tC
! sleep. He has widowed mother In Mem
/ phis.
D Frank NJ Irion, the defaulting clerk OF
] the Birmingham (Ala.) City Court viii
make no effort to secure bond, and viii
+ plead guilty to the indictments against
!, him. He is anxious to begin serving out
g whatever sentence the court may pass
d. Trion's total shortage is now estimated q
I III r1nAsx, -
had only $3.50 when he left last January.
i A new danger has recently cOnfrOnte'
|. | rice planters of South Carolina. Jun
r rice is now in the maturing stages and
2 frst-cIass frost which is threatene,
e almost every night, would kill it.
: frost does not come in a week however
I the rice will have time to mature. Th'
d heavy rains first crippled this crop an
then came the food, which seriously hun
= it The loss, too, has been cOnsiderabl
n in ripe rice, from the frequent handling
q which was necessary to dry it out. Som
r. of il had to be handled three or fou
n times, and every time it was handle,
there was a loss. Rice sprouted badly
and stacked rice, hastily harvested, NOV
burned and entailed a loss in the de
: terioration of the rice. Until the ric
n has been given into the hands of tn
n millers the extent of the loss can not b
d approxfmated. The planters, however
IS are positive that they will not reap one
IF | half the crop they expected before tn
IS | rainy season set in.
g An extraordinary scene was witnessed
n in the Memphis (Tenn.) police court
t. few days ago, when a negro, who ha
L. shot two white men to death was dis
l. charged by the police judge. The rool
was crowded with whites and negroe:
and when Judge Hadden told the accuse
that he might go free-and he went ou
L almost literally in the arms of his VIII
and children-there was an outburst {
/ applause which the officers Of the coul
were powerIess to queD. The negro
ID James Conley, the sext on of Zion col
ored cemetery The men he killed wer
l. viii W. Eastman, the nephew of
wealthy lumber dealer of Memphis, an
IS J. ID. Smith, boss carpenter. They a
o tackled ConIey in his own house and
ID shot them in self defense.
Shotgun quarantines are ended.
At Frankfort, KY, few days since, d
= John Murry died of lockjaw caused by
= pistol- shot wound received a week prev
= | Gus. William Armstrong, young frien
- seized Murray's pistol and they begi
- scufaing for possession Of it The wea1
on was accidently discharged, lodging
=. ball in Murry's leg. Murray treated q
: wound as trivial till the pain compel
:. him to consult other physicians.
n | MISS 1izAle myers a mSli- tnOus sAe-
m and prepossessing young lady OF Alban
n Ga, left home on the 26th OF June last
2. visit relatives IN Sparta She sudden
of disappeared, and has not beea heard fro
since.
The yellow-fever scare is gradual
:. subsiding as cool weather comes.
\. 1t has been discovered that an Indi
n chief was inferred on w alden's Ridge
he Tennessee, many years ago and with b.
re a large amount OF gold was buried I
a grave Of the chief has been made kno'
ck to John Shields, OF Kingston, Tenn, "
IL -. Traaaan :. lnnNsnFlaa sum OF mon