The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1888-01-06
SOUTHERN GLEANlNos.

Loss, $50, 600; no Insurance..
At Nashville, Tenn, John j. LittIeton,
an editor, was shot and perhaps fatally
hurt a few days ago by a politician named
Banks.
The South Carolina Legislature has
passed a queer law. which prohibits
grocers from giving premiums, such as
chromos, china and silVerware, to pur-
chasers of groceries.
Henry Marshall, negro, shot and killed
Will Mason, also q negro, at Soddy, Tenn,
a few days ago. The murdered man was
trying to stop row when he was shot.
The murderer was captured and has been
put in jail at Chattanooga.
A serious difficulty occurred at Jellico
Tenn, few days ago, between drunken
miners, in which one man was killed.
There are no particulars as yet.
At Tolono, eight miles below Elijay,
Ga, few nights ago, in a fight between
Austin Wright and John Wright, two
cousins, the latter was stabbed in the
thigh, severing the femoral artery. He
died next morning, and Austin Wright
has fed.
While two boys, named Cough1in and
Hadley-the former white and the latter
colored-where shooting paper wads at
each other at Nashville, Tenn, a few
evenings since, Coughlin was struck be-
hind the ear with a heavy wad and killed.
Hadley is in jail.
A fatal difficulty took place at jackson,
Miss, a few nights ago between New lille
Mitchell, son of DR.. T. F. Mitchell, super
intendent of the Lunatic asylum, and Bob
Whitesides, negro desperado, in which
Mitchell had his throat cut. Mitchell, be-
fore falling, shot Whltesides dead. Mitch
ell was in company with several young
men, who witnessed the difficulty.
At Wards Seminary, in Nashvill g,
Tenn, the clothing of Miss Cave, a pupil
from Dallas, Tex, caught fire while she
was passing near an open CRATE. She was
badly burned, but it was thought at first
not fatally, but later it was discovered
that she Inhaled the flames. She died in
few hours, and the remains were for
warded to her late home.
The Morgan wooden mills. near Winches-
ter, Va, owned by Kern, Barr g. Co. were
burned a few nights ago. Loss, $40, coo;
insurance, $4,000.
Florida hotel builders are ordering shin
gIes, lath and lumber in large quantities.
From Fernandina, Fla, 10 900, 600 feet were
shipped during November.
A Philadelphian has agreed to estab-
lish large agric ultural iron works at Dali
ton, Ca, to employ a hundred mechanics,
if the people there will put up $4,000 to-
ward it.
A Kentucky company has been organ
ingmen in two or three mining and man.
ufa cttIring counties in that State. 1t ex-
poets to double its money.
A silk-throwing mill is to be established
at Wadesboro, N. C., the first of its kind
In the South.
The newly discovered gem, hiddenite,
from the Carolinas is said to be a failure
as a jewelry stone. The color is good,
but it cracks to pieces on the Iapidary's
wheel.
A large amount of hard wood will be
shipped into the Philadelphia market next
year BY rail from Virginia and North
Carolina. Agents are endeavoring to
take contracts now for delivery next
spring.
During 1887 New Orleans cotton receipts
gained over 100000 bales on 1886, and
bank clearings show an increase in ratio
of from eight to ten in twelve months.
Several manufacturing enterprises are
being established there.
Mrs. Wesley Ray, of Marshall County,
KY, present ted her husband Christmas
Day, with a quartet of babies-rwo girls
and two boys. All are doing well.
The Confederate Soldiers Home at
Charleston, s. c., has received from W.
W. Corcoran, the Washington philanthro-
pist, donation OF $1,000 with which to
found a scholarship in the home school.
A New York architect is building an
immense hotel, with 1,100 feet front, fire.
proof, at Tampa, Fla, and quite a num-
Der of buildings are being erected in st.
Augustine, the largest of which is TO cost
81, 900, 900 when completed The total out
lay for buildings under contract in the
State is 81, 600, 600.
While Colonel c. D. Phillips was adj
dressing jury in Dallas, Ga, a few days
ago he made some severe structures upon
n. G. Bullock, a leading citizen. Mr.. Bull
lock at once began firing at the attorney,
two bullets taking effect one entering
each arm. Five shots were fired in all
John J. Littleton, who was shot by JOS
r. Banks at Nashville, Tenn, continued
to sink un til he died of his wound. Mr..
Littleton would have been twenty mine
years old had he lived to January /.
jeremiah r. Frye, prominent negro
citiz3n of Louisville, Ky, was violently
assaulted by three unknown white men
upon the streets a few nights ago, and
died from injuries received. He was
robbed of his watch but had no money.
No cIew to the perpetrators of the deed.
A Louisville Sc Nashville railroad freight
train was wrecked near Athens, Ala,
few days ago. The accident occurred
near trestle bridge about ten feet high.
The engine passed over in safety, but the
derailed cars broke down the trestle. W.
Fl. Peden, a brakeman, who lived near
Buford's Station, Tenn, was killed.
Abel Wright, the faithful old negro
janitor Of ST. Paul's Church in Augusta,
Ga, died recently. His funeral was re-
markable for the reason that the vestry of
St Paul's, which is composed of the
leading citizens of Augusta, and G. @.
Goodrich, cashier of the Georgia Rail-
road Company, were pail bearers, and the
entire congr egation was present at the
burial.
In Lee County, Ga, few days since,
Nathan Reed, who did not live happily
with his wife. brutally murdered his
whole family and then committed suicide.
He sent a half-grown boy who lived with
him after doctor. When the doctor and
the boy returned, they found the cabin
heap OF smoking ruin, and in them the
charred body of Reeds wife and their
six children. A further search of the
premises disclosed Reeds body in the well
with his throat cut.
Eight inches of snow in Louis lana.
While Mrs. J. B. Rook was walking
along Louisa street. in Chattanooga,
Tenn, a few nights ago, she was struck
by a pistol ball and badly wounded.
There was no report of a pistol to be
heard, but the woman, at last accounts,
was lying in a crit cal condition. She
was hit in the breast
Rufus Coker was arrested in ChattanoO-
ga, Tenn, few days ago on cnafge OF
passing counterfeit money. His plan was
to go into a saloon and purchase glass
of beer, which he would pay for with a
bogus fifty cent piece and get forty five
cents in change. He had his pockets full
Of counterfeit money when arrested.
Five men were seriously shot in arecent
{ riot at Erlanger, KY.
/ The tobacco season Of 1887 at Louisville,
Kv has closed, the total sales in the city
for the year amounting to 135, 1o1 hogs
heads, the greatest number ever sold any
where in one year. The sales Of Louis
: rilla for 1ss5 ainbiIee vear.n were 1Z5. 6II.