The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-06-22
SOUTHERN oLEANINGs

ave been informed of the fact and are
ookIlg into the matter.
A quarrel between John Dunn and John
Culverson in Lee County, Ala, a few ev-
nings since, eliminated in a duel with
pocket-knives, in which Culverson's
hroat was cut, resulting in his death in
hort time. Dunn was badly cut about the
ace, and may not recover.
The cotton product of the levee district
n Mississippi last year was l40, $50 bales.
A family quarrel resulted in the mur-
Ter of jesse j. NARROW at Ocala, Fla, a
'ew days ago, by neighbor named Green
Hodge.
W. 7. Wilson, a well-known business
nan of Atlanta, Ga, committed suicide a
,ew days ago by taking strychnine.
Charles Murphy, a fisherman, while
irawing in his nett near Louisville, KY, a
,ew days ago, was dragged under the wa
ser and drowned.
The strawberry season in Tennessee is
over.
The city of Columbus, Miss, by an al
most unanimous vote favored q subscrip-
ton of $50, 900 to the Memphis, Oxford g.
Columbus I abroad. Work is in progress
at Columbus on the western extension of
The Georgia Pacific railway.
W. A. Elliott, aged twenty-one, and
Miss Maggie Stewart, aged eighteen, were
out driving at Childersburg, Ala, few
days ago, when the horse took fright and
ran into the river, drowning both the
young man and young lady.
Convicts to the number Of eighteen, en-
ployed on the Versailles, Midway 81
Georgetown railroad escapedifrom their
camp, near Georgetown, KY, a few nights
ago, and at last accounts were still at
large. A reward of $50 each is offered
for their capture.
Captain John J. Brown, a well-known
steamboat man, died at New Orleans a
few days since.
J. B. Friedman, merchant of Boutte,
La, and railroad express agent at that
place, which is on the Morgan railroad,
was shot in the back, few nights ago, by
an unknown person and died few hours
| later. The assassin escaped
The National organization OF the col
Ored Y. NJ. G. A. was completed at Louis
vile, KY, by the election OF Chas. S.
Morris president; w. H. Goodall, Albert
Mack, l.. w. Cross and w. G. DusOn, vice.
presidents; Albert White, secretary, and
G. w. Talbot, treasurer Morris is only
thirty eight ears old He has been n
teacher in the Louisville public schools,
has Just finished a course at Howard Col
lege, Washington, d. c., and intends to go
to Harvard. His mother is n public-school
teacher in Louisville.
clerk of the New Orleans q Marshall rail-
road post Office, was arrested a few days
ago charged with embezZling registered
mail letters. The arrest is considered
one of the most important made in some
! time as the theft involves something over
| 81, 900. There were five packages taken,
| one alone containing S515. This package
was a remittance from the postmaster at
| Donaldsonville, La, to the New Orleans
! post-Office.
! Governor Buckner of Kentucky has
refused to commute the sentence oi
! VIM. Patterson, who is to be hanged il
Louisville on the 22d for participation IL
| the murder of Jennie Bowman.
AS Turnkey James Turner of the Hen
! derson (Ky.) Jail was entering the build
! ing with the dinner of the prisoners a few
| days ago, one of them, named Baxter
! jumped upon him and tried to knock him
| down. Turner drew his revolver and shot
| Baxter fatally, but in the meantime three
| of the prisoners had made good theiI
| escape.
! The negro miners at Warrior, Ala, fOl
| some supposed offense of the white
! bosses, recently armed themselves witt
! the intention of killing the first white
man who mOlests them. The white mer
| decided ON the same course, and blood
| shed seemed imminent.
/ D L
! IN. c. Insane Asylum a few days since
| from injuries inflicted by au inmate of th'
| institution. Mr.. Palmer was graduate
! of Columbia College and had been super
intendent of a number of insane asylums
\ until he went insane himself.
A special train on the East Tennessee
! Virginia &5 Georgia railway, carrying
! Jay Gould and party, made the tastes
! time on record in the South a few days
/ Il. -
! Knoxville, 112 miles, was amade in tw'
| hours and seventeen minutes, which in
| cluded two stops of FIVE minutes each.
The trustees of the University of Ten
| nessee have elected Charles T.. Wait, o
| Rolla, Mo, to the chair OF chemistry ant
| metallurgy; Thomas L. Norwood, of Bing
! ham School, N. c., professor of moderI
| languages; VIM. w. Carson, professor Of
| mathematics, and Thomas &. Karns, as
sociate professor of the English language
Alfred Blackwell, of Barclaysville, N
| c., was found dead at his saw mill, "A few
nights ago, being most fearfully muttlated
| He had been trying TO run his saw mil
| alone, and it is supposed accidentally fel
! on the saw, when he suffered a most shock
! ing death. His left arm was severed il
two places, and his body was completed.
cut in twain except at the spinal column
The Louisiana Senate confirmed th
!
be Associate Justice Of the Supreme
| Court for the term of twelve years, il
place of Robert B. Todd, whose term ha
just expired.
Oscar Searcy was killed at Greenville
Ala, a few nights ago, by shot acci
! dentally fred by Webb Perdue, who wa
! fiourishing a weapon in d reckless man
ner while under the influence Of liquor
w. H. Remert, wealthy planter, re
siding in Sumter County, y. c., was re
| Gently sentenced to two years hard la
Dor for persisting in consOrting with &
negrcss to the utter neglect of his younl
and beautiful wife. His colored com
panion received a like sentence.
Dennis Williams, colored, was lynche'
at EllaviIle, Fla, a few days since for th'
crime of shooting at a white man. Hi
body was found in the Suwannee river
| perforated with bullets and having rOps
around the neck.
Sam Jones' brother has eloped.
A sensation was created at Holl!
Springs, Miss, recently, by the conversion
Of Thomas F. Seligman, a on-keeper
who displayed a sign across his doc
! "CIosed for Good" This is one Of tn
/ results Of a Methodist revival, conducted
by Rev. George S. Inge, under whicl
many conversions have been made.
An Americus (Ga.) gentleman has a 10
/ of young 'possums and kittens which b
Is raising together as HAPPY family.
Two large bears have been committin
/ depredations in Whiteheld County, Ga
recently, and have thus far managed b
elude the hunting parties organized 70
their destruction.
Birmingham (Ala-) bootblacks pay
license of ten dollars year.
Robert Bratcher was recently tried a
i AbbeviGe, S. c., for enticing away
Iaborer under contract, a serious offens
in that State. He wooed and won Mis-
Hamilton, the laborer in question, an
narried her, taking her TO his home
hence the suit. The jury was disposed
be lenlent however, and returned yer
dict Of not guilty.
The first National convention of th
| It,lnrn Wn1lrlc, Men1a Christian Aaancin