The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1888-03-09
TIE souTH.

A REGULAR blizzard struck Columbus,
Miss, on the night OF the 26th and the
ground was covered with snow.
Miss KATE WOLF, living n Ravenna Tex,
was burned to death the other evening, her
clothing catching fire from a fireplace.
The Ragsdale House at Meriden, Miss,
was burned the other night Loss, $4,000;
insurance, Sl2, 100.
WILLIE RoBrNsoN and Charles Rosberry,
two bows, aged twelve and fourteen, drove
in, o the Trinity river at Fort Worth, Tex,
recently to water their horse. The horse
stepped beyond his depth, and the current
swept wagon, horse and boys down the
river Robinson was drowned, but Ros-
berry was rescued
JUDGE E. B. TURNER of the United States
Court for the Western District of Texas,
was reporl ed at the point of death at Aus
tin. HIS sickness was Brights disease.
COLONEL Z. b. CASH, the famous duelist
and ''fire eater" who killed Colonel Will
lam NJ. Shannon, prominent lawyer, in a
duel in August, 1880 and who subsequently
defed the State to arrest him, died in
Chesterfield County, $. c., recently, of
paralysis, aged siXty-siX years. He was
buried beside his son, Boggan Cash, a
young desperate who was killed by a
sheriff s posse while resisting arrest for
the murder Of the town marshal or Cheraw.
Before the war Colonel Cash owned several
hundred slaves.
CITY MARSHAL FARMER, Of Fort Worth,
Tex, has received telegram from Oficer
Evans, dated Rosenberg, TO the effect that
! w. l.. Benson, the man arrested for the
fearful Gainesville crime of July l3 1887
had tried to essape by jumping from the
train and was fatally injured. The murder
was a horrible one, Miss Genie Watkins
being murdered and Miss Bosuck mutt
/ lated.
AT settlement known as the Spanish
camp, about sixty miles from Houston,
/ Tex, composed of Mexicans, negroes and
/ desperate whites. "A negro cabin was set on
| fire and the occupants brutaliy shot down
/ as they ran from the burning house. Five
were killed outright, one severely wounded,
/ aud two others consumed IA the burning
/ dwelling. Another negro was also found
| hanged. The negroes had recently gained
! possession of the property IN a lawsuit and
this was thought TO hdve occastoued the
i butchery.
I TRAIN No. . north bound on the st. Louis,
/ Arkansas a Texas was robbed by three
men near Kingsland, Ark, on the morning
/ of the 29,h. About $4,000 was taken from
/ the express.
Mrs. MARTHA BURCH, the missing Ken
! lucky heiress, has turned up IN Nicholas
/ vile, that State, but has not accounted for
/ her absence.
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/ cided the act estu blshiug n colOred uni
Il versitv TO be unconstitutional, on the
/ ground that the money appropriated was
| part ct a fund which had been declared by
/ the Constitution 10 be for common schools
and which could not be used for a univer
I sitV.
EIGHTEEN of the twenty-five prisoners
confined in the parish jall at Shreveport
/ Lu., made their escape the other morning
| An of them could have eacaped, as all tue
cells were broken open, but those who re
mained preferred to do so.
EDWIN BARBOUR, son Of Hon. James Bar
bour, recently shot and killed Ellis vii
uams at Culpeppor Court House, Va. The
shooting grew out of newspaper contro
| versy. Barbour is a nephew Of United
1 States Seuator-elect Barbour.
Two small children OF Thomas Jones, col
orod, Of Hampton, Va, were burned L
death recently.
| A DISASTROUS wreck on the Southern Pa
cihc occurred nifty miles east of San A q
/ tonic, Tex, recently. As local freight No
20 was crossing Hondo creek the bridge
gave way when the engine had just passed
/ over, killing Bob Hardesty, "a brakeman,
and a san Antonio stockuan named Eth
eridge outright, and breaking both legs O.
Conductor George Davidson and Brakeman
/ Lem Hall.