The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-10-26
SOUTHERN eLEANINes.


A Georgia man is travelling through the
State with his family in a curious vehicle.
The body, which is something like a
street-car and which will hold thirty per
sons is set on a log-wagon, which is
drawn hy four large oxen. There is q
door at the rear and steps for entering it,
and within are a cook-stove, dining Ia
BILE, sleeping berths, and all necessary
arrangements for comfortable journey
ing.
At Valdosta, Ca, a man named Vickers
| recently attacked and almost killed DR..
j. B. Manson, because he was jealous Of
the physician having been invited to din
ner by his wife after attending sick
| child.
John Thompson, a colored laborer,
twenty six years Old was found on the
street in Louisville, KY. few nights
| ago, dying of pistol shot in the groin.
He lived half an hour after he was found.
His murderer was unknown.
The Chris tian Science Association OF
Louisville, KY, with a membership OF
100, mostly ladies, many of whom are
wives of prominent business men, re-
| Gently celebrated the first anniversa airy OF
| its organization.
Four members of the KolIock Street
Baptist Church in Augusta, Ga, were
publicly dismis sed recently because they
united with the Mormon elders. This is
the first instance in that locality where
church members have been enrolled as
Mormon converts.
In landslide 100 by $50 feet wide at
| Kleinston, Miss, few days since. Pey-
ton Harrison, the chief engineer of the
| Vicks burg Wharf and Land Company.
was carried down to the river and
drowned. A carload of cotton was lost
and much damage was done to property.
DR.. r. M. Fairleigh, one of the most
prominent physicians in kentucky, died
| at his residence in Hopkinsville. recent
| ly, after a lingering and painful illness,
of dropsy in the forty ninth year Of his
age.
DR.. E. A. Lakeland the oldest and one
Of the most prominent physicians of Da-
yiess County, KY, died at GreenviIle, re-
Gently. of heart disease. He had just
| left the bedside of a patient, and fell
dead without moments warming.
Robert J. Smith, Of Jesgup, Ga, was
| murdered by Lewis Edwards, colored,
who was sentenced to life Imprisonment.
His attorney secured a new trial, and the
| case was to have begun few days since,
| but party of masked men entered the
| jail and shot him dead.
The stockholders of the East Tennes =
| see, Virginia Sc Georgia railroad met at
Knoxville, Tenn, few days ago, and de-
| cided to issue So 900. 900 in bonds to be
| known as the East Tennessee 81 Virginia
railway improvement and equipment
| bonds. The bonds will be used to inn
prove the road by the purchase of addi.
tionaI rolling stock, to build Feeders and
extend the lines.
Near HarrOds burg, KY, a few days
since, Mollie Lester, daughter of a WELL
| to do far mer, committed suicide by tax
| ing strichnine. Soma hours after sw al
| lowing the poison she told what she had
done and asked for medical aid, but it was
! too late. She died in terrible agony. A
| young man named Campbell had been
| paying her devoted attention, but it was
| recently announced he would soon marry
another girl.
The Grand Lodge of Tennessee, 1nde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, elected
| the following officers: Grand master, j ohm
| L. Nolan, of Nashville; deputy grand
| master, Peter Harris, Jr., of Nashville ;
| grand warden, Philip Eichorn, Of Chat
| tanoogaj grand secretary, j. II. Harwell,
| of Nashville; grand treasurer, j. s. Weak
| ly, of Nashville; grand representative to
the Sovereign Grand Lodge, a. F. Davis,
| of Memphis. The next meeting Of the
| grand lodge will be held at Columbia.
James W. Ware, a wealthy contractor,
| and formerly Circuit Court clerk at Bir-
mingham, Ala, went to the boarding
! house of Mrs. Bird, few nights ago, and
was met at the head of the stairs By Lon
| c. Pease, Mrs. Birds sOn-in-law, w!l9 or
| dered him away. Ware refused "a go,
| and began cursing Pease in the presence
of several ladies. Pease pushed him
| slightly, and Ware losing his balance,
| fell to the pavement below. His skull
was crushed by the fall, and he fingered
few hours, when he died. Pease is in
| iail at Fayette Court House.
A warrant was sworn out at Morgan
| field, KY, recently, against a negro
named Hopgood, and placed in the hands
| of City Marshal Spaulding. The officer
| traced his man to a church, and there
| put him under arrest They started out
/ of the church together, and as they were
| going out of the door the prisoner jerked
away from the officer, and started on the
run lodging around the corners OF the
l church. The marshal ran around the
! opposite way, and seeing that the negro
| was going to make his escape, fired upon
him, the ball taking effect in the body.
The negro was mortally wounded.
! VIM. Sherrard, an engineer in the EN-
| pIoy of Louis Malloy a contractor on the
| Government work at Louisville. KY, in
enlarging the canal, was killed, few
/ days ago, in a singular manner. The
| PennsY Ylvania company's bridge across
|
| ties as they were replaced were pushed
| off the bridge and fell to the rocks forty
| feet below. Malloy thought some of these
| might be useful to him, and sent Sher-
rard over to inspect them. While Sher-
| rard was busy looking them over the
| wOrkmen on the bridge showed another
tie overheard, and it fell upon Sherrard's
head, dashing his brains out.
A woman's screams, as If in mortal
z Il. IL l.
of people near the depot at Greensboro,
| N. c., few nights ago. There was a
rush, and the body of a mulatto woman
| was found lying partially IN the door of a
1 store. Her throat was cut from ear to
1 ear, and she lay in a pool Of blood. The
/ wound was so dreadful as nearly to cut
| off her head. Her name was Laura Hiatt
1 She had left her home, but little dis
/ tance away, only a few moments before,
as the door Of her house was open and
/ her baby. aged ten months, was lying on
/ the bed. There is no clew to the murder
/ er, but the closest search for him was be-
| ing made. No reason can be assigned for
/ the crime.
Yellow tsver has not gone yet
| The Association of Southern Hom0eo-
/ pathists, at its recent session IN Louis
| VILE KY, elected the following officers:
! President, W E. Green, Little Rock; vice.
| pEesluoht5 W amer D9AlCy5 oA'f ~0M "
| leans; recording secre tary, d. E Lippin'
/ colt, Memphis; corresponding secretary,
/ Howard Crutoher, Louisville; treasurer,
| Chas. W. Taylor, Louisville.
The French -E7ersol feud in Kentucky
was revived recently by the assassination
OF Elijah Morgan, a leader Of the French
| faction He was shot from ambush, anc
| found dead in the road. The whole OF
| Perry County is aroused, and men &c
| armed constantly.
Bill Lewis. colored bin poster, was
| burned to death at Albany, Ga
At johnson City, Tenu., a few days
! since. fourteen guests OF Smiths Hote
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