The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-10-05
SOUTHERN eLEANINes.


John r. Winters. The old barn had been
torn away and some wooden tenement
houses ere 6ted on the site. The men are
very sanguine, but at last accounts had
un earthed nothing.
Levi Brown, who. murdered Mrs Davis,
pTOprietress of a boarding house in Chat
tanpoga Tenn, last May was convicted
Of murderlin the second degree. and sem
tenced to the penitentiary for twenty
years. The murder was entirely unpro-
voked and was a cold blooded one.
AS north bound cattle train was pulling
into the yards at Musko gee, L T., few
days ago, young man attempted to jump
from a cattle car into the caboose after
the caboose had been cut of from the resi-
Of the train. He fell between the cars
and the caboose ran over him, MASKING
his head into a jelly, and otherwise man
g ing his & body. Upon investigation it
vas found that his name was Reuben B.
Legate, from Abilene, Tex He was in
charge of two cars of cattIe consigned to
a st. Louis commission house.
At the Baptist Church in Cisco, Tex. a
few nights ago. while Rev. Kelly was adj
monishing and advising his flock, a young
gentleman who was sitting by the sideiof
his best girl suddenly jumped up with yell
that caused all the eyes IN the house to
be- turned on him. He knocked at the
wall like a madman, and for the time be-
ing the preaching was stopped, while the
man continued to jump and stamp and
knock until he finally, almost out of
breath, held up a large tarantula that was
crawling on the wall close to his head,
after which the preaching continued.
By boiler explosion at Horton sta
tion, KY, d few day ago, Thos. Bryant,
Berry KuykendaI and his gon were
killed.
Light frosts are reported from various
localities in Alabama aud Tennessee, and
the apprehensions of tho further spread
of yellow fever are dying out.
A searserpent was seen recently in
Winyah Bay, near georgetown, S. C., by
Captain Springs of the tug Herry Buck,
while towtnga a schooner down the barbor.
Hiram S. Bond has sued VIM. E. For
rest for $4,000 damages for libel, the suit
growing out of libel published in the lat
ter's paper, Truth, at Decatur, Ala; last
MAY.
( Senator Beck, of Kentucky, has been
considered improved by his sojourn at
Old Point Comfort. He will probably re-
turn. to w ashingtQn in a short time, but
will not take part for the present in the
proceedings Of the Senate.
! The last rail ON the Thomasville and
Monticello railroad in Georgia, has been
laid and traffic be un.
Advices from San Antonio, Tex. an
nounce the killing of Mrs. Crawford A
Long in q railroad accident. Mrs. Long
was the widow Of the late DIR. Crawford
A. Long, of Atlanta, Ga, who dis covered
F.. the use of ether as an a1l@sthe ic. 3"
u Tie detectives at Mobile; Ala. believe
that in arresting W. Aug. Fonde, al
Biloxi, Miss, recently, they have cap
ttIred the leader Of a gang Of Gounter
,, r.4
most of whom were recently driven oui
of Illinois.
Miss Amelia Jackson, of Washington,
D. g., daughter of w. II. Jackson, who
shot AMI killed Colonel Ellsworth in
Alexandria, Va, at the outbreak of tht
war, has been promoted from 1920 clerk
ship in the Patent Office to a S90l position
Peter Cider was shot By VIM. Stephens
at Petersville. KY, a few nights ago
The killing grew out Of controversy
about woman. After slaving his victim
Stephens robbed him of $219 and a pisto
and fed.
Mr.. James NJ. Gibson. Sr., died at his
residence, fourteen miles from Vicks-
burg, Miss, few days ago, from blood
poison, caused from q malignant carbun-
Gle. Mr.. Gibson was past his sixtietI
year, and was born and reared in the
/ vicinity wheEe he died
/ Charles Blackman was sentenced a
Americus, Ga, to be hanged October 19
This is the fourth time sentence has beer
+ passed upon him, but he has now reached
/ his last chance. He crept up behind
/ Stonewall Tandee in the dark and sho
/ him to DEATH
The sun began drawing water from Tia,
! paper mill dam in Cobb County, Ga
! There were six feet of water in TIE dan
I and In about five minutes tie water wa
4 so low that the mill had to stop. The sin.
/ guIar phenomenon created great cons ter
nation among the neighbors.
| Judge Thomas w. Hayes, form erIy pro-
| bate Judge, died e1tly at his residence
at Hayes Landings Issaq quena County,
! Miss, very suddenly. He was the oldest
| Mason in the county, one of its best men,
| and stood high in the estimation OF his
people. At the. tn1e of his death Judge
! Hayes was a levee commissioner, and
| was seventy years Of age.
| The monument to the Confederate dead
at Stanton, Va, was unYailed few days
/ since in the presence of ABOUT five thou
4 sand persons. A granddaughter Of Az
| bart Sidney j ohnston, assisted by youns
ladies from every State represented il
4 the cemetery, nnvailed the monument
| and addresses we're made by GoYerno
1 Lee, General Early, General Rosser anG
/ Mr. McCulIoeh, OF Annapolis, Nd. -
I A cuttiitg affrRy took place upon tn
1 street in Dixon, KY, as.few flights ago
/ Rich wall was returning home- abou
| midniehfg alone, when he CHANGED to ruI
4 against Ambrose .SpilIman, who stabbed
/ him in the chest with a knife he carried
/ Afiesing a deadly wound SpillmRn ha
been ARE sted, and says Wall fright ene'
him, which the dying man defiied. Spill
mansis in jail. 60
| Bh6mbold Eberhard aged forty-hve
| was found by the foadsid5 near Louis
vile, Ky, a few mornings since. dyiut
IF morphine poisoning He. was taken I
his home, a Few blocks away, where b
i'dted without recovering consciousness
/ Some letters lie left showed that he wa
about $500 short in his accounts with J
F. Stone & Co., whisky dealers, who's
Looks he kept, and that he. had com
mitted suicide for that reason.
Oh for nipping frost
JEFF Baker, a young farmer from Rus
| seIlville, Ky, while attempting to boar
a moving freight train near the depot, q
Hopkiasville, that state, for the purpos
of stealing a ride, few nights ago, los
his hold aud fell upon the track th
wheels Of a car passing over his right -lei
between the ankle and knee, crushing
to a Jelly. His sufferings were terrible {
witness, and has leg lad to be amputats
| as the only hope Of saving his life.
The champion rattlesla<e o. ten year
has just been killed near Everetts, ". {
1t weighed twenty -seven pounds an
measured seventeen inches about tn
Dody.
The entire South is be eooming alarme
by the advance Of yellow fever.
James McGinnis was instantly killed q
Memphis, Tenn, few days since, BY
shock from a dead telegraph wire ths
twas crossed by an electric Light wire
The manager of the elsctric-l light con
pany has been arrested for Grimm al care
| lessness.
The first train OF the Mexican Nations
railroad passed over the eompany's ne
iron bridge across the Rio Grande riv'
at Laredo, Tex, few days ago. and re-