The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-06-15
SOUTHERN GLEANiNes.


of Muhlenburg County, KY, died at his
home several days since, after a lingering
illness, aged sixty-twO years.
Henry Walton, coIored, has been SEN
fenced to be hanged at Dawson, Ga, June
%, for the murder of Tink Daniels, also
colored.
The trial of five men Of Sumter, S. c.,
for the murder of Justice HayneswOrth,
has resulted in the acquittal of the parties.
These men are among the most influential
in the county. They represent two fac
tiOns who had been fighting among them
selves, and they were summoned into
court to give peace bonds. While the
justice was preparing the papers pistols
were drawn and firing begun by the op
posing sides. Three men were wounded
and Justice Haynesworth was instantly
killed.
Jack BarfeId, a desperate of Miller
County, Ca, was shot and killed by
Deputy Sheriff Adams a few days age
while resisting arrest.
Two barges loaded with pig-iron were
sunk in the Tennessee river, near Clarks-
vile, Tenn, recently.
A fakir recently took in a crowd at
Franklin, KY, for $3.50 on the bogus jew
elry dodge.
Chas. Young, colored, was recently
captured near Helena, Ark, and taken to
Holly Springs, Miss, where he is wanted
for murder.
A terrible cyclone passed near Milton,
N. c., a few days ago, doing immense
damage to crops and fruit, but no lives
were lost.
Raleigh, N. c., has voted to license
saloons.
Henry Mahony, of Evansville, Ind, was
murdered by Frank Green, of Paris, KY,
at Nashville, Tenn, a few days ago.
Colonel @. n. Cason, county register Of
| Chester County, Tenn, died a few days
| ago of liberation of the throat.
G.. B. George, manager Of the Joseph
Davis Shoe Company, of Linn, Mass.
| contractors for convict labor in the Vir-
ginia penitentiary), committed suicide
| recently in the penitentiary yard by
! shooting himself in the temple.
John H ottoman, a young man residing
| near Marion, KY was run over by wag-
on a few days ago, and his recovery is
! doubtful.
Michael Duffy, the oldest member of the
| Montgomery, (Ala.) police force, is dead.
! He had been in the service of the city for
thirty years, excect while in the Confeder-
ate army. He was buried with military
| honOrs.
Helena Ark, has quite a sensation.
/ Recently 7. J. Simmons was put on trial
on the charge of numbering a man named
Nicholson in 1872. He has been residing
in that vicinity for six years past, and was
| arrested last January as the man
| Sparks who committed the murder. He
was put in jail, and while thus imprisoned
his wife and two children died and the
remaining children were placed in the
| county poor house. He was put on trial,
/ but not q single man of the vast array of
/ witnesses for the State was able to iden-
/ tify him as being the Sparks that they
knew at the time of the commission of the
~,
the box returned verdict acquitting him.
1t was clearly a case of mistaken identity
and overZealOusness caused by desire to
capture a reward offered by the State.
Fourteen hundred bales of cotton at
/ Columbia, S. c., owned by Jones, Robert
son & Co., were burned a few nights ago.
Loss, $50, 900; insured.
Near Salem, Livingston County, KY, an
old farmer met d horrible death. He was
hauling rails with a yoke of oxen when
they started to run away. The old gen.
.leman undertook to check them, but was
thrown from the wagon. His head was
caught between the bolster and wheel,
and his skull was crushed into jelly.
Mrs. Amelia Bolton, one of the oldest
residents of Sharpe, KY, died a few days
ago of general debility She was in her
eighty second year.
Captain J. L. Harris, a prominent cot
ton merchant of New Orleans and owner
Of the Hurstbourne stock farm, near
Louisville, KY, died suddenly a few days
since of cOngestive chill.
Mrs. Davinuey, of Columbia, S. c., died
during a heavy thunder storm, after be-
ing terrified to unconsciousness by the
thunder.
United States officers report a desperate
state of affairs IN Clay County, Ala. a
aew days ago a dastardly attempt was
made to murder Allen Rigsby, who had
been a witness IN several cases against
moOnshiners at the present term of the
Federal Court. His wounds may prove
fatal The revenue officers report thai
the fruit crop in the upper counties il
abundant this year, and the mOonshiners
are killing or intimidating witnesses Sc
hat they can have big run in the Illicit
listilleries. Rigsby's house was burned
| by inceudiaries last winter, and his life
aad frequently been threatened by moon
sinners, who charged him with being q
spy and informer.
Buck and Jerry Rasher, John Burns and
James HoIderman disguised themselve:
: as ''White Caps" a few days ago, and tool
| Joshua Anderson, quiet farmer living
near Owens boro, KY, out and thrasheC
aim, at the same time ordering him tC
, leave. He did not heed the warning, anC
, subsequently, he was enticed to the vicinity
of Holderman's house, where arrange
ments were made to whip him again. II,
resisted the first movements toward thi
brutality and struck one of the men
Buck Basher then seized knife and Gu
Anderson's heart out. There was no par
ticular cause for the outrage. The prin
cipals in the affair have been arrested.
Mr.. J. @. Barton, the young farmer
twenty-fi years old, who so mysterious
, ly disappeared from his home near Den.
, mark, Tenn, several days ago, mas no
been heard of yet, Notwithstanding larg
numbers of persons have been searchini
the country in every direction for him.
Edmund Robinson, an aged farmer o
Newton, Ark, went crazy on the train el
route to Louisville, KY, a few days ago
and created a reign of terror among tn
passengers. He was travelling with hi
wife from his home to visit his brother a
Beria, KY.
jefferson Davis is eighty years old.
r At Columbia, 5. C., seismic disturb
, ances of pronounced character hav
! been experienced every night for som
| time in certain sections of the city Thes
phenomena have been Of sufficient energ
! to awaken the inhabitants and rattle win
Y ! dows, chandeliers and glassware in
9 lively manner
D a curious trial is in progress at Macon
Ga, being a suit for $40, 900 damage
f | brought by Mrs. Moore against the cit
, | because or the lynchlng OF her husban
| two years ago. Moore was accused Of
> | criminal assault on Miss Little and wa
. Iynched therefor, but it was subsequent
developed that she was a blackmailer.
Solomon Ivey, of Cuthbert, Ga, wa
killed by lightning few days ago.
Near Beaufort, n. c., recently, an i'm
mense shark was captured in the ocear
He was eighteen feet long, eight fee
across the breast and weighed two tons
Upon cutting him open his stomach wa
. found to contain six sharks the smalles
six feet IN length His mouth was larg
= | enough 10 co ntain a kerosene barrel wit