The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-05-18
sourHERN eLEANINes.

/ AAuACW LOSd1ls d W1l1lS DOys seventeen
| years of age, was burned TO death by his
mothers residence at Nashville, Tenn,
/ catching fire while he was asleep.
/ Mrs. ROwena Peyton, a well-known
| match peddler at Atlanta, Ga, entered
| the police station few days ago, ont Of
breath, and stated that she had lost a
| pocket-bo containing $514.20. An hour
later little boy turned the pOeket-book
over to the police.
William Hoffman, a eonvalescent pa
| tient in the Newport News s. Mississippi
| Valley Railway Hospital at Paducah, KY,
swallowed chew Of tobacco few days
| ago. It threw him into violent fit of hic-
coughing, and he absolutely hiccoughed
himself to death in spite of every effort of
the surgeons to save him.
John Cowper was shot dead few days
ago by MeCrary Hart ia Campbell Coun-
/ ty, Ga. An old feud had existed between
| the parties growing out of a disputed land
/ line. Cowper rode up to Hart's residence
| for the purpose, it is said, of having an
explanation. Hart claims that Cowper's
advance was for hostile purpose, and
that in shooting him down he only acted
| in self-defense.
| Miss Willie Thomas, daughter of Prof.
w. j. Thomas, residing near Gadsden,
| Ala, was shot and probably fatally wound
| ed a few nights ago by her brother, Albert
| Thomas. The young lady made a noise
at the window of the room occupied by
| her brother, who armed himself, and,
| stepping to the door, ordered the visitor
to halt. Miss Thomas would not an
swer, but ran away, followed by her
! brother, who did not recognize her. He
fired. and the bu llet entered the groin.
The fifth May festival Of Virginia and
| North Carolina was held at Petersburg,
Va, last week. The festival chorus num-
bered $50 voices.
In the United States Court at Fort Smith,
Ark, Burreh Odenwood was acquitted of
murder, on his second trial on the same
charge.
The lumber dealers of Louisville, KY,
have organized an exchange with sub
scriptions amounting to $4,000.
Georgia negroes are looking forward
with interest to a liberal yield of persim-
mons, the trees of which were covered
with blossoms.
Citizens of Louisville, KY, made sub
scription of 500, 900 to establish a cotton
mill. Machinery will be secured build
ing constructed and the mill set running
Immediately.
The Mississippi State Press Association
selected Greenvil1e as the place for its
| next meeting, on the second Wednesday
in May. 1889.
William Hopkins, who was to have been
! hanged in Rabun County, Ca, last Fri
day, was respited by Governor Gordon.
Hopkins is the man who stoned stranger
to death at a country church because he
wore ''biled" shirt.
United States revenue officers arrested
a moonshiner named George Hale, at
Rocky Mount, Franklin County, Va, few
days ago, while he was peddling illicit
whisky from an OK cart. While on the
way to Jail the guards were overpowered
by a crowd of $50 men and the prisoner
was released.
The establishment of pigeon message
service in connection with the signal Office
at Key West, Fla, is a foregOne conclu-
sion since the order has been promulgated
by General Greely, who has the matter in
charge, for the necessary loft fixtures and
training baskets, to be fitted up at once.
Nine convicts escaped from the Inman
mines in Tennessee, a few nights ago,
during the absence of the keeper of the
prison at the Democratic convention at
Nashville. One of the prisoners who
escaped was the notorious John White,
who robbed the Southern Express Com
pany Of $500 in Chattanooga last fall. He
was under a sentence of three years.
General George D. Dibrell, one of the
leading public men of Tennessee, died a
few DAYS since, at his residence, in Sparta.
Two years ago General Dibren was the
most formidable competitor of Hon.
Robert L. Taylor Cor tn e nomination for
Governor. He was native of White
County, Tenn, and had reached the age
of sixtY-three years.
A strange case of perverted taste is re-
ported from Indian creek, in the vicinity
of Martins Mills, Tenn. A boy about ten
years of age has acquired a mania for
eating flies, and will turn away from the
daintiest dishes for this, his favOrite diet.
The family have no idea how he contracted
such disgusting habit, and all efforts to
break him of it have proved in vain.
A committee of the Ladies' Confederate
Monument Association called on Mr.. JEFF
ferson Davis few days ago and invited
him to participate in the cerem ony o4
laying the cornerstone of the Confeder-
} ate monument at jackson, Miss, on the
26th inst. Mr.. Davis expressed great will
ingness and desire to be present, and will
attend if the state of his health permits.
In the dreadful affair at Blount's Creek,
N. c., recently, in which man named Fra
zier shot and killed John A. Cox, because
the latter refused sell to him liquor, Fra.
zier fed. but was captured and was rescued
from the captors during the night, taken
to the spot where he fired on Cex, and was
there shot literally to pieces by unknown
parties.
A young hardware merchant OF Ere
donia, KY, named I. G. Renfrew, was
, found dead in his bed at that place few
! mornings since. An empty bottle that had
contained morphine was lying near the
bedside, indicating suicide. Before retir.
ing Renfrew remarked to his room mate
that he considered death much preferable
to the life of misery that he was living,
} owing to his ill-heaIth.
Colonel James McCarty, of Walton
County, Ga, was recently reported miss
ing from his home. He was seventy years
of age, and had recently lost his wife by
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it was supposed he had gone to visit them
until some boys, in passing through
Mount Zion Cemetery, found his dead
body lying across the grave Of his wife
The body was buried beside that of the
wife for whom he had grieved himself Il
death.
Pat Gilmore is sdoing" the South.
Mrs. Sallie Mccoy. of Monteagle, Tenn.
celebrated her one hundred and second
birthday April 10. Her husband, wht
died three years ago, was twelve years hel
! senior, having lived to the age of one hun
! dred and twelve. "Aunt Sallie'' is still
CHEEKY and talkative, though almost blind
and deaf.
! Fred Busby, a nine-year- r-old lad living
in Chattanooga, Tenn, stole mule a few
, days ago and rode it of. After an excit-
, ing chase by the officers he was finally
captured and locked up in Jail. Within
the past few months he has run away from
home twice, the first time beng found al
Knoxville, the second at Trenton, Ga
In collision on the river at New
Orleans two st. Louis barges were sunk.
There is great excitement on Cope
Ridge, eight miles north of Knoxville
Tenn, caused by the discovery of natura
gas. Several men were digging a shaft il
! | search of manganese and had reached
depth Of forty feet, when the whole bot
tom was blown out by a stream of gas
/, / Several mineralogists have gone to ex