The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1888-03-23
SOUTHERN eLEANINos,

cruSne0 unoer the WneelS eE the next
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Edwin smedley, of the firm of Smed.
| ley & Wood, water works contractors, of
| Dubuque, Ia, has begun operations on a
| $4,000 water works plant for Baton
Rouge, La.
Jap Davis, who willfully and brutalIY
murdered his wife at Anderson, s. c., by
shooting her with shotgun loaded with
old nails, in September, 1886, has been re-
on Friday, March %.
Mrs. Eunice Hooser, of Elkton. KY,
has just completed calico quilt that is
composed Of 24,080 pieces.
viii Bendley, miner, thirty.two years
old, who lived at Rock Run, Cherokee
County, Ala, was run over and killed by
a train on the Kansas City railroad, near
Birmingham, few days ago.
Mr.. W. A. Caldwell died With cancer of
the mouth at his home in jackson, Tenn,
q few days ago, aged seventy one years.
Deceased was for a number of years
cashier in the First National Bank Of
Jackson.
The steamboat Phil E. Chappell, of the
Red River and Coast Line, was sunk in
Red River, few nights ago at Haines'
Landing, eighteen miles above ShrsVe-
port, La. She was under command of
Captain Lew Kountz.
The Kentucky Legislature passed a
| joint resolution indefinitely extending it's
session. A bill has been introduced TO
punish wife-beaters with thirty n inc
lashes by the sheriff, to which q years
impris onment may be added
The old structure known as Lumpkins'
Jail in Richmond, Va, has been demol-
ished. It was widely known throughout
the South in slavery days, having been
used as a slave pen or mart
Sheriff Staler shot and seriously wound
ed John Pickett at Calhoun, KY, few
days ago, the latter defying arrest for
violation of the Prohibition law and max
ing display of weapons.
The proposition of Rev. YoungJ. Allen,
of Nashville, Tenn, agreeing to be one OF
fifty to give $500 each towards paying the
debts of the Board of Missions Of the
Southern Methodist Church, is meeting
with much favor, and a large number
have already responded with the requisite
amount The latest donation of $500 was
received from gentleman living is Mis-
souri,.
T. s. Hardy, Of Hart County. KY.
loaned a man one dollar to pay for ad-
mission to a show twenty three years
ago. Last week a dollar was returned
with an extra dollar for interest.
Fire broke out on the naval store
wharves at Savannah, Ga, q few days
ago, and destroyed 1900 barrels of rosin
and $50 barrels Of turpentine. Loss, $15,-
900; insured.
A premature blast of dynamite, thirty
miles from Bremen, Ca, a few days ago,
buried four convicts beneath huge pile
of dirt, and when exhumed three were
found to be dead. The fourth is not ex-
pected to recover.
The elevated road along the river front
which forms the shortest connecting line
between the railroads centering at Louis
vile, KY, was sold a few days ago for
$1,000, 200.
Rev. VIM. Il. Leigh, one of the Oldest
ministers OF the Kentucky Methodist
Conference, died at his residence in
Paducah few days ago, in the sixty.
fourth year of his age.
The death of Colonel Cash, of South
Carolina, removes the last of the old race
of duelists.
Milas Irwin was out hunting just east
, OF Chattanooga, Tenn, a few days ago.
When he fred the right barrel of his shot.
gun, the breech was blown out, striking
! him in the head, killing him almost in
stantly, blowing the top of his head off.
A switchman in the Louisville &
, Nashville railroad y ards at Birmingham,
Ala, few days since, heard weak cries
for help coming from a box car loaded
with hay. He broke the seal, and open
ing the door found three white tramps
almost wild with hunger and thirst and
very weak. They boarded the car in
Chicago and had been without food and
water for five days. They were given
something to eat by the switchman and
allowed to go their way.
An unsuccessful attempt was made q
few nights ago to burn the barn Of Will
lam Vaughn, farmer living near Hop.
: kinsville, KY, by piling planks saturated
with coil oil against the door and setting
fire to these. The Ii ght from the blaz'
streaming upward attracted the attention
of neighbOrs, who extinguished the fire
Two construction trains on the Charles
ton, Cinainnati & Chicago railway cOllid
4 ed a few days ago near Camden, s. G
The engine and cars were badly wrecked
Engineer Fell was scaIded to death; Fire
man Duncan received fatal injuries, anC
Jerry Crosby, the other engineer, was
terribly scalded and was not expected tC
live.
The iron draw bridge across the Tom
bigbee river at Aberdeen, Miss, for the
Kansas City, Memphis g. Birmingham
railroad, has been completed, and pas
senger trains are now crossing over it.
R. Halliday WitherspOon, a handsom,
| young man with a brown mus tache anC
sty lishly dressed, who recently wen
to Memphis, Tenn, from st. Louis, ant
engaged as an advertising agent for al
afternoon paper, was arrested few day
sin ce for forging checks on the Security
Bank of Memphis. Witherspoon is highly
connected in the city.
. A mob of masked men boarded tn
. Nashville & Chattanooga train at Wood
= land Mills, Tenn, a few days SINCE an,
i took a negro, Eli Davie, from an officer
! who was carrying him to jail at Hickman
v KY, and, after going about three hundre
. yards, hung him to tree.
: ALI the buildings and N achinery of th
= Nashville Rolling Mills have been pur
: chased by the Elyton Land Company {
NJ a. Il
viii be moved there at once. The capacit,
d, of the mill is seventy tons per day, an
: five hundred men will be employed. TIL
mill was built by Cherry, Morrow q Co
. Nashville, but they found they could no
operate it prOfitably in that city, and sol
it very cheap.
Colonel Cash is dead at last.
A most remarkable case of tripIets
reported from Sumter County, S. G. tn
wife of Aleck Johnson, a respectabl
: farmer, gave birth to child. The 70
- lowing day Mrs. Johnson became th
: mother of a second baby, and two day
I later still another arrived. The thre
babies were in a healthy condition an
they and their mother are all doing wei
. Hiram Pegman, the man who killed th
e. notorious Rowan County desperate
d Craig Tolliver, on the 22d of last Jun'
le during the battle at Moorehead, and wh
u was reported dead, is still alive wit
/ chances for recovery. He had been on
= big spree and had the jimjams.
=. The business in chattel mortgages
said to be thriving.
They're making a young mans life
burden to him down in Reidsville, Ga, b
10 telling that, one day, thinking himse
: unobserved. he stood before big mirrC
4 in q saore, and, after long and caref,
l. scrutiny of his reflection, saying
Rs Blamed II I amt good looking enoug
y for amp bOdy's daughter"
- Z. George johnson, a colored desperado
= Muhlenberg County, KY, has confesse
that he Is the man who killed Jake Meyer