The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-02-22
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sheriff for several terms, and was highly
respected.
William e. Clark and Miss Sarah Tay
lor, an eloping couple from Caldwell
County, KY, were united in marriage at
the depot in ClarksviI1e, Tenn, few days
ago, Squire Caldwell officiating.
The Wallace Election law, which is mod
eled after the Australian law and applies
to the city of Louisville, KY, has been de-
cided to be constitutional by the Kentucky
Supreme Court.
Warrants have been issued against s.
II. Mullen, colored justice of the peace at
Donaldson, La, and one Edmund, clerk,
for brutal assault on one Perry, a eolored
man.
Legislation on the Board of Health bills
at Tallahassee, Fla, is rapidly crystalizing
into the form of opposing or not opposing
restriction of commerce with Cuba to and
rom the Gulf ports of Florida.
E. H. Oldenburg, a grocer, sixty years
| old, was murdered at his store in Charles
ton, s. c., few nights ago, by two un.
known negroes, who had entered the store
for the purpose of robbery. The murder
ers escaped with the till, containing about
| fifty dollars.
The news of the terrible death of Henry
Womac, a respectable young farmer, who
lived six miles below Monroe, Ca, from a
cat bite is now followed by that of his
wife dying from the same cause.
Henry Wallingford, a tobacco trader,
thirty live years old, hanged himself in
his fathers barn, in Mason County, KY.
recently. Poor health was the probable
cause.
Captain Archie McGehee, clerk of the
United States Court for the Southern Dis
| trict of Mississippi, died at Jackson re-
Gently after only few hours illness. he
was between sixty five and seventy years
of age, andwas am ong the oldest and
most respected citizens of the State.
The local optionists were defeated in
recent election at Jackson, Miss.
A negro pauper jumped from the
| steamer Leathers into the Mississippi
river at Viokburg, Miss, a few nights ago,
and was drowned.
| Alma Bird killed Alice johnson at
| Vicksburg, Miss, few days ago. They
| quarreled over man.
| The house at DOnaldsonville, La,
was destroyed by fire a few days ago.
Part of the public records were lost.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
| authorized the American National Bank
/ IF New Orleans, La, to begin business,
with a capital of $500, 900.
A new fair company has been organ lied
n Henderson, KY, with a capital stock of
| $4,000.
/
resident of Mobile, Ala, and prominent
citizen and lawyer, died recently, aged
sighty-one.
An application was recently made for q
charter for an electric railroad from Chat
5anooga, Tenn, to the famous battle field
Of Chickamauga. It will be ten miles long
and cost 500, 900.
Mr.. Conrad Weaver died of old age re-
Gently at his home near Bluff City, Tenn.
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was one hundred and one years ten months
and eight days old.
The man who assassinated Joseph Par
iue at Helena, Ark, recently, while the
latter was playing billiards, has been
:aptured. His name is COghill and he is
relative Of the postmaster at Wynne,
Ark.
The Alabama House of Representatives
has passed bill reducing the tax rate in
that State for 1890 from to AZ mills, and
Tor 1891 from Az to 4 mills. making the
former 45c on the 500, and 40c for the
latter year.
Advices from Manchester, KY, says
hat five men implicated in the recent
midnight assassination of Bill Sizemore
and Carr Smith have been arrested and
lodged in Jail. Sixteen men are said to
have done the bloody work.
Judge Ridley, of the Nashville (Tenn.)
the pool rooms, and issued warrants for
the arrest Of persons who may be 70 und
conducting them.
Mrs. Wilhelmina Hiebelschauser, q
wealthy widow of Crestline, o., commit
ted suicide at Louisville, KY, few days
ago. She had been in low spirits since
the death of her husband several months
! ago, and was visiting her daughter ip
/ Louisville in hope If finding relief. s3t
! T~od inf +T1ah
Of John Arterburn at Nabob, KY, few
nights ago, and took $40 in cash and
| notes to the value of several thousand
dollars. The money had Just been re-
| eeived by Mr.. Arterburn. and the robbers
made Mrs. Arterburn turn it over to
them, threatening her with death if she
refused ~.
The Enterprise Manufacturing Company
at Birmingham, Ala, has reorganized
with capital of 500, 900, and viii build a
cotton mill at once. Great interest at
taches to the enterprise, as it is the first
attempt to add cotton manufacture to the
iron industries at Birmingham.
VIM. Webb, who was convicted, recent
Iy, in the Davidson County (Tenn.) Grim
inal Court Of assault with intent to kill,
and sentenced to imprisonment in the
penitentiary for three years, made an ur-
| successful attempt to commit suicide by
1 q al 4udubAby VI ADOdOAAACI
tincture Of opium, which he found in the
cell of fellow prisoner. Prompt action
saved his life.
). D. Berry was suddenly taken i'll and
died, a few days since, at GreenviHe,
Miss, Of apoplexy. Sarah Brown, a mu-
latt0 servant girl in the employ of I. r.
Price, al whose house Berry died, asked
for permission to look at the remains,
which was granted her. When she entered
i'm fqn dVyF rse1f
fell to the floor dead.
A Baptist preacher at Water Valley,
Miss. joined mob, few days since, who
we're bent on lynching a negro murderer.
4 He~pleaded for laW,. religion and good
order with such force as to convert the
crowd, and the negro was placed in the
Floeal Jail. An night another mob deter
mined to DO the Iynching, but found that
the prisoner had been spirited away By
the sheriff. Up to latest reports no lynch
ing had occurred.
Virginia contains 40, 125 square miles.
A new gin house which had just been
| completed by Mrs. Bookout on the Shell
ridge plantation, in Sunfower County
Miss, was totally destroyed by fire a few
days ago. About seventy five bales oi
cotton and aquantity of seedwere burned
The gin house is said to have been one oi
the finest in the county, and was equipped
with the latest improved machinery; ne
insurance.
The water works in Vicksburg, Miss.
constructed by r. B. Bullo OK & Co., o.
New York, have been completed and tbs
supply turned on to consumers. Th.
standpipes will be completed in few
weeks.
The spring meeting of the Memphis
Jockey Club begins April y.
In the Fayette (Ky.) Circuit Court Er
nest b. Tingle was recently sentenced Il
ten years in the penitentiary for killing
" oodrora cannon, DOJn white. T1ngIe i
of respectable parents and stands well