The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-04-05
SOUTHERN GLEANlNos,

recently IN their search for a navy yard
site.
John Henderson, an employe of the
Hall & Bingley circus, stranded at At
lanta, Ga, dropped dead few days since.
Mrs. Julia Pettis, an old and estimable
lady of Paducah, KY, died recently at
the residence Of her son in that city, in
the seventy year of her age.
News comes of the murder Of E. N.
Hail. a prominent pIante er, near BastrOp,
La, few days since, by Robert Sawyer.
Hall and Sawyer had for some time been
on bad terms.
A serious shooting affray took place at
Julien station, KY, a few days ago, be-
tween Robert Tyler and Grant Hawkins,
during which the former was shot in the
breast and neck by Hawkins, receiving
wounds that will result fatally.
Information from various points in Mis-
sissippi reports the planters a month
ahead on work Corn is all planted and
the ground is well prepared for cotton.
Five miles Of the electric railway. the
first in the South, extending from Chat
! tanOoga, Tenn, to Missionary Ridge, is
! finished. It is to scale the summit and
run to the historic battlefield of Chicka-
| mauga.
Rev. J. A. Bitter, an evangelist from
| Harrison, o., recently closed at the Meth
/ 0dist (North) Church in Chattanooga,
/ Tenn, the most remarka able revival in the
| 'eligious history of the city. 1t con-
| inued for six weeks and resulted in over
! 400 conversions, forty eight being bap-
tsed on the last day.
Colonel Thomas L. Jones, brother-1n-
/ aw of Congressman Joe Wheeler, Of
alabama, died at his home, near Cort-
] land, Ala, recently. He was the largest
| ind-owner in Alabama. He leaves no
] elatives but his sister, Mrs. Wheeler.
novel political sensation has been
! sprung upon the voters of the Fifth Con-
gressional district of Georgia. Rev.
| Sam Small Will contest it next year with
! Hon. John D. Stewart, the present incHm-
bent.
The Governor of Tennessee has signep
the bill making women eligible to the
Office of county superintendent of educa-
| ton.
The grand Interstate prize drill and
pageant to be held at the Sub Tropical
Exposition, in Jacksonville, Fla, on April
10, II and u, will be an event of much in
terest.
Ground was broken recently at the line
between Georgia and Tennessee for the
Chattanooga Southern railroad, extend
ing to McLemore's Cove, penetrating the
important mineral and coal region.
Alvin Potter, q merchant at Helenwood,
Tenn, was shot aud killed by his nephew,
Drewry Potter, few days ago. No def
mite particulars have been received, but
it is learned that the tragedy grew out of
a killing at Helenwood several weeks
ago.
H. Sullivan Moore, Jr., recently tried
for murder, at Atlanta, in killing Hon.
James Hunt, a member Of the Georgia
Legislature, was convicted, the jury rec
Ommending imprisonment for life. Hunt
and Moore were friends and room mates.
The Rogers Locomotive Works, of New
Jersey, are to be moved to Gate City, Ala,
eight miles above Birmingham. The
company has been given twenty acres of
land and other properties by the Gate
City Land Company.
A sensation was caused at Selma, Ala,
recently, by the arrest of Mrs. j. E. Par
rett, wife of a respectable white farmer,
and VIII Fountain, young mulatto, who
had elOped from Wilcox County. They
were promptly lodged in jail. It is the
first case of the sort that has occurred in
Alabama for many years.
Etienne Deschamps, the aged magnetic
healer, now confined in the parish prison
in New Orleans awaiting trial for the
murder of Juliette Dietsch, the pretty
thirteen-year-old girl whom he ruined and
killed, made his third attempt ut suicide,
a few days ago, by jumping from upper
tier to the floor Of the Jail, and seems to
have almost accomplished his purpose.
Sheriff Long, of Union County, S. c.,
visited Jackson, Tenn, recently, with pa
pers from Governors Richardson Of South
Carolina and Taylor of Tennessee for D.
E. Jeter, who murdered his brOther-in-
law, Busby, at Union, S. c., June 20, 1850.
There have been twenty-five indictments
found against Jeter since the murder.
The occasion of the dedication of a new
Hebrew Orphans Home at Atlanta, Ca,
built by District No. 5 of the Order of
B'Nai Birth, was a great day for the He
brews of the South. The building is
magnificent structure, erected on COM
manding height just south Of the city. 1t
is ideal building for its purpose, and
is capable of accommodating $50 children.
At a recent conference Of Rev. DR.. J.
| HartzeI, secretary Of the Freemen Aid
Society Of the M. E. Church, with the
! local trustees of the Chattanooga (Tenn.)
! University and Grant Memorial Univer-
sity, of Athens, Tenn, it was decided to
, consolidate the two institutions, to be
. | known as the Grant Memorial University,
? under one board of trustees selected from
Cincinnati, Chattanooga and Athens, the
> Athens members represe enting the society
at large.
Senator Pryor Carter, of Macon County,
} | Tenn, and Mrs. Cordelia Jordan, of
| Nashville were united in marriage, a few
days ago, in the State Senate chamber in
the presence Of both houses of the Gener-
: | al. Assembly. The ceremony was, per-
| formed bv Governor r. l.. Taylor, this be-
ing the first time that marriage has
. been solemnized in Tennessee by the Gov
| ernOr.
Governor Nichols of Louisiana has
, ! signed the death warrant of Charles Sell
Iers, convicted in Richland Parish of the
murder of Bunyan Adams, and sentenced
r / February p. His execution is fixed for
r | April q. He has also signed the
] | death warrant of Borie Peterson, con-
= victed in st. Landry Parish of the murder
: of Henry @. Miller and sentenced to hang
/ October q last, execution fixed for April
s p.
Monroe Edwards, colored, convicted Of
/ murder in East Feliciana Parish, La.
g and sentenced to hang, and who was
j respited December % last just as the rope
f was being placed around his neck, and
S who was again sentenced to hang last
e Friday, viii in all probability escape the
gallows.
Ex-Governor Proctor Knott, of Leba-
non, KY, whose speech on Duluth is one
> of the richest pieces of hunlor in the Ian
guage, has accepted an invitation to de-
liver an address before the Scotch Irish
| Congress, which will be in session in
:. Columbia, Tenn, from May to Il. He
: will be the especial representative Of Ken
lucky.
= The Sydenham Coal & Iron Company
: | with headquarters at Salem, Va, has pur.
chased extensive mineral and other prop
, critics nineteen miles frora Birmingham
Ala, and are laying out and building
I town. They will also build large fur
mace, a cOking plant and other industries
a The principal part Of their business viii
however, be mining.
The colored people Of South Carolin
are making desperate efforts to get tn
Is Governor to commute the sentence O
7 EIarrison HAYWOOD and william O. VIII