The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-05-31
NTIsceIlaneous Items.

to any one. His attorney gave notice Of
an appeal, and an order suspending the
| sentence was entered on the docket.
miscellaneous Items.
At Atlanta, Ca, recently, Mrs. Lucy
| NarwOOd fatally shot Mrs. Henrietta
Bank in quarrel over young man they
were both in love with. Mrs. NarWood is
under arrest.
The immense plant of the Portevant &
FaOse Lumber Company burned at Pearl
ington, Miss, a few days ago.
Nine out of a party of ten negroes who
we're crossing the river near West Pass,
Miss, a new nights since, were drowned
by the upsetting of the boat in q squall.
A little girl reached the bank safely.
While trying to extinguish fire on the
Chattanooga & st. Louis Railway bridge
over Stone river, near Nashville, Tenn, a
few days since, two white men and three
negroes were fatally hurt.
Unless the Supreme Court revsrses the
decision of the Circuit Court of Hancock
County, Tenn, five blood thirsty MUIR
derers will soon suffer the extreme
penalty Of the law at Sneedville. The
victims of the rope are the Barnard boys,
brothers and cousin, accused of shoot
ing and killing a quiet, peaceful citizen
named Hanley Sutton from ambush.
The dead body of Tut Danford, colored,
was found floating down the Savannah
river near Petersburg, Ga, recently.
The hands and feet were bound with
ropes. He had been engaged in several
robberies around Mount Carmel. All
the parties being arrested, DanfOrd
turned States evidence. This so in
censed his associates that they spirited
him away, since which time he had not
been seen until fished out of the river.
Bob PartlOw has been arrested for the
crime.
Mrs. Sarah Brent Lewis, wealthy lady,
and one Of the most prominent pioneers
in the vicinity of Hopkinsviile, KY, died
at her home, a few days since, aged eighty
one years.
In Chambers County, Ala, a few days
ago, Wes Chisholm pleaded guilty to the
murder Of Robert Dunforth, and was sem
fenced to death by hanging. The execu-
ton will take place on June 28
Elder William Clark and thirteen Nor
mon converts passed through Birming-
ham, Ala, few days ago, en- route to
Utah. They came from Clay County, Ala,
and were driven away by the indignant
citizens. Six of the converts were girls
between fifteen and twenty years Of age.
The Supreme Court of Mississippi, in
session at Jackson, a few days ago,
affirmed the decision of the lower cO6rt
sentencing Thomas Condor to death aud
Mrs. NJ. J. Riley to life Imprisonment for
numbering Jack Riley, the woman's hus-
band, in TObin County, on September IL
last.
The people living near Green Pond, ten
miles from Chattanooga, Tenn, are greatly
excited over the finding of what they
think is gold on the farm of J. L. Pritch-
EFT. Expert and experienced miners say
there is very good prospect, and num-
IF aF vopIvc fuIy eHa
Suit has been entered in the United
States Circuit Court at New Orleans by
Charles Edward Lewis, of st. Louis,
against the City of Shreveport, La, for
$4,000. This is the amount involved in
the donation made by that city for the
depot of the Texas & Pacific railway.
Miss Nina Kirby Smith, daughter of
General Kirby Smith, the Confederate
chieftain, at present professor of mathe-
matics at Suwanee University, Tenn,
eloped few nights ago with a student
named Buck, of the university, and the
couple were married by justice Of the
pc ace in Winchester, Tenn.
Judge H. J. Albeit, an old and respect
ed citizen, died at Warsaw, KY, recently,
of Bright's disease, in the seventy ninth
year of his age. He was in all probability
the oldest Odd Fellow in the United
States. He was initiated before he was
twenty one years old in Maryland Lodge,
No. 1, in Baltimore, Md, June, 1882, that
being the city of his nativity.
The residence of Rev. F. G. Clarke, near
Virginia Beach, in Princess Anne County,
Va, was burned a few nights ago. Mr..
Clarke, his two daughters and next to the
Oldest son and niece visiting him, were
consumed by the flames. His wife, Miss
Ella Bidgood, the gOverness, and two
young children escaped.
In the Criminal Court at Birming CHAM,
Ala, recently, Judge Green, sentenced
Minnie Moses, twenty-five years old, to
be hanged June II for highway robbery
and attempt to murder an aged Egyptian
woman peddler. The sentence of the
judge was based upon the verdict Of the
jury, who decided upon the death. The
remarkable part of the verdict is that the
woman assaulted never died and is living
and doing business.
In Henry County, Ala, recently, VIII
Mock, a desperate negro, was killed by
Sheriff Strickland and posse. The negro
armed himself and defied oil officers Of
the law. Balif Strickland, with three or
four men, went to his house to arrest him.
He met them at the door with double
barreled shotgun, and shot one load with
in a few inches of the bailiff's head.
Both sides then opened FIRE, which re-
suited in Will Mock's death.
At Nashville, Tenn, ten-foot vein OF
coal has been struck, at a depth Of 400
feet, by the gas well contractors. Should
no gas be found at the depth contracted
for this vein Of coal will be developed.
The stockholders a great many Of whom
are workingmen, are highly olated over
the prospects.
BY contracts duly signed four steel
mills and blast furnaces, to employ 1900
men, will be built at Cumberland Gap,
Tenn, near the Virginia line. The COM
pany has capital stock Of So O00,0 900. II
is made up Of Northern iron masters and
English capitalists.
a drug firm has been boycotted By the
painters union at Dayton, Tenn, for
taking the contract to paint a church.
The United States mail hack, running
between Bastrop and Monre. La, was
stopped and robbed a short distance be-
yond Fouche few evenings since. The
robbers, two white men, stopped the hack,
called the driver aside, and carried OF all
the mail.
For Mary Woodbury., the Cincinnati
Sunday hool teacher, who Is charged
with shooting to kill William Mepke, her
sffianced. who deserted her, w. q. Spenc,
d business man Of Louisville, KY, who
knew her, has became bondsman for $50,
and gave her employment in his store
Near Harrodsburg. KY, recently Raney
Teater, nine-year- bsy, hung him-
self TO rafter Ia the barn because his
mother sent Elm TO the field to work.