The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-01-13
Mere Mention.

and confirmed in the Episcopal Church at
Concord, New Hampshire, a few days
since
Two New York bruisers, Morris Phelan
and Jim Kerrigan, are in training for a
fght en- the 10th of January, inst, for $500
a side.
John c. Breokinridgo, General MoCaus-
land, Harry Gilmore, and many other minor
Confederate officers, are dOmesticated at
Toronto, Canada.
Over $500 in specie have been collected
in Houston, Texas, for the widow Of Stone
wall Jackson, understood to be in destitute
circumstances.
g. B. Lamar, charged with the attempt to
bride the u s. Treasury Agent having
charge of the captured cotton, is on trial in
Savannah.
The prevailing opinion in the French cap
ital is that Napoleon is beginning to see a
hole through which ne can escape from his
Mexican Perplezities with clean clothes.
George W. Echelberger, of CharlestOwn,
jefferson county, Va, can give information
relative to eight hundred Confederate
soldiers graves, which he identified and
marked himself
A Boston journal states that the divi-
dends of the past six months already an
nounced by manufacturing companies in the
New England States, denote a degree of
prosperity without parallel"
Matthew Hall McAllister, the first United
States Circuit Judge ever appointed for
California, died in San Francisco on the 9Th
INST lie was a native of the State of
Georgia.
The Treasury officials have deducted the
Presidents salary for March last, drawn by
Mr. Lincoln before he died, from the TWEEN
ty-fYe thousand dollars voted to Mrs Lin
coin by Congress.
According to the report of the Secretary Of
War, about the time of the winding up of
the rebellion, there were in the United
States service, embracing sick and well,
somewhere in the neighborhood of million
and quarter of men.
1t is thought that Judge William Yerger,
of Jackson, Mississippi, viii be placed upon
the Bench Of the u S. Supreme Court
There is not an ADLER lawyer in the South
perhaps with the exception of Judge Shark
ey.
Gen. Sherman is at Columbus Ohio, urg-
ing the claims of his brother, so the story
goes, to the Senatorship, in opposition to
Schenck. Senator Sherman, the candidate
is an adherent of the President, while
Schenck is a Negro Suffrage Radical
The Toronto Leader is publishing in
loaded type a series of medical articles,
written by Doctor Blackburn, the practi
toner charged with attempting to introduce
yellow fever and smallpox among the United
States troops during our late war.
A. T. Stewart, the dry goods millionaire
In New York, among his other possessions
owns both the St. Nicholas and the Metro
politan Notes.-The snug sum of $4,000 a
yeaz, as their rental, providing him with
pocket money to buy cigars with and pea
nuts.
It has been stated that Emerson Ether
idge is at Washington laboring to defeat the
huulb6AuM oh TIC AG1AAACSooO A10uADSE5s 4HG
New York World of the 9th ult, says
We have seen letter from Mr.. Etheridge,
which makes fat denial of the imputation,
and expresses his entire endorsement of Mr..
Johnson's restoration policy"
Mr.. Secretary Stanton viii soon be sent
abroad, and there is talk that Congress
win send commission to spend one hun
dred thousand dollars for champagne and
reports upon the condition Of the South.
Why can't Congress read Southern news,
papers . They are as sparkling as the wine
they would consume, and contain the gen
uino spice Of Southern popular sentiment
Senator Sprague, Of Rhode Island, who
is Chairman Of the Committee of Manu-
features, and himself one of the most ex-
tsnsive Of New England manufacturers, in
tends 20 introduce into Congress q bill to
increase the tariff on all goods manufactured
in this country His gains for this year are
said to have reached Eve millions of dollars,
and the cormorant is not satisfied.
The Washington Star says it is a subject
of comment to-day, that at the Presidents
reception yesterday, none Of the diplomatic
corps recognized or spoke to the Mexican
Minister-they evidently did not recognize
him as representative from any Govern
ment Senior Romero was cordially received
bv President johnson, though he did not
remain 90 long at the Executive Mansion as
the remainder of the Diplomatic Corps,
Raleigh papers say the Office Of PFOvis-
;onol GovsFnoz Of NoFth Carolina having
bssn vacated, the State finds itself without
civil ogieers, including Mayor, Town Com
nissioneFs, Judges, etc, these having been
.ppoinssd by the Provisional Governor. It
y ppobable that the military authorities win
direct officers heretofore acting for The State,
- continue q r functiOns for the present