The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-09-20
News of the Week.
At Home.

a San Francisco dispatch reports
the selection of diamonds, rubies, and
sapphires recently exhibited there as
coming from Arizona, have been sent
to London for identification, if possible,
by the parties claiming TO have recent
Iy sold them to Americans. The dis
belief in the genuineness of the report
ed discoveries is increasing.
The number of emierants who en-
barked at Liverpool for America du-
ring the month of August was 10, COO
A brakeman named Murphy was
run over by freight car on the Allie
gheny Valley Railroad and instantly
killed.
At Canton, o., Mrs Kent, wife OF
William Kent, drowned herself and
child in East Creek, short distance
from the city.
Twenty-tnree thousand copies ol
the public debt statement have been
printed in order to meet the demand
for them from all parts of the country.
James +. Clarke, who was shot by a
brother of Miss Fewell, whom lie had
seduced, died of his wounds at Brents-
vile, Virginia.
This week, at London, Ohio, about
seventeen hundred cattle were sold,
nearly all at from a fourth to
II half a cent advance over last
month. Some horses were also sold.
The total sales amounted to from $685.
OJ0 to $4,000.
~ mau named Patsy Harrington
was run over by an engine of the
Westerman Iron Company, on the
Mahoning Division of the Atlantic
and Great Western Railway, at Sharon,
Pennsylvania, and was instantly
killed.
A dispatch from Springfield, Clarke
County, Ohio, says that the county
commissioners found, on examination
of the Treasury a deficit of between
1000 and $4,000. The retiring
treasurer, Odore A. Wick, became in
volved by the suspension of the Peo-
pies Bank at Nashville, and his Sc
curities are good for the amount and
will relieve the country from loss.
A fire broke out at Port Even, N
Y, and destroyed eight buildings and
three barns. Nine families were turn,
ed houseless into the street. Loss $20,'
0O0; insurance unknown.
The fire at Erie, Pa, "Wednesday
night, destroyed a S260,0O0 hotel will
SIS, 600 worth of furniture.
n collision at Pittsburg killed al
engineer, and smashed one locomOtiv,
and several cars.
Henry Gaskes, prominent c1t1Zei
of Hillsboro, Jefferson county, Mis-
souri,, was found murdered in his be,
his head having been split open will
an axe. The deed is supposed to hav
been committed by his wife, who ha
been arrested.
Nine thousand four hundred an,
seventy-eight German immigrants aT
rived at Castle Gardens last month,
considerable increase over the sam
month last year.
Two freight trains on the Penusylvs
MIA railroad collided at BIairsville il
tersection. A number of cars were t.
tally wrecked. The engineer of OF
train, Frank Macauley, was instantl
killed, and the fireman made a narro
escape with the loss of an arm.
A collision occurred near IndepeI
dence, Ohio, on the Lake Erie disvisio
of the Baltimore aud Ohio railroad, b,
tween an excursion train returniu
from the State fair at Mansfield, al
the regular north bound express, r,
sulting in the death of five persons al
wOunding % Others. We notice amOI
the latter four persons from LousvilI
The U. S. War steamer WyomiI
has put in at Key West with so cas-
of yellow fever.
DIR. Shoeppe, who has been conviC
ed a half a dozen times during the pa
three years for the murder of Mi
SteiDeke, was Yesterday virtually a
quilted, the Judge declaring that
seemed no less than a special pro,
dence which had saved him from teri
ble injustice.