The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-09-07
MISCELLANEOUS.

mASGEAA44ANEODSe
A DISPATCH from Calcutta says Hin
docs and Mohammedans at Salem have been
TRYING to extingllish each other. The houses
OF the latter were burned, and the princi
/ pal mosque almost razed to the ground.
/ THE New York State Freethinkers
adjourned to meet next year at Saratoga.
/ The resolutions adopted declare that the
/ only men who can not rejoice in freedom Of
! thought are the clergy; that the war upon
the church is simply one OF unselfshness;
\ and that no distinction should be made
/ which denies to woman the right to be mans
competitor for any position.
THE POst-office Department will turn
4 into the Treasury surplus of $1,000,0OO for
| the fiscal year.
THE Treasury Department, with an
4 appropriation OF $50, 900, is about to estab-
lish at the chief Atlantic seaports quaran-
| tine stations for imported cattle.
Turks and Greeks have been fighting
| for disputed territory on the Thessalian
frontier.
AT Brockville, Cana, Aug. %, man
named James McGinness delivered himself
to the police, stating that five years ago,
i while waiter in the Grosvenor Hotel, Lon
don, Eng, he, IN company with two others
whom he did not know, murdered three
men, also unknown. He is being held to
await developments.
THE French fishermen in NewfOund-
land report the fishery complete failure,
and the people are Respondent.
Two Legislatures organized in Zaca-
/ tecas, Mexico, Aug. %, one composed of
| friends of the general and State Govern
ment, the other Of friends Of General Garcia
| Cadena, who has presidential aspirations.
A fight occurred between Cadena's Friends
and State troops. After sharp contest of
twenty minutes, in which one rebel was
killed and three soldiers were wounded,
Cadena and his followers surrendered.
CONRAUK, the French missionary re-
ported killed by native mob at Pershun,
near the Amoor River, China, still survives,
but in Il pitiabIea condition. The injuries
inflicted on him were OF the most horrible
kind. The French Legation at Pekin is now
Investigating.
A CATTLE train on the Grand Trunk
was thrown down an embankment near To :
ronto, Aug. 2S. Nine cars were completely
wrecked. Out of 1862 cattle 100 were killed
outright, and several so badly injured that
they had to be slaughtered. The train
hands saved themselves by jumping.
JACOB DREIsTADT, of Green Bay,
Wis, quarreled with his wife, Aug. 2s, and
killed her with a shotgun. When officers
sought him the next day he shot himself in
the chin, making a serious wound,
THE Louisiana health authorities have
prohibited the Louisville & Nashville Rail-
road from bringing any cars, passengers,
merchandise or baggage from Pensacola,
! Fla, into the State of Louisiana. The Sec
retary of War has given orders for the trans
! fer Of troops at Fort Barancas, off Pensa-
cola, to Mount Vernon barracks, near Mo-
bile.
A CABLE dispatch from Yokohama,
Japan, states that out of 775 cases of cholera
| within twenty days 572 cases proved fatal 4.
At Toxic 80 cases and 90 deaths occurred
daily. The Siberian plague is appearing to
an alarming extent in the most widely
separated quarters in European Russia.
One death from the disease occurred at
Odessa.
TIE schooner Transit, an American
vessel running between points on the Mos
quito coast Of Nicaragua, was captured by
Spanish pirates, July %, near the town of
Gracias Adios. Capt. Thompson regained
control of his vessel by a stratagem and sur
rendered the pirates to the authorities at
Bluefelds.
PRESIDENT BEALs and five directors
of the New England Spiritualist Association
have been ARE sted for criminal libel.
DIR. j. S. SCOTT, of st. Louis, has
been arrested for completely in the recent
bank robbery at Kewanee, I'll. Pratt, the
cashier, has also been locked up.
! CHARLES A. LOGAN, editor of a news
paper at Logan, o., has been missing since
August 10, when he started to Cincinnati on
a business trip, intending to return in few
days. Mr.. Logan is about "a years old, very
light complexion, blue eyes, light brown
hair and of medium size.
THREE hundred persons were thrown
out of work and 100000 worth of property
destroyed by fire at Haverhill, Mass, Aug.
90.
SECRETARY LINCOLN has approved
the recommendations of the Mississippi Riv-
er Commission for the apportionment of the
fund appropriated by the last Congress foI
improving the navigation of the Mississippi
River, and it is supposed that work will
begin at once.
THE late Jesse Hoyt, of New York,
after making magnificent provision for all
his relatives, ,bequeathed 900 to his conf
Dental clerk, and left to the city OF East
Saginaw, Mich, lands for public park and
500, 900 with which to erect thereon ii.
brarv building.
THE banking house of William II
Lloyd & Co, OF Philadelphia. has closed its
doors, with liabilities OF S150,000.
ONE HUNDRED members of the Irish
constabulary petitioned the Lord Lieuten.
ant to reinstate the men dismissed, threat.
4 ening a strike il he refused. The ousted
constables, however, give notice that on nc
conditions will they resume duty.
THE citizens of York County, South
Carolina, have served notice to depart on
two Mormon missionaries operating with
success in that region.
A DISPATCH from Port Said dated
Aug. 81 says Arab Pashs has asked for al
eight days armistice. Gen. Wolseley re.
fused, but offered an armistice for one day
The Egyptians are throwing up works a
Kassassin.
THE Hotel Brunswick, the Pleasant
House, Central Hall, and a dwelling, at Old
Orchard Beach, Me-, were fired by an in
cendiary, Aug. 81. The inmates escaped in
their night clothes, losing their money and
other personal effects
LATER dispatches from Fort Concho,
Texas, say that upward OF 100 bodies of per.
sons drowned during the recent flood have
been recovered in the vicinity. On one ranch
thirty-one and on another twenty-One per-
sons were drowned. Mrs. Metcalf's body
was found nineteen miles below the fort,
and her brothers body near by, standing
upright against busby growth. II is sup
posed now that nearly 200 persons were
/ drowned.
OK the ground that they were coun.
terfeits, the chiefsof the secret service seized
in New York thousands OF dollars worth o.
plates for printing imitation greenbaeks a.
advertisements. Now Solicitor Ray nor de-
cidns thnt thesn false notes are issued il