The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-11-02
MISCELLANEOUS.

Two SnOlS were IrcO aG Ming milan
OF Servia in the cathedral at Belgrade the
other day. The would-be regicide is the
widow of Colonel Markowitch, executed
with several others in 1878. She has been
suffering from melancholia ever since the
death OF her husband, aud can hardly be
considered responsible for her acts.
MANILA, Philippine Islands, was
nearly destroyed by a cyclone a few days
ago, and business is suspended. Thirteen
vessels were beached.
TWENTY mules and eighteen Short
horns were roasted in an inccndary fire at
the stock yards in Lexington, Ky, the other
night.
CAMPBELL and Lynn fought eight
rounds at Pueblo, Colo, the other day.
Lynn claimed the stakes on account of foul
blow.
THE rations turned over to agents for
the relief OF sufferers by the Mississippi
floods cost the Government So, PSI 900.
MANY members of the Salvation Army
were injured, some very seriously, by the
falling OF floor at Hauley, England, the
other day.
THE report of II. II. Wells, charged
by the Attorney General to investigate the
bribery charges in the star-route case, is
stated to be absurdly voluminous and little
to the purport.
In the County Court at Wausau, Wis,
the other day, a man named Quinn recov-
cred $1,000 damages from DIR. Higgins for
malpractice. Quinn had broken his leg,
and the doctor left him a cripple for life,
! and amputation has become almost ne
cessity.
LETTER-CARRIERs at the national
capital are to be mounted on tricycles.
THE New York Socialists are moving
in behalf Of their brethren in Austrian dun
geons.
THE Secretary of the Treasury is GO
/ ing to try another experiment with the gold
! certificates. He has decided to permit the
! several assistant treasurers to receive de-
posits OF gold and to issue the certificates.
THIRTY persons have been arrested in
/ Paris, Lyons and st. Etienne, on suspicion
OF connection with the riots in Montceau
/ les Mines.
FRANK MILLER, Woodworking Ger
man OF Chicago, got on a spree the other
night and quarreled with his wife. The con
tention continued in the front yard. Albert
Hardies, a neighbor, attempted the peace
maker act. Mrs. Miller slapped him in the
face. Miller then pulled a jackknife and sew
I'ered Hardies' iugular, killing him instantly
The murderer was arrested.
Z. G. Watson, engineer of the trsir
which ran into the csboose near Nortl
Adams, Mass, causing the death Of severa
workmen and the manning OF MANY others
has been arrested on charge of homicide.
The Ameer of Afghanistan has ap
pointed his son to the governorship at He.
rat, dismissing Abdul Khan. As conse
uuence OF this change considerable excite,
mcnt prevails and serious disturbances are
/ threatened. The inhabitants Of Cabul have
revolted and killed their Governor.
THE New York Aldermen have re
quested the Dock Commissioners to increas,
the payment OF night watchmen, and passed
over the AIavor's veto a resolution directing
the Comptroller to increase the wages o
laborers in the markets from S1.G7 to s. pei
day.
MIR. JosLYN, Acting Secretary of tn,
Interior, has requested Attorney Genera
Brewster to make motion in the Supreme
Court to advance the cases involving tn,
titlo to what are known as Houmas claim
in Louisiana, amounting to 12S,000 acres o
sugar plantations belonging to the heirs o
4 the late John Slidell.
THERE was a cQnnagration at Hop
kinsville, Ky, the other night. II origi
mated in a stable owned by z. l. Smith, anC
under gentle wind swept northward, de
stroying six sqUares-abOut fifty-two stores
and tenements. Fully two-thirds OF th,
houses on Main street were totally destroy
cd, together with large portion OF thei
contents. The Hopkinsville Bank wa,
destroyed, but the City Bank escaped,
although the fire swept houses away on al
sides OF it. The new Opera-house wa
saved, but Mozart Hall, the Central Hotel
the Post-ofiee, and the Cumberland Pres
byterian Church were burned. The amount
OF the loss can not be estimated, but vii
reach over 500, 600. The fire was the work
OF an ineendiary.
IN the suit of the Union Pacific Rail
road Company against the Credit Mobnier
the New York Supreme Court has rendered
judgment for plaintiffs for 81, Dos. sos.
GENERAL CROOK is said 10 hav,
checked an Indian outbreak at San Carlos b,
putting a stop to frauds which were being
practiced on the reservation.