The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-06-01

menJ DelOWs was announced Dy Justice
James on the 22d. Justice Hagner, in a
separate opinion, discussed the bearings OF
the old Maryland law and held that even
under the Maryland act of 17S5 the indict-
ment would have been good in the District
of Columbia.
A CoNFLAGRATION at Boyadab, Asia
Minor, destroyed foEr hundred houses.
VoLUSINoUs depositions in the Chris
tiancY divorce suit, comprising testimony
Of the Judge'stwo sons, George and Victor,
before the commissioner at Detroit, have
been forwarded to Washington, all bearing
heavily against Mrs. Christiancy.
@. w. FONDA, embezzling cashier,
who stole several thousand dollars from the
Constantine National Bank eighteen months
since, has been Sentenced to five. years. inn
prisonment in the Detroit House of CoEree-
ton. 49,
AN attempt was made to wreck a
passenger train near Madison, Conn, May
%. a number of ties were placed on the
track and nailed down, and disaster would
have occurred to the mail train from New
York to Boston had not Station Agent Way
Succeeded in signaling and stopping It. The
parties who obstructed the track fred on
Way while he was attempting toremove the
obstructions, wOunding him slightly.
"A TRAIN on the Grand Trunk Rail-
way, with 1000 emigrants for Manitoba,
crashed into a freight train of sixty cars at
Montreal, Cam, the other day. Four bag
gage cars were thrown off the track and
smashed. The passengers were badly
Knocked about, and received terrible bruises.
The engineers and firemen escaped by
Jumping of before the collision occurred.
The locOnOt of the emigrant train and one
attached TO the freight train. behind were
completely wrecked.
FROM one to four inches of snow fell
throughout the northern part of Iowa on the
2Sd. Kansas was visited in various locaIi-
ties with heavysfrosts. III
The hostiles are fleeing from Mexico
to New Mexico. being driven BY persons
who are making Indian staying one. of the
. chief industries, TO secure the $500 offered
by the Mexican Government for the scalp OF
each hostile Indian.
THEP General, in his letter
to Congress accommodating the abolition Of
postage upon newspapers and magazines,
says: ''IG may we'll be doubted il the whole
people get as much information Of public
affairs from volumes gratuitousIy thrown at
them by the Governments as they do from
newspapers aud magazines which they pur-
chase and pay for. Mr.. Howe recites 9TH
er considerations which lead him to the
conclusion that Congress may at the pres
ent time safely abrogate all discrimination
between subscribers to newspapers and
magazines, and send the same through the
mails without charge, whether such sub
scribers reside within the county of publica-
tion or outside Of it." ..
THE opening performance of the Chi
cago May festival was given to an audience
Of 1000 persons. Every seat on the main
floor was taken, and about 1000 standing
tickets were sold. The chorus, consisting Of
900 voices, and the great orchestra were in
excellent condition, and gave evidence of
the most thorough training and practice.
The addition of vast sounding board has
greatly increased the availability of the hall
for musical purposes.
The condition of business in Congress
is sucl1as to cause worry and discomfort
among Senators and Representatives. The
general belief is that under the most favor
able circumstances the ses sion will last till
the 1st of July.
THE Governor of Coahuila, Mexico,
has written to Governor Roberts, of Texas,
that the Mexican Government is doing all In
its power to keep down trouble on the bor-
der, and that rigid orders have been issued
to promptly capture and punish all horse
and cattle thieves, vagrants and evil doers.
THE Cuban Deputies have introduced
in the Chambers bill abolishing slavery.
The British Minister, Hon. Lionel
Sackville- West, gave a grand banquet in
honor of Queen Victoria's sixty third birth
day on the oath. This is the first time that
the anniversary has been officially cele-
brated in Washington. The guests included
the President of the Senate, David Davis,
and Speaker Keifer, who were seated 10 the
right and left of the host; Secretary Fre-
linghuysen, Chief Justice Waite, Secretary
Lincoln, Secretary Chandler, Secretary Tel
Ter, Attorneys General Brewster, and Hon.
j. G. Bancroft Davis, Assistant Secretary
of State.