The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-07-27

has made special report to Congress, which
will be the most exhaustive work on food
fishes ever printed. 1t will make three
quarto volumes of eight hundred pages
each, and be profusely illustrated.
AT a meeting of the Ohio Republican
Association in Washington. d. c., the other
night, letter from Mrs. Garfield, Offering
to sell the family residence, at the corner OF
Thirteenth and streets, was read. She sci
forth that she preferred to have the place
fall into the hands of such an association,
which would cherish it for the memories
connected with it, rather than let it go to
some private party who might alter it. She
said that Gen, Garfield had told her once
that It was worth SIS, 900, but she would take
$4,000 for it. Real estate dealers vaBle the
property at $4,000.
THE glove-fight between Wilson and
Sullivan in New York City on the 18th
lasted fifteen minutes, and was witnessed by
an immense throng. Wilson won the money.
8 sERIILIAEo DANIELs and sAlejo Zespe,
da. with fifty followers, surprised" the town
of Tomaa, Las Chiapas, on the 18th, and
after a stubborn fight released all the pris.
oners in the jail, who were armed and
pressed into the ranks. Captain Guzman,
with eighty Mexican soldiers, charged the
revolutionists and put them to fight.
IT seems that Oscar Goodwin, cashier
of the Logansport CTnd.) Bank, who disap-
peared some time ago, taking with him his
bond, and tearing from the records all ref
erence TO it, is a defaulter to the amount Of
S15, 900, the whole sum being in account Of
the Merchants National Bank of Chicago.
WHILE confirmation services were in
progress in the Kentucky Penitentiary the
other day number of convicts in the hemp
house were secreting hammers, saws, files,
and other instruments likely to be of SER
vice in effecting their escape. The timely
arrival of guard spoiled the plot.
THE list of victims of the toy pistol in
the vicinity Of Boston since July has swol-
len to forty, and Cincinnati reports si1
deaths within a few days from the SAINT
cause.
In Buenos Ayres, during services. II
memory of Garibaldi, a curtain in a public
hall took fire, producing a stampede. A
wall toppled over on the assemblage, and
twenty bodies have been taken from the
ruins.
AT Millville, Mass, the other day,
Joseph Garbwree had a fight of twenty
minutes duration with a black snake
twelve feet in length, and received ten
bites.
! MISS GREYsON, of Erie, Pa, who for
many years had been confined to her bed
with spinal disease, recently made arrange
ments for simultaneous prayer in her be-
| half, and at the hour fixed sprang up heal
ed. 1t happened, however, that no prayer
meeting was held.
MEXICO was agitated by an earth.
/ quake the other day. The shock was par
ticularly trying in the capital, where the
| people went on their knees in the streets
and the greatest CONSERVATION prevailed.
The engine of a gravel train plunged
into the river at Niles, Mich, on the 10th
! The driver and fiPemen were seriously in.
! jured.
| A NUMBER of men broke into the
house of Noah Parks, a colored preacher, in
! Winston County, Miss, July 10, dragged
| him out of bed, put rope round his neck,
and strung him up to a tree. Friends cut
! him down and resuscitated him the moment
the lynchers left. The reverend gentleman
was suspected of stealing corn.
Col. PHILIPON, accused of participa.
tion in a Nihilistic conspiracy at St. Peters
| burg, has been exiled to Siberia.
Mr.. A. FORCAs, the Vicksbure
! (Miss) store keeper who invented the burg
lar sensation the other day, is not only
/ charged with numbering his wife and burn
ing his store and dwelling, but testimony is
being accumulated to prove that be is also
guilty of the assassination of a negro dray-
man several months since.
LANCASTER, Pa, and vicinity wa;
swept by storm on the 18th. Many per.
sons were Injured and much property de-
stroyed. Boston, Mass, was flooded by
heavy rains on the same dav.
A GREAT fire ragged in Smyrna, Asia
Minor, on the 10Th. Fourteen hundred
houses were destroyed and 5000 people are
| homeless.
OFFICERS of the steamer John Will
son, sunk in the Atchafalaya River the 9TH
er Dight, report the loss of fifteen lives.