The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-09-28
nTIsCELLANEOUs.

WHEN the Chilian forces evacuated
Tarma, a large majority of the Peruvian
families accompanied them for fear of dep
relations by guerrillas. 1t is stated that
within five hours body of three thousand
Indians poured in, and pillaged and burned
the town.
AT Niagara Falls, the other evening,
a man entered the gate at Prospect Park
and informed two ladies that he was about
to commit suicide. He leaped into the
rapids, but was Iassoed just as he reached
the brink of the falls. He spent the night
in a cell.
In the International rowing contest at
London the HilIsdae crew took the lead OF
the Thames Club. Half a mile from the
starting point a serious foul occurred, but
the Hilsdales got three lengths ahead, when
Captain Terwilliger's slide broke, which dis
abled the Americans, the British beating by
fourteen seconds.
THE flight of French Canadians to the
United States is a subject which has received
due consideration at Ottawa, and the Gov
ernOr- General has expressed willingness
to assist in colOnizing them in Ehe North
west.
THE British man-Of-war Phoenix went
on the rocks off Prince Edward Island and
was totally wrecked. No lives lost.
The international rifle match at
Creedmoor resulted in victory for the
British team at every range, the total score
being 1875 to 1905.
A STORM at Montreal caused the burn
ing of La Prairie barracks, which originally
cost the imperial g government $500, 900.
NINE. EMELINE LAURENT, who has
been trying to starve herself to death in New
York City, accuses a lawyer named Elliot,
who has been arrested, with stealing from
her title deeds to some property.
The Maverick National Bank of Bos-
ton, Mass, was recently victimized TO the
extent of nearly So, 900 on a raised draft.
THE Postmaster at Socorro, New
Mexico, has been arrested. He is s., 800
short in his accounts.
FIVE weeks ago a daughter of COrne-
lius Murphy, of Cincinnati, left home to
visit a married sister in that city. Inquiries
in all directions and advertisements in the
papers have failed to yield the slightest trace
of her whereabouts. She was betrothed 10
a restaurant proprietor in Chicago, and left
behind her a deposit of $25, 900 in her own
name.
A MYSTERIOUS malady has appeared
| in railway camp near San Francisco, Cal.
Many of the officers and labOrers have been
prostrated. 1t is attributed to bad tea.
HALF of the village of Grand Meadow,
MINI. has been fired by tramps. Business
is entirely suspended there till the insurance
| adjusters make their investigation.
| Ross, the railway ticket sharp, failed
to appear at Independence, Mo-, FORGETTING
/ his bond.
A RUMoR got afoat at Chattanooga
that the Taylor brothers, who murdered
| Sheriff Cate and his deputy, had been placed
| in the jail, the other night, and crowd of
! five thousand persons gathered and de-
manded the prisoners, for whose capture
rewards of $4,000 had been offered. A
committee Of five was allowed to enter the
! Jail and see that the Taylors were not there.
DUPLICATE letters from Rangoon,
one dispatched by way of the Suez Cana
and the other via San Francisco, reached a
| New York clergyman in the same mail.
THE Mexican National Railway has
been accepted by the government engineers.
THE damage by the recent floods in
Italy and Austria amounts to 2,0OO,0OC
fiorins. Trent and Verona were submerged
| and many bridges were swept away.
! SECRETARY TELLER has decided that
| Indian Police may be furnished with re-
voIvers for the better enforcement OF their
duties. No rifles, however, will be al
/ lowed the Indians.
! RIVAL base -ballers batted each other
at Bordentown, n. j., the other afternoon
Several were seriously injured and others
were locked up
MAJOR PHIPPs, the defaulting Super.
\ intendent Of the Philadelphia (Pa.l Aims
house, has been arrested in Canada. His
wife was with him, and he was passing un-
der the name Of J. D Thompson. An in
dictment for forgery <aits hin.
/ WHILE Z, G. Vincent, of Waterville
Me-, was mapping under tree in Brooklyn,
N. Y, the other day, a hungry goat came
along and chewed up Si65 in greenbacks
protruding from pocket.
THE Dominion Government sends
/ out notice that American militia desiring tC
make excursions into Canada must file theii
applications with the Secretary of War al
/ Washington, to be forwarded through the
British Minister to the Governor General.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, has just sent 81, 800
to yellow fever sufferers at Pensacola, Fla.