The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-10-19

on the tower OF st. Xavier's Catholic
Church, Cincinnati. fell distance of sixty
feet the other day and was killed.
AJISCELLANEOUs.
GOvERNOR CRITTENDEN has stated
that so long as charge against Frank James
remains unanswered in Missouri he will not
grant requisition for him to be taken to
other States.
THREE robbers visited the house of
James Fitzgerald, a farmer, near Water
Vile, Ohio, the other night, and demanded
money. He resisted them and knocked
down one with a hammer, hurting him
badly. They finally tied Fitzgerald and
went through the house, taking $50, the two
carrying away their companion.
On the opening of the lines of the
Central and South American Telegraph
Company congratulatory messages were eX-
changed between President Arthur and the
Presidents of Chilli. Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador,
the United States of Colombia, Costa Rica,
Honduras, Nicaragua, San Salvador, Qua
temala and Mexico. The lines of the Mexi-
can Telegraph Company, starting from Gal
weston, reach Vera Cruz via Tampieo, at
which point the cables of the Central and
South American Telegraph Company ex-
tend to the Isthmus OF TehUantepec, thence
to the Pacific, thence by cables to
Lima, in Peru, where they connect
with the cables of the West Coast
Telegraph Company, now laid to Valparaiso,
Chill. These lines comprise ., $40 miles OF
submarine cable and 567 miles of land line,
and connect exclusively with 10000 miles of
wire IN Mexico, Central and South america.
The lines bring into communication With
the United States and Europe population
OF IS, 5,O00,000s transacting an annual COM
meree of over $500, 100000.
SOME of the Sac and Fox Indians of
Iowa haven't much faith in the white mans
government. Representatives of the tribes
in Washington have been trying to persuade
Commissioner Price to let them have $4,000
due them without requiring them to sign
their names to the payroll. They have for
six years refused to sign their names, fear
| ing that the making of their signatures
would get them into trouble, and during
those years they have denied themselves the
possession OF 81, 900 apiece which they could
have had at any time by signing their names.
The Commissioner is trying to induce these
suspicious and cautious red men to over
come their seruples.
THE amount of gold certificates sent
to New York on the 9th for the signature Of
the Assistant Treasurer was S46, COS, 900,
making the total to date S125, 500, 600. The
Treasury Department is in receipt of appli-
cations for these certificates from all Sec
tions of the country, and the demand can
not be supplied fast enough under the pres
ent system. In order to facilitate the issue
it is proposed to issue a Washington certif-
cate which would not have to be counter
| signed.
SULTAN PAsHA, President of the
Chamber OF Notables, thinks that Turkish
Intervention in Egypt would mean anarchy.
He maintains that the cost Of joint control is
eNtravagaut, and that G400, 600 might be
saved annually by the substitution of eff
cient natiye for foreign officials. He admits
that the mass of the population is unfit for a
representative government
THE people near Lancaster, Texas,
are much excited over the appearance Of a
hairy legged wild man who roams the chap
paral.
THIRTY persons have been poisoned
! at London, Ontario, from eating head cheese
manufactured by local butchers. Physi-
clans attribute the trouble to bristles chop
/ ped up with the skin of the pork, causing
/ irritation of the stomach's inner coating and
producing spasms and vomiting. Some of
the sufferers arc very low, but it is supposed
! that all viii recover.
The Chicago brewers have decided
that in view OF the failure of the hop crop
and the high price OF barley it would be-
/ come necessary, within the next two
months, to increase the price of beer by the
| barrel.
THE German steamer Herder, from
New York, Oct. ., for Hamburg, with 2ss
passengers, went ashore on the Newfound-
Fland coast the other night. All the passen-
gers and crew were landed without accident.
It is believed the ship and cargo will be a
total loss.
EDWARD CLARK passed some coun-
terfeit nicSels in Dubuque, Iowa, the other
/ day. The money was shown to Detective
! Shattuck, and he proceeded to the residence
Of Mrs. BlaisdolL, an aunt OF Clark, where
/ he found all the implements for making
| counterfeit money, together with quantity
of spurious coin. Clark and Mrs. Blaisdell
were arrested. Mrs. Blaisdel has been ac.
tive as a preaching missionary to the in
mates OF the Jail for some time past, and re-
garded as a very exemplary woman.
THE labor unions of Washington have
adopted resolutions to organize State in
dustrial clubs, composed mainly Of work
iugmen residing now at the national capital
from the thirty eight States of the Union,
! The secretaries of the clubs viii Immediate
lv proceed to correspond with labor orgsni-
cations of their respective States, urging
the appointment of congressional district
representatives to the central committee on
national labor legislation.
/ ALMON L. MEAKER, under sentence
OF death for killing a little girl at Waterbury,
VT, some two years since, by administering
strychnine, having previously cruelty beaten
the child on several occasions, has made a
confession and accuses his mother OF insti-
eating the murder.
THE Adjutant-Generalo of Texas, who
has been on trip along the frontier, re-
ports rich discoveries or gold, silver, and
copper in the vicinity OF the Guadaloupe
and Waco Mountains. General Rust has
found an extensive deposit OF gold and sill
yer near CarrizO.
A WARM attachment between young
Hebrew merchant and a Christian lady clerk
in Cincinnati was broken off by the persist
ent efforts OF the formers mother, solely on
account OF religious differences. The girl
took dose OF rat poison and an ounce OF
laudanum, but physician saved her.
THERE is great excitement at the lit
tie town OF secor, Woodtord County, H..
over the discovery of a high grade Of silver
ore In the bed OF Panther Creek, small
] branch OF the Mackinaw River.