The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-03-16

/ to the calling Of a joint convention to be
/ held in November. Sympathy was expressed
for the people Of Ireland in the struggle
| against their OppressOrs, and a stronger
whack was given to monopOlists. The sub
ject Of harmonizing the two factions was
| treated at length and the attainment Of that
/ end strongly urged. The majority report
Of the committee on platform and organiza-
/ tion was adopted; but it was resolved ''that
IL the objects desired to be gained as eX-
| pressed therein are not consummated by the
/ 3Oth Of June, 1882, it be the special instruc-
/ tion OF this assemblage to the National Ex-
ecutiye Committee TO proceed, without
calling an extra convention, to issue the
minority report OF said committee on resO-
lutions and platform as a supplement to the
4 platform OF the convention OF the Green
baekLabor party held in st. Louis in 1880,
as a platform OF principles Of the Green
back-Labor party now in convention assem-
bled." f"
DIR. BoYroN has written to DIR. Bax-
ter, Medical Purveyor Of the United States
Army, that DR.. Bliss was never placed in
charge OF President Garfeld's case by any
member OF the family. and that he contin-
ued to act without authority. On the back
Of this letter is an Endorsement Of its con-
tents by Mrs. Garfield. The document is
being circulated among Senators and mem
bers OF Congress, to defeat the payment Of
the amount awarded to Dr. Bliss.
COMMERCE. AND INDUSTRY.
SWEET & Co, Boston bankers, have
suspended. The Liabilities amount to be-
! tween & 100000 and f4,00O,0 900.
The United States Supreme Court
has decided that the dutilble qualities of
- ho Of Cd l,Nrf fbair al
color, and not by their saccharine strength.
This reverses the position taken by the
| Treasury Department.
THE decision of the Ohio Supreme
Court declaring invalid the great consolida-
tion effected last fall by Vanderbilt is one of
the most important ever made. Nearly all
the Ohio railroads are affected by it. Chief
Justice O'Key rules that two companies
owning lines OF railroad only connected by
other railroads which such companies hold
by lease are not authorized 10 become con-
soiidated into one corporation; the lines of
two railroad companies, being in their gen
eral features parallel and competing, can
not be connected for the carriage Of freight
and passengers over both; certificate made
by the Directors OF consolidated railroad
companies which fails TO show any place of
residence of the Directors Of the company is
fatally defective.
NOTICE has been given by the Illinois
Midland Railroad Company that it will re-
eeive DO more freight OF passengers from
connecting lines until further notice, on ac
count Of a strike Of employees.
TWELVE hundred persons were pres
enn ut the recent bimetalic meeting in Lon
don, seven countries being represented.
The governor Of the Bank of England advo-
Gated the free coinage of silver.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
JOSEPH B. WARNER, aged IA, a
nephew of Captain Williams, of the New
York City police, applied for admission to
st. Luke's Hospital, the other day, saying
he had shot himself. He was received, and
it was found that bullet had lodged just
below the heart, making fatal wound. The
boy refused to give any information about
himself or to tell why he took his life. In
his possession were found three cards of
merit, signed by the Superintendent and
secretary of the Sunday school of the First
Baptist Church at GreenpOint, L. l., and a
handkerchief on which was written with
lead pencil farewell message to his mother.
A CHESAPEAKE & Ohio passenger
train was thrown from the track by large
bowlder, near Clifton Narrows, W. Va,
March 9th. Thomas Smith, the engineer,
was killed, and the fireman was fatally in
jured. The engine and baggage car rolled
into the Kanawha River.
AT Berlin, Brac2en County, Ky, the
other day, Mrs. Thomas O'Neal committed
suicide by taking morphine. She first cut
her throat and then took the powder. She
had been in delicate health for several years
and was laboring under temporary insanity
at the time.
A GERMAN named Otto Harder COM
mitted suicide at St. Joseph, Mo-, the other
day, by shooting himself in the heart. He
was formerly book-keeper OF the Bismarck
Bank and other German societies OF Chicago,
and was about go years of age. He was
buried in Potter's field.
THE farm house of John Taylor, near
Meadow Lea, Manitoba, was burned down
during a recent storm. His wife and three
daughters were frozen to death, not being
able to find shelter Of any kind. Mr.. Taylor
was also severely frozen. Miss Reid, who
was visiting the Taylor family, barely es-
capped with her life.
The residence of Joseph Mellen, Nor
walk, Ohio, was destroyed by fire early on
the morning of the Sth. The inmates were
aroused, but the flames spread with tncon-
ceivable rapidity. Two young men were in
jured by jumping from the second story.
Miss Mary Nagle, Is years of age, perishod
in the flames. Her body was recovered.
The origin OF the fire is unknown.
CHARLES SHELTON, John Redmond,
and Harry French we're taken from Jail at
Los Iunas, n. Mex, March Slh, and hanged
to trees by masked men. Shelton murdered
Foreman Woodruff last fall. Redmond
killed James McDermott last January at
Galley's, on the Atlantic & Pacific Railway.
French, alias Simpson, was one OF the band
Of desperadoes who killed Deputy Sheriff
Jones at Craue's. The mob also took two
negroes from Jail, beat them numerically,
and turned them loose.
Mrs. HARRIET BELL, of Boston.
Mass, was acosted at the door Of her resi-
dence, the other morning, by a man who fol-
lowed her into the house, and soon came out
and walked away. Almost Immediately if
was discovered that she had been stabbed in
the neck; and in two minutes she was dead.
That the assault was committed by some
person who bore an intense hatred against
the woman is indicated by the fact that the
autopsy reveals nine distinct and separate
cuts on the neck and breast made by
broad -bladed knife, and most OF them deep
and wide enough to cause the victim TO bleed
to death.
MISCELLANEOUS. :
WAR has broken out in Bath County,
Virginia, between the natives and party Of
surveyors engaged in measuring of a large
tract Of land belonging to Gen. b. +. Butler.
The surveyors were attacked by seventy
five Virginians, and, after a sharp engage
ment, in which 100 shots were fired and sew
cral persons wounded, surrendered at dis
crelinn and lafI Inc country.