The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-07-13

SULLIVAN, the champion, knocked
Elliott out of time in three rounds with hard
gloves at New York, July 4.
THE vaults of the Carmel Mission at
Monterey, Cal, were opened on the 81 by
Father Casanova. The remains Of Father
Serro and other founders OF the California
missions, who were buried in 17S2 TO 1877,
were fully identified, and the redwood
collins and skeletons were in good condition.
In response to a resolution of inquiry,
the Senate Military Committee has report
ed that SO per cent. Of the employees Of
the House and 10 per cent. of those of
the Senate are honorably discharged Union
soldiers, while the average in the execu-
tive departments is 40 per cent.
THE monument erected at Wyoming,
Pa, to commemorate tire massacre, was
decorated with flowers and rIpened wheat,
July 3; then followed prayers, songs, and
addresses. The attendance of old settlers
from all parts of the State was very
large.
MARQUIS BIBBERO has distinguished
himself by swimming across the East River
at New York with his feet tied together and
his hands pfnioned behind him.
A DUBLIN cablegram reports the dis
eovery Of plot to assassinate Cardinal Me-
Cabe.
THE French Mediterranean squadron
Of nine iron-clals is kept in readiness to sail
for Egypt, and transports to carry II, 800
men lie off Toulon.
The Egyptian authorities are conin-
ing in the arsenal at Alexandria all natives
who insult or modest Europeans.
The miners and laborers in the Lucas
mines, at Scranton, Pa, have struck for an
advance.
LIGHTNING struck the signal-service
station on Pixies Peak, July 4, iniuring Ser
geants Day and Boynton. --.F
G. II. HARTLEE, a colOred crank, has
warned the New York police of plot to
assassinate President Arthur, COnkling and
Grant.
MITCHELL & Co., candle makers,
New York, lost 100000 by fire, July 4.
THE Tariff Commission met at the
Ebbitt House in Washington on the 9Th.
Mr. Hayes, the President, read an address,
dwelling on the largeness and importance of
the duty OF the commission, and impressing
on the members the view that it is their
duty to revise the laws and create reason
able tariff, but not to make any radical
change in the system.
SEVERAL persons were injured and
many narrowly escaped death at the burn
ing of the opera house in st. Petersburg'
Russia, the other night.
SENATOR SAUNDERS, of Nebraska,
and Secretary Teller have recently been dis
cussing the question OF Indian schools and
children. There is a measure now pend
| ing, of which Senator Saunders is the father,
| providing for the erection of a school build
/ ing in his State similar to the one at Car
! Isle, Pa.
The Russian authorities show much
anxiety as to the safety of the ground I'M
| derneath the Fortress and Cathedral SITS.
Peter and Paul, underneath which are the
tombs of the Cars.
| THERE was a raid on five hotels and
all the liquor stores of Greenfield, Mass. ,
July 8. A large quantity of liquor was
seized. The hotels threaten to close if not
allowed to sell liquor.
FIVE locomotives and a round-house
at Sherbrooke, Quebec, were destroyed by
fire, the other day, causing the loss of 500,
| 900. Seven firms doug business at Nos. fl
and 40 Federal street, Boston, Mass, lost
$4,000.
TWENTY thousand laboring men were
addressed by Michael Davitt the other even
ing, in Union Square, New York.
MOST of the convicts in the
Massachusetts, Penitentiary struck for the
| holiday recreation of one hour which was
denied them on the Fourth, and demol-
! ished their cell furniture.
THE New Jersey Southern has set Its
! freight-handlers at work at the advanced
/ rates.
THE Comptroller of the Currency ap-
peals to depositOrs in the Freedman's Bant
to present their books and draw out $780,
coo of the last dividend remaining unpaid.
THE corpse of Guiteau was secretly
removed from the Jail to the army medica
museum on the Sd. Rev. DIR. Hicks claims
to have been offered from. $1,000 to 500, ,0OC
for the skeleton, among the bidders being
the Royal College, of London.