The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-11-16

Vernon NJ. Z. Church in Baltimore, Md,
has fallen from grace and embezzled 81 400,
his old passion having resumed sway. He
was converted several years ago, and al
though he has collected rents amounting to
So. 600 yearly, his accounts were always
straight until the other day.
A FAMINE is impending in Counties
Donegal, Clare and Rosscommon, Ireland.
The potato crop has been a failure, while
storms have devastated the fields and cabins
Of the poor. The guardians Of wOrkhouse
unions declare that the prospect is the worst
since the famine OF 1876
AT a meeting of three thousand work
men in Vienna, Austria, the other day,
resolution was passed protesting against
Sunday work.
A DISPATCH from Durham says two
batteries OF Transvaal Beers had an engage
ment with MapOch, Kafir chief, the other
day, who fegned to retreat and drew them
into an ambush, killing 800.
THE police broke up a meeting of
workingmen near Vienna, Austria, the other
day A serious collision followed, IN which
twenty workmen and a number of officers
were injured. .-'@ The police station was
stormed and demolished, and troops were
called out TO restore order.
An earthquake shock was expert
enced in Laramie City, Wyo., on the 9TH. 1t
was plainly felt all along the line Of the
Union Pacific Railway west as far as Evans
ton. Plastering fell off in the buildings at
Rawlins, Point of Rocks, and other points.
JOHN N. BEACH, II years of age, who
is wanted in Chicago for forgery, surren-
dered himself at the Central poliee-station
in Cincinnati, the other day. His father is
a leading wholesale grocer at Minneapolis,
MINI.
A FIRE on the water front at Port
land, Maine, swept away establishments
valued at nearly S250,0O0.
DIVERS wire-miIl, Pittsburgh, Pa,
| burned on the 9TH. The loss was 500, 900,
and it is fully covered by insurance. Eight
hundred men are thrown out of employ
ment. The fire originated through work
man placing a lighted lamp near barrel Of
oil, thereby causing an explosion.
THOMAS J. NAYIN, ex-Mayor and abb
sconding bond-forger of Adrian, Mich, has
been captured in Texas. The Sc, 600 re-
ward offered for him expired by limitation
on the 5ih.
THE body of dead stowaway was
found in coal bunker OF the steamer Aus
trslia on her arrival at New York, from
Hamburg. sffflf1r,. s. sla s..rF
SECRETARY FoLGER has directed AS
sistant Treasurer Acton at New York to re-
! deem the United States bonds which
have been called in for redemption at the
rate OF S5,0o0.000 per week.
THE American flag was carried in the
procession in honor Of the installation of the
new Lord Mayor of London, on the 9th, es-
/ fod bxro ri Of ad oPC
geants Of the Royal Fusillers.
AN explosion of gas in an old coal
mine created great CONSERVATION near Cir
ardyille, Pa, the other afternoon. The de-
tonation was. heard at distance of three
miles. Earth and rock was thrown hun
dreds of feet in the air and scattered to a
great distance. Windows and doors were
blown in. houses shattered and people thrown
to the ground, but nobody seriously injured,
although many miners were working in ad-
jacent pits.
In the Supreme Court at Boston,
Mass, in hearing as to the alimony to be
paid his divorced wife by Charles R.
Thorne, Jr., one theatrical manager testi-
fed that the actor could earn $500 in
season Of forty weeks; another placed his
value at 1920 per week, while third esti-
mated his receipts at 5000 to 80, 900 per
annum.
Bon INGERsoLL thinks the political
cyclone was caused by extravagant appro-
/ priations and a refusal to reduce taxation,
especially on tobacco. He predicts that
General Sherman will be the next Presi-
! dent.
PRINCE VICTOR, a son of Jerome
| Napoleon, has commenced years service
! in an artillery school in France
| THE American Consul at Dunkirk,
| France, writes that the imports of corn have
decreased because Of heated cargoes sent
down the Mississippi in barges to New Or
/ leans.
THE people of New York State have
adopted the free canal amendment, the vote
in the metropolis against it being but $50.