The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-09-28
Az the Circuit Court at Detroit, Mich,

M the Circuit Court at Detroit, Mich,
the other day, in presence of one hundred
members of the bar, the assistant prosecut-
ing attorney read petition for the disbar-
ring Of Charles r. Ford on charges of mis-
demeanor, attempting to pass forged notes,
malpractice, and bad character generally.
He once served three years in State Prison.
Judge JennisOn gave him three weeks to
answer the charges.
A COMET about five degrees from the
sun was plainly visible to the eye at
Georgetown and Central City, Colorado, the
other afternoon.
TWENTY miners were killed by an
explosion of fire-damp in Germany.
Two companies of infantry have been
ordered from Forts Omaha and Sidney to
Salt Lake, giving rise to rumor that trouble
with the Mormons is expected during the
approaching election.
ALFRED ROGERS, of Philadelphia,
transfer clerk Of the Insurance Company OF
North America, is said to have obtained
$25, 900 by raising certificates of stock and
borrowing money upon them, wasting the
proceeds in mining stock speculations.
THE Merchants and Pacific hotels,
Red Cliff, Colo, and thirteen other buildings
burned the other night.
THE Sovereign Grand Lodge, I. o. D.
F., at Baltimore, Md, elected the following
officers for the ensuing two years: Erie j.
Leach, of Iowa, Grand Sire; Henry F. Carr,
of Maryland, Deputy Grand Sire; Theodore
o. Ross, of New Jersey, Grand Secretary;
Joshua Warrant, of Maryland, Grand Treas
urer.
The strike of iron-workers at Pitts
h. h
agreed to the old scale, S5 80 per ton. At
Youngstown, Ohio, the strikers are also re-
suming work, but the iron men at Wheeling,
W. ", still hold out.
THE Uriennial meeting of the Supreme
Court for the Northern Masonic Jurisdic-
ton of the United States convened at Bos-
ton on the 18th, H. L. Palmer, of Milwau-
kee, Sovereign Grand Master, delivering
the annual address.
ACATHoLIC Clergyman has been fined
200 marks for libeling Prince Bismarck in
an article on the Chancellor's attitude to-
ward the kulturkampt.
JUDGE HAYNOR has granted Mr..
Christiancy divorce from his wife, on the
ground Of desertion.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has
been considering for some time the advisa-
Dlllly OF suing dnOLu6E DO0u CALL LOT GD6
purpose of relieving the existing stringency
in the money market, and it is probable a
call will soon be made for extended ives.
GEORGE TERHUNE, formerly conduc-
tor, and VIM. Russell, train dispatcher, on
the Central Railroad of Iowa, have been inn
prisoned at Keokuk on a charge of counter
feiting. The dies and lot of spurious coin
were found in Terhune's possession. 1t is
! hot 9th foH
THE Boston Warehouse, on Lafayette
street, New Orleans, with some stores in the
rear, burned on the goth. Loss, 100000.
MINNESOTA has had a sharp frost.
| THE corpse of an unknown lad has
been having variety of adventures in Penn
| sylvania. The boy was killed by train at
Johnstown, and the body was identified
! by a citizen of Bristol as that of his son,
and tenderly laid to rest, an event soon fol-
lowed by the return of the wanderer from
Bristol. Reading of the occurrence, an anx-
! ious father in Sharon, named Seaburn, had
the remains disinterTed, became thoroughly
satisfied that they were those OF his son. and
buried them at Sharon August 20. The reap
| pearance of Eddie Seaburn, the other day,
caused the widest excitement among those
| familiar with the circumstances of the double
! mistake.
A MARKED feature of the reunion of
the Army of the Cumberland at Milwaukee
was the gathering of one hundred members
of the Iron Brigade, to whom General Glib
bon read an original poem and Miss Aubrey
| presented a silk gudOn. Speeches were
made by Generals Bragg and Fairchild.
Miss Ransom, Washington artist, gave the
| Cumberland veterans an oil portrait of
| President Garfield, and General j. d. Cox
delivered a eulogy on the martyred Presi-
/ dent.
A TABULATED statement just COM
pIeted by the Bureau of Statistics at Wash
! ington shows that the wheat exports from
! New Orleans during August exceeded the
exports for the same time last year by over
100000 bushels.