The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-06-29

THE corner stone OF the Garfield
Memorial Church at Washington will be
laid July 2, the anniversary Of the shooting.
President Hinsdale, OF Hiram College, Ohio,
A. S. Willis, Kentucky, and A. Fl. Petit
bone, OF Tennessee, viii make addresses.
A general invitation is extended prominent
members of the Church of the Diciples
throughout the country.
SEVENTY residents of Adrian, Mich =,
have been poisoned to a dangerous degree
by eating cheese. The life OF John L. Smith
was only saved by vigorous treatment The
cheese was sold by several grocers, but is
known to have been made at one factory last
month. Minute parasites were revealed by
the microscope.
LIGHTNING fired 35, ,OOO-barreI tank
OF crude oil, at Olean, n. Y, the other day,
and the flames speedily extended to an ad :
jacent tank Of the same size. Embaukments
were thrown up to prevent the spread of
the fire.
EIGHT members of the family of
James p. Potter, of Denver, Colo, were
poisoned the other day by arsenic which had
been placed in the hydrant. All of them are
very low. A woman known in the neigh
borhood as "Lucretia Borgia" is suspected
of the deed. The Potter children had made
fun Of her.
Two masked men entered the farm
house OF John Harris, near Alexandria,
Preble County, Ohio, the other night, and
demanded money. Being told there was
none there they began a search, when son
of Mr.. Harris appeared with a shotgun and
fired at them, but without effect. The rob-
bers turned upon the young man with
knives and wounded him, but fed upon an
alarm being given. A party Of neighbors
started in pursuit.
CHIEF OFFICER WATTS of the ship
Imperial, from San Francisco, was arrested
on arriving at Queenstown, charged with
wounding with intent to Kill several Of the
crew OF the American ship Gatherer on a
recent voyage.
The Lord-lieutenant and his subor-
dinates, after careful investigation, are con-
vinced that crime in Ireland is not sporadic,
but its machinery is deliberately set in mo-
tion through organized agencies, command
ing gIarge resources and obeying the impulses
of a foreign organ.
THE protest of the corporation of
Dublin against the repression bill was pre-
sented to Parliament by the Lord Mayor in
his official robes.
AN attempt was made to wreck the
pay-car on the Columbus & Hooking Valley
Road, near Sugar Grove, Ohio, June 20, by
placing Obstructions on the track.
A COLLISION occurred on the Lehigh
Valley Railway, at Rock Cut, near Mt. Car
mel, Pa, June 81. between gravel cars and
an excursion train bearing officials of the
Lehigh Valley, New York Central and
Northern Central Railways, and others.
The passengers all escaped with slight
bruises. COndy Bryscol a brakeman, was
severely scalded. The engineer and fire.
man Of the gravel train were slightly hurt.
Both engines were badly wrecked.
OSCAR GOODWIN, cashier of the Lo-
gansport National Bank, who has been
missing since the 17th, has been traced as
far west as Delphi. There was $50, 900 In
the vaults when he left, but his accounts
are found to be correct.
The Customs officers at Chicago have
just seized in an auction-house 5S8
dozen spools of English thread which were
smugged into port by q Quebec firm.
Two bell-boys in a New York hotel
have within a month stolen property valued
at about So, 900. When arrested they made
a full confession.
THE damage by the cyclone in Iowa
is estimated at $4,000, 900.
NEARLY 10000 men participated in
the parade of the Grand Army OF the Re-
public at Baltimore, Md, which was led by
Gen. r. b. Ayres, and reviewed by Presi-
dent Arthur. A new feature was the escort
furnished by Maryland and Virginia militia,
many Of whom served in the Confederate
army.
o. E. OWENS, receiving teller of the
Third National Bank of st. Louis, has been
arrested for embezzlement. The books
show a shortage of about $150,000.
THE French Senate has rejected the
bill on the importation Of foreign pork, on
the ground that & did not offer sufficient
guarantees against trichinosis.