The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-11-30

Two miners were killed and three
others seriously injured in the Oxford air
shaft, near Scranton, Pa, the other night.
Hundreds OF large icicles which had coll
lected on the sides OF the shaft became loose
and fell with great force upon a platform
one hundred feet from the bottom, and the
unfOrtunates were crushed and buried be-
meath the entire mass.
BITsCELLANEOUs.
SPECIAL AGENT MARTIN, of the
Treasury Department, bas submitted his
annual report for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1882, detailing the operations OF the spe-
cial agency service during that period. It
shows thatithe amount recovered on account
OF seizures. fines and suits was Ss9, ,579; in
creased duties. S769, 4le; miscellaneous.
$I2, 1853; number OF seizures, 217; appraised
value, S91, ,475; reduction in expenses rec
commended, Sls,322; number Of arrests, "a; /;
number OF reports received, 1876. or these
reports 5s relate 10 smuggling, $40 to under
valuation, 81 to misconduct OF Customs Of
dcerss 1S2 to seizures, 129 to inspection Of
Customs districts, Is to suits commented.
aud 2,309 to miscellaneous subjects. "It is
reported that the business OF opium snug
CLING on the Pacific coast has been carried
on by an organized company, which in
cudes capitalists, Custom house employees,
steamship employees, local politicians and
Chinamen. All Customs officers suspected
OF completely with smugglers have been dis
missed from service.'
FRED DIEBoLT, a rich and influential
German saloon keeper OF Cleveland, Ohio,
was convicted in the police court of violat-
ing the Sunday law. Judge Soldiers fined
him 500, and sentenced him to ten days in
the workhouse.
ANDREW NUPFER, postmaster at
WOodvile, Ohio, has been arrested for de-
stroying mail matter, and has confessed his
guilt. @ flA4
THE captain and mate of the whaler
Rainbow have been held for trial in San
Francisco, CAL, on charge OF abandoning a
sailor on an ice-fioe in the Arctic ocean, after
he had been wounded by the accidental dis
charge OF the ships gun.
WIN. ENNoB, an old and welI-known
citizen of Galena, H., who had been miss
ing for some days, was found at the bottom
OF deserted mineral shaft not far from his
home the other morning, greatly exhausted
and about ready to die. He went into the
shaft for the purpose OF exploring it, bat
soon lost his way and was unable TO get out.
THE English experts who examined
the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Rail-
road report that between $1O,OOO,OOO and
$4,000, 900 was mysteriOusly dropped In the
work OF reorganization, and recommend
formal consolidation with the Erie or
complete divorce.
THE Secretary of the Navy has issued a
circular inviting the presentation to the de-
partment, by any skillful person. of plans.
models and designs for any new steel steam
cruising vessels for the navy.
FIFTEEN hundred miners have been
thrown out Of work by fire in the Short
Mountain cOlliery, near Lykens, Pa.
The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics
reports that during the month Of October
there arrived In the Customs districts Of
Baltimore, Boston, Detroit, Huron, Mime
sofa, New Orleans, New York, Passama-
quoddy, Philadelphia and San Francisco,
90, $50 passengers, ofgwhOm 45, ,905 were i'm
migrants, s, 38T citizens OF the United States
returned from abroad, and 1857 aliens not
intending to remain in the United States.
or this total number OF immigrants there
arrived from England and Wales, 1859;
ireland, 3,4l5; Scotland, 1,O55; Austria,
558; Belgium, 1873; Bohemia, 4S1; Den
mark, 606; France, 51l; Germany, 1868;
Hungary, 963; Italy, 1, 224; Netherlands, 263;
Norway, l,165; Russia, 205; Poland, 147;
Sweden, 2,316; Switzerland, $50; Dominion
OF Canada, 6,448, and from all other coun-
tries, 2l5.
THE Sioux Indians have agreed to Sc
lect separate reservations for the different
tribes OF their nation. This will enable the
opening OF half the present reservation to
settlement.
II. G. WAITE was robbed of 81 600 by
Mimi, the other day.
THE skeleton of human being was
found in a brush-pile five miles north Of
Fort Worth, Texas, on the line OF the DEN
yer Railroad, the other day. The photo-
graph OF a weIl-dressed youth was found In
a leather pocket-bool1a a short distance of.
w. WARD and w. F. Salter have been
Indicted by the grand jury OF the District of
Columbia for Offering money to employees
to abstract from the Bureau OF Engraving
aud Printing the paper upon which noles
are printed. The object in view, 1t is al
legged, was TO prove lOoseness in tho manage
ment, and thus influence secretary Folger to
remove Col. Irish, the Superintendent
THE Catholic Bishop of Montreal has
issued an order that married men must
give - per year and single ones 81, 10 pay
q
Notre Dame.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has pardOned
Robert Logan, convicted Of robbing a mail
coach in Western Texas in 1881, and SEN
fenced to ten years. imprisonment in the
Illinois Peuitenuary. The pardon was
granted on account Of the prisoners youth
and because he is believed to have been the
tool OF older men. He confessed his crime,
pleaded guilty, and has since aided the Gov
ernment IN the prosecution and conviction
OF others.
A MASKED robber stopped a stage
near Campbellsvile, KY, the other day,
and secured some plunder from three pas
sengeFs, although lady hid two diamond
rings in her lap and a man threw mis- pocket
book under a seat. In riiiug the mail-saeks
the thief cut his hand badly.
TIE Judge AdYOeate-General of the
army decides that the failure OF officers TO
pay their debts is not violation Of the 6lst
article OF war.
A DANGEROUS lunatic, named San
ders, has been arrested in London foF send
ing letter 20 Gladstone containing threats
OF murder.
Tue bonds and other valuable pa
pers taken from the Gilchrist brothers, in
Charlton, n. Y, by five masked burglars
some time ago have been recovered. A
ransom OF $3.50 was paid.
In consequence of the prevalence of
diphtheria and other diseases, che Boston
health authorities have forbidden public
funerals.
The wife of Josiah Dodge, of Nor
walk, Conn.,, tried to hang herself, the other
day, and said, when rescued, that life on
two potatoes = day had grown unbearabIe,
claiming that her husband. whose income is /
81. 500 = year, had starved her so that In six
months she had lost forty pounds.