The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-12-07
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from YariOus Sources:
PEnsoNAi AND PoLrr1oAL:

TnE decapitated postmaster of Wash
ingon and his assistant have addressed
letter to the President, asking an investiga-
tion OF their acts by commission.
II. O. HoFFMAN, Of Bloomington, H.,
publishes a card Withdrawing from further
prosecution OF bis case before the confer
ence at Des Moines.
ID. +. FISHER, doorkeeper Of the New
York Academy Of Music. claims to have re-
ceiyed check for Sl59,900 from a gentle
man for whom he did a favor twenty years
ago.
IT is expected that the President in
his message win make clear the difference
between bis South American policy and that
OF Mr.. Blaine, He will express no hostility
to the De Lesseps canal schemes.
THE Chilians continue to levy heavy
fines on the merchants OF Lima and threaten
to make the eXactfons tenfold worse in case
the peace negotiations fail. One difficulty
in the way OF an adjustment seems to be
that no sooner IS matter agreed upon than
the Chilians set it aside and increase their
demands. Montero has called for elections
OF Congressmen in all parts OF the country
still under Peruvian rule, and the Congress
so chosen will meet at Arequipa in March
Until then it looks as though no authorita-
tive action need be expected.
SENATOR WINDoM's friends contra
dict the story Of his being wealthy. They
say, in fact. he is as "poor as a turkey"
They figure up his wealth, gained in public
life, scarcely exceeding 5000, 900
TREVELYAN, Chief Secretary for Ire
land, in Parliament, Nov. 27, stated that
conflict between the Dublin police and or
ganized lawlessuess seemed inaugurated.
The Government was determined to use all
the resources at its disposal to put down
the latest development Of disorder.
The popular vote in the Swiss cleo
tion was against State control Of the schools.
The Madagascar ambassadors have
refused 20 recognize French protectorate.
TIE remains of DIR. Lorenzo Ehrhart,
Of Allegheny City, were cremated at the Ie-
motne furnace in Washington, Pa, Nov. y.
SECRETARY FoLGER in a recent in
teryiew denied in the most emphatic Lam
guage that he had rendered his resignation,
and added that the matter had never been
referred TO, either by the President or him
self.
GEN. ANDREW S. HEBRON, Congress-
man elect from the Sixth Louisiana District,
died OF heart disease the other night.
DUBLIN is proclaimed under the cur
few clause Of the repression act, the police
being thereby authorized to make arrests OF
all suspicious characters abroad in hours OF
darkness.
JOHN 4. MORGAN has been elected to
the Uailed States Senate by the Alabama
Legislature.
MEMBEEs of the English Parliament
have called Lord Granville's attention to
French designs on Madagascar, claiming
that the English trade and population on
the island arc five times those of France.
AFTER throwing out the parishes of
Assumption and st. Mary, the Louisiana
canvassers report :. 200 majority for William
Pitt Kellogg for Congress for the Third Dis
trict Governor McEnery refused to issue a
certificate. OF election, on the ground of
kelog' non-residenee in the State.
In delivering his last lecture as pro-
fessor at Harvard, DR.. Oliver Wendell
Holmes was presented by the students with
n cup bearing aB appropriate eouplet from
his writings. Ills chair is to be taken by
Or. ThomHs Dwight.
CoRPORAL BLUCHER, of the Second
Artillery, pest sehoolnaster at Fort Me-
Henry, Baltimore, Md, lineal descend
ant Of the famous marshal, has been ten.
dered hy tker Pasha a staff position in the
Khediye's army. II has served as military
attache of the German legation in Egypt.
REV. JAMES BEEcHER, half-brother
OF the BrooISiyn pastor, has been sent to the
asylum at Middleton, N. Y, for treatment
by physicians familiar with mental dis
eases.