The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-10-26

bis establishment for few days unless paid
g, 800, has been indicted for robbery, riot,
extortioh, assault and battery, and main-
tanning a nuisance.
SECRETARY FOLGER has called, IN
S15, 900, 900 in extended per cent. bonds,
payable January IS. -
THE President has suspended Jona-
than Diggs, Indian Agent at Colorado River
Agency and appointed John w. Clark his
successor. McGillicuddy, of the MescaIero
Agency, rendered his resignation, but the
Secretary Of the Interior declined to accept
it pending the result of the investigation
now I'm progress.
A PRAYER-NEETING in the Baptist
Church at Roxborough, N. c., the other
evening, was abruptly terminated by the
fall Of an immense chandelier. A number
of worshipers were injured in the panic
which ensued.
BENJAMIN LEGAULT, of Beauharnois,
Quebec, has entered action to prevent his
widowed sister, 65 years OF age and worth a
hundred thousand dollars, from marrying
young man.
A CORNER on Para rubber has been
secured by three importers of Boston and
New York, and the price has been forced to
Sl2e per pound. Seventy manufacturers of
New York met on the 18th to devise means
to break the syndicate. The common grades
Of rubber have necessarily advanced in
price.
A DISPATCH was recently sent from
Chicago stating that three lives were lost on
Lake Michigan through a ruling by the Su-
pervising Inspector of Steam Vessels that
tugs must not take passengers on board, uh-
der penalty Of $500. The Inspector says
! that no regulation ever made by the depart
ment could be tortured into prohibition Of
saving life, the only restriction being as to
/ equipments for the safety of passengers.
/ Chicago tugmen are said TO have boosted
that they would suffer people TO drown.
! The bankers of Chicago are earnest
and united in their disapproval of the ruling
/ Of Secretary Folger that gold certificates
| can only be procured at the sub-TFeasuFy
| in. New York, which forces upon Western
| people express charges in both directions,
on the coin and the paper.
| A TRAIN of twenty-five empty stock
cars made a test of the Northern Pacific
! iron bridge across the Missouri at Mandan,
| Dakota, the other day, amid salutes from
STEAMBOATS, and locomotives in sight. On
the return trip eight heavily loaded cars
were attached, and no vibration was felt.
A BILL before the Legislature of Yer
| mont imposes fine Of $40 for Offering a
boy under 15 years of age a cigar or = cigar
cite,
It3 3PHILADELPHIA has been excited by
a series OF remarkable explosions of gas
mains under Twentieth street. Things
were badly shaken up, but nobody. was
hurt.
THE suit of Marie Prescott, the ac-
tress, against the President Of the American
News Company, New York. resulted in a
verdict of $l2, 500 for plaintiff.
TIE Amalgamated Iron and Steel AS
socation OF the Chicago district has agreed
on a lower scale for the coming year.
A REMARKABLE tragedy was enacted
in Knoxville, Tenn, on the 10th, three
| prominent citizens engaging in a dead
ly recontre on a public thoroughfare.
i Thomas O'Connor. lessee Of the State
| Penitentiary, an extensive dealer in sad
dlery and harness, and President of the Me-
chanies' National Bank, shot and killed
/ Joseph A. Mabry, Sr,, and j. A. Mabry,
| Jr., receiving his own death wound at the
hands of the latter. The difficulty, so far
as can be learned, originated at the East
| Tennessee Fair Grounds on the previous
afternoon, Mabry senior branding
| O'COnnOr as swindler, scoundrel
ETC., and telling him that he was
the cause of the murder Of his son, Will
Mabry, WHO was killed by Constable Lusby
! in December last. Mr.. O'Connor declined
an invitation to fight then and there, saying
he would settle matters at another time. On
the fatal morning O'Connor saw Gen. Nab
ry approaching the. bank, and stepping in
side for a shotgun he discharged both bar
rels and killed his man. Young Mabry came
| along, Just as some one in the bank handed
out another gun, and fred bullet into
! O'Conner's heart, receiving a mortal
| wound while avenging his father. One by
stander was painfully wounded in the thigh
and another in the arm. -Four other men
had their clothes pierced by buckshot.