The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-02-23

as she was entering the harbor, knocking a
bOle in the vessel twelve feet abaft the stem
on the port side, twenty feet long and five
/ feet wide. She had 600 tons OF freight or
/ board. The steamers bulkhead at once
/ hlled with water, and she was able to get up
only to the head of the river by the side o.
the pier.
WOoD HIGHT, cousin of the famous
James boys, arrived in Kansas City on the
14th, heavily handcuffed and manaeled, and
was locked up in the County Jail with great
| secrecy by officials from Clay and jackson
Counties. Hight was arrested near Cross
Plains, Tenn, upon warrants sworn out in
Missouri charging him with being one of the
| parties who robbed the Chicago & Altor
express train in the cut near Glendale
last September.
THE ship Glenmorag arrived in New
York on the 18th with thirteen survivors OF
the Bahama disaster, who were found toss
ing about in aa open boat They abandoned
the Bahama while it was sinking, with
twenty persons on board.
THE Coroner's jury investigating the
fire in the cid World building, New York
City, found that the fire originated from q
defective fiue; censured Potter and his en-
ployees for neglecting to apply for proper
permit for repairs, and the carpenter for moi
giving the alarm of fire promptly, and COM
mended McDaggert, fireman, and Charles
Wright (colored), bootblack, for bravery in
saving life.
A GERMAN gardener named Schapp
was arrested in Columbus, o., the other
day for stealing food from his neighbors
When he told his pitiful stofY of a starving
family he was released. A visit to his home
revealed most deplorable state of affairs.
His wife, confined to bed With newborn
child, was a raving maniac, aud three small
children hoveren about hrr crying for
bread.
THOMAS DALTON, an Irish laborer, OF
New York City, died recently from hydro
phobia. He was bitten by dog in NOvem
Der last, receiving slight wounds on the left
arm and hand. The dog was killed, al
though there was no indication that it was
mad. The wounds inflicted oY the animal
soon healed, and Dalton suffered no trouble
from them until the 10th, when na was at
tackled by numbness and violent pains in
his arm. During the night and until his
death he continued to suffer intensely. His
throat was parched, and, although he was
constantly afflicted with a burning thirst,
the sight of water threw him into convul
sions. He had neglected to have the wounds
on his arm and hand cauterized.
THE next reunion of ex-Confederates
of Missouri is to be held at Sedalia, on the
10Th Of August.
THE Pennsylvania Military Academy,
at Chester, burned on the 10th. The entire
loss will foot up 100000; insurance, not
OYer $4,000. All State and Government
property was saved. The students saved
most Of their personal effects. Fire originat-
ing in Meisenheimer's clothing store, Rob-
inson County, Kans., on the same day, de-
strOyed every business house in the town ex-
cept one, twelve stores, two hotels, the
post office and one dwelling being swept
away. Loss estimated at 100000.
THE town of Columbia, Texas, has
been inundated from the Brazos River. The
inhabitants gathered in the churches and
were supplied with food by boats.
THE report of the commission on the
cattle plague, which was sent to the Senate
by the Secretary of the Treasury, shows that
no lung disease exists in the Western centers
of livestock traffic.
DIPHTHERIA has within four days
swept away four children of John Wander
an, of Cleveland, o., and they were placed
in one grave at Riverside Cemetery.
THE Treasury investigation has led to
the resignation of Norton, clerk in the
Lighthouse Board, and Skeen, foreman Of
laborers in the Treasury Department, and
the removal of Hatch, the stoTekeeper.
AT recent meeting of members of
Unity Church, Chicago, the resignation of
George C. Min as pastor was requested, by
a vote Of 11S to 3S. Mr.. Min asked to be
informed Of the reasons for the action taken.
1t was finally resolved to give him vacation
with a continuance of salary. Mr.. Min is
determined to force a definition of Unitari-
anism.
CHARLES w. WEST, of Cincinnati,
has made another gift of $3.50, 900 to the Art
Museum, the interest only to be used by the
association.