The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-10-05
NEWS I'M BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.


PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
PRoF. HUXLEY has been offered E1OO
for each OF two hundred lectures on popular
science to be delivered in this country in
1888 aud 1884.
PETER COOPER, Who was born in New
York when the city lild a population of "a :
600, has spent the last three months in pre-
pairing his autobiography. His health is
excellent and his mind unimpaired.
GEN. SCHOFIELD has-been- assigned
10 the division OF the Pacific.
THE Khedive, with The approval of
England, has offered to Baker Pasha the re-
organization Of The Egyptian army. Baker
The constitutional, amendment regu-
lating the presIdential succession in Mexico
has been adopted.
THE Dublin correspondent Of the Lon
don Times intimates that Dillon has with
drawn from political life because he does
not fall in with what he considers the milk
and water policy OF his associates.
Col. J. B. PRICE, who was indicted
for connection with the star.route conspir-
acy, voluntarily appeared before Judge
Krekel, at Kansas City. No., the other day,
and gave bond for 10000 to appear at
Washington for trial. He spent several
months IN Canada.
WHILE the JerOmist section of the
BOnapartists were holding a meeting in
Paris to denouuce the Pays and the Petit
CdpOral, the opposition section OF the party
forced entrance into the hall. Revolvers and
swords were displayed and a number OF as
saults were committed. The Jeromists de-
clare the recent duel between Dichard and
Demassas, in which the latter was killed,
was virtually an assassination. The feud be-
tween the two sections is becoming very in
tense.
FRED DOUGLASS says he is not "the
prominent colored ma" going to Virginia
in the interest OF straightout Republicans.
He is in sympathy with Malone. He de-
clines an invitation to Ohio for the reason
that he is too old to travel.
CALEB Q. DICKINSON has left $780,
600 to found a charity hospital at Northamp-
ton, Mass.
LORD DUFFERTN has communicated to
Lord Granville a note from the Porte thank
ing Great Britain for establishing order
in Egypt, and expressing hope that the bonds
OF friendship at present existing between
Turkey and England would become still
closer. Granville has replied, expressing sat
isfaction at the sentiments OF the Ottoman
Government.
A VIENNA newspaper says the En-
peror OF Russia was secretly crowned dur
ing the recent visit to Moscow. / the En-
perOr iives till the public coronation the Sc
cret ceremony will be considered void. In
the event OF his death it will be made pub
lie, so as to avoid any difficulty in proclaim
ing the Czarewitch Alexander as the lawful
successor ofthe crowned monarch.
If IL
the other night for the Thousand Islands.
JUDGE BLACK, on behalf of the Nor
mons, win present to the Secretary OF the
Interior argument In favor Of the removal OF
Governor Murray, OF Utah, in. connection
with argument to prove the Utah Commits
sion unconstitutional
On the charge of heretical teaching,
the trustees Of the Newton Theological In
stllution, in Massachusetts, have dismissed
Professor e. +. Gould from the chair Of
New Testament Interpretation.
GENERAL ROssER is at the head of n
project to build a railway from Winnipeg to
Hudson Bay, by which the grain of the
Northwest will find its way to Liverpool.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
CHARLES SHOWERS, aged 21, board
ed train at Canton. Ohio, the other night,
intending to jump of at a crossing a few
miles distant. His body was found the next
morning, the top OF his head cut off and his
brains scattered along the track.
OFFICERS in search of Richard and
William Skaggss the Indiana murderers,
found them at the house OF their grand
father, SCOTS Hedge, In Marion County, Ky.
The murderers refused to surrender and
opened fire on the officers. A general fight
nj
liam was captured.
Mrs. ADAM EBLNG, of Union De-
posit, Pa, lost a child, the other day, and
could not bear to be separated from it, so
she cut her throat and the two were buried
together.
A WABASH train, loaded with choice
stock which had been on exhibition at the
Sangamon County Fair, was wrecked on a
switch near Pekin, Il,, the other day, kill
ing one man and seriously iniuring six 9TH
crs.
JULIE BOIsvERT, not twenty years of
age, has been found guilty, at the Montreal
Assizes Court, OF administering corrosive
sublimate TO an infant child OF Mrs. Noel,
by whom she was employed as nurse.
A GALLERY in the Exposition Build
ing at Pittsburg, Pa, went down with a
bara Shaw, OF Allegheny, and c. II. Taylor,
Of Wheeling, w. Va, were fatally injured.
Five others were hurt.
AT Covington, Tenn, Sept. %, Emily
Wilson and Lizzie Kemp fought about their
children The latter cut the formers throat
with razor and killed her. The murderess
was arrested.
DICK mason was fatally shot by VIII
liam Carr, at Shelby City, Ky, the other
night. The men were quarreling about
politics. Carr fed, but was arrested the
next day.
FIVE convicts escaped from jail at
Huntsville, Texas, the other morning, by
way OF the sewer. One was killed, one
wounded, two captured, and bloodhOunds
went after the fifth.
Four miners were buried under a
mass 81 coal at Homecoming, Nd, the other
morning. Louis Cook was rescued, but his
injuries were pronounced serious. An eX-
plosion OF ire-damp near Wilkesbarre, Pa,
on the same day, killed one man and injured
four others. Several hundred yards OF the
LackawRnna main track settled two or three
feet
Miss AMANDA GILMORE dropped
dead while play ing the organ in church at
Arlington, Texas, the other night.
CRRISTOPHER DAVIS, IN jail at De-
troit City, Mimi, for beating his wife, set the
place on fire the other night and was burned
10 death.
KATE Il. LUCAS, Newton Wallace,
Ella Wallace, Abraham Lucas and Belle
Lucas, OF South Lebanon, Ohio, attempted
TO cross the river in an old boat, Sept. 26'
When but a few feet from the starting place
an effort was made by one OF the party TO
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