The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-10-12


with a revolver, near Upton, Ind, the other
day, leaving wife and three children. He
was tired OF a lawsuit.
A LITTLE SON of Patrick Powers, of
st. Joseph, Mo- fell into a cistern the other
day and was drowned.
SAMUEL HALL, who was assaulted and
robbed by John Jackson, near Jackson,
Ohio, few days ago, died on the 4th. jack
son has been captured and made full con-
fession. He said he wanted money to give
10 a woman.
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE dispute over the remains of Gut
teau has not yet been settled. The bones
are stiIl in the possession of DR.. ShiRert, OF
the Army Medical Museum in WashngtOu.
They have not been articulatsd and are in a
perfect state OF preservation. Rev. DR..
Hicks has not yet surrendered all claims as
TO their disposition and DR.. Shiffert will not
give them up 70 any one except upon the
payment OF 1900 for his services.
MILK SICKNESS, or some other di-
sease equally as fatal, is killing off the cows
in Knox County, Ind, at an alarming rate.
They are dying by scores. One farmer lost
seven COWS 10 one week. The disease causes
much uneasiness among the farmers.
GENERAL CRooK, on arriving in Ari-
zona, took company of Indian scouts from
Whipple barracks and visited all the bands
said to be disaffeeted. He states that there
is not a hostile Apache in the territory, but
the Cheyennes are likely TO return from
Mexico and commit depredations.
STEwART'5 dry-goods house in New
York has closed its doors fovever. Judge
Hilton states that the widow has been re-
ceiving a rental of 100000 per annum from
the Tenth street building, and it is to be di-
vided up to pay more. ...I.
NELSON WALLING, a wool manufac-
turer at Millbury, Mass, has failed, owing
800 600. The effects of the Avery Bfanufac-
turing Company of New York have been
seized by the sheriff.
THE widow of ex-President Tyler has
learned that some vandal visited the monu-
ment OF her daughter in Richmond, Va. >,
and broke off the draping from the statue Of
Madonna, writing beneath that the work
was a botch.
THERE was an expensive blaze in
Maquoketa, Iowa, the other morning. A. S.
Carter and Iingless Bros. q Co.., suffered
the heaviest losses.
JUD6E TRUEKEY, of the United States
Supreme Court, has decided that railroad
company must honor its tickets, whosOeveT
sells them, aud that therefore the ticket en-
titles. the holder to the rights OF passenger
between points named. This opinion re-
verses the Judgment OF the lower court,
and lays down the law in an interesting way
upon one phase of the ticket-scalping busi-
ness.
CITIZENS of Bridgewater, Mass, are
very indignant over the marriage OF a grand
daughter OF the late Hon. Artemus Hale to
a divorced man from Denver named Henry
A. Blake. Believing that the seheme was
pre- arranged between the parties, mob OF
twenty-five men and boys serenaded them
with fish-horns and tin pans.
THE long continued drought has
ruined the crops OF Central America, and
now a dangerous fever RACES along the
coast. Cholutcay, Honduras, is being deci-
mated. IzalcO, in San Salvador, continues
in eruption.
THE application for writ of habeas
corpus in the case Of Mason, the soldier who
fired at Guiteau, has been denied.
AT the recent session of the Farmers
Congress, in st. Louis, President Hudson,
/ OF Mississippi, took the ground that agri'
culturists should have representation in the
Presidents cabinet, and that they should
have some one at Washington whose special
training and knowledge would enable him
to point out the evil effects OF State legisIa
tion on agriculture, as well as the results OF
commercial treaties. He also recommended
REORGANIZATION OF a larger number of state
and county organizations for the exhibition
of the products of the country.
THE Treasury Department estimates
the reduction in the public debt for Sep
tember at SIG, 600, 900. Checks have been
sent out for S7,3S9,O93 Of quarterly interest.
The Paris Ftgdr0 publishes a report
that the Pope, while walking in the gardens
of the Vatican, was fred at by a soldier, bu
not hit. The report has not been confirmed
and is discredited at the Italian Embassy in
J London.
A TEXAS steer kept two wards Of
| Philadelphia, Pa, in cornmotioh for two
hours the other day, injuring several per-
1 sons, and was killed with revolvers after ht
had tired himself out.
The American District Telegraph
/ Company in Chicago discharged lot oi
! striking messengers the other day and ad.
vertiSed for others. The discharged boy,
! gathered about the Office prepared to pouncC
/ upon their successors, and were so demon
/ strative that police patrol had TO be called
Ito disperse them.
GEN. j. X. BAKER, United States Col
| lector at Mobile, Ala, was assaulted and Sc
/ verely injured by negro politician at a clut
meeting the other night.
CHARLES THORN, a reputable either
/ OF Union City, Ind, has been. arrested on
'the ehsrSe OF hUVfng- assisted in-4he robbery
7 OF 4 stage coach and the killing of a banker
| in California on the 1st OF September, 1879
| His real name is said TO be DQrsal@1
THE Yelled Prophet pagea1 lin St
| Louis on the Sd was, perhaps, the grandes
7 spectacle ever seen in this country. The il.
/ Elimination was intonparably brilliant, and
( every picture Astss-greeted with -thUnderoui
/ applause from the thousands who clogget
/ the >cTossings, jammed the sidewalks,
swarmed on balconies aud IN windows, ant
| clung. with desperate tenacity to every van
/ tage point which commanded even pass
\ ing glimpse OF the wOndrous panorama pre-
/ pared for their delectalion.e
THE Germans of. st. Louis have un
veiled granite obelisk at the grave OF
/ Colonel Frederick Hecker, in Benton Park
In the six-day pedestrian contest a
| birmingham, England, for the Ashley belt,
/ Littlewood made Ala miles in 20 hours ant
20 minutes. beating Dobler's record in the
\ United states.
JEWISH families to the number of sir
hundred have left Pressburg, Austria, on
account OF the ri0ts.
In accordance with the requirements
/ Of the river and harb6r bill, the Secretary o.
J War has awarded the contract to the lowest
\ responsible bidders for the levee work or
I the Lower Mississippi.
THE reward offered for the arrest ol
the Taylor brothers, the Tennessee murder,
/ ers, has been Increased to $40, 800, and the
] Statda viii probably make il larger. Ths
desperadoes are said 70 be i'm the mountains