The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-08-03

PRESIDENT ARTHUR has referred to
the Secretary of War a petition from the
Garfield Club of New York, bearing 49, 900
signatures, for the pardon Of Sergeant Ma
son.
A WILD storm broke over st. Paul,
Mimi, the other day, uprooting trees and
sbattering windows. Several sail boats
were capsized at MinnetOnka.
AN ex-Alderman of Brooklyn, N. Y,
named James Dunno, is matched to fight
Tug Wilson for $500 a side and the cham.
pionship Of the world.
JOSEPH SAVERS, an inmate of the
Central Prison at Toronto, Cana, was given
twenty five lashes on the bare back the 9TH
er day for assauliing young girl.
AN official telegram dated Cairo, July
26, says: "VOlunteers are arriving from
Upper and Lower Egypt. Some chiefs of
the Bedouins, who prior to the lombard
ment were known as partisans OF the Khe-
dive, have promised fidelity, and all the best
class Of Mussulmans, including the princes
and princesses of the Khedive's family
now in Cairo, are aiding the rebel Govern
ment."
THE wife OF a farmer living near
Brownsville, Neb., has been delivered of a
child with four arms and four legs. The
monstrosity is alive and seems to be per-
feetly healthy.
YELLOW FEVER has appeared in quite
a bad form at Campeche, Mexico.
AT San Francisco, on the 26th, Samuel
Sachs, a millionaire dry goods merchant,
shot his wife. The act was instigated by
jealousy. The wound is not dangerous.
A PARTY of Chippewa Indians have
started for Washington, to conclude negO-
tiations for the transfer of 100000 acres
of their reservation near Red Lake, Mimi,
to the Government.
A BAND of forgers have been working
the small banks in the interior OF Penn
sylvania. They did not succeed in getting
much.
UNDER the legislative, executive and
judicial appropriation bill. the clerical force
of the War Department will be increased
something over 800. For these clerkships
there are already over 1000 applications on
file.
A TORNADO swept through a belt of
country half a mile wide in Durham and
Orange Counties, North Carolina, the other
day, doing great damage.
AN explosion of giant powder near
Chicago, on the 27th, shattered windows for
miles around. -Four or five persons were
injured.
ANN ELIZA IVES, widow of John B.
Ives, who formerly lived in Syracuse, n. Y,
and died in Texas in October, 1868, has
brought suit against a number of property
owners to recover the dover on a large tract
of land situated in the very heart of Syra-
cuse. The suit involves a great many mil
lions of dollars.
MONTREAL Customs officers seized
$40 barrels Of flour, valued at s., 200, ship
ped from Chicago.
BENJAMIN LIssNER, of Boston, Mass,
who passed some genuine silver coins con-
tanning holes, was convicted of counterfeit
ing. Judge Lowell, in the Circuit Court,
set aside the verdict, on the ground that it
is not considered a criminal act to add base
metal to good coin, and that punching a
hole through piece Of hard money, leav-
ing all the metal, has no effect to make it
less valuable or to render it less lawful
tender.
In the famous Varney divorce case at
Fond du Lac, Wis, which has been before
the courts for five years, the wife has been
granted her freedom, for failure to support,
and has been exonerated from the charge of
attempting to poison her husband. He is
ordered to deed her a homestead and pay
her 81, $50 and costs, and it is probable that
his expenditure in the contest will aggre-
gate $4,000.
J. A. REED, an auctioneer Of Peoria,
H., was horsewhipped on the street, the
other day, in presence Of five hundred per-
sons, by Mrs. S. B. Hayes, for rejecting
upon her behavior at a revival-meeting.
THE Indians of the Turtle Mountain
country have posted notices warning white
men against encroaching on their lands
until treaty Is made with the Govern
ment.
THE Russians in Alaska, it is said, are
being decimated by scarlet fever and mea-
sles. Brandy is said TO be greatly needed,
but its importation is a penitentiary Of
tense.