The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-04-20

the charges false In every particular, and
the attack upon him most malicious and
wicked.
REV. GEO. Fl. AUSTIN, of Marion,
Ind, pleaded guilty to a charge OF forgery,
April 10, and was sentenced to five years in
the Penitentiary and to pay a fine of $40.
The forgery was a note for $3.50, and was
committed in February last.
THE bin of exceptions taken in tn
case OF Charles J. Guiteau and signed by
Judge Cox has been printed, and makes a
pamphlet of thirty y-nine pages. There are
thirty two exceptions rs to matters occur
ring up to the time when the case was given
to the jury, and exceptions also to the rul-
ings OF the Court denying new trial and
overruling the motion in arrest Of judgment
THE fire which destroyed the works
OF the Powell Tool Company, at Cleveland,
Ohio, the other day, is attributed to incen-
diaries. Fifty employees from the estab-
lishment struck several weeks ago, and
since then riots and threatenings have been
OF frequent occurrence. The non-union
men who were employed in place of the
strikers have been assaulted and shot al, and
several injured.
A HONG KONG silk house has just
been exposed in half million fraud
THE Central Bank of Indianapolis,
with a capital stock of 100000, has closed
its doors, on account of a defalcation Of Sa5, :
900 by a teller named Arthur Mueller. The
deposits aggregate S105, 900.
FRUIT has been seriously injured by
the frost i'm Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and
Illinois. Apples, peaches and strawberries
will show short crop in many sections.
THE Secretary of the Interior has
transmitted to the Senate a communication
from the Commissioner Of Pensions, giving
the total number of pensioners on the roll,
and the amount, including arrears of PEN
sions, actually paid for the year ending
September 4, 1881, in each State. 1t is esti-
mated that fully II, 900 pensioners were not,
and will not be, paid who belong to the class
falling to claim pension for three years, and
upward Of 5, 600 whose residences could not
be obtained, as they follow the sea for a
means Of livelihood. The aggregate shows
that there are now on the rolls 269, ,S51 PEN
soners, the annual amount required to pay
them being $292, ,634, 600. The comparative
gain subsequent to September win be very
generally distributed among the Eastern,
Middle and Western States, and in Tennes-
see and West Virginia, while in the remain
ing Southern States the losses by death OF
1872 pensioners will not materially vary
from the addition to the rolls for those To-
calities.
GRAIN speculation caused a savings
bank cashier at Washington, Pa, to become
a defaulter for from $4,000 to $50, 900.
AT Poughkeepsie, n. Y, on the 18th,
Moett, twice convicted of the murder of his
wife, and twice sentenced to death, was
granted third trial. In the afternoon ses-
sion Of the court his counsel pleaded guilty
to murder in the second degree. The plea
was accepted and Moett was sentenced to
State Prison for life.
CHRIsTIANA TAYLOR, the old negress
charged with the murder Of the two Miller
children at the farm of Joseph Fisher, near
Washington, d. c., has been convicted.
IN. case in q Philadelphia court
where the embezzlement of nearly $40, 900
was charged against bookkeeper possess
ing political influence among the Irish peo~
pie, a sensation was created by the expos
ure of an attempt to pack the jury. The
corrupter, James T.. Clifford, was arraignsd
on a bench warrant.
SIXTEEN afidavits in behalf of DIR.
Lamson, convicted of murder in London,
have been forwarded, and Secretary FIRE.
linghuysen has telegraphed an epitome of
their contents to Minister Lowell, with in
structions to call the attention OF Lord Gran
vile to the matter at once.
On the ground that it should have
been presented to the Probate Court Of Chi
cago, Judge Loomis has refused to consider
the petition of Mrs. ScoYile for the ap-
pointment of a cOnseTvator for the estate of
Charles J. Guiteau, and quashed a sum-
mons thoughtlessy issued by deputy clerk.
PROCEEDINGS have been instituted in
Pennsylvania to make 213 insurance COM
panies show cause why their charters should
not be surrendered.
THE Bosnian insurrection has been
suppressed.
THE royal family of Brazil have been
robbed of 100000 worth Of jewels.