The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-09-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

in connection with a rising in Cuba.
SEPTEMBER cotton returns to the De-
partment of Agriculture are less favorable
than those for August.
AT a rehearsal in the Fourteenth
Street Theater, New York, ON the 10th,
scenic bridge gave way with several actors.
Six persons were injured.
AT Scranton, Pa. on the 10th An
drew Williams playfully pointed pistol at
his sister with the usual result, funeral.
Another Pennsylvania man shot his wife in
like manner.
TIE city of Pensacola continued
healthy. There were five deaths and one
new case on the 9th and 10th at the Navy
Yard No new cases OH the 10th.
ARNEL HICKEY and Herman Pilgrim,
teamsters, were killed by lightning at st.
Paul, Mimi, on the 10th.
SEVERAL earthquake shocks were felt
at st. Thomas, West Indies, August 27.
AMAsA SWALLOW, of Delaware, o..
offers $4,000 for the capture and conviction
of the slayer of his son, mysteriouslY muir
dered some weeks ago.
Hon. J. HANSON GOOD, Democratic
candidate for Congress from the Wheeling
! (W. Va.) District against General Goff in
1882, and prominent attorney, died at his
residence in Wheeling ON the 10th, aged
forty.
AT Clinton, Arizona, on the 9th. Billy
Delaney walked up TO a gambling table and
shot and killed Henry Sawyer. In the
fracas that followed two other men were
seriously wounded.
TIE employees of the Manchester Iron
and Steel Company of Pittsburgh, Pa,
numbering 20 men, quit work on the 10th
because the assignees who have charge of
the works discharged Superintendent An
4 thony Kloman.
| l.. HOsLE, a French aerOnaut, sue
/ ceeded in making a balloon trip from
/ France to England on the 10th.
CETEwAYO's brother who was re-
ported killed in the late rebellion, has
turned up safe at Natal.
THE Atlantic & Pacific Railroad
offers another 100 miles of road for Govern
ment inspection.
ADMIRAL PIERRE, of the French navy,
died on the 11th.
THERE were further riOtOus demon
strations among the Crotians on the 18th.
FOREST fires were reported on the
| 18th among valuable timber lands in Vir-
ginia.
THE Western Union Telegraph Com
pany ordered its regular Quarterly dividend
of one and three-quarters per cent. on the
11th.
A HEAVY storm prevailed on the North
Carolina coast on the 18th.
Four more bodies were recovered
the ruins of the recent fire in Cincinnati on
the 11th.
j. c. BEDELL, Vincennes, Ind, dis
appeared recently, leaving $4,000 debts
unprovided for.
THE Georgia Pacific Railroad will be
opened from Atlanta to Birmingham in No
vember.
THE King of Anam is to be decorated
with the grand Gordon Of the Legion OF
Honor by the French.
TIE Catholic clergy in Hungary have
) issued pastoral letters against the practice
of Jew-baiting.
OCCASIONAL cholera cases occurred
in Alexandria, but the disease was rapidly
disappearing throughout Egypt.
THE Lancashire (Eng.) Cotton Spin
uers' Society demanded a reduction o.
wages for both weavers and spiRners OF
, the l1th.
| The British Government had decided
to form the nucleus of the new Egyptian
police from the Irish constabulaIy.
A sAH. boat capsized on Lake Cham
plain ON the 9th with three men. Two wer
drowned and the third drifted ten hour
before reaching land.
j. M. HAVEN was arrested on the 10tl
at Rutland, Vt, charged with embezzlinl
$4,000 while Treasurer of the Rutland Rail
! road Company. Bail was fixed at $4,000
which he furnished.
, ST. PAUL. Mimi, had $4,000 fir
t on the 11th.
Cord DUEL, who killed Henry Bas
a at Paris, Ohio, was captured at Bucyru
and taken to Canton on the 11th. The muT
der was the result of a quarrel between tn
1 men.
r AT Philadelphia, on the 11th, vii
i liam H. Parnell was arrested on a charg
n of embezzling SS, 100 from Sinclair & Laugh
n lin, Wholesale grocers. He was the firm
l. book-keeper.
SIX new fever cases and two death
were reported at the Pensacola Navy Var
I on the 18th.
: The protracted drought which ha
i done great damage to crops in Virgins
:. was ended by a very heavy rain on the It'll
q but too late, it was feared, to do corn muc
a good.
/ THE ninth annual cOnvocation of tn
]
of St. John and Malta opened in Philade
phia on the 1lth.
= IT was rumored on the 11th that
1t Manson & Son, owners of the Bay Vie
e House, Ferry Beach, and managers of th
L. Ocean House, Old Orchard, and the August
D. House, Augusta, Ne, had failed for larg
E. amounts.
# THE trunk line freight agents wei
e in session at Cleveland on the 18th.
= FIVE of the victims of the rag war,
house fire at Cincinnati were buried on IL
18th.
" THE Toronto Industrial Expositio
h was opened ON the 18th by the Govern'
le General.
:, Two British gunboats had arrived {
I; Canton. The foreign colony was though
1t to be safe.
i FIRE caused $4,000 damage in
5; West Madison street block in Chicago c
y the morning Of the 18th.
y A SHOOTING match for $4,000 4 sic
- y, between DR.. Carver and Captain Stnbl
= was being talked of.
y NEAR Grapeville, Pa, on the Iii
~ JOS Pune was riddled with shot while
- the act of robbing farmers potato pate
/. AUSTRIA and Germany had made r