The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-10-18
IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.

NEWS In BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
The PAGER Johnston made q mile ot
Chicago on the 9th in 21O, the fastest har-
ness record ever known.
THE Ohio and Iowa women turned
out at the polls on the 9th and worked for
the temperance amendments.
The RIGHT REV. AUGUSTUS SHORT,
Bishop Of Adelaide, Australia, is dead. He
was born near Exeter, England, in 1903.
TIE Brooklyn courts have refused a
writ to compel the school authorities to
admit colored girl to school for white
children.
THE British Government viii hereaf-
ter make monthly contracts for carrying
the American mails instead of the former
long time contracts.
ALFRED A. Cohen, leading member
of the California bar, who has been visiting
in the East for several weeks, was stricken
with paralysis in New York on the sth.
TIE u. S. court in Chicago on the
9th refused to release under habeas corpus
proceedings Fred Ker, the defaulting CASH
ier who was brought back from South
America,
HENRY T. WRIGHT, the defaulting
Assistant Postmaster at Racine, Wis, was
sentenced on the 9th to five years and one
day Imprisonment and to pay fine of
5000.
The steamship Coptic sailed from
San Francisco with 200 Cinnamon aboard,
the largest number Of the race ever leaving
in one vessel. Nine hundred are booked to
return.
TIE revised estimates of the French
budget are said to show a deficit of 550O0,-
00Of. which the Minister of Finance pro
poses to cover by reduction of government
al expenses.
AssEMBLYNIAN SESSIONS of New York
was placed on trial ON the 8th charged with
attempting to bribe a member during the
Senatorial election which was held after
Conkling and Platt resigned.
THE Cincinnati Exposition Commits
sioners have been enjoined from delivering
the premium awarded by the jurors on
electric lights. Proceeding were begun by
the u. s. Electric Light Company.
A MOB of French Anarchists in Lyons,
on the 10th poured bucket Of petroleum
over policeman and set him on fire. The
man was terribly burned. The mob after
ward attempted to fire the stables of the
municipality.
STATE Veterinary Surgeon Bridge
visited Trescottown, Pa, on the 10th and
ascertained that cattle reported suffer-
ing with pleuro-pneumonia were merely af-
hicted by capillary bronchitis. The dis
ease is contagious.
on herrecent cruise from Portsmouth
to New York, the Pinta collided with and
sunk a brig, for which the Government win
probably be called upon to pay. Navy Off
GERS think it is pity that the Pinta wasn't
sunk instead of the brig.
Urto the close of business on the 10th
there had been received at the Treasury
Department for redemption S23,5S9 300
United States bonds, embraced in the 121st
call, leaving still outstanding $6,410, 700
bonds included in that call
AT Lebanon, Pa, on the 9th the Phil
adelphia & Reading Railroad Company
laid tracks all around lot of ground which
had been purchased depot site for a
new line. The property will now be mac
cessible for depot purposes.
TIE elections in Ohio and Iowa on
the 9th were favored with good weather,
and in both States the vote polled was SC
heavy, that returns were late. There were
Republican. gains in Ohio, but whether
enough to carry the State had not been
learned.
THERE were four new cases of fever
at Brewton, Ala, on the 10th, three dying.
The Mayor of Brewton, a pioneer, was
among the number. The disease is pro-
nounced yellow fever. Nearly all the stores
and dwellings were closed and the inhabit-
ants were leaving en- masse.
Two quarrymen report finding in a
cave in quarry at Caperton, Va, on the
Sth an old iron chest containing coins and
tools apparently of some ancient race. The
discovery caused great excitement. The
property is in possession of the finders, f.
L. Docrer and Alex. Haxwell.
MORE complete returns from the
election in Ohio indicate an increase in the
Democratic ma iority, and it will probably
be considerably over $4,000. The Senate
viii be two to one Democratic, and the
House is estimated at forty-three Republic
2 cans and siNty-two Democrats.
MOODY and Sankey successfully be-
gan series of meetings in the Royal Thea
ter, at Limerick, Ireland, on the 10th. The
building was crowded to its utmost capaci
ty. The services were singing by Sankey
and two addresses by Moody. The audi
ence appeared spell-bound under Moody's
preaching.
SECRETAI2Y FOIGER received informa
tion on the 11th from Port Townsend, Wash
ington Territory, of the capture of clever
Cinnamon who, in violation of law, LANDED
on the coast near that port. The United
States officers at that port directed the re
turn of the Cinnamon to the place whenc'
they came.
ESTIMATES st the National Depart
ment of Agriculture indicate that the cot
ton crop will not exceed 5,S00,000 bales
Corn will average something like "A bush