The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-06-21
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

LIE SECRETARY OF w III mas QlTCClCu
troops to be detailed to escort to their
homes the insurgent Greek Indians held
prisoners at Fort Gibson.
FAMINE in the Kurdish districts of
Asia Minor was reported on the 18th.
Many had died. Grain was selling at
six times its usual prices.
The Massachusetts Medical Society,
in session at Boston, by vote of sixty
two to ifty-one has declined to admit
women to membership.
NEAR Correctionville, Iowa, the other
day a stranger became involved in a quar-
rel with George Adams, who was breaking
prairie, and cut Adams throat from ear TO
ear. The murderer escaped.
A RECENT Washington special to the
Cleveland Herald states that Postmaster
General Gresham denies the published
statement that he has decided to exclude
| patent insides' from the mails as second
class matter" In view of the law of Con-
gress passed in 1874, providing ''thaU news
papers, one copy to each actual subscriber,
residing in the county where the same are
printed, in whole or IN part, and published,
shall go free through the mails" such de-
cision by the Post-office Department as
that hinted at would be in violation of law
and of no binding force.
IT was reported on the 18th that the
shaft of the Wilmington Company's mine
at Braidwood, H., had been burning for
several days. Several dynamite explo-
sions had occurred and a number of men
were missing. Some lives had probably
been lost but definite information was not
obtained.
THE General Synod of the Reformed
Church, in session at Albany, N. Y, on the
4 iafr Of
Masonry and other oath-bound orders.
THE Japanese Government has ac-
4 lmowledged, with thanks, the receipt of the
S7SJ,0oO indemnity fund from the United
States.
AT St. Paul, Ind, a few days ago
Silas F1avors had his skull crushed with
rock in the hands of James Cheek They
! had quarreled and Cheek slipped up be
4 hind Flavors and struck him unawares.
The locomotive of freight train on
\ the Toledo, Cincinnati & st. Louis Rail
! road left the track at Dayton, o., the other
! day and rolled down a forty foot enbank-
ment, fatally injuring Brakeman Vernon.
! The engineer and fireman were also severe
ly hurt.
THE liabilities ofT.J. Mandt, the wagon
manufacturer of Stoughton, Wis, whose
I failure was announced a few days ago, it
is said will reach $2,Ooo,000, a large proper
| tiOn of which is due to Chicago and Milwau-
1 llee houses.
AN attempt was made by s. C.
/ Davis, a lawyer, to shoot Congressman
1 elect Lamb in the streets of Terre Haute,
Ind, a few days ago. The bullet missed
Lamb and wounded a passer-by in the
foot.
TIE Mayor Of Lancaster. Pa, has is
IN
of that city to be vaccinated to prevent the
| spread of smallpox.
PRIVATE adviccs from Vera Cruz,
Mex, on the 18th said the yellow fever at
that port was very bad, and that the au-
( thorities We're trying to conceal the fact as
much as possible. The fever was reported
to he of a very malignant type and very
fatal.
THE falling off in the national reve-
nue. for the present fiscal year up to June
has been $7,F3,9i0.
NORMAN L. MUNRO, the publisher
has sued James Gordon Bennettfor 100000
damages for alleged libel.
! Two men were arrested in Buffalo,
N. Y, a few days ago for selling tickets to
! an imaginary picnic, represented to be
under auspices of the irOn-wOrkeTs.
I THR New FORK Board of Trade rec
ommends that trade organizations urge
congressional legislation to prevent State
interference with commercial travellers.
THREE miners entered n coal mine at
Crested Butte, Colo, the other morning
with an uncovered lantern. A fire-damp
explosion followed and two of them were
suffocated.
SMALL, n Parnellite, has been elected
without opposition to the seat in the British
House of Commons from the County Wex
ford, made vacant by the resignation OF
Byrne, the Home Ruler.
THE British steamer Canto- arrived
at San Francisco, Cal, a few days ago
/ She brought seven hundred and forty-foul
cases of opium, valued at S650,00O; duties
S231, ,00o. @
IT was reported on the 18th that the
British Consul had to protect from the
Egyptian mob young Mohammedan who
! embraced the Christian faith.
EIGHrEEN men were injured by the
discharge of a cannon at Grand Army
, celebration at Mystic Bridge, Conn, on the
Z 18th. .H--.-ea# s- ..
2 THE War Department received Gen.
eral Crooks report of his operations il
Mexico on the 18th. 1t confirmed the West
ern press dispatches.
Il TIIREE stories of the barracks a
Kaluga, Russia, fell the other day killing
ten men. A powder manufaetoTy exploded
near st. Petersburg.
An explosion on a tug at BuenO.
I Ayres, on the 18th, killed eight persons anC
seriously injured nine others. -Four of tht
victims were horribly mutilated. Ont
was smashed to pieces against house.
, AT Rockford, Coosa County, Ala
+ the other day Jordan Corbin, a negro, en-
S tered the house of a peaceful citizen an'
I shot him while lying on bed. His wifi
= jumped up and the negro shot her down
e \ son started to give the alarm and be wa
4 also shot. All were Instantly killed. Z
= fourteen-year- daughter escaped an,
b gave the alarm There was no know
f provocation for the murders.
i THE schedules in the assignment Q
: Lawrence s. Bro, ,stationers, y. Y e, have bee
fled The liabilities are S164, ,OS6.
: THE new Oil Exchange at Cleveland
9 o.. was opened with appropriate oeremc
4 nies few days ago.
n NEW York produce dealers are i'm
L porting eggs in large quantities from Ell
t rome, the low prices at which they can
a bought in Denmark and elsewhere, IL
n claimed, more than offsetting the create
cost of transportation.