The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-10-18
Personal AND GENERAL.

the United States on the Sth.
THE Swiss will protest against the
erection of military works by France in the
neutralized portion Of Savoy.
EDWIN Butt, travelling salesman,
for Chicago firm, cut his throat in a sleep
ing car at Bay City, Mich, the 7th and
died in few hours.
CARDINAL MCCABE, of Dublin, asks
additional educational privileges for Cath
| Olics IN order to place them on level with
other denominations.
S. r. CRUMBAUGH, United States Col
lector, Second Kentucky District, is charged
| with using Government stamps and envel-
opes for private business.
JAY GOULD and Russell Sage are said
to have taken each 100000 in Northern
/ Pacific second mortgage bonds.
GEO. WM. BALLoU q Co, who re-
Gently failed in New York, have resumed
business, their creditors being paid in full.
GENERAL DENT has asked to be
placed on the retired list December l, un-
der the forty-year service provision.
The Governor of Maryland has des-
ignated the 10th of November for the exc
cution of John Smith, colored, of Garrett
County, who killed Joseph Harden on the
| 10Th of May.
PLEURO-PNEUMONIA has broken out
in Lehigh County, Pa.
GENERAL CANIPENON has been ap-
pointed French Minister of War.
THEY have discovered an immense
river hitherto unknown in Alaska.
THE German Admiralty is perfecting
plans for more rapid mobilization of the
navy.
The Black Flags were badly deci-
,,,o+ad Inv a,,ider7icc hafOra fbnu ref-aa tod
from Hanoi.
SAMUEL MCDANIEL was hanged on
the 9th at Fort Wayne, Ind, for the murder
of Louis Laurend.
AT Wilkesbarre, Pa, on the 9th,
! Franklin Monroe shot tramp dead for
throwing stones at his house.
IT is reported that the French have
had collision with regular Chinese troops
and defeated them.
UNITED STATES District Attorney
Milton of North Carolina denies the report
that he has resigned.
THREE passenger cars were thrown
from the track and burned at Deux
| Rivieres, Canada. Several passengers
were badly hurt.
JOHN S. LAxWELL, an Ohio man, has
been arrested in New York for trying to
have engravings made of photographs of
| treasury notes.
DAN GOULD, colored, was convicted
at Troy, N. Y, on the 9th of the murder of
| William Carpenter and sentenced to be
| hanged October 2G.
THE biennial session of the Supreme
Lodge of A. 0. U. w. commenced in Buff
falo, N. V, on the 9th, with representatives
from nearly all sections of the country.
York coupon frauds show that they began
as far back 1874, and have caused a loss
to the city of $4,000.
THERE were thirteen cases of fever
under treatment at Brewton, Ala, on the
9th.
THE American Institute of Mining
Engineers commenced its annual sessions
at Troy, n. Y, on the 9th.
A PROJECT for a worlds fair at San
Francisco in 1897 is under discussion.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany has 12,9l7 offices.
The Khedivo of Egypt is expected to
grant amnesty for all offenders except such
as were convicted of murder and outrage.
A CONVENTION of river coal miners is
to be held at Pittsburg to select commit
tee to arrange winter scale of wages.
TWELVE prisoners broke jail on the
10th at Lancaster, Pa.
THE Chinese Ambassador has decided
to ask England's mediation.
The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. lockout
continues at Pittsburgh.
THE Bankers Association of the
United States met on the 10th at Louisville
THE Government has secured the
condemnation in New y York of 100000 cigars
not bearing the number of the factory.
The town of Middleport, N. Y,
nearly burned down on the 10TH
JOHN HAY and Frank Work are the
new directors in the Western Union Board.
SENATOR EDMUNDs will resign the
position of President pro tenn. of the Sen
ate.
THE Maid of the Mist ran the Niagara
whirlpool rapids on the 10th with 10000
people looking on.
The Exposition directors at Louisville
have decided to open a bench show on the
30th.
A BERLIN editor has been convicted
of libeling the Russian Minister of the In
terror.
SIX children of John Stouffer of
Ligonier, Pa, were poisoned on the 10th by
eating weeds, two of them fatally.
THREE men have been arrested at
Grand Forks, Oak, for counterfeiting sill
yer certificates.
THE Treasury Department has COM
promised Judgment of $4,000 against A.
c. Hesing of Chicago for -, 700.
THE recent alarming reports about
yellow fever at several points in the South
appear to have been unfounded.
THE coastwise steamers City of Brus-
sells and Ludgate Hill collided in the Eng
lish Channel on the 10th. Both were badly
damaged.
THE summer residence of Thomas W
Pearsall, New York banker, burned on
the 10th at Growers Hill, Conn; loss : i25,-
900.
IN an election fight between whites
and negroes at Cunminsville, O., on the
10th, policeman was shot in the thigh and
a negro n1ortally wounded.
THREE men charged with blowing up
a house at Pawling, y. Y, and causing the
death of Samuel Grauer were arrested on
the 9th.
THE breaking of an axle caused a bad
collision on the Pennsylvania Road, near