The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-09-06
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

y was $4,000. For the corresponding pc
riod last year, $l22, 800.
A CARGO of cattle landed in Liver
pool on the 9th from the steamer Ontario,
from Montreal were slaughtered, being
| suspected of infection with Texas fever.
TIE losses by the WilliamspOrt (Pa.)
fire, heretofore mentioned, foot up $780,
600,
THE London Times of the 9th noticed
the release of Missionary Shaw in NADIA
gascar, who was taken prisoner by the
French. ~-->.
The steamer George left England the
2sth for the Polar regions in search of the
Dutch Polar vessel Varna.
The 28th passed without a case of
any sickness at Pensacola. At the Navy
Yard three new cases of fever were report
ed, one of them the daughter of Surgeon
Owen. Mrs. Owen is dead.
THE trial of James Mutt, who shot
| Lyman Dukes, viii commence at Union
town, Pa, on the 30th.
IT was announced on the 28th that
the Spanish Premier, Sagasta, had rendered
his resignation.
THERE were twelve deaths from
cholera in Alexandria on the 9th; 165
deaths in Upper Egypt, and six in Lower
Egypt.
A PHILADELPHIA company has re-
ceived a contract to light Merida, Yucatan,
with gas.
A MAzATLAN dispatch says that sew
eral American employees of the Central
Railroad had fed with $4,000 of the Com
pany's funds.
A PLAGUE of grasshoppers was
threatened in the vicinity of Vera Cruz,
! Matched pests.
FROsTs prevailed in the Province of
! Quebec on the night of the 27th.
A FURIOUS hail-storm swept over Rock
County, Wis, the night of the 9th, caus-
| ing great destruction to growing crops.
NINETEEN young ladies took the veil
! at the Convent of the Sisters of the Immac-
ulate Heart, West Chester, Pa, on the
/ 2Sth.
THE Porter Guards of Memphis,
! Tenn, were the personal guests of Potter
! Palmer in Chicago on the 2Sth.
/ A HAIL storm swept over a section
ten by fifteen miles in extent in Illinois on
the night of the 9th, creating sad havoc
among the crops.
/ BURGLARS broke into a store in Mount
| Clemens, Mich, the night of the 2Sth and
/
liable goods.
THERE is still uncertainty as to the
fate OF some of the passengers on the steam
| er Riverdale, which blew up at New York
on the 2Sth.
The annual convention of the Fire
Underwriters of the Northwest began on
the both at Chicago.
THE steamer John ROwen was dis
with 700 passengers on board on the 29th.
No loss of life.
Two HUNDRED head of Jersey cattle
and a number of ponies, sheep, and hogs,
valued at $75, 1000, were landed at Chester,
Pa, on the both from Hull. The animals
| were quarantined.
LIEUTENANT BOUTELLE MOVES of the
United States navy was killed at Yoko-
hama recently by the fall of spar while
the crew were exercising.
JACOB ANTONBURY shot and mOrtally
wounded Jacob Bush and then blew out his
own brains at Indianapolis on the 2Sth, and
wounded two other persons in the opera
tiOn.
DAvITT, Sexton and Parnen attended
a meeting of the Irish National League al
Dublin on the 29th.
PAYMAsTER Zachary T. Brown died
of yellow fever at the Pensacola Navy
Yard on the 29th.
LIEUT-C T-CONIMANDER Thomas and
Lieutenants Woods and Meigs viii compose
the court to try the Naval Cadet hazers
Cadets Breed of Kentucky, and Strife OF
Maryland were not among the hazers, anC
Cadets Reilly of Wisconsin an Wither
spoon of Connecticut have been added tC
the list of culprits.
A FARMER named Cutchpr was found
dead in his wagon in Shiawasse County
Mich, on the 2Sth, supposed to have been
poisoned with strychnine administered by
a rival in love.
THERE were twelve deaths from chOl-
era in Alexandra in the 2sth; ia in Upper
Egypt and seven in Lower Egypt.
RUSSIAN officials now in Bulgaria arc
to remain two years longer by command Of
the Gear, and opposition to their rule is t.
be treated as rebellion.
In Vienna the summoning of the Ger
man Parliament was held to indicate tina
Spain had been admitted to the triple ALI
ance.
ELEVEN thousand bales of New Soutl
Wales, Victorian and Cape wool were sole
in London on the 29th.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, out of consider
alton for French feelings, decided not t,
hold the annual review of the Guards on tn,
anniversary of Sedan.
THE imports of British iron and stee
during July were 20, 1903 tons against 1O3,
39S tons for the corresponding month las
year. The imports of iron and steel for tn
, first seven months of the year compare,
with the corresponding period of last yea
show a decrease of 7,326,075 tons.
THE California Cotton Mill COMPANY
has been incorporated; capital stock, $500,
; 600. The factory viii be located at Oak
, land Spinning and weaving cotton work
) are now in progress in California.
THE London Missionary Society ha
denied the statement that Mr.. Shaw, tn
: English. Missionary, intended to press
claim for indemnity against France for tn
loss of his property in Madagascar, and 70
false imprisonment.
HENRY WILLARD, President of th
Northern Pacific Railway, with his Ger
man guests, .fifty-five in party, were at Nj
arara. Falls on the Goth; also Count Lipp
w eisenfelds, Minister for Austro-Hungary
n and Baron Won Esendecher, Minister of tn
GERMAN Empire.
REV. HOWELL GARDNER, who wa
So badly injured in the Riverdale exPlosisl
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