The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-05-31
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
Personal AND POLITICAL.

OVhNAANu AAUAl DVuANCoa
Personal AND POLITICAL.
HON WALTER EVANS, of Louisville,
Ky.,was on the 2ist appointed Commission
or Of Internal Revenue. He was the Repul,-
lican candidate for Governor OF Kentucky
four years ago. General Samuel w. Fer
guson, of Mississippi, has been appointed
to fiji the vacancy in the Mississippi River
Commission.
IT is reported from London that the
Governor G oneraIship Of Canada, in sue
cession to the Marquis of Lorne, has been
offered to the Marquis Of Landsdowne, who
has accepted.
THE Marquis of Orovic, leader of the
Conservative party in the Spanish Senate,
died at Madrid, few days ago.
CHARLES AVERY, who was Professor
of Chemistry in Hamilton College, New
York, for thirty-ive years, from 1884 to
1863, died the other day at the age Of eighty
seven years.
THE Rev. DIR. HOrnblOwer, Of the
Western Theological Seminary, was
stricken with paralysis while preaching
few days ago in Pittsburgh, Pa.
THE Secretary of the Interior has ap-
pointed a commission TO appraise the Kick
apoo Indian lands in Kansas.
AKRANGEMENTs have been made to
place a bust Of Longfellow in Westminster
Abbey, between the tombs of Chaucer and
Dryden.
PRIME MINISTER DEPRETEs announced
in the Italian Chamber of Deputies on the
I'D that the Cabinet had resigned and he
had been entrusted by the King with the
formation of another Cabinet.
TIM NaW .Tareay PrAbibition State
Convection, in session at Trenton on the
22d, nominated DIR. Isaac N. Quimby OF
Jersey City for Governor.
AT Madrid, Spain, fourteen thousand
troops were reviewed the other day in hon
or Of the King of Portugal.
A. ID. GERMAN, of Albany, n. Y, has
given Williams College $4,000 to found a
professorship.
ARTHUR Il. SULLIVAN, George Alex
ander McFarren and George Grove. com
posers 1yeue formally decorated in Windsor
Palace the other day, by the Queen, with
the order of knighthood.
THE Royal Society of Canada has
appointed DR.. 3. Hunt, Major Powell and
W. Gossip as delegates to the meeting Of
the National Academy Of Science at Wash
ington, d. G.
ARECENT decision Of the Second Audi
tor Of the Treasury that the acceptance Of
positions in the civil service deprives per-
sons on the retired list of the army of the
latter honor and the accompanying emolu-
ments affects General Daniel E. Sickles
equally with Colonel Badeau, whose case
invoked the ruling. General Sickles has
been drawing $1,000 year as Brigadier-
General on the retired list since 1863, in
cIuding the time he served as Minister to
Spain.
THE death of General Sabatier,
Governor of Paris, France, has been an
nouuced.
WrrH slight notifications, the French
Chamber Of Deputies has adopted the
American postal-servicc regulations.
President ARTHUR, accompanied by
most of the members of his Cabinet, ar
rived at New York on the 23d, where he
would witness the ceremonies attending
the opening of the Brooklyn bridge. lie
will not return to Washington until after
Decoration Day.
TlIE annual dinner given by Minister
West at the British Legation in Washing
ton on the 2fJh, in honor of the Queens
birthday was attended by the foreign am
bussadors generally, Admiral Proctor
General Sherman, Chief-Justice Waite
tcnator Miller and several representatives
OF the departments. Secretary Teller was
the only Cabinet officer present.
THE State Convention of the Ken
tucky Republicans concluded its session al
Lexington on the cath. The following
ticket was nominated: Thomas z. Morrow
for Governors General S. S. Fry, Iieuten
ant Governor; Lewis c. Garrigus, Attor.
ney-G General; Leroy II. Hawthorne, Audi
tors g. Flournoy, Treasurer; J. +. Pink
#crtolb Superintendent of Public Instruc
tion, and w. Ashbury, colored, Register
of the Land Office.
LIE Ohio Grand Lodge of the Knights
Of t'ythfas concluded its session at Cincin
natl on The 2lth, The next meeting will b,
held at Canton in May, 1891.
THF Arctic exploring vessel Sophia
with Prof. Nordenskiold and other scien
fists, hns sailed from Gothenburg, Sweden
for ttreenland.