The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-11-22
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ADMIRAL LANDOLFE, commanding
the French fleet in the Pacific Ocean, died
recently at Papetit, Tahati.
CHIEF-JUsTICE DAVIS of New York,
on the 18th, called the attention Of the Oyer
and Terminer Grand Jury to abuses in the
/ city departments, and called for thor
| ough investigation.
THERE was a severe gale on the lakes
/ the night of the I1th. Wrecks were re-
/ ported on Lakes Ontario, Erie and Huron.
! Fears were also entertained for the safety
/ Of several vessels caught out on Lake Mich
igan.
o. NJ. CHASE, Superintendent of the
! Michigan fish hatcheries, was drowned
with six others by the capsizing of a boat
! between Petoskey and Harbor Springs on
I the 18th.
SLENMER's Oil Works burned at Nor
ristown, Pa. on the 18th; loss, SO, 600.
THE Pennsylvania Legislature viii
adjourn sine die December ..
THE British police continue to pick
up an occasional internal machine.
TIE French have renewed and
strengthened their treaties with Turkey.
THE American Catholic Bishops held
their first meeting in Rome on the 18th.
TEMPORARY buildings are being erect
ed for the homeless victims of the Shenan-
( doah (Pa.) fire.
TfLLTNGHAsT & Co, dealers in furs
and leather, failed at Chicago on the 18th f;
liabilities, 100000.
REAR-ADAuRAL PLANQUET has been
ordered to the command of the French fleet
in the Pacific.
No witnesses were called for the de-
! fense in the Poole murder case in Dublin.
The jury disagreed.
OK the New England coast, on the
18Th, gale had been blowing for twenty
four hours at the rate of sixty miles per
hour.
A COMPANY of troops from Fort
1 Buford, Dakota, overlook and captured a
band of Canadian haIf-breeds recently who
have been stealing horses in that region.
THE iron columns of the Wisconsin
State-house were so weakened by flaws OH
the inner surface as to be worthless. Hence
the catastrophe.
JAMES MATHIEsON was fined ESQ in
Toronto, Ont, on the 18th, for playing
faro, the prosecution being had under a law
more than 200 years old.
/ A CONSTRUCTION train on the West
Shore Road went down an embankment
near Rochester, n. Y, on the 18th. A mum
Der of worlSmen were badly hurt.
THE list of wrecks on the lakes con
tinues to grow.
EIGHT buildings burned at Duluth
Mimi, the morning of the 18th. One IL,
was lost.
A CoLoRED man named Howard
Byrd has been sentzuced to be hanged De
cember Is, for the murder of his wife, a
Halifax, N. s.
1t is stated that the French reinforce
ments have landed at Hal Phong, and tha
Admiral Courbers first attack win be mad,
ON Sontag and Hunghoa.
THE anniversary of the birth o
Luther was celebrated in the Academy O
Music in New York the night of the 18th by
the United States Evangelical Alliance.
They have very cold weather anC
good sleighing a Quebec.
JACOB OyF, liquor dealer of New
York, convicted under the revenue laws
and the owner of considerable unincum
bered property, is missing. lie is though
to have committed suicide.
IN what is known rs the FillmOr,
viii case, on trial in Buffalo, N. Y, on tin,
l3th Rev. John Gordon, d. D., renOunced
legacy Of 500 in order to testify. lie de
clared Mrs. Fillmore who made the dis
puted will, in his opinion, perfectly sane
A THREE-DAYs' convention of the Ma
tional Academy of Science began on tn
) t3th at New Haven, Conn. Prof. Marsl
s made the address of welcome.
DIR. w. S. BAKER, Of Peru, Ind, wa
ON the 18th taken from the Paris, ILL.,, Gala
boose, where he was confined for drunken
ness, to Peru, Ind, to answer the grave
charge Of forgery preferred against him.
t TIE nail mills will shut down for fiv
Q weeks from December -.
PREPARATIoNs for the O'Donnell tria
in London, Eng, are nearly completed.
KulKER, the embczzling cashier Q
% Irouton, o., has been held for trial.
a THE net earnings of the Manhattal
+ Elevated Railway last year were S2629
4. t7S.
a GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT Row
LAND Of the Louisville g. Nashville Roa
g has resigned.
THE auditors of a number of Western
railroads have agreed upon a new syster
. Of accounting.
!. Loss to the amount of S5Oo,00O wa
caused by fire among the freight ware
houses at Norfolk, Va, on the 14th.
= THE Railway Conductors Benefit AS
u q sociation disbursed forty-fve thousan
"a dollars last year.
4 BIZ the burning of the Norton Iron
: w orks at Ashland, KY, on the 18th, q
hands are thrown out of employment
Loss, 100000; insurance, SGo, 900.
; A RUMoR was current in Cairo on tn
n 14th that another detachment Of Egyptia
Is troops had been routed near Tokar.
:, IN order to overcome the ticket scalT
V ers the Eastern trunk lines will hereaftt
sell tickets no further West than Chicae
and ST. Louis.
l. A BUSINESS block burned on the lat
s. at Shelbyville, Ind.
is AN explosion occurred on the 14th {
ie the Eagle Hin colliery, Pottsville, Pa, an
is Michael Kelly and Robert Kennedy wei
r, instantly killed A boy named Keatir
Il was badly hurt The accident was cause
le by an accumulation of sulphur in Il
workings.
J. w. ROBBINS, urveyor-General ,
II Arizona, died On the 14th, az Tucson, a.
III Deceased was formerly connected with Il
ia Chicago Tntey- Ocean.
"a TuE Cleveland rolling mill will shl
- down December ,.
i. THERE was considerable excitemel
u, on the 10Th in tie oil market. Sales reach'
M S,00100) barrels.
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