The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-08-02
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AHE EItllCu ATONEIull1EHL Has etohCA
the Chamber to vote $4,000 francs for a
scientific expedition to investigate cholera
in Egypt. Deaths at Cairo on the 25th
were nearly 800, and at other places the
epidemic ragged unchecked.
THREE men were shockingly burned
the other morning by an explosion of cinder
blast in the iron-works at Catasaqua, Pa.
A COLLISION between a passenger
train and a wild freight on the Saratoga
Road occurred near Schenectady, N. Y,
the other day and one man was fatally
scalded and six others seriously injured.
Both engines were wrecked and a passen-
ger car, a baggage car and four freight cars
were burned.
M. A. DAUPHIN, of the Louisiana Lot
terry Company, has brought suit at Wash
ington against Walter Q. Gresham, Post
master General, for S1O0,0 damages sus-
tanned by his recent order forbidding the
use of the mails by that company.
AT Grand Rapids, Mich, an immense
jam of logs broke loose on the 26th and
swept away several railroad bridges.
WILLIAM CLUTCHY, first mate of the
Mississippi steamer City of V;cksburg, was
called ashore and terribly beaten by four
men at Darnell's Landing, Tenn, a few
days ago.
THE members of the firm of /. B.
Day & Co., carpets, Milwaukee, Wis, have
been arrested for false pretenses. They
recently failed for $4,000.
| A SEAMAN died of yellow fever in a
Philadelphia hospital on the 26th.
! UNITED STATES DETECTIVE PERKINS,
with officers from Pittsburgh, Pa, arrested
a bad gang of highwaymen in West Vir
! giniR the other day.
TIE report of the Tule Committee
shows that in three months > 5,327 emigrants
were assisted out of Ireland at a cost of
! e35, 900. 1t recommends a continuance of
/ the practice.
! In the case of ex-Trcasurer Polk, of
Tennessee, the jury found a verdict of
| guilty and assessed punishment at twenty
! years. imprisonment.
A COMPANY has been formed at In
/ dianapolis, Ind, to manufacture electric
headlights for locomotives.
AT Miles City, Mont, a mob took a
prisoner named Rigney from jail on the
night of the 25th and hanged him. Rigney
was a hard case and bartender. Two
/ hours after he was hanged an incendiary
/ fire destroyed seven buildings in the town.
1t was thought some of his friends caused
] bHe IlIGs
THE Secretary of the Treasury has
issued another call for bonds for redemp,
ton to the amount of about $3l 100000.
THE Norfolk and Portsmouth (Va.
Exchanges have petitioned the authorities
for change in the hospital station at
Hampton Roads.
A GRAND-JURY ut Pittsfield, Mass,
has indicted lot of men for tarring and
feathering a woman.
The Louisiana lottery is said to be
evading the Postmaster-Genera1's recent
order by having its remittances sent to q
! New Orleans national bank
JOHN II. PETTINGILL, a substantial
business man of Lewiston, Maine, went tc
a circus with his grandson the other day
d. and suffered himself to be d9frauded cut Of
81, 900 by monte men.
A RECENT cablegram announces the
death in battle of Cetewayo, the Zulu King
All Of his wives and many of his chiefs
were also killed.
THE works of the Home Sowing Ma
chine Company at Bridgeport, Conn, were
nearly destroyed by fire few nights ago
The buildings destroyed occupied three
sides of a square and were four storie:
high. The company employed about foul
hundred hands.