The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-11-15
IN BRIEF

NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
GENERAL CARTS majority Tor secre-
tary Of State in New York, viii reach near
Iy 10000.
TAKING the vote for Judge rs a basis,
the Republican gain in Nebraska in the re-
cent election is nearly 10000
THE London Times says there is no
occasion to depart from the usual rule and
allow American counsel to defend O'Don-
nell.
ADMIRAL CoURBET has been in
structed to push the campaign in Tonquin
and make the Chinese Government show
its hand.
THE Chinese Government will indorse
the course Of Marquis Tseng. The latter
says in the event of war Anam Will be the
ally of China.
CHIEF-JUsTICE CoLERDGE has had
conference with leading members of the
London bar regarding methods Of practice
in England and America.
The officers appointed as a court of
inquiry to investigate. matters relating to
the Proteus disaster were notified to meet
at Washington on the sth.
ELECTION returns from Virginia,
which came III slowly at first, continue to
add to the Democratic gains, and show the
signal defeat of the Malone element.
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IT is reported from Portland, Oregon,
as almost certain that the wheat surplus of
Oregon and Washington Territory will be
100000 tons less than heretofore estimated.
THE party of Mexican capitalists
about to visit st. Louis, Mo-, left Chihua-
hua the night of the sth. Over S60,0OO,000
of capital is represented by the excursion
lists.
LENA DARMANDER, domestic en-
ployed in an indianapolis family, lighted a
fire on the morning of the sth with coal oil.
The can exploded and the girl was burned
to DEATH
DURING a recent visit to st. Louis,
Mo, Miss Emma Abbott the charming
American prima donna, became the posses
sor of a ten and a quarter carat diamond,
valued at $500.
TOBIA BERTINI, prima tenor assOluta,
wants $780, 600 from Colonel Mapleson, who,
he alleges, does not mean to keep con-
tract by which Bertini was to receive $4,000
a month for the season.
A CINCINNATI court has decided, in a
suit for damages for loss of life at the re-
cent rag-house fire, that the proprietor OF
the warehouse and not the owner of the
building is responsible.
THE President has amended the Civil
Serv' 'ce rules so that in department, post
Office and customs office appointments dis
elimination on account OF politics or reli
gion is prohibited strictly.
THE body of w A. Seely, land buy
er from Michigan, was discovered neal
Mitchell, Oak. on the 9th. Over 500 was
found on the body, which had bullet hole
through the head, while revolver lay neaI
by.
MRs. ANNA OTTENDoRFER, owner 0
the New York ,Staats Zeftn3b, was recent
ly presented an autograph letter and silve
decoration, in recognition Of her humani
tartan work among her countrymen il
America.
JUDGE FINN, of San Francisco. oil
the 5th, ut the request of Senator Sharon
ordered Miss Aggie Hill to furnish photo
graphic copies of the alleged marriage con
tract with him, to afford an opportunity o
testing its genuineness.
The police of London, Eng, offer
reward for John McCafferty, convicted O
treason in Dublin in 1867, and sentenced t
penal servitude for life, and since escaped
McCaferty was born in Ohio of . Irish pan
ents, and served in the Confederate army
1T Is probable the British Governmen
will introduce at the next session of Pan
lament a household suffrage bill, whic
shall apply throughout Great Britain an
Ireland alike. A bill for the redistrjbr
tion of seats in the Commons will probabl
follow.
THE Postmaster-General has dis
missed from service Post-ofice Inspecto
Amos p. Foster for rendering the depart
mont false and fictitious accounts. He wa
stationed at Austin, Tex, and was render
ing accounts for per diem services whic
he never performed.
THE Court of Appeals in st. Louis
Mo-, on the 9Th, decided that the removal c
Chief of Police Campbell was illegal. II
was GelHSLaIeu IN OItCS ana ab Lne meeUln
of the Police Board charges were formal
preferred against him with view to Gus
ing him in legal form.
The creek which supplies Salt LAX
City with water has become so offensiy
from dead sheep in its bed that the Sa
Lake Council, Tuesday night, considere
the problem of a remedy for the evi
Stories of the impurity of the water hav
heretofore been denounced by the Mormon
as Gentle lies.
GENERAL HAZEN, chief signal Office
in his annual report says the service HI
been seriously crippled by diminished a.
propriations. and urges Congress to
more liberal in the future. He recomnen,
a separate Office on the Pacific Coast and
decided extension OF the service in that il
portant region.
CoMPTRoLLER KKoX is credited wit
the statement that without some remedi
legislation the National banks will, duriI