The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-09-13
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.

Compiled from Various Sources.
MARwooD, the British hangman died
on the 4th.
PRoF HAULB, an expert in volcanoes,
predicts another earthquake at Ischia, Oc-
tober Is.
THE Supreme Council of the Order of
Chosen Friends elected officers ON the 9th
at Chicago.
PROFESSOR VARLEY, who was cleo
trician to the first Atlantic Gable Company,
died on the 9Th.
The New York Greenbackers have
nominated Rev. Thomas K. Beecher for
Secretary of State.
SEVERAL groups of French Royalists
have declared in favor of Count de Paris
for the succession.
TEN thousand people witnessed the
Inauguration of ]. Proctor Knott as Gov
ernor Of Kentucky on the 4th.
SITTING BULL has declined the invi-
tation to visit the Iowa State Fair. Hep pre-
fers the safety OF the Reservation.
FRED. DOUGLASS denies that the
cOlored convention in Louisville is to be in
the interest of President Arthur.
The Swiss Government on the 4th re-
fused to extradite Lennig, the American
student, who killed another in duel.
S
The Earl and Countess of Carnarvon
arrived in Quebec on the I'd, and We're the
guests of Princess Louise and the Marquis
OF Lorne at the citadel.
POsTNIAsTER-GENERAL GRESHAM filed
his answer on the 9Th to the suit for dam
ages brought against him by the New Or
leans Lottery managers.
THE steamer Canada, with Prince
George of Wales on board, arrived in Que
bee on the 4th. The Prince was the guest
OF the Governor General and Princess
Louise.
THE schooner Hyperion, arrived at
Gloucester, Mass, from the banks of New
foundland, reported the loss of two dories
and four men, natives of Cape Breton, in
the storm Of August 20.
A PANIC was averted at a theater
in Xenia, o., the evening of the 9th by a
few cool-headed men. A support had given
way, and there was danger of the floor
going down some fifteen feet.
HERBERT L. ANDERSON, Inspector
Post-office Department., st. Louis District,
and Elizabeth, elder daughter of Conrad
Baker, Ex-Governor of Indiana, were mar
ried at indianapolis on the 4th.
THREE THOUSAND soldiers took part
in a parade by States on the 9Th at Camp
Sheridan, Nebraska. Every Northern State
was represented. Thirty thousand visitors
were on the grounds at the campfire in the
evening.
IT was reported on the 5th that John
r. Boutwell,, of New York, with a Union
Pacific and a London syndicate behind him,
was the contractor for railway surveys be-
ing made from Fort Washakie to Yellow
stone Park.
JAMES HENNERsHEETs, of Chicago,
who beat banks at KeoBuk, Grinnell and
Marshalltown, Ia, and at Carthage, No, out
of sums varying from $500 to $500, was ar.
rested recently in Kansas, and arrived in
Keolluk on the Sd.
In a speech at Montforte on the Sd
King Alfonso thanked the French Directors
who are building railways in that country.
his Majesty NA AlIGaSeA bllt nope llltAb bAlt1
would become an added link of union be-
tween France and Spain.
THE widow and children of Mahlon
Rowe, at Ithaca, n. Y, whom he deserted
eighteen years ago, propose to recover his
estates in Honolulu, which he bequeathed
to a Hawaiian woman and their three chill
dren. The property is valued at $4,000.
EDWARD SrABLER died at Sandy
Springs, Montgomery County, Nd, on the
4th, in the same house in which he was
born, September, 170A He was appointed
Postmaster Of Sandy Springs in 1880, and
held the Office up to the time of his death.
The Navy Department is in receipt
of letter from San Francisco stating that
the body of a man, supposed to be that of
Master Putnam of the Rogers, was found
off Cape Prince Of Wales by Alaska ma
tives when the ice broke up in August,
1852.
ST. JosEPH's Passionist's Monastery,
three miles west of Baltimore, Md, burned
the night of the 9th. A church adjoining,
in process of construction, was also con-
siderably damaged. The damage is esti-
mated at from $4,000 to $4,000; partly in
sured.
AT the opening of the general meet
ing of the American Social Science AssO-
citation, at Saratoga, N. Y, on the Sd, Prof.
Wayland, OF the Yale Law School deliv-
cred an address on capital punishment.
He opposed hanging and favored perpetual
Imprisonment.
ROPER Commandery No. ], Knights
Templar, Of indianapolis, spent the ID at
Davenport, Ia, on their way home from
San Francisco. They were the guests of
Davenport and Rock Island Knights, who
gave them an excursion down the river,
and otherwise made the time pleasant
INTERNAL Revenue Commissioners
Evans said on the Sd that all claims for
rebate Of the tax on tobacco, snuff and ci-
gars, numbering 1850, and amounting to
So, ,639, ,O39.5S, had been filed in his office;
that the work OF scheduling the claims was
being rapidly pushed, and when Congress
met, it was probable that matters would be
in shape for prompt legislation.
A SET Of new coin for the Hawaiian
Government has recently been completed
at the Philadelphia Mint, and on the 6th
was ready for shipment. On the reverse
Of the pieces is bust of King Kalakaua,
and the date 1883, while the diverse has the
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