The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-05-17
m1sCEIIANEOUs.

Judgment in the case of J. G. AlIeon, con-
victed of sending forbidden literature |
through the mails. He also gave the agent /
OF the Society for the Suppression of Vice !
another lecture.
A RECENT dispatch from St. Peters
burg, Russia, says official reports from the
Governments of Samaria, Simbrisk and As
trakhan state the crops are total failure
and famine is expected.
GEORGE w. EVERETT. Millersburg,
D., has been disbarred from practicing as
an attorney before the Department of the
Interior.
The United States Supreme Court
has declared void the Downton patent on
the roller process of making -four.
THREE Vienna (Austria) newspapers
have been confscated for reporting
meeting in support of the Liberals.
TIE Louisiana Supreme Court has
decided that municipal bonds can not be
taxed.
Ex-TREAsURER POLK, of Tennessee,
has given bail in the sum of $4,000 and
again been released.
THE Prince of Wales formally opened
the School Of Music at KensingtoE, Eng,
on the 7th. The Duke and Duchess Of
/ Edinburgh and Gladstone were present at
| the ceremony.
| GOVERNOR SPRAGUE, the famous stall
| lion owned by J. l. Case, of Racine, Wis,
/ died at Lexington, Kentucky, few days
ago. Of pink-eye. The animals winnings
on the turf last year amounted to $4,000.
| The Apache Indians have been de-
feated in an engagement with Mexican
troops in the Sierra Madre, with the loss
OF t1venty-seven killed and thirty-six pris-
oners.
BRANCH o. O'Donavan Rossa's Irish
Revolutionary League was organized in
New York a few days ago, with member
ship of one hundred. Dynamite was the
rock upon which the society was built.
THREE children walking under an
umbrella during slight thunderstorm at
Winona, Mimi, recently, were struck by
lightning, two of them being killed and the
third partially Paralyzed.
JAMES F. SPENGMAE, clerk in the
Provident Institution for Savings at Jersey
City, n. j., is reported to have gone tc
Richmond, leaving a deficiency IN his cast
account.
THE Governor of Limerick Oreland,
Jail has been retired from office,it is allegc'
on account of harsh treatment of suspects
HkNRY MERROTT and Mary Pesul
were placed on trial at New York the Othe
day for robbing jeweler at Paris, France
Of S75, 900 worth of diamonds
In the star-rOute case at Washington
on the Sth Bliss closed his seven days ac
dress to the jury, and this was announce
as the close of the Governments opening
1 The Court ruled that the Government woul
only be allowed one address in closing, ,aRd
as a consequence, Attorney-General Brew
u I 49,, IN, hoo av.rrrF1 ttar0f
n THE report came from San Antonio
u Tex, on the sth that the lately reporte
robbery of United States Paymaster WassO
;, on a Texas Pacific train turned out to be
= S24, 900 defalcation instead.
a AT Pittsburgh, Pa, an applicatio
has been made for the appointment of
trades tribunal, under the Wallace act,
Z settle the coal-miners' controversy.
p THE assignccs of Newberg, Frenk
= g. Co, clothing dealers, Cincinnati, o., ha7
- filed an inventory showing the total a
praised value of assets to be S275, 800; Ii
biIities S}S2, 900.
a THE death sentence passed on Del
~ nv, who pleaded guilty at Dublin, Irelan
recently to the charge of completely in Il
II Phoenix Park murders, has been commut'
g by the Lord Lieutenant.
A. A. TINTsMAN & Co, coke man
facturers, Pittsburgh, Pa, have made 1
ne assignment, with Liabilities of $4,000,
su account of the depression in the co
= trade.
as as THE Florida Ship Canal ComPal
effected an organization on the 9th. h
Governor Brown, of Tennessee, was elect
- President 1t was announced that $1,000
Tn 600 bad been subscribed to the capital sto
81" of the company.
lu GALVESTON, Tex, is now said to
the second cotton port in the country, t
receipts this season reaching 100000 bale
IN the fisheries exhibition at Londo
VI Eng, it is said the exhibits from Ameri
" will exceed those of all the European cot
tries.
THE Iieutenant-Ioverno of No
- Scotia has received a letter cautiOning h
3, against two vessels said to have sailed fr
= Boston to Halifax, manned by Fenians q
carrying large quantity of torpedoes,w
the intention of avenging upon the Nc
ne Scotians the execution of Brady, the C
we demned Phoenix Park assassin. Prec
70 tions have been taken to guard agai
the meuacing danger.
ght GOVERNOR BUTLER has written
the ter to Mr.. FoIger, Secretary Of the IRE
She urv. asking that steps be taken to prev
lall tt,s,s,,,3i,,Sr of Trish noupers for assis
oy emigrants'O at Boston, Mass.
THREE Arkansas convicts escaI
ars from the plantation of NJ. G. Sennett in
ent ferson County, the other day, and han
the three bloodhounds, which were put on Il
vas track. other dogs were procured and
of the men recaptured.
rks THE value of the exports of pet
5ht- leum and petroleum products from
rs, limited States for March were 81, 3,423,
sew for nine months ended March 81, 1888,
to o23, ,S7S; corresponding period preeeC
year, S3S, 207, ,255.
'Ir- A COURT-HIARTIAL has been ordo
% to convene on the 10Th OF San Antonio, I
iei' to try Major Wasson, the defaulting !
master. Gambling assigned as
cause Of his downfall.
John J. KNOX, Comptroller of
10 Currencv, has been temporarily apPoi1
on on Commissioner of Internal Revenue.
The Speaker of the late New Je1
sse Legislature has been arrested, charged
,,ct, tempting to bribe member.
not President ARTHUR has decided
less a4ve the marine hospital service the
New p sal of the epidemic fund.
linG THE telegraph intimated on the
ruck that Germany is liable to be irritated a
marks in the French press.
ard DoDGE CITY, Kan, was reported
er of the 9th inst. to be in the hands of an ar
low, mob, the Mayor being a conspicuous q
gust in the interest of a faction.
A SEVERE tornado struck the Wy
" a ing Valley in Pennsylvania on the
was Trees were uprooted and railroad trafti
ago. terrupted-