The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-07-05
Personal AND GENERAL.


that Mormon missionaries were making
many converts in the mining districts of
England and Wales. A large party had
already started for Utah.
THERE has been more blOodshed in
Ireland. In a fight between two militia
companies, one from Dublin and one from
North Mayo, at Curragh the other night,
seventeen men were wounded. The fight
lasted two hours.
LYNCH, alias Norman, who gave tes-
timony that secured the conviction of his
fellow-dynamite conspirators in London,
has been released.
THE jenkins brothers were both held
for murder without bail at Mansfield, La,
on the 25th, for the killing of Rev. J. Lane
Borden.
COLONEL FARINHLOT, of Essex Coun-
ty, Va, had a quarrel with a blacksmith,
and the other evening visited the smith,
with flve-pound weight in his hand, to ef-
feet a settlement of the trouble. The black
smith crushed the ColonePs skull with a
sledge-hammer.
EIGHT persons were killed and many
others were injured by railroad collision
near Havana, Cuba, on the 18th.
JOHN /. STRYKER, a wealthy New
Yorker, was drowned while bathing at Sar-
atoga on the 25th. He had been married
only two months.
REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER's sew
entieth birthday was celebrated by large
number OF his friends and admirers on the
25th at the Academy of Music, in Brook
lyn, N. Y.
g THE Planters Cotton Seed Oil-works,
in AIgiers, opposite New Orleans, La,
was struck by lightning during a thunder
storm on the 25th and entirely destroyed.
1t was the largest cotton seed Oil-wOrks in
existence and the loss was roughly esti-
mated at $1,000,000, including the building,
stock and machinery. Several cottages
adjoining the oiI-works were also de-
stroyed and five firemen were slightly
scalded by the explosion of a tank.
WHILE wake was in progress at
Milford, Mass, the other night over the
body of Captain William p. Burke, a kero-
sene lamp upset by one of the mourners
set fire to the house. The hilarious mourn
ers had barely time to save their lives,
leaving the dead body behind them to be
burned to ashes. The house was destroyed,
together with three others close by. The
entire loss was SD, 900, and nine families
were made homeless.
A LARGE stave factory at Mannville,
Wis, was destroyed by fire the other night
and a young Polander, night watchman,
was burned to death.
ELMER SNYDER, n farmer residing
near Glen City, Pa, was recently surprised
by a visit from young man claiming to
be his runaway son, who proved to have
been a Chicago Qm.) thief. The villain
waited his time and then robbed the old
man of SS 800 in money and bonds.
Mrs. DAVID A. RATHFORD, living in
the extreme northwestern part of Hunt
ington County, Ind, was struck by light
ming the other day while attending to
milking and instantly killed.
ANDREW MCHALE, thirteen years old
fell several hundred feet to the bottom of
the Enterprise Colliery, near Wilkesbarre,
Pa, the other day and had his skull crushed
and his body horribly mangled.
MEDICAL superintendents of Ameri-
can institutions for the insane were in ses-
sion at Providence, r. l., on the 26th.
A SURVEY of the country west of the
Rio Pecos in Texas has been ordered by the
Government.
AT Lebanon Junction, KY, James
Jewell, colored, was shot in twenty-seven
places the other night by an unknown ene-
my. He leaves u wife. No cause for the
murder was known.
IT was reported the other day that
the recent operations of the British soldiery
against Chief Gbpowa in West Africa
were attended with horrible atrocities COM
mitted by native allies of the English.
AT Elk Creek, one mile and a half
east of Missoula, Mont, a few days ago,
on n siding, a gravel train backing down
was run into by wood train, and instantly
killed eighteen Cinnamon, wounding from
twenty to twenty-five others. The engineer
Of the gravel train was killed and the fire
man seriously wounded. No one was hurt
on the wood train.
AT Swathmore College, Pcnnsyl-
vania, of seven graduates who took the
degree of bachelor of arts the other day,
five were females; of five who became
bachelors of literature, two were females.
CHOLERA is said to be making sad
ravages at Damietta. OF forty-two deaths
there in one day recently twenty-eight were
known to have been from cholera and the
rest were supposed to have been.
The Ohio Supreme Court has de-
clared the Scott liquor-tax law constitu-
tional.
A SPECIAL from Jefferson, Tex, on
the 26th reported the lynching of negro
for assaulting a white woman. He made a
full confession. In Wisconsin a negro un-
der arrest for similar crime, though not
so aggravated a case, was shot to death.
A FRIGHTFUL accident occurred at
Trespassy, N. F., the other evening. A
large fishing boat went down and six men
were drowned out OF a crew of seven. 1t
was supposed she was overloaded.
FEARS are entertained of a rice fam
inc at Soura, Baya ana Rembang, Java.
Disease has destroyed 100000 acres.
COUNT DEMOREs, who has recently
expended a million dollars in fitting up one
of the largest cattle and sheep ranches in
the world, is having taste of life in the
western wilds Of Dakota. An outlaw named
O'Donnen was after the Counts scalp the
other day and said he would kin him on
sight.
ROBERT n. PARKS & Co., bankers, of
New York, fled an assignment the other
day, giving preferences for SOS, 900.
DURING a thunderstorm at Chatham,
Eng, few days ago, four soldiers were
killed by lightning.
THE Garfield Monument Committee
4 the other day selected a site in Lake View
/ Cemetery, Cleveland, o., overlooking the
/ country for miles. The fund in hand was
j $4,000.
John o. JAMES, for many years a
! rr6fnineut dr7y-goods merchant of Phila-