The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-06
PERsONAL AND GENERAL.

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| try and substitute regiment of artillery.
THOMAS O'NEIL and Duke Sullivan,
confined in the Henrico County (Va.) Jail,
! on charge Of blowing open and robbing a
POst-Ofice safe at Culpepper, made their
escape the night Of the 26th.
w. S. KIRKER, late cashier of the
! Second National Bank at Ironton, o., was
I indicted by the Grand Jury on the 26th for
grand larceny and embezzlement.
LOUIS NAPOLEON's Minister of
| State. NJ Rouher, is reported to be dying.
/ IT is thought by M. De Lesseps that
! the settlement of the question of the
! construction Of the second Suez Canal is
virtually accomplished.
OK the Goth, at Nyireghaza, Hungary,
| a duel with swords was fought between
/ Herr Haumann and Herr Way. The latter
was severely wounded.
f. IT has been decided by the Spanish
Government to increase the pay of all its
troops below the grade of captain.
Oh the 26th three bodies were washed
ashore at Wharton, Ont, bearing life-pre-
servers marked ''Eclipse,"- which leads to
the belief that the steamer of that name has
been lost with all on board.
I44 FOR the murder of John Scanlan in
Pike County, Ind, in August last, Elijah
Craig has been sentenced to fifteen years
in the Penitentiary.
AT Dartford, Wis, Mrs. Ellen Long
has confessed having murdered the
boy Harry Whittemore, eleven years old,
whose body was recently found. She does
y not give her reason, but it is supposed the
crime was prompted by the boys knowl-
edge of a criminal intimacy between Mrs.
Long and Mr.. Whittemore.
The municipal Authorities of Indian
apolis, Ind, have prohibited the sale within
the city limits of what is embraced under
the head of /" fash literature," The State
law provides, heavy penalties.
By the overflow of White River in.
Indiana, the damage has been very great,
thousands of acres being Inundated and
unsecured corn and root crops ruined.
On the Goth a cold wave struck Salt
Lake City, Utah, freezing things up gen
orally.
AT Oil City, Pa, Henry Montgomery
in a fit of jealousy, on the 26th, fred three
shots at himself with suicidal intent, but
the bullets would not kill.
THE four children of Carson Mosier,
at Mt. Gilead, o., were seriously poisoned
by partaking of cabbage on which Paris
green had been used.
On the 26th the laborers employed at
Oliver Bros. and Phillips Mills at Pitts
burgh, Pa, were notified of an intended re-
duction of their wages to 81 per day. They
had been receiving S1.25.
In Vincennes, Ind, diphtheria has ap-
peared in its most malignant form. Out of
seven cases six had already proved fatal,
and it was feared it would become epi-
: denic. A case of smallpox has also ap-
peared in Washington, twenty miles east
of Vincennes, child of VIM Guy being
sick with it.
THE recent report that the American
Bishops proposed that the Vatican send a
Nuncio to America is unfounded. The re-
port probably arose through misappre-
hension of the fact that the Vatican thinks
of sending Mgr. Sepiaeci to preside as
Apostolic Legate over the Iabors of the
Council to be held in America in 1884.
O'DONNELL's wife has arrived in Lon
don.
KING ALFONSO expects visit shortly
! from the Prince of Wales.
: SERGEANT MASON. is said to be going
on exhibition in Pitts burgh museum.
, COUNT Won MOLTKE has been made
Chancellor of the Order Of the Black Eagle.
! FRANCE has removed the. restrictions
against American pork.
! The graves of two of the original
Mayfower Pilgrims were discovered on
the 9th at Plymouth, Mass.
The Secretary of the Interior declines
. to formulate any new rules to regulate
Z practice in pension cases.
THE Dutch bark Judith foundered
recently on the coast of Norway. The
Captain alone was saved.
s FRAIssINET, the French banker who
t recently failed for heavy amount, had
o the monopoly of trade from Marseille:
r, with Madagascar and Zanzibar.
S The gross earnings of the Erie ROAD
e increased s., ,922,G17 in the year just past.
} The American Bishops at Rome are
said to be opposed to further interference,
f in Irish politics.
d THE Franco-Chinese troubles were
: the subject of Cabinet conference a
e Washington on the 9th.
n A MAN has been arrested in Orang'
l County, N. j., suspicion of being tn
9 murderer of Phoebe Paullin.
The United States steamer Shenan
= doah is at Boston under orders for a voy
e age around the Horn, but neither officer
E, nor men can be found willing to take her.
d ALBANY, WIS, was almost complete
ie ly destroyed by fire on the 27th. Severa
n men were fatally injured.
+ EVERY business house on the puhli
square at Waverly, Tenn, burned on tn
t. 9th. Loss, $G5,00O.
K TWELVE hundred workmen wer
Sc thrown out of employment by the failur
k of Doble & Co., Glasgow, ship-builders.
er THE new Spanish Minister to the Unite,
States is charged with the arrangement o
at a commercial treaty in behalf of Cuba.
y ANXIETY was manifest in Paris on tn
- 9th over rumors that Admiral Courbet'
command has been defeated and his con
- munications interrupted.
m THE Egyptian Government holds tina
an no change can legally be made in the statu
OF the Suez Canal without fresh concession
from Egypt.
lie JOSEPH JEFFERSON, the noted actor
70 was stricken with complete loss of voice
IN Peoria, H., the morning of the 9th.
I'd THREE young ladies attached TO th
-, - Russian Court were arrested on the 27th o
a charge of being connected with Nihili:
= conspiracy.
- - The New York Press Club held il
"A third annual dinner at DelmonIco's Il
A., al fro1