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

prudence at maurlu.
REV. WARREN II. CHUDwoRTH, of
Boston, dropped dead during church ser
vice on Thanksgiving Day.
THE Life-Saving Service render'-t as
sistance in three hundred cases Of disaster
during the last fiscal year.
THE decree abolishing the right of
Cubans to punish slaves with stocks and
fetters has been gazettedin Madrid.
A FRENCHMAN has been arrested in
London, charged with c1nspiring with
Wolff to blow up the German Embassy .ra !
FEARS are entertained at Gloucester,
Mass, that six fishing schooners were lost
In the recent gale, with sevehty-fiVe men.
CoMMoDoRE KoUNTz, of Pittsburgh,
Pa, has been sentenced to jail for thirty
days and to pay fine of 500 for criminal
libel.
SECRETARY FRELNGHUYsEN has sent
instructions to the Asfatfc squadron with a
view to protect American interests in event
of war.
THIRTY persons have been recently
arrested in County Mayo, Ireland, for con
spiracy to blow up houses of an obnoxious
landlord.
THE Archbishop of Namur has been
appointed Cardinal, and'it is expected this
viii settle the difficulties between Belgium
and the Vatican.
CHINA has sent circular letter to the
powers setting forth that if the French in
wade Northern Anam they viii be opposed
by Chinese troops.
FIVE blanket factories at SaxonviHe,
Mass, burned the morning of the 29th,
causing loss of $500,000. Four hundred
hands are thrown out. Of employment.
CHIEF ENGINEER WILLIAMSON, U. S.
N, who was court-martialed for extrava-
gance in the matter of repairing the Gov
ernment vessel Pinta, has been acquitted
JAMES G.. BLAINE has written letter
opposing the proposition to distribute the
revenue surplus among the States and ad-
vocating instead that the tax on spirits be
so distributed.
THERE is a report from Madagascar
that the French have bombarded a town
without giving notice, killing five British
subjects, and destroying large amounts OF
neutral properly.
AS the Egyptians are about to send
out an expedition to try and keep open a
road for retreat from Khartoum it is prob
able the Soudan provinces. are to be aban
doned for the present.
SOJoURNER TRUTH, the noted colered
lecturess, died at her home in Battle Greek
Mich, on the 26th, aged 108 years. The ole
lady has had all her faculties wen pre-
served until quite recently.
THANKSGIVING DAY was observed by
the Americans in Berlin. Services were
held in the American Chapel and United
States Minister Sargent gave a banque
and bali attended by 25O persons.
B1GELow, President of the Nationa
College of Pharmacy, at Washington
d. c., and thirty-eight students lef
the institution on the 9th in con
sequence of the admission of a colore,
man.
THE Hotel Clifton at Boston caugh
fire early the morning Of the 29th. Tn
guests escaped in their clothes. The fir
followed the elevator from basement t.
roof, spreading on all the floors, causing
damage to the amount of $4,000.
ALoNDoN dispatch of the 27th say
there is nothing tlere to conftm the repor
in America that Khartoum had fallen int
the hands of El Mahdi On the contrary
last advices indicate that the siege wa
likely to be stubbornly opposed, as tn
garrison was being reinforced and pre-
visioned.
A PARTY of hunters consisting o
Fred. Jenkler, with his two sons Emil an
Frederick and printer named Dick Han
tig, of Dubuque, Ia, are supposed to hav
been drowned during recent storm whic
overlook them on the Upper Mississippi
Their boat was found bottom side up min
miles below the city.
RAJ SCOTT, after two years separa
tion from his wife, returned to his hom
near Eaton, twelve miles from Munci,
Ind, recently, and insisted that she shoul
live with him again. She refused, and b
stabbed her to death with a knife, the
killed his own child and took a dose of mo-
phine, from which he died.
A HORRIBLE murder occurred recent
ly at Ixlaczaquittan, State of Pueblo, Me,
leo. A party of robbers attacked the hou.
of Rev. Father Miguel Cabo at two o'cloc
in the morning. They got in by eith'
vashwoman who was spending the night
the priests house. They forced their wa
to the fathers apartments and killed hir
pouring FIVE shots into his body. They al
severely wounded his niece, Agripina, WI
fought bravely with the robbers and hs
her hands badly cut. The cook and ms
servant were also killed. The thieves the
robbed the house and decamped.
On the evening of the 26th terrib
accident occurred at GAINESVILLE, o. Tv
little boys, Tommy and Ed, sons Of Evs
Davis, puddler at the rolling-mill, hs
been in the habit Of playing with an old 81
that was lying about the house. Recent
an older brother loaded the gun, placing
in a corner and warning the youngsters
leave it alone. The evening in questi'
Tommy found a cap on the floor, and ask
his father if he might shoot it of. The I
ther, who did not know of the loading
the gun, gave his permission. Ed. stood
in a corner of the room and told his broth
TO shoot at him, which he did. The boy fe
shot through the lungs, and died in ft
minutes