The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-06-21

THE Massachusetts Senate, thirty-five
to fourteen has killed the House bill to in
crease the salaries Of the legislators fifty
per cent.
CERTAIN Mormon pOlygamists, who
had been disfranchised, under the Edmunds
law, have notified the Utah Commission,
in session at Salt Lake City, that they will
bring suits to test the validity of the law.
NICHOLAS L. DUKES, who killed Cap
tain A. c. Mutt, Cashier of the Pennsyl-
vania State Treasury, at Uniontown, Fay
cite County, Pa, on December oath last,
was himself shot and instantly killed on
tho 18th, at Uniontown, by J. S. Mutt, a
nineteen-year-old son of the deceased Cap
tain Mutt.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has written a
letter to the managers of the Southern Ex-
position at Louisville, Ky, expressing his
hearty approval of and sympathy with the
enterprise.
THE observations by the United
States astronomical expedition at Caroline
Island, in the South Pacific Ocean, Of the
total eclipse of the sun, in March last, were
highly successful, although no trace was
found of the planet Vulcan.
ADMIRAL JOHN RANDOLPH TUCKER,
who quilted the United States Navy torthe
Confederate service and, at the close
of the war, entered the Peruvian
Navy, dropped dead few days ago at
Petersburg, Va, aged seventy years.
THE other day q man named Cody,
of WestvilIe, jumped from a moving train
near Carrollton, o., to get his hat, which
had fallen off, and dashed his brains out.
THE volcano CotOpaxi was in erup-
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shocks had occurred recently in Ecuador.
THE Continental Guards of New Or
leans, La, were being entertained by the
Lanciers of Boston on the 14th. Ess
THE jury in the star-route case at
Washington returned verdict of not
guilty on the 18th. Only five ballots were
taken. The trial of the case occupied seven
months and half The arguments lasted
over four weeks.
A SOCIETY for the removal" of in
formers is said to have been organized in
Dublin, Ireland.
THE village of Valloires, in the de-
partment of Savoy, France, was burned a
few days ago, and the inhabitants barely
escaped with their lives. All the live stock,
including 100 head of oxen, perished.
AARON Harris, a negro, who had muir
dered an Irish pedd1er near Meridian,
Miss, was taken from jail at Enterprise
the other night and lynched.
At East Saginaw, Mich, a few days
ago, a woman was fatally injured, together
with child which she was trying to rescue
from a locomotive.
THE president has appointed L. ID.
Galligan, of Pennsylvania, United States
Consul at Novoressisk, Russia.
LOI{D CARLINGFORD, Minister of
Agriculture, assured a peoples delegation
on the 14th that the British Government
would not restrict importation of Ameri-
can cattle.
A HEAVY frost was reported at many
points in Central Illinois ON the 14th.
PHILLIP SCIUELLER, of Portsmouth,
o., on returning home late the other night
was Mortified to find his wife lying on the
floor at the bottom of the stairs dead, with
her neck broken. She had probably fallen
down stairs.
THE death list on the 14th included
Ex-Governor Charles j. jenkins, at Angus
ta, Ga; ex-United States Senator Casserly
at San Francisco, Cal; Judge William
Lilley, at Washington, D. c., and Zebina
Eastman, at Chicago, Ill. The last named
went to Chicago in 1899, and was a fore
most figure in the agitation for the aboli
tion of slavery, publishing a paper known
as the Western Citizen to that end.