The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-08-30

1HE frencn supplementary elecIlOnS
held on the 18th indicate further Republi-
can gains.
SURGEON OWENS died on the 23d at
the Pensacola Navy Yard. Also two river
patients at Woolsey.
A LATE Paris dispatch says the Chi
nese have made reparation for the murder
of a French missionary in Yunnan.
CAPTAIN RHODES was at Buffalo on
the 22d, but confidence in his intention to
swim the whirlpool rapids was waning.
MORE troops and more gunboats are
needed by the French in Tonquin, the Black
Flags having been reinforced from Yum
Nan.
AN analysis of bitters made for the
Treasury Department showed that one
sample contained eighty-twO per cent. of
whisky.
SMALLPOX, yellow fever and cholera
are reported causing great mortality at
various points in Mexico and Central
America.
TWELVE decomposcd bodies of
children were recently discovered in an
undcrtaker's establishment in a suburb of
London, Eng.
THROUGH connection on the North
ern Pacific was expected to be completed
on the 23d. The golden spike will be
driven September g.
THE Madrid newspapers of the goth
contained articles advocating a Spanish
Austro-German alliance to counteract the
effects of French democracy.
TIE sale of small annuities to poor
people and the establishment of postal
savings banks were advocated before the
Senate Labor Committee on the 23d.
TIE General Grand Chapter of the
Eastern Star, in session at San Francisco,
on the 22d elected Rolin c. Gaskill, Oak
land, Cal, Grand Patron, and Mrs. Jennie
c, Matthews, Ottowa, Grand Matron.
CoLLINGs, Liberal member for Ips-
wich, has given notice that he will, at the
next session of parliament, offer a resolu-
tion that Home-Rule measure is the best
means of securing peace with Ireland.
THE 1891, 900 bequest of J. b. Gard
ner Of Boston has been received at the
Treasury Department and placed to the
credit of Patriotic donations. He willed
that it should go to help pay off the nation
al debt.
ADvICEs from Melbourne, Aus, of
the 23d say that ten colonies have accepted
an invitation to attend a conference there
shortly to discuss the question of the an
nexation Of New Guinea and other islands
in the Pacific
TIE Commissioner of the General
Land Office has been informed that the
Of
(Minn) District began the sale of 100000
acres of public land at auction ON the goth.
Prices realized, S3.35 per acre.
EARL SPENCER, Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland, arrived at Cork on the DIST. He
was respectfully received by the people.
Policemen in sight Of each other guarded
the train of the Lord Lieutenant along the
entire route from Dublin to Cork.
LIEUTENANT A. f. WooD, Fourth
Cavalry, on leave of absence in Paris, has
been designated by the United States Gov
ernment TO attend the militia maneuvers of
the French army near Paris, in September
next, on invitation of the French Govern
ment.
A DISPATCH from MatamOras, Mex,
Of the 23d says a lot Of horsc-thieves, under
operating in Nueces County and on the
Texas frontier. They drove thirty-two head
of stolen horses over the Rio Grande few
days ago.
The Madrid In3parciaJ of the 23d
says the Spanish Government, after the
recent rising, informed its representatives
abroad that friendly request would be
made that France comply with the interna-
the outbreak.
On the 20th the acting Secretary of
the Interior issued an order disbarring
from practice before the Interior Depart
ment Jenkins A. Fitzgerald, Pension agent
Of Washington, he having failed to dis
prove the charges of fraudulent practices
preferred against him.
THE statue of Lafayette win be un-
veiled at Lepuy, France, the Capital of the
Department OF Haute Loire on September
6. Waldeck Rousseau, the Minister of the
Interior; General Thibaudin, the Minister
Of War, and Morton, the American Min
lister, will be present at the ceremony.
A PROMINENT physician of Westfield,
N Y, DIR. J. B. Campbell, committed suicide
on the 10th by taking chloral. Cause,
drink. W llueT INlAlOIO, p laInleF III COM
Portable circumstances, living in the same
vicinity, shot himself in the right temple,
the ball emerging from near the left ear.
THE four Reading Railroad laborers
arrested at Philadelphia recently, under
the charge Of illegally performing worldly
labor on the Sabbath, were given hearing
on the 21st. Testimony was offered to show
that the work could not be accomplished on
any other day of the week in consequence
of the frequent passage of trains, and the
Magistrate, taking that view, decided that
the work was necessary and discharged the
defendants.
Ok the 10th DR.. Norvin Green, Presi-
dent of the Western Union Telegraph Com
panv, arrived in New York in the steam
ship Alaska. After a short talk with
General Eckert, the acting President, DR..
Green expressed himself well pleased that
the strike of the operators had been brought
70 a close and in hearty terms thanked
General Eckert, Superintendent Tinker and
Superintendent Humestone and other Off
GERS of the Company for their able manage
msnt Of the tToublous question.