The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-11-22

lEhMS UF SUBSGhlPllU
For one year dn advanced. 80
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
ADMIRAL J. p. CEEIGHToN, U. $. N,
died on the l3th az Morristown, N. Y.
THE United States consular service
pays its own way ana turns over small
surplus to the Treasury.
DIR. STOCKER made another attempt
tolecturc in London, on the 18th but was
hooted down by Socialist mob.
A suP-LoAD of imported Jersey cat
tie we're sold at auction in Philadelphia on
thc 18th at an average Of ninety dollars a
head.
GENERAL SHERMAN was warmly well
coined horne the evening OF the 18th by n
largo company of old comrades at St.
Louis, Mo.
SECRETARY FoLGER has ordered an
investigation of charge that Chinese i'm
migrants are unlawfully cvadin8 the i'm
migration act.
COLONEL A. X. MCCLURE, of the
Philadelphia Times, has been arrested on
charge Of criminal libel at the instance Of
George Smith.
THE Governor of Manchuria has been
ordered from Pekin to have 5000 Mogul
irrogulars ready to embark for Tonquin at
moments notice.
TIE Austrian Minister promises to
try and secure Che electrical splay Of the
late Vienna Exposition for the New Orleans
Exhibition next year.
The company of visitors from Chi
huahua arrived in ST. Louis, Mo, on the
Iith and were handsomely entertained ac-
cording to programme.
Dir. SroCKER, Chaplain to the Ger
man Court, lec;ured recently in London TO
an audience so dis1rderly and insulting
that ne left the hall in disgust.
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DIR. ALBERT GEHoN, Of Washington,
d. c., has been elected President of the
Public Health Association. The next an
nual meeting is to be held in St. Louis, Mo.
A MEETING of stock men in Chicago
on the 10Th took action to enlist the Govern
ment in further efforts 70 prevent the
spread Of contagious Diseases among cattle.
SAMUEL j. RANDALL is lying seri-
ously IN at his cottage near Berwyn sta
tion, Pa. His malady is gout, which, it is
feared is about TO bc followed by erysipe-
las.
TIE New York police found large
assortment Of tools and tracing paper in q
trunk concealed in room on Division
Street lately occupied by Brockway, the
couuterfeiter.
GENERAL HAzEN testified before tho
Greedy relief Court of Inquiry on the % .
that the bungled statement about the sup
Elemental instructions was made out dur
ing his absence.
LIEUTENANT GARLINGroN testified il
the Greedy relief inquiry on the 18Th. lie
said the autic was OF practically no use
but was sent with the Proteus merely e
satisfy public opinion
EDWARD GIBSON, member of Parlia
meut for Dublin University, is proposed a
candidate for the Rectorship OF st. An
drcyys' University in opposition to Minis
ter James Russell Lowell.
TIE banks and several business
houses Of Des Moines, Ia, adopted the new
Central time standard on the 18th aud th'
City Council has passed an ordinance
officially fixing the time as the standard TO
city purposes.
TIE Police Board of St. Louis, Mo.
voted on the l3th TO appeal from the deci
sion of the Court Of Appeals in the case o
Chief Cnmpbel!. Mr.. Woodward, the new
Commissioner, voted with Commissioner
Lu aud Caruth.
THE late DIR. Ever, of San Francisco
admired Edwin Booth when the actor wa
c mparatively unknown, and aided him b.,
apprcciative articles. Now Booth head
with $4,000 a subscription for the benefit O
Or, Ewer's family.
REv. JAMES BRAND, Of Cleveland, o.
denounced Frank L. Bronson in the pulpi
for selling liquor. Bronson sued TIN
preacher for $4,000 for libel, and a disa
greeing jury on the 18th stood ten for con
viclion aud two for acquittol.
THE Pennsylvania Supreme Court de
cides that the Pullman Car Company is j.
duty bound TO exercise care 70 prevent pas
seng,Ts from being robbed while asleep
Judgment was rendered on the 18th i
favor Of a passenger SO robbed.
JOHN T. SHORT, late Professor G
History and Philosophy in the Ohio Stat
University, died the morning of the lltl
IIc was the author of "North America
Antiquity" and member of historical 81
cietics i'm this country and Europe.
EARL CARNARVON, in speaking of
recent tour in Canada, said nobody coul
estimate how great its future would be
the Canadian people persevered with Oh
samo Judgment and moderation that ha
characterized their legislative proceeding
for many years.
TnE eminent tragediau, John Mt
Cuuough, was the recipient OF an ovatic
at the hands of his large circle Of frienC
in st. Louis, Mo-, the night Of the 12th,
the Olympic Theater. General Sherma
was among the audience, which was one
the most brilliant ever seen in the city.
SECRETARY TELLER has under cor
sijcration a plan, indorsed by Commi
sioncr Dudley, 70 prevent such scandals