The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-08-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

at the French capital r..
ANOTHER slight earthquake was felt
at Casamicciola, Italy, the other day.
A vIRULENT foot and mouth disease
has broken out among Canadian cattle at
Bristol, Eng.
d. o. Mills has given the State of
California, for the rotunda of the Capitol
at Sacramento, piece of statuary nine feet
in height, representing Columbus at the
court of Queen Isabella. It's cost was
$4,000.
BECAUSE his divorced wife would not
consent TO a reconciliation with him Ed
ward Schissler, an indianapolis (Ind.)
butcher, the other day fatally stabbed her
and then committed suicide by lodging a
bullet in his own brain.
A PARTY of men supposed to be agra
rians shot and severely wounded a farmer
named Michael Connor near Killarney, Ire
land, the other day. Two of them were ar.
rested.
The Lynchburg Home Guards were
called to Chatham, Va, on the 14th TO
guard the jail there from a Threatened at
tack by a mob OF 500 persons who wanted
to lynch three negroes confined on a charge
of murder.
The commission appointed by Indian
/ Commissioner Price to harmonize- the diff
ferences between the hostile factions of the
| Creek Indians returned to Washington on
the 14th, having concluded a satisfactory
\ treaty of peace. .aE .-. 81.
BY the burning of private insane
asylum in Middlesex County, Eng, on the
/ 14th five Of the inmates perished in the
flames and many others were severely
| burned. ...e. .e.
SEVERAL Sergeants who took part in
/ the recent revolt in Spain were executed at
/ Santa Domingo. They refused to make any
! disclosures in relation to the revolutionary
plot.
The American Consul-GeneraI for
Roumania reports that American petroleum
/ if trans-shipped in an English port can en-
ter Roumania duty free.
In prize fight on Long Island on the
14th Dempsey, of Brooklyn, whipped Turn
bull, of New York. in thirty three rounds.
William Wagner, of Pittsburgh, Pa, was
knocked out by Albert Cannauk, of New
! York.
The Irish members made bitter oppo-
sition the 14th to the vote in the House
of Commons for an appropriation to defray
the cost of the late criminal trials.
APACHE Indians made an attack on
| the village of Nacari, Mex, recently, and
killed five picket guards. Troops followed
them next day and a skirmish ensued in
which several Indians were killed, but the
troops had to retreat because their ammu-
milton gave out.
MONTREAL veterinary surgeons de-
clare that foot and mouth disease does not
exist in Canada.
TWELVE men were killed in a mining
shaft in Cornwall, Eng, the other day by
the breaking of machinery.
/. w. JOHNSON, a telegraph operator,
has been arrested, charged with causing the
recent accident on the Troy & Boston Rail
road in which six men were killed.
DEPOsITORs who could not get their
money the other day wrecked the premises
of a savings bank in London, Eng.
A TRAIN was stopped and plundered
by thirty armed men near Barcelona, Spain
the other day, the robbers securing booty
of the alleged value Of $4,000.
A COLoRED mule thief in Catafoula
Parish, La, shot the Sheriff off his horse
the other day and was in turn shot dead by
the wounded man.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. suffered Sc
verely from a tornado on the 18th. Twenty
buildings were partially unroofed in one
block and seven were blown entirely down
Two serious casualties resulted. Only one
telegraph wire out of the city was lef
intact, and business was seriously i'm
peded.
AN incendiary recently caused tn,
destruction of the unfinished Passavan
Hospital at Milwaukee, Wis, valued a
. S66,OOO. The old building adjoining con
tanned twenty patients, who were safel,
taken out
f The death of A. M. Harrington, VIII,
was District Attorney at Chicago unde
f President Buchanan, occurred at Geneva
e Ill, a few days ago, and Hon. +. II. Hawn
I late Secretary of State of Indiana and
veteran of the Mexican war, passed ava,
at Indianapolis.
THE Francklyn cottage at Lon,
Branch, in which President Garfield ende,
his sufferings, was set on fire by a defectiv
flue the other day, but the flames wer
speedily extinguished.
JAMES MCDERMOTT, the Irish leader
, of Brooklyn, N. Y, was arraigned in Liv
l. erpoOl, Eng, the other day, and was re
. manded on evidence that he had been see
e examining public buildings in compan,
j with Dillon, a convicted conspirator.
- ARTHUR w. BLANEY, who embezzIe
forty thousand dollars from the America
f Loan and Trust Company of Boston, Mass
a while acting as its cashier, has been sent
4 the Penitentiary for seven years.
n CHARLES STAGEL, one of a party {
- laborers engaged in cutting ties at Gun
d berland Falls, Tenn, arose in the night an
T. murdered three of his comrades by crusl
ing their skulls with an AK. He secure
y sixty dollars. Seventy-five men were pr
l. in pursuit, and he was soon captured.
: DURING a great storm which occurre
g in Switzerland the other day three village
,f in the vicinity of the Pyrenees and More
/, were set on fire by lightning.
THE shops of the United States Rol
l. ing Stock Company at Chicago, III, wei
k swept away by fire the other morning, I'll
e loss being estimated at from S25O,OO0
d 500, 900.
n The New York Republicans, will hol
= their State Conventional Richfieid Spring
"a September 10. rrr-
lt a CASE of yellow fever has beepgr
ported among the marine guard at Pens
r cola, Fla. The man was promptly isolate
h. AT Oakland, Miss, on the 10th, j
d seph Payne, a negro, incautiously confesse
ss to the murder OF merchant named Sayl
ne in July last. The people of the town asser
lg bled to the number of COO with the May,
$, presiding. A lynching court was c
G. ganized, and the negro was prompt