The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-10-04
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

O'DONNELLs Carey'S slayer, VIII be
defended by Sullivan, NJ. p. Defendant
had preliminary hearing on the 18th.
FERD. MAYER g. Co., New York
woolIen dealers, have failed for 81, ,75O, 900.
Levy Bros. & Co., clothers, failed for $780,
600.
AT the Hutton (Pa.) regatta, on the
25th the professional oarsmen refused to
row because the judges assigned them posi-
tions instead of permitting them to draw
places by lot.
AN Irishman, giving his name as John
A. Feeny, fired two shots at the British
consul in New York on the 25th. He is
lately out of the hospital and exhibits
symptoms of crankiness.
Miss EMMA ATKINSON, eighteen years
old, was found at her home near Oxford,
Ind, on the 24th, with her throat cut and
numerous knife wounds in her body. She
had been left alone in the house, and was
probably murdered by tramps.
HENRY BIsCHOFF, of the German
Bank of New York, testified before the Sen
ate Labor Committee on the 25th that work
ingmen in America work less hours and do
better work than those in Germany, but
have not as comfortable homes. He wants,
employers to study the interests of their
men.
VALUES of breadstuffs exported for
August, 1888, S1S.8l6, 129; same month, 1882,
SIS, ,951 ,320; eight months ending August l,
1888, Sl14, ,237,04 same time 1882, $110,275-
sos.
JESUIT delegates from all parts of the
world have assembled at Rome to elect the
eventual successor to Pere Beck, General of
the order. Beck wished this action taken
beCauSe of his advanced vearS
SIMEON CHARLES HADLEY, Alderman
for Bavard Ward, was elected Lord Mayor
of London on the 18th.
A BUCHAREST dispatch says a railway
train from Paris for Constantinople was
thrown from the track near Verciorova on
the 2jth. Several carriages were. demol-
ished, and many persons killed and
wounded.
YELLOW FEVER had appeared at
Manzanillo and at Masalan, Mexico. The
average patients have a mild form of beni-
grant paludic fever. The whole population
have been stricken down with it, and the
death rate fluctuates from ten to twenty
a day.
Mrs. A. HURLBURT, an old woman,
died suddenly at Worcester, VT, recently.
The body had been exhumed and marks of
violenca were found. The Grand jury will
report an Indictment for murder against
Templeton, with whom the woman boarded.
TempletOn claims Mrs. Hurlburt quarreled
with her husband. He attributes her injU-
ries to this cause.
AT Shelbyville, Ind, Charles Vernon
was stabbed to death in an election row on
the 25th.
A DIstATcH from Saigon, Cochin
China, states that General Bonet sailed for
Franeefupon a mission solicited by himself
to inform the French Government Of the
real position of affairs in Tonquin.
THE, ,Massachusett Democrats on the
26th renOminated BENZ. F. Butler for Gov!
ernor. .-
TIE Sternberg elevator at Buffalo
was destroyed by fire the morning of the
26th; loss St75,OOO.
lTHEs Official estimate of casualties
at the Ischia. disaster is 1900 killed, 374
wounded.
The Corean Embassy visited Gen.
Hancock at Governor's Island on the 2Gth!
THREE hundred houses burned In
Constantinople on the night of the 25th.
THE reply of the Chinese Govern4
ment to dispatches of the Marquis Tseng
has been received in Paris.
The Limerick Qreland) Town Hall
and other buildings were demolished on the
Goth by a storm. A bridge over the Shan
non was injured.
Jos. MEDILL of the Chicago Tribune
testified on the 26th before the Senate La
bor Committee. He favors industrial
schools.
SITTING BULLS baptism into the
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cause he can not make up his mind which
of his two wives he will let go.
ANTI-JEwIsH excesses are reported
in the Veszprim district, West Hungary.
Several houses occupied by Jews in two
villages were burned to the ground. Sew
eral persons have been arrested.
THE schooner Victor, bound for Ja-
maica, was lost in a recent hurricane; also
the Charleton from Nassau. Fifty-three
lives are known to have been lost.
The Paris newspapers are spiteful at
King Alfonso for accepting the colonelcy of
the Strasbucg Uhlan regiment.
EIGHTEEN vessels were wrecked in
the harbor of st. Pierre, Martinique, on the
night of September 4.
Jos. A. DONOHUE's trunks were
seized by the customs authorities at New
York on the 26th, and found to contain
$1,000 worth of dutiable goods. Donohue
is wealthy Californian.
THE National Wool-Growers' Associ-
alton met in Chicago on the 26th. Vermont,
New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan,
Wisconsin, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota,
Texas, Colorado and West Virginia were
represented.
JUDGE Dixon, the Republican nomi-
nee for Governor of New Jersey, has sig
nifed his acceptance of the nomination.
The Nebraska Republican State Con-
vention nominated NJ. B: Reese for Judge
of the Supreme Court.
The British Association for the Ad-
vancement Of Science decided to invite the
American Society for the Advancement of
Science to become honorary members of
the association during its visit to Montreal
in 1884.
THE value of exports of domestic pro-
visions, tallow and dairy products, for the
eight months ended August 81, 1888, is ST.
457,6 $40; same period 1882, S65, ,922, ,1s5. Pro
visions and tallow for ten months ended
August 81, 1888, Ss4 ,333, ,2o4, against S75,-
S5I ,C79 same time in 1882. Exports of
dairy products during last four months in
creased 81 ,569,215 over same period last
year.
NoRDENsKJoLD's Arctic expedition