The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-10-25
IN BRIEF

NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
THE trustees of the Garfield Monu
ment Association invite international COM
petition for monument to cost $1,000
AN Alexandria dispatch OF the 1seh
says: "Four deaths from cholera have been
reported in an Arab village near this city"
THE Gar Of Russia laid the corner
stone Of a church on the 18th TO be erected
on the spot where Car Alexander was
killed.
TIE Army of the Tennessee will here
after admit the wives of members to ban
quets. The next reunion is to be held at
Lake Minnetonka.
THE Massachusetts Supreme Court
has given a decision under which it is
thought nearly every hotel saloon in the
State can be closed.
THE defunct Augustinian Society's
banking institution of Lawrence, Mass, on
the 10th divided s., 500 among the creditors
on final settlement.
THE Treasury Department has pur-
chased 10000 ounces of silver for delivery
to tho San Francisco, New Orleans and
Philadelphia Mints.
A NUMBER Of prominent men, lnclud-
ing Hon. George II. Pendleton, were speak
crs ut the Cincinnati German centennial
celebration on the 18th.
THE New York Mercantile Exchange
on the lGth denounced the article called
"butterine" and sold as butter, and took
active steps to prevent its further sale.
A BALTIMORE Grand Jury, after inves-
tigating the Tivoli disaster in which sixty
five excursionists lost their lives, indicted
the proprietor and lessee of the picnic
grounds.
AT Norfolk, Va, on the 10th the re-
mains of Confederate soldiers disinterred
at Arlington and to be buried at Raleigh,
N. c., were received with military and civ
ic honors.
THos. TAYLOR, arrested on a charge
of absconding from Chicago with funds of
the Bricklayers' Union, of which he was
Secretary, was turned over in New York
on the 10Th to Chicago officers.
SEPTEMBER exports of breadstufs
show a large falling off as compared with
last year. The total for nine months is
$3.50, ,430, ,43G, being only four and half
millions less than for the first nine months
in 1882.
THE Imperial railways in Austria
may be little old-fashioned in some re-
spects, but every passenger car has in it an
indicator which as the train moves for
ward shows upon dial the name of the
next station.
AT the annual meeting of the Balti-
more and Ohio Telegraph Company, in
Chicago on the 18th, George p. Finch was
elected President; S. G. Bruce, Secretary,
and Bradford Danham, ]. Martin Hall and
T. II. Dearborn, Directors.
A SUIT of the Government against the
bankrupt estate of Jay Cooke & Co. to re-
cover on Treasury notes alleged to have
been improperly redeemed by the Govern
ment, was decided in Philadelphia on the
10Th in favor of the defendants.
THE application of Beverly B., son
of the late William Tilden, of New York, to
call executors of the estate to account was
denied on the 10Th. 1t is claimed that VIII
liam Tilden left s., ,OOO, 900, but that the two
younger sons got less than 100000 each.
SIX villages we're recently destroyed
by an earthquake on the peninsula between
Chesms, Asia Minor, opposite Chios, and
Vourla on the southern coast of the Gulf
of Smyrna. Upward of 1000 persons are
reported killed and 10000 rendered home
less.
ARTHUR L. BLUE, of indianapolis, ex-
Treasurer of the Grand Council of the
United Order of Honor, is supposed to have
gone to California. A partner and bonds
man Of Blue will be called upon to make
good the ex-Treasurer's accounts, which
are alleged to be in a bad way.
The committee of London Justices to
consider the lctter Of Guy, O'Donnell's So
licitor, in regard to his client being de-
prived of the use of tobacco, after seeing
the prisoner and hearing the opinion of the
prison physician that O'Donnell was in ex-
cellent health, refused O'Donnell the use Of
tobacco.
THE Paris Figaro publishes the mar
rative of a French officer of the particulars
of the massacre of natives at Hue by French
sailors. The story relates that after the
natives ceased to resist they were driven
from the burning villages unarmed, and
then shot down in piles, Frenchmen after
ward numbering the wounded.
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IT having been learned that an organ
ization Of about fifty substantial men was
formed at Oxford, Ind, to lynch Nelling,
Ada Atkinson's murderer, the authorities
secretly transferred. Melting to the
Lafayette Jail. Oxford people were indig-
nant, and threatened to go to Lafayette and
hang him. The people fear he viii feign
insanity aud escape justice. They are de-
termined he shall hang.
THE values of exports of domestic
provisions, tallow and dairy products for
September, 1888, was IS, $50, ,431; the same
month, 1852, s., ,453, 7S4; nine months ended
September 80, 1888, $50, 1855 against S73,-
875,969 for the same period in 1882. Pro-
visions and tallow for eleven months ended
September 30, 1888, S91, ,447, ,516; same time
in 1882, SSl ,943, ,76S. Dairy products for the
five months ended September 80, 1888, Sl0,-
2S2, ,69I, against SS,475,511 for the same Pc
riod in 1882.
Gov TUTTLE of Arizona Territory,
in a report to the Secretary of the Interior,