The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-07-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


THE Toronto (Cana.) authorities
seized 25 900 cigars the other day for in
fraction of the revenue laws.
Four warehouses, containing grain,
flax and oil, were destroyed by fire at Hull,
Eng, the other day, the damage being
100000.
THE Spanish Cabinet has given favor
able consideration to a project for a tunnel
under the straits of Gibraltar.
THE missing ledger stolen from the
Tennessee Treasury, which was said to con-
tain important evidence againt NJ. T. Polk,
the defaulting Treasurer, has been returned
without mutiIation of any kind.
The steamer BeauharnOis, with
pleasure party Of 300, ran ON a reef in the
river at Montreal, Cana, a few days ago,
and sank in eight feet of water. A panic
seized the people, mostly women and chill
dren, but all were rescued.
THREE HUNDRED journeymen horse
shoers struck at CLEVELAND, o., the other
day for higher wages.
BURGLARS ransacked the residence of
J. G. Rood, at Wauwatosa, Wis, the other
night, and got a thousand dollars worth of
property, including a gold certificate for
$500.
j. M. KER, the defaulting clerk of the
banking firm of Preston, Kean & Co.,
Chicago, H., who was captured in Peru, ar
rived in that city a few days ago in the
custody of detective.
A BOILER explosion in the Glen Falls
Paper-mill Company's works,at Glen Falls,
n. Y, the other day, destroyed property
valued at 100000, mortally wounded two
men, and seriously injured a number of
others.
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vertown, N. J., was reported lost off
Georges Bank, with all on board, on the
10th.
A BARK laden with rags from Alex
andria, Egypt, was quarantined at New
Haven, Conn, few days ago.
| NEwBERRY, Mich, on the line of the
Mackinac & Marquette Railroad, was visit
ed by a Sl50,O0O fire few days ago.
The Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue has appointed Isham Young, of Knox
vile, Tenn, revenue agent, vice c. NJ. Hor-
ton, removed.
EIGHT boilers of an anthracite fur
mace, operated by Kaufman & Co., of Read
ing, Pa, exploded on the 18th. Two men
were fatally injured and number badly
hurt.
THE San DOMINICAN Congress has
fixed an export duty on tobacco graduated
with view to prevent expectation of i'm
mature leaf.
The President has approved the sem
tence of dismissal in the case of Lieut.. Sam
uel N. Holmes, of the Thirteenth Infantry,
recently tried by court-martial at Ft Bliss,
Tex, for duplicating pay accounts. Th
official order dismissing him from the ser
vice has been issued.
A FREIGHT TRAIN was wrecked on
the Reading Railroad, near Shamokin, Pa,
the other day, killing a passenger.
A CYCLONE swept through Fort At
lzinson, Wis, on the 10th, wrecking one hun
dred buildings and injuring six persons. At
| Fon du Lac, a section of ninety two feet of
an electric light tower was blown over up
on some buildings and three hundred
pound weight went crashing to the last
ceilings, where it suspended itself over the
head of a saloon-keeper. Considerable
damage was done in Illinois on the same
day, Pekin suffering the worst, the damage
there being estimated at $4,000.
THERE IS to be a contest over the es-
tate of Louis c. Hammersley, of New York,
valued at 81. 100000.
FIFTY 'IOngshoremen struck in Brook
lyn, N. Y, on the nth for an advance from
twenty to twenty-five cents per hour in
bAActi WeSN9f
THERE was frost at Davenport, Iowa,
on the morning of the 18th.
Two young girls, Hattie Arkell and
Bessie Morley, were drowned while bath
ing in the lake at Port Stanley, Ont, a few
days ago. The shock came with double
force on Mr.. ArkelI, whose brother Robert
died suddenly the day before in London.
AT Vernon, La, the other day two
! i L
were released from jail by an armed mob
THE jury for the trial of M. I. Polk,
Tennessee's defaulting Treasurer, was
sworn in at Nashville ON the 18th, and the
trial was commenced.
AT Bedford, Eng, on the 18th, while
playing lawn tennis, young army officer
named DeVere, shot dead Miss Mckay
and Immediately committed suicide.
SOME scoundrel opened a switch OF
the railroad near Knoxville, Tenn, the
other night and turned train of cars into
q zinc furnace, causing bad wreck of traiI
and building.
GENERAL SIR EVELYN WOOD has re
! turned to Egypt in consequence of the out
break of cholera at Cairo.
In the thousand-yards rifle contest a
Wimbledon, Eng, on the 18th, Wilson, o
7 the Ulster Rifles, scored sixby-slx; DIR
e Scott, the only American contestant, scored
1 sixty-two.
$ CUsTOAT-HOUsE officers at Halifax
n. s., discovered a number of boxes o
> contraband tobacco being landed from
coasting vessel the other day and seize'
both vessel and tobacco.
E FATHER O'HoRAN, of Wilkesbarre
Pa, has forbidden Sunday-school childrei
4 to wear bangs or frizzes in church.
= A STROKE of apoplexy caused ex
= Congressman Archibald McAllister to drol
= dead at Altoona, Pa, the other afternoon.
4 w. L. EwING, Mayor of st. Louis
}, Mo-, was married at Vincennes, Ind, fey
e days ago, to Miss Mollie Fleming.
, AFTER a trifing quarrel with he
> lover, Miss Ida Bussells, aged eighteel
e years, whose parents reside in Lancaste
County, Va, repaired TO her room an
committed suicide by blowing her brain
u out with a revolver.
A FARMER near CoshoctOn, o., find
: ing a stranger in his house the other night
:, and taking him for a burglar, killed hir
!, with a club.
THE Grand Lodge Of the American
4 Legion of Honor has adopted a resolutio
: calling for reduction of salaries of off