The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-04-19
MISCELLANEOUS.


DURING the session of the Mormon
Reunion Conference at Kirkland, o., on the
9th, Bishop John Taylor, of London, Eng,
made.a report Of the work of the Church in
England, Wales and the Continent of Eu-
rope, which showed about 5000 members of
the reorganized Church of Latter-day Saints
in Europe and 1000 in England and Wales.
SIX young ladies were confirmed in
the American Episcopal Church at Rome,
Italy, the other day by Bishop Herzog, of
Berne.
The Canadian Government has re-
fused the request of the American Disttl-
lers' Association for revision of the duties
ON American whisky.
A CONSIDERABLE portion of New Or
leans, La, has been submerged, as a coEse-
quence Of the recent heavy rains. The Mis-
sissippi River reached the highest point
ever known on the 10th, and washed over
the levee at several points. The Campo
Santo Cemetery was under water, and
numberless headboards were washed away.
1t has cost the Texas Pacific Railroad
Company 500 900 to repair the Gouldsboro
crevasse.
The following general order was IS
sued by the Post-ofIice Department few
days ago: "AIl postal cards shall be for
warded from the Office to which they are
addressed to any other office at the request
of the person addressed without additional
charge of postage"
NOTWITHSTANDING the positive assur-
ance of the police that a reported explosion
/ in Ottawa, Cana, was a canard, the Par
lament buildings were thoroughly searched
on the 10th and guard of police placed on
4 duty at all hours.
| The Department of Agriculture re
/ ported on the 10th that the winter whea
/ outlook was about what it was last year at
! this time.
OWING to a defect in the applications
for license all the saloons and tavern Ii
| censes granted in Newark, n. J., recently
were void, and no licenses could be granted
until September next. A numher of the
leading hotels in the country were thus
without license and liable to Indictment if
they sell liquor.
A JUNIOR member of the firm of VIII
lisston Knight & Co., of New York, the
/ largest dealers in buckles and buttons in
the United States, made off with 100000
of the concerns funds the other day, caus-
ing its suspension.
The United States Supreme Court has
decided that claims of the United States
against an insolvent national bank are not
entitled to priority of payment out of it's
assets, as compared with claims of other
parties.
GEORGE SCHELLER, charged with set
ting fire to the Ncwhau House in Milwau-
kee, Wis, was placed on trial on the 10th.
No trouble was experienced in getting a
jury.
COLLECTIONS amounting to $4,000
have been forwarded from Switzerland for
the relief of the flood sufferers in the Ohio
Valley.
FIVE steamers filled with emigrants
arrived at Victoria, b. c., recently, and
1000 Chinese were soon to arrive to work
On the railroad.
THE Atlantic Milling Company of'St.
Louis, Mo, of which George Balm is Presi-
dent, has been obliged to suspend tempo
rariIy on account of dullness in the Euro
peau market and an overstock of wheat.
The assets of the concern were largely i'm
excess of the liabilities, and Mr.. Balm be-
lieved the suspension would be for a short
time only.
AT London, Eng, ON the 18th par
eel containing seven pounds of gunpowder
was found near the office of the Secretary
of State for the Home Department. A
sample of the nitro-glycerine seized at the
time of the arrest of Norman, Gallagher,
Dalton and Wilson was exploded at Wool
witch to test its quality, and the explosion
was said to be terrific. Investigation of the
cases found in a barge on the Thames
showed they ,verc only fireworks. The po
lice claimed to have enough testimony t.
convict dynamite plotters with Norman.
JUDGE LILLEY. of Washington, has
brought suit for $4,000 damages against
ex-senator Dorsey ON account of the recent
assault committed at Dorssy's house.
RECENT Hermosillo (McN.) advices
report ninety-three people killed in that
STATE since the Apache outbreak, of which
twenty-seven were Americans. 1t was be
lieved many had been killed who had not
been reported. At Palmo ranch ten mer
were killed lately. Two women were hung
up by The hands and frightNIlly mutilated
The feeling in Southern Arizona was grow,
ing more intense daily, and the number OF
Rangers sas rapidly increasing near SaI
Carlos, the objective point.
DICK LIDDIL. a memberof the famous
James gang Of outlaws, has been released
on his own recognizance by the United
States authorities of Alabama.
The crown regalia has been trans
ferred from the Winter Palace at st
Petersburg, Russia, to the Kremlin at Nos
COW.