The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-09-13
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

A DUBLIN dispatch of the 3D. says it
was reported that woman who testified
against the Ballyard Moonlighters in
March, 1882, had been shot dead in Aus
tralia.
REPORTS from Lancaster County,
Pa, of the 4th stated that splenic fever was
raging among cattle in that section.
Mrs. GENERAL ROBERT TOoMBs died
on the 4th at Clarksville, Ga, her summer
residence, of paralysis.
FRosTs were reported in New York,
New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine on
the night of the Sd.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR and party reached
Chicago on the 4th, and were accorded a
genuine ovation.
No new cases of yellow fever at PEN
-sacola on the 4th. The quarantine against
the city had been raised.
WILLIAM LAWRENCE, a night watch
man at Bath, Me-, was killed the night of
the Sd by burglar whom he caught break
ing into a store.
A MAN was killed on the 4th by trying
to jump from the elevator of the Grand Pa
cifc Hotel, Chicago, while in motion.
Ten THOUSAND persons were drowned
by a tidal wave in a single city during the
JACOB HADLEY, a stOnecutter of Tay-
lorsville, o., shot and killed his son Charles,
aged twenty, on the 4th. Hadley was drunk
at the time and tried to drown himself af-
ter the shooting.
IIIE haZlng cOurt-martial progresses
at Annapolis. 1t seems the hazers made
the boys stand on their heads just for
fun.
Ex-Governor TALBOT, of Massa-
chusetts, has positively declined to again
become a candidate for that office.
DANIEL COURTNEY, a 'longshOreman,
deliberately shot and killed Thomas Young
in a New York saloon on the night of the
4th.
JAMES DONAHUE, aged twenty-five,
deliberately shot and killed his step father,
Michael O'Connen, at Cleveland on the 4th,
and threatened to shoot his mother if she
interfered.
ANXIETY was being felt in Boston and
Cambridge, Mass, concerning the water
supply, owing to the drought.
EIGHT HUNDRED of the Chicago news
boys INDUCED in a street parade on the 4th
and afterward journeyed to South Park,
where picnic had been arranged for them
by the Young Mems Christian Association.
GEO. RANKIN, convicted of pension
frauds in Philadelphia, was refused new
trial on the 4th and sentenced to two years
Imprisonment. Geo. Wesner received a
like sentence, and Henry Frank received a
sentence of three years together with a
fine of $500 and costs.
The Manufacturers and Mechanics
Institute Exposition opened on the 9Th in
Boston.
49,, D.,
has been postponed to the December term.
TWENTY THOUSAND men turned out
in the Trade and Labor procession on the
9th in New York.
A WASHINGTON artificial ice company
is preparing apparatus to be used for ice
making in South Africa.
II. DUDLEY COLEMAN & Bro, iron
founders and machinists, New Orleans, sus-
pended on the 9th. Liabilities, S250,000;
assets, 100000.
HEINRICH CAUsCIAN, a middle-aged
German living near Rock Island, ILL.,, arose
from his bed early the morning of the 9th
and went to the barn and hung himself with
a cl0thes-line.
A TERRIBLE storm of thunder, light
ming and rain struck the Salt Lake Valley
the evening Of the 9TH, causing considerable
damage and badly soaring the people,
heavy thunder and lightning being almost
unknown there.
THE steamer Queen of the Pacific,
with party on board bound for the
Northern Pacific opening, ran aground
on the 9TH at the mouth of the Columbia
River.
JAY GOULD testified before the SEN
ate Committee on Education and Labor on
the 5th.
THE body of John NOOnan, who dis
appeared from East Bridgeport, Conn, a
few days since, was found on the 5th in
Sheldon's Pond at that place, bearing
marks of having been foully dealt with.
THE defalcations of Kennedy, the alb
sconding Youngstown (Ohio) bank cashier,
foot up Slf,5OO The bank will not lose
anything.
THE Count de Chambord left Co.
100000 francs to be divided between the
Duke of Parma and the Count of Bardi.
QUEEN VICTORIA subscribed E200 to
the Egyptian relief fund.
THERE %ere five new cases of yellow
fever at the Pensacola Navy Yard on the
9th and one death. The city remained
/ healthy.
A RELIEF committee under the Presi-
dency of the Prince of Orange was collect
! ing subscriptions in Holland for the suffer
ers by the Java eruption.
/ REX and his royal retinue arrived at
/ Cincinnati on the 9TH and was received with
/ due ceremony by Cincinnatus and his ad
/ herents. The guests were regaled with q
! sumptuous lunch, the bands meanwhile
playing 'If Ever l Cease to Love- in be
! half of Rex, and followed as a response
/ from Cincinnatus with "Call Ne Thine
\ Own" There was grand procession and
a right royal time generally.
REPORTS from Santa Barbara, VIII
mington and Los Angeles, Cal, announce
sharp shocks of earthquakes at 4:30 the
morning of the 9Th. The vibrations were
northeast to southwest.
| QUARANTINE was abolished on the
] Suez Canal on the 5th, and traffic resumed
as before the cholera epidemic. Balti,
/ troops were returning to Cairo.
THE first train on the Mexican Ma
/ tional Railroad arrived at SaltilIo on tn,
\ 5th The whole town was out to witness
the great event.
COUNT DE CHA1IBoRD left 200, 00l
francs to charity and religious societies
A HURRICANE swept over the Yves
/ Indies on the 9Th, causing damage TO ship
/ ping.
CARRIE WALDMAYER and Ameli,