The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-05-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
Ex-Governor SEYMOUR, of New
York, says he would favor a law making it
a crime for any resident within our borders
TO plan or aid in violent measures toward
persons in this or any other country.
A NEW counterfeit five-dollar gold
coin has made its appearance 1t purports
to be coin Of the United States struck at
New Orleans in 1Si3, is heavily plated aud
forty-ntne and one-half grains light.
v. RICHARDS & BRO., dry goods,
Augusta, Ga, have assigned, with liabilities
Of 100000; assets SS0, 900, and the failure of
J. w. Lewis g. Co., the Baltimore (Md.)
oyster and fruit packers, has also been an
nounced.
J. ii. HoFFER, postal clerk, was ar
rested at Pittsburgh, Pa, the other after
/ noon on charge of receiving and appro-
priating to his own use money belonging
to the United States Government.
JUDGE WYLIE expressed his belief
on the 18th that the star-route case would
Inst more than another month.
The order for the court-martial of
Paymaster Wasson has been temporarily
suspended, pending further examination
as to the extent of the defalcatiOn.
THREE bodies stolen from a Cana
dian graveyard have been found in the
river at Cape st. Louis.
The Colombian Government proposes
to make the Canal Company pay the cost
Of maintaining police supervision over the
host of wor1men brought into the country.
THERE was n heavy frost in the sec
tion about Montgomery, N. Y, on the 14th.
In the low lands some ice formed.
AT Dublin, Ireland, on the 18th
Fitzharris was placed on trial as accessory
to the Phoenix Park murders.
TIE Canadian mounted police have
promptly suppressed the anticipated raid
Of the Cree Indians to this side of the bor-
der.
THE latest consular report from MeNi-
co indicates that railroad construction has
given an extraordinary stimulus to the va
rious trade industries.
VESSELS from Bombay are quaran-
tined at Suez, Egypt, on account of cholera.
/ 1T was reported on the 10Th that a
treaty of peace between Chill and Peru had
been concluded.
AN Interior Department decision set
ties the point that the mineral character Of
a township is decided by the character Of
the greater portion of it.
| THE commissioner of the Freedmen S
Savings Bank, at Washington, D. c., has
declared a final dividend of seven per cent,
making sixty-two per cent. in all.
/ CANADIAN officials, it was reported
4 on the 18th, had received threatening let
/ tiers from New York dynamiters.
/ THERE is a lockout against more than
1 1000 shoemakers in Cincinnati, o. The
/ men have called for the appointment of
/ arbitrators.
/ The tradesmen of Dublin, Ireland,
\ have received anonymous circulars warn
/ ing them against serving on ju.jes for the
trial Of political offenders, and notifying
/ them that they must have no dealings with
/ men who have served or may hereafter
I serve on such juries.
I THE Grand Jury which has been in
/ vesligatiug the railroad disaster which oc-
4 Curred at Tehichipa, Cal, on the Southern
4 Pacific Railroad, January 20, and by which
a number of people lost their lives attaches
the blame to the general management of the
road and finds the working force at that
4 point inadequate.
SIX anarchists have been arrested in
/ Paris, France, for circulating seditious
pamphlets among the troops.
KANSAS is the only cattle State report
! ing an increase of beeves as compared with
last year.
THE trial of ex-Congressman Phil. B.
Thompson, Of Harrodsburg, Ky, for the
! killing of Walter Davis, resulted in a YER
dict of not guilty on the 10th.
JAMES n. HoUGH, whom the detect
ives, stimulated by a $1,000 reward, her
aided far and near as the murderer of the
Foreman women near indianapolis, Ind,
recently, has been released by order of the
Grand Jury.
THE bark Arabia, from New Orleans,
arrived at RevaI, Russia, on the 10th. II
was stated that twenty of her crew died of
smallpox. The Captain attempted to en-
ter the harbor of Hilsiryer and was fined
100 crowns for trying to contravene the
port regulations.
WILMINGTON, Del, has levied n tax
Of one dollar each on telegraph poles and
the City Council has ordered the poles
taken down if it is not paid.
ALTOGETHER six persons were ar
rested at Ballina, ireland, on the 18th on
the charge of conspiracy to murder land
lords. An Internal machine and a number
/ Of firearms belonging to the prisoners were
seized. II was believed the arrests and
seizures were made through the evidence of
an informer.
iel Delany, Edward McCaffrev and Thomas
Martin pleaded guilty to charges of con-
spiracy to murder. Martin was allowed his
/ liberty on condition of leaving Ireland
The trial Of Fitzharris, the car-driver, as an
accessory after the fact to the murder cf
Cavendish and Burke, was concluded. The
jury returned a verdict of guilty against
him and he was sentenced to penal servi-
tude for life. Kingston and Gibney were
arraigned on "a charge of conspiracy to
murder and both pleaded not guilty.
AT presentation day exercises in the
National Deaf Mute College at Washing
ton. on the 10th, a memorial bust of the late
President Garfield was unveiled with ap-
propriate ceremonies. The bust was
erected by subscriptions received from deaf
mutes throughout the United States and
! cost 81 500.