The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-27

On the 18th judgments aggregNta hg
-, ,S74. Y were entered in the United States
Court at Indianapolis, Ind, against the
town of Bowling Green, Clay County, Ind,
for failing TO pay bonds issued to build a
schooI-house.
IN London extensive precautions are
taken in consequence of information of the
arrival ofthe Fenian Daily, concerned in the
storage of arms at Clerkenwe1, for which
offense Walsh was convicted. A special
corps of police, many of whom speak the
Irish language, are placed wherever it is
/ thought mischief is likely to occur. All the
prisons, public buildings and docks are
carefully watched.
IN Edinburgh, at a trial of McDer-
mott and nine others for completely in the
dynamite outrages at Glasgow, the testi-
mony went to show that Featherstone was
seen in the company If the prisoners, who
purchased large quantities of nitric acid,
sulphuric acid and glycerine.
A SPECIAL detail of police has been
made in London to guard Parliament
/ buildings, Westminster Abbey, the Gov
/ ernmeut office, the National Gallery, Ger.
man Embassy, Mansion House, Stock Elk.
/ change and Bank of England. The lug
/ gage of all passengers on landing in Eng
1 land from Atlantic steamers is carefully
! scrutinized.
! On the 10Th a Christian convention
/ to form an anti-secret society league met in
/ Baltimore, Nd.
Mr.. CURTIS, a member of the COM
mission to investigate diseases of hogs. re-
/ ports much less disease among Western
| hogs than supposed.
/ a SPIRITED contest between Flood
and Sharon in San Francisco to get control
/ of the Ophir mine has resulted in favor of
Flood.
On the evening of the 10Th a very
demonstrative m sedng to express opin on
respecting the execution of O'Donnell was
held in Washington.
On the 10Th William Lamie explained
under oath, at Edinburgh, the nature oil
the Feuian oath and the objects of the
Fenian organization.
The Superior Court of Maryland,
Judge Fisher presiding, rendered a decision
by which the estate of Genus Barnum goes
to the McDonough Institute of Baltimore
On the 18th the Enterprise Manufac.
turing Company of Geneva, Ohio, assigned
to P. NJ. Tuttle; liabilities, $4,000, assets
unstated Seventy-fve men are thrown out
of employment.
A RESPITE has been granted the Jones
boys, under sen, ence to be hanged at Jack
son, o., on the 31st, their evidence being
necessary for the conviction of Iabar
] Stephens, an accOmplice.
OK the 18th the trial of Ellen PapparC
at Philadelphia, charged with the murder
of Samuel Butler, resulted in verdict O
not guilty.
In the Emma Bond case at Hillsboro
H., the 18th, the court overruIed' the mo
ton of counsel for the defense to strike out
certain testimony.
BY the curtailment of force in manu-
featuring establishments at New Haven
Conn, several hundred men have beer
thrown out of employment.
THE Board of Aldermen of New York
| City has passed an ordinance requiring
electric-light wires to be placed under
ground after May /, 1884.
On the 9th the Proteus Court of In
q1iry reassembIed in Washington.
On the 18th it was reported that tn
Chinese were concentrated at Hung Hoa
twenty miles above SOntay, on the Ret
River, and at Bac Mini.
On the 10Th the Voltaic Iron Work
at Apollo, Pa, which closed a fortnigh
since on account of a strike, resumed, tn
men accepting a reduction.
AT the National Tube Works, Nc
Keesport, Pa, 5000 men were notified OIL
the 18Th of a general reduction January 1
If the terms are not accepted the works viii
close down indefinitely after tat date,
Oh the 18th the President sent to tn;
Senate a communication from the Secre
tary of the Interior incl osing letter from
the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, set
ting forth the necessity of a deficiency ap
preparation of $4,000 for supplies the re
mainder of the present fiscal year for tn,
Crow Indians. The Commissioner states
there are now at the Grow agency 1926 In
dians who require subsistence to keep then
from starving, and mentions that the an
nual appropriations to support these In
dians have fallen off from 800, 900 in 1877 /
/ G2S OOn IL, 1880