The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-04-12
NEWS IN BRIEF
Compiled from Various Sources.
PrnsoNAI. AND PoLrrIcAI..

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
THE session Of the Missouri Legisla-
ture was brought to decorous close at
noon on the "a.
LIEUTENANT DANENHOwER, of the
Jeannette expedition, has been granted
leave of absence for a year.
DISTANCES birthday was celebrated
at Berlin, Germany, on the 1st in grand
style.
ALFRED DE LACOUR, a wcll-known
writer Of plays and ballads, died at Paris,
France, few days ago.
THE Rev. Isaac L. Nicholson, d d.,
Of Philadelphia, Pa, who was elected 70
the hishopric Of Indiana by the Protestant
Episcopal Diocesan Convention early last
month, has declined the Office.
LOUISA WARDNEE EyARTs, daughter
Of ez-Secretary Evnrts, aud DR.. Charles d.
Scudder were married on the 81 inst. in
New York
MUNICIPAL elections were held
throughout several States on the 81, the
results of which were generally determined
by local issues.
The death Of John n Hungerford, of
Corning, n. Y, ex-member Of Congress
from the Twcntvninth District, has been
announced.
TIE President has appointed Judge
Walter O. Gresham, of indianapolis, Ind,
POstmaster-Ge encral
THE Massachusetts House Of Repre-
sentutives has defeated the Constitutional
amendment prohibiting the manufacture
and sale Of liquor.
THE projected Vienna (Italy) confer
cuce of the Geneva Red Cross Society has
been abandoned.
In reply To % parliamentary inquiry
in the British House OF Commons recently,
the Under Foreign Secretary declared that
England had no interest in the manner in
which tho United States disposed of the
Alabama fund.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR intends to visit
Chicago, st. Louis and other Western cities
next june, if not prevented by official du-
ties.
The centennial of the birth of Wash
iugtou Irving was celebrated at Tnrrytown,
N. ", on the 3d inst.
RETURNS from the election in Alichi-
gau'reeeived on the 4th indicated the sue
cess Of the Fusion Democratic and Ma
tioiiall Candidates : for Supreme Court
.ludgesand Regents Of thcStute University.
Az Cihclnnati the Democratic city ticket,
vith tfte exception of Comptroller, was
elected, the maiorities ranging from 33 to
HFt tis az bLleNeidilt biit .i}eiloCEhtlC bicAeI
was elected ly about 1000 majority. At
81. Louis the Democrats elected four Coun-
cilmeh OUt Of six.
A THREE-DAYS' secret session of Ger
man Socialists has been heldat Copenhagen.
It was determined to oppose Bismarci's
social programme and to force the fight
uSaiust capital.
PRESIDENT Arthur, Secretary Chand-
I.ttasTY.l4 NF ATiTIav ,f Net,- N,rk oaco,,po-
MED by several newspaper correspondents,
left Washington on the 9th for Jackson
vide, Fla.
lHE death of Brigadicr- General 10
scph X. Barnes tretired), late Surgeon
GanerRl of the United States Army, oc-
Cured at his residence in Washington ON
the 5tH, Vt Bright's disease.
THE Danish Government closed The
Socialist Congress at Copenhagen ON the
9TH and notified the foreign delegates to
leave the country forthwith.
PETER CooPER, the founder of Cooper
Institute and tho promoter Of many other
bencfactions, died in New York on the 4th,
having completed his ninety second year
less than two months since. Entering man
hood as n mechanic, his inventions and in
dlIstry proved a mine of wealth to him, and
at The time Of his death, although he had
given millions for the good of his race, he
was possessed of about SJ,000,O0O. Mr..
Cooper was the candidate of the Greenbacl-
National party for the presidency in 1876.
THE gubernatorial election in Rhode
Island, held on the sd, has resulted in the
defeab uf ex.GovornOi Sprague, A q. Bourne,
tile Republican nominee, being elected Gov
clnur ~ about 100 ma jority. The Assem-
bly, VIII ba strongly Republican.