The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-01-31
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

The English Government has been
asked 10y the King Ot the Belgians to send
two English officers to act in General Cor
don's place in the Congo country until
General Gordon is ready to fulfil his en-
gagement.
THE Prohibitionists Will place Ma
tional ticket in the field this fall.
CONFIDENCE is expressed by De Les
seps that the British Government will rati-
fy the canal convention with English ship
owners.
ON the 21st George F. Williams, for
merIy Superintendent at Cincinnati for the
Western Union, was elected President OF
the National Telegraph Company.
IN Boston n testimonial subscription
has been opened for Lieutenant Rhodes OF
the Revenue cutter Dexter for gallantry in
rescuing people from the wreck ot the City
of Columbus.
on the 2lst Captain Alice Dixon and
four other female members ofthe Salvation
Army were arrested at Bridgeport, Conn,
for parading the streets.
Mrs. JAMES NJ. HOOD, of Frederick,
Md, bas donated $4,000 to Franklin and
Marshall College for an astronomical OBJ
snrvatory.
on the 22d General Hancock arrived
in st. Louis Mo.
The Committee on Military Affairs of
the Senate viii report favorably on the
HI John Porter bill
ON the 22d VIM. d. Ringo died at
Newport, KY, leaving "A for,une OF half
million to six adopted orphan children.
CITIZENS of Cincinnati have sub
scribed Yl2 900 towards the expenses of the
National Democratic Convention, and viii
send a big committee to try and secure it.
DIR. ROSENBERG, who killed the Hun
garnu Count (Batthiany) in "A duel, has
been sentenced to prison for two years.
Tue Emperor of Japan has decorat-
ed General Horace Capron, of Washington,
j. c., with the second order of the Rising
Sun.
On the ped mass for the reposo of the
soul Of O'DonnelI, Carey's slayer, was
celebrated at his birthplace in County
Donegal, Ireland An immense concourse
attended.
MARQUIS TsENG's celebrated letter,
published in a Breslau paper, containing
pert illusions to Sedan, is pronounced
"authentic but not intended for publca-
ton"
THE Iowa delegation in Congress will
urge the appointments Of Representative
McCoid to succeed Judge McCrary. Sena-
tor Ingalls, friends are also making an ef-
fort in mis- behalf.
The Iowa Legislature reelected Sena-
tor Allison on the 23d.
THE Prohibition National Convention
will be held at Pittsburgh, Pa, in May.
IT is reported that Edward J. Meany,
for sixteen years Treasurer OF the Mould
ers' Union Of North America, has disap-
pcared from Brooklyn, n. V, and that
twenty thousand dollars of the organiza-
tion's money is gone from the bank
A LETTER has been written by Gener-
al Grant denying the published report that
NE was ever partner of Senor Romero, or
that he had any private pecuniary interest
in the proposed Mexican treaty.
TnE assertion is made by Sir Charles
Dixie that England will maintain the au-
thority of Egypt on the Red Sea as a means
Of checking the slave trade.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR and the Govern
ors of the several States OF the Union have
been invited to attend the Winter Carnival
nj Montreal, Can. The festivities are to be
conducted on scale of unprecedented mag.
nidcence.
EDMUND ABOUT has been elected a
member of the French Academy.
SENATOR INGALLS, says ne has no as
prations for Judge McCrary's place.
On the oath c. F. Huntington was
elected President of the Kentucky Central
Railroad
AT last accounts the Queen of NADIA
gascar refused to yield an inch Of territory
to the French, though her troops have been
again repulsed-
The Postal Committee of the Senate
tad a conference with the Postmaster
General on the Path about the use Of the
mails by lottery companies.