The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-04
NEWS IN BRIEF
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERsoNAL AND roLIrInAr..

= m- .. "A. met ab Berlin Rev. Walter
9. Douglass, Of st. Louis, No., was in at
tendance.
JUDGE CHARLES ZANE, the newly ap-
pointed Cniof Justice OF Utah, arrived at
Salt Lalre City the evening OF the 23d.
PENeltss VICTORIA, wife of Prince Will
liam of Germany, is IN with scarlet fever.
CHARLES BRADLAUGH intends making a
lecture tour I'm the United States during
October and November.
ODo RUSSELL Baron AmpthilD, Brit
ish Ambassador 70 Berlin, died in that
ely on the 25th.
KATE sMoLsET, OF Ft. Plaine, N. Y, has
reached the 10Th day OF her fast, and
takes neither food nor nourishment
ON the 10Th the inner safe Of the First
National Bank at Albany, N. Y, was
forced and President Warner was found
% have made a clean sweep.
The spanish Government has it's eve on
benor Gorilla, the radical agitator, who is
reported as trying to raise a rebellion.
DAVID PREsrON, Of Detroit, will accept
the Prohibition nomination for Governor
of Michigan. He has large following.
IT is announced that Wash Jones will
run as an Independent candidate for Gov
ernor OK Texas on the "free grass" plat
form. He will endeavor TO get the Repub-
lican and Greenback vote, and in that way
hopes to reduce Ireiand's majority.
Ok the 25th Ex-Governor st. John and
MIR. William Daniel, candidates Of the Pro-
bibition party for President and Vice
President, were formally notified at Cuba,
N. Y, Of their nomination. The event oc-
CURED at place where great temperance
camp-meeting was in progress.
On the 10Th President Arthur arrived at
Newport, aud salute was fired in his
honor.
ON the och Bishop Disney, Secretary
and Treasurer Of the Cincinnati Universi-
~, died Of con iump tion.
The press Of France uphold Admiral
Courbet in what he did at Foo Chow, and
defy the opinion of the London Times.
JONAS WoLF was elected Governor of
the Chickasaw Nation by small ma
jority.
THE African Methodist Conference at
baltimore, Md, deposed Rev. W. w. Will
son from the Presidency and elected Rev.
Thomas Wells.
PAYNE and his fellow-bo0mers have been
sent 70 TT. Scott, Kas., and turned over to
the civil authorities.
/ On the 28th Senor Romero, Mexican Min
lister, received communication announc-
ing failure of the corn crop in Chihua-
hua, and asking him Co notify the export
ers Of corn in this country, who may wish
TO export it for seed TO chihuahua, to ad-
dress the Government OF that State, giving
the price, quality and quantity.
/ MINISTER TAFT left Vienna on the 27th,
for his new post at St. Petersburg.
Y THE court-martial case Of General Swain,
has been postponed until November 18th.
THE Gar OF Russia has determined after
all 60 make his intended visit to Warsaw.
On the 27th D.. w. A. Hardaway, Of St.
Louis, read paper before the American
Chronological Association at West Point.
NY.
IT was reported on the 9th that General
Gordon had gained great ~ictory over the
rebels in Egypt, August IL. lie sustained
and repulsed a two days. attack, and then
made successful sortie.
RICHARD eldest son OF "Boss'' Tweed of
New York, died in a mad-house at Paris
on the 21th.
GENERAL WOLsELRY was to leave Lon
don on the 3lst for Egypt to take charge
of the military forces.
DIR. SALMON, chief OF the Bureau of Ami
NAL industry, at Washington, has made
his report relative TO his investigation OF
pleuro-pneumonia among cattle in Illinois.
SAUL ROBERTs, until recently pay
master for large coal operators at Wilkes
barre, Pa, is reported short in his accounts
from $4,000 TO $4,000. He assigned all
his property and the firm will not lose
much.
THE French Minister OF Marine tele-
graphed Admiral Courbet the Govern
menPs satisfaction at the brilliant begin
ming Of the campaign in China.
In a recent interview Oklahoma PAYNE
declared he was an xious to be tried, and
was under the impression that he had a le-
gal right TO locate a colony.
ON the 9th the remains OF the late ]. A.
McGahan, the famous war correspondent,
arrived at Columbus, Ohio, from New
York, and wero received with military
honors. Governor Hoadiy was among the
speakers at the ceremonies.
In order to stop the rumors that are
ailoat, Mr.. Case declares that Jay-Eye-See
Is not for sale.
GENERAL WoLsELEY has the utmost con-
hdenco In the success or the Nile expedi-
tion, and says that the difficulties OF navi.
cation presented by the Nile are not to be
compared with those surmounted by tue
Red River expedition which he command
ed during the rebellion in Manitoba.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN Phillips, of Phila-
delphia, Pa, died on the 2sth.
The expeditionary force for the relief OF
General Gordon will be increased to I, 900. |
WARRANTS were issued on the 2Sth for
the arrest Of the Ladner Bros, the Phila-
delphia bankers who failed recently.
The court has adjudged Wilbur F.
S ORGY, owner OF the Chicago Times, men,
tally incapable Of attending to his affairs,
and the Probate Court has appointed
Austin T.. Patterson, the present manager
Ds the paper, conse rvRtor OF his estate.
FERRY, Prime Minister OF France, says
that owing TO Chinese troachery It has
been impossible TO treat her like a civil
,xed ion.
1T is stated that the American Political
Alliance will soon announce its candidates |
Tor President aud Vice President.
THE Iowa Greenbackers held their State |
Convention a. Des Moines on the % n and |
declared for Butler. They urge fusion /
wherever u will bensft "the party"
AT Weirs, n. H., General Sheridan /
briefly addressed his old comrades at the /
New Hampshire Veterans Encampment /
On tho 2sth. There were 1900 people /
present.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
OK the Path Fenimore Clayton, OF Mid
ilefeld, N. ~, i'm fit Of insanity caused 4
BY drink, deliberately shot his son to death
snd tried TO kin his wife.
AT oxford, n. Y, VIM. Roberts fatally /
shot Miss Jennie Tracy on the 25th be-
sause she refused to marry him.
THIEVES crushed the skulls Of all the /
inmates OF house at Fall Creek, Pa, on Il
he 18th, and then took what money they /
sonld find.
THE Michigan forest fires communicated
% several small towns on the 2Jlh, which
we're destroyed. Rains have checked /
lomewhat the fiery element
A PARTY OF Orangemen attacked the
Roman Catholic Church yacht at Henley /
Harbor, Newfoundland on the 2osh, tore
iown the Papal flag and tarred the yacht
THE South Carolina wife murderer,