The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-08-07
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
Personal AND POLITICAL

ADNiCES from Rome have been received
10 the effect that the brief transferring
Archbishop Ryan to the See Of PhiIadel-
phia is on its way TO st. louis.
PROHIBTIONIsrs es innate that St. John
will poll 10000 votes in Kansas. The
Woman's Temperance Union and Prohi-
bitionivts generally are enthusiastic over
bis nomination.
A SPECIAL session Of the Virginia Lsgis-
iature has been called by the Governor for
August 13.
ON the 28th the mother Of Rugg, the
Long Island murderer, died OF a broken
heart at New York
NAVAL officials estimate that the aggre-
gate cost Of the Greedy relief expedition
was about 100000.
THE wife Of Lieutenant Greedy, the Arc
tic explorer, went East on the 2Ssh, to join
her husband.
on the 2Sth Embly S. Chase and George
Clifford had a single scuIl race OF a mile
and a half at Wilkesbarre, Pa, Chase
winning in ten minutes and twenty sec
onds.
THE New York Board OF Aldermen
adopted resolutions On the 2Sth that ap-
propriate honors be paid the remains of }.
III. McGahaH, the war correspondent, upon
their arrival there.
In the suit for exemplary damages by
Mrs. Weldon against Mr.. Semple, an
English physician, who pronounced her rs
OF unsound mind, the jury decided in her
favor, assessing fl,O00 damages. She con.
Quoted her own case.
ON the 2Sth Oliver Ames applied to the
United States Circuit Court at Phila-
delphia TO be relieved Of the receivership
Of the Credit Mobilier Of America The
reason for the action was that he could
not attend to that and his duties as Lieu
tenant-Governor OF Massachusetts. Sam
uel II. Shipley was appointed the sue
Cessor OF Ames.
TIE committee formally notified Gov
ernor Cleveland OF his nomination at Al
bany, n. Y, on the 10Th.
Hon. A. N. DoCKERY has been renomi-
mated by acclamation for Congress by the
Democrats at Cameron, Mo.
On the 29th an old-fashioued Democratic
barbecue at Lexington, KY, was attended
by $4,000 people.
Itis announced that o. c. Baldwin, Jay
Gould, Russell Sage, T. +. Ryan and John
=. Green are to retire from the directory
of the Louisville s. Nashville.
THE Democratic National Committee has
chosen Chas. J. Canda, OF New York,
Treasurer and appointed the executive
committee.
w. L. SCOVILLE, an employe of Ward g.
Day, proves to have been instrumental in
bringing about the failure Of peWolf &
Swan at New York.
IN the Fifth North Carolina Congress
sional District the Democrats have nomi-
mated James w. Reed.
GENERAL GORDON, according to latest
intelligence still holds the fort at Khar.
toum, and will so continue TO do until the
rising OF the Nile, when he will equip
PRESIDENT HARRIsoN Of the lndianapo-
lis Banking Company was arrested on the
18th, charged with embezzling sos, 900, aud
he was hold in the sum of S6J, ,O)) bond.
SECRETARY FoLGER has decided that
carbolic acid is free from duty under the
new tariff
COMPTROLLER CANNON has declared the
second dividend OF twenty per cent. in
favor OF the creditors OF the First National
Bank Of Monmouth, III.
ON the 31st Queen Victoria gave audi
ence to the Maori King.
EX GOVERNOR HENDRICKs was formally
notified on the G0th of his nomination as
Vice President.
THE Mudir Of Dongola says he has been
advised Of the recNpture of Berber by Cor.
don. The report was discredited.
THE Democrats Of the Third Virginia
Geo. ID. Davis.
THE Fenian, DAILY, arrested in England
for having explosives in his possession,
will conduct his own defense.
PAUL STEVENS, Librarian Of the House
OF Representatives under Lincoln and
Grant, died at Camden, No, on the 3Oth.
JOSEPH II. ORTHwAITE, of Ohio, has been
nominated for Congress by the Democrats
TO succeed Converse.
ON the evening OF the 8Oth Dufur, Of
Massachusetts, won the wrestling match
with Mclaughlin, Of Michigan, which took
place before Boston audience.
MINISTER FERRY on the Both refused the
Chinese Minister an extension OF time in
which China shall reply to the demands Of
France
on the 3lth n. w. Culbertson, Represen-
tative from Kentucky, shot himself in the
head at his room at the National Hotel,
Washington, ID. G.
Tie Republican State Convention at
Parkersburg, W. Va, on the SO;h nomi-
mated Edwin Maxwell for Governor. The
State ticket is n GreenbaCk Republican
combination.
THE Swedish Minister to America, Count
Carl Lewenhaupt, will replace Baron zib-
Der as Minister at Paris.
On the 3lst Cleveland and Hendricks
met for the first time and conferred at Al
bany, N. Y.
THE Republicans OF the Second Congress.
sional District of West Virginia nominated
+. NJ Reynolds.
The r ,publicans Of the Ninth District Of
Indiana nominated Major J. @. DoxeY for
Congress.
REv. MARK PATTIsON, the famous Eng
lish teacher, essayist and critic, died on
the 3lst, aged seveuty-one.
THE Democrats OF the Ninth Congress
sional District OF Virginia nominated
Conelly f. Trigg.
ACCORDING TO the London Nelos it ap-
pears that Mr.. Gye has declined to assume
the direction of the Metropolitan Opera
house in New ork the coming season.
THE German Ambassador to Russia,
General SchweiniJz, has left st. Peters
burg for tho purpose of comforting with
Bismarck at Varz.n in regard to the meet
ing between the Car aud the Emperor of
Germany.
+. G.. BARRY has been nominated by the
Democrats of the Fourth Congressional
ID strict Of Mississippi.
OK the 31st the Manhattan Club of
New York gave a reception at the club
rooms to members of the Democratic
Notification Committee, on their ar
rival from Saratoga. An elaborate cola.
tion was served at midnight. Many
speeches were made and toasts drank.
A BERLIN dispatch SAYS that Grand
Duke Louis OF Hesse will abdicate in favor
OF his son Ernst, under the advice OF the
Emperor Of Germany. His morganatic
marriage with Nine. Kolamine and sub
sequent divorce compromised his position.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the 27lh William McDerbig, aged
twenty-one, employed in the Geographical