The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-05-29
Personal. Ann POLITICAL

GEORGE J. WILLIAMS, who secured
about $4,000 by pension frauds and mail
robberies in Nicholas County, w. Va, has
been found guilty, aud is in n fair way to
spend the rest of his life in the Peniten-
tiary.
WILLIAM II. VANDERBILT arrived in Liv
crpool ON the 10th.
On the 2Oth Rev. DIR. Fry was elected
editor of the central Christian idrocgte
10y the Methodist Conference at Philadel-
pho.
AN English Grand Jury has indicted
Lord st. Leonords, who recently assaulted
a maid servant
MARvtTA TEAKA, of Baltimore, Md, Of
fers "A reward for the arrest of two St.
Louis Italians who swindIed him out of
$1,000 10y the gold brick trick.
THE wifc OF Henry Dillon, of Akron, O.,
deserted him some time ago, taking the
children with her. Mr.. Dillon has come
into possession of a fortune and was in
Detroit, Mich, ON the 10Th, looking for his
family.
ON the 10Th President Arthur reviewed
the parade of the League of American
Wheclm"u as il passed through the White
House grounds.
ON the goth in the British House Of Com
mons, Lord Randolph Churchill spoke
clude ireland from the operations Of the
franchise bill. The amendment was de
fcatcd by a vote of 3D. TO 137, Lord North
cote and others leaving the House before
the vote was taken.
JOsErH DUDLEY, a New York philan-
thropis,, has left $4,000 to Presbyterian
charities.
1T is said that Secretary Folger will soon
issue a call for $40 OOO,OOJ three per cents.
THE Republicans of Pennsylvania have
nominated General James s. Negley for
Congress in the Twenty-second District,
aud Hon. T. NJ. Bayne in the Twenty-third.
THE command of the Khartoum expe-
dition is TO be given to Lieutenant General
Adye.
THE hil granting pension Of 50 per
month 70 Mrs. DeLoug will be reported
favorably to Congress.
ON the 2lst c. c. Matson, Of Bloomington
Ind, was renominated for Congress in the
Fifth District.
THE Democrats of New Hampshire in
State Convention at Cocnord, on the 2lst,
were unanimous for tariff reform and the
cold ticket"
AT the dedication ceremonies on the oc-
casion Of the unveiling OF the Luther stat
ne in Washington on the 21st, Justice Mil
Ter presided.
SIR GARNET WoLsELEY, says the PdU
NIU Gazcttc, will have command Of the
expedition which will land at Suakim
i'm the autumn and march thence to Ber-
Ter.
ON the 2Ist General Grant mortgaged
his Washington property in favor Of
". II. Vanderbilt as partial security for
the latter's loan Of 900.
CArrAIN EAns was before the Senate
Commerce Committee on the 2lst, and ar
Eucd in favor of the Improvement Of the
channel between Galveston harbor and
the Gulf.
On the 21st the fivc-huudredth ami
vesarv of the death Of WyclifTe, the En-
glish retormer and translator OF the Bible.
was held at St. Andrews Church, Black
friars, London.
ON tho 2lst Ferd Ward was arrested IN
New York and required TO give bail in
$4,000, his sureties 20 qualify in double
the amount He begged piteously not 10
be taken TO Jail and was allowed to remain
temporarily at a hotel, under guard.
A WASHINGTON broker named George
II. Lewis, who has been doing an immense
business in margins, is missing, with from
$4,000 TO 100000 Of his customers money
lie has been paying as high as fifty per
cent. month profit on deposits.
FERDINAND WARD couldn't get bail ano
WIS locked up in Ludlow Street Prison.
MEMORIAL window has been placed in
Haworth Church by an American admireI
of Charlotte Bronte.
IT is said James C. Flood, Of San Fran
cisco, is going to establish "A branch OF the
Nevada Bank in London.
THE Republicans Of the Fourth Kansas
District, on the 22I, renominated Thomas
Ryan Tor Congress,