The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-10-30
IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

khedive OF Egypt had q conference, at
which Egyptian finances were discussed.
THE libel suit OF James G. Blaine against
the indianapolis Sentinel is set for trial
December 23L
CONTINUED opposition to the British
franchise bill is advocated by Lord Ran
dolph Churchill.
MANY thousands OF Dublin people at
tended the funeral Of the late A. NJ. Sulli-
van on the 19.h.
Ok the 2Oth Ferry, Prime Minister of
France, assured representatives Of the
New Orleans Worlds Exposition that
France would make worthy exhibit If he
could so arrange in time.
ON the Goth Governor Cleveland was as
saultod by Samuel Boone, OF ChemunE
County, n. Y, because he refused to par
don Boone's wife's brother. The Governor
warded of the blow and passed on, and
the crank was arrested.
AN army retiring board at Governors
Island, New York Harbor, has been APP
pointed, consisting Of Maj General w
5. Hancock, Colonel Chas. 5. Sutherland,
Colonel Alex. J. Perry, Assistant quarter
master, Lieutenant Colonel William ID.
Whipple, Assistant Ad1utant- General and
Surgeon John II. Janeway.
ON the 10Th, during the progress OF o DO
Itical demonstration in Fort Wayne, Ind
"A "Belva Dear' club, composed of $50
drummers wearing the Lockwood colors,
paraded the streets, creating considerable
amusement.
NARY BLACKBURN Morals, lady well
known In Chicago for her sympathy with
the Confederate cause during the war, and
who spent fortune i'm support of her con-
victions, died at the Blackburn Santa
rium at Louisville, KY, on the 18Th inst,
In her sixty sixth year. She was a lady
agfa f,v hs,v
ties.
PORE LEO will shortly create eight new
Cardinals.
The New York bankers, DonnelI, Law
son ~ Co., who suspended during the
May panic, resumed business on the 22d.
ID. CAMPBELL BANNEIMAN, Secretary to
the British Admiralty, has been appointed
Secretary for Ireland, vice Trevelyan.
SECRETARY GRESHAM retu rned to Wash
ington from New York on the 21st
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has appointed VIM.
r. Dunwoody, Of Iowa, to be a member of
tue National Board Of Health, vice DR.. H.
A. Johnson, resigned.
The President has designated Minister
Kasson 20 represent the United States at
the Congo Conference, which is TO be held
in Berlin.
WARRANT has been served on Mr. w
ii. Dempsey, n Washington stationer
based on an Indictment found by the
United States Circuit Court for Massa-
chusetts, October 10 h, 1891, charging
him with falsely making, forging and
counterfeiting navy vouchers.
The English court is doing two weeks
mourning Tor the late Duke of Bruins
wick.
THE distinguished French philologian,
Jaques Auguste Adolphe Rignier, died on
the 22d.
In the election for members Of the City
Council of Baltimore, Md, on the 22d,
the Democrats made almost a clean
sweep.
BY the advice Of her physicians Sarah
Bernhardt has gone to the seaside. They
say she needs repose.
THE crank who attacked Governor
Cleveland at Albany, n. Y, recently, was
declared sane by physicians, but they said
lie was laboring undsr great nervous ex-
citcmeut. lie was discharged.
81 CRETARY GRESHAM on the 22d received
,he report of the special committee ap
pointed TO consider tho general classiflca-
tion under the new tariff.
THE Dublin FreemdR'S Journal speaks of
the new Secretary of Ireland as "a cOurte-
ous noncnty, ignorant OF Ireland"
LIQUOR dealer named Frank Rigney,
OF WINNIPEG, Man, has disappeared, and
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probably now a citizen Of Mexico or Can
ada.
The message OF Queen Victoria to Par
lament on tho 22l, expressed the hope Of
her Majesty that the franchise bill might
soon be pa sod.
IN his annual report General Hazen,
chief Signal officer, says the service is
greatly crippled for the want of money.
lie regards the Gresly expedition as tore
most among its kind.
AT the meeting of the Grand Lodge of
Mosons OF Kentuo ky, at Louisville, on the
- ], High Priest Farleigh discussed the
Papal letter against the order. He de-
clarcd that the charges OF Pope Leo
against Masonry wore false.
COlMODoRE SCuLEY, commander Of the
Greedy relief party, has submitted his re-
port TO the Secretary Of the Navy He re-
lates interesting details concerning the
disco very of the explorers and their
wret ched condition when rescued.
ON the 22t the annual C onvention Of the
National Wholesale Drug Association met
in 81. Louis, Mo. c. f. G. Meyer, Of St.
2 Louis, elected President for the en-
suing year; A. a. Mellier, OF St Louis,
Vice President; A. B. Merriam, Of Gin
cinnati, Secretary, and 3. NJ. Strong, Of
Cleveland, Treasurer. The delegates at
tended a banquet on the night OF the
pa, and went on an excursion to Crystal
City on the 24th.
WILLIAM b. WAsuBURN, was elected
President of the American Missionary
Association at Boston, Mass, on the 23d.
1T is reported that Admiral Mot is ne
gotiating with the Hova chiefs in NADIA
gascar.
On the c3l Senator Platt addressed
$4,000 people at the dedication of the sol
diers' monument at Waterbury, Conn.
THE United States Grand Jury at Boston
has indicted VIM. II. Dempsey for frauds
in supply ing the Navy Department with
5.ationery.
THE firm of II. d. Cooke & Co, bankers,
Washington, ID. c., suspended on the 23d.
The cause is attributed TO outside specula-
tions. Liabilities, $4,000.
EMPEROR WILLIAM and Bismarck have
recently been holding series of confer
snces all by themselves.
NOTICE has been given by Mr. Glad
stone that ha will ask in the Commons that
priority be granted for the franchise bill.
A LONG letter has been written by Glad
one to the s. Osaph Diocesan Confer
ence on the subject OF the "Djsestablish-
ment OF the Church Of England"
THE contract Of Colonel Mapleson with
Patti for the Drury Lane (London) season
limits her fee to ei5O nightly. Nlsson's
fee is limited 20 ESQ nightly.
on the 23d the King of Portugal gave
an audience TO Richmond, the newly ap-
pointed American Minister, who present
ed his credentials.
WuTLE dining on the 23d, Captain
Wilkes Ballard, of Atlanta, Ga, placed his
hand up on his forehead and exclaiming,
"Such painl" died. He was well known