The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-10-02
IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.


Oh the 10Th messengers arrived at Cairo
bringing word that General Gordon had
vanquisied numerous tribes and their
chiefs we're begging for mercy. Many
tribes have come in aud laid down their
arms.
On the 22d Captain w. p. Clark, of Gen.
eral Sheridan's staff, died at Washington,
ID. g.
FL MAHDI will, it is reported, materially
increase his fighting forces in front of
Khartoum.
OK the 22d James Gordon Bennett, Of the
New York Herald, was badly shaken up
in railroad accident near San Francisco,
Gal.
ON the 22d Hon. Harry Clay, of Ken
lucky, grandson of the illustrious Henry
Clay, died from the wounds inf icted by
Councilman Wepler, of Louisville.
NANCY CoBB's owner is willing to ac-
commodate Mr.. Case and trot his horse
against Phallas.
OK the 22d Edward Claytor, of Wheel
sng, w. Va, defeated Priddy, OF Pitts
burgh, in a three-mile scull race for 81 ,OC0
"a side.
ON the 22l Sadie Robinson, twelve
year-old girl of birmingham, Mass,
packed a valise with $50. 900 worth of dia-
mOnds and negotiable bonds belonging to
her mother and prepared to elope, but was
arrested at Boston.
Ex UNITED STATES SENATOR NEsMITH,
iof Oregon, is now an inmate OF the Insane
Asylum at Salem, Oregon.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, during the recent
maneuvres of the German army, declined
TO receive a deputation with an address
from the Catholic nobility of Westphalia,
remarking that the parade ground was not
a nt place Tor polemics.
I'm
Treasury, has directed the Collector Of
Customs Of New Y ork to admit, free of
duty, the cup won by Keene's FoxhalI,
which has been in the custody of the Col
lector nearly two years.
In Dublin "a fund is being raised to as
sist the families Of Daily and Egan, who
are undergoing life Imprisonment for COM
mitting outrages by the use of dynamite.
II is said that El Mahdi has twenty
Krupp cannon, and that 10000 of his fol-
lowers are armed with American rifles.
AN opinion was delivered by Justice
Field i'm san Francisco, Cal, on the 23d, in
reference to the Chinese question.
FREDEmCK S. NICHOLS, editor of the
Memphis (renn.) AUalGRche, died sud.
denly at Davenport, Ia, on the 23d, OF
paralysis of the brain.
PRoF JOHN LORD TAYLOR, an eminent
Congregational divine of Andover, Mass.
died on the 23l, in the seventy third year
OF his age.
In a three-mile sculI race at PeekskilI,
N. Y, on the 23d, Ten Eyck defeated Ri
ley.
MISS MINNIE GARRISON, eldest daughter
OF the late VIM. l.. Garrison, was married
on the 23i to NJ. CASTOR Chandon de Buail
less, son Of a French Coun', at her moth
er's country seat near Elberon, N. ].
THE last letter from General Gordon
sta,ed that many OF the rebels besieging
Khartoum were retiring. Supplies were
coming in well from the South. He haL
sent four steamers to relieve SEMINAR.
The late Charles w. West, of Cincinnati
o., bequeaths in his will large amounts t.
charitable institutions.
DIFFERENCES with Prime Minister Fer
ny, 1t is hinted, will induce General Cam
penon, French Minister Of War, to resigI
shortly.
THE Colorado Democratic State Conven
tion was held at Denver on the oath. AIv,
Adams, of Pueblo, was nominated fo
Governor, Mr.. Grant declining a renomi
nation unanimously rendered.
OK the oath Alfred Hopkins, late Cap
tain Of the United States navy, died at hi
residence in Cleveland from the effects o
IN overdose of chloral, taken to allie Wat,
his sufrerings.
EMPEROR WILLIAM of Germany has con
ferred upon Herbert Bismarck the Ordel
of the Red Eagle.
PRESIDENT GREvY has telegraphed King
Humbert that the catastrophe which ha
beiallon Italy cxcites the deepest commits
GRAFTON of the whole world. Grevy adds
"Ihe sublime, heroic, magnanimous con
Gu't Of your Majesty excites the admira
tion and enthusiasm of the universe"
ON the 2oth Galbraith McMulIen died a
Sandy Lake, Pa, in his 10jth year.
THE report that President Mitchell o
the Milwaukee g. st. Paul Road is abou
10 resign, is denied by that gentleman.
PRESIDENT JoHN w. GARRETT OF tn
Baltimore q Ohio Railroad Company was
at last accounts, extremely i'll and his re
covery deemed impossible.
ON the night of the oath w. q. Gresham
received the appointment and qualified a
Secretary of the Treasury. Mr.. Hatto
becomes Acting Postmaster General 70
ten days.
ON the 25th Hank Adams, a New Jerse
negro, who abducted a daughter of one {
the wSalthiest citizens in the State, wa
sentenced TO fifteen years Imprisonment
BLAINE, Butler and ST. John viii be i
indianapolis, Ind, on Thursday, Octobe
~.
NEGOilATiONH are III progress Tor
single scuu race for 5000 between Ha1
Ian, Beach and Teemer.
THE late Hon. Francis e. Hayes, of Bo
ton, Mass, bequeaths in his will larg
proportion of his estate TO relatives;
Dartmouth College, $1O,0 900; to BerwIc
Academy, $4,000, and to Harvard ColleE
$4,000.
HENRY G. FRIEDMAN, the New Yor
stock broker who eloped with Miss Sara
Scheuer, daughter Of Solomon Scheuel
the millionaire, was at the Arlington Ht
tel in Washington on the 25th. The coupl
were "doing'' the city.
EFFORTS are being made to erect at Ne
Orleans, La, statue Of the late g aptai
Samuel Chesterrid, who commanded tn
United $, ates private armed brig "GeI
eral Armstrong" to commemorate hi
heroic battle with a Bsisish squadron a
Fayal on the night of the s6 h and 27t
of September, 1914, which resulted i
saving Louisiana from British conques
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
on the 2lst Theodore Dwyer was kilIe
by James Peterson in saloon at Butler
Pa.
IN Pesth, Hungary, bomb with lighte
match was found at the door OF a crowC
ed synagogue on the 20th just in time
prevent terrible loss of life.
ON the 2Oth Isaac l.. Lang, Grand Seer
tary of the Independent Order OF Chose
Friends, OF California, being $4,000 shol
il his accounts, swallowed a wal Of laud;
num, and at last accounts was mt death
door.
ON the goth band of Mexicans crosse
the RIO Grande at Presidio Del Mort,
killed three Mexicans and quickly +
turned into Mexico.
A YOUNG man named Henry Martin,
Youngstown, o., while running with q
open knife in his hand on the night OF q
Goth, stumbled aud fell. The blade pen