The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-02-14
prnsoNA1. An POLITICAL.


the following commissioners of the Inter
national Cotton Exposition at New Orleans:
j. II. Gates, Vermont, H. G.. Root, alter
nate; Wm. Dean, Delaware, G. Fl. Treat,
alternate; Richard Cromwell, Maryland,
Theo. Hooper, alternate; a. p. Butler,
South Carolina, w. l.. Mouldin, alternate.
THE CITY Council of Brooklyn, N. Y,
has arranged Tor suitable reception for
the remains of De Long and his comrades.
On the evening of the 4th DR.. George
Englemann, of st. Louis, Mo-, President of
the st. Louis Academy of Science, and pos
sessing a worldwide reputation as
botanist and meteorologist, died at his resi-
dence IN st. Louis. He was seventy-six
years of age.
CAPTAIN WIN. A. KIRKLAND, COM
mander of the receiving ship Colorado, at
New York, has volunteered to command
the proposed Greedy relief expedition, and
will be assigned to that duty.
O'NEIL, the African explorer, recent
ly arrived at Mozambique, having ira
versed 400 miles of territory hitherto un-
explored.
On the 9th the steamer bearing the
remains of the Jeannette victims sailed
from Hamburg.
MANY of the Conservative papers in
Germany are making violent attacks on
the memory of Herr Lasker.
JUDGE HENRY COoPER, formerly
United States Senator from Tenne ssee, was
recently killed by robbers in Chihuahua
Mexico, where he was interested in a silver
mine.
on 3he 5th4hes Democratic Senatorial
caucusin Kentucky succeeded in breaking
its deadlock and nominated Blackburn foI
SENATOR
"rHE President gave his first public
reception offthe season on the 9th. The at
tendance was very large. ~
TuE. cause of Wendell Phillips deatl
is found to have been paralysis of TIN
heart. His funeral took place in Boston ol
the.Gth- .-. ss- "a --ss- za
IMPRESSIVE funeral services over tht
JeHnnette victims were held in Hamburg
and w dre partie ipated IN bv members o
the GeogFa phicaI Societies of Munich, Ham
burg, Berlin and Vienna. a,
ON the 9Th Mrs. Mary Sable, age,
seventy, committed suicide by hanging
beTSetf nt Toledo. o. - - O. s1 ~ ~ i72o
GEO. B, LOVING, representing tn
Texas Improvement Company, sold to
Scotch syndicate on the 9th, in England
extensive IAHCu pAOB0tt9 eiANA Ne1HAAF III vi
round sum of 2,5OO,OO0 Its said to Be tn
largest sale OF 'this-kind ever made.
B11Y, ,NIDGESEY,T me 7aotorous 'Ne7
York dance house, Keeper, has been SCI
tened totha FenitentiatSs for six month
for-violation of tbs excise law.
OK the 6gening of the 9th the Yer
Rev. ]. B. Bruillet, rectors of the Catholi
bureau &of Indian Missionaries, died 1
Providence Hospital, Washington, D.
Hewas missionary among-the Indians {
the Northwest, chiefly Oregon and Val
couver's Island, twenty-five years.
Mrs. STRATToN, Tom Thumbs wiC
ow, is. sotng to open 9 museum in Ne
York.
In the British House of Commons S
Stafford Northcote will offer resolutio
declaring that events in the Soudan are IL
direct result of the governments vacilla
ing policy.
IF has been discovered by Congre
sionaI investigating committee that Pa
Strobridge, deputy United States Marsh
in alabama, made hundreds of arrests {
FsrvoIous charges in order to get the fe
and use the money in his canvass for Co
gress. He was defeated and then went
Washington and contested the seat.
OK the 7th James Gordon Bennett,
the New York Herald, was elected Comm
dore of the New York Yacht Club.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the Sd the floor of Erkson's Hs
at Guilford, n. Y, fell while members
the Masonic fraternity were preparing
attend a funeral. Seventy men were pl
cipitated to the floor below, many Of who
were quite severely injured, none fatal
however.
OK the morning of the Sd four priso
ers attacked the sheriff az Monticello,
r, in an attempt 10 get free. Two we
secured, one was shot dead and the foul
escaped