The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-05-01

AT the Mississippi Republican State Con-
vention the National delegates were in
structed to put their votes where they will
do the most good.
VERY general satisfaction is expressed
in army circles at the ordering of court
martial in the SWAIN Bareman case. 1t is
expected that the inquiry will bring out
some interesting facts relative TO the no
torious Army Poker Club" and to the
pl actice of the duplication of pay ac-
counts.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN l. n. ARNOLD died on
the 24th at Chicago.
THE Iowa Democrats at their State con-
vention on the oath chose a Tilden delega-
tion, but with instructions.
THE recently disgraced Chinese official,
Prince Kung is reported to have commit
ted suicide.
THE recently appointed Solicitor of the
Treasury, julius Caesar Burrows, of Michi-
gan, declines the office.
SENATOR CULLoM's bill for an int erState
commerce commission will be reported for
passage.
TIE amount stolen by Abbot, the re-
Gently arrested defaulting Massachu setts
bank cashier, is said to reach $4,000.
GENERAL CLINTON B. FISK was adjudged
guilty of contempt of court in New York
on the 24sh, and was fined 500.
EARL GRANVILLE says he is not prepared
to say wheeler or not the British Govern
ment will recognize the flag of the African
International Association.
ON the 9th, at Frankfort, KY, monu-
ment was unveiled of Judge Elliot, who
was murdered by Thomas Buford.
CHAs. MCAvERY, of Troy, N. Y, was
bitten by dog six months ago and mar
Cd la has hxy6rnDhOhia
JOHN w. AYERS is endeavoring to buy
the interest of the State of Massachusetts, in
the Hoosac Tunnel with view to operating
through line of road between Boston and
Buffalo.
THE Republicans of Dakota instructed
their delegates to Chicago for Blaine and
Lincoln. The Ohio deIegates-at-large are
divided between Blaine and Sherman. The
Michigan delegation is uninstructed, but it
is supposed Blaine has majority.
IN the suit of Mark d. Hanover against
Walker N. Haldeman, President of the
Louisville COurjer-TOurRGJ Company to
recover $4,000 damages for alleged libel,
on trial at Brooklyn, n. Y, the jury
turned a verdict on the 24th of six cents
for plaintiff.
COLLECTOR WICKER of Key West, Fla,
has been notified by the Secretary of the
Senate, and Special Agent Hubbs has been
designated to act temporarily in his place.
GRIMES AND CAUsUALTIEs.
On the 2Oth, mob at Ogden, Utah, took
a japanese murderer from the authorities
and hung him in the fire-engine house bell
tower.
ON the 20th Mrs. Robert Gill, wife of the
inspector of the Canadian Bank of Com
merce, riding with her husband, was
crushed to death by horse falling on her.
A COLLIERY fire at Pagebank, near Dur
ham. Eng, caused damage to the amount
of 900. Seven hundred hands are made
idle.
OK the 21st Henry Sutter, a prosperous
Northumberland County (Pa.) farmer,
while under the influence of liquor, made a
murderous assault on his son, and failing
in his effort to kill him set fire to his house.
prevented interference by standing guard
/ with shotgun, and when the flames had
| done their W ork blew the top of his own
head off.
THE French steamer Marseilles, loaded
with cotton from New Orleans, caught fire
when three days out of port. Being unable
to put out the flames the crew battened
/ down the matches and succeeded in taking
the ship 25O miles to the Bermudas, where
| the fire was mastered.
On the 22d the village of WamsleyvfIle,
! o., was entirely destroyed by fire.
! AT Newport, r. l., on the 22d, a police
officer was fatally shot by rough whom
he was trying to arrest.
Two desperadoes named Joe Flynn and
| Bill Hale, killed each other in a fight
near Irving, KY, on the 22d.
OK the night of the 21st Belmont Castle,
near Dundee, Scotland, burned with its
valuable collection of paintings.
AN aged German, named Charles Frclze,
beat his wife's brains out with a club at
Waukegan, ILL.,, during quarrel on
the Goth over the disposition of some
property.
ON the 22d the eastern counties of Eng
land had an earthquake sufficiently violent
to shatter walls and ring bells. Tall chin
neys, church spires, etc, were destrOye ed
and many large buildings were rendered
insecure.
H. d. KELLER pleaded guilty at Wilkes
barre, Pa, on the Esd, to a charge of MUIR
derinS John Claire, mine boss.
DIR. H. B. BARTLEY was found dead on
the 23d near Townsend, Montana. He had
been assassinated by some unknown per
son.
S. c. COLEMAN and F. Meyers fired thir-
teen shots at each other on the 23d at
Swainsboro, Ga, before anyone was hit.
Coleman was the unluclly target.
OK the oath fourteen buildings burned in
West Salem, O.
The American Oak Leather tannery at
/ Cincinnati burned en- the oath, occasioning
a loss of S4)0,000.
CHAs. BRAITHwAITE the Philadelphia in.
cendiary who caused a $4,000 fire, has
been convicted.
PRESIDENT DAVID NJ. FELTON, of the
| Cleveland Pump Manufacturing Company,
was caught by circular on the 14th,
and sawed completely in two at the waist.
MISCELLANEOU9.
IN the German Reichstag the Ultramon-
| tanes will move for more stringent laws to
deal with the Socialists and dynamiters.
OK the Dist three hundred Mormon emil
/ grants arrived in New York. They were
accompanied by seventeen Mormon mis-
sionaries, and are the result of two years
of proselyting work. They started i'm
/ mediately for Utah.
/ On the 2lst furious snOw-storm swept
over the greater part of Northern Kansas.
For the week ending the 18th the issue o.
standard silver dollars was 1854, SIS; cor
responding period last year, sos, 400.