The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-03-20
PrRsONAL AND POLITICAL.

RECENTLY n package was sent to the
Comte de Paris which was found to contain
an Internal machine.
A CONFERENCE is TO be held in June
between Emperor William and the Car a
Darmstadt.
ON the 10th Wallace Rose won the
scun race with Bubear in England, beating
him six lengths.
OsMAN DIGNA has sworn to drink the
blood ot the Turks and their allies.
OK the night of the 9th Mrs. Ker,
well-lnown lady of Anamosa, IT,, com
mitted suicide.
POSTMASTER TIFFANY, of Benning
ton, ~ Y, is missing, aud Government Of
Hclsls are investigating the affairs of his
Office.
JOSEPH II. CHoATE, New York, law
partner Of William NJ. Evarts, and Carl
Schurz, have been with half dozen other
gentlemen added to the New York Inde-
pendent Republican Executive Committee.
Ir is said the Longfe low Memorial
Association still needs S3S,OOO for the mon
ument fund.
IN his testimony before the Springer
committee on the 10th, A. NJ. Gibson reiter-
ated that the Government selected for trial
the most complicated Of the Star-route
cases.
On the 10th Pratt, the savings bank
treasurer of Reading, Mass, was sentenced
60 four years. imprisonment for embezzling
the banks funds. lie is seventy-thrce
years old. and has been in Jail five years.
GENERAL GORDON recommends 70
behr Pasha to succeed himself as Governor
OF the Soudan.
on the 11th the Senate ratified the
Mexican treaty.
On the 1lth the yacht Atalanta, with
Jay Gould ON board, reached Havana.
10 Is found that the accounts OF Tif-
fanv, the fugitive Postmaster of Benning-
ton, VT, are several thousand dollars
short.
Ok the 11th DR.. Mary Walker had an
alteration with a colored messenger at the
Capitol in Washington. The negro fed in
dismay.
IN the Seventh District of South Car
olina, Robert Small received the nOmina
tion for Congressman, TO succeed Mackay
deceased.
THE California Democratic State Con,
vent'on will be held at Stockton, June 10.
WESLEY A. MCPHERsON and William
Wright, street-car conductors, were each
fined 500 in ST. Louis, No, on the 18th, fo
insulting two young ladies on the public
streets. They were sent up for six months
in default.
THE social Il new testimonYreportec
to have been discovered in relation to th'
Fitz John Porter case proves TO be a fraud
THE ArlSansas'Dem cratic State Con
vention is called for June %.
ORRrN CARrENTER, on trial for thu
murder Of Zura Burns at Petersburg, III.
win rely on an alibi for his defense.
THE situation of General Gordon n
Ktartoum is regarded as decidedly critical
On the 18th George McFadden wa
arrested in Sherman, Tex, charged wit
completely in the Pacific Express robber.
in st. Louis, Mo.
THE attention of District Attorneys
called by Attorney General Brewster {
the Federal laws regulating the shipmen
Of explosives, and he has directed that du
vigilance be exercised to prevent sucl
shipments from being irregularly made
This is to stop the Internal machine busi
ness.
LIEUTENANT JOIN w. DANENHowEl
and Miss Helen Sloan were married on tn
I2h at Oswego, n. y.
THE bill introduced by Represents
tive Bland 10 stop the coinage OF one an
three-dollar gold pieces and to limit th
coinage OF double eagles to twenty per cen
of the bullion purchase viii be rePorte
favorahly.
In his communication TO the Secrets
~ Of the Navy, Captain Mares, the Arcti
explorer, expresses a beliefthat the chanc,
are good for finding Greely's party aliN
and safe.
On the 14th Matt Lewis was hange
in ST. Louis, Mo, ior the murder ofhis Wi
in October, 1876.
On the 18th Jay Gould sailed froi
Havana for st. Augustine, Fla,