The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-07-31
IN BRIEF
Compiled from Various Sources
PERsoNA,. ANn PoLrrICAL.

tor Of all African international stations.
THE Board of Pension Appeals ap-
pointed by the President consists Of Aaron
Bradshaw, Of CALIFORNIA;; George Ewing,
Of Pennsylvania, and Harrison L. Bruce,
Of illinois.
SECRETARY TELLER has decided the
Eureka Springs (Ark.) case in favor Of
the town, against the pre-emptors and
homestead claimants.
IT Is claimed by Senator Malone, Of
Virginia, that the apportionment bill was
not legally passed, and he appeals for an
injunction against the Secretary OF States
issuance Of new poll books.
On the 22d the President OF San Saliva.
dor was presented to President Arthur.
II was expected that Stanley: the Afri-
can explorer, would arrive in England on
Sunday, the 27th.
GENERAL LOGAN was among the distin.
gushed visitors at the @. A. II. encampment
at Minneapolis, on the 22d.
QUEEN VICTORIA congratulGtes the Pres
ident Of the United States upon the rescue
Of the Greely party.
On the 22t the Chicago police arrested
MOllie Fink, charged with murder near
Muskegon, Mich.
1T is the opinion Of De Lesseps that the
Technical Commission will recommend the
widening Of the Panama Canal.
ORDERS have been sent to Admiral Cour-
bet to remain with his squadron at Foo
Chow until the indemnity is paid.
JANE GRAY SwIssHELAr, aged sixty-eight
years, the noted authoress aud philan-
thropst, is dead
AT Friar's Point, Miss, J M. Luddath
committed suicide on the 22d because Of
dependency.
OK the 22d, a statue Of Beethoven was
unveiled In Central Park, New York, by the
Beethoven Mannerchor
II is reported that Osman DignR will send
endorsements to the rebels at Berber,
where there is fear that Gordon will make
bold move.
EX-BANKER ENO's wife and daughter
have joined him at Quebec, where he has
vented an elegantly furnished house.
EX-MINIsTER Sargent is being urged to
run for Congress in one Of the California
districts.
IN the Seventh District OF Texas the
Democrats nominated Hon. WIN. H. Grain
for Congress.
THE Sixth Iowa District GreenbacEers
have nominated General J. B. Weaver for
Congress. The Democrats have also NOM
mated Weaver.
THE authorities of Pittsburgh, Pa, ar
rested A. b. Lowry on the 23d for the
murder Of Hiram Edmonson. One OF the
principal State witnesses, Michael Donley,
was recently murdered.
TUE Conference OF Independent Repub-
licans at New York on the 22d was a big
affair at which Blaine was oratoricaIIy
roasted, and Cleveland and Hendricks in
dorsed.
JOHN i. REDMOND aud Thomas e. Sex
ton, Irish agitatOrs, will attend the Irish
National Parliamentary party convention
at Boston next month.
The Prohibition Convention at Pitts.
burgh, Pa, was big one. Mcdonald, Of
California, with his 81 900, 900 contribution
Go the campaign fund seemed TO have the
lead for the Presidential nomination.
COLONEL GOSHEN, the giant, wants
divorce from his wife in New York.
On the 23d Rear Admiral George F. EN-
mons died at Princeton, N. j., aged seven
ty-five.
ACCORDING 30 London Truth Plunger
Walton has left behind unsettled accounts
for large amounts.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, in the event Of an
epidemic in Germany will revoke the or
der for the autumn manRuvres.
The King OF Abyssinia binds himself in
his treaty with England to abolish slavery
and the slave trade.
ZElGLER, the Philadelphia grocer, did
not die of cholera, as reported, but accord
ing TO the post mortem, of aggravated
cholera morbus.
EUGENE KELLY is announced as a Presi-
dental clector-at-large for New York vice
Purcell, of the Rochester Union, who bolt
cd the Democratic ticket.
A MONTREAL newspaper has attacked
Judge Caron, who tried tho Emo case, and
an application has been made for the ed
itor's arrest.
ON the g3l the Prohibition Convention at
Pittsburgh permanently organized, the
committee on credentials reported and
then an adjournment was taken.
ON the 23d Salvador Laudini was ar
rested in New York for wife murder
En- route to the police station he took
poison and died before assistance came.
In the Third Congressional District Of
Ohio the Republicans have nominated II.
J.. Morey for Congress.
A PITTsCURGH girl named Lizzie Brad
ley, who disappeared from home recently,
was found on the 23d, covered with
wounds, at a shing camp on the Monon-
gahela.
w. N. GRANT has been nominated by the
Second District Vermont Republicans for
Congress TO succeed Judge Poland.
DIR. KOCH, the eminent German scientist,
has organized a transport service and is
suod rules for the public guidance in
guarding against cholera in Germany.
CARTER HARRIsoN has formally accepted
the nomination for Governor Of Illinois in
letter OF his original kind.
CATHOLIC circles in England keep re-
peating the assertion that Mary Anderson
will become Carmelite nun.
LEo EBERT has been nominated for Con-
gress by the Democrats at Portsmouth, O.
LORD GRANVILLE will not consent to
Hollands proposed blockade OF the Acheen
coast TO secure, the release of the crew OF
the Nscro.
The ticket chosen at Pittsburgh by the
Prohibitionists was: For President, John
L. st, John, of Kansas; for Vice-Presi-
dent, William Daniels, Of Maryland.
Platform: Down with the liquor traffic.
JOHN 4. HEARD was nominated for Con-
Eress from the Sixth Dis trict of Missouri
on the 3S1th ballot.
On the oath William II. Barnum and +.
o. Prince were unanimously reelected
Chairman and Secretary of the National
Democratic COMMITTEES.
The officers Of Nelson's flagship Victory,
at Portsmouth, will give a banquet to the
Philadelphia cricketers, Admiral Hornby
presiding, on July 31st.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
A PROMINENT citizen Of GAINESVILLE, O.
Joseph Crosby, has been arrested upon a
charge of issuing checks with forged in.
dorsements amounting to about 81 900.
AN exceedingly severe storm visited that
portion Of the Indian Territory next to the
Southern Kansas line on the 18Th. One
child was killed and several people were
injured. Houses were burned and stock
and fowls perished.
ON the 10Th an excursion train with about
thousand persons on board was thrown
down an embankment near Canton, o.,