The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-10-16
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
Personal AND PoLTrICAr-

70 France, arrived in New York on the 9Th
On the 9th John f. Steinman, the oldest
merchant in Pennsylvania, died at Ian
caster in his ninety fifth year.
On the 6yh rumor was in circulation
at Washington that Secretary Lincoln was
thinking of resigning.
MIR. GLADSTONE is anxious that all his
supporters be present early upon the
opening of the British Parliament.
IT is reported that Colonel Stewart, Of
the British forces in Egypt, whose boat
was recently stranded on the rocks in the
Nile, was killed, together with his com
panions, by Bedouins.
On the 7th John II. Mclean, Of the Gin
cinnati Enquirer, was married in Wa sh-
ington, ID. G., to Miss Emily 7. Beal,
daughter Of General Z. r. Beal.
Town elections were held in Connecticut
on the 6.h. The constitutional amendment
providing for biennial sessions Of the Leg
islature was adopted by large maj ority,
that question being voted upon all over the
State.
JOHN MCCULLOUGH, the actor, has gone
TO New York.
LORD NoRTHBRooK wants the Egyptian
army abolished.
THE Duke of Cambridge took pch with
High Sheriff Grehan, in Cork on ie 7th.
NEWS comes that the French { hsul at
Khartoum perished at the Sc be time
Colonel Stewart met his fate.
ALMOST compile returns from c nnectis
cut give a total vote of AZ, ,593 votes Sn the
biennial sessions amendment, with D total
majority for the amendment of Is, lO7.
Returns from ia towns show tn the
Republicans control the board Of res eIistra-
tion; the Democrats in 40; equally divid-
ed, %. This is no material change from
last year.
A LETTER has been written by Samuel
J. Tilden to the gentlemen who conveyed
to him the resolutions adopted by the
Democratic National Committee. He
says reform in Governmental affairs is alb
solutely necessary, and that reform can
not be achieved by allowing the Rspub-
licaus to retain power. Hence the people
insist on the election of the Democratic
candidates.
THE newly imported European actress,
Nine. Jani sch, was physically prostrated
at the close of the third act of ''Louisa" in
New York on the night of the 7th. The
curtain was rung down. A physician was
summoned, and serious doubts We're ex-
pressed of the lady being able to resume
her engagement Immediately.
On the 7th the Chief of Police of Meri-
den, Conn, was in consultation with the
German Consul in New York, claiming
that there is now residing in Meriden
Carl Seifert and wife, whom a recent
German paper says owned a tavern in
Tursig, Prussia, in which were found
after they had vacated skeletons of seven
persons.
ON the 25th Conley, of Boston, will row
n four-mile race with turn with Teemer,
or Pittsburgh, at Hilton, Pa.
SULLIVAN, the pugilist, proposes TO train
down to 200 pounds, and then he wants to
'put a head" on all the able-booied pugil-
ISIS.
TIE late Mrs. Augusta Nj. Huntington,
formerly Mrs. Shumway, OF Cincinnati,
o., in her will bequeaths 100000 to Epis-
copal institutions at Faribault, Mimi,
Bishop Whipple being the trustee.
On the Sth, while receiving a "Plumed
knights" banner at Seneca Falls, N. Y,
General John b. Murphy was stricken with
RpOplexy and died in a few hours.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has appointed L. X
Stannard Register OF the Land Office at
Taylor's Falls, Minn., vice Owens, de-
ceased, and T. b. White, alternate Com
missioner of the Now Orleans Exposition
for Oregon.
ON the 9th Barney H. York, promi-
nent elevator man of Cleveland, o., died
suddenly.
A GREAT demonstration was held in
j
Hendricks clubs of the various exchanges,
such MS the Stock, Mining, Produce, Cot
ton etc.
On the II Belva Lockwood's supporters
i'm New Hampshire met and named an
electoral ticket. Mrs. Kicker, the leading &
S pirit there, thinks the woman lawyer will
poll surprisingly large vote.
REUBEN SPRINGER and David Sinton
have offered ~, ,OJO each to the Cincinnati
(O.) Museum Association to pay for the
removal and erection Of the present Post
office building TO the grounds of the asso-
cation in Eden Park, as a sample of pure
Grecian architecture.
SECRETARY and Manager Henry L. Aims
lie Of the Huron & Middlessx Fire In
sursnce Company at London, Ont, is miss.
ing. The books are said to be in mixed
condition.
A LETTER from Mr. Gladstone appears
in a German paper, in which he says Ger
many's colonial policy is not opposed by
England, and that majority Of Englis h
men approve it.
THE Wyoming Supreme Court has sus-
tanned the decision Of the lower court in
the case of George Cook, for the murder OF
James Blunt at Laramie City, in 1881, to
be hanged December 18th.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.