The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-10-23
IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERsoNAL ANn PoLIrrCAr.

to bo a man named Psalm, a resident of
Turkey River, Ia, who was drowned re-
Gently by the caps.zing of a boat while
crossing the river. He was a prominent
resident of that place, and leaves a wife
and family.
On the 18th S. L. Davis, banker, Cincin-
natl, assigned, with liabilities, 500, ,OO).
The President dined at Old Point Com
fort, Va, on the 18th, and then sailed for
Washington.
AT Pitts burgh, Pa, the Grand Jury has
indicted the President and Cashier of the
defunct Penn Bank and 7. J. Wilson, an
oil broker.
News has reached London that Colonel
Stewart, supposed to have been massacred
in Egypt, Is still alive.
ACCORDING to a Paris correspondents,
Herbert Bismarck will be retained in his
position at The Hague on probation, and
Bismarck will ultimately appoint Her
bert Vice chancellor, in order to relieve
his father of many of his onerous du les
IT Is stated that General Wolseley has
ordered the concentration Of camel
corps 1900 strong at Dongola. This
would indicate his intention to make a
march over the dessert via Merawe or
Berber
joan LOWE, Chief of the Dominion I'm
migration Bureau, will visit the West in
order to investigate and report upon this
years movement OF the population from
Canada to Western States. He will
spend some time in Dstroit, Port Huron
and other points along the frontier.
THE elections in Ohio and West Virginia
on the 14th brought out an unprecedented
vote in both States, owing to the dav being
of the most delightful character. Returns
received up to the morning Of the 18th in
dicated the success of the Republicans in
Ohio on the State ticket by a majority
ranging from 5000 to 1900. and the cleo
tion Of fourteen out of twenty-one Con-
gressmen. West Virginia returns IN
dictated that the State had gone Democratic
by a light majority.
THE President appointed Frank Hatton,
Of Iowa, POstmaster-G q eneIal, on the 14th.
OK the 14ah Mrs. Belva Lockwood ad
dressed large gathering at the Louisville
Exposition.
On the 10Th Governor Cleveland went to
New York, ami on the 18th he attended the
great Democratic barbecue at Brooklyn.
On the 14th Hon. Justus p. Morrill, re-
cetved the necessary votes in the Vermont
Legislature to insure his election as
United States Senator.
On the 14.h Miss Ida Theresa Foote.
daughter of Captain Foo5e, United States
Navy, was married in London, Eug., to
Lord MOntagus Paulet. The royal family
of Great Britain sent many costly pres
ents.
AN Injunction has been applied for
by Lord LyttOn against the publication
of his late fathers letters to Lady Lytton,
his mother.
AT Berne, Switzerland, n monument was
unveiled on the 14th in honor of Jacques
S,aemphi, ex- President of the Swiss Con-
federation, and who presided over the
Geneva Tribunal of Arbitration, Mr.
StaemPfi died in 1879.
On the 14th Johann Strauss celebrated
his fortieth anniversary as a conductor, in
Vienna, the public giving him great ova-
tion. Princely presents we're received
from all quarters.
Up TO the l6th returns from the Ohio cleo
tiOn indicated Republican maj jority of
about 10000 for the State ticket, and the
election Of ten Congressman by the Re-
publicans and eleven by the Democrats.
Full returns, however, were liable { o make
some changes in these figures. Returns
from West Virginia were very meager,
though enough had been received to oinsure
the election of Wilson as Governor and the
entire Dem Ocratic State ticket.
CHRISTINE NILSSON win not come to
America this season.
AT Boston ON the 10Th bronze statue of
John Harvard, founder OF Harvard Col
lege, was unveiled.
AT Panama, on the 10th, Ruiz, the revo-
lutionist, hoisted Colombian flag over a
steamer and put to sea. A vessel with
troops is pursuing him.
The Prohibitionists of Vermont have in
dorsed st. John and Daniel and placed
electors in the field.
THE firm Of James Legg g. Co., manu-
fac.urers of fancy cassimeres, Burrill =
vile, r.. l., have assigned. Liabilities
variously estimated from 500, 900 to $780,
COZ
AN article by Editor Wnmart of the
Blu 'sels (Belgium) National Journal re.
fiecting upon the staff Of the Independence
Beige, has been adj judged HbelOus, and
the court ordered Wllmart to publish his
sentence twice aud pay the costs Of the
court
On the 18th Thomas HarIand, of New
y Nork, presented Governor Cleveland with
asilver watch made by the formers grand.
father at Norwich, Conn, in 1890, when
ClevelNnd's grandfather was an apprentice
in the same shop, and afserward became
proprietor.
OK the evening of the 10Th the col
lar and elbow wrestling match at Bos-
ton, Mass, for $500 a side and the cham.
pion ship of the world, between H. NJ
Dutur and John Mcmahon, was won by
Mcmahon.
ON the lGsh John King was elected Pres
ident of the Nsw York, Lake Erie & West.
ern Railroad, to succeed Hugh ]. Jewett.
The National Board of Steam Naviga
tiou concluded the labors Of its thirteenJh
annual convention in New York on the
is b.. Henry c. Haarstick, Of st. Louis,
was elected member of the Executive
Board.
THE Duke Of Brunswick had another
relapse on the 18.h and was believed to be
dying.
President ARTHUR signed an order on
the 16sh dismis sing from the service Cap
tain George I. Olmsted, Jr., who was tried
an convicted by court-martiaI on charges
IF embez element while on special duty in
{ large Of the military telegraph lines in
Arizona.
THE new German Mi mister, Herr Won
Alven SIcben, was presented to President
Arthur by Secretary Frelinghuysen on the
l6 II.
DISPATCHES from Admiral Courbet to
his Government on the 10th, stated that he
expected to resume operations the follow
ing week, both on land and at sea.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
AT Pueblo, Col, on the I2th, Anthony
White, about twenty years of age, was
dangerously wounded under peculiar cir
cumstances. While at the house Of a Mr..
Shane the six-year-old son Of the latter
entered the room, and noticing a small
self-cocking revolver on the table,
the child picked it up, playfully
pointed it at Mr.. White and pulled the
trigger. The ball entered Mr.. Whites
head, just over the left eye, and pene-