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

II. w. CANNON, of Saltwater, Mimi, and
ex-United States Treasurer Gilfllau are
spoken of in connection with the Comp
trollershp of the Currency made vacant by
the resignation of Mr.. Knox.
UNITED STATES Minister to Spain, Hon.
J. w. Foster, arrived at Washington on the
DIST.
BFIGADIER- GENERAL STANLEY has been
assigned to the Department of Texas.
THE firm of Cochran & Young, paper
dealers of Erie, Pa, have failed for $780,
900.
In Cincinnati J. Douglas and r. B. Spen-
Ger have been arrested for using the mails
for lottery purposes.
THE Piute Indian Princess Winnemucca
is in Washington urging that Camp McDer-
mott Reservation be set apart for her peo-
pie.
No detailed instructions have been given
Commander Schlcy of the Greedy relief ex-
pedition, and he sails with full discretion
as TO his course.
THE return Of Minister Foster from Mad
rid is said to be solely for the purpose Of
con 'erence regarding the commercial
treaty with Spain.
On the 22d the election at New Orleans
was marked by a large amount of scratch
ing. The Democrats claim to have carried
the local offices.
THE announcement has been made by
Secretary Frelinghuysen that the United
States recognizes the flag of the Interna-
tional Association of Congo.
THE President, at the request of the Sec
retary of War, has ordered a court of in
quiry TO investigate the Bateman charges
against Judge ge-Advocate-General Swain.
THE Recommendation Of the President for
the dismissal Of Collector Wichers Of Key
West for acts of sympathy with the Cuban
insurgents is indorsed by the Senate.
TIE House Committee on Banking win
report in the matter of the Pacific National
Bank of Boston that, while the action of
Comptroller Knox may be open to criti-
cisnl, there is nothing to show that he was
actuated by improper motives.
IT is reported that Archbishop Gibbons,
of Baltimore, is to he made a Cardinal
THE Blaine men were outwitted 10y the
Arthur Edmunds combination at Utica in
the New York Republican State Conven-
tion on the 23d.
Ex-TREAsURER, f. j. SMITH, of Bayonne,
n j., is short in his accounts $4,000.
Sun for divorce has been brought by the
wife of General Samuel S. Carroll, at
Washington, d. c.
SECRETARY w. A. LENT of the Bodie
Mining Company committed suicide in
San Francisco Cal, on the 23i.
RUGG, the negro charged with the May
bee murders on Long Island, vii setup the
alibi defense.
1T is claimed by Virgins, the weather
prophet, that recent storms and the earth
quake in England are a fulfllment of his
prophecies for March.
The President has been invitedto accom-
pany the Army OF the Potomac to the bat
tle-fields of fredericksburg, Chancellors-
Vile and the Wilderness, and has accepted
the invitation.
THE National Convention of the Prohi-
bition Home Protection party has been
postponed to July -, and will be held in
Chicago instead of in Pittsburgh.
ON the 23d the Connections Republican
Safe Convention adopted a resolution in
dorsing Joseph r.. Hawley for President.
On the 23d John II. Dean, a New York
lawyer, filed an assignment with liabilities
said TO reach 81 100000; half secured.
JOHN LANCASTER, fellow OF the Royal
Geographical Society, is dead. II was Mr.
Lancaster who brought his yacht under
ire during the famous action between the
Kearsarge and Alabama OF Cherbourg in
1854, and who saved Captain Semn:es and
IeyerRl Of the crew Of the Alabama,