The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-06-19
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

On the 9th General Abe Buford, of Ken
lucky, committed suicide at Danville, Ind.
Cause, deple,e pocket-book and family
troubles.
THEODORE HoUsToN and Judge Horace
Russell have been appointed receivers Of
the New York, West Shore s. Buffalo Rail-
way Company.
EX-SENATOR DORSEY characterizes Mac
Veagh and James as picturesque speci-
mems Of falsehood, on account Of their
testimony before the Springer Committee.
KING WILLIAM of Holland is said to
have affianced his three-y ear-old daughter
20 Prince Boudouin, son of the Count of
Flanders, in order to reunite Holland and
belgium.
q JOY Post, No. 152, G.. A. r., Department
Of Ohio, has sent a protest to Congress
against the passage of the Edmunds bill to
place General Grant ON the retired list.
The document intimates that the "benefits
OF the Soldiers Home are open to him il
ne should desire to avail himself of them"
A TRAMP calling himself Bill Norris, ar
rested on the 9th at Sioux Falls, OAK, is
recognized as a partner of ''Poks" Wells,
the noted Missouri bandit serving life
sentence in the Kansas Penitentiary.
Norris was to be held till the Missouri au-
5horities could be heard from. Five hun
ired dollars reward was offered for him.
ON the Och the trial OF T. c. Campbell,
The attorney who defended VIM. Ber rner,
whose conviction for manslaughter was
the melting cause OF the Cincinnati riots,
was begun. He is charged with attempt
ing TO bribe, Michael Galh, a juror. The
Bar Association, through a committee,
presented information against 7. c. Camp
bell, argument on which was set down for
a..
was not made known.
CASHIER HALL of the Citizens Bank,
Wilmington, Del, is reported a defaulter.
AT Vienna the anarchist Stillmacher has
been sentenced to death for the murder of
Detective Bloech.
Hon. g. w. CASSIDY was nominated on
tae 10th by acclamation for reelection to
Congress from Nevada.
THE celebrated Swedish explorer, Baron
Nordenksjold, will seek subscriptions in
London to meet the expenses OF an expe-
dition TO the South pole.
In the case OF Judge Advocate General
Swain the court of inquiry has made an
adverse report and a court-martial trial
has been ordered.
GENERAL GoRDoN's sister refuses money
for the relief Of her brother, and declares
it devolves upon the Government to rescue
him, as he is British officer,
On the 10th Tflden G. Abbott, the de-
faulting cashier of the Watertown (Mass.)
bank, who was arrested in Missouri, was
sentenced to eight years in the Peniten-
tiary.
On the 10th Democratic State Conven-
tions were held in California and Nevada,
and the delegates were all enthusiastic for
Tlden and Hendricks.
4 Cor ONET. MORRoyy who has haau r,roY1nf-
nent in the Swain case, is to be court
martailed.
THE Committee on Elections of the House
have agreed to unseat Morey, Republican,
from the Seventh Ohio District, in favor
of Campbell, contestant
On the evening OF the 10th Tariff Re-
form League was organized in New York,
with w. B. Anderson, Of Rochester Uni
versity, as President. Among the Vice
Presidents are Henry Ward Beecher,
George William Curtis and Ex-Governor
Robinson.
THE King and Queen of the Netherlands,
the Crown Prince Of Germany and Bis
marck are to sojourn at Kissengen. These
movements are associated with negotiation
relating to succession to the throne of Hol.
land in the event of the death of the Prince
Of Orange.
on the 11th the Republicans of the Four
teenth Ohio District nominated General
Chas. II. Grosvenor for Congress.
JOHN O'LEARY, who is to visit Ireland,
says that other means than dynamite must
save the Green Isle.
THE Hartford Comm defaulting bank
agent, VIM. G. Morgan, was sentenced
on the 1lth to three years in the Peniten-
tiary.
REV. DR.. GEO. WoRTHINGroN, OF De-
troit, Mich, has declined the election as
Bishop Of the Episcopal Diocese Of Ne
brasks,