The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-01-08

Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND PoL1rTCAI.

Trenton, at Nagasaki, on the coast of
Asia.
LONG ISLAND, N. ", Is still much agi-
tated over the Terry Downs elopement,
and Deacon Terry, who returned, had
to leave again because of the frequent tin
can serenades rendered him.
GENERAL GRANTS premises and effects
in New York are in charge of a Deputy
Sheriff.
THE contest over the United States SEN
atorship at Albany is said to be assuming
National Importance, and developing
fight as between the partisans of Mr..
Blaine on the one side and President Ar
thur on the other.
+. s. FREE, Adult ant General Of Dakota
Territory, reports ai warlike forces dis
banded, and general willingness to await
the action Of the court. General Free will
make report favorable to Wilmot to the
Governor.
A TELEGRAM from Genoa states that
Prince Bismarck has taken lodgings at San
Reno, a small town on the Mediteran can
near that city.
EVEN BROTHERS, the New York brokers
whose assignment was fled on the 27th,
have fed to Canada. They were recently
expelled from the Cotton Exchange for
fraudulent transactions.
A MEETING of colored citizens in New
York the evening Of the 10Th expressed
confidence in Governor Cleveland's fair
ness toward the colored people, while still
advising their race to adhere TO the party
that gave them freedom.
CHEF ENGINEER WILLIAM LORENs Of
the Philadelphia s. Reading Railroad died
suddenly on the 20th while seated at the
dinner table at his residence, Chestnut
Hill, Pa. Heart disease is supposed to
have been the cause.
BENZ. F. BINGELow, who was cashier of
the National Bank of the Republic in
Washington, d. c., in 1882, and convicted
Of embezzlement, was sentenced on the
10Th to five years in the Concord IN. H
Penitentiary.
THE Secretary Of War has recommitted
TO the Chief Signal Officer the charges
preferred against Sergeant Holtnorth of
the Signal Service of conduct unbecom-
ing an officer and a gentleman, in hav-
ing tampered with the private mail of Lieu
tenant Greely, with instructions to detail
court t-martiaI for his trial
GENERAL HAzEN, Chief Signal Officer,
has submitted to the Secretary of War the
charges against Assistant Adiutant- Gen
eral McIGeever for having made deroga-
tory remarks concerning the management
of the recent Arctic expeditions. The
charges relate entirely to General Mckee
ver's alleged comments on the course pur-
sued by Lieutenant Greely, and no refer
ence is made in them to what General Nc
Keever is alleged TO have said Of the Chief
Signal officer.
IT is announced that the Duke of
Buckingham, a widower sixty-one years
old, is to marry Miss Alice, youngest
daughter of Sir GrRha IN Montgomery, long
a member of the British Parliament and
for short time Lord of the Treasury.
On the 10Th the Wyckliife quincentenary
was celebrated in England, Addresses
were delivered in which the principles of
Wyckliffe and Knox were applauded and
prelacy denounced.
OK the Doth the steamer India, having on
board the body of John l.. Hart, of Ken
lucky, the sculptor, reached New York.
The remains were forwarded to Kentucky
for interment in the State Cemetery at
Frankfort.
act detaching Grundy County, Tennessee,
from the Southern Division District Of
East Tennessee and attaching it to the
Middle District of the State.
On the 30th Special Examiner Bowman,
OF the Department of Justice, left Wash
ington for a tour through the Western
States and Territories on official business.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR is said to have al
ready secured twenty pledges for the New
York Senatorship.
PRINCE BISMARCK will go to San Reno
with his family to remain six weeks.
THE Chicago Tribune intimates that ac-
cording to its canvass 100 members of the
Illinois Legislature are for Logan for SEN
ator, as first choice.
QUEEN VICTORIA is reported to have an
A., ba hot kha1
of Princess Beatrice to Prince Henry of
Battenberg.
On the Both Hon. Samuel J. Randall and
party arrived at Nashville, Tenn, and
were rendered most hearty receptions, both
public and private. In the evening the
ex-Speaker addressed a large audience in
the Opera house.
Mr.. BLAND, who has recovered from his
illness, is now in Washington. He says
he viii vigorously oppose the Buckner bill
to stop the coinage of silver. He believes
in the measure providing for the free and
unlimited coinage of both silver and gold.
President EATON of the Civil Service
Commission is much pleased over Cover
nor Cleveland's letter TO the Civil Service
League. In commenting upon the subject
in general, Mr.. Eaton slaps the Republican
party right and left
In Washington, d. c., three hundred
"society" ladies joined in an agreement
not to present liquor to their New Years
callers. Mrs. Secretary Chandler headed
the list.
president ARTHUR's New Years recep-
tion was an elaborate and recherche af-
fair.
ON the 1st Lord Plunket, Lord Bishop of
Meath, was consecrated Archbishop of
Dublin.
SENATOR FRYE's father died at Lewis
ton, Ne, on the 1st, in his eighty second
year.
Mr.. BLAND does not think the bill to stop
the coinage of silver will be reported IA
vorably.
GENERAL WoLsELEY on December 30th
rec eived piece of paper with General
Gordon's genuine seal on the back, dated
December 14th.
Ell MAHDI not long since threatened TO
march against the Mudir or Dongola, but
afterward told his chiefs that the Mudir
was a saint, against whom it was useless
to fight.
THE Randall party arrived at Birming
ham, Ala, on the 1st. A public reception
and banquet were rendered the visitors.
PRINCE BISMARCK denies that he has
any personal enmity toward Gladstone.
However, he could have relied more upon
Lord Beaconsheld to keep England in ac-
cord with the rest of Europe.
ON the evening of the 1st the remains of
Russell Hancock, son OF General w. S.
Hancock, arrived in st. Louis, No. The
funeral took place at the Church of the
Messiah on the I'd.
AFTER her marriage to Prince Henry of
Battenburg, Princess Beatrice viii reside
with Queen Victoria.
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