The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-04-09
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

OF removal
SPY from Tamai reports that Osman
Digna has been deserted by almost his
entire force.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND and his Cabinet
have under consideration an invitation TO
attend the Commercial Convention at At
lanta, Ca, in May.
A RUMoR was started on the 3Oth that
General Grant was dead. The General
weaker, but there was no imme-
diate danger of death, according to his
physicians.
On the Both the President made a num-
Der Of important nominations, including
ministers and cOnsuls to foreign nations.
DAVID SENToN, of Cincinnati, has added
-f2O,OOO TO his former gift of $4,000 for the
purpose of removing and rebuilding in
Eden Park, for art museum associa-
tion, the present POst-ofIice structure.
THE President has designated Assistant
Secretary Fairoh ohild to act as Secretary of
the Treasury in the absence of Secretary
Manning, and Assistant Secretary Coon to
act as Secretary in the absence Of Secre-
tary Manning and Assistant Secretary
Fairchild.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has asked
for the designations of the First, Second,
Fourth and Fifth Auditors of the Treas
Ury. The Third and Sixth had previously
nation Of the Second Comptroller.
MAJOR i. j. DALLAS, the chisf of the
Dead-Letter Office, sent his resignation to
tho Postmaster General on the 3Jth. The
letter from Postmaster General Villas ac-
cepting the resi- gnation was very compli-
mcntary. Mr. Dallas is going to Topeka,
Kas., to engage in the practice of law, and
insisted upon the acceptance of his resig-
uation.
THE President reappointed Postmas ter
Pearson Of New York city.
CHAs. w. Buck, the new Minister to
Peru, never held Office before.
GOODWIN defeated Bubear in a sculling
race at Putney, England, on the 3lst.
Mr.. RoDEnTs, the new Minister to Chilli,
is an ex- Congressman of New York city.
GENERAL GRANT spent a quiet day on
the 3lst, and his condition was reported
slightly improved.
MGR. CAPEL delivered a lecture on the
31st in the Exposition main building at
New Orleans, on education.
THE London Times calls Jules Ferry the
ablest Republican statesman of France.
THE President sent TO the Senate a num-
Der Of nominations on the 31st including
foreign Ministers, Consuls, United States
Marshals and Postmasters.
THE seventieth anniversary Of Bis
on the 3lst. 1t was grand affair.
The rival of Ell Mahdi is named El Max
XII, and the latter's adnerents are increas-
ing. Ell Mahdrs followers are becoming
greatly alarmed.
GENERAL NEGRIER, the French officer
wounded at Lang Son, is recovering.
PRINCE BISMARCK was formally pre-
sented with the title deeds of the gr eat
SchOenhousen estate on the 1st.
THE President nominated A. Leo Knott,
of Maryland, on the 1st as Second Assist
ant Postmust2r-G
1t is thought that Baron DeCourcel will
succeed Ferry as the Fire nch Minister of
Foreign Affairs.
THE Senate Committee on the 1st re-
ported favorablY the nomination of Henry
G. Pearson to be- Postmaster OF New York
city.
EARLY on the morning of the 2I General
Grant was reported weak and restless,
with little hope for change for tho bet
ter; in fact. his death was looked upon as
but little way of.
r. p. HUGHES, the defaulter TO the
United States Marshal at Richmond,
Va, who was caughs in Texas, has been
returned East.
MRS. GARFEELD's friends deny the pub
lished reports that she is to marry Rev.
Mr.. Taylor, of Pennsylvania. She is liv
ing quietly in Cleveland, and is educating
her clildren for careers OF usefulness.
On tho LIST Queen Victoria aud her
daughter, Princess Beatrice, arrived at
Aix-les- Bains. The depot handsome
ly decorated in their honor. As had been
arranged by NJ. Ferry, guard OF honor,
composed of dragons and the Paris ian
Garde Mobile, met Her Majesty at ths
station and acted as escort for the royal
party.
EARL CAIRNS died suddenly at Bourne
mouth, Eng, the 2d.
BENIN DAVIS, London solicitor, failed
on the 2d with 81 100000 Liabilities.
THE Senate confirmed Hon. Norman j.
Colman, Of st. Louis, as Commissioner Of
Agriculture
THE Ameer of Afghanistan is much in
p censed at Sir Peter Lumsden over his de-
cision on the frontier question.
ON the 2d the PRESIDENT withdrew the
nomination of Alex. II. LawtOn, to be Min
istcr to Russia.
THE nomination of Henry G.. Pearson to
be Postmaster at New York, was confirmed
by the Senate.
IATToRN EY- GENERAL GARLAND decides
that the Grow reservation in Dakota is
not open 60 settlement.
THE exile of the Orleans Princes, IL is
thought. win be a feature of De Frey cinet's
programme at Paris.
THE Ohio Legislature passed bills to re-
organize Cincinnati and Cleveland. Re-
publicans are not in a good humor over the
measures.
ON tho 2d General Grant was resting
easier at night, but he was very weak,
and his doctors thought the end near. He
has great difficulty in breathing, and the
cancer is extending down the throat and
behind the nose.
JosEPH PALMER was again convicted Of
murder in the first degree at Cincinnati on
the 2d. He was the accomplice of Berner
in the Kirk murder, out of which grew the
Cincinnati riot OF 1881.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
FIRE destroyed w. NJ QJ.rin & Go. >
carriage factory at Boston, Mass, on the
10Th. Loss, $4,000.