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


ON the Goth Emperor William visited
n number of shops in Berlin, purchasing g
Christmas presents. He Is said to have
been looking well and hearty.
THE Marquis Of Ripon, ex-Viceroy of
India, sailed from Bombay for England on
the 2Oth.
On the Goth the statue of Admiral Du-
pont at Washington, d. c., was unveiled
with appropriate ceremonies. Senator
Bayard made the address.
THE Secretary of War, it is thought will
quietly ignore the charges preferred by
General Hazen against Lieutenant Gar
lingtou, of the Proteus expedition.
II. ID. LYMAN, the Second Assistant
Postmaster General, handed in his. resig-
nation on the 22d.
In Germany a fund has been raised for
Prince Bismarck.
THE President is said to be doing all in
his power to have the Nicaraguan treaty
ratified.
Hon. WIN. M. EvARTs has formally an
nounced himself a candidate for United
States Senator from New York.
ON the 22d Senators Beck, Don Cameron,
Butler, jackson and others started down
the Potomac on duck hunt.
On the 22d, Reinsdorf, Rupsch aud
Kuechler, the anarchists who attempted to
assassinate the Emperor, were sentenced
20 death at Leipsic.
o. j. AND WIN. WILSON, bankers at OF
tawa, H., made an assignment on the 22d.
Bank liabilities, $4,000; individual, S20,-
O00
HON. DAVID +. PAIGE, Democratic Con-
gresham from the Eighteenth Ohio Dis
trict, was married on the I'D to Miss Eva
B. Leel, of Cleveland.
T.. aF Of HHar
Menonimee Indians, took place at Apple
ton, Wis, on the ODD, according to the
rites of the Catholic Church.
A CHINAMAN, Yam Phon Lee, was among
the first prize winners on composition in
the Sophomore class at Yale College.
FRIENDS Of Senator Garland say that he
has accepted the Attorney Generalship
under President elect Cleveland.
MEMORIAL services of the late Bishop
Wiley, who died in China, were held in
Boston ON tho 22d, with an address ON his
life and character by Rev DR. l.. Thayer.
A SPY who has arrived at Debbeh re-
ports that 1900 rebels had been sent by
Fl Mahdi to reinforce Osman DignR, but
ON hearing of the arrival of the British
troops at Kerti they were halted at Berber,
where they now remain to oppose the
British advance.
Cular providing that no old rags but those
afioat on or before January 1st, 1885, on
vessels bound directly to the United States
shall be landed in the United States except
upon disinfection by boiling in water from
two TO four hours, or subjected to the ac-
tion Of confined sulphuric acid gas.
CAPTAIN WALTER PEAsE, Of Enfield,
Conn, who celebrated his Tooth birthday
on the 29th of last March, died on the 22d.
He had lived under all the Presidents. He
was the father of five children, all alive.
He lived with his wife sixty-seven years,
until her death ten years ago.
SECRETARY TELLER says there is no land
within the boundaries of the Indian Terri
tory subject to settlement.
IN the Nineteenth Pennsylvania District
the election for Congressman ON the 23d re-
suited in the choice of DR. John A. SwOpe
Democrat.
IT is thought that the Emperor of Ger
many will remit the sentence Of death
passed upon two of the Anarchists al
Leipsic.
on the 23d W. b. Thompson, late Super
intendent of the Railway Mail Service
was confirmed as Second Assistant Post.
MASTER General.
w. X. ACKERMAN, formerly President OF
the Illinois Central Railroad, has been ap-
pointed Western agent Of the Baltimore &
Ohio at Chicago.
ON the 14th the Senate decided to take a
recess until after the holidays.
COMMODORE WINFIELD 5. SCHLEY, has
been appointed chief of the bureau of equip
ment and recruiting Of the navy, with the
rank Of Commodore.
JOHN COOPER, an English cotton factory
proprietor, of Nottingham, Eng, arrived
at New York on the 23d with 140 Of hi.
EMPLOYEES, and win start factory at Prov.
idence, X. /.
IN New York the contest for the United
States Senatorship is growing warmer
daily. There seems to De no doubt bu
that the friends OF President Arthur ar'
working to secure the prize for him.
THE we'll known German Liberal, Or
Forckenbeck, has been elected to th'
Reichstag for Sagan.
On the oath the celebrated sharon divorc'
case at San Francisco was decided ia favol
~ tho nInfnffm An aupant will I've taken