The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-03-19

A WRITTEN message from the President
was sent to the Capitol on the 18th for the
purpose Of Withdrawing from the Senate
the Nicaraguan and the Spanish treaties.
The Senate had adjourned, however, be-
fore the message reached its destination
Prominent German residents in Wash =
ingtOn gave banquet the night Of the
18th to Representative Deuster and Guen-
ther, Of Wisconsin.
THE President has designated MariOlius
Gardner to represent the Interior Depart
ment in the Executive Board of the New
Orleans Exposition vice BENZ amin Butter
worth, resigned.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the Sth the East Montgomery Avenue
Methodist Church, Philadelphia, Pa, was
! damaged by fire to the extent of $4,000.
On the sth frightful railroad accident
happened on the Newport bridge at Gin
cinnati, causing the instant death OF one
man and dangerously wounding another.
THREE of the Latin & Rand powder
mills exploded near Newburgh, n. Y, on
the 9th, killing two men.
THE harness shop of Hayden g. Bird,
prison contractors, burned at Auburn, n.
", on the 9th, causin z a loss of 5000.
MICHAEL MCENTREE, a young man of
twenty-four, jumped in the river at New
York on the 9th, with suicidal intent. He
changed his mind and was rescued.
WHILE on the roof of the Gibson House
at Cincinnati, o., on the 9th, Joseph Bohl
man caught hold of an eIectric-Iight wire
and was instantly killed by the shock.
STEUBENvILLE, o., was visited by a con-
iagraton on the 9th, which destroyed many
business houses, the United States Hotel,
and caused loss of life besides.
On the 10th James jackson shot and
killed his wife at Sculleville, Choctaw Ma
tion.
On the 10th Newbern, n. c., was visited
by a conlagration that caused loss Of
$1,000
NEAR Bradford, Pa, on the 10th, a
nitro gly ycerine factory exploded, killing
one of the proprietors and an employe.
On the night of the 10th Bellevue House,
at Halifax, n. H, owned by the Imperial
Government and occupied by the officers
of the garrison, burned. Loss, 5000; no
insurance.
On the 11th Jacob Frey, of Toledo, O.,
committed suicide at the grave of his wife.
FRANK D. WARREN, alias I. d. Lyons,
wanted in New Orleans for forgery, was
arrested on the Canadian line on the 11th
and s., 600 recovered.
OK the 18th a Canadian who was using
very profane and blasphemous language
in a boastfuI manner was paralyzsd, root
ed to the ground and almost frozen, and
rendered unable to take food.
THE Ladner Bros, bankers of PhiladeI-
phiai Pa, were found guilty of larceny.
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE annual report of the Chicago, Nil
waukee & st. Paul Road shows gross
earnings of S23, 40, ,99S.1S for 1881
THE indications for a good spring trade
among the Pittsburgh iron manufacturers
are said to be more favorable
THE first meeting of the new Cabinet
was held on the 10th and federal appoint
ments We're considered.
AUSTRIA and Hungary will also raise
the duties on foreign grain.
THE faculty of Harvard College have de-
cided that ''the boys" must attend morn
ing prayers.
GERMANY will make due reparatiou for
tearing down the British flag at Victoria.
/ 1t was a mistake.
THE coal mines in the Pittsburgh (Pa.)
district are nearly all idle, though the
outlook for an amicable ending of the
strike is propitiOus
on the 10th the new German tariff on
I agricultural products was passed and will
take effect Immediately.
/ A RESOLUTION was passed by the Illinois
I Legislature on the 10th expressing SYM
/ pathy for the Wabash strikers.
DEPARTMENT of Agriculture reports
| show that 81 1-2 per cent. of the last corn
| crop remains in the hands of farmers.
/ BY the shutting down of one third of
the machinery at a. Lawrence (Mass.) cot
| ton mill, 400 men are out of employment.
! THE Peoria QlL) Board Of Trade will
/ vote on the goth instant upon resolution
/ TO suspend any member who deals in op-
/ tions, directly or Indirectly.
] The Kansas City railroad strikers quit
I interfering with the movement of Wabash
\ trains, the company being under the pro-
\ lection Of the Federal Court
| A PROMINENT military officer at Kin gs-
/ ton, Ontario, processes 20 have iuforma-
\ tion that 5000 Fenians are drilling at Buff
falo with view to making a raid on
| Canada.
OK the 10th a member of the Arkansas
/ Legislature was arrested on a requisition
| from the Governor Of Georgia, ON a charge
| of arson committed in Georgia nineteen
/ years ago, but the warrant has been
quashed, on the ground of misrepresenta-
tion.
THE White House clerks having been
requested neither to smoke nor to read the
/ newspapers during Office hours, some of
/ them find their time hanging heavily on
I their hlnds.
I THE native press of India, with scarcely
| an exception, express loyalty toward En- =
! gland and confidence in the wisdom and
| frmuess of Lord Dufferin, British Vice
/ roy Of India There are many expires =
sions of anger and bitter hostility against
Russia
A CLASS of twenty-five women recently
graduated as doctors at Philadelphia, Pa
ITALY proposes. oundertake therelief of
Kassala.
WEDNESDAY, the 11th, was Nebraska
Day at the Worlds Exposition.
RuMoRs at London of impending war
almost produced panic on the Stock Ex-
change on the 11th.
The recent revivaIs Of religion in the
churches of Buffalo, n. V, have been un-
precede tented in their results.
AFTER five days lighting the French
carried the Chimes positions around Kee
Lung.
THE Western Union Telegraph Company,
on the 18th, declared quarterly dividend
Of one and and one-half per cent.
FIFTY stern wheel steamboats, for use on
the Nile are to be built by the British
Government.
On the 18th the Western Nail Associa-
ton, at Pittsburgh, Pa, reafiirmed the old
card rate of S2.25. Trade was reported
better.
THE reported advance Of the Russian
troops in Afghanistan causes a great deal
of excitement in London.
GERMANY and England have practically
made satisfactory settlement Of matters
concerning West Africa
The French Minister Of Commerce viii
/ ask Tor the repeal of the law prohibiting