The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-02-05

The opinion is expressed by General
SlOcum that the bill for the retirement Of
General Grant can be passed if broughtup
in the regular form, but it viii be a diff
cult matter to have the rules suspended,
and for that reason the bill may not be
reached this session.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR gave his annual
State dinner to the members of the diplo-
matte corps at the White House the even
ing Of the 2Sth. or the forty guests pres
ent fifteen were ENJOYS and seven
charge d. affaires, representing altogether
twenty friendly powers.
JAY l.. ToRREY has been appointed a
delegate from the st. Louis Merchants
Exchange to go to Washington in connec-
tion with the Lowell bankruptcy bill.
EMPEROR WILLIAM Of Germany, by ad-
vice of his physician, will not attend the
court ball.
BARRIsTER ADAMS, Of London, Eng, has
brought direct action for libel against
Lord Chief Justice Coleridge.
ELIJAH NJ. HINES was elected perma-
nent Speaker of the Illinois House of Rep
resentatives on the 29sh. The wheels Will
now move.
A TELEGRAM from Secretary Teller to
the Silver Convention at Denver, Col, on
the 10Th, was the cause for loud and long
cheering.
REV. STEPHEN GLADSTONE, son of the
English Prime Minister, was married on
the 29th to Miss Mary Wilson, daughter of
a retired physician.
In a speech at Birmingham, Eng, on the
evening OF the 29th, Mr.. Chamberlain, NJ
p, called on Parnell to separate himself
from the dynamiters, not by silence but
by speech.
The President, in a message on the 29th,
furnished the House Of Representatives in
formation called for respecting the United
States in the Congo Conference.
GENERAL WoLsELEY telegraphed from
Korti on the Goth that he had reports from
General Stewart, who was doing well. The
bullet entered the thigh, and is now lodged
in the groin.
SECRETARY CHANDLER has ordered the
Pacific squadron to proceed to Ecuador, to
protect an American who is imprison ed
there for completely in the rebellion, and
whose speedy execution is apprehended.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
THE seat of Mr.. Gladstone in the House
of Commons was the only one injured by
the explosion, and that was torn to
pieces.
on the oath in an accident on the Cana
dian Pacific Railroad, three cars were
burned, two men were killed, and others
seriously injured.
On the gath an attempt was made TO as
sassinate the st. Petersburg Chief of Po-
lice. The shots fred missed the mark.
The shooters were captured and were rec
ognized Nihilists.
On the oath, by a railroad collision in
Brussels, Belgium, twenty people were in
jured, some fatally.
A.
ed at Prairie Greek, Ind, on January ID,
for misplacing a switch at that place on
the night Of December 31st, 1884, and caus-
ing Wabash train to be ditched, was
tried at Fort Wayne, Ind. He pleaded
guilty, and was sentenced to the Peniten-
tiary for thirteen years.
On the oath VIM. Heffner, an inmate of
Cincinnati asylum for the insane, died
from the effects of bath in scaIding wa
ter. The Coroner found that death result e
ed from culpable carelessness of an at
tendant.
A sNow-sLIDE on the 26th killed thirteen
persons at Inrea, Italy.
THE Assistant Treasurer of Detroit, Mich.
hanged himself on the 26th ON the eve of
his appointed marriage.
A FIRE was discovered under the roof of
the House of Representatives at Washing
ton on the Goth, but was promptly extin-
guished. Damage trifling.
Tone SING. the Chinese steward in the
Greeley relief expedition, who was ar
rested at Newark N. J., for gagging and
robbing a fellow Chinaman, pleaded guilty
on the 26th to atrocious assault and bat
terry, and was sentenced to seven years
imprisonment.
FIRE totally destroyed the morocco fac
tory Of g. r. Lembardt, in Brooklyn, N. Y,
on the 9th.
THE cavity made in the White Tower,
London, by the recent dynamite explosion
is ten feet long by five feet wide.
| ON the 18th Con Murphy, the most no
| torious desperate in Montana for many
years, was hanged by members of the
"S-7-77."
FIRE partially destroyed the Indiana
Insane, Asylum at indianapolis on the
| 27th. Loss, $4,000 to 1000, with no in
/ surance. No casualties
AN enterprising clerk in a store at Wa
/ hoo, Neb., has been loaning out the firms
money for two years. He has made a
/ confession and turned over $, 800 in money
/ and mortgages.
THE famous outlaw, Nicholas Aragon, at
/ one time a member OF the "Billy the Kid
/ gang, was captured near Choita, n. NJ, on
| the 9th. In taking him one Of the officers
was shot dead by the desperate. The
populace were liable to lynch him.
OK the 2Sth Mrs. Dooley, of Winterse ct,
Ia, who was deserted by her husband,
gave her son and daughter opium and took
a dose herself The girl recovered; the
I others died.
A COAL mine at Plummer Hill, O., was
fired on the 10th, supposedly by ineendi-
| aries.
TIE EreRiRg star building at Washing
/ ton, d. c., was partially destroyed by fire
! on the 10Th.
| THE crew Of the British bark Wellin gtou
mutunied of Cornwall, and the Captain
was killed and the mate wounded. The
vessel was towed into Plymouth and the
| crew arrested.
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