The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-05-08
General News

and Charles Bird, were caught under
a lot OF crates and barrels and crush
ed TO death.
A pepper famine for the next
twelve months is imminent.
Gov. Abbott, of New Jersey, has
signed the bill preventing railroad
companies from leasing their lines or
franchises until permission to do 50
mas been granted by the legislature.
A large number of tile navy yard
employees at Portsmouth n. H., have
been discharged ard mueh dissatistac-
ton is the result.
England and Russia are talking of
patching up their difference in an
amicable manner.
DR.. A. II. Paaren, of Chicago who
has just returned from a visit to the
interior of the state, reports many
difficulties to surmount in his efforts
to stamp ont pleuro-pneumonia.
Last W ednesday evening. Antioch.
Pa, was VISITED BY a shower of crick-
els.
Fire destroyed Is, 900. COO feet of
lumber at Stevens Point, Wis, on
Sunday.
Within two months, six convicts at
Columbus, Ohio, have committed
suicide. The last one Is Thomas
Neville, who swallowed a dose Of
strychnine on Sunday.
Cincinnati, O., May A diaboli-
cal attempt was made to fire the
Children'a Home, at Covington, Ky.
A ten-year old inmate was awakened
by tile smell Of smoke and hearing the
glass in the kitchen breaking, he
aroused the matron and she called the
ire department in time to prevent
much damage and probably large loss
Of life. There were about fifty chill
dren in the house at the time. The
preparations were very elaborate and
the kitchen WIS the place selected TO
start the fire.
About rs 900 people attended the
Exposition on louisiana day.
The postmaster general appointed
600 postmasters to fourth class post
Offices during the month Of April and
every one democrats.
Commodore Cornelius Garrison died
in New York on Saturday. He was
worth S., OO0,0Oo.
The supreme court of the United
States has refused the state Of Virginia
a new hearing in the Virginia cou-
pom cases. That state will now be
compelled to receive the coupons upon
her bonds in payment of taxes.
The indications now all points to an
amicabIe settlement of the trouble
between England and Russia.
The Chickasaw Guards are favorites
at the Mobile drill grounds. They are
expected to carry off the first prize
of $4,000 They will not dril until
Saturday.
On the morning of the 9TH two
large building on Atlantic street
Brooklyn, fell with a crash. There
were some 700 persons employed in
the different manufacturing places in
the two buildings. Thirty or forty
lives were lost and many persons
seriously injured. The ruins took
fire and were Totally destroyed.
a treaty has been entered into by
the United States and the Colombian
by which the two govern
ments will co operate to secure freedom
of transit across the Isthmus of Pana-
ma for commerce, mail, and passen-
gers,
Gen. Irwin Mcdowell died IN San
Francisco on the 9th of disease of the
stomach.
Mayor Harrison of Chicago, has
sued the Chicago Inter. Ocean for
S35, 600 damages.
The Bosphore Egyptien trouble has
ended; the Egyptian prime minister
having appologized to the French
governm 3nt.
According to the Mississippi papers
there will be but little opposition to
the re election Of senators George and |
w althaI1.
The sixty-sixth general assembly, Of
Ohio, adjourned sine die, on Monday,
May 4th.
Fred Bell living near Sumner, Iowa,
II ft of jealousy, shot and killed
5otiried Housermann, and then fatal
y shot himself, at O'Clock Sunday