The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-09-10
IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

on the 2d Philippopolis was gaily
decorated in honor Of the return OF Prince
Alexander. The latter started the pre-
Fious evening for Sofia, where he was
warmly received.
OK the 81 the Indiana Republican State
convention met at indianapolis, made
nominations and adopted platform.
Hon. S. M. ST0CKsLAGER, assistant Com
missioner of the General Land Office, has
Withdrawn from the congressional race in
Indiana.
ANDREW CARNEGIE has offered Sl25,OOO
FOR the establishment Of a free library at
Edinburgh, Scotland, on certain con-
ditions.
THE Seventeenth Illinois district Repub-
Items nominated Robert McWfliams for
Congress.
POSTMASTER WILSON Of Savannah, G. a,
who refused to give Tay to his successo OF,
was forcibly elected by a post-ofIice in-
spector on the ID.
"A VIGOROUS Home-Rule campaign is to
be conducted during the parliamentary re-
cess by prominent Radical members of the
House of Commons, assisted by the Par
nel1ites.
PRINCE ALEXANDER Of Bulgaria sent a
very Submissive letter to the Czar, upon
resuming the government Of Bulgaria, TO
which h@received an exceedingly curt and
menacing reply.
THERE are said to be strong indications
at Washington that the State Department
is not pleased with thc part Consul Porch
took in the Sedgwicll matter.
MANAGER FRANK PATTERSON, Of the
Asbury Park (N.J.) opera house, who was
convicted OF forgery and has been con-
fined in the Monmouth County jail for two
years, was released on the I'd on 5000
bail, it having been decided by the Su-
preme Court that the County Court, before
which Patterson was tried, was illegally
constituted.
ACTING SECRETARY FAmCHILD has is
sued a circular calling the attention Of all
officers and employees of the Treasury De-
partment TO the Presidents order Of JulYl4,
1886, warning the Federal officers against
Interference in politics. The circular con-
tains no instructions or orders, but simply
calls attention to the order OF the Presi-
den which is printed therein in full.
a. @. SEDGwICK, United States Envoy
to Mexico to inves igote the Cutting case,
is said TO have been rather prominent IN
Washington under the Board of Public
Works regime. In 1870 he went to Wash
ingt at the sugges ion of Sunset Cox,
whose influence procure him a position
under Governor Shepherd. He became
involved in a quarrel with a contractor,
however, and resigned, going back to New
York to practice law.
MINISTER ROMERO denies that Mexico
wants to sell ANY of her territory.
THE revolutionary regiments at Sofia
have surrendered unconditionally to
Prince Alexander.
IT is reported that the Cars reply to
Prince Alexander has paralyzed the move
ment in favor of the latter in Bulgaria.
PRINCE ALEXANDER's letter to the Car
is generally conceded 60 be a mistake, and
the opinion is expressed that his abdica-
tion must follow.
WILLIAM X. KUEPP, of Kansas City,
Mo-, has sued Colonel z. II. Phelps for
$4,000 damages Tor alleged defamation of
character.
A DEPUTATIoN of Irish ladies, headed
the wife of the Lord Mayor of Dublin,
will present to Gladstone a declaration in
favor of home rule, signed by 900 Irish
women.
GENERAL b. IT, CHEATHAM, the famous
ex-Confederate general and postmaster,
died at Nashville, Tenn, on the Sd. He
was appointed postmaster at Nashville by
President Cleveland and had been con-
flrmed by the Senate.
VOLUME one Of General John c. Fre-
mont's momOir5 is to be- published this
week in Washington. It ~ said that fifty
thousand sets of the work have been en-
gagged i'm advance.
ADv1CEs from Philadelphia are TO the
effect that Hon. Samuel J. Randall is very
I'D at his country residence near Paoli, Pa.
IL Is his old enemy, tho gout.
EX-PREsIDENT ARTHUR writes to a friend
In Washington that his health has very
81 d. In,
London, Conn.
PRINCE ALEXANDER of Bulgaria has
aldicatod. He told his officers he could
not remain in Bulgaria, because the Gar
would not permit him To do so.
SIR EDWARD TuoUNToN, British Am
bassador 60 Turkey, has been recalled, and
he has been succeeded by Sir William
White, late min stCr at Bucharest.
W. G.. CORCoRAN, the venerable WASH
ington philunrhropist, sent his individual
check for $1,000 70 aid the Charleston
earthquake sufferers.
A DIsPATCH from London announces
that hunlnu's challenge to Beach win be
accepted. Hanlan has cablcd for quarters
at Putneyr and viii sail for England in "a
few days.
on the evening Of the 4th, Jake Schae-
Ter, the champion hilliardist Of the world,
tftAAe eflAn now pau ANi = III tot- LOUIS ne
visiting experts were given a grand ban
que by Schaefer during tho evening.
MINISTER Cox will sail from Havre
Octouer for New York.
ON the 5th Mayor Courteuay Of Charles
ton, s. G., arrived in New York from
Europe, and left ON the first rian for the
ruined city.
Primes ALrx NDER has issued decree
summoning the Bul sari,n National As
sembly TO meet on the Ilth inst.
GENERAL AUGER, who was shot by
negro some time since i'm Washington, is
rapidly recovering.
SAMUEL MORLEY. a prominent cham
p.on Of Protestant non conformity and
former m emLer of the British Parliament,
Is dead.
CHARLES HAMILTON, the American citi-
zen recently sentence TO death at Zoc3t-
ecas, Mexico, for murder has had his SEN
tence committed 20 sixteen years impris-
oument.
MARCUS a. WOLFE, who was the bearer
Of $500 from the Knights Of st. Patrick
Of ST. Louis to Parnell, is said to have been
shabh.ly treated by that gen leman and is
still in possession OF the purse.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
HENRY REEDr, farmer living two
miles north of Davenport, Ia. drown ed
himself in tank Tor watering stock on the
night OF the 3fth
FIUE IN Baltimore, Nd, on the a1st en-.
ti.eiy destroyed the large lour-story FUR
uituro foctory Of Mrs. George Beck, to-
gether with all its contents, stock am ma.
chinery. The damage is estimated ot SD
go, without insurance.
THE Chief Of Police of Buffalo, n. y.
telegruphed Chicago on the 80, asking the
arrest of four sailors on the schooner Hal
stcad, wanted for murder.
TIE city Of Charleston, S. g., suffered