The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-03-19
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Eews from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Service commissioner expired on the 9th
under the terms Of his peremptory letter OF
resignation. It was positively stated at
the Executive Mansion that the President
had not determined upon his successor,
but would take the matter under consIdera-
tion as promptly as possible.
MASTER WoRKMAN PowDERLY repudi-
ates ne statement Of an Illinois Knight Of
Labor that the knights have formed a
political party. He says that an assem-
bly, attempting 10 give itself political char
Rcter would have its charter revoked.
THE remains Of ex-senator J. B. Chaffee
were taken to Adrian, Mich, for inter-
ment.
UNITED STATES CONsUL-G ESERAL WAL
LER at London declares that the report
that the United States consuls in his iuris-
diction talk OF resignation if their salaries
are reduced is mischievous and wholly
without foundation.
AN examination OF the books, concluded
on the 10th, shows an approximate short
age against County Treasurer Hollings-
worth Of Knox County, Ind, Of SIS, ,27S.33.
Everybody was dumbfounded and morti-
fed at this gigantic exposure. Hollings-
worth was a prosperous and wealty farmer
when he took possession Of the treasurer's
office.
Mr.. TRENHOLM, one OF the Civil-Service
commissioners, is to be appointed Comp
troller of the Currency.
IN the billiard match at New York
Schaefor made 800 on the night of the 11th
10 800 for Vignaux, making the total score,
Schaefer, 1,sOO; VisnaUx,, LOEB.
ON the 18th the Earl Of Aberdeen, Lord
Lieutenant of ireland, attended meeting
at the Mansion House to devise means to
relieve the distress among the poor.
OK the 11th a motion male m the British
House of Commons by 3Ir. Labouchere,
reducing the grants for maintaining the
royal parks, was carried after a lively con-
troversy.
SECOND COMPTROLLER MAYNARD has
disalowed two claims OF John Roach one
Of S3S,s40 for extra work on the United
States monitor Puritan, and the other OF
S2O,274 for watching, care, towing and
pilotage of the monitor Roanoke from
March II, 1877, to September p, 1888.
THE Pope has sent to Berlin a courier
bearing a letter to Prince Bismarck, thank
ing him for his eulogistic reference to his
Holiness at the recent German parliament
airy dinner.
Pope LEO has appointed the Belgian pri-
mate, Mgr. Grossen, 10 be chiof OF the
clergy IN the Congo State. A Catholic
seminary is being founded at LOuvain,
Belgium, whore students win be especial
ly trained for service in Congo.
NAT @. GOODWIN and several other stage
artists We're fined ten dollars and costs
each at Cincinnati, ON the 18th, for taking
part in Sunday performances.
SENATOR JONES, "of Detroit,"is wanted
In Washington by the colleagues of the
committee on commerce TO break a tie on
the matter Of the Eads Ship Railway hill.
a -. @ 4
Patti partially failcd in the first act of
ola Traviata" at Valencia, Spain, and was
roundly Missed. She left the theater in
high dudgeon, and had TO be escorted to
her hotel by the police.
SECRETARY LAMAR has submitted to
Congress, as required by law, a list of
about four thousand and five hundred
Indian depreciation claims. The total
number Of claims call for an amount
approNimnting Sl5,00O,0O0.
PRIyCEss HELENE Of YpsilonLi, Greece,
who with her husband spent 80 900, 900 in
ten years, has failed with liabilities Of
S4OOO.OlO.
THE Postmaster General has issued an
order prohibiting the delivery Unregistered
mail on tie payment Of money orders to
Marcus E. Frazier, operating at Des
Moines, Ia, as the secretary Of the Globe
Mutual Life and Assessment Association.
On the 18th no business was transacted
In Congress, the funeral services over the
nemains OF Senator Miller Of California
occupying the attention Of the Senate in
its chamber, and which was attended by
the House ina body. The remains were
sent westward under charge of the con-
gressional committee.
D. On tae Itth Zelno z. Gordon, tho oldest
telegraph operator iu the United States,
died at CASTLE, N. Y, aged eighty-two
years.
THE international billiard match between
Schaefer and Niguaux closed in New York
on the night of the 18th, with Schaefer
the winner in the six nights by a score OF
5000 60 $50.
THE London Observer says Gladstoue's
home rule measures were uufavorably re-
ceivcd by the cabinet at its meeting on the
18th, and if persisted i'm, win lead to the
disruption OF the cabinet.
Mus. DELLA PAUNELL Is better and no
serious results are npprehended from her
recent illness.
The Irish are very much pleased with
their new Viceroy, Lord Aberdeen.
ON the 18th the wife of Representative
Wooduurn, of Nevada, died i'm Washington
after an Illness lasting several weeks.
AN English commission has been ap-
pointed 70 visit Pasteur at Paris and de-
eide as TO the geuuineness Of his method
of curing hydrophobia.
ME. PARNELL's long-promisel declarR-
tion Of policy, Go he made in Parliament
on the 18th, il is said, win be very moder-
ate i'm tone.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
on the eth tho huge paper mills at FreEs-
dorf. Germany, were burned. The inn
mense structure was completely reduced to