The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-16
TOPICS OF TIE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
PrRsOvA1 AND PoLTrTCAr.

SENATOR BLAIR lubruIuceu Oil on tpe
eth providing for only eight hours work a
day for letter carriers.
MASTER WORKMAN POwDERLY says the
general board could do nothing but what
they did after being treated as they were
by Mr.. Hoxie.
A RECENT order OF Land Commissioner
Sparks susponding final action upon en-
tries upon public lanIi has been revoked
by the Secretary OF the Interior.
THOMAS a. THATCHER, professor Of Latin
and literature in Yale College, was discov-
cred dead IN his bed on the morning of the
9TH. He was in his seventy year.
A PETITION, signed by lawyers and citi-
zens, has been laid before the Bar Associa-
tion OF New York, and is under considera-
tion, looking TO the impeachment Of Judge
Charles Donahue, OF the Supreme Court.
The charges are the misuse Of Judicial
powers.
ALDERMAN DELACY, of New York, can
not be found, an I IL is stated that he left
the city on the night OF the 18th with the
intention of remaining away "untl the
clouds roll by"
Prince ALExANpER Of bulgaria has
formally accepted the governorship Of
Eastern Roumelia for the fve-year term.
SENATOR VEST is improving slowly and
a few days.
DWIGHT II. MOODY is to be invited to
visit Chicago and con .inue the work begun
by Sam Jones and Sam Small.
On the Sth Mr. Gladstone laid his Irish
policy before the Ho use Of Commons, and
spoke for three hours IN explanation OF its
features.
In his speech in tho Commons on tho
sth, Mr.. Parnell said there were one or two
matters in the Gladstone scheme that were
Objectionable, and these the Irish mem
bers would endcavor TO have rectiied. As
a whole, the ILL was acceptable to the
Irish party.
THE House judiciary committee voted
instruction on the Sth 60 Representatives
Oats 10 rep ort favorably his bill 20 repeal
those sections Of the Revised Statutes
prohibiting the payment OF pensions or
tho allowance of claims OF any person who
was disloyal to the United States during
the last war.
Mr.. HEwTrT's Educational bill will be
taken up this week by the House labor
committee at Washington.
ON the OH funeral services took place at
Westminster Abbey over the late William
=. Forster.
REPRESENTATIVE O'NETLL, Of Missouri, IS
trying 60 stop the military bands from
competing with o.her bands at picnics,
parades, etc.
Mn. GLADSTONE hae entirely recovered
from the fatigue OF his eSertions in the
House Of Commons on the evening OF the
sth.
Mr.. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN spoke in the
House Of Commons on the 9th in oppo-
sition to MIR. Gladstons's Home-rule
scheme.
ON the 9th Chief KeokulS of the Sac and
Fox Indians had an interview with Secre-
tary Lamar about matters OF interest to
his people.
Hon JoHN WELSH, ex-minister to En-
gland, is dead.
CARDINAL MANNING is strenuously op-
posed Co the exclusion OF Irish IN smbers
from sitting at Wes.minster.
HON. JOSEPH PULITZER has resigned his
seat In Congress.
ON the 10th Governor Oylesby OF Illinois
ordered six more companies of troops 70
East st. Louis, making sixteen in all.
THE Dublin Frecmdn'S Journal pro-
nounces Blr. Chamberlain's apology for
deserving Gladstone the most damaging
political act Of his life.
SENATOR CoCKRELL, Of Missouri, is con- :
fident that General Newton will report in
favor of the two hundred foot draw -bridgC
for st. Louis.
ON the 10th Burns, Hyndman, Champion
and Williams, the Socialist leaders, tried
in London on the charge of Incl ting riots
were acquitted.
DIR. FRENCH, a prominent resident ol
Maiden, Mass, claims to have been swim
died out of $4,000 cash and $4,000 prop
erty by Alfred Richardson, Jr., a broker OF
that place.
GENERAL MASTER WORKMAN PowDERLY
has written Congressman O'Neil, warmly
indorsing his arbitration bill.
President CLEVELAND continues to de-
vote himself closely to Office work not
withstanding the warning OF his physi-
clans.
OK the 1lth resolutions denouncing
Gladstone were passed in London by a
conference Of the Workingmeu's Radical
clubs.
SENATOR BLAIR, OF New Hampshire, is
said TO be prospective candidate for the
Presidential nomination on the labor ticket
SENATOR JACKSON, OF Tennessee, is prom
inently mentioned as likely to take tho
. place Of Judge Baxter on the United States
Court bench.
REV. j. BENSON HAMILTON, of the Cor
nell Memorial Church, New York. has re-
sorted TO the plan Of illustrating his SER
mons with pictures and placards Of the
subjects of his discourses.
CRIMES AND CAsUALTIEs.
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