The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-06-11
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
THE President and his bride are enjoy
ag themselves quietly at Deer Park. The
ewspaper correspondents Is have taken pos
ession of the ladies' waiting room at the
tation, but find little to draw from except
heir imaginations. The stay of the bride
nd groom may extend throughout anoth-
week.
On the evening Of the Sd, Governor Pat
ison OF Pennsylvania gave State din
Ter to the Supreme Court of the State.
among those present besides the justices
+ the Supreme Court, were Speaker Car
Isle and General Simon Cameron.
On the Sd General Anson g. McCook was
married at the residence Of his brother,
General John q. McCook, in New York
The bride was Miss Kittie McCook. Of
Steubenville, o., distant relative of the
room
ONE of the Presidents last official acts
previous to bis marriage was the pardon
ng Of B. F. Bigelow, the defaulting teller
II the National Bank of the Republic Of
Washington. Three years ago Mr.. Bige-
ow was sentenced to five years. imprison-
nent.
DUKE KARL of Bavaria, famous
throughout Germany as an oculist, has
ecently been ministering to the poor of
heran. steadfastly refusing to receive pay
Tor his services, and, as a rule, confning
iis practice to those who are unable to
)ay. He departed on the Sd, and was
followed to the railway station by crowds
Many people knelt in the streets and Of
erred prayers in his behalf
GOVERNOR BATE of Tennessee commuted
10 life imprisonment the sentence of Allen
Herbert, who was to have been hung at
Nashville on the 4th.
THE Maxwell murder case in st. Louis
was given the jury at 10 p. m. on the 4th,
and up TO midnight, when they were
locked up for the night, had not agreed on
verdict, though how they stood it was
impossible TO ascertain.
WILLIAM EMMETT, the wen-known the
atrical manager, died at Chicago on the
tth.
Frederick NOURsE, treasurer of the
Oregon Railway g. Navigation Company,
who has been missing several months, has
turned up all right
THE Pail Mall Gazette says of Blaine's
correction of his recent speech, that it is
quite in accordance with his character to
hurl insults and then retract them.
Ex president ARTHUR sent congratu-
lations to President Cleveland on his mar
rlage. and received a box from the White
House containing wedding cake on the
lth.
SECRETARY BAYARD, on the 4th, received
a telegram from Consul General Phelan at
Hahiax, as follows: american mer-
chant vessels can purchase fresh fish Of all
kinds"
SECRETARY MANNING has rendered his
resignation, but at the urgent request of
the President has accepted a leave of alb
sence until October, his resignation mean
time not being acted upon.
A coRoNER's jury in New York, on the
9Th, rendered a verdict to the effect that
Frank r. Reed, of Minneapolis, the Yale
College divinity student whose body was
recently found floating in GOuveneur Slip,
came to his death from a pistol-shot
wound caused by some unknown person.
HoR Sc became frightened at a loco
motive near Frankfort, KY, on the 4th,
and dragged Mrs. VIM. Hammond, who
was trying to hold him, down an embank-
ment into the Kentucky river. Edward
Grant, OF Frankfort, jumped from the en-
CINE and succeeded in swimming out with
the lady, who it is feared is fatally in
jured.
john KELLY was buried from St. Pat
rick's Cathedral, New York on the 9th.
GENERAL SAMUEL D. STURGIs, of the
United States army, goes on the retired
list on June IL.
On Whitsunday the Pope viii confer on
Queen Christina of Spain the decoration
OF the Golden Rose.
FIELDEN, Fisher, Engel, Lingg, Spies
and Schwab, Of the Chicago anarchists,
were arraigned in court on the 9th and
pleaded not guilty to the charge of muir
der.
HON. DoRMAN b. EATON has written an
open letter to Samuel J. Randall on the
Civil-Service rules.
THE London Neics says Mr.. Blaine be-
longs to a far from admirable class OF
American citizens, and that his advice is
not required in the management of En-
glands affairs.
FOURTEEN reporters are shadOwing the
President and bride at Deer Park.
THE indications are that Congress will
adjourn about the second Monday in July.
Mr.. CHAMBERLAIN, in an interview on
the 5th, said that the defeat of the Home
Rule bin in the House Of Commons is GER
tain.
REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER's sermon
on the 9th was on the street car strike and
the tyranny of labor unions.
REV. +. DEWITT TALMAGE preached on
the 9th on the wrongs inflicted on society
by monopoly and labor organizations.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND AMI bride at
tnded church on the morning of the 9Th,
and spent the afternoon gathering wild
flowers.
1T is reported that Representative w.
L. Scott, of Pennsylvania, has been Of
fercd the secretaryship Of the Treasury,
and that he has the matter under consid-
GRAFTON.
Mr.. MoRR1soN intends to can up the
Tariff bill in the House shortly, but the
motion will probably fail, as the Randall
Democrats and the Republicans have de-
cided to vote against consideration.
JUDGE HALLETT announced in court at
Denver, Col, on the 5th, that unless an
appropriation was soon made he would
discharge United States Courts juries, as
tho funds are exhausted.
SAMUEL WALLACE, cashier of the Ex-
shange Bank of Spencer, Ind, is short in
his account with the bank about six thou
sand dollars. Complaint against him and
his bondsmen for that amount has been
fled by the ank in the Owen Circuit
Court.
Mr.. AUGUsrIN DAYS. American dram
attic company has achieved a most pro-
nounced success in London, securing the
attention OF fashionable society most
thoroughly. People have been turned
away every night since the opening, and
the principal actors are overwhelmed with
social courtesies.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the Cd the children OF a Springfield
(Mass.) widow named Richards, attempted
TO light the fire with kerosene. The can
exploded, firing their clothes. A son and
daughter, ged respectively nine and ten
wears, were burned TO death.
ON the 3d Henry Durham aged eigh-
teen, fatally shot Mrs. Waite near Owego,
N " and then killed himself