The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-02-26
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
PrnsorAL ANp PoL1r1CA1.

LUCILLE sEULT DUDLEY, the young En-
;lish woman who was committed to the
Giddleton Insane asylum for trying to
LAY the Cl2s~lotte Corday act on O'DoDo-
ran Ross, on February 2 last year, 10 re-
lorted to bo well enough to be set at
liberty.
SIMON LOCK, a banker Of soleure, Swift
erland, recently failed, with liabilities of
lOOO,OOOf. Hundreds of small depOsitors
we're ruined by the failure. Lock has been
crested on the charge of fraud.
PRINCE ALEXANDER has arrived at
Philippopolis in his capacity of ruler of
Eastern Roumelia.
CHARLES CRooKER has devoted S33, 900
% the Boys and Girls Aid Society of San
francisco for the construction of a build
ing on an $11 600 lot donated by Senator
Fair.
COUNT DE soTo, Spanish Minister to
Switzerland, has been recalled on account
Sf disreputable conduct.
ON the 18th George N. Thompson, local
cashier of the Pullman Car Company at
Cincinnati, was robbed OF S415 in cash,
which he laid on the desk while writing a
bheck in the Citizens National Bank.
On the 18th Mr.. Gla dstons said in the
House of Commons that coercion in Ire
land was abandoned, and that Salisbury's
1Olicy in the East would be followed by
MIN.
OK the 18th John Bull, aged sixty five,
and a member Of a we'll known upholstery
firm, was decoyed into 'bunco" room at
Pittsburgh, Pa, and became SO
pleased with the workings of the
game that he went to a bank, drew $4,000
and returned. He was knocked down, and
when he recovered found money and
thieves gone.
: On the 18th Governor Fitzhugh Lee of
Virginia sent his first message to the Leg
islature, treating entirely of the State debt
question. He recommends the appointment
"of commission to explain the nature of
the proposed settlement to the creditors of
the State.
TIE win of Joseph Milmore, who died in
Geneva, Mass, recently, will be contested
by Charles, his only remaining brother. 1t
was made October 2, and left over S15O,OOO
20 his wife, formerly Mary L. Longfellow,
and only $50 to an aunt and her child ren.
The contest is likely to develop great
scandal.
ON the evening of the 18th John b.
Cough, the famous temperance lecturer,
died at Frankford, Pa, as the result OF
his recent stroke of paralysis. Mr.. Cough
was born in England in 1917, and during
his lecturing career had appeared on the
public rostrum 6 $50 times. His last words
were: "YOung men, make your records
clean"
FRIENDS of Fitz-John Porter claim a
majority of ten in his favor in the Sen ate
when all are present.
MoUKHTAR PAsHA, the Turkish Commits
sioner, advises the reoccupation Of the
province of Dongola.
PRINCE NICHOLAS of Montene gro denies
that there is discord between him and the
Austrian government.
BISHOP SPALDISG Of Peoria is TO be the
rector of the Catholic National University
to be established at Washington.
SIR CHARLES dixie declares that he has
no intention Of resigning his seat in the
Hou of Commons, and has resolved to
live down the public clamOr against him.
MASTER WORKMAN PowDERLY of the
Knights OF Labor was at Montreal on the
10Th, eonferring with the Roman Catholic
bishop, who was considering the propriety
of denouncing the order.
THE Emperor William has donated the
sum of $4,000 marks to the German teach
ers' Society of London. The donation was
accompanied by an intimation that the
same amount would be annually sub
scribed.
THE Duke de Montpensier is said to be at
the head of a plot to unite Spain and Por-
tugal and overthrow the present regency
in Spain.
THE late Governor Seymour died poor
man. He made considerable income, but
disposed of the most of it in charity.
COLONEL OLIVER PAYNE, Secretary
Whitney's wife's brother, is said TO have
given Mrs. Whitney $4,000 to spend on
her friends during the Cleveland admins
tration.
SENATOR Faye has bill prepared pro-
giding for a con gress of American nations
20 be held in Washington next October.
TIE President has granted a pardon to
sx-pOstmaster Cooke of Unionville, Conn.,,
who was sentenced to eighteen months in
Jail for misappropriating $4,000.
Ex-MAYoH WIN. SLUMAN MEssERvEY OF
Salem, Mass, died on the night of the 18th
after long illness, of paralysis. He was
for many years identified with the inter
ests Of New Mexico, having served as Ter.
ritoriaI Secretary and acting Governor in
the fifties.
On the 10th the Earl of Aberdeen, the
new Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, made hii
state entry into Dublin. No demonstration
Of any account was made.
have placed boycott on Sir Charles Dixie
to an extent that is rapidly approaching
complete ostracism.
THE Duke of Connaught win shortly &c
to India as chief in command of tho Brit.
ish forces at Madras.
On the 18th Henry Johnson, bachelor
hermit and miser, diedat East Parkinson
Pa. He was so penurious that during the
recent cold weather, for want of fire, his
feet were so badly frozen that the sole'
mortified and dropped Off. He left val
liable estate.
On the 2Oth a delegation of woman suf'
fragists addressed the House committee or
judiciary at Washington in the interest o.
their sixteenth amendment to the Consti
tuition.
PoUNDMAKER and twenty eight Of his
companions were recently baptized in the
Roman Catholic faith by Archbishop
Tache in the Northwestern Territorial pris'
On at st. Boniface.
THE President and Cabinet agree thai
where the Senate refuses to confirm ap'
pointees suspended officials can resume
their duties at the end OF the session, but
the President can again suspend them.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Ahh inquest ON Jne BODIES or the Eble
tamily, burned to death at Plymouth, Wis.
resulted in a verdict that the fire was acct
dental.
OK the 18th large portion of the bust
ness section OF Augusta, Wis, was de.
stroyed by fire. A hotel and the post-of-
fee is included in the list Of burned build
ings. The loss is aboat $1,000; insurance
half that sum.
THE United States District Court grand
jury at Boston has indicted jeffrey Ger
rier, CAPTAIN of ths schooner Racer, fo
barratry, in casting away the schooner OF
Cape Elizabeth, December . last; also fo
atternptinr to cast her away The forme