The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-08-20
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

SECRETARY BAYARD and Minister Ro-
Inero seem to agree that there is not the
least probability of war
MINISTER Cox has protested TO the Porte
against the closing of American mission
schools in Syria.
ON the 1lth Mr.. Mathews, British Home
Secretary, was e-elected in Birmingham,
DIR. Cook, Gladstonian, withdrawing at
the last moment.
Mr.. Kelly has finally been provided
With an Office. He is the American mem
Der Of the international court that sits at
Cairo, Egypt, and his salary is $500 a
year.
J. r. BRADLEY, ex-mana ger Of the Pull
man works at Pullman, Ill, an l J. c.
Atch heson, manager of the Hotel Florence
a tthe same place, are mysteriously miss
ing.
POSTMASTER GENERAL Villas has issued
an order directing that hereafter all mails
for Mexico be sent by rail, crossing the
border at El Paso, Tex.
ASSISTANT ENGINEER W. A. ALDER
DICE, who was for n long tune stationed
at the Washington University, st. Louis,
has been ordered TO the Lancaster at the
South Atlantic 81 ion, TO leave by steam
er sailing from Newport News August 10.
On the 18th DR.. J. II. Mclean, Of St
a
LOUISE MICHEL, the French Communist,
has been sentenced to four months i'm
prisonment and to pay a fine of l0f.
ACTING SECRETARY FATRCHILD has is
sued a call for $40 OO0, 900 Of the three per-
cent. loan Of 1852.
In the Field-Beunet libel case at Lon
don, execution of the award has been
stayed, pending Judgment on the appe 1.
THE Irish Times claims to he informed
that Lord Randolph Churchill is drafting
bill intended to solve the Irish problem.
THE Tennessee Democratic State con-
vention nominated Robert l.. Taylor fer
Governor On the fifteenth ballot.
SIR THOMAS BRADY, inspector of Irish
fisheries, has heen congratulate by the
Westport Poor-Law guardians on his ac-
cession to tho honor of knighthood.
REFERRING to Sa'isbury's speech a the
ecent Lord Mayors banquet, United Ire
land says: "Our race is accustom to re-
sist tyranny. War, let it be, in the name
Of God"
ON the 18th Miss Carrie, of Ishpeming
Mich, e'pOused the Jewish faith and was
marie at st. Paul, MINI, to Albert Rui-
lenbergs
MAJOR S. w. CLARK, recorder of the
General Land Office, declines to resign at
the request of Commissioner Sparks. lie
is a Republican, and has held the Office
twenty years.
AT the December meetin Of Con gres $
an effort win be made to restore tho old
rule requiring all the general appropria-
tiOn bills to be reported within a given pc
riod.
PosTMAsTER- G GENERAL. Villas has made
requisitiOu upon the Treasury Depart
ment for 1880, 900 for compensation of post
ruagfnra ~ao IfuefoI ,tpIar tI,. ort ~ NT,-.I,
3, 1888. The department win not begin
payment of these claims until after Sep
tember I.
SINCE his arrival at N w London, Conn,
last month Ex-President Arthur has al e
vanced in weigh from i3) to 10 pounds.
His appetite is good and he is said to be
looking and feeling better than he has
been at any time since the beginning OF
his sickness last winter.
MRS. CLEVELAND is sadly afflicted by
the warm weather at Washington, and is
anxious to get away.
CmIsTiEE NILSSON was married at Paris
on the 18Th TO Count dc Casa Miranda, oil
Spain.
G. j. R1rcHrE, president Of the British
Local Government Board, has been re-
elected 20 Parliament.
SECBFTA0v RNvN"D l1Iy con ra,Ii"ts
1he stCr,- ,.r ai' ,.l yu fht i2-' shat q
special tuv 81 IS 80 ~ sent I.y the United
States % Mexico.
CARDINAL. TASCHERFAU his notified the
Canadian bishops that the Knights OF
Labor have been uncquivocally condemned
by the Holy See.
SIR CHARLES TUPPFR, Canadian high
commissioner, has been presented with al
address by Lord Lorne expressing his ap-
probation Of his efforts to promote Cana
dian interests.
DIR. RICHARDSON made on incision in the
abdomen OF John McCarty al Boston OF
the 18th, drew out and cut open the som.
ach and removed a set Of false toeth whicl
he had swallowed. Tho patient is recov.
ering.
GOVERNOR IRELAND Expresses the great
est respect for Secretary BayarI, and a
the same time expresses his own views cI
the Mexican matter in terms that are no
hard to understand.
THE subscription to the fund for Gen.
eral Hancock's widow now amounts {,
S46,596.50.
GENERAL GooDE, of Virginia, has Ieel
appointed special counsel for the Govern
ment in the Bell telephone case.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has returned to Ber
lin, and has resumed ular work ON tn
business of the State.
Tascherdu's condemnation of the Knight
Of Labor should not be taken as the senti
ment of the Church toward that organiza
tion.
Mr.. SFDGwICK's mission to Mexico i
not of n diplomatic nature, but is simpl!
for the purpose of securing leter infOr
nation for the tate Department in rcEarI
to tho Cutting case than is now at hand
TBE Marquis Tseng, Chinese Ambossa
dor, gave "A farewell banquet TO the diplo
matte corps at st. Petersburg on the 14tl
A numl Of distinguished citizens wer
also among the guests.
DEMocRATc politicians are talking o
the chances Of getting control Of the mex
Senate.
UNDER a proviso in the Con nstitu ion o
Nebraska Senator Van Wyck has decided
10 appeal to the people for their expires
sion of preference for United States Sena
Cor.
HoN. JAMES G.. BLAINE has recently oh
A6ined from Washington a large numbe
OF public do, uments, especially those oI
controversies with other countries He 4
evidently Rrming himself for an offensive
campaign.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the nj sht of the 10Th another heav,
storm, lasting about seven hours, oc
Cured in the vicinity OF Aberdeen, Oak
Northwes of there it formei a cyclone
destroying farm houses, barns, granaries
and grain stacks, from ten miles west o
Westport TO Orday. J. d. Mulka's resi-,
dence. FIVE miles west OF Westport, wa
destroyeI and he was seriously injured.
VIM. BOYD, an aged millionaire, wa
struck by a train on the Pam Handle roa'
at Walkers Mills, Pa, on the night of th