The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-03-12
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
PEnsoNAL AND POLITICAL.

ing the palliUm from Pope Leo to Arch
bishop. .Corrigan, arrived at New York on
the steamer Gallia.
THE Prussian Government has ordered
the Polish poet, Kraszwits, to return to
prison on May 1. The poet says that his
return will soon be followed by his death,
as he is now in feeble health.
JoHN KELLY, the old Tammeny leader,
is said to be improving in health rapidly,
and his friends ara confident that il be es-
capes another relapse during the spring he
viii be a well man again.
V.P. SNYDER, Acting Comptroller of the
Currency, issued cau upon the National
banks on the Sd for report OF their condi
tio1f at the close of business on the first
day Of March, 1886.
ON the 3D. Mr.. Beck introduced a bin in
the Senate to modify the Sinking-F Fund
law. Il provides that hereafter the Secre-
tary OF the Treasury shall not redeem
more than $40, 900 900 annually of the prin-
cipal of the public debt.
The Senate committee on military af-
fairs is understood to have agreed to a
favorable report on the Fitz-Johu Porter
bill by a vote Of six to four. There win
also be a minority report.
THE pallium was conferred with appro-
pirate ceremonies at New York on the 4th
upon Archbishop Corrigan.
PROCEEDINGS looking to the disbarment
of ex-Judge Small, of Milwaukee, Wis,
have been begun in the Circuit Court of
that city.
PARNELL and his followers will support
BIr. Gladstone in the dabate with the
Conservatives on the civil service esti-
mates.
GLADSTONE failed to fall into the trap
set for him by the Tories, and the Holman
IL, Oe
withdrawn.
GovERNoR IRELAND OF Texas has re-
voked the extradition warrant in the case
of J. b. BeloadslIy, wanted at Chicago for
embezzement.
THURSDAY, the 4th inst, was the twenty
third anniversary OF Mr.. Randalps service
in Congress, and handsome flowers were
sent to his committee-room by some of his
friends in commemoration OF the occasion.
LoRD PLUNKETT, Archbishop OF Dublin
and primate Of Ireland, at the request OF
the Episcopal bishops of Ireland has con-
vened the synod for the 23d inst, to obtain
an expression OF the opinion Of tho church
on the political situa tiou in Ireland.
GENERAL GnosvESoR, OF Ohio, presi-
dent OF the National League, has called a
meeting of the National Council, to be
held at the Ebbitt House, Washington D.
c., on Saturday, March ~ at ten O'Clock
a. m.
On the 4th the Supreme Court of Ohio
affirmed the decision OF the lower court in
refusing to grant a writ OF habeas corpus
in the case Of Daniel J. Dalton, of Cincin-
natl, held for contempt by the House OF
Representatives.
On the 4th Speaker Carlisle announced
the following special committee to iuvss-
tigate the facts concerning the ownership
of Pan Electric Telephone stock by certain
public officers: Messrs. Boyle, Oates,
Eden, Hall, Hale, Ranney, Millard, Han
back and Moffatt.
JACOB II. DIHMoCK, OF Port Jervis,
N. Y, has been appointed postage stamp
agent at New York to succeed Major J. b.
Tassett. The place is worth $4,000 per
annum.
ON the night of the 5th zuSortort won
the thirteenth gams in the chess series at
New Orleans.
PRrNcE ALEXANDER has ordered the de-
mobilization of the Bulgarian army.
WILLIAM CARVER, who was serving
life sentence for murder in the Indiana
pehitentiary, has been pardoned.
JAMES I. HOLLAND, on trial at New
York for the killing OF Tom Davis, the
sawdUst swindler, was acquitted by the
jury on the 5th.
II Is autuDIlb4bANeAy SlNNGA NAAb NNAAu-
stone has neither directly or Indirectly con-
suited ParneH in regard to home-rule.
CHIEF PoUNDMAKGR and eleven braves
were liberated from the peuitentary at
Stoney Mountain, n. w. =, on the 4th.
They have gone West to their homes in
charge OF Father Lacombe.
PRINCE BISMARCK, who expected to at
tend the afternoon session of the Reichstag
on the 9th, was compelled to remain home
by a severe attack of muscular rheumatism
in the chest and shoulders.
GENERAL SrURGIs is being urged by his
friends for promotion TO be Major General.
THE Queen Regent Of Spain has par
doned the Duke Of Seville who was recent
ly imprisoned for insulting her.
LABOR COMMISSIONER KOCHTITzKY OF
Missouri is said TO be surprised and
pained'' at the strike on the Gould system.
SENATOR EDMUNDs has not yet made a
declaration Of his intentions toward the
Presidents message to the Senate con-
cerning suspensions.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has issued to the
newspaper correspondents who are en-
titled to admission to the reporters gall
leries of Congress formal invitation to
his reception in honor Of Congress.
ON the morning Of the 9th Rev. J. r. w.
sloane, DID,, Professor OF Theology at the
Reformed Presby teriau Theological Sem
mary at Allegheny City, Pa, was found
dead in his bed, supposedly from heart
disease.
MISS ROSE CLEVELAND gave the last OF
her public Saturday receptions on the 9Th,
and more than four thousand people called
during the afternoon.
NUMEROUS petitions are being circulated
in Washington and are being numerously
signed asking the Senate TO refuse cOnfir-
nation to James c. Matthews, who has
been nominated by the President to sue
ceed Fred Douglass as Recorder OF Deeds
for the District Of Columbia. He is coll
ored.
MARQUIS TsENG has left the Chinese di-
plomatic service and has become the
chief OF the Chinese Admiralty.
JEAI SMITH, the champion pugilist Of En-
gland, whom Sullivan is aching [notl to
meet, was given a benefit at st. James
Hall, London, on the night OF the 9Th, at
which he was presented with a champion
hip belt worth SIS 600.
HOLLAND, the Texan, who killed Tom
Davis, the "boodle" swindIer in New York,
was considerably lionized after his acauit-
tai Of the charge of murder. Il is said
however, that some ot Davis friends had
sworn to kin him before he could leave the
city.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the Sd Hugh Mcmahon, who
pleaded guilty 70 setting fire to
the dwelling ami grocery on the
corner of Second aud Green streets,
Philadelphia, and conspiring TO defraud
the insurance companies Of $4,000, was
sentenced to ten years in the Penitentiary.