The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-09-03
IN BRIEF
Compiled from Various SoErcess
rERsoNAL AND PoL1r1oAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
ON the 25th First Assistant Postmaster |
General Stephenson returned to Washing |
ION, and during the absence Of Postmas-
ter-General Villas he viii be acting POST
master-GeneraL
CYRUS G.. LUCE was nominated for Gov
srnor Of Michigan by the State Republican
convention at Grand Rapids on the 2Gth
1T is considered now as almost GER
ainty that Prince Alexander will resume
me throne in Bulgaria.
EUGENE KErTELAs, a wealthy New
Yorker, and hrother-in-law Of Governor
Wetmore OF Rhode Island, died suddenly
On the 2Gth Of heart-disease.
President CLEVELAND saws he appoint
ed Matthews Recorder Of Deeds for the
District Of Columhis because he was the
most ft colored uaiSae knew.
DURING the absence from Washington of
the Commissioner Of Indian Affairs and
the assistant secretary Of the same office,
Miss Minnie S. Cook is acting as the head
Of tFe Indian office.
ltav, DH. KANE, tho Protestant clergy
man in Belfast who declared that unless
the police We're Immediately disarmed two
hundred thousand armed Orangemen
would relieve them of their weapons, is
again out with declaration charging the
magistrates OF Belfast with criminal par
leying with lawlessness.
pRINCG ALEXANDER has been ordered
by the Car to sign the abdication or to be
forwGrde to KisseneR.
CONRAD, an American, charged with
spreading heresies, has been ordered to
leave Russia. He was baptising people in
the lutheran faith.
SEVERAL years ago n lot in Detroit,
Mich, valued at $4,000, was donated by
Amos ChaiTee as a site for proposed free
hospital, to be controlled by the hompo-
puthic physicians OF that city. On the
26th it was announced that John G. New
berry and James Mcmillan have each do
mated 100000 for a free hospital fund.
Work win be commenced as soon as the
plans are drawn.
COMMISSIONER r. NJ. SoUIRE received
formal notice Of his removal by Governor
Hill on the 26sh, and at once made prepa-
rations to vacate his Office. ItwGs rumored
that his bondsmen had determined to sur
render him, in view Of tho possible de-
parture OF Squire, pending the trial.
ES-SENAToR BIAHoNF, of Virginia, de-
clines TO be a candidate for Congress.
REV. HrNRY WARD BErCuEB has recov-
cred from his recently illness.
How. WIN. NJ. EvARTs is slowly recover
ing from his recent injuries.
on tho 27th, after an hours dipl,m matte
conference, Bismarck and De Giers lunched
together.
THE California Republicans nominated
John +. Swift for Governor.
HENRY GEoRGE is mentioned for the
workngmen's candidate Tor mayor of
New York.
MICHAEL GLEASON, superintendent of
ihe Poor farm at st. Joseph, No., has been
removed.
J. HARRIS ROGERS has filed his answer
go Mr.. Garland's Cross-bhI in the Pam
Electric litigation.
THE remains OF Mr.. Burckhardt, who're
Gently met death on the Matterhorn, have
been founJ. and by his side was a card on
which he had written his last will, be-
Iueathng all OF his estate TO his sister.
AT his own request, Brigadier-General
John Newton Chief OF Engineers, u. s. A,
has been retired.
Mr.. GLADSTONE has issueI brochure"
1n the Irish question in which ne dis
eusses the issues in language that leaves
no room to doubt his attitude and inten-
tions
STEPHEN G.. PORTER, the literary crook,
now in limbo at Fredericksburg, Va,
claims to have bcen once well connected
iu Missouri.
OK the 27th, on his return home to Mad
ison, Wis, from SAN Francisco, where he
was made Commander-in-C Chief of the
Grand Army of the Rspuhlic, General
Fairchild was given a hearty reception by
delegates from posts of the city.
ON the 21th about eight thousand persons
listened TO Sam Jones and Sam Small at
Round Lake, n. Y. JONES' subj Ct was,
"Whnt Shall DO to be SavedI' Small
spoke ON the life Of Christ. Rev. Mr..
Lockwood of Cincinnati, also preached.
A subscription of $500 was raised for the
cvaneelists.
ON the 2sth Prince Alexander started on
bis return TO sofia, via Guirgevo and
bucharest, in re ,pouse to urgent invita-
tious from his subjects.
BY the placing of John II. Russell upon
the retired list OF the navy, a vacancy has
been created for the promotion of Commo-
dore Queen.
On thc2Sth General Newton was sworn
i'm as Commissioner of Public Works of
New N ork, and has assumed the duties of
the office.
NEARLY all OF Captain Lawton's COM
maud, who have been hunting Geronimo,
are reported sick with fevers contracted
while i'm the oveldowed districts near the
Sierra Madres.
on the 2Sth Surrogate Rollins Of New
Yorl, handed down his decision in the
famous Hoyt viii case. Ihe Will ls sus-
tanned.
WASHINGTON PARKS, OF Philadelphia,
has created a sensation by marrying his
step-mother. Tho bride and groom are
each twenty-siX years OF age.
THE address Of Speaker Carlisle on tho
tariff question viii, it is undcrsto d, sooa
be sent TO the country.
CLARA Louise KrLLoGG arrived in New
York from England on the steamship Au-
rania on the 29lh.
GovERNOR IRELAND of Texas is said to
have about got his report on the Rasurcs
case in shape TO present to Secretary Bay
ard.
a RATHER sensational story comes from
Mexico through the New York Times of
the startling adventures Of Envoy Sedg-
wick i'm IT, company Of number CT Mex
lean tlooJr.