The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-07-09
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News from Everywhere.
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JUDGE DAVID DAVIS was buried at
Bloomington, Ill, on the 29th.
JAMES W. PORCH, Consult General to
Mexico, has sent a long report to the State
Department In regard TO the remarkable
growth of the silk industry in that coun-
try.
REPRESENTATIVE SowDEN, OF Penns VI
vania, presented to the President as a
wedding present fine steel horseshoe,
which was made by Mr.. John Schaadt, of
Allentown, and intrusted to Mr.. Sowden
for delivery. On one end of the shoe are
the initials sc. c." and on the other ST.
r. CO. In the center is the word "GluclE, j"
which in German means good luck.
MRS. s. B. CUSHING, OF Michigan, a
clerk in the POst-ofiice Department, has
been dismissed at her own request. She
was an efficient clerk, and when her re-
quest to be dismissed was refused she alb
sented herself from her desk until the de-
partment was forced to remove her.
THE special convention at Philadelphia
on the 10Th, for the purpose Of eIecting an
assistant Bishop of the Protestant Epis-
copal diocese Of Pennsylvania, chose Rev.
OIL William Whitaker, Of Nevada.
THE ceremony Of presenting the scarlet
beretta to Cardinal Gibbons occurred at
Baltimore, Nd, on the 3Oth.
IEQArE WILL W nlEELAWq N4B harvard
student who was injured in the recent
fight at the Miller House, Boston, on the
night Of June 10, is believed to be out OF
danger.
Representative DocKERY has received
a letter from J. T. Child, the new Minister
to Siam. Mr.. Child mails from Hong
Kong, and Doesn't express himself as If
he was sick Of the job, as has been report
ed. $50 far we have had a pleasant
trip" Mr.. Child writes; "the fastest on
vecord."
UP to June 80 President Cleveland had
vetoed sixty eight private pension bills.
A GRAND ball was given by Sir Spencer
st. John, British Minister to Mexico, on
the night Of the 30th. It was a brilliant
affair.
HONORARY degrees were conferred on the
3Oth on DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes and
John Bright by the Oxford (Eng1and)
University.
GENERAL JAMES A. BEAVER was nomi.
mated for Governor Of Pennsylvania or
the 3Oth by the Republican convention al
Harrisburg.
r. NJ. KELLEY, recently United States
pension agent at Louisville, KY, was ap-
parently sol 900 short with the Govern
ment, but has paid up.
CAN WIG ~"eAA 11@A 80 We a. MY UAAO "
the pall-bearers at the fun eral Of Mrs
Baker at Dover, N. H., sank down as he
was helping to carry out the casket and
died instantly of heart disease.
On the 30th the French Academy of Sci
ence admitted the first lady professor to
their body. She is Miss Sophie Kowlew-
ska, and is a professor of mathematics.
ON the Both the President sent the
nomination OF Hugh Smith Thompson. of
South Carolina, to the Senate, to be as
sistant Secret ary Of the Treasury, vice
William E. Smith, resigned.
In announcing the resignation Of Gener-
al Laussier, military governor Of Paris,
the RepUbliQ1te FrdRcdiSe takes occasion to
accuse General Boulanger, Minister of
War, of aspiring to a dictatorship.
On the Both President Cleveland sent to
the collectors office and paid his dog
license for the present year. This is the
first insta nee of a President Of the United
States buying dog tag in Washington.
SECRETARY LAMAR was present and rep
resented the Cabinet at the ceremony of
imposing the beretta upon Cardinl Glib
bons at Baltimore on the 30th. President
Cleveland sent by Rev. DIR. Chapelle, pas
tor OF st. Matthew's Church in Washing
ton, a personal letter congratulating the
Cardinal.
AMONG those who shook hands with the
President on the 30th was Lieutenant
Greely, the Arctic explorer, and he was
accompanied by his father -in-law. ~ was
here fifty-two years ago." said the latter
to the President, land shook hands with
General Jackson"
HENRY WARD BEEcHER is the latest So
cial "lion" in London. 1t is widely ru-
mored in Tory circles that he intends tc
make home rule one Of the chief subjects
of his lectures. Unlike Mr.. Spurgeon
whose sudden attack on home rule caused
such a surprise the other day, he viii take
strong Parnellite views of the Irish situa-
tion.
ON the the 3Oth the Lower House Of the
BRvRrian Parliament, by unanimous vote
gave 100000 fiorins to Prince Luitpold to
enable him to maintain a royal establish
ment consistent with his rank as Regent
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has signed the
Eitz- J ohm Porter bill.
Sw1NBURNE, the English poet, publishes
a vigorous Unionist campaign song.
T. SULLIVAN and w. Murphy, ParneIl-
ties; John Bright and Joseph Chamber
lain, Onionists, were reelected to the
British Parliament without opposition.
ON the 1st Frank H. Brown, prominent
grain merchant, was arrested at Boston
EXPERTS are busily engaged on the
books of the Chesapeake & Delaware
Canal Company to discover the extent oi
Treasurer Robinson's defalcation. The
usual woman appears IN the case.
In the case of Mrs. Roxanna Druse, who
was convicted of the murder Of her hus-
band in Herkimer County, N. Y, the gen.
eral term decision is adverse to her ap-
peal, and she will be sentenced to death.
ON the 1st Prof. Timothy Dwight was
inaugurated presiden of Yale college, tC
succeed DR.. Porter. The exercises were
held in the Centre Church.
on the 1st DIR. Amos N. Bellinger, who
killed Stephney Reilly, prominent col
ored Democrat, in Charleston, S. c., in
October, 1885, was acquitted of the charge
of murder after a second trial continuing
Shree days.
SECRETARY ENDIcoTT has designated
Major Richard S. Vickley, surgeon, as
surgeon in charge of the army and navy
hospital at Hot Springs. Ark. The hos
pital is now ready for patients. A naval
medical officer win be detailed for duty
there.
ACTING SECRETARY FAIRCHILD on the
ist sent TO the Senate a letter from the
Commissioners Of Fish and Fisheries, ask
ing for an appropriation of ,S27, 800 for fit
ting out the Albatross with a view of in
vestigating the fisheries Of the Pacific
coast.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
A SENSATION wss produced in Buffalo.
n. Y, on the 18th, by the publication of
sworn statements by eleven members of
the Court of Sessions grand jury, setting
forth that a lawyer named Charles r.
Whitcher had attempted to tampor with
them by letter and postal card concerning
a case in which he desired an indictment
found.