The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-03-05
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
ssoNAL AND PoLTTIcAr.

city of Toxic for legation purposes and
recommending an appropriation of $25, 900
for the erection of a suitable building.
MISS FANNY MILLS, OF Ohio, who claims
the distinction of having the biggest feet
on record, has just had pair Of shoes and
a pair of slippers made for he; in New
York. Their size is thirty. The measure
ment around the ball Of each is twenty
two inches; instep, twenty two inches;
heel, twenty five inches; ankle, twenty
inches. The cost Of shoes and slippers was
seventy dollars.
THE first outline Of Mr.. Gladstone's Irish
proposals has been presented to his col
leagues in the Cabinet, and it is said that
the Premier goes the whole length of re-
storing the Irish parliament.
BARON DE RosEN, present Russian Con-
sul-General at New York, has been ap-
pointed Consul General to Sofia.
JUDGE JAMES L. MITCHELL, of Nebrask a,
dropped dead at Des Moines, Ia, on the
25th while addressing a convention of
early Iowa law-makers.
A BILLIARD match between H. McKenua,
of Detroit, Mich, and A. H. Morris, of San
Francisco, 5000 points, began at the latter
place on the 18th.
Mr.. HOWARD VINCENT, member of the
British Parliament for Shields, has been
offered the office of chief police commits
sioner of London.
THE Spanish Supreme Council OF War
has confirmed the sentence imposed on the
Duke of Seville for disrespectful language
against the Queen Regent.
GENERAL HAzEN, Chief Signal-Service
officer is now suing e Gorge Jones, proprie-
tor OF the New York Iiaes, to recover
500, 900 damages 1Ar all eyed libel. it being
charged that the newspaper published Ii
belous statements concerning the plain
tiff's character as a signal-service officer
and also concerning his connection with
the recent Arctic expedition.
EANAGBR ATKINSON of the Court Thea
ter at Liverpool has absconded. His liza
bilities are Ia-9e.
THE immediate release of Poundmaker
and the half-breed prisoners at Stoney
Mountain penitentiary is said to have been
decided upon by the Dominion authorities.
On the 2Gth the New York Senate passed
the bill ceding to the United States juris-
diction over the Drexel cottage at MI. Nc
Gregor, in which General Grant died.
On the Goth Tompl1ins A. Lewis, general
manager of the Erie fast freight lines, died
at indianapolis, Ind. He had but recently
returned from California, whittier he went
on a health seeking tour. He had been in
the railway business since 1859.
On the 26th Creole ladies OF New Or
leans gave an elegant reception to Ad-
miral Lacombe and officers of the French
feet at the art hall of the exposition. The
French Marine band furnished the music.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND gave the second
of his official receptions on the night of the
26th, the officers Of the army and navy be-
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corps, Judiciary and Congress were ex-
pected to meet them, but Congress did not
participate to any extent.
On the 2Sth Colonel Thomas J. Wilson,
well known journalist, died at Baltimore,
Nd.
ON the 27th Mr. Winston, United States
Minister to Persia, reached Constantine
pie, en- route to Teherau.
PLAIsTED, the oarsman, claims that he
and Ross win undoubtedly attempt to row
over Niagara rapids next summer.
THE President is said to be very much
overworked, and his friends are suggest
ing methods or relieving him of the heavy
strain.
THE Archduchess Maria of Tuscany was
married to the Archduke Carl Stephen,
brother Of the Queen Regent of Spain, at
Vienna on the 2Sth.
SPEAKER CARLISLE viii appoint COM
mittee of nine under the Hanback, resolu-
tion to investigate the Pan Electric Tele-
phone matter.
THE forthcoming billiard match between
Shaefer and Vignaux viii be played March
8 to IS at Cosmopolitan Hall, New York.
On the 27th a female x-days' type
setting match, two hours and twenty min
utes each day, closed at Boston. The final
score was: Miss Kennin, 1850 ems siiss
Davis, q $50; Miss Franers, p, ,40J; Miss
Hammond, Il, ,S25.
THE Secretary OF the Interior has re-
quested the Attorney General to institute
suits against parties for timber trespass
upon lands reserved for school purposes in
Washington Territory
CHARLOTTE SMITH testified before the
House committee on accounts on the 275h
that the House paid fifty cents dozen for
washing its towels, whereas the Treasury
Department gets the same work done for
fifty cents per hundred.
A FORCE of special detectives from Lon
don continue to guard the Prince of Wales
at Cannes, the reason for which is not re-
vealed.
PERCY WooD, the English sculptor, has
just completed a bronze statue of the In
Brantford, Ont.
THE Rothschilds have just foated Bra
lillian loan of So, 600, 900, bearing interest at
five per cent, at ninety Eve.
FRED. w. MARVIN, cashier of the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers Bank OF De-
troit, Mich, has resigned, by request, on
account of a social scandal in which he
was involved, which recently came to
light.
On the 9th a brother OF Congressman
Laird, of Nebraska, was found dead on
the railroad track near Albuquerque, NM,
having been run over by freight train
while under the influence of liquor.
MICHAEL DAvITT has great hopes from
MIR. Morley's efforts as Chief Secretary for
Ireland.
MARTIN VAN FLEET, the defaulting treas
urer of Huron County, O., has been held for
extradition by the Dominion Court at
Brantford, Ont, on the charge OF forging
and altering the county records.
l.. p. MALLORY, the son of respectable
and wealthy parents in Towanda, Pa, who
has been leading 4 rather fast life in the
West during the past ten months, has been
brought up with round turn by reason of
getting numerous checks and drafts
cashed at New Mexican and Colorado o
banks without having funds forthcoming
TO meet them.
PRINCE BISMARCK is said to 1e suffering
with sciatica, and will receive no callers
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
OK the 24th Abbott Lawrenca was dan
gerously shot by Geo. a. Wa-dne- a. Mil
waul1ee, Wis.
ON the 24th an explosion Of dynamite
occurred at the works of the Clinton Pow
der Company, two miles from Plaotsbtrg
N. Y. One building was demolished. VIII
liam P. Foss, superintendent, was injured.
and Walter Austin, seventeen years Of age,
was hurt, it is feared, fatally.
GEO. WINeATF az Thornton. Ind com