The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-02-05
VOL. XXI.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

In the Prussian Landtag on the 2Sth,
Prince Bismarck delivered a two hours
speech on the expulsion of the Poles from
Germany.
SIR MICHAEL HICKS BEACH announced
In the British House of Commons on the
2Sth the resignation of the ministry, and
the House adjourned until February 1.
SENATOR MALONE has startled Wash.
ington by appearing on the streets with
the finest turnout in the city. He has an
elegant carriage and a team of horses
which are reported TO have cost 81 900
each.
Ok the 28th a cablegram was reeeived an
nouncing the death OF United States Con-
sui Alfred NJ. Lybrook at Algiers on that
date, of consumption. Lvbcook's appoint
ment was confirmed just one week pre-
vious.
AN agrarian agitation is to be inaugu-
rated in Wales by Michael Davitt and
others.
UP to the 29th no definite agreement had
been reached by the Ohio Senate confer
ence committee.
On the 29th, NJ. Jansen. the American
recently expelled from Nor5erg, Germany,
returned to that town and was Immediate
Iy arrested.
= THE remains of Jaco1 W. Thoman, the
aGbOE4 WHO ulcu On blE sDbu ID LtlS II OttGSO
Home for Actors at Philadelphia, were
taken to Lancaster, Pa, on the 28th and
cremated.
QUEEN VICTORIA has accepted the resig-
nation Of the Salisbury cabinet, and on the
29th summoned Glad tone to Osborne for
conference.
PRINCE BISMARCK, referring to his srscent
speech in the Landt8g, said a c0EO de'etut
or the dissolution OF the Reichstag is not
intended.
ATTORNEY GENERAL. GARLAED mas re-
fused to give the Senate the papers con-
cerning an ALBANIA removal, and the issue
is thus joined.
A RECENT article in the Nineteenth Gen.
tury by Arnold Forster charges the Irish
with being a race of conspirators and ad-
vises frmness in the treatment of Ireland
ON the 29th Murat Halstead, editor of the
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, and Joseph
J. Mcdowell, business manager of the En-
Q1tjrer, were arrested on "A charge of pub
fishing lottery advertisements.
GENERAL J. B. Fry reiterates his state
ment that General Sherman had said that
''had c. F. Smith lived, Grant would have
disappeared to history after Donelson,"
and produces a letter containing the ex
preston.
A POLITICAL article in the Fortaightly
ReUiei0 advocates frank concert of the
Wings with the Natonalists, and in case
of failure of negotiations with Parnell
they should try to deal with the Home
Rulers through HeaIy.
THE Marquis OF SALISBURY has in
structed All niral Hay, the commander of
the Englisir Mediterranean squadron, to
employ fovc5 against the Greeks whenever
they attack the Turks.
IN the case of Paymaster- General J. A.
Smith, United States Navy, the sentence
of the court-martial having been con-
firmed by the President, was promulgated
on the 295h aad it is: "To be dismissed
from the DOS sition of chief of the bureau of
provisions md clothing in the department
of the navy; to be suspended from rank
and duty as a pay inspector, on furlough
pay for three years, and to retain his pres
emf number in his grade during that pc
riod
CoAfPTRoLIER DURHAM has just finished
an examina ion OF tde accounts of the
Court OF Commissioners Of Alabama
Claims for the five months from April to
August, 1881, inclusive. He has disallowed
of these accolpsS $22, $40, because the pay
ments were nos authorized by law.
SECRETARY MANNING on the 29th is sued
a call for Sl0,00100O three per cent. bonds,
to mature March next.
THE Democratic Senators, at caucus in
Washington on the 30th, agreed to support
the President in his issue with the Repub-
lican Senators on the question OF suspen-
sions OF federal ofice-h holders.
THE billiard match, 5000 points, for
5000 side, between Schaefer and Wig
naux al New or.;, which was played last
week, closed on the night OF the 305h with
VII ha a. "a
close staining: Schaefer, 5000; Vignaux,
2,s3s
MRS. LOUISA LEE BAyARD, wife of the
Secretary Of State, died at Washington on
the 31st.
OsMAN D.GHA is said Co be advancing on
Massowah with n large army.
ON the 33th the Ohio Senate adjourned
to the ID inst, without having come to any
settlement of the differences between the
two factions. Meanwhile the conference
committee were endeayoring to agree
upon a compromise.
JUDGE STALLo, United States Minister
TO Italy, is reported TO have said in re-
cent speech at tile German club at Rome,
that "he called himself an American Off
cially, but the more he saw of German civ
ilizatiou TIE more he felt that in compari-
son with il the Americans were barbar-
GUS"
MRS. Moo2E. Of Cincinnati, is credited
with having given the handsomest enter
tainment seen in Paris during the past
week. Many French guests were present,
ON the 10Th Postmaster General Villas,
who had been confined to his room for a
week with neuraigia, was reported as inn
proving.
THE House committee on agriculture has
under considera lion a number of bills in
tended to prevent the spread of pleuro-
pneumonia among domestic animals.
QUEEN REGENT CHRISTINA of Spain has
conferred the o. er of the Golden Fleece
upon Cardinal Jaeobini, in testimony OF
his services to Spain in adjusting the Car
olines dispute with Germany.
SOCIAL circles At Greensburg, Pa, are
consid erably agitated over the disappear
ance OF two society people Mrs. F. E,
Hill, the rich young wife Of a prominent
merchant, and J. Thornton Marchand, a
leading lawyer and son of Admiral Mar
chand.
RUMoas are current in Washington that
Secretaries Bayard and Lamar and Attor-
ney-General Garland want to resign.
FREDERIC HAElusoN. in lecture in Lon.
don on the Slst, pronounced Iandlordism &
crime against human nature and society
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
ON the Goth Jacob Lotzenbliser and his
wife and child, living near Wabash. Ind.
were poisoned with "Rough on Rats" tn
husband, IL was Thought, fatally.
HOLDEN DICK and Vicente Olives wer
Iynched at Susanville, Col, on the 27th.
= DISPATCH Of the 27th stated thai th
bark Sll-p4 ise, Of Boston, Captain Averih
A93 tons, from New York, had been tossIl-
wrecked at Madagascar. No details wer
given.