The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-02-12
VOL. MI.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.


but viii probably be begun on the Sth.
LIZZIE MAY ULdER, the actress, (''Dadls
GirID) while playing at Pittsburg, Pa,
on the night of the Sd, tainted and went
blind.
JOAN VICTOR Won UNRICH, the cele-
brated Prussian statesman, is dead.
On the 4th the seventh annual National
Sugar growers convent on met at st.
Louis, Mo. Hon Norman G.. Colman,
Commissioner of Agriculture, delivered
the annual address.
OK the 4th Lieutenant Commander r.
NJ. Curtis, U. S. N, died Of internal hem
orrhage at San Francisco.
PARNELL offers to find Morley constit
uency in Ireland in case of his defeat at
Newcastle.
Mr.. GLADSTONE has issued his address
to the voters of Midlothian, asking re-elec-
tion to Parliament.
NJ. GOBLET, French Minister of Public
Instruction, made a speech on the 4th in
favor of elementary secular education.
NJ. DE LEssEPs has invited the Chamber
of Commerce of New u ork to send a dele
gate to Panama to witness the 'inaugura-
tion Of the final period of work" on the
Isthmian canal.
ON the night of the 4th the territorial
normal school at Madison. Oak, one of the
finest brick structures in the Territory,
burned to the ground. Loss, S2O, 900; no
Insurance.
A WASHINGTON correspondent AYERS
that in December last Secretary Bayard
and Minister Soteldo Of Venezuela signed
treaty by which the Venezuelan Govern
ment agrees to pay American claims
amounting to several million dollars. The
treaty also adjusts the relations between
the two countries, and is soon to be sub
mitted to the Senate.
Mr.. J. CoLLINGs, whose amendment de-
feated the Salisbury ministry, has been
appointed secretary of the local govern
ment board under Gladstone.
DIR. ARMSTRONG was convicted by the
ecclesiastical court at Atlanta, Ga, of vio-
lation Of his ordination vow.
MICHAEL DAvTTT believes that Mr.. Glad
stone is the only English statesman that
has the courage 60 grapple with the Irish
problem and establish peace between En-
gland and Ireland.
On the 5th John Mcmahon, defaultng
ex-collector of revenue Of Hoboken, N. J.,
was sentenced to five years in State Prison.
SIR WIN. VERNON UARCoURT promises
the electors that he win support the new
Government in solving the Irish question
in a way that viii maintain the union and
THE President has pardoned George r.
Sims, who was convicted of participating
in a conspiracy to defraud the govern
ment in pension case, and was sentenced
TO five years imprisonment in the South
ern Illinois Penitcntiary.
On the 5th the New York Assembly
passed the bill to submit the question of
holding a constitutional convention to
popular vote.
On the afternoon of the 5th the Presi-
dent held a public reception. There was
very fair attendance, Notwithstanding the
cold weather over a hundred strangers
shook hands with the President, a good
portion of them being ladies.
PROF. G. d. MORRIS, Of John Hopkins
University, Baltimore, Md, is dead.
CONGREss is looked to for liberal appro-
priations for naval construction during the
present session.
FRIENDS of Mrs. Frances Hodgson Bur-
nett deny that she is or has been in an
asylum for insane.
A YOUNG man giving his name as Rogers
died at sea on She way TO America in the
ship City of Chester.
HENRY BRoADHURsT, a workingman, has
been made undor secretary for the English
Home Department.
ON the 9TH deputy marshals failed in a
search for George Q. Cannon in Salt Lake,
but they have not given up the chase, and
offer $500 reward for him.
UNFAvoRABLE stories are published at
Washington concerning the eccentricities
of Judge StaIlo minister to Italy.
THE London Economist strongly objects
to giving Harcourt the Chaucelorship of
the Exchequer saying it is hazardous
experiment.
THE following officials in Ireland have
been appointed under the Gladstone gov
ernment: John Naish, Lord Chancellor;
Samuel Walker, Attorney General; The
McDermott, Solicitor General.
ARCHBIsHoP GIBBONS of Baltimore has
received from the plenary council in Aus
tralia a circular letter of congratulation,
addressed to all archbishops and bishops
in America.
LIEUTEN ANT MAUs' official report of the
affair in Mexico in which Captain Craw-
ford was killed, confirms statements al
ready printed, showing that the Mexicans
made no mistake, but did just what they
intended to do.
THE Governor of Wisconsin has pardoned
two sisters, Mrs. Rebecca Merroot and
Mrs. Margaret NJ. Cooley, convicted of per-
jury nino months ago.
suspended Edwin Hudson, Superintendent
of Police, and appointed Arthur g. Moore
in his place.
THE win of George Lorillard bequeaths
the bulk of his property, estimated at
s. ,OOO, 900, to his wife
THE casket containing the remains Of
James a. Garfield has been placed in a
handsome bronze sarcophagus at Cleve-
land, and it has been Theoretically sealed.
POSTMASTER DALTON of the House of
Represeutativ es says the mails for mem
bers have been or late unusually heavy,
from 1900 to 1900 letters daily, an aver
age OF forty letters per member. Some
members get but a few letters, while 9TH
ers often got several hundred communica-
tions in day.
SENATOR LOGAN is said to have adopted
crest for his letter paper. A calumet
across an Indian war bonnet is the design
selected. Senator Ingalls, has an open
eve with the inscription underneath: "He
wins who is aware" Secretary Manning
is reported 90 have selected as his motto:
"An eagle does not catch flies"
"Tm Congressional Temperance Socie-
ty" was organized duriu- the administra-
tion Of John Quincy Adams and its vener-
able secretary, DIR. Picking, reports that
over seventy OF the Senators are teetotal-
ers, the list including Blair, Chase, Col
Quit, Conger. Dawes. Frye, Harrison,
Mcmillan, Teller. Vance and Wilson.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
HALF OF the village Of Dewitt, Neb.
was destroyed by fire on the 2d; loss,
$4,000
BY an explosion OF gas on the night Of
the lst the Sheridan fuEnsces at sheridan,
Pa, were burned. The boiler houses, stacks,
trestles, hoists, fourteen cars and engine
houses were burned, together with a large