The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-08-13
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources
PERsoNAL AND PoLITIcAI-

NIX AA0hAAnAiN SUI 'An9 ANoDAAbAUu
failed by "pocket veto"
THE British Parliament reassembled on
the 5th.
LORD LONDONDERRY and Sir Michael
Hicks Beach took the oath Of Office at Dub
lin on the 9th.
THE New York grand jury has post
poned inquiry into the charges against
Squire and Flynn until Mayor Grace gets
through with his investigation.
AT meeting Of the Liberal Unionists
in London it was agreed that the Radical
and Whig Unionists should work to-
gether.
AT a meeting Of the National League in
Dublin on the 9th a resolution was passed
suggesting an immediate revision Of the
judicial rent system.
TIE King Of Portugal, who is on a visit
TO Queen Victoria, arrived at Plymouth
on the 9th. He was received by the Duke
of Connaught.
RoLLIN r. GREGG, a well-knOwn ho-
mRopathic physician of Buffalo, n. Y, is
dead, aged hfty-seven years. He was
author of several medical treatises, and in
1885 was president Of the International
Hahnemannian Association.
IN a divorce case brought by n NOR
chant named Cookson at London, Rev.
Mr.. Finlayson was condemned to pay a
$500 fine
THE French Government has intimated
to the Vatican that France will maintain
her right Of exercising a protectorate
over French missions IN China, leaving
the Holy See responsible for the results of
the appointment of an apostolic delegation
in Pekin. The Pope eplied that he is ready
to undertake the re possibility.
THE decree of divorce in the Crawford
Dixie case at London has been made alb
solute.
SECRETARY LAMAR will soon start on
tour OF the Indian agencies.
on the 9th Miss Daisy Murdock, the tai
ented young actress, died OF consumption
ia New York.
On the 9th Rev. DR.. O'ReilIy, of Detroit,
Mich, cabled 1000 to the treasurer Of the
Irish parliamentary fund.
A RECENT dispute between two editors
at Buenos Ayres about the nationality of
Sarah Bernhardt resulted in a duel, in
which both were wounded.
ON the 9Th Hon. James B. McCrary was
renominated for Congress by the Demo-
Gratis in the Eighth Kentucky District.
ON the 9th a call was made on the new
Colonial secretary at London by the
British colonial delegates, headed by Sir
Charles Tupper, high commissioner for
Canada.
TIE police made a raid on a Socialist
rendezvous at Hamburg, Germany, on the
9th. A large number of important docu-
ments were captured and eight Socialists
were arrested.
VAN HooRBELE, appointed district at
torney of the Southern Illinois district
and unconfrmed by the Senate is to be
appointed again by the President.
A DECISION has been rendered at Chi
cago i'm favor of Mrs. Story in the will
contest which bequeathed to her the en-
tire estate OF the late Wilbur f. Story, in
Guiding the Chicago Times
IN letter to the London Times, Mat
thew Arnold says if American opini ons
were weighed instead of counted, the ball
ance would oppose Gladstone's Irish pol
icy.
QUEEN VICTORIA sent n beautiful laurel
wreath to Bayreuth to be placed on the
tomb of Abbe List.
COLONEL ROBERT ALLEN, Assistant
Quartermaster-Gener i'm the United
States army during the war of the rebel
lion, died on The 5th at Geneva, Switzer-
land.
Mrs. ELIZABETH KINNEE, of San Fran
cisco, was elected National president of
the Woman's Relief Corps. Mrs. Sarah
Nichols, Of New Y ork, was elected senior
vice. president.
At a convention held at Ocala and one
at Brookv'n'. IT, ... ~ DarrlN-tv and
Mr.. Davidson, % % .,i-..u, u.e.l.-e.-s, we.e
renominated for the iftieth Congress.
OK the 9th the President held quite a
Congressional reception. Fifty or sixty
Senators and Representatives called on
him, making a farewell call before leaving
Washington for the summer.
SURGEON GENEEAL MURRAY has been
placed on the retired list of the army, hav-
ing reached the age of sixty -four. Colonel
J. II. Baxter, Medical Surveyor of the
army, being the next medical officer in
rank, viii act as Surgeon General until
the President appoints a successor to Gem
eral Murray.
ON the 9Th the remains of Samuel J.
Tilden were consigned to the tomb at New
Lebanon, N. Y. The funeral was an un-
ostentatious one, notwithstanding many
National and other dignitaries were pres
ent, among them the President, Secretar-
les Whitney and Manning, and Governor
Hill.
ON the 7th Editor Cutting was sentenced
by the court at El Paso del Norte, Mexico,
to one year at hard labor on the public
works at chihuahua. and to pay fine of
$500; and failing in the latter, to be i'm =
prisoned an additional hundred days at
such hard labor may be further direct
ed.
THE Loyalisls of Ireland are distrustful
OF Lord alisbury, and have appointed a
committee to watch his course.
GENERAL FITz-JoHN PORTER has been
placed on the retired list of the army in
the grade of colonel, in accordance with
the recent act Of Congress.
CAPTAIN BAKER of the revenue cutter
Andy johnson, now at Ashland, Wis,
says he has Investigated The alleged rob-
berry of bodies of the wrecked steamer Al
gonna on Isle Royal, Lake Superior, and
found the report to be without founda-
tion.
Mr.. JOHN MORLEY IS mentioned as the
coming leader of the English Liberals in
place of Mr.. Gladstone, who has been ad-
vised by his physicians TO retire from act
i've political life.
The Prince of Wales has declined to ac-
cept testimonial service Of plate valued
at Sl2,5O0 from the commission Of the Col
0nial exhibition.
UNITED STATES MINISTER JACKSON, at
the City Of Mexico, has resigned, but Sec
rotary Bayard has not yet accepted the
resignation. This has no connection with
tho recen border troubles.
TnE Pope of Rome is reported danger
ousy in.
SECRETARY LAMAR Smphatically denies
certain reports that there exists a disa-
greement between him and General Black
OF the pension Office.
A LETTER has been written by the Pope
to President Grevy, hoping the good rela-
tions between France aud the Vatican
may continue.
Ar the recent closing performance of
Sara Bernhardt az Rio de Janeiro, at
which Theodore" was given, Sara was
recalled two hundred times, and finally