The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-01-15
VOL. XXI.
TOPICS OF THE DAY
News from Everywhere.
PwRsoNAL AND POLIrICAL.

seventy years. He was married to Miss
Cornelia Scott, a daughter of General Win
Geld Scott, and acted as Inspector General
on General Scott's staff, but retired from
active service after the Generals death in
1872. The wife of Colonel Scott died in
Baltimore recently.
On the 7th sensation was caused at
Cleveland, o., by the marriage Of Miss Ina
Norton, pretty blonde, to a coIored bar
Der.
GENERAL DECoURCEY reports that the
rebels in Anam destroyed the Catholic
mission houses at Ughean the latter part
of December and killed 500 Christians.
On the 7th David Gindin, a Polish jew,
attempted to throw himself from the
Brooklyn bridge, but was caught by the
heels and saved.
J. CLINsKILL, a merchant of Battleford,
N. w. T., has gone to Ottawa to impress
upon the authorities there the necessity
of taking proper precautions to prevent an
Indian uprising. He says the Indians are
enraged because of the execution of the
eight Indians in November, and are MAX
ing ali sorts of threats.
MEssRs. BATES, Holden and Smith, three
Cleveland capitalists, have leased 5000
acres of gas territory in Butler County,
Pa, and are negotiating 10000 acres more
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their intention to construct pipeline
eighty miles long, and convey the gas to
Cleveland as soon as the right to enter the
city is granted by the Councils.
THE new French Ministry is composed
as follows: NJ. DeFreycinet, President of
the Council and Minister OF Foreign At
fairs; NJ. Sarrien, Minister of the Inte-
rior; NJ. Sadi Carnot, Minister Of Finance;
M. Globlet, Minister of Public Instruction;
NJ. DeMole, Minister of Justice; NJ. De-
Velle, Minister of Agriculture; General
Boulanger, Minister of War; NJ. Auber,
Minister of the Marine and the Colonies;
M. Barbaut, Minister of Public Works; NJ.
Granet, Minister Of Posts and Telegraphs.
THE guard over Garfield's tomb is to be
withdrawn next June.
KEENE, the actor, is improving, and in
tended to leave Kansas City for New FORK
on the 11th.
THE Pope in a letter to Bismarck thanks
him for being selected as mediator in the
Carolines question.
JUDGE THURMAN has rendered his de-
cision in the arbitration between Ohio coal
miners and operators. 1t favors the
miners.
1T is said that bill for the reform of the
executive at Dublin Castle that viii re-
move the Earl of Carnarvon will be intro
duced by the British Government
JOHN SHERMAN has telegraphed his
thanks to the Republican members of tn e
Ohio Assembly for re -electing him Sena-
tor.
F. H. WINSTON, of Chicago, whose ap-
pointment as Brigadier g General of militia
recently caused some merriment, has re-
signed, and he won't "put that uniform
on"
SECRETARY WHITNEY has decided not to
reconvene the court-martial in the case of
Paymaster- General Smith of the Navy.
He win approve the findings of the court
and submit the case to the President for
his action.
JAMES r. KEENE, the ex-California mil :
lionaire, in giving testimony before ref
cree at New York on the Sth, stated that
he is absolutely without income, and is en-
gagged in no business, and that the money
necessary for his support he receives from
his wife.
THE President will give the first State
dinner of his administration on the even
ing of the 14th. His guests will be the
Cabinet and their wives, the General of the
Army and Mrs. Sheridan, the President of
the Senate and Mrs. Sherman, and. the
Speaker and Mrs. Carlisle, and the guests
sojourning at the White House during the
week.
THE Princess of Wales is seriously i'll at
Sandringham. The eminent surgeon, Sir
Oscar Clayton, is in attendance.
JOHN T. RAYMOND was attacked with
heart disease near the close of his per-
formauce of ''The Magistrate" at Easton,
Pa, on the evening of the Sth.
"JACKsON's DAY" was celebrated in
elaborate style by the Democrats OF New
York city by grand banquet at Delmon-
ico's to Governor Hill.
a.. Mrs. MARC ARET SERGEANT MEADE, wild
ow of Major General George S. Meade, u.
3. A, died at her residence in Philadel-
phia, Pa, on the 7th.
On the 9th Father John Dunn, one OF the
most distinguished priests in the Scranton
(Pa,) diocese, dropped dead from heart
disease, Immediately after celebrating
mass at the Plains. He was forty yfve
years Of age.
ON the 9th William Stevans, who muir
dered his afianced, Bertha Duclwitz, in
Detroit, Mich, December 4, 1885, was SEN
fenced to Imprisonment in the State Peni-
tentiary at Jackson for life.
LOUIS SUMMERFIELD, who murdered his
wife at Washington, D. c., about Christ
mas was sentenced on the 9th to be
hanged in June next.
QUEEN VICTORIA has signiied her in
tention Of opening the coming session Of
Parliament in person.
JOHN T. RAYMOND has entirely recov-
cred from his recent attack Of heart dis
ease.
FATHER KoLAsINsKI, the deposed Polish
priest at Detroit, Mich, has appealed to
the Pope against the action of Bishop
BOrghese
THE Duke of Edinburgh will assume
Al. =.
February. The Duchess of Edinburgh win
at the same time transfer her residence
cto Malta, where she win set up a mi mic
court.
- MARSHALL, The great steel manufacturer
of Sheffield, England, is preparing to re-
move his entire works to this country.
The concern employs 5000 workmen. A
number OF the most skilled hands viii ac-
company the firm, but tho most of the
workmen wm be hired in America.
A RUMoR comes from -Iutland, Ft., that
Mcneil, the defaulting President OF the
Lancaster tMass.) Bank, was murdered by
his accomplices in Vermont, and not al
lowed to escape to Canada. Boston detec-
uVes are at work on the case and are fol-
lowing up the murder theory.
ROMAN CATHOLICS throughout Germany
are subscribing to q fund for r birthday
of the Catholic party in the Reichstag.
Herr Windthorst will be seventy-three
years Of ago on the 18th inst.
SENATOR HARRTsoN viii report back IA
vorably from the Committee ON Territories
the bilf for the admission of Dakota.
OK the I0th "Fa1her" Jardine, the hero
Of the ST. Hary's Parish church scandal Of
Kansas C5ty, No. on whose case bishop
Robertson passed last reck, was found
dead in th study of Trinity Church at St.
Louis. Death was caused by chloroform
and indications point to suicide.