The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-09-17

he reunion OF veterans OF Bu6 army OF
West Virginia at Portsmouth, o., attract
ed a large attendance. Addresses were
made on the 9th by Hon. Chas. Townsend,
of Athens, and Hon. VIM. Mckinley. In
the afternoon there was a parade of vet
Grams, in which General P. Fl. Sheridan
rode, wearing the uniform of his rank.
Ex-President Hayes rode in a carriage
with General Sheridan.
READING Pa, celebrated the one humid
red and third anniversary Of its incorpor-
alton as a borough on the 10th.
FRENCH reinfOrcements are being sent
to Madagascar on account of the unsstis-
factory condition of affairs there.
SHAW and Harrison, Pittsburgh police
officers charged with assault and kidnap-
ing, have been acquitted.
The work of renovation and reconstruc-
tion is actively progressing at Charleston,
and the city presents scene of great ac-
tivity.
The French are not invited to the in
auguratiou of Bartholdps Statue of Lib
erty because the President has no authOri-
| ty to properly entertain them.
TIE business failures occurring during
the seven days ended the 10th throughout
the country for the United States number
149, and for Canada %, or a total of 178, as
compared with a total of 100 for the pre-
/ ceding like period.
! HOFFMAN & Co., fancy dry goods i'm
porters, San Francisco, made an assign
ment on the 10th for the benefit of their
/ creditors. Their liabilities are about $780,
/ COO.
A COURIER arrived at New Laredo
/ Mex, on the 18th, from the frontier with a
report that FL Coyotes gang was sur
rounded by three detachments of troops,
one regiment OF artillery and two of in
fantry from the City of Mexico, and two
| cavalry regiments from San Luis Potosi
were expected to arrive in Saltillo within
a few days for service on the frontier.
THE MayflOwer won the second race of
the international series with the Galatea
on the II tn, thus deciding the contest for
this year.
THE body of a woman about twenty
eight years of age was discovered in a
trunk at the Union depot in Toledo, o., on
the 11th, and medical student for whom
| the trunk was checked was arrested.
Much excitement has resulted in En-
gland over the alleged ordnance frauds,
and an official inquiry is inevitable.
ONLY four of the defenders of Baltimore
at the battle of North Point in the war of
1912 survive, three of whom are ninety-one
and one ninety years of age. They
were given a dinner at the Hotel Rennert,
Baltimore, on the 18th.
LONDON shopkeepers say that they have
never done as large a business with Amer
leans as during the present season. The
1 American customs officials have discover
a ed the fact.
| JOHN WILLIAMS, of Omaha, Neb., has
sued Judge Hamer for $4,000 for manag-
ing his (Wnliams) defense in a murder
case in such a manner that the case was
lost and the defendant spent ten years in
the penitentiary.
PASSES issued to Chinese hereafter who
are merely passing through the country
are to be numbered, so that their holders
may the more readily be kept track of.
A GRAND TIE Deum was sung in all the
churches in Malta on the 18th in gratitude
for the preservation of the island from
the recent earthquake.
on has been struck at Manistee, Mich.
at depth of 1 ,92O feet.
CoNEY ISLAND was struck by heavy
southeast gale on the 18th, which did con-
siderable damage.
NEGOTIATIONS have been concluded fol-
the return from Massachusetts to Canada
of one hundred French families.
A TERRIBLE state of affairs is reported
in India, and the country is said to be or
the verge Of financial disaster.
REPOHTs received by the Farmers Re-
Uielv Indicate that the corn crop is well past
any serious danger of frost.
A CYCLONE passed from southwest tc
northeast through the edge of Burrsides
Conn, on the evening of the tn. Its
course, fortunately, was mostly through
woods, where it cut straight path an
eighth of a mile wide.
| SEVERAL cases of cholera have occurred
in Naples and Genoa. The total number
Of cases in Italy since the outbreak of the
disease up to the 18th was $4,000, and the
total number of deaths 14,O9J.
THE first snow of the season fell at Ish-
peming, Mich, on the 18th. 1t was not
very heavy and soon melted away.