The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-01-22
TOPICS OF TIE DAT,
News from Everywhere.
ruKsoNAL AND PoLrr1oAI..

had passed since he was bitten.
DEL CAMPO, the acting GILLIAN Minister,
who made things so uncomfortable for the
Washington authorities, has left the coun-
try. He sailed from New York on the 18th
on the steamer Colon for Valparaiso. It
was represented TO him by relatives in
Chill that he must defend his conduct to
the Chilian Government. 1t is said that he
will never return to Washington.
ADMIRAL PoRFER is seriously i'll at
Washington.
OK the 18th Emperor William opened the
Prussian Diet in person.
MICHAEL DAvrrr approves the PROPOSE
tioB TO buy out the Irish landlords.
president GHEvY has signed a decree
granting amnesty to French political con-
yIcts.
KING LUDWIG ofBavaria has forbidden
his Cabinet to Interfere with his exchequer
and they threaten to resign.
ON the 14th Senator Sherman was well
coined to Columbus, o., in an address on
behalf OF both branches Of the Legislature.
THE Cartagena revolutionists charge
that Senior Ruiz Gorilla concocted the plot
20 seize Fort St. Julian.
On the 14th an audience was given to
United States Minister Bell by the King
and Queen of the Netherlands.
QUEEN VICTORIA has ordered the pro-
duction of Gounod's oratorio, "Mors ct
Vita" at Royal Albert Hall, and viii at
tend the performance.
1T is stated that Gladstone and his col
leagues have been reconciled and that
advantage will be taken Of the first chance
60 overthrow the Conservative Govern
ment.
THE Chinese Ministe. has sent out invi-
tations for a german at Washington on
the night OF the 22d at Stewart Castle.
This is the first entertainment to which
ladies have been asked at the Chinese Lee
cation, and is correspondingly looked for
ward to with interest. Great things in the
way of favors are expected.
SECRETARY MANNING has decided the
long pending controversy in regard to the
material to be used in the construction of
the Government building at Pittsburgh,
Pa. by instructing the Supervising Archi-
tect to award the contract to the lowest
responsible bidder for furnishing granite.
on the 18th Zukertort won the third
game in the chess contest with Steinitz at
New York.
THE recent illness of the Princess OF
Wales is said to have been an attack of
diphtheria.
Mr.. WINSTON, Minister to Persia, sailed
from New York on the steamship Aurania
on the 10th.
THE Presidential succession bill was
passed by the National House of Repre-
sentatives on the 10Th precisely as it came
from the Senate.
GEO. MoCABE, who was reported dead
from poison intended for his wife in Da-
kota, has shown up in Chicago and threat
ened proceeding for libel.
ROBIN s. Co., of Halifax, N. S., the larg-
est firm Of fish merchants in the world, are
reported in financial trouble.
JUDGMENT for over 100000 has been OBJ
tanned by the Pullman Car Company
against Geo. Fowler, the Kansas City pork
packer.
ON the 18th John Magee, who tried to
blaolcmail the Prince OF Wales, was sem
fenced at London to seven years penal
servitude.
+ THE House of Representatives at Wash
ington refused to give a months salary TO
employees OF the last House who failed Of
selection in this, as has previously been
done.
THE military guard at General Grants
tomb at Riverside Park, N. ", was with
drawn on the 18th, and the tomb will here
after be guarded by park policemen.
LAIDLAw denies that he has made a
contract with Teemer to row in Australia
SIR HENRY DRUMMoND WOLFF, british
Commissioner to Egyyt, has been recalled.
PRINCE NIKITA OF Montenegro protests
against the Bulgarian union and wants
an extension of territory.
PARsoN BRIsToR, of New York, who
was charged by a servant girl, Ida
Downcs, with an as ssault on her, has been
suspended.
THE Pope, on receiving the French envoy
20 the Vatican, ON the 10th, complained OF
he conduct of the Erar,pb f3nvarnu1 nj to
ward the Church.
COLONEL MoRHIsoN's new tariff bill, in
stead of being framed on the horizontal
plan, will, il Is said, be confined to the re-
peal of few very grave tariff mistakes.
JOSEPH Cook, OF Boston, in an address
at New York on the 18th, said; 1--WE arc
the most drunken race on the planet and
the palm for red noses should be awarded
TO irish, Germans and Americans"
Mr.. MAsToN, Chairman Of the Commit
tee on Invalid Pensions, has been author
iEed to report his bill to increase the PEN
sions OF soldiers and dependant relatives OF
deceased soldiers and sailors.
EMPERoR WILLIAM held a reception on
the 10th, which was attended by hundreds
OF persons who had received honors and
decorations from his Majesty. A state BAN
quet, at which there were $40 guests, was
given in the evening, followed by a gala
opera performance.
JAMES w. MURRAY, ESQ, editor of the
Pittsburgh (Pa.) Legal Journal, and one
OF the brightest young lawyers at the Ale
gheny County bar, died in jail on the night
OF the 27th, of delirium tremens.
CAPTAIN HAYwooD Of the United States
Steamer Quinnebong, who only recently
Joined that vessel in the Mediterranean, is
dead.
MISS CLARA BARTON, President of the
American Association of Geneva, at
Washington, reports generous contribu'
tions from the local societies throughout
the country for the relief OF the suffering
sick and wounded soldiers in Bulgaria and
Servia.
POSTMASTER GENERAL Villas declines K
order Sunday mail delivery at Baltimore
Nd.
.PATTIsoN, late City Treasurer OF Indian
spolis, Ind, is short in his accounts over
S10O,O)O.
DR.. THOMAS w. KEENE, a member OF
the Virginia House OF Delegates. fell dead
on the floor of the House just after closing
speech on the 10th.
MISS KATE BAYARD, daughter of the
Secretary of State, died suddenly at her
home in Washington on the 10th. The event
viii seriously interfere with the social fes
tivities at the capital.
NJ DE FREVcINET, ia the French Cham.
Der Of Deputie, on the 18TH, said the colo
nial policy of the Governments would be
less adventuresome than that OF its prede.
cessOrs.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
A HALF-AuLLIoN- DOLLAR FIRE occurred a
Montreal, Can, on the 18th.
A BOILER exploded in the basement o
st. Mary's Catholic Church at Fort Wayne
Ind, on the 18th, killing the engineer and