The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-07-27
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


1T As reported that Sister Il try Frances
Glare, better known as "The Nun OF Ken
mare" has reuounced Catholicism.
THE SENATE, by vote Of % to 21, pass
ed the bill placing JOAN c. Fremont
on the retired list OF the army as Major
General. Five Democratic Senators
Butler. Call, Gray, Gibson and Hearst
voted for the bill.
On the ISth r. A. Mod onald, indicted
for perjury in connection with his suit
against the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Day
ton railroad, appeared before Judge
SHREDDER, of Cincinnati, md gave bond in
The sum OF $500, with w. b. Smith and
Albert Netter as sureties.
THE National Republican Committee
have selected the four-story brick house
at No. 81 Fifth avenue, New York, as head
quarters. They will IN I'VE in as soon as
tho building CON be got ready.
AN absolute divorce has been granted
20 Fanny l. Davenport, the actress.
ON the l7jh General Boulanger was
Teverish, but improved la'or.
r. is said that negotiations are in prog
ress with view to the betrothal of the
Prince of Naples, the only son of the
King and Queen % Italy, to Princess
Clementine, the youngest OF the three
daughters OF tho King and Queen Of Bel
giuin. The Priuco Of Naples will not be
will be sixteen on the 3)th.
THE second son o, tho Car, the Grand
Duke Georre of Russia, Is about to enter
the Imperial navy. H. was seventeen
last May, aud is "a very bright clever lad.
OK the 18th the German squadron es-
cortiug tho Emperor passed the island OF
Dagoe at G.3) a.. III.
THE celebrations OF the rev Olution al
GreuOble, in the Department of Isere,
at 70 ,f1 Ia Tnrs. / 1,r,
REPREs ENTArDE COLLINS, of Massachu-
sets, is reported as saying that he posi-
lively will not accept u CongresstOa al
reuom nation.
The Pope states that he does not intend
TO leave II ne, and Expresses regret that
his last nota to tn" irish clergy in regard
20 the political stu tiou sh buIl have been
misiuterpretod.
On the 18th the Garmlu yacht Hohen-
Eolleru, with Emperor William aboard,
entered the RoRIS az Crons,aIt Russia,
amid vollcys OF saul; - from war-ships
and forts. The UolSJz ,ll,ru Was re-
Ceived by the Bu sian yacht Dierava, on
board ot which was the Car.
TIRE President has app owed the Agri-
cultural va Dist,ict o. Columbia APP
preparation bills.
GENERAL ANNENKOFF, the constructor
of the Trans-Cas lial railway, has re-
Alexan ter N.vSt-, ia rhcog lition Of his
services In building th, line.
1T was reported ON the 18Th thOt Geo. II
StRynor AMI Henry s. Ives, tho fugitive
New Nork hua1cierS were guests" al
the Clifton House, Ma ,Nrl Fails, OIt
They declined To see any one.
THE Senate has confirmed o &C ar f. Rea,
TO be register OF tn, laud office at Bis
marck, Oak, AID Thomts Parker to be
Vostyaastpr at Albion Y Y
1T is said that Cololel Lamnut's late
visit to McGrawvi'l le, n. y, was To verify
a report that important papers relating
to the cleveland ctnptgl o. 1881 aud
the Hill campaigl of 1885, hal been stolen
from his house. He found the report to
be true, and employed a number Of de-
tectives to search for the missing papers.
TINS Berlin NOrihHuSeH GGsette has been
conf seated on account OF its answer to
articles referring 70 Dawager Empress
Victoria which had appeared in French
papers. The editor will be prosecuted.
The Earl Of Erne, England, has been
chosen grand master Of Orangemeu
thrCughou- the worll.
GEoRGE w. HAzELTTNE, OF jamestown,
n. ", who was serving an eight-year
sentence for the killing OF Mamie Thorpe,
o. Long Island, Ia Baltimore, July 10,
1884, hss been parjoneI by Governor
Jackson OF Maryland.
On the 18th Sister Mary Frances Clare
Cusack, bett'r known rs the ''Nun Of
Kenmare," denied that she has left the
Catholic church. and demanded the name
OF the person who started the report
which, rhc says, is false.
ON the goth the II use committee on
agriculture failed TO reach vote on any
OF the food adu'tovauon bills before il,
On the 20 IA General Thomas L. Young
died dropSy, at Cincinnati.
On the night Of the 10Th John :. Mars,
another of the mso implicated in the
alleged frauds in connection with the
contracts for teas and other articles in
the Brooklyn navy yard, was arrested,
md is said to have made rather an inn
portant statement
WHILE out boating with the son OF her
landIadv, unknown TO her husband. on
the Iaih. Mrs. p. !. Tullv, "a young mar
ried woman. was carried over the Ameri-
can falls at Niagara and lost
REv. FATHER GELLIGAN was released
from the Limerick Uveland) Jail, on the
29tb. Where he had been Imprisoned under
the Crime act On leaving the jail,
Father GeIngau made brie. address "a
the crowd that had assembled 70 witness
his rci a-e.
Tpr nomination OF Mr.. Melville W
Full. of Illinois, 10 be Chieg-JuStico OF
fha Tit States Slpr"m- Court was
,.uui.me 10y tnr Sruole, on the 9Oth. The
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