The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1888-01-27
IN BRIEF.
Compiled rrom Various Sources.
cnNaREssInNlI. lI.IRncEEnTNGs.

CoNGREssToNAT. ROCEEDNGs.
IN the Senate, on the 18th, after the intro
duction OF few bills q minor importance, Mr..
RlT ebcrger moved an executive session. The
motion was egrccd 20 ana during the
secret session the nominations OF Mcssrs.
Lamar. Villas and Dickinson were con-
firmed ..... In the House the report
the Grusvenor rcsclut on in regard to de-
lays in the Government printing ONCE created
considerable discussion, and It was recon-
mitted 10 the committee. The States were
sailed AMI large number OF bills we're intro
duccd. A rcso .ution assigning clerks to all
the committees Of the House was passed
IN the Senate on the 18th. bills relating to
permissible printing or writing on second, third
OF fourth-ciass mail matter granting certain
lands in Colorado for water reservoirs; author
izing the construction OF To lroad bridge
across the Ouachita river in Arkansas, and re-
lRtug 10 marriages between White men and In
dian women, were passed. The Blair bill was
also discussed. The Presidents message on
the Pacific railroad reports was re-
ceived and laid over. In the House Samuel
=, Cox, OF New York, was elected speaker pro
tenn. during the Illness OF Speaker Carlisle.
Nearly the entire day was taken up with fili-
clustering tactics on the part OF the opponents
of the bill providing for the Issue OF circulating
notes TO National banks. and an adIourumc Mt
was taken before any thing was done.
IN the Senat-, on the 18th, the bill for refund
ing the direct tax OF 1864 was passed. after
numerous amendments were defeated, by
vote OF Is 10 10 ..... In Tho House Mr.. stone, OF
Missouri, from the comInittce on public lands,
reported a resolution calling upon the
Secretary OF the Interior for information
as 20 What legislation ia necessary for
the disposal OF the public timber lands
so as 10 secure at the same time the pre-
scryatiOu OF the natural forest lands at
the headwatcrs Of navig1blo streams and put
within reach Of settlers a. legal means OF pro-
viding themselves w IA timber for building
purposes. The bill making appropriation TO
carry into effect The provisions OF the Ayri-
cultural Experiment Stat. ous act was passe Z.
IN the Senate on the 18Th, Senator IIoar in
troduced a bill providing for a service pension
% an survivors of The Uuionurmics in the late
war. Most OF day was spent in executive
session, considering the calendar OF treatrs....
Tho House accepted the invitation to par
ticipate in the Melbourne Exposition. Portraits
or Theodore Sc 'gwicl,. Jos. B. Narnum and MAJ
thaniel p. Banks, ctZens Of Massachusetts,
who have Il led tlc Speakers chair. were pre-
sented TO the House Tho wilkins Bank Bill
was nlibustered out
TIE Senate was not in session on the Goth 90.
In the House Mr.. Springer, OF Illinois, ex-
planned certain charges made against him by
Mr. Kelley Of Pennsylvania. relative to the
appropriation for the l'hilHdelphia centennial
celebration Tho report Of the elections com
mittce on the ThoCbc-Curlisle contest was then
taken up ana carried over, a quorum not voting
on the adoption oi the report
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
On the night of the l7th Senator and
Mrs. Stanford save = dinner at Washing
ton, in honor OF Mrs. Grant, wife of the
late President Among those present
were Senator Jones, of n -vada; Nine
Romero. Gene, al Beale, Admiral Porter
General Rucker and Senator Sta wart.
on behalf of himself and Mrs. Cleve.
land, the President ha accepted ex-Gov-
ernor Corn 4 = invitation TO attend tn,
twelfth annual commencement of Cornell
University, at IthicO, N. Y, next June
conditioned uron the possible emergen
cies of official duties at that time
THE accident to Mrs. John A. Logan, says
the New York Trio me, by which she was
thrown from a carriage, ha, left lasting
results. Her friends are informed by let
ters that she has severe pain almost con
stantly in the injured should ar. Mrs
Logan is sad TO have grown Old rapidly
since the Generals death, and to hav,
lost much Of her old stims vivacity and
energy.
TuE resignation of DIr. Frederick Eli
son, of Indiana, as United States COnsu
at st. Helena, has been received by tn
Secretary of State.
IT is said that Grandma" Garfield /
gradually sinking and it is thought tina
she will not 1--we more than few day
longer. Mrs. j. A. Garfield, Miss Molli
Garfield and ono of the boys are i
Europe "Grandma" Garfield is at Mer
tor at the old homestead, and is attende
ly hor daughter, Mrs. Trobridge.
ON tho II IN Jacob Sharpe swore that II
expects to die soon, and that he wants t
settle up all his earthly affairs withou
delay, in order that he may die in peac
The suit i'm WI ch he ma le this melan
oholy affidavit is one brought agains
him tC recover an unpaid hill for VIII
fence.
ON the 10Th Balfour was hooted an
called a lar by the populace of Dublin.
OK the 18th Representative Belmon
chairman OF the House committee on for
eign affairs, said that he did not believ
fish would be put ON the free list in an
tariff Ii 90 be introduced at tho preseI
session Of Congress, and that certainl
any proposition to admit fish free, or
reduce the duty upon it, would be unfavo
ably regarded by the foreign affairs con
mittee.
on tho 18th a number of gentiemel
hsaded hy Senator Beck and Represen
alive Butterworth, called on the Pres
dent TO invite him to open the Ceutennii
Exposition of the Ohio Valley at Cincjn
matt next summon. Mr.. GOodale, q
president Of the Cincinnati Chamber
Commevce presented the matter, and
rcoply the President said that he would s
unless public duties which he could n
neglect should prevent.
THE prefect OF police at st. Petersbur.
General Gresse:, states that the police a
convinced that thore has been no orga
lied plot against the Cars life recently
But no police in the world, he SAYS, ca
prevent attempts OF individual despe
ADDE'S to kill the Gar.
THE newly-appoinsed Minister TO Mex
O., General Bragg, is in daily consult
tion with the principal officers OF q
State Department in references to
duties. There are new pending a lar
number of diplomatic questions betwee
the United States aud Mexico. which +
Qu.re careful treatment. Among the
is the demand recently renewed by Sc
rttary Bavard that Mexico must renoun
the claim to extra territorial jurisdic tic
which is mads in the Cutting and 9th
cases.
ASSISTANT SECBETARY MULDRow h
been relieved by Secretary Villas Of G
care of land decisions. Mr.. Villas b
tRkon this class Of work under his ov
sIipcrvis sion.
IN Russia Lord Randolph Churchill
being lionized by the royalty, the nobili
and the oristocracv.
IN the Kentucky Legislature a bill h
been introduced practically prohibith
marriage with any man whose morals a
not Of the purest.
DoN CARLOS saws he wants Spain to I
come great nation, and says he is wi
ing to fight to make her such.
OK the 20sh Lieutenant Tnies, Quart,
master Third infantry, died a. Fort Sha
Mont, of eryspelas, after an il ness
but a few davs. H. entered the service
private in 1864.
On the night OF the Goth John 2. Re
Command rim. Chief OF the &. A. 1
Adiutan;- Geueral Fish, of NJ nueapol
aud Q iartsrmas ter-Geueral John Tayl
Of Philadelphia, wtr5 rendered a rec
tjon by Lafayette Post, 6. A. r. in NJ
York.