The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-06-29
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

OWING to press of Official duties Secre-
tary Bayard viii remain in Washington
during the summer season, but he intends
every Saturday to make a flying trip to
Wilmington to spend the Sabbath.
IT is said that Howard Russell and a
dozen of the more prominent English war
correspondents are engaged in writing
their memoirs.
On the 2Oth Emperor William teIe-
graphed to President CarnOt Of France,
thanking him for his message OF condo
leuce on the death of Emperor Frederick,
and expressing the hope that the good re-
latious now existing between France and
Germany may continue.
THE announcement is made that DIR.
Leuthold has been appointed chief ply
siCian to the Emperor Of Germany. DR..
Leuthold was one Of the late Emperor
williams physicians
IT is announced that john ID llO 1, VIII
was taken to Dundalk Jail, on the 10Th, as
been sent to the infirmary connected W ltn
the Jail.
AT nine O'Clock on the night Of the 21st
General Sheridau's physicians issued the
following bulletin; General Sheridan has
had "a good night and a comfortable day.
His circulation and respiration are inn
proving. His appetite is good, and he is
able to take an increased amount of
nourishment His sleep is quiet and
restful. He is gaining in muscular
strength.
on the goth the remains Of Beethoven
were exhumed and placed in a new coffin.
They were conveyed through the prin-
oipul streets of Vienna on the 22d, and
inferred in Central Cemetery. The grave
is marked by handsome obelisk, on
which is inscribed simply the name
Beethoven.
AFTER being in session eight days, the
Democrats of the Savannah (Ga.) district
nominated Rufus f. Lester, mayor Of
Savannah, for Representative in Congress
from the First Congressional district of
Georgia, on the 2lst
THE cable announces that dispatches
received in London on the 2lst, from St
Paul Loanda, state that several deSerters
from Henry NJ Stanley's expedition, who
had arrived at the camp of Yumbunga,
reported that Stanley, after traversing
the country of the Upper Aruwhtmi,
reached rough mountainous country,
where he had continuous fights with the
natives. Tho deserters also state that he
was wounded by an arrow, and that he
lost a large number OF hIs men. Many OF
his people, they say are i'll, including the
Europeans of the party. When the de-
serters left Che explorer, Stanley was en-
camped in the mountains and surrounded
by bands of hostile natives.
On the 22d Hon. c. NJ. Saltsgaber, OF
NUnWGFE county, Oss was lNAuAAotNN A'i
Congress by the Sixth district Demo
cratic convention on the twelfth ballot
Til, district is now represented by Hon
Nj. NJ. Boothman, Republican, of Will
iams County.
HERR SMoLKA, President OF the Austri-
an delegation, has been thanked by Prince
Bismarck, by telegraph, for his speech OF
coincidence to that body on the death Of
Emperor Frederick,
Iris reported that DR.. W. A. Leonard
pastor of st. Johns Church, Washington,
has refused the position Of Assistant
Bishop Of the Episcopal Church in Ohio
to which he was recently elected.
I rEUrENANT- COLONEL JOHN J. Cop
PIraER, Eighteenth Infantry, son-in-
law. Of James G. Blaine, has been detailed
as superintendent of the general recruit.
Ing service, with headquarters in New
Y,rk City, for two years, beginning Octo
be, I next. He is at present stationed a
Fl Gibson, ]. T.
rriasaid that Miss Eudicott has quiet
lv 4cGdiesced in her parents opposition
70 aer marrying Joseph Chamberlain, an,
tho engagement is therefore of"
. stE eft-hauded pitcher Of the San Fran
cisco Base ball Club, knell, has signed
cor -ract TO play with the Pittsburg hs, an
sta tea East on the 22d. He goes highl
re- lmmended as a pitcher, batsman an
ba a-runner-
Cv The pod Editor O'Brien's libel sui
Tor 20 600 damages against the Glasgow
Herald was settled, by the Herald publish
ING au apology and paying the plalnuf
thC aum of S0Q0s