The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1888-01-13
IN BRIEF.
Compiled rOm vAriOus sSurOaa.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.


titions indorsing the Interstate COmmerce
law, tavoring the Reagan scheme 10 restrict
immigration, and fayoring Government owner
ship Of telegraph lines. number OF miscel-
lHneous bills were introduced. Senator's Sher-
man and Voorh es discussed in lengthy
speeches the tariG question and the Presi-
aents message. the House Mr..
Mills announced that the Speaker
would not yet announce the commit
tees, and requested that the introduction OF
bills be permitted, and large number OF mis-
eellaneous character was introduced among
them one by Mr. Springer, of Illinois, for the
organization OF the Territory OF Oklahoma
There were q02 public bills introduced, many
OF them very important.
Tx the Senate, on the 9th. Mr.. Dawes report
ed bills providing for the compul sorry education
OF Indian children, ana relating to marriage be-
tween white men and Indian women. Among
the bills introduced Nere one by Mr.. Hoar,
providing for a worlds exposition at washing
ton in 1892; by Mr. Dawes, TO establish a postal
telegraph; by EIr. Plat, for the formation and
admission into the Union OF the State OF North
Dakota. Mr.. Mitchell called up tho joint resO-
luton for the appointment OF a commission TO
select a site for a naval station on the Pacific
coast which, after discussion, was referred.
The Blair Educational bill was then
taken up, and after a srecch by Senator Rea-
gan opposing it, the Senate adjourned until the
9th In tho House, Mr.. Taylor, OF ohio, in
troduced a bill 20 restore the rate OF duty on
imported wOols Mr.. Stone OF Missouri, Of
fered a resolution directing the committe on
judiciary TO investigate the facts touching the
Imprisonment OF the judges OF the County
Court Of st. Clair County Mo. The Speaker
announced the standing committees and an Rd-
tournment was taken 10 the 9th
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
OK the 81 the President issued a procla.
nation warning al persons from dispos-
ing Of CT purchasing any OF the lands
claimed by The State Of Texas.
IN few davs Representative Towns
hend, Of Illinois, will introIuce in Con-
gress a joint resolution to amend the
Constitution OF the Unitsd States so as to
provide for the election OF Senators by
votes OF the people Of the States.
AT the Lyceum Theater, London, on the
evening Of the Sd, Miss Mary Anderson
made her one hundredth appearance in
"a Winters Tale" and was welcomed by
?. large and brilliant audience with the ut
most enthusiasm.
THE first white resident of Dakota
Proteau, has been found frozsn to death
near Fort Bennett. He was ninety three
years old, and since a small child had
lived with the Indians. He was trapper
and scout well known along the Missouri
slope, many Of the early settlers of Da-
kOta and Montana owning their lives TO
his kindness.
PRESIDENT CARNoT, so says a Constan-
tinople story, has ssured Germany that
so long as he is at the head of affairs
France shall adopt no warlike policy.
The pastor of the Congregational
Church at Ann Arboy, Mich, Or. VIM. h.
Ryder, has been called to the associate
professorship of Sacred Literature in the
Andover Theological seminary, Andover,
Mass. DR.. Ryder is as yet undecided
whether he shall except the position.
GOVERNOR SAwYER's commission, ap-
pointed to investigate the mental condi-
tion of Richard Woodham and Hannah
Woodham, his wife, who have been con-
fined in the Asylum for the Insane at
Concord, n. H., thirteen years this month,
have decided that they should be re-
leased.
AS Chaplain of the Thirteenth regiment
of Brooklyn, Rev. DIR. Talmage has been
choosen TO succeed Henry Ward Beecher,
OK the 4th the President transmitted
20 both houses of Congress the draft OF q
bill to authorize the Secretary of the In
terror TO fix the amount of compensation
to be paid for railroads through Indian
reservations in cases where such rights
are provided for by treaty or act of Con
gress.
On the 4th Governor Larrabee of lows
prepared and signed the death warrant Of
Henry Schmidt, of Fayette County, fixing
the day of execution on January 13, and
transmitted the document to the sheriff OF
the county. The hanging will take place
at West Union.
ON the 4th Speaker Carlisle expected
to be able to announce the House commit
tees, but owing to the necessity of seeing
certain members who he proposed to re-
assign to other committees, he was com
peeled to abandon his in teution. 1t was
Thought that the list would be finished
aud announced in the House on the 9TH
THE general Investigator Of the knights
Of Labor, Mrs. Leonora NJ. Barry, ha
issued n circular letter to the female mem
bnrs of the order wherever found. i
deals with the subject of the condition o.
workingwomen and girls, and strongly
advocates the expenditure of money fol
education instead OF strikes.
The late cashier of the Fidelity Bank o.
Cincinnati, Ammi Baldwin, is dead.
On the 9th Speaker Carlisle presented
the names of the standing committees o
the House of Representatives.
ON the 9th the Pope took farewell of tn
pilgrams at Rome. There were shouts 70
tho "Pope- King"
PRINCES Massino, Dudenago aud Mala
tesla who, although belonging to tn,
army, attended the POpe's reception, Ruc
VIII bs censured by the Italian Govern
ment.
ON the night of the 9th the first of tn
annual series Of the Presidents state din
ners was given at the White House to tn
members OF the Cabinet Inc pubic pat
lors were handsomely decorated.
OK the 9th Sherburne q. Hopkins, tn
newspaper reporter who some weeks ag
sent sham informal machine TO Chief
Justice Waite at Washington, for the pun
pose of creating a sensation and sellin
the news, pleaded guilty in the polio
court 20 the charge OF attempting 70 oh
tain money by false pretenses, and wa
dned 500,
OK the 5th the preparatory steps {
what promises to be long and interest
ing contest over the viii of Mrs. Cornell
A. Stewart, widow of A. H. Stewart, {
New York, was taken before the Sure
gate IN the presence Of a notable array {
lawyers, who have been engaged to tax
part in the controversy.
IT has been decided by ex-Empres
Eugenie that the ceremony Of the remOva
II the remains of Napoleon III. and tn
Prince Imperial e-nm Chiselhurst to Farm
borough shall taVei place on the 9th. b
private request of the ex- Empress non
of the members OF the royal family wi
DO present, but the Queen will sen
wreatbs to be placed on the collins.
On the 9Th, in the primaries held
New Orleans the official count shows ths
Sixty five Nichols delegates were cleo
ed and thirty-nine McEnery delegates.
On the 9th Daniel Manning's will We
admitted 10 probate at Albany, N. Y, b
Surrogate Woods IL was made July
1856, when Dir. Manning was in Alban
attending the bi-centennial celebration
hat city, and bequeaths all his propert
60 his family.
ON the evening OF the 5'h, Harry Hal
a Hfa-convict at the Nebraska State Pei
itentiary, escaped from that institutio
and Is supposed to have taken the Mi
souri, Profile trainlsouth. He is describe
- a man five feet four and One-half inch'
tall, light hair, about thirty years old an
weighs 160 pounds.
AT &ogales, Ariz.. information Of a
killing Of Bernal, the famous Mexica