The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-08-30

THE Democratic State convention OF
New York viii be he Id at Syracuse on
September l.
The description Of the photomicro-
graph apparatus occupied the attention
of the MicrOscopists' convention, at Buffa-
10, N. Y, on the %. The working meet.
ing Of the society was held in the after
noon.
THE report that Princess Victoria OF
Wales is bethrothed to the hereditary
Prince of HOhenlOhe -Laudenburg is
denied by the Schwabische MercUr.
THE Nebraska Prohibitionists closed
their State convention in Lincoln, on the
22d, the session lasting two days. There
were about four hundred delegates in at
tendance.
COMMANDER NJ L. JOHNSON has been
ordered to command the MonOcacy, at
Yokohama. He will leave San Francisco
by the mail steamer on September 10.
LIEUTENANT 7. A. Lyons was, on the
22d, appointed a member of the Board Of
Inspection of Merchant Vessels at New
York.
JANUS F. WILBUR, perhaps the most
important witness in the Governments
suit against the Bell Telephone Com
pany, was found dead in his bed, in Dem
yer, Col, on the 22d. The death evidently
resulted from hard drinking.
THE United States steamer Dispatch,
with Secretary Tracy on board, sailed
from Boston for Newport on the % d.
Tw memorial brasses of the Washing
ton family have been stolen from the
parish church of Sulgrave, Northampton
shire, England.
PRESIDENT HARRISON attended the re-
union Of his regiment, the Seventieth
Indiana, at Tomlinson Hall in Indian
apolis, Ind, on the 23d. He entered
heartily into the spirit of the occasion,
and for the moment lost sight of the
dignity of Office and was one of the boys
The retiring mayor and thirty council
men of Madrid have been arrested,
charged with defrauding the city in the
sum of $40, 900 600 during the four years
of their 1ncumbency.
MANY Parnellite members of Parlia-
ment have arranged to attend a meeting
to be held in County Clare, Ireland, next
month, to protest against Mr.. Balfour's
recent denunciatiOn Of the priests OF
Glare.
OFFICIAL reports from COnstantinople
and from Athens agree that the situation
in Crete is improving.
HoAG's Touring mill, at Manchester,
Ia, was burned, on the 23d, together with
the electric light plant Loss, $4,000; no
insurance. The fire is supposed to have
been the work Of an incenGiary.
THE North German Gazette says; "Our
friendship for England forms the weight
lest security for the peace of Europe, aud
our chief policy is to strengthen the
friendship of England. For the two ma
tiOns. to estrange each other by public
manifestations IS to play into the hands
of their opponents abroad"
EMPEROR WILLIAM reviewed the garri-
son at Metz, on the % wearing the uni
form OF the Garde corps. The Empress
witnessed the parade from her carriage.
Both afterward inspected the cathedral.
They were everywhere greeted with the
greatest enthusiasm.
IT is authOritatively stated that Messrs.
GOoderham & Worts, of Toronto, Out.,
have sold their distillery in tn 1t city to
au English syndicate for 81, 900 900, This
distillery is the largest in Canada.
THE G. A. r. delegation from Florida
to the Milwaukee encampmeptl left Jack
3Onville, on the 23d, in a handsomely dec
grated Pullman car. A number of ladies
accompanied them.
THE London Standard denies the report
that Mr.. Parnell intends to visit America
during the recess of Parliament.
AN accommodation train on the Park
burg branch OF the Baltimore 6 Ohio
railroad colIided with q special carrying
officials OF the road, between Petroleum
and Silver Run, W. Va, on the 23l. killing
one engineer and both firemen, and seri-
ously injuring large number of others.
FURTHER important arrests Of Social
ist agitatOrs in Galicia were made on
the 23d.