The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-05-10

Theater, Berlin, for the month of Octo-
Der.
Hon. WIN. H. BARNUM, chairman of the
/ National Democratic committee, died at
Lime Rock, near New Haven, Conn, on
the 3Oth.
AN examination of the pension rolls at
! Washington disclOses the fact that there
are S58 pensioners drawing pensions for
total blindness.
COUNT HERBERT BISMARCK gave dim
ner to the Samoan Commissioners and
the members Of the American and British
legations on the Sd.
POSTMASTER 3. S. JAMIsox Of Ash
bourne, Pa, shot and killed a burglar
who was trying to break into the posts
/ Office, on the 28th.
LA FRANCE says that the French Cow
ernment intends to postpone the general
election for members of the Chamber Of
Deputies until the spring of 1880.
THE report that the North German
! Lloyds steamer Weser had arrived at
| Bremen with yellow fever on board,
proves to have been entirely without
! foundation.
BENZ. LAW, a convict in the Jefferson
Vile Ind.) peniten tiary, has fallen heir
to $50, 900. He has almost ten years to
serve He has three relatives in the same
institution:
! CART Rosa, the famous opera-singer,
| died in London, on the 30th; of peritOnitis.
/ Mr.. Augustus Harrisi nanager Of Covent
! Garden, was summoned and was present
| when MIR. Rosa died.
KING MAIfEToA Of Samoa, who was
/ made prisoner by the German authorI-
/ ties, has apologized for the action which
| led to his arrest and the Emperor has de-
cided that he be liberated.
LORD LoxsDALE left San Francisco, on
! the 29th, for the East to meet Lady Ions
dale on her arrival from London. He will
stop at Victoria, British Columbia, one
day, and then go to Winnipeg.
DR.. HARKE, of Hamburg, Germany,
Lieutenant of the reserves, has been sem
/ fenced by military court TO three days.
| Imprisonment in a fortress for challeng-
/ ing DR.. Natthold, lawyer, to fight duel:
| CoMMANbER- IN CHIEF WARNER Of the
Grand Army of the Republic was ban
| quoted by the Department of Rhode
Island, on the ID, and several hundred OF
/ the most prominent men in the State were
! presented to him.
! Mrs. KINNEHER was expelled, recently,
| from the Presbyterian church at Rock
! ford, ILL.,, for worshipping a false Christ.
Mrs. Kinneher believes that Rev. S. J.
! Schweinforth, leader of the Beekmanites,
| is Christ.
| Mr.. BATES, Samoan Commissioner, and
! Lieutenant Parker were not permitted to
/ enter the exhibition opened by the EN-.
! peror of Germany, in Berlin, on the 3gth,
! because they wore froek coats instead of
! dress coats;
THE Swiss Government has issued an
order of expulsion from the country of
Herr Lutz, an accomplice of Herr
! Wohlgemuth, the MulhOuse police in
spector who was recently expelled for
brihing a Swiss.
DIR. CHARLTON, of Columbus, O., editor
of the Mason's Chronicle, the American
Odd-Fellow and the Knight of Pythias,
dropped dead, on the 1st, of heart dis
ease, from which he had been constant
sufferer for the past year,
News has been received that the brig
antine Addie Benson, which sailed from
Halifax; Il. S., for Cuba in January; and
had been given up as lost, was wrecked
off Venezuela, and her crew rescued by a
passing vessel and carried to Norway.
McSwINY's -four hundred" held their
/ centennial banquet at DelmOnicO's, New
/ York City, on the 3Jth. TOasts were re-
! spOnded to by Mayor Cleveland of Jersey
! City, Mayor Gleason of Long Island City,
| Bishop Farrell of Trenton and others.
CAPTAIN ALLAN, of Brooklyn, has re-
turned home from Canada, having failed
to obtain from the Dominion Government
any settlement of his claim for the illegal
Seizure and detention of his ship by the
collector Of customs at Shelburne in 1887:
Ex-PREsIDENr HAYES and the Ohio
| centennial commissioners and their ladies
were entertained at dinner, on the 1st, by
Mr.. and Mrs. CALDWELL of New York City,
| and a reception was held at which large
number of resident Ohioans were present.
THE Massachusetts House of Repre-
| sentatives, on the Sd, passed to be en-
i crossed the Senate bill providing that
safe deposit, loan and trust companies of
that State shall not invest in farm nicrt7
cages on land eutside Of New England
and New York.
THE fve-masted schooner Governor
Ames, the largest schooner afioat, sailed
from Portland, Me-, on the Both, having
on board !, 100000 feet Of spruce and pine
lumber, valued at $4,000 This is the
largest cargo, with perhaps, one excep-
ton, ever taken by schooner.
THE contest over the So, 600, 600 estate
the Hotchkiss gun, began at New Haven,
Conn, on the Sd. On e-half the enormous
amount involved hangs upon the ques-
ton of legal domicile, being claimed
severaliy by French and American heirs.
THE New York Bar Association ten
dered a reception, on the 1st, to the JUS
tices of the United States Supreme Court;
distinguished array Of legal celebrities
being present including ChiefIJ ustiee
Fuller and justices BlatchfOrd, Field and
Strong (reired), aud Ex-P President Cleve-
land.
THE jury in the Hawes murder case, at
Birmingham, Ala, on the Sd, returned a
verdict of guilty, and fixed the penalty at
death. Hawes was calm, and said he
was sure of conviction in that county
The Supreme Court viii probably, on APP
peal, grant change Of venue and new
trial.
Jos. SUTTON, aged fifty and Ans
drew Lawson, aged farty, While return
ing home to Vernon Center, Conn, from
/ MANCHESTER, on the night of the 29th,
drove from the road down a steep bank
and over into mill pond. Both men and
the horse we're drowned. Both men leave
families,
Mr.. r. T. REID, Q. c., is lecturing in
London on his plan for the better housing
of the poor He wants to give the County
Council the power to build dwellings for
100000 people in different parts Of Lon.
don, and to raise the money for the pur-
pose by tax Of one penny to the pound
/ on all rents.
On the 2Sth train on the Grand Trunk
railway was wrecked near Hamilton,
Ont, and score Of people were killed
and many we're wounded. The train was
filed with passengers from the North
| western States, and most Of them were
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