The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-04-05
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL
DEPOSITS Of gold have been discovered
n the province Of Oberschlin, Germany,
and samples of the ore have been for
warded to Berlin for the purpose Of OBJ
tanning a concession from the govern
meut to work the mines.
a LARGE number of eXcursiOnists were
lost on the steamer OcotOlan, fOundered
on Lake Chapala, near Guadalajara, Mex
leo, on the 26th. Fifty bodies have been
recovered, aud many more are known to
be still in the wreck. Efforts are being
made to raise the steamer, when it is ex-
pected additional bodies viii be secured.
On the 2Gth ex-President Cleveland and
party were entertained at dinner in Hav-
ana by Salamanca, the Captain General
Of Cuba.
JOHN SHERMAN and fam. will go to
Europe after the adjournment of the Sem
ate. The Senator goes abroad for rest
and recreation.
JUDGE Rowland, of the Marion County
Superior Court, has decided that Governor
Hovey of Indiana must issue commissions
to appointees of the Legislature. The
case goes to the Supreme Court.
THE total damage to property by the
Chinese riots in Ching Kiang-FOO is
placed at SOB 900.
THE Republican Senators held a caucus
Immediately after adjournment, on the
27th, and discussed the question of allow
ing clerks to all Senators, authorizing in
vesdgations during the recess, etc. No
action was taken.
IT is said that General Johnston, aged
eighty-two, is to be retained as Commits
siOner Of Railroads.
/ THE United States steamer Adams, re-
Gently returned from Samoa, has been
put out Of commission, and will undergo
/ thorough repairs at the Mare Island Navy
| Yard.
/ IN his eulogy on John Bright in the En-
/ fish House of Peers, on the 2Sth, Lord
| Salisbury said: ''He was the greatest
master Of English oratory of the present
| generation. He possessed a singular
rectitude OF character, and inspired his
/ followers to pure patriotism"
/ A LEGISLATIVE committee sent to inves-
tigate stories of cruel treatment of pa
/ tents in the insane asylum at Pontiac,
/ Micn., have already discovered that at
I least three patients have met painful
/ deaths as the result of cruel and violent
treatment at the hands of their attend
ants.
THE managers of the proposed banquet
TO Mr. Parnell emphatically deny that
they have the slightest intention of Civ
ing up the affair. They are still looking
for a hall large enough for the occasion.
r.
. land, where he had been to attend the fu-
uneraI Of his brother, on the 2Sth. Or
the 29th he pronounced the eulOgy on
. John Bright in the House of Commons.
SENECA N. TAYLOR, of st. Louis; Ste
phen White Of Los Angeles CAL; Geo. s.
Graham, Of Philadelphia, and S. F. White,
Of Duluth, Mimi, were admitted to prac-
tice in the Supreme Court Of the United
States on the 2Sth.
gNf TT.1s a.
Minister to Germany was rejected by the
Senate, on the 2sth. Mr.. Sherman, who
voted in the affirmative, changed his vote
TO the negative, so as to be in a position
to move 81 reconsideration.
GENERAL BOULANGER has been com
peeled to resort to the use of morphine t
de0dcn the pain caused by the reopeninl
of an old wound.
THE Cologne Gazette says that if tn
United States does not send a Minister tt
Germany until after the samoan confer
ence, the Minister and Ambassador who
represent the other two powers will out
"ank the American delegates, which viii
embarrass the couferreos.
THE second mission to Germany frOI
Morocco viii arrive in Berlin in May 70
the purpose Of buying machinery to sen
TO Morocco for the manufacture Of arms
A NUMBER Of French societies aud citi
brate in a fitting manner, on July 4. tn
centennial of the French Revolution
There Will be parade, banquet an
speeches.
LIEUTENANT HARVEY BATEMAN, of tn
United States infantry whose home is g
Fostoria, o., was found lying on the Be
Line railroad track two miles west O
Muncie, Ind, ON the 2Sth, with his hea
+ entirely severed from his body and bot
] 1aorz f11f off There are SuSr,fripus az F,Y
play.
GEORGE POWELL, alias G.. Barnet
Young who, attired in priestly garb, wa
l arrested at Toronto, Ont, charged wit
swindling jewelers. in Ottawa and Torou
TO out of watches and diamonds, and VIII
confessed many other such crimes, wa
. sent by police magistrate TO the King
ston peuitentiary for five years.
, ALEX. GRAVES, employed by jaime
Ferguson, near Terre Haute, Ind, wl
, sentenced to the peuitentiary for tw
years on the 2Sth, for stealing S400 fro
his employer. Graves was engaged TO I
I married to Ferguson's pretty daughter.
? IT is said in Washington that Presider
s / Harrison will probably send colort
A man as Consul-General TO the Hawaii'
p . Islands.
, THERE is a sensation at Ft. Wayne, Inc
q + caused by the marriage Of a man thirt,
% five years of age TO a school girl of fou
teen.
q HUNGARIANs near Wilkesbarr Pa, ha
. organized White Cap societies, and ha
begun TO regulate" those Of their ra
. who become obnoxious,
THE Indiana Scottish Rite Masol
. closed a very successful session at Il
n dianapohs on the 2Sth. Forty-four ca
didates received the Thirty second d
gree. They are from al sections Of {
State, and embrace q number Of we
"A known divines, judges, doctors and 9th
!. professional and business men.
I. THERE was great excitement at the n,
s, York Coffee Exchange, ON the Goth, aud
p, one time the situation verged on a pan
, Before noon, prices declined about ft
q. points. The murket was Unsettled owl
10 a decline Of two francs at Hayrs.