The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-03-08
NEWS AND NOTES.

NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
THE parcels-post convention between
the United States and Hawaii went into ef-
feet on the 1st.
THE jury in the case OF Governor Larra-
bee Of Iowa, charged with libel, returned
verdict Of not guilty.
PRESIDENT AND MRS CLEVELAND and
President-elect and Mrs. Harrison dined
together at the White House on the 27th.
WINDOWS on Pennsylvania avenue,
Washington, from which 70 view the inall-
gural procession, brought from $40 to $50.
THE engagement Of the Czarevitch to
Princess Alice is said to be a fact, but ii
viii not be officially promulgated until
May.
JAY GOULD and Russell Sage have re-
signed from the directory of the Inter-
national & Great Northern Railroad Com
pany.
THE London Times has ''no rears' for
the stability Of the United States owing
TO the acquisition Of the four proposed
new States.
THE Emperor Of Germany visited Count
Won MOltke on the evening of the 26th,
and played whist with the aged General
until late hour.
AN even hundred members Of the M,lss-
Rchusetts Tariff Reform League attended
the first monthly dinner Of the league at
Boston on the 2sth.
ABOUT 100 OF the prisoners in the Bos.
ton House Of Correction refused to 60 to
work on the 27th, and were locked up and
placed on short rations.
A BILL pending in the California Legis-
lature provides the death penalty for
train-robbers who cause loss of life in
the pursuit Of their nefarious calling.
ELEVEN young women were killed and
their bodies burned beyond recognition
in an explosion followed by fire in a squ1b
factory, at Plymouth, Pa, on the 18th.
FULLY 1000 coIored emigrants from
North and South Carolina and Virginia
passed through Birmingham, Ala, dur
ing the week ending March /, en- route
West
IN an interview in st, Petersburg, on
the 25th. Count Iswolski stated that an
agreement between the Vatican and Rus
sia in regard to Poland would be reached
shortly.
ONE THOUSAND masses for sfxpence is
the inducement offered to New York
Catholics for contributions-to the erection
of new church to st. Joseph, at High
gate, London.
Mr.. PARNELL was neglected chairman,
and Mr.. Justin Mccarthy vice. chair man
at the Parnellite meeting in London on
the 25th. The whips and secretaries were
also elected.
THE statutes of the Catholic University
to be erected at Washington, d. c., were
printed in Rome, on the 9th, prefaeed by
Papal brief in which a warm eulogy is
paid to America
Mr.. BLAINE has formally resigned his
position as q delegate to represent Maine
at the centennial OF the inauguration of
Washington, as President, to be held in
New York City in April.
DR.: 7. H. HAYS, graduate Of Balti-
more medical school, has been appointed
permanent medical officer of the Bangkok
lSiam) Hospital, which is under the i'm
mediate care Of the King.
The eight-year-ol son of w. L. Free
man, of Grand Rapids, Mich, while try
ing, on the 25th, to see how long he could
hold his breath, ruptured a blood-vessel
and died in a few minutes.
THE question of removing the capital OF
New Mexico from Santa Fe to some more
convenient and inviting town, situated
on the main line Of a railroad, is being
agitated all over the Territory.
GovERNoR Hu.1 of New York was pro-
Bented, on the 25th, with a handsome set
Of resolutions by the Albany Typograph-
ical Union for his assistance in securing
the State printing for Union printers.
LUKE EMERSON, the Missouri horse
dealer, who emptied his revolver into a
crowd In London q short time ago, hit
ting two men, was arraigned for the sec
ond time, on the 26th, and again re-
manded.
THE present House Of Representatives
expires by limitation on the 4th OF March.
The Senate, being continuous Indy, can
remain in session at viii, for the con-
firmahon OF appointments and osher ex-
ecutive business.
NINE persons were killed and a large
number seriously injured by the plunging
Of the St. Louis express through bridge
near St. George, Ont, on the 27th- The
accident was caused by the breaking Of q
locomotive tire.
THE widow Of VIM. L. Marcy, a merlber
OF President Polk's Cabinet and Se,'re-
tary Of State under President Pierca-~in
both of which positions he greatly disttn-
guished himself-died in Paris, on the
cath, aged eighty-six.
TWENTY persons in one neighborbood
in La Porte County, Ind, have been at
tackled with trichinosis, and most Of thum
will die. All are Germans, who, a& q
christening recently, ate pork which had
been improperly cooked.
Tue registry offices at Alexandria, Fgy pt
were burned, on the 2Sth, and the registOtl
Of assessment and taxation of the CHS
and other important records were Go
stroycd. IL is expected that much oonih
sion in finances will ensue.
NJ. CLEMENCEAU intends to present
bill in the French Chamber of Deputies &
render present deputies ineligible for re
election, in order to disabuse the publi
mind Of the idea that they retain thei
seats from personal motives.
PRoF. F. SrANHoPE ORRIs has beef
granted by the board Of trustees o.
Princeton (N. ~ University leave of alb
sence for one year to enable him to acoep
q call TO be resident directOrOf the Amer
lean Classical School at Athens.
RICHARD PIGorr committed suicide a
Madrid, on the evening of the lst. Oficer
were just on the point Of arresting him a
the Hotel des Ambassadeurss at the re
quest OF the Foreign Office in London. II