The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-02-21
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

GOVERNOR HovEY of Indiana, on the
i1th, addressed the House committee on
invalid pensions in favor of the passage
Of seryice-pensiOn measure of some
kind, and Mr.. 5. 7. Holman addressed
the committee on behalf of the army
nurses, and requested the passage of
oill granting them pensions.
THE British Parliament convened on
ihe l1th.
A SHUTDOWN of the wrapping-paper
% over-production.
Mr.. HoAR introduced in the Senate,
IN the 11th, bill providing that ''In all
.he States of the Union, Representatives
10 Congress shall be elected in and for
;he districts now prescribed by law un-
Ill the apportionmento of Representatives
shall be made by Congress according to
The census to be taken in 1890, any law
Of such States hereafter to be passed to
the contrary Notwithstanding.
MOUNT Zoo, in the Bingo district of
Japan, began to rumble on January 16,
and the inhabitants of the nelghboring
villages rushed away from their homes
in great confusion. Soon the top of
the mountain was lifted off, sand and
stones being belched forth, some of
which fell at Midsunomimura, a village
six miles away. Only one man lost his
life, but fifty-five houses were de-
stroyed, and the total loss sustained is
estimated at 50, 5000 This is the first
recorded eruption of Mount Zoo.
THE Pequest Iron Works in Warren
County, n. j., resumed operations, on
ihe 18th, after total suspension of two
gears.
SWITZERLAND has instructed her rep
resentatives to invite other governments
to participate in the approaching labor
conference at Berne.
The latest decree of the provisional
government of Brazil establishes nine
national holidays. July is included in
the list, presumably by way of compli
ment to the United States. Other holi-
days are TO be November Is, the day the
monarchy was overthrown; September
{, the anniversary of Brazirs indepen-
dence of Portugal, and May 13, the day
that slavery was abolished.
THE Catholic Orphan Asylum on Fifth
avenue and Fifty-frst street, New York
City, was damaged by fire to the extent
Vi -OOsUuU Oll bnt 1Nbu. 4nC fOu IudAt
inmates of the asylum all got out in
safety.
THE Spanish Government has deter
mined to bring before the courts of just
ice the defrauders of the Cuban revenue
who escaped to America.
HERR GERHARDT RHoLFs, the African
traveller, has suggested that the Ger
man people subscribe fund of S125, 900
to enable Emin Pasha to extend the in
luence of Germany in Uganda and re-
gain the lost province.
ARIsrIDEs LoBo, Brazilian Minister
of the Interior, has withdrawn from the
Provisional Cabinet, and Cesaria Alvena
has been appointed to succeed him.
THOMAS KANE was hanged in the Jail
yard at Toronto, Ont, on the 18th, for
the murder of his wife in November
last. He met his fate resolutely.
On the 18th Tommie Sanders, nine
years old, entered the residence of 7. X.
Sheldon at Marion, Ind, and stole gold
watch and chain, valued at 500. The
yeung thief was arrested and the prop
erty recovered
r. b. TUssEY, for four years district
.lerk in Adams County, Neb., was ar
rested at Hastings, on the 18th, for en-
bezzlement His shortage amounts to
something over 81, 500. He gave bonds
in the sum of $4,000.
ABOUT noon on the 12th Thomas Bry-
ant, boy sixteen years of age, shot his
mother dead at her home in Butte,
Mont, robbed her trunk of $500, and
made his escape to the hills. A Asherift's $
posse was at once put on the track OF
the murderer.