The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-04-03
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Brooklyn, at s125, ,594.
SECRETARY FOSTER returned to Wash
ington from Ohio, on the 23d, and re-
sumed his duties at the treasury de-
partment.
EVERY possible preparation has been
made by the municipal court of Grasse,
France, to add TO the pleasure of Queen
Victoria's visit. a special police guard
has been assigned to the duty of guard
ing the royal residence, and the streets
and roads in and about town have been
put in the best possible condition.
THE Brooklyn fire bug, who had been
operating in the teRement-house quar-
ter, was arrested, on the 23d, and made
n confession. His name is Henry G..
Miller.
THE Merrimac river has reached %
feet at Lawrence, Mass, and is rapidly
rising. This is the highest point
reached for years. Over 1000 opera
tives are now idle on account of water
stopping the mills.
The remains of Lawrence Barrett,
the actor, were laid alongside the
bodies of his father and mother in the
family plot in the Central cemetery at
Cohassett, Mass, on the 24th.
JAMES WATT, son of Millionaire
Watt, of San Francisco, was found
dead in a New York ten-cent lodging
house on the oath. His death was the
result of dissipated habits.
JOHN CowAN, the crazy pedestrian
whose mind became unbalanced in the
late six days walking match in New
York, was discharged, cured, from the
hospital on the 24th
A FAVORABLE report of the commit
tee on labor on the bill making nine
hours days werl1 was rejected by
viva voce vote in the Massachusetts
house on the 24th.
GUSTAV TAFEL was nominated for
mayor at Cincinnati by the democrats,
on the oath, to oppose John B. Mosby,
the republican candidate and present
incumbent
THE wife of Gen. John T. Cutting,
congressman from the Fourth Califor-
MIA district, died in San Francisco. on
the oath, after long illness.
LIZZIE PoND, aged 90, while walking
along the Cincinnati Wabash t5 Michi-
gan railroad at Anderson, Ind, stepped
from the track to escape an approach
ing train, but her clothing was caught
by the cars and she was dragged 100
yards, her brains being dashed out
against the ties.
PROToCOLs delimiting the Italian and
British spheres in East Africa have
been exchanged by Lord Dufferin, the
British minister at Rome, and Premier
Rudini.
THE California state viticultural COM
mission has received a diploma and
gold medal awarded to the California
exhibit of brandies at the Paris exposi-
tion.
HONDURAS viii be represented at the
Worlds Columbian fair by full ex-
hibit of its resources and products.
MAJOR MCKINLEY was rendered an
informal reception by the directors of
the Boston Home Market club on the
cath.
The British steamer Strathairly went
ashore below Chicamacomico life-sav
ing station, on the North Carolina
coast, on the 24th. Nineteen OUT Of the
crew of twenty-siX were drowned, in
cluding all the officers except the sec
ond mate. The steamer is a total loss.
THE department of justice is informed
that the notification sent to the United
States district court of Alaska by the
supreme court in reference to the seiz-
ure of the British bark Sayward has
been received. No return, however,
has vet been made by the local court.
ALCEDE VADORE, Greek immigrant,
who six years ago inherited from his
mother fortune of e425, 600, landed in
New York, on the 25th, in search of a
job. He had lost his money by specu-
lating in cotton and betting on English
and French horse races.
UP to the 25th the state and navy de-
partments were still ignorant of the
Ctate of affairs in Chill. It is believed
at the departments that the telegraph
and cable lines are cut or else the party
in control has established a strict tele-
graphic censorship.
THE wife of Congressman J. NJ. Pat
tison, of Ohio, died at her home in Mil
ford, on the 25th, aged Sc. She was
the mother of four children, the young
est n babe of two weeks.
On the 25th Judge Duncan, of Colum-
bus, O., oveT-uled the demurrers to the
Indictments in the Elliott murder cases.
Two MINERS were blown To pieces by
an explosion in tn c Tamarack mine, at
Calumet, Mich, on the 25th.
THE treasury department, on the 18th,
paid out over S25, 600 en- French spolia-
tion claims.
SPAIN viii send an exhibit to the
Worlds Columbian exposition.
THE treasury department has decided
that piano which is used as means
of obtaining a livelihood can be i'm
ported duty free.
COUNT FABRICO, president of the
Saxon ministry, died in Dresden on the
25th.
THE French cabinet has decided that
Prince Louis Napoleon is not affected
by the law banishing from the country
pretenders TO the throne Of France, and
the prince can therefore reside in
France.
THE legislature of California ad-
iourned finally shortly after midnight
on the morning of the Goth. During
the session 900 bills We're enacted and
sent TO the governor for his approval.
SEVERAL cases of destitution are
already reported among the 20, coo en-
ployes of the clothing manufacturers of
Rochester, y. Y, owing 10 the lockout
OF the cutters.
TIE funeral Of John A. Maclzey, the
actor, took place in brooklyn, on the
26th. and was largely attended by mem
bers of the profession and others
Joux BzEsE, one of the bystanders
accidentally shot by the Elliotts in Co
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