The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-07-08
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

IN his address to the electors of Mid
lothian, Mr.. Gladstone refers to
the fact that he is in the sixtieth
year of his public life, and says /:
81 necessarily feel that this is
the last general election at which
] can expect to solicit your suffrages." :"
1t has fallen to the lot of few statesmen
in any age to remain on the political
stage for so great a length of time, and
whatever may be the rank assigned to
Mr.. Gladstone by the historians of the
future, it will be unanimously agreed
that he was in more than one respect a
truly remarkable man. /.
THE cause of good roads goes march
ing on. There is no politics in it. con-
sequently when people get tired of dis
cussing the presidential canvass in all
of the sharp disagreements which that
exercise implies they can get together
and relieve the strain, republicans,
democrats and the rest, on the good
road issue.
A DENVER dishwasher calling himself
Herbert Sullivan, out of work and inn
pecunious, essayed the role of bank
robber, on the 2Sth, and took a drop on
Paying Teller Barton of the bank of
Commerce, demanding $1,000. Barton
had what the would-be robber lacked
nerve, and the result was that the bank
lost nothing and Sullivan is in Jail.
The Townsend prize of Yale univer-
sity for the best Grafton was awarded,
on the 2sth, to L. r. Milley, of Mexico,
Mo. 1t was pronounced by competent
judges to be the best ever delivered for
the Townsend prize.
J. EDWARD STONE, who claims to have
started to walk from San Francisco on
February %, last, TO make a transcon-
tinental tour on foot, arrived in New
York city on the 2stn and reported at
the Police Gazette office at noon. He
was not due until July 4. Mr.. Stone
looked as fresh and clean-limbed as if
he had just taken constitutional.
Mrs. JANE BENNETT died at Big
Mound, Ia, on the 2sth, at the ad-
vanced age of 10 years. She was ma
tive of West Virginia, and was one of
Iowa's earliest pioneers.
Mrs. ESTHER MCCULLOUGH, of Chat
tanooga, Tenn, will soon be ia years
of age. She was born in Hancock coun-
ty, Ga, in 1870, and has nursed the
wounded in three great wars, in addi-
tion to those of Indian fights. Mrs. Nc
Cullough lives with her daughter, Mrs.
Robertson, herself an octogenarian.
The mother wears glasses and is some
what deaf otherwise she is very well
preserved.
THE grand jury of Orange county, N.
Y, failed to find an indictment against
the lynchers of Bob Lewis, but found
true bill against the village officials of
Port Jervis for criminal negligence in
permitting the lynching.
NELSON WHITEwoRTH, a stonemason,
was killed while working on bridge in
Leavenworth, Kas., on the 2sth. He
was engaged in placing a rock, when
one that was about to be lowered by a
derrick fell upon him, striking him on
the side and hips. He was terribly
crushed, and died few moments after
being struck.
JAMES ACKMAN was struck by Pan
handle train and instantly killed at
Frankton, Ind, on the 2Sth. The train
was a special, and was going sixty miles
an hour, when Ackman, who was cross
ing the track, was struck and hurled
eighty feet through the air. He was
horribly mangled-
TWELVE workmen were buried be-
meath falling brick wall while re-
pairing the Winston building at Lynch
burg, Va, on the Goth. Mr.. J. c. III.
Winston, a prominent business man.
was caught in the ruins and killed.
Three men were taken out dead, four
badly and two slightly hurt, while
three others were said to be in the ruins.
WILLIAM GoRMAN, who suddenly dis
appeared from his home in Pittsburgh,
Pa, forty-three years ago, and was sup
posed to have been murdered by rival,
has turned up in Montana as a man of
wealth. He has invited his two broth
ers, who are workingmen in Pitts
burgh, to his western home to share his
fortune.
JAMES WILDER, superintendent of all
the United States railway mail business
west of the Rocky mountains, died sud-
denly at his home in West Algoma,
Wis, on the Goth, of dropsy, aged 90.
ALL the glass factories at Bellaire,
o., have been permanently shut down,
the manufacturers claiming that they
could not compete with the factories
located in natural gas towns. About
e5O men are out Of employment