The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-10-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
HERR Won BRANDT, German ambassa-
dor to China, has resigned. He~is ac-
cused of intriguing to prevent certain
railway concessions.
INFORMATION comes from Zanzibar
that the natives have attacked Ger
man station and murdered several peo-
pie.
THE United States supreme court has
held the Miner electoral law of Michi-
gan to be constitutional
JUDGE GRESHAM has written a letter
to W.. FL. Callxins denying the truth OF
the story that he intends to vote for
Cleveland.
GROVER CLEVELAND wrote a letter de-
clining to be present at the worlds fair
| dedicatory exercises and giving his rea-
sons.
THE London Times, referring to the
question of the appointment of poet
laureate, says that it may be taken
for granted that successor to Lord
Tennyson will be appointed. The Times
thinks that the objections raised against
Swinburne no longer exist.
GEN. DANIEL SICKLEs has been nom.
mated for congress in the Tenth dis
trict of New York
MIKE MCDONALD, the Chicago gambler
politician, threatens to bolt the head OF
the democratic national ticket.
Mrs. NJ. f. LEASE writes that she
never advised any one to vote for Har
rison, whom she considers as objection.
able as Cleveland.
WHITELAw REID, rcpu blican nominee
for vice president, has sent out his let
ter of acceptance.
EX-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND will speak
at Madison Square garden October 30
THE French chamber of deputies has
appointed Nj. Loubet, prime minister,
and NJ. Viette, minister of public works,
arbitrators of the Carmaux labor and
political disputes.
The porte in a brief note in reply to
an obligatory request from the Russian
government some time ago virtually re-
iects Russia's demand that the sultan
of Turkey shall not give audience to NJ
Stambouloff, the bulgarian premier.
Ex-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND denies pos
itively thct Gray Gables will be sold.
ATToRNEY-GENERALH HENsEL, of Penn
sylvania, declares that he did not say
that President Harrison superintended
the purchase of votes in Indiana in 1888,
but reiterates his charges that the state
was carried by shameless corruption.
EDWIN BOOTH, the actor, staying at
Lakewood, n. j., is reported better.
PROTESTANT Episcopalians at Balti-
more. Md, passed resolution against
giving government support to denomi-
national schools for the Indians.
A REVOLUTION has broken out in
Santiago del Estero, Argentine repub-
lie. Several persons have already been
killed
LONDON Truth is authority for the
statement that the late Lord Teuny-
son destroyed mass of his letters and
manuscripts a. few years ago in a fit of
alarm caused by his reading Prof
Froude's "Reminiscences of Thomas
Carlyle
MARQUIsE DE BLocQUEvTLLE, Frcncb
authOress, is dead, aged rs.
Mrs Lucy WHALES, niece of Joseph
Smith, the Mormon prophet, died at
Burlington, Ia, aged 81. She was
firm believer in her uncle's inspiration.
PoLTTICs in Hawaii are still unset
tied
THE London Chronicles Vienna COR
respondent says the days of the Hum
garian cabinet are numbered.
THE ameer of Afghanistan is endeav-
ORIG to secure British help in having
his illegitimate son recognized as the
successor to the throne, which his sub
jects violently oppose.
FRANCE has gained many important
concessions from the sultan of Morocco
MR- BLAINE paid a visit to republican
headquarters in New York and had a
conference with the leaders
THE infant King Alfonzo of Spain is
i'll.
Hon. Z. III. STILES is in Washington on
law business before the supreme court.
JUDGE K. T.. THAYER, of Iowa, was
made chairman of the national roads
convention held at Chicago during the
Columbian celebration
THE New York Herald's La Guayra
special says: United States Minister
Scruggs has formally recognized the
government of Gen Crespo as the legal
government Of Venezuela. The steamer
South Portland, which left New York
recently with cargo Of arms and mu-
nitions of war. has arrived at La
Guayra-
Mrs. HARRIsoN's condition ON the
21st was such as to excite the gravest
fears, but toward evening she rallied
somewhat and DIR. Gardner said that he
did not think she was in immediate
danger.
MISCELLANEOUS.