The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-09-30

ACCORDING to the report of Inspector
General John f. Pratt of the G. A. r.
the total number of posts now in ex-
istence is 1858; total number of post
members in good standing, 391, 500;
number of muskets owned by posts,
30, ,05S; number of posts having relief
funds, 2,00S; total amount of relief
funds, S410, sos. total amount expended
for relief, $310, ,44S; total amount of post
funds in hands of quartermasters, $3.50,
$40; total amount of property other than
in quartermaster and relief funds owned
by posts, 81, $40, 1888; total members in
good standing, 407. ISL.
THE Woman's Relief corps conven.
ton met in Washington on the 22d.
The report of President Sanders showed
that during the year sl4,314 had been
turned over to the posts; cash for re-
lief, s61, ,463; relief other than money,
s3s,341. Balance in the relief fund of
corps, S77, SIT; general fund, 1922, ,535. 81.
The assets showed a decrease, since the
date of last report, of nearly so per
cent.
The executive committee of the Co
lumbian exposition issued a prospectus,
on the 22d, announcing that subscrip-
tion books would be open from October
10 to October Is for 81, ,O00, 900 of the
registered debenture bonds of the
Worlds Columbian exposition. The
bonds will bear per cent. interest and
viii be dated November 1, 1892, pay
able on or before January 1, 1894.
AS THE Rock Island passenger and
mail train No. 4, from the west, was ap-
preaching the side track at Farnum,
Ia, little before 1 a. m, on the 22d, it
crashed into heavily-loaded freight
pulling from the main line onto the
side track. The engine was struck
square in the center fairly splintering
eight freight cars.
On the 22d Secretary Foster ordered
DIR. Hamilton to turn Camp Low, N. j.,
over to DIR. Sawtelle and return to his
station at Chicago, via Washington.
The National Association of ex-Army
and Navy Chaplains was organized in
Washington on the 22d.
Ex-Gov. GRAY, of Indiana, paid visit
to ex-President Cleveland at Buzzard s
Bay, Mass, on the 21st.
WINsLOw. WILKES broke the track
record at indianapolis, on the 22d, by
pacing a mile in 2:11%.
MARION HEDGEPETH, the leader of thu
Glendale (Mo.) train robbers, for par
ticipation in which Adelbert Slye Is
now serving a twenty-year sentence,
has about concluded to withdraw his
plea of not guilty and take a twenty
year sentence rather than allow his
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hopeless effort for his defense.
The Richmond (Me.) savings bank
suspended, on the 23d. because of large
withdrawalsoof deposits, owing to ths
bank passing its July dividend on ac.
count of depreciation Tin the. value
of its assets
THE marchioness of Abergavenny
died in London on the 23d. She was a
daughter of Sir Harcourt John John
stone, of Hackness Hall, Yorkshire, En-
gland, and sister of the first Lord Der
went.
SAMUEL M. CLEMENT, president Cd
the Marine bank, of Buffalo, n. Y,
was stricken with paralysis, on the 23d,
and the result will probably be fatal.
BICYCLIsTs from allnations have been
invited to compete in the long-distance
race between Vienna and Trieste, via
Grasse The route is 80 miles long.
THE government of Guatemala haH
issued n decree closing absolutely all
Atlantic ports of that country as g
quarantine against cholera.
GEN. JOHN Pope, of st. Louis, died al
the soldiers home in Sandusky, o., on
the night of the 23d, aged 50. He was
born in Kaskaskia, ILL.,, in 1928.