The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-05-06
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

STEAMSHIPS arriving at New York re-
port that rumors of impending revolu-
tion are again rife in Hayti. President
Hippolyte is said to be fully aware of the
threatening state of affairs, and firmly
determined to meet and stamp out the
first sparks of rebellion that show them
selves.
Col. SMITH A. WHITFIELD, first assist
ant postmaster-general, who has been
in st. Louis recently on business con-
nected with the post Office department,
says that in st. Louis the first practical
pneumatic service for carrying mail
matter will shortly be introduced.
j. ID. HALLowELL, a young man "a
years of age, cashier of West Superior
(Wis.) bank, who, with the president,
succeeded in skipping from that town,
on the Goth, with s35, 900 of the banks
cash, was captured in Philadelphia on
the 25th.
THE New York Herald of the 25th,
speaking of the Reading combination,
says: ''The combination has been in
active existence three weeks. In the
great Lehigh valley coal region 1t has
thrown 200 men out of their employ
ment half of the time. In the flourish
ing cities of the lower valley it has de-
prived $500 workmen of their employ
ment and saved from their wages $751;
OOO."
QUEEN VICTORIA arrived at DARN
stadt, on the Goth, and was received by
her grandson, the grand duke and 9TH
ers of her royal kindred in Germany.
THE ceremony of laying the corner
stone of the Grant monument at River
side park, New York, was performed by
President Harrison, in the presence of
vast assemblage, including many prom
inent citizens, on the 27th, the seventy
second anniversary of the Old Comman-
der's birth. Chauncey NJ. Depew de-
livered the Grafton of the day.
WHILE the Corean minister and wife
were out driving inWashington, a colored
boy named Howard Ouander threw N
stone at youth on the opposite side of
the street The missile went wide of
its intended mark and struck the min
ister' wife on the left side of the face,
infiicting a severe bruise. The boy was
locked up.
operations in the firm of Grant e. Ward
caused such stir a few years ago, fin
ished his sentence in Sing Sing on the
30th. There is still an indictment pend
ing against him in the United States
court, but it viii probably not be acted
upon.
THE trial of the anarchist Ravachol
took place in Paris on the Goth. There
was great excitement and the jurymen
and all connected with the court
showed signs of nervousness and ap-
prehension Ravachol, and Simon, who
was also on trial, were adjudged guilty
and sentenced to penel servitude for
life.
IT is said that the movement in Wash
ington to transfer the body of Gen.
Grant from New York TO the national
cemetery at Arlington has substantially
come to on end.
JENNIE McCALLEN, the 11-year-old
daughter of Long Island farmer. lost
for three days in the woods, was found
on the 27th- She said she was not
scared, but swfully hungry.
Two coLoRED tramps resisted election
from train by Panhandle crew. near
Columbus, Ind, ON the 27th, and in the
revolver fight brakeman was severely
wounded.
ApvICEs from Monroe county, Tenn.
state that the Murphy brothers. the des-
peradoes, are hemmed in mountain de-
file by a squad of officers, and that their
capture is probable. This must, how
ever, he taken with some allowance, for
the me- are desperate and know besides
that II captured they win ultimately be
hanged, Is not lynehed.