The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1893-09-29
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| THOUSANDS of people thrOnged to the
capitol grounds at Washington on the
night of the 18th. to hear the ringing
of the chime of bells on the new library
building and TO attend the open-air
concert by the Marine band and the
grand chorus of 1,5OO voices given in
honor of the capitol centennial.
| THE health authorities of Portugal
have raised the quarantine againstves-
sells arriving from the port of New
York, which had been established in
consequence of the reports of the APP
pearance of cholera in Jersey City.
Miss VIOLA DIETRICH. aged 20, of
Kokomo, Ind, headed band of high
waymen who robbed four people in
one night. Her plan was to induce rep
utable citizens to protect her on the
plea that she feared to be on the
streets alone. She took her victims
down a dark street where her ac-
completes lay concealed.
HUNDREDS of covered wagons are re-
turning from the Cherokee strip. The
parties were unable TO get claims and
are loud in denouncing the sooners,
who, they claim, got all the best lands
There are large number of people
leaving the strip on every train who
are in destitute circumstances
REV. MERsFELDER, a Methodist min
ister at Spencerville, o., was knocked
insensible and awfully beaten. on the
night of the 18th, by hoodlum who
was offended by remarks made during
the delivery of his sermon.
THE remains of a man and four
women were found in the burned ruins
of house in Whitechapel, London, on
the 10th.
The viii of Z. L. Ames, of Boston,
was fled for probate on the 10Th 1t
contains no public bequests. The real
estate and personal property in North
Easton is given to the widow, to-
gether with $500, 900 outright and an
annuity of $50, ,OO0 The residue is
given in trust for the benefit of the
widow and children.
AS result of the unsatisfactory out
come of the experiment of settling
Scottish crofters in the Northwest ter
ritory, the British government has de-
cided to abandon all efforts at state
colonization.
THE paid admissions to the Worlds
fair on the 18th were 1T2,5
A TORNADO at Augusta, Wis, ON the
18th, blew several frame buildings off
their foundations, took the roof off
Williams store, leveled barns and
fences and pulled trees up by the roots.
REV. SAMUEL b. HALLIDAY, former
ly assistant pastor TO Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher, was stricken with apoplexy
in the parlors of Plymouth church,
Brooklyn, on the Goth.
ELIZA PORTER, aged 1o1 years and IA
days, died, on the 10Th, at Oak Mills,
Kas. Mrs. Porter was born in Vir-
ginia, and was owned by near relatives
of George Washington.
THE well-lSnown steeple-chase horse,
Futurity, owned by Alderman Nolan,
of Albany, ". Y. died in Chicago, on
the 10th, while ON his way from the
east to San Francisco.
THE paid admission to the Worlds
fair. on the Goth, were III, ,42S.
THE Honduran congress has accepted
President Leva's resignation, and Gen.
Vasquez has been elected president of
the republic.
THE police of Amsterdam, Holland,
have arrested Henry De Jong and are
investigating series of disappearances
of wives that promises to develop a
case similar to that of Deeming in En-
gland.
AT a meeting Of the Highland Land
league in Glasgow. on the Goth, the
delegates strongly demanded home
rule measure for Scotland and con-
demned as Frievous wrong the fact
that the scotch crofters should be
hunted to Canada in order that sheer
might take their places,