The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-11-01
News of the Week.
At Home.

At Home.
The Treasury Department has re-
ceived by express a Cuban flag taken
from the privateer Pioneer, forwarded
by the captain o: the Moccasin, which
captured the Cuban vessel.
The second trial of Mrs. Wharton for
poisoning will come off in November
or December.
A Washington dispatch says that
another Cuban expedition is fitting out
on on extensive scale under the aus
pices of the so-called General Ryan,
who himself gives information of the
project. But it is stated that promi-
nent Cuban patriots place no confidence
in Ryan.
Robert H. Young; with several
aliases, a noted swindler and conf
dence man, has been captured in Ca
poke, Mo. His last field of operation
was in Indianapolis, where he swim
died merchants out of $4,000.
The New Orleans lOngshoremen's
strike for four dollars per day has ter
minated successfully, the steamboat
men and GOLFERS having generally
acceeded to their demands. a slight
advance in coal and freight is pro-
bable.
Many of the cigar manufacturers
of New York have acceeded to the
demand of the workmen for an in
crease from 81 to So on every one thou
sand. Several houses have suspended
operations because of the demand.
Advices from Rochester,, N. ",
states that the horse disease prevails
there to an alarming extent. Fully
One-half of the horses are effected. A
few fatal cases have occurred. One
street railroad company have one hun
dred horses sick, and have taken off
some of their cars. The livery stables
have stopped business. Every horse
attached to O'Brien's Circus is sick.
A despatch from Omaha says that
the weather has been extremely dry
in that vicinity of late and prairie
fires unusually destructive. The cOun-
try within thirty miles of the city has
been mostly burned over, and enor-
NOUS quantities of hay and grain de-
stroyed, beside many houses, barns
and fences. The prairie fire started
about two miles north of the city,
burning most of the fences, sheds and
buildings at the race track and fair
grounds. The soldiers at Omaha
Barracks were out night and day
fighting the flames to prevent the
burning of the barracks, and have been
successful in stopping the fires in that
vicinity.
A petition, signed by some of the
largest business houses of Pittsburgh,
will be presented in a few days to Sec
rotary Boutwell,, asking HIM to reissue
the forty-fOur millions of greenbacks
withdrawn from circulation by Secre-
tary McCulloch.
The n. Y. Herald says it detailed
Henderson to ascertain the exact con-
dition of affairs in Cuba, and ascribes
his prompt release to kilograms sent to
Havana by Admiral Pozo. Though
Henderson is now, it says, in danger OF
assassination as a suspected person, he
will push ahead with his impartial
mission, for he is a picked man OF
nerve.
Owing to the continual rapid increase
of the smallpox in Washington; the
Board of Health has divided the Wash
ington and Georgetown Districts, with
a physician in each district, who will
visit each house, for the purpose OF
vaccnating the inmates. Since Con,
gress adjourned ], 257 cases have been
reported, and 60 deaths have occurred
Thirty-eight of the fatal cases haC
never been vaccinated, and are be,
lieved to have died, and twelve dice
who had been successfully vaccinated
President Theirs action in ejectin;
Prince Napoleon from France is to b
made the subject of legal proceedings
The Prince who departed under pro
test, and in Difference to the supeTiO
force of tie Government, intends it i
announced, to prosecute all the official
who were concerned in the outrage
and to obtain the support of the Court
in his determination TO recover hi
rights as a French citizen.