The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-05-17
NEWS SUMMARY.
AT HOME.


The Liberal Republican Convention
nominated Horace Greeley for Presi-
dent, and Governor B. Gratz Brown,
of Missouri, for Vice-President. The
Democratic press of the South generally
favor the ticket warmly, while those
of the North prefer to wait for the
authoritative action of the National
| Convention.
At OakdaIe, on the Northern Pacific
Railroad, an entire family named Cook
were massacred and the house burned,
supposed to have been done by Indians.
Lieutenant Governor Gravelly, of
Missouri, died on Tuesday.
The Personal Liberty League of Chi
| cago, organized to contest the new
Liquor Law, numbers five hundred.
The Chicago Labor Unions will
make an eight-hOur demonstration on
May 18th.
A party in California have received a
concession for a railroad from Quay
mas, Sonora, to Tucson, Arizona, to
intersect the Texas Pacific Road.
Five men ON horseback entered the
town of Columbia, Adair county, KY,
on Monday, entered the Deposit Bank,
and demanded that the Cashier open
the safe, on their refusal to do so they
shot him dead and made their escape.
The bill removing the duties on tea
and coffee after July 1st has become a
law.
The New York Assembly has re-
solved ON the impeachment of Judge
Barnard.
The Columbia, Kentucky, bank rob
bers got about 1000, mostly in bonds.
Congress has passed a bill postponing
until November the elections in Idaho
and Washington Territories.
Ten thousand acres in Laurens coun-
ty, South Carolina, are uncultivated
because the owners are driven away
from home by military tyranny.
The agricultural land scrip donated
by Congress to Virginia has been sold
for S2O5, 900.
The Baltimore NJ. f. District Con-
ference has found an Indictment against
Rev. L. D. Huston for Iewd and Iascivi-
Gus conduct.
The Methodist General Conference
opened its session in New York
Wednesday. Seventy-two Conferences
were represented by 285 ministerial and
1872 lay delegates. Bishop james pre-
sided. The vote to ratify lay represen-
tatiOn stood 233 yeas to SO nays.
! EHOrace Greeley has withdrawn from
the Republican General Committee of
New York.
| a special from San Antonio, Texas,
says Gonzales train of six wagons,
seventy-five mules, nine men and two
women, was attacked by Indians at
Howard's Well, above Fort Clark.
The train and hands were captured,
and all burned except one woman, who
escaped. He says the Indians number
ed one hundred and fifty.
During April $4,000 German immi-
grants landed at Castle Garden, ma
jority of whom are destined for NIichi-
gan, Wisconsin and Illinois.
MerinO sheep are being shipped from
Tennessee to California.
The Cincinnati nominations are the
a1I-absorbing topic atTWashington.
= a fire at MarshalItown, Iowa, Satur-
day afternoon, destroyed five elevators,
with a vast amount of grain in store, a
wooden mill, two hotels, four lumber
| yards, the Northwestern II depot, tanks
, and pump building, five stores and
shops, and three dwelling houses.
f Loss about SSOO.OOO.
The general tariff debate has closed
and the impression isnOw quite general
r that Congress can dispose of all its work
} and adjourn the Doth of May.
: Libbie Garabrant has been convicted
of the murder of Ransom F. Burroughs,
at Paterson, New Jersey.
! An Administration secret conference
has been held in Washington to con-
/ slider the question of the withdrawal OF
2 American claims for consequential
damages from the Geneva Board. II
I is limited that a solution of the whoA5
: question viii yet be found in the adop-
l ton by Congress of the Peters Resolu-