The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-11-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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disease has broken out in Boston.
The Peoples Savings Bank of SyTa-
use has failed.
Late dispatches from Ro hester, n.
Y, says that the Canadian horse dis
ease, which is now raging with great
fervOr among ali the stables in western
New York In the form Of influenza, is
classed by the veterinary authorities
under these heads, viz: Catarrhal,
rheumatic, aud gastro-er -erysipeIatOus
forms. The disease that has made
such havoc in that vicinity il of ca
tarrhal character, the first noticeable
symptoms being a flow of tears from
the eyes, a watery discharge from the
nose, and general languor followed by
cough. There has been great devasta-
ton among the horses in Rochester
and Buffalo. Owing to improper
treatment and imperfect knowledge OF
the disease, over three hundred cases
proved fatal in the last twenty-four
hours.
In twenty-five years, according to
n report made to the National AgricuI-
tural Society at st. Louis, all the val
liable accessible timber lands in the
United States will have been despOiled.
The wheat crop, in New England,
is up to the average; in the Middle
States, has fallen 50 per cent; has
risen, in the Southern States, from
Virginia to Tennessee, SO per cent;
aud i'll California, rs per cent. For the
country at large there has been an in
crease of 5 per cent, and an average
yield of twelve or thirteen bushels to
the acre.
The effect of the combination
among the oil-producers to restrict the
production of oil is shown by the state
ment of the Titusville Hcrdid, that the
oil production for September shows a
decrease, compared with the month of
August, of 2,25S barrels daily. The
Courier, however, says the decrease is
only so. The daily production in
August was 1S,Sl6 barrels. The total
amout of stock was ST., 739 barrels, a
decrease i'll stock during the month of
52,721 barrels. The total shipments
during September were 59O,375 bar
rels, a decrease of 73, 1913 barrels.
Rochester Now York dispatch says
that the horse disease is on the increase.
There are few horses iii the city
that are not affected. The street rail
way company have suspended Op-
eratiOns, ali their horses being sick.
The livery stables and express com pa
nj oil 4
hardly horse to seen on the street,
and not farmers's team in sight.
In the trial of Chief of Police McWil-
liam in Jersey City, for completely in
the bank robbery, Chas. J. Proctor tes-
titled: 1 first became acquainted with
McWilliams at the Metropolitan Hotel.
We talked about the protection he was
to give me in the bank robbery. He
gave me a part OF. the mOuey with
which paid the rent of the rooms next
to the bank. He then corroborated the
testimony of Dernan as to the particu-
ars of the arrangement with McWiI-
liams. The trial is still progresng.
Secretary Fish has communicated
to the President intelligence of the EN-
p"rOr of Germany having decided the
San Juan question in favor of the
United States. This decision gives
the island of San Juan to our govern
ment, and is regarded as a most imDor-
tant advantage in the point of defense
on our extreme Northwestern frontier.
The circumstances of the cadet
trouble at the Naval Academy at An
napolis, as reported to the Depart
ment are, briefly, that Robert d. Diggs,
of Maryland, cadet midshipman, met
the coiored cadet midshipman Conyers
or the grounds of the Naval Academy
and, after some words between them,
fight enSued, Diggs getting the better
of COnyers. The representation being
that Diggs was in fault, an order
has been issued by the acting
Secretary of the Navy dismissing
Diggs from the Academy.
Abroad.
y bill has been introduced i'm the
Spanish Cortes abolishing the penalty
of death for political ofienses, and has
passed its first reading.
Prussia has abandoned her f,rp,or