The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-04
News of the Week.
At Home.

from Bombay says letters from DIR.
Livingstone, dated July /, 1872,
have been received. He was still at
Unyanyemke, awaiting the arrival of
Stanley's second expedition.
Edward Tompkius has given the
California State University $50, 900
worth Of land to endow an Agassiz pro-
fessorship of Oriental languages and
literature
Regulations for the redemption of ad-
hesive stamps, for which the owners
may have no further use Ou account OF
the repeal of the stamp taxes upon
most Instruments mentioned in Sched-
ule B, are about to be issued by the
Commissioner Of Internal Revenue.
The jOurneynlen carpenters of Chica-
so have formally notified their en-
ployers that their wages must be "a
per day, or they will suspend work.
Mr.. James Gordon Bennett pro-
poses to honor the memory of his
father by erec ing II $500, 900 monument
to his memory in Greenwood Gene
terry.
The steamer Merrill, which burned
at Warsaw, H., was valued at S50, 600,
and Insured in Cincinnati Offices for
$40, 900.
In sinking a shaft for coal at Chaplin,
Morgan county, ILL.,, when a depth of
$50 feet was reached, a vein of lead was
struck.
The contract, has been let for
the completion of the foundation and
basement walls of the now Lindell Ho-
tel in st. Louis, to he finished in seven
ty days. The hotel will be push
ed vigorously, and the entire structure
completed in two years.
The Annual Fair of the Illinois State
Agricultural Society, was the most
successful that has been held under
that Society's auspices for many years.
The aggregate receipts were in the
ncighborhO0d of S20,0
The Grand Lodge /. O. o. +. of the
United States is now in session at
Baltimore.
An iron Ichurch for the town of
AncOn, Peru, was shipped from New
York last week The entire expense is
09O.
The farmers of Minnesota will
have not less than 10000, 900 bushels Of
surplus wheat to Iut in the market.
At the trial of the Rev Mr.. Rob
ertson, i'm Louisville, he made con-
fession of falsehood, but denied any
other criminal acts. The case goes
over to the next Presbytery
Orncll and Seymour, two luuatics,
died few days ago at Wards Island
Lunatic Asylum, New York. An in
vestigation proves that their deaths
were caused iy the brutal treatment OF
n man named Farrcls, who had charge
OF their ward.
Mattldl Heron has been refused
alimopy by the court at San Francisco.
The fishing schooner White Eagle
of Gloucester, Massachusetts, is given
up as lost on the Grand Banks, with
her entire crew.
The rate of taxation for State pur-
poses this year will lie seven and hall
mills on the dollar, a reduction
of one and one half mills from that
Of last year.
According to the monthly report ot
the Agricultural Department, the cotton
crop of the present year promises q
very small increase over that Of last
year.
The following official telegram has
been received at the War Department
Capt. Kellogg, who left Colone
Stanley's command on August 2i, ha-
arrived at Chicago. The expedition
has been to the mouth of Powder
River, making only general exami
nation in going out. On their return
they Were making an instrumental
survey, and had located thirty fou
miles coming east from Powder River
and were so working eastward ut tn,
rate of about four miles a day They
found very practicable route for til,
railroad, part of it being entirely new
to the white men. They wer
threatened with the Indians, and ha'
some slight skirmishes but no one wa
hurt.