The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-06-20

and there credited as paid.
The most important change in the rules
recommended by the civil service advisory
board, is in relation to the examination of can
didates for Office III various parts of the coun,
| try and not subject them to the expense OF
raveling to Washington for this purpose. Il
! is recommended that the country be divided
/ into four or more districts, each to have 8
| chief examiner, and he is to have associated
with him certain officials or others qualified fOI
| the work.
| The attorney general has decided that vel
vet ribbons made of silk and cotton are not
subject to the duty of 60 per cent. under the
| eighth section of the tariff act of 1864, and
that they are only subject to the duty of sc
| per cent. under that act.
FOREIGN LNTELLIGENCE.
Hamburg-The band of Prince Georges
| regiment Of the Saxon army has sailed from
| this port for New York. The band has sixty
| members and proposes to make a concert tour
| through the United Staies..
| --Paris-The government has decided toim-
mediately transport Henri RochefOrt to New
| Caledonia.
| -Advices from Rio Janeiro are received.
societies continued to agitate Brazil. The
ministry had taken strong ground on the sub
| iect. and were gaining support for their policy
In the lower house the premier made speech
| defending the free masons, and promised that
energetic measures would be taken to prevent
the bishops and iesuits interfering with the
| society.
-London-There is a serious dispute in the
| building trade in this city. The jOumeymeu
| ask an advance of wages of a half penny Gone
cent? per hour, which the master builders re-
fuse to give. 1t is feared the dispute Will lead
| to the greatest lockout ever known i'll the city.
-Constantinople-Th Sultan has issued a
frman granting Ito the khedive of Egypt an
independent internal government, and author
| izing him to augment his army and conclude
| foreign treaties
Austria has broken through the etiquette
usually observed towards a vassal of the Porte
by receiving Prince Nicholas of Montenegro
without his having been presented by the
Turkish ambassador. AS this step appears to
indicate changed attitude towards the gov
ernment of the sultan, it has excited atten-
ton IN diplomatic circles at Vienna.
-London-A special to the News from
Rome says many of the monks belonging to
the monasteries which are to be suppressed,
will go to Bolivia and Chill.
The ex-Empress Eugene has taken her de-
parture from England for the continent by
way of Ostend.
-Eighty-two heads of religious orders in
Rome have signed document protesting
against the bill for the suppression of religious
corporations, and appealing to the Pope, the
law of the nation, and to God.
The Texas Legislature positively refused to
ratify the act of the last legislature giving a
subsidy of $4,000 per mile on six hundred
miles of tie International railroad company.
Madrid p J. Y, Margall, president of the
council, in a speech in the cortes, said the gov
ernmont must first pacify the peninsula, III Or
der to discourage disaffection III Cuba. At a
demonstration i'll Barcelona yesterday, a
speaker termed the municipality Of the city
thieves, and urged vigorous measures for get
ting rid of the Objectionable authorities. The
meeting broke up with cries of Viva la fed
eracion social, and down with municipal ty.'
1t is said ex-Queen Isabella is about to
| proceed to Rome % confer with the Pope upon
the prospects of the Bourbon family in Spain.
1t is reported that persons of known carlist
proclivities i'll Santiago de Cuba, have sent
f2O, 900 to the carlist committee at London to
assist the instruction in Spain.
The bank Of France has paid into the
| treasury One-quarter of the sum due to Ger
many on account of the war indemnity. A
report that there had been successful negOtia-
tions to accelerate tho departure of the Ger
| man troops Is not verified.
The internal revenue receipts for the cur
rent fiscal wear have reached $109, 507, 148, be-
ing within $500, 600 of the complete estimates
of tho commissioner for entire year endin8
! With the present month.
! The widow of the late Robt. Z. Lee of
Virginia, proposes to make claim upon the
/ government for the value of the Arlington es
! tate now used as a soldiers cemetery. 1t Will
be remembered that before the close Of the re-
beIlion the estate was sold for taxes, and
purchased at a low figure by the government.
| Mrs Lee alleges that at the time of the sale
| certain of her friends proposed to buy it for
| her. but their bid was refused. She further
states that her brother, George Washington
| Parke Custis, dying in 1857, gave her by hfs
will the entire Arlingt on estate. The terms of
the will vested the property in her absolutely.
Beyond the simple duties of an executor, Gen
eraI Lee had no control Of the property, and
never. either before or since, assumed a single
right of ownership. According to her state
ment, the property did not in any sense belong
to General Lee. and the government, she
| claims, had no right to seize it. She does not
! expect to have Il restored. but she hopes to
| obtain indemnity. 1t is held by officers of the
| government that waving the question of con
! iscation and seizure, the Arlington property
was purchased at public sale by the govern
ment. and that Mrs. Lee has no claim upon it,
The matter viii be brought before congress.
A Washington special says the testimony
of Captain Tyson and Sergeant Meyer in the
Polaris investigation, has been received from
a stenographer and Will be printed as soon as
possible. Their statements contain together
| about fifty-ive Thousand words. the entire
mass of testimony is eonfr'natory Of the fact
| that the separation from the vessel was acci-
dental There was entire unanimity among
the crew and officers III the desire to proceed
| northwart, and the discipline on board the
| vessel was excellent. All were working in
| harmony in carrying provisions from the ves-
/ sci. expecting every moment she would be
| iammed and broken between the ice, when
she separated from the foe, and it wac
wholly accidental occuUence so far the
crew could know, that Buddington himself
was not on the ice instead of the vessel
The caterpillar has a. ain appeared in the
| adjacent counties and is destroying cotton
They are worse in AoTth Mississippi than ever
! before owing to incessant rains. Grass and
weeds are also damaging the crop
DIR. ANDERSON of Edinburgh, Scot
land, has proved by actual analysis
that the last gill of milk drawn from
the udder of the COW contains sixteen
times the amount of cream incident tc