The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-05-30
News Of the Week.
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james A Coe, promising young broker
at Boston, is charged with irregularities
involving 5000 600 His method was to alter
the figures OF stock certificates, raising
certificates for one, two, and three shares,
to one hundred, two hundred, and three hun
dred, respectively.
-Of the sloops Of war ordered built by the
last Congress, one will be given to the Norfolk
navy yard and one to that OF Charleston.
"A proposition has been made to tunnel
the Hudson, so as to admit of the passage of
railway trains from New Jersey and New
York without change Of bulk.
Newark manufacturers complain that
rtheir orders are not half so large as usual this
season. They had kept on theii regular com
plement of operatives, but reduction in time
will be necessary after the 4th of July, and
some of them talk of discontinueing work
until orders for the fall trade begin to
rive. The hat, SHOE carriage and jewelry
people feel the depression most.
The case of Mcdonald, the Bank of Eng
land forger arrested in New York, will proba-
bly, go before the United States Supreme
Court before the British officials get him in
custody
To practice homeopathy is in the estima-
ton of Boston doctors ''conduet unbecoming
and unworthy OF an nOnOTaDie pIyblclal
The strike of Rhode Island factory men
for reduction from 16 to 10 hours day, uas
failed.- .- r-.- e. & -FrF rHT
"A great struggle is said to be prevailing
IN ShawoBen, Penn, for the possession ever
ten thousand acres in the anthracite coal
gions valued at 800 900, 600. One party has
burned three houses which the other side
erec ed and retaliation is now threatened. o.
H Wheeler, of New York, represents one side
and the Reading Railroad the other.
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The st Louis tobacco fair opens June 8,
with prizes Of $4,000.
"A dispatch from Cen Custar, dated Fort
Randall Dakotah, contains the following
statement Falls, the guide, sent me from
Randall, reports positively that Two hundred
warriors and young men belonging to the
Yankton Agency left their reservation a few
days ago to join the hostile bands of the Up
per Missouri and the Indians will muster five
tlOusand men this summer.
"A company Of Colorado scouts and sharp
shooters is to be raised to fight the Modocs.
Gen SchofeId announces his readiness to ac-
eept their services.
One thousand st. Louis ladies petition
the City Council for the repeal of the social
evil ordinance.
Correspondence from all parts of South
en Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, and Iowa, pre-
dict large and excellent wheat crop, but
short crops of oats and corn.
From reports received at the Indian Bu-
reau it is pretty oonclusively> settled that the
working parties on the Northern Pacific are
destined to meet with cOnsi ierable Interrupt
ton this summer from Indians along the route
and it will not be safe for them to proceed
without military protection. The Indians are
not only numerous in that region, but very.
warlike and it will require very large force
to cope with them if they once start on the
war-path.
--Commissioner Meachem, wounded in the
Candy massacre, is rapidly recovering.
"A special dispatch from Austin, Texas,
says that grasshoppers in innumerable num-
bers have made their appearance in that State,
and are laying waste all vegetation. In somO
localities they have entirely destroyed the
corn, consuming it down to a level with the
ground. They seem to be moving northward,
and it is feared that Missouri, Illinois, Kansas
and Mel raska will be visited.