The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-01-17

The New York police pickeO I Q, in desti-
tute condition, child that had been kidnap-
pen from the Barbadoss.
OUT WEST.
The st. Louis Republican has taken DOS
session of its new building, costing $3.50, 900.
and said to be the best appointed printing Of
fee in the world.
- Tremendous wind-storm, accompanied
by electrical phenomena, passed over Nebras-
ka and Northern Iowa last week
-Abin has passed both houses of the Mich
igan Legislature increasing the salaries of the
Chief Justice and each Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court of Michigan, from 81. 500
to "a, 900 annually.
General Grierson has been transferred
from the Indian country to st. Louis, where
he will have charge of the recruiting service.
The Pennsylvania State debt was reduced
last year two and half millions of dollars.
The Circuit Judges of Michigan have
agreed on a rule that counsel for the cefe Use
shall open their case Immediately after he
plaintiff, before evidence is taken on ,.ther
side.
The Governor of Minnesota inflicts on the
Legislature message longer than the
Presidents
The money clerk of the Adams Express
at Cincinnati ID under arrest for embezzling
$4,000.
Twelve soldiers of the war of 1912 gather
ed in Philadelphia last week and celebr tied
Jacksons victory of New Orleans.
The Atlantic and Great Western Rd wav
have purchased the Petroleum Railroad pro
cess of construction by the Pennsylvania RaiI-
road, and will m 1ete it as soon as poss BILE.
IN GENERAL.
"A prominent citizen of Virginia offers the
State the sum of $780, 900 annually for the ex-
elusive privilege Of gathering oysters in Vir-
ginia Waters. The revenue heretofore de-
rived from this source is only $50, 900 annually
while the cost of collecting is $50 900, leaving
the net revenue only $4,000.
An ordinance was introduced in the CITY
Council of st. Louis for thd repeal of the So
cial Evil Ordinance. 1t was rejected almost
unanimously.
Secretary Fish is reported as saying that
the Cuban revolutionists not having gained any
more ground than they possessed three years
ago, and are not any more entitled to belliger-
On rights now than then. He also said our
Government has no scheme of annexation in
sending a naval force to the Sandwich Islands
General James H. Carleton, who COM
manded the Department of New Mexico during
the late war, is dead.
Alabama has paid the interest on her
bonded bebt in full in London and New York
California threatens to swamp the market
with wheat crop of forty million bushels.
-Beecher advocates female suffrage and
compulsory education.
The Postmaster General Representative
Twitchell and the Postmaster at Boston, were
before the House Committee on Appropriations
last week. their object being to have tbs pos
tai railroad car arrangement largely extended
and improved, owing to the increased necessi-
ties of the service. The Postmaster General
was also in consultation with the committee
ON the subject of an appropriation as a def
cheney for the transportation of free mail mat
ter, the law making permanent appropriation
for that purpose having been repealed.
In recent letter from Secretary Fish Gen.
Sickes is instructed in decisive but respectful
terms, to demonstrate against the apparent
failure of Spain to carry into effect the eman-
cipation act to which she is committed. II
Spain permits her authority to be effectually
and practically defed in Cuba by refusal OF
neglect to carry into effect the views of the
home Government of a humane tendency, il
is tantamount to an acknowledgements of ina
bility to control the instruction in Cuba
Fish says it has now lasted four years and the
attempts to suppress it are so far futile. I'm
less Spain shall soon be more successful it vii
force upon this Government the consideration
of the question whether duty to itself and t
the commercial interests of its citizens maj
not demand some change in the line of action
1t has thus far pursued. You present the
views above set forth in way which, withou
giving offence, Will leave the conviction tina
we are in earmst
FOREIGN LNTELLIGENCE.
An Aspinwall letter states that the steam
er Edgar Stuart, which had received a new
crew from New York, sailed for Cuba with he
large cargo of arms and ammunition for tn,
Revolutionists She is under command o
General NJ. Aguers. Out of some sixty of
crew, forty are recruits fer the Cuban army.
The British government declines to sup
port the proposition of the Royal Biographies
society for the sending out of an Arctic expe
dition partially at the public expense.
In the Prussian Diet an Interpolation
signed by large number of the members, ha
been introduced asking the Government b
what authority or law public Journals had bee
IlobeCuleuA AuI plbAlSFallB n L dHdl hlioCutAci.
The Liverpool Post states that the fearu
character of the recent gales may be PARTIAL
realized from the fact that during the firs
twelve days of December no fewer than A
passengers and sailors are known 20 have pei
ished at sea-
The Swiss Federal Council has threatene
the use Of vigorous measures against the Can
ton Of Vitaus because Jesuit masters hav
been tolerated in schools
A dispatch from Bombay says a report ha
reached that city that a terrible earthquak
occurred at Looughur, town of India in
detached district of the Borada dominions. II
miles north of Bombay. Fifteen hundred pel
sons are said to have been killed in the tow
alone. Nothing has been heard from the IN
rounding countries, but it is feared that thel
was much additional loss Of life.