The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-05-14

are rather favorable. Wisconsin makes
quite good showing.
ENGLAND sensibIy declines to inter
fere IN the internal affairs of Spain bv
recognizing the Carlists as belligerentg.
The importation into Finland or Rus.
sian territory of American potatoes, or
sacks or any other article which con-
tanned them, is prohibited.
IT is estimated that at least two hun
dred thousand people attend the meet
lngs OF the American Egangelists in
London during a single week.
CHIOAGo's MuIlet-buiIt custom boDse
walls are so shakey that they will prob
ably be torn down. Supervising Archi-
tect Potter is of this opinion.
The Spanish press Is being treated
with unusual rigor by the new govern
ment. Not a foreign telegram can be
printed which has not been examined
at the ministry of the interior.
LATE mail advices report the wheat
and rye in eastern Elrope as promising
a fine yield this year. From Bohemia.
Hungary, Styria, Moravia, the reports
all accord. There is no complaint of
frost except in Pomerania.
A BRITISH brig, the James Birney,
has been caught stealing men from The
Hawes group of islands in the Pacific,
under the American flag. The natives
have captured her and murdered half
the crew. The rest escaped in the ships
boats.
In letter received at Washington
from a naval officer at Port Royal, who
is In direct communication with assist
ant surgeons at Key West, he saws
there have been two more deaths from
yellow fever at that port, and several
new cases have appeared.
The New York World says "The
work of the truant agents. charged
with enforcing the compulsory school
ing act goes bravely on. They COM
prehend all vagrant boys, who are only
released on giving the number of the
house where they don't reside and
promise to attend school which they
have no intention of keeping"
THE issues of postage stamps of all
kinds by the postofice department
during the month of April last amount
ed to little in EXCESS of s., SOC, 900.
This is al increase of about twenty per
cent on the issues for the correspond
ing month last year, and is by far the
largest amount ever issued in any one
month by the department.
A DISPATCH from Muskogae, Indian
territory, says that water-spout burst
Friday rear Honey Sprirg,, which was
followed by the severest rain-storm for
many years. Bridges and cuIverts were
washed away, and the track Of the Mis-
souri,. Kansas and Texas railroad near
Elk creek submerged and undermined.
No loss of life reported, but great dam
age to property.
The English admirers Cf Stonewall
Jackson have had constructed a bronz
statue of that general, and have written
to Gov. Hemper, of Virginia, asking if
the state will accept and place it in
conspicuous place in the city of Rich
mOnd. The statue is q standing one,
of heroic size, cast in bronze, and the
likeness is considered exact. OF course,
Virginia will accept.
THERE'S a communication in the dead
letter Office, Washington, D. c., for g his
q. S. A, to be left till called for" 1t was
sent from New York, May 4, 1861, and
Is from Conrad Brewster, upholster,
No. 800 Broadway. 1t reads as follows:
As soon as you take possession of the
White House, should like to receive
. the job of refurnishing the same, which
I guarantee to do on the most liberal
terms"
THE placing of mail boxes in the
Chicago street cars has proved a very
successful and popular experiment.
Most of the lines pass by the Postof-
fee building on one street or another,
and the mail boxes are empted on each
trip. Thus a man living six mil es dis
tant from the office, has his mail deliv-
cred as quickly as though he had taken
the car himself and deposited it in per-
son. The innovation commends itself
for adoption in ell largo cities.
The New Orleans papers are begin
ming their annual wrangle about the
quarantine question. There has been
dispute for years as to the efficacy of
quarantine when yellow fever is on its
march, many eminent doctors claiming
that the fever is indigenous to New Or
leans. The business men of New Or
leans also object to the structures on
commerce entailed by the quarantine.
& few days ago a petition was sent to
the board of health signed by large
number of medical men, who stated
that the system had proved failure
and should be abolished.
The nev twenty. silver pieces,
designed, principal,, for circulation
on the Pacific coast, viii soon be cast at
the Philadelphia mint. There Is moth