The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-04-23

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IT is definitely settled that his royal
highness, the prince of Wales, will go
to India next winter, country which.
though forming magnificent part of the
British empire, has never been visited
by a scion of the royal house. i
OFFICIALS in Washington say that
more than one hundred persons are
now serving out a term of imprison-
ment for counterfeiting, or passing
counterfeit money, who were pupils of
Mccartney, the noted counterfeiter, ar
rested in Texas few days ago.
A STRINGENT bill touching the Catho
lie clergy has been presented in the
Prussian diet, designed to nullify the
appointments of the Vatican in Ger
many and still farther bring the clergy
under the civil laws. A remonstrance
has been presented, but remonstrances
do not have any weight with Bismarck.
THE San Francisco Chronicle saws
that the Lick revocation difficulty is to
be settled up by a new deed to new
trustees, and Mr.. Lick's poor relations
are now to be provided for. The rela-
tions, it seems, stirred up the whole
trouble, as they could not bear to see
81, 100000 worth of handsome property
going out of their hands for the public
benefit.
THE United States army consists of
20, S91 enlisted men and 2, ,376 commits
stoned officers, prese nting the amazing
proportion of less than eleven soldiers
to each officer. West Point is hatch
ing new brood of 258 Iieutenants, who
Will be out of their shells next June,
and, with their accession to the shout
der strapped gentry, there will be less
than ten soldiers to each commissioned
officer.
The British admiralty have given
orders for the immediate destruction
of all vessels in the navy which do not
come up to modern requirements. Sew
eraI fine frigates whose ribs are per
fectly sound, and which, but a few
years since, were lognized as crack
sailing vessels, will be dem ished.
England means to put her navy on a
strictly war footing.
THE postof1ice department, few days
since, placed upon sale three cent. post
age stamps, manufactured upon an en-
tirely new principle. They are made
of two kinds of paper, one hard and
the other porous. The purpose is to
prevent the possibility of the washing
of stamps. This end is accomplished
by the new stamps, as the porous paper
absorbS the ink. The greatest Difficult
ty is that the stamps cannot be made
properly adhesive, and it is doubtful
whether the experiment will prove sue
CessEul
THE Indian commissioner throws all
the trouble aboat the Black Hills bust
ness on Gen. Clusters expedition last
fau, which he says was utterly uncalled
for and unnecessary. Hs further ac-
cuses the war department of having
little or no respect for the rights of the
Indians, affirming that nothing wouId
have been done toward keeping intrud-
ers from the auriferous reservation. if
the Indian bureau had not made the
most strenuous appeals for justice to
its charges.
ONE result of the raging railroad war
between the northern trunk lines, is a
marked depression of the shipping in
terests on the lakes, and the indisposi-
tion of ship owners to open up for the
spring business with their customary
energy. The reason assigned is that
the railroads are transporting grain to
the seaboard cheaper than the vessels
can carry it. ORners content them
selves, therefore, with such repairs as
will keep their vessels afoat, while a
large number will necessarily be laid
up permanently for the summer, if the
railroad war continues.
THE multitudmous adaptations of In
dia-rubber IN the manufacture of useful
and ornamental articles may be sudden
" checked by the limited supply of the
original material. The ever-increasiug
demand has led to thorough explora-
ton of the forests OF Darien for cout-