The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-04-06


allowed to enlist.
The Bavarian government has put a
sudden stop to dUelling by denying Christian
burial to persons killed in this manner, hold
ing them in the eyes of the law the same as
suicides.
The yacht Octavia, captured by a
Spanish gunboat, had cargo of 243 boxes of
powder, 4S boxes of cartridges, u boxes of
shells, 100 rifles, $50 carbines and two pieces
of artillery.
A great eruption of Mount Vesuvius
is in progress. The scene as observed from
a distance is grand iii the extreme. The
eruption threatens to be one of the most
violent for many years.
An epidemic of tyPhOidal character has
just broken out in a Lancashire (England)
village of about 500 inhabitants, where 100
people were taken i'll. 1t was shown CON
cIusiveIy that the poison came from the milk
of a sick COW.
The last discovered grievance of the
Christians in Turkey is a strange one. Hith-
erto they have paid small pell tax and been
exempt from military service. By virtue of
equality with the Mussulmans they now claim
admission into the ranks, and are clamOrous
for the very burden to escape which two
thirds of the French and German conscripts
would readily pay good round sum.
4 Paris dispatch says an arch of the
railroad bridge of the river III, near Latter
bach, gave way under the pressure of the
foods. passenger train from MulhOuse,
for Strasburg, which was crossing at the time,
riages fell on top of one another and were
dashed to pieces. Owing to the violence of
the stream, none of the passengers could be
saved. All were either crushed to death or
drowned. Thirty corpses have already been
recovered.
Telegraphic advices from Mexico indi-
cate a crisis at Matamoras. The Mexican
general summoned the merchants of that
city to his office and gave them to understand
that they would be forced to come down
with $780, to put the city in a state of de-
fense against the revolutionists, who are ap-
preaching it, ten thousand strong. One
merchant was thrown into prison for non
compliance. American merchants there
have been so enormously taxed that they
have been compelled to resort to an appeal
to the United States consul for protection.
The siuation in Mexico is becoming seriously
interesting.
The French government has published
an official report on the Paris commune of
1871, and the fate of the captured commun-
lists. The report shows that over 2OO, 900 men
IF
Q COO officers. 1t shows also that the total
number of prisoners was $4,000, including
. 700 soldiers, $50 women and $50 young per
sons of sixteen years of age or under. About
l 900 were released very soon after their
arrest. Soon after 10000 more were set at
liberty about 5000 of them discharged as
havin been imprisoned wrongfully, the rest
freed for want of evidence; six months later
1900 more were discharged. Out of the
women only 200 were sent to trial; of the
children only eighty. The courts first dealt
with about 5000 principal offenders, but
afterwards disposed regularly of about 1000
ordinary cases month of these they con-
demned about $500, acquitted about 1000,
and released about 1000; about one per
cent OS their sentences were annUlled on
appeal; twenty three men and eight women
were executed, but always for some signal
crime Out of the 10000 convicted, two
thirds were sentenced to simple transporta-
tion or to Imprisonment without hard labor.
I1ESCELLANEOUS.
Fourteen bodies have been recovered
from the ruins of the alms-house fire at Nor
wich, Conn.
The United States government loses
500, 600 a year in the manufacture of postal
cards, to say nothing OF the cost of carrying
tbem as mail matter, and they claim that if
the government should abolish stamped en-
velopes, wrappers and postal cards, it would
save s., 100000 year.
Prof c. V. Riley asserts that in 1874
the southern states lost $2O,OOOOOO by the
cotton worm in a single week; that III 1871
$3O,OOO,O6O worth of grain was ruined by the
chinch-bug; and that in 1873, 1874 and 1875.
the Rocky mountain grasshopper destroyed
food to the amount of S5OOO0,000.
The Portuguese government has asked
the cortes for the sum of thirty-three thou
sand dollars, in order to render the Portu-
guese display at the centennial exhibition as
attractive and complete as possible. This
sum is intended for two sections in particU-
lar, the agricultural and industrial.
The construction Of a steamboat for
exhibition at the centennial has been begun
mt the centennial works, New York. 1t will
he fifty feet long and ten feet wide, with iron
frame sheathed with wood. 1t will cost about
twenty thousand dollars, and is expected to
be a model of beauty, symmetry and speed
The new steamboat bill allows the con
veyance of coal-oil at igniting point of 10 in
metallic cases on any passenger steamer, and
at $50 in barrels, all oils to be carried on
deck or in the forecastle, as far as possible
from the furnaces. The present law forbids
the carrying of oil in any way on passenger
steamers, when there are any other means ol
transportation.
Senator Frelinghuysen reported in
favor of disposing Of the japanese indemnity
fund in accordance with the petition of the
New York chamber of commerce, which, we
believe, gives it to the cause of education il
Japan. This is simple justice to that coun
try, as the indemnity, amounting to S75O,OC
was forced from Japan by a species of dis
honorable bullying. The real damage,
amounted only to $4,000, and grew out o.
injuries inflicted en- an American vessel II
| 1868 by a reDellious vassal of the japanese
government The $4,000 was paid, but oul
government united with the French, Dutch
and English in a fresh demand for $1,000,
| 600, of which S75O,OO0 fell to the share of tn,
| United States.
Mr.. Wright, the United States grangt
| commissioner, has returned to England afte
| an extensive tour on the continent. Hi
| report is in the main gratifying. He me
! with considerable success in Germany. Whil