The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-05-20
CURRENT NEWS.
To-day the jackson statue is un
yelled, in Nashville.

To-day the jackson statue is UNI
yelled, in Nashville.
Democratic National Convention,
Cincinnati, Tuesday, June %.
The New York state senate has de-
clared in favor of the REIMBURSEMENT
of women.
COlOred jurymen were drawn Tues
day for the first time, to serve in the
city and state courts at Baltimore.
The Ohio friends of Senator Thur
man express great confidence that he
will be endorsed by the coming State
Convention and nominated and Cincin-
natl.
The next what crop in Europe will
be splendid one and in the United
States immense. The cheapest food
ever known Is predicted for next Sep
TENDER.
The state department at Washing
ton is informed by Mr.. White, minis
ter to Berlin, that the German govern
ment Will increase the circulation of
silver coin twenty per cent.
1t Is announced that Gen. B. F.
Butter has informed Senator Hereford
/ that if Justice Fields is the Democratic
candidate tor President he will go for
him and carry Massachusetts, for him
in November.
A revised bankrupt law is before
Congress for consideration and which
is likely to become the law of the land.
1t is said to an improvement OH the
old bankrupt law, and it Is to operate
uniformly throughout the United
STATED.
After a great amount of discussion
the committee on ways and means has
agreed TO report to the house the tariff
bill originally introduced by Mr.. Tuck
er. The bill, however, has been alter-
ed in many respects by the committee
in its efforts to meet the divergent
views Of various members.
AS Mr.. Hayes refused to approve
the deficiency appropriation and the
proposition to nave deputy marshals
! ivf election purposes appointed by
courts when joined together in the
same bill, the majority in congress are
about to give him an opportunity to
approve them separately.
The New York Times says with cru,
el sarcasm, that '.AIr. Sherman's
Southern supporters are merely serv-
ing him from likely sense of the val
nc of Their official positions. When
tie hOpelessness of his candidacy has
been demonstrated, their desertiOn Will
be precipitate and spontaneous.
The Republican convention at Chi
necessary to choice, 379. The New
York Tribune, which is bitterly OPP
posed to Grant, claims to have can
vassed the field very thoroughly, and
cstimrtes that out of the 600 delegates
already selected pa are for Grant
341 for Blaine 81 for Sherman; for
Edmuns, 81 for Washburne, IS.
! The third ermers are actually hang
ing out signals of distress. They pro-
pose that the Chicago ticket shall be
Grant and Sherman, which an appeal
To the Sscretary's friends to accept the
Vice-Presidency. Three weeks ago
they offered the same bait to Blaine,
but he declined 10 bite at it. fisher
man declines, they will probably offer
it to Edmunds. The third-termers
find that thOy need allies.
1t has been estimated recently in
Germany that, in the last thirty years,
that country has lost 2,500,0 900 of its
population by emigration, nearly the
whole number coming to the United
States. There is world {, f meaning
in the statement. 1t has been said
that every able bodied immigrant ar
irving on our shores is worth 1000. If
this be correct, Germany has sent us
brain, bone and or the value of 81, O00,-
600, O00-two and a half times as great
rs the indemnify exacted of the French
III the war of 1870, and considerably
greater than our own national debt at
this time.
Cincinnati Enquirer of the 9TH inst.
saws: Behind the triumph of Thur
man in Yesterdays Ohio convention
stands the thinly-disguised victory of
Samuel J. Tilden. Not one of the
delegates at large, chosen by the con-
vention, believes that Mr.. Thurman's
nomination possible, though they will
all, doubtless prove loyal to the in
structions of the convention, within
the limits of that devotion which is
measured by common sense. The sig
nifcant fact is that these delegates, so
believing, have been selected by an
anti-Thurman combination, by cOali-
tion of which Mr. l'ildcn Is the unhid
den, acknowledged head.