The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-03-25
NEWS SUMMARY.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


citizens from jury service in the courts of
that State. The Court holds that when
cOlOred citizen is tried for his life by a Jury
from which the citizens Of his own race are
by State statute expressly excluded he is de-
MED the equal protection Of law guaranteed
| by the third clause of the Fourteenth
Amendment to the Constitution, and that
| the State statute denying him such right is
! repugnant to said constitutional provision.
| Judgment Of the Supreme Court of Appeals
] of West Virginia is reversed. Justice Strong
| delivered the opinion, Justices Field and
Clifford dissenting.
! Rev. Edward Cowley, ex-manager of the
Shepherds Fold" in New York City, con-
victed of cruelty to children, has been taken
TO the State Penitentiary. The reverend
convict was at one time Chaplain to that in
stitution.
The President has withdrawn the name of
| ?. B. S. Pinehback as Naval officer at New
| Orleans, thus leaving Lewis, incumbent, ,un-
disturbed.
Surgeon General William Maxwell Wood,
U. S. Navy, died at his residence near
I Baltimore, Md, on the 1st, aged seventy
two.
Gems. Grant and Sheridan, on the I'd, re-
vieTEed the troops stationed in the City of
Mexico. 1t was a gala day in the Mexican
capital.
| J. W. Mackay has purchased from J. C.
Flood the latter's entire interest in the Com
stock mines and mills, valued at something
over So, 900 200.
The Kansas Democratic State Convention
will be held at Topeka, May 26.
Count Litta, First SecretaI IF the italian
Legation at Washington, is dead.
The National Union Greenback-Labor Con-
hoId iy7C ha
Ssme 21S delegates were present, represent
ing 10 States. Judge Stephen D. Dill
laye, of New Jersey, was nominated
for President, and B. J. Chambers,
of Texas, for Vice President. The
platform of March 4, 1879, was substantially
| readopted. A Committee of Conference
with the Chicago National Greenback Con-
| vention was appointed, and an adjournment
of the Convention to Chicago on June car
ried in the face of considerable opposition.
The Senate, on the 4th, rejected the nomi-
nation of Gen. Mcneil, of st. Louis, as
United States Marshal for the Eastern Dis
trict of Missouri. The vote stood seven
for confirmation and thirty-two for rejec-
ton.
James Russell Lowell has left Madrid for
London to assume his duties as Minister to
the Court of st. James.
National Bank, of Boston, convicted of en-
! bezzlement, has been sentenced to seven
years. Imprisonment.
The Tennessee Democratic State Conven-
tion has been called to meet at Nashville on
June 8, to select delegates to the Cincinnati
Convention.
A Berlin dispatch says that, with view
to affording Bismarck further relief from his
arduous duties, Count Won StoIberg Werni-
gerode, Vice-President of the Council of
Ministers, will be appointed Prussian Pre-
mier.
Representative Aiken, of the Committee on
| Agriculture, has introduced a bill making
the Department of Agriculture an executive
| department, and its head a member of the
| Cabinet. Representative Covert, Chairman
of the Committee, presented a minority re-
port, signed by himself alone.
The Ohio Prohibitionists held State Con-
ventiou at Columbus on the 5th and placed
in nomination full ticket of State officers
and Presidential Electors t-large.
Commodore Isaiah Hanscom, Chief of the
Bureau of Construction and Repairs of the
Navy Department, died on the 9th.
The Senate Committee on Appropriations
increased the amount granted for the a" starr
mail service deficiency from 81 ,07O, 900, as
granted by the House Committee, to s., $780,
600. The Committee, by a party vote,
adopted a resolution censuring the Post
office Department for creating deficiency by
90 disregarding the law which prohibits ex-
penditure of money in excess of appropria-
ton; which deficiency, unless supplied
threatens to deprive the people Of the neces
sary mail services to which they are en-.
titled"
The House Committee on Appropriations
have determined to press to passage the
several appropriation bills in order as fol
lows: Deficiencies in pay of MarshaIs
Diplomatic and Consular, and Indian. The
sub committees in charge of the remaining
regular appropriation bills which have no
yet been acted on by Congress have been no
titled that they shall proceed with the bills
now under consideration and press them tC
early completion.
The Senate Committee on Appropriation
will recommend for passage the bill to re
peal all laws which provide for permanen
and indefinite appropriations except so ia
as they relate to the sinking fund and to tn
payment of interest or principal of the pub
lie debt or of the bonds issued to the Pacif
, Railroad Companies and to certain othe
specified objects, such as the support Of tn
Marine Hospital service, etc. The bill ais
proposes a number of important changes il
the laws concerning - lapsed appropria
) tiOns.''
The ParneI reception in st. Louis on tht
evening of the 4th was a grand affair.
took place in the Chamber of Commerce
which was crowded to its utmost capacity
Gov. Phelps and other distinguished citi
zens were present and took part in the pro
ceedings. About $500 was netted as tn
result of the meeting.
The Committee on Invalid Pensions hav
! unanimously agreed to report favorably tn
bill introduced by Representative Clardy, c
! Missouri, providing for the payment of ar
i rears of pensions to the widows and mino
heirs of soldiers who died in the Unite
States service during the war of the rebellion
t or who have since died from wounds and in
7 juries contracted in such service.
The Indiana delegates-at-larg to tn
Chicago Convention are said to be divide
: in their Presidential preferences betwee
: Grant, Blaine and Washburne.
! ! The Greenbackers of the Seventh Indian
. District have renominated Gilbert De L
Matyr for Congress.
The Kentucky Democratic State ConveI
}, tion will be held at Lexington, June II.
! Col. B. J. Chambers, nominated by tE
y Greenback Convention at st. Louis for Vict
= President of the United States, is a residel
Of Cleburn, johnson County, Texas, and
Il regarded as one Of the wealthiest men
a the State. He is a lawyer, and at OF
: time was engaged in the banking bushes
% During the canvass of 1879 he publishe
q an open letter to Senator Coke, takir
h issue with him on the financial questio
4 which gave him considerable political not
! ! rietv