The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-05-06
CURRENT NEWS.

mated in San Francisco last Friday,
was once dry goods clerk in Mem
phis.
AIr. Hewitt declined to go to SYRIA
cuse under instructions to vote for
T'ildcn. lie says he is not a machine
man.
Congress has virtually given its as
sent to the proposition that New York
shall have an international exhibition
in 1883.
y majority of the Iowa delegates to
the Cincinnati Convention are said to
favor Il ticket composed Of Seymour
and Hendricks.
1t is said the Republicans of South
Carolina will not place State ticket in
the field, but will make the fight for
the electoral ticket
The rate of State taxation in MissiS-
sippi is So on 81 900. In 1874, under
Republican rule, the rate was 4,and
in 1873, it was $3.50.
Educational and moral qualifica-
tons for jurors in Kentucky hereafter.
That is not n bad measure. Let us
have intelligent jurymen.
Reports from the Virginia Republi-
can Convention indicate that while the
delegation to Chicago will be solid for
Grant, there will be great difficulty i'll
uniting them ON Il common electoral
ticket.
The Cincinnati Commercial says !:
1t is evident that Tilden is boss in his
own State Mr. Kelly bolted, as usual,
and had Il little side-show of his own.
We are of opinion that he over esti-
mates his Importance.
Two negro printers were engaged TO
work i'll the New York Witness office
last week, but upon taking their cases
all the other compositors left the estab-
lishment. The Northern States remain
the seat Of race prejudice.
General Hancock scores two more
States. Texas and Vermont have de
clarcd for him and the delegates tc
Cincinnati from those States will stand
beside those from Louisiana. 1t now
looks az if Mississippi will follow suit
Mr.. John Kelly, through his organ
the New York Star, proclaims his i'll
tention to continue the fight agains
Tilden. He says that the election o
Gen. Grant would be thousand timc
preferable to that of Tilden, which i
certainly going very far for Demo
crat.
If General Grant is nominated til,
irreparable mischief will have beer
accomplished. The time for the lead
ers of the party to act is before tn
nomination is made-to refuse to &C
cept any aspirant as candidate VIII
would weaken the party by deprivin!
it of votes-Philadelphia Inquire
Rep)
4 The Convention of National I.abo
Men and Greenbackers will meet Il
Chicago on the 9th of June, few day
after the Republican Conyention vii
have adjourned. Members Of tn
Labor-Greenback party now asser
that their organization will put tickle
up to stay, independent or any othe
convention.
The tide OF immigration from til
| Old World continues to increase
Should the present rate continue thi
year will show the greatest number O
Immigrants landed ut Castle Gardel
for several seasons. Two steamer
from Liverpool recently brought owe
Jointly 2,021 souls and still they com
i'll swarms every week.
| The "anything-to-beat Grant pa
pers are very mnch struck with tn,
idea that honor as a third presidential
nomination. If they keep proddin!
up the sleepy nation with this argu
ment it will be getting up just directly
and saying: Eyes, that's so. and come
to think of it, Grant has fairly earned
an exceptional honor. Boston Tray
Ter.
Reynolds, president of the Parson,
branch Of the Kansas Freedmen's Re
lief Association, and an earnest Grant
man, testified before the Exodus Com
mittee, the other day, that the negro
exodus into Kansas had not yet dam
aged that State very much, but that il
it continued next year it would ire
trieveably injure it as State for white
settlers.
Senator Cockrell, of Missouri, scored
a good point the other day Allison
had offered an amendment to a pend
ing bill requiring the President to ap-
point annually two colored cadets to
West Point. Cockrell opposed the
proposition vigorously, and rather