The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-04-22
CURRENT NEWS.


Over 400, 900 European Immigrants
expected to come to this country dur
ing the year.
Fifty-two newspapers and maya
zines of this country are edited by
colored men.
Bismarck sick. GortschakoF dying
and Beaeonsfeld politically dead.
Thus We see three great chancellors
to-day.
Samuel J. Tilden sent to Duchess
of Marlborough relief fund So, 600
last week, making $4,000 he has
given in all to the suffering poor of
Ireland.
The roll of the Grant club, at Gin
cinnati, is rich in the historic names of
Grants cousins, a detachment of the
grand army Of kith and kin who were
among the supporters and ornaments
of mis- administration.
Lord Beaconsfeld has returned to
London, and is engaged in Downing
street, preparing to move out. The
servant is instructed to reply to in
quirers respecting his health that he is
as well as could be expected.
The general reduction of the price
of iron means reduced wages and,
therefore, labor troubles. The boom
III this great industry has been pushed
too fast and too far, and the reaction is
a natural result of the forcing pro
cess.
One of the peculiar features of our
system of public robbery, called "pro-
lection Of American industries" is
that it taxes thousands to benefit hun
dreds. The great industries and the
communities engaged in them are com
PEELED to pay tribute to comparatively
trivial interests. It is like robbing
100000 men of ten dollars each tC
enrich 100 men.
The Commissioner of AgricuItuere
Statistics and Mines has received a let
ter from company organized in Edin
burg, Scotland, with a capital of $500
600, making inquiries relative to the
purchase of lands in Tennessee upor
which to settle colonies. This com
, pany was organized for promoting emf
grafton from the agricultural district
: OF Scotland to the United States.
The returns of April 1st to the De
partment Of Agriculture shows an in
crese in the area sown in wheat las
fall to be IL per cent. more than il
; the fall previous. Ia the area sown il
rye there is a decline of 6 per cent. a
compared with the previous year. Tn
condition is SO, same as last year
There was large increase in the fal
: sown wheat in those States that here
J.. tofore have exclusively been sown i
Spring.
T On the &c, at Nashville a heav
fight is to be made in the United State
circuit court, Judge Whitney presiding
in the case of Stevens Us. Tennesse
:; railroad, on the twenty-sixth instant
u a large array of counsel will appear
{ The counsel for plaintiffs are Charlie
OConOr, of New York, Andrews
. Hoadley, of Cincinnati; and Sam Wa
Z. son, of Nashville. Counsel for defer
e dants are Stanley Mathews, of CinciI
u natl; Isaac Caldwell and Russell Hou
> ton, of Louisville; Charles F. Soutl
e mayd, Of New York; Judge Fentres
j of Bolivar; Luke E. Wright, B. N
s Estes, and J. 3. Heiskell. of NJ emphis
, y VIM. Baxter, of Knoxville Edwa1
/ Baxter and Smith & Allison, of Mas
n vile.
Is Chicago, April 9.-This mornin
n there were 119 prisoners at the Mad
h son street station. All but a doze
ic were taken from five cent Iodgin
d house which was raided by the polio
n In a single basement room there wei
he crowded nearly 200 tramps and loafer
Of filthy beyond description. They ha
If no bedding of any Kind, either feathC
lie or straw, and nothing about them b.
a. reeking and stcamy atmosphere. r..
officers we're nearly suffocated by ii
stencil. The bed accommodations co
sisted OF shelving put up on all sid
of the room. The stove in the cent
of the apartment gave out stupif
Of ing heat, which, with the heavy al
to forced an unnatural sleep. Wht
s. searched on their arrival at the static
house the sum of three cents was c.
he lected from the gang, together wi
it broken bladed knives and crumbs
free lunch. Many were intoxicate
ly but too imbecile to offer any resistanc
V. When Gagged they filled the cells
;e- overfowing.