The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-04-15
CURRENT NEWS.

Rhode Island Democrats are for Til
den.
Minnesota Democrats are averse to
Tilden.
Wheat is looking well throughout
Middle Tennessee.
Tennessee Greenbackers convene at
May %.
GAINESVILLE Methodists are building
new house of worship.
Shelbyville has commenced to re-
build the burned district.
Mississippi appropriates about S1O,-
600 year to her colored shcools.
John Logue has been appointed
public guarding for Shelby County.
Senator Hill is condemned by the
Southern Bourbons as an Independ-
ent.
The Baptist Beacon is the name of
new UNCONVENTIONAL paper at Knox
vile.
General Butler still believes in the
vitality of the Greenback - Labor
party.
The East Tennessee peach. crop was
not materially injured by the cold
snaps.
Some knowing ones say that Ed
munds and Washburne may be the
ticket.
Twenty-odd persons recently left
Union and Claiborne counties for
Arkansas.
The Richmond State Democrat) Sc
lect Bayard as the best candidate for
the party.
The Cleveland wooden mills are to
be ready for reception of machinery on
the first of July.
Tennessee is nearly one-third larger
than Ireland, and Ireland has q popu-
lation of 100000.
The Louisville Courier-Journal says
that David Davis is a Democrat ''for
all practical purposes"
The Providence Journal shifts at
the idea of the Rhode Island delega-
ton all being for Blaine.
The Denver Tribune says the name
of Washburne has suddenly become q
formidable interrogation point.
Mud creek Tar creek, Snake creek,
Lick creek aud Jacks creek are a few
neigborhood names in McNairy coun-
ty.
$4,000 applications have been re-
ceived by Col. Killebrew for documents
descriptive of the resources of Tennes-
see.
Seventy-six towns in Connecticut
(about one-half the State) have
voted against the licensing the sale of
liquor.
Colonel r. c. Ingersoll says that he
believes Illinois will be for Grant, but
he personally has always preferred
Blaine.
The Philadelphia North American
rises to remark that no Democrat but
Hendricks can carry Indiana against
Blaine.
The Monroe doctrine is receiving
more attention from the Southern
press than the election of the next
President.
The Boston Herald thinks that the
Greenback party needs to be born
again and that it should be still-born
the next time.
The Davidson county Republicans
90 to Chicago instructed for Grant as
first choice for the Presidency and
Blaine as second.
Senator Cameron asked Toombs if
the southern people had ever found out
that the North had whipped them.
"Whipped us?" said Toombs, 'no sir;
you didn't whip US, but we wore cur
selves out whipping you"
It is reported, on what is believed
to be good authority, that the Demo-
cratic Delegations from California, Or
egon, Nevada and Colorado, to the
Cincinnati convention, will be GER
tainly for Judge Field, and that the
entire Pacific coast declares that it
viii certainly go for him if he is the
nominee.
Both houses Of the Kentucky Legis-
lature have passed bill providing that
the death penalty shall hereafter be in
flieted in some inclosure close to the
prison where the prisoner is confined, in
the presence Of not exceeding fry
ten of whom may be designated by TIE
.~.tr.-F a.as, crime h 80.