The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Summary of the Most Important Events
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Fruit froze on the trees in Vermont Tues
day night.
The coinage at the various mmts for Sep
tember amounted to $7,s47, 300, of which
100000 were standard dollars.
The decrease of the public debt during
the last three months was $41, "a, $50. This
is at the remarkable rate of $166, 600, 900 a
year.
One hundred and twenty-five mail pouch
es, containing over 1900, 900 internal reye-
nue. stamps, face value $2,894 900, were
sent out yesterday.
The widow of Major A. D. Danks, late
Stationery Clerk of the Senate, has given
up her former residence here, and Will soon
remove to her old home in Mississippi with
her children.
DR.. II Hawkes. has been appointed
Assistant Surgeon in the army, and is as
signed to duty in Washington as assistant
to DIR. Norris. DR.. Hawkes. was tutor
President Garfeld's boys, and is popular
gentleman.
1t is expected that twenty-four feet will
he added to the Washington Monument this
season, when the hcghth will be two hum
dred and fifty feet, or just One-half of the
total heighth to which it is proposed to car
ry the stOne-work.
Dispatches from Marion, Ohio, tells of the
deliberate assassination there of Frank
Foster, prominent young business man,
by Orrin DePugh. Foster was shot with
out warning while standing in the store Of
Timothy Kelley.
Dispatches from all parts of New Eng
land indictae the thermometer below freez-
ing point and considerable damage done to
crops. 4 dispatch from Stowe, Vermont,
states that it began showing there this af-
ternoon. Fruit is frozen to the trees.
The paying teller III Brunswick's Savings
Bank, Brooklyn, has been arrested on the
charge of taking $4,000 of the funds since
January 1st, and concealing the fact by
forgery and false entries, Inadequate sal
airy is one reason assigned for the crime.
The Government has fixed no valuation
upon mutilated silver coin other than the
market value of the silver they contain.
They are purchased at the mints by weight
as bullion, and the value depends upon the
price of silver on the day the coin is re-
ceived at the mint.
Mrs. Paris, the widow of A. K. PARIS,
who was governor OF Maine from 1922 to
1927, is living i'll Washington at the great
age of ninety-ive years. Her faculties are
still keen and active. and she delights i'll
"reminiscences especially liking to de-
scribe the entertainment of Lafayette upon
his last visit to this country.
Senator Il. B. Vance has issued an adj
dress $40 the people Of North Carolina i'll
which lie discusses the railroad question
now agitating that State. He declares open
and unqualified war upon the Richmond
and DanviIle Syndicate, and cites a num-
Der of cases of discrimination on the part
of the roads in North Carolina under the
control of the Syndicate,
Rev. Stuart Robinson, D. D., after suffer
ing from cancer Of the stomach for the past
eighteen months, died at his home in Louis
Vile on Wednesday. DR.. Robinson was
propably the most prominent and one of the
ablest American divines. He was born in
Strabane, County Tyrone, Ireland, in the
year 1914, and was consequently in his six
ty-seventh year at the time of his death.
The manager of the Panama Canal Com
pany, just arrived from the Isthmus, states
that work on the canal was advancing rap
idly. Twelve hundred men are employed
at present on excavations, and tits expect
ed to have eight thousand at work by De-
cember The sum of $250,000 has been
spent on the works so far, and drafts are in
the hands of bankers of this city for half a
million more from shareholders in Europe.