The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-04-12

1t is reported from Washington that
the Government will soon establish an ex-
perimental farm near that city to ascertain
the causes of epidemic diseases among
cattle
THE baseball season was opened at
st. Louis, Mo-, on the 1st by a game be-
tween the st. Louis Club and the Grand
Avenues.
The amount remitted to Germany
from the United States for the relief of
sufferers by the Rhine floods up to the ID
inst. was Sl52,376.
The first star-mail route trial at
Washington lasted fifteen weeks. The
eighteenth week of the second trial began
on the 2d inst, when Merrick, of counsel
for the prosecution, resumed the cross-ex-
animation OF ex-senator Dorsey.
A GENERAL order has been issued by
the Navy Department changing the title of
the grade of master to that of lieutenant,
and the title OF midshipman TO ensign.
HIRAM SIBLEY q Co. New York, the
other day forwarded $4,000 packages of Sc
lected garden seed to the sufferers by the
late tornado at GrinnelI, Iowa.
SECRETARY CHANDLER expects to
have all the naval construction authorized
by the last Congress completed in fifteen
months.
THE firm of r. q G. Degener, New
York, i'm the West coast South American
trade, has suspended, with liabilities re-
ported at S50O,O0O; assets, S65O,OO0. One
cause of the failure attributed to the
impossibility of shipping various products
on account of the revolution in Ecuador.
CABLEGRANs from London, Eng, on
the 2d announced that the house of land
lord near Limerick, Ireland, had been
puudered. Detectives had left London for
America TO search for two murderers. The
Limerick police force had bcen reduced on
account of the improved condition of af-
fairs. The British War Of6ce was taking
measures TO thyvart the dynamite operators.
Threats against officials and Government
property continued to be made. The Fe-
mans were accused of sending smallpox in
lection through the mails.
RELIGIOUS riots between Buddhists
and Catholics in Ceylon recently were
quelled only by the troops. Many people
were injured.
A PORTION of the rolling-stocb of the
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Rail-
road Company has been seized at Albert
/ Lea, Mimi, at the suit Of the Northwestern
/ Fuel Company, which claims 81 ,25l, $50
1 damages for violation of contract.
4 CORNER i'm the English rice market
was reported ON the 81 inst,
THE investigation of the management
/ of the Massachusetts State Alms-house at
/ Tevksbury recently brought ont some shock
4 ing testimony as TO treatment Of inmates
/ and the handling of deceased paupers'
/ bodies.
A PETITION signed by a large number
/ of capitalists was presented to the Buffalo
+ IN. W City Council the other day, ask
/ ing a grant 60 build a tunnel under Niagara
/ River.
RECEIVER Brown has made state
meut to the stockholders and creditors of
4 Brown. Bonnel & Co., of Youngstown, O.,
/ showing the total assets to be SI,917,1oS 3;
4 total liabilities, Sl,39o,7l
/ A DEFENCE society has been formed
+ bv Europeans and Americans in India to
/ prevent a proposed extension of the powers
! of native courts.
4 PARTY of Yale students, who at
+ tempted to create a disturbance at an anna
/ tcur dramatic performance in New Haven
I the other night, were roughly used by town
boys, who did not regard the privileges of
intellect.
THE banking house Of c. H. Coy &
/ Co., formerly the Commercial National
Bank, of Cleveland, O., closed its doors the
other afternoon and made an assignment
for the benefit of creditors The liabilities
were stated at 100000 with assets about
/ the same amount. The house was one of
the Oldest banking houses in that city.
ALL the Apaches had been hunted
/ out of Sonora, Mex, into Arizona and New
/ Mexico, on the 81. The Indians were said
! 10 number about two hundred. Generals
! Crook and Carbo would cooperate in the
! campaign against them.
! GENERAL GRANT has been elected
President and life director Of the Ma.
| tional Rife Association.