The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-01-04

THE other day the naval hospital at
Portsmouth, Eng, was visited by Queen
Victoria, Princess Beatrice, and the Duke
and Duchess Of Edinburgh, who conferred
decorations on a number Of convalescent
patients Of tie Egyptian campaign.
FROM a somewhat extended trip near
Munster, Prussia, Barney Horstman re-
turned to Lafayette, Ind, the other day.
About twelve years ago he came to America
to escape military duty. In January last he
went back on a visit, and after disagree
ment in settling the paternal estate a sister
in-law had him arrested for eyading mill
tary duty. He had to work out q six
months sentence for desertion in the mill
tary prison.
THE President the other day issued
an executive order setting apart certain
lands in Dakota Territory for the Turtle
Mountain band Of Chippewa Indians, and
such other Indians of the Chippewa tribe
as the Secretary Of the Interior may see fit
to settle thereon.
AT meeting the other day of the
creditors of J. A. s w. II. Sweeney, sus-
pended bankers at New York, James A.
Sweeney promised that every cent due
should be paid.
LONG distance handicap racing has
been introduced into the United States. In
a contest Of twelve hours, in Brooklyn, n.
Y, the other day, thirty of the best rum
ners of all nations participated. Norman
Taylor won by score of eighty three
miles.
A PUGILIsTIC contest, lasting ninety
minutes, took place the other day at New
ark, N. j., between Charles Gray and Fred
Reichert. Five hundred persons were pres
ent. Reichert fell unconscious in the twen-
ty-eighth round.
FIFTY SpiriLualists residing in Tran
tenau, Bohemia, were recently summoned
before a magistrate, and the local press
urged the Minister OF the Interior to insti-
tule an inquiry on the subject of spiritual
| ism.
ALL differences between the manu-
facturcrs and employees in the shoe trade at
Cincinnati, o., with reference to the
! schedule Of wages for the six months end
/ ing June 20 next were amicablv adjusted a
| few days ago by a board of arbitration.
FOR the five months which ended
| with November last, the number Of immi-
grants arriving in the United States was
! 244,GI1, against 291, 800 for the correspond
! ing term in 1SSl-a falling off OF 46, ,709.
/ For the month of November last the arrivals
numbered 40,G25, and in November, 1881,
/ the figures were 5I.5S6-showing a reduc-
/ tion Of lQ,9G1. In the five months this year,
/ Great Britain and Ireland sent 80, 490 OF
/ their people, or Is, 122 less than last year.
/ Germany's 8 quota for the same term this year
was 84,3O7. Last year it was 100,479, the re-
| duction this year being 16, IT, From Sweden
and Norway the arrivals in the five months
! Of 1882 were 6,S36 less than in the same
| bs Foy yxThiIa Canada
in the period named for 1882, and only 81, Al
in 1891. No other country named in the re-
turns gave US more people this year than
! last.
TIE Commissioner of Agriculture, in
his report to Congress relative to the work
Of his department, makes a formidable ex-
hibit OF the distribution of seeds alone.
/ Under the special appropriation by Con-
gress OF S20, 900 for seeds to the Southern
flooded districts, sos, ,958 packages were sent,
divided as follows: Vegetables, 414,8S6;
| field corn, 1854; field peas, 2G, 957; field
/ beans, 1864; field millct, Il, 3lS; field cot
ton, 159. The whole number of seeds sent
out 10y the burclu during the year was by
packages, 1895, 476. or these packages
,09S, ,479 we're sent out through members OF
! Congress and senator's, 7,5SS through agri4
| cultural societies. 800, III through statistical
correspondents, 50S,95S as above mentioned
by special appropriation, and the balance,
552, ,274 packages to miscellaneous appH-
cants. OF the total number OF packages,
30,773 were cotton seed, 81, 951 wheat, 75,-
274 oats, 81, ,s97 corn, 7O,70O turntps, 179, ,452
flowers, L, ,651, ,704 vegetables, 83,215 tobac-
co, 26,957 peas and IA ,S35 strawberry. These
are the principal items. There were 107
kinds OF vegetables, 10 kinds of wheat, Sc
kinds of flowers, 13 kinds of corn and 19
kinds of sorghum. The proportion OF
flower over grain packages is three to one.
THE Cooperative Dress Association,
at New York City, of which Kate Field was
President, closed its store a few days since.
The assets were stated at 200; liabilities,
$I25 900.