The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-03-22

A SUIT Tor te0U,UOO damages mas Deen
brought by Colonel Thomas Worthington.
Of Cincinnati, o.. against Third Auditor
Keightlev, Of the Treasury Department. for /
alleged statements contained in official re-
ports that tended to defeat the plaintiffs |
claim for pay for supplies furnished Camp |
DennisOn. o., during the war of the rebel |
hon.
A MEETING Of the shoe manufacturers
i'm New York the other day determined to |
resist in the courts the royalty demanded by |
the Donald Mckay Company for the use of
their machines. The Company's patent ex-
pired July 6, 1879. Since that time over
-, 600 900 have been paid them.
TIE issue of standard silver dollars
from the mints for the week ended on the
10th was S269000; for the cores sponding
period last year, S144, 400.
THE Commissioner of Pensions has
ruled that pension agent cannot collect
fee for. prosecuting claim for increase Of
pension. .s.as .IaslE-tE .l1s#
The Secretary of the Navy is prepar
ing to send cargo OF gifts to the Tehuckches
Indians at St. Lawrence Bay, as a return
for assistance to the crew Of the burned war
shin RoAgers. wmR Rm
RRCEsE. intelIigence from. Paris
Francs, states the emeute there Vvasdue te
the act that &C, 900 people were out Of END.
ployment. Travellers we're givlAg that city
a wide berth owing to its unsettled condi.
''0r, IVES, BEloHpR & Co. New York
! liquor dealers, failed recently for half a mill
I lion dollars,
THE creditors ofG. H. Taylor & Co,
Z Chicago (HI.} paper nanufactuFeFs who
I recently failed for S867, 600, have agreed to
accent forty cents on the dollar in from
three to twelve months. a---. .-
TnE assignment. of Griffin & Co.,
merchants, New York City, with Liabilities
/ OF SI25s 600. has been announced, - e-sa.
THE recent failure Of Humphrey q
Co., the New YORK hide aud leather frm,
was said to be for nearly RmiliOn dollars.
PLANTING operations around Skip
With, Miss, were progressing rapidly ow-
ing to the fine weather on the 18th. The
river at Helena, Ark, was still declining at
the rate Of two inches per day. 1t was de-
cliniug steadily at Memphis also.
THE ice was rapidly breaking up at
Davenport and Dubuque, Iowa, on the
14th, owing to the mild weather. The in-
dications were that the river at those points
would be clear in few days HErrr
THREE HUNDRED clerks were recently
discharged from the Pension Bureau in
order to keep the expenses within the ap-
preparation.
The American association of base
ballists, in session at St. Louis, Mo-, selected
umpires on the 18th, adopted schedules and
concluded their business. s. p f1E
CLARENCE HITE, the train-robber re-
Gently pardoned out OF the Missouri Peni-
, tentiary, died at his home in Logan Coun-
1,x,
, FATHER O'MALLEY, 8 well-known
priest Of Oshkosh, Wis. published card
the other day pronOuncing the recent mar
riage Of Mrs. McCourt and Senator Tabor as
null and void. e
THREE THOUSAND weavers in the
IIuddersfield(Eog. District struck recently,
owing to = disagreement with she masters
regarding wages. a-s--e
4 DE LEssEPs, the French engineer, has
gone to TI1uis to direct surveys for the flood
ing OF the desert.
d The net profits of the Western Unior
+ Telegraph Company for 1882 were So, ,624, ,833
AT Philadelphia, Pa, one hundred
and twenty five operatives in Greenlee j
1 sons cotton mills struck recently for an ad
vance in wages, and it was said were intim
y idating men willing to take their places.
0 RECENTLY submitted schedules of tn
assignment OF Richard Saiembier, of New
York., importer of laees, gave the liabilitie
as S144, $40; actual assets, SAG, ,424. ...r
:. IT was reported recently that DR.. Bed
lock, OF Philadelphia, Pa, acting as agen
a OF Prince Bismarck, was negotiating for tn
purchase Of several million acres in Mexico
for settlement by German ernigrants. Th
> land selected was said to be rich in ores an
" plants. rrE-.. rrs. r.Ha #-.s
= A NEW telegraph company has bee
Ie formed in New York. the projectors 9
le which profess an intention Of building lin
from the city Of New York through Penn
If sylvania, ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, t
70 Chicago The capital stock Is $95, 600.