The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-09-20
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.


Compiled from Various Sources.
CATTLE disease is so general in Eng
land that only American beef is obtainable
in some sections.
BOGARDUs and son were beaten on
the 18th in pigeon shoot at Reading, Pa,
by Isaac Eckert and Oliver Hinnershitz.
The chief Nihilist organ of St
Petersburg, which was suppressed some
months ago, recently resumed publication.
ADMIRAL. SIR RICHARD CoLLINsON.
who commanded the expedition which went
in search Of Sir John Franklin in 1880, died
on the 18th.
DURING recent land-rent riots in
Hungary about fifteen men were killed by
a volley from the troops. Collisions were
growing more frequent and serious.
THE federation of the trades and
labor unions at Washington had taken
steps to organize a society to protect young
women from the insolence of dudes.
THE Canadian Government contem-
plates allowing a sum Of money for each
child brought into the country through Car
dinal Manning's immigration schemes.
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THE Ohio convention to choose dele
gates to the Louisville Colored Convention
had been postponed to the Goth. The Mary
land colored voters viii send delegation.
THE National Vinegar Association
had petitioned the Internal Revenue Com
missioner for the privilege of running low
wines as high as twenty-nine per cent.
proof.
SUPERINTENDENT KDBALL of the
Life-Saving Service has completed his in
spection of stations on the lakes. He rec
ommends telephone connections between
stations.
THE Directors of the Second National
Bank at Warren, o., entered suit on the 18th
against the bondsmen of defaulting Cashier
Fuller, to secure the amount of his bond,
$4,000.
THERE were continued reports on the
10th of the damage to unmatured crops by
frost throughout the Northwest. The
Eastern States also suffered to a consider
able extent.
A TRADE-UNION conference in Bir-
mingham, Eng, on the 18th adopted a reso
luton calling on the Government to take
possession of uncultivated lands for gen
eral distribution.
In the investigation as to the cause o.
the recent Riverdale steamboat explosion
on North River, N. Y, it was shown tha
the boiler was leal1y, and that the engineer
had once blown up tug.
THE Greeley relief expedition haC
returned on the 18th and reported being
unable to reach the men at the Arctic
station. The relief ship Proteus was
wrecked and the. crew returned to New
foundland in the Yantic.
A STATEMENT prepared at the Wash
ington Money Order Office, based upon th'
returns for one week from 100 smalle
money order Offices, show that forty-tw'
per cent. transmitted by the money orde
service was in postal notes.
EXPORTS Of domestic produce (eNelu
sive of specie) from New York for the wee
ended the 11th So, 1O7, 107, against S1,l72,69
the previous week. Total exports sine
January /, S2i7, ,l0G, ,007, against 1922, 81 "a
for the corresponding period i'll 1882.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the l3tI
says: The total paper circulation now out
standing is 1891 ,757 ,O60; total coin circulG
tion, S743, ,347 ,573; grand total, S1,575, ,104
G42 Assuming the total population to b
$4,000, 600, the distribution per capita woul
be 5000.
A WOMAN with an alias for every cit