The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-11-22

IN the investigation into the Greedy
relief expedition failure, on the 14th, Gen.
eraI Hazen testified that the supplemental
memorandum formed no part of CARING
toms instructions. darlington showed
me-" said witness, "all his orders, and
told him he must be controlled by the regu-
lar orders 1 had given him and by direc-
tions of Greedy, on which they were found
ed. Greely's letter was law to me, and I
didn't feel authorized to give any orders
that would conflict with it.''
TIE military were called out to quen
a riot in Kief, r.us "a. on the 10Th.
THE German Government proposes
to build fifty torpedo boats.
-SURGEON-GENERAL HAMILTON favOrs
a National quarantine system.
The American Bishops suggest 2 Pa
pal Nuncio for the United States.
ADMIRAL COURBET, the French COM
mander in Tonquin, has malaria.
The cotton mills at Lawrence, Mass,
are beginning to curtail production.
RECEIPTS of Lake Superior iron ore at
Cleveland fell off sixty per cent. during the
| season just closing.
THE General Missionary Conference
of the Reformed Church OF America closed
on the 10Th at Philadelphia.
Norris Brown, Postmaster at
Brownsville, Pa, was arrested on the 10th
on charge of opening letters.
COMMENTS of the French press on the
German Grown Princes visit to Madrid are
not pleasing to the Prussians.
A PRUssIAN who lately arrived in
Cleveland, O., killed himself by drinking
fifteen glasses of whisky in fifteen min
utes.
Two large lumber-yards burned at
Oshkosh, Wis, during high gale the
18th. For time a large part of the city
was threatened.
EXPORTS of breadstuffs for ten
months past were S145, ,CS2, 1874, being about
! IS, ,O00, ,OOJ less than for the corresponding
time last year.
OXFORD and Franklin Counties, Me-,
have been visited by a cyclone which de
/ stroyed barns, cattle and farm property to
! the amount of S150,000.
SAMUEL T. NIXON, manager of the
! Chestnut Street Theater in Philadelphia,
was held in $500 bail on the 10Th for failing
to pay a license of $500.
The National Reform Association,
which has for its object the amendment OF
! the Federal Constitution so as to express
the Nations homage to God, meets in Cleve-
land, December II.
LEE HIRsCH, a clothier of Terre
Haute, Ind, who failed recently, was ar
rested on the 18th on a requisition from the
Governor of Ohio for obtaining goods un
der false pretenses from Herzog s. Co., Of
| Cincinnati.
JOHN ALFRED BURGAN, late Mana
ger of the Union Bank of Birmingham
Eng, convicted Of forging bills of exchange
and falsifying accounts, was sentenced on
the 18th to fifteen years Imprisonment.
THE Secretary of War in his esti-
mates, which have been submitted to the
| Treasury Department, recommends the ap
| preparation of $8,O00,O0O to be expended OF
river and harbor improvements during the
| coming fiscal year. This is only SIS, 200, ,00(
less than the engineers estimates of what
could be profltably spent during the year
on the works now in progress.
SECRETARY TELLER has rendered an
important decision in reply to question o.
the Commissioner of Pensions asking for &
proper and uniform construction of the Re
vised Statutes concerning pensions to de
pendent mothers. The Secretary maintain:
that if a son was minor the father was
entitled to his services, or if not living the
mother was so entitled, and therefore de
pendent father or mother should be allowed
a pension.