The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-02-08
THE Kentnckv conrfs latelu ouerrnIed

4 HE h6IltuGhy COaEl Is ldJCly OFeEEuleQ
a motion to quash murder Indictment on
the ground that the jury was chosen in ac-
cordance with the STATE Jaw from whites ex-
clusivcly. The United States Supreme Court
has reversed the ruling.
The State Department at Washing
ton the other day made a formal request of
the Canadian authorities for the return Of
Hall, the New Jersey fugitive.
AT Rutland, VT, the Supreme Court
the other day discharged three persons
serving long sentences imposed by Justices
courts for selling liquor, on the ground that
the liquor law was unconstitutional when it
allowed such commitment, not giving the
accused the right of appeal.
THE County Medical Society held a
special meeting at New Y orl the other even
ing, and, by vote Of 147 to 90, adopted the
new medical code, which allows aHopaths to
consult in cases Of emergency with regular
homeopath practitioners.
LATE German papers suggested an
international court to deal with collisions at
sea.
A BILL has been introduced In the
House of Representatives at Washington to
give the widow Of Lieutenant De Long a
pension OF fifty dollars month.
THE furniture in Engineer MelvilIe's
house in Sharon Hill, Pa, was seized by the
Sheriff the other day TO satisfy Mrs. Mel.
ville's creditors, and a mortgage on the
property held by Miss Polish had been
foreclosed.
SWITZERLAND has rejected the nat
uralization treaty which was offered her by
the United States.
THE Canadian ice carnival closed the
other night with torch-light procession of
snow-shoe clubs.
FAMINE was reported as prevailing
in South Russia, January 31st, and many
peasants were said to have committed sui
eide to escape witnessing the misery of their
starving families.
THE London Times of recent date
said the most uncertain element in the con-
ditions affecting the value Of money in 1888
was the action Of the American Congress in
regard to the aIiff bill and currency legis-
Iation.
Boston capitalists have formed a
company to build a railroad from Silver
City, n. BL, to Clifton, Ariz., at a cost of
y, 500, 900.
TIE Michigan Grape Sugar Com
pany, which expended 1890, 600 on its plant
at Detroit, the other day decided its entire
property to some New York creditors, who
assumed a mortgage Of $4,000.
A TELEGRAM from Limoges, France,
the other day stated that 1890 porcelain
makers were on a strike at that place.
THE MiIlers' National Convention,
which met in special session at Cleveland o.,
a few days ago, offered premium Of 81 900
for any invention by which bran or ship
stuffs could be compressed so as to effect a
saving Of five cents per hundred pounds.
THE employees at the Pittsburg Chain
works, New Brighton, Pa, struck the other
day against ten per cent. reduction. The
works were idle.
The Prussian Government estimates
the cost OF the proposed extension Of the
state railroads at 76,126, 300 marks.
THE Chamber of Commerce, of New
York, the other day adopted a petition TO
Congress asking the suspension of the coin
age OF silver dollars, and would memOrialize
Congress upon the subject of the prOhibi-
tiOn Of the importation of American pork.
The printer of Prince Jerome's recent
in Paris, France, has been fined
400 francs.
MERRICK, counsel for the Govern
ment in the star-route trials at Washing
ton, in conversation with a newspaper cor
respondent the other day, said: "The Gov.
eminent is making its case against the star
route cOnspirators stronger every day, and
in the course Of four or five weeks-not
later than siX-we think we will finish the
trial. Should the evidence continue to ac-
cumulate against Brady and his associates,
we do not anticipate any trouble in sending
them over The road to Albany. There can
lie no let-up in the case now, and we will
push forward with all the speed possible,
but do not anticipate any delay beyond six
weeks"
TIE first through train from New
Orleans for san Francisco, over the Southern
Pacific route, went into San Antonio, Tex,
the other evening on time.