The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-01-11

SOME person unknown had for two
years devoted his time mainly to annoying a
musician OF Providence, r. l., named
Arthur p. Ryder, by sending him vast guam
titles Of commercial circulars and samples
Of goods, the latter often coming by express.
The other day load Of bricks was sent to
his place OF business.
THE hollOw-ware glass furnace of
Thomas Bodine & Co, at Camden, n j.,
resumed operations few days since.
A NUMBER of State Legislatures con-
vened on the ID. The Pennsylvania Senate
chose John E. Reyburn as President. John
Z. Faunce, Democrat, was elected Speaker
OF the House, and P. Gray Meek Chief Clerk.
The Nebraska Legislature organized bv
electing Democratic and anti Monopoly
officers in the Senate. G. H. Humphreys,
Republican, was elected Speaker of the
House. The New York Legislature elected
Alfred G. Chaplin Speaker Of the Assembly.
The Ohio Legislature convened with a
quorum in both houses. The Governors
message was presented and read.
THE Mayor of Jersey City, N. j., was
cited to appear in court few days since
and show cause why a tax levy OF 1882
should not be set aside on the ground that
exemptions of railroad property were in VI
olation of the fourteenth amendment of the
Constitution of the United States.
SEVERAL large gaps had appeared in
the walls OF the central tower of the Peter
borough Cathedral, London, Eng, the other
day. The tower was to be demolished.
The Cathedral was said to be one of the
finest in England.
The Bureau of Statistics recently pre-
pared a valuable table showing the average
ad yalOrem rates of duty collected from the
various classes of imports during the fiscal
! year, 1882. The amount OF duty collected
was A. 10 100 per cent. OF the value Of the
dutiable imports. The average ad valorem
rates of duty on leading articles of
! imports were as follows, emitting the
| fractions of one per cent: Sugar,
mOlasses and confectionery, 80 per
cent; wool and manufactures Of wool, 81
/ per cent; silk and manufactures of silk, 50
/ per cent; cotton and manufactures of cot
! ton, 80 per cent; iron and manufactures of
| iron, 40 per cent; steel and manufactures
! of steel, 40 per cent; spirits and wines II
per cent; tobacco and manufactures Of to-
bacco, 70 per cent; earthenware and china,
43 per cent; glass and glassware, Sc per
cent; salt. 45 per cent. hats, bonnets and
hoods, 40 per cent; marble and manufac.
lures Of marble, 81 per cent. soap, 45 per
cent.
JANE WHITE, a negro woman, en-
tered suit at Boston, Mass, the other day
against d. l.. Stafford, white, for $4,000
| damages for breach of promise. The plain
tift's aye was forty and the defendants
( sixty.
The Western Iron Association met at
| Pittsburgh, Pa, on the Sd and protested
| against a reduction of the tariff on tin plate
| by Congress.
THE Italian Consul at Tripoli was in
! difficulty for striking Turkish officer who
had insulted him the other day. The Mos
| lens demanded his punishment.
THE profits of the recent Garfield fair
at Washington were nearly SIC, 900.
STANDARD silver dollars in circula-
tion January 1, 1882, was S35, ,79I, Dab. On
the 1st of January, 1888, the amount was
I $38, ,9OS, ,238.
THE leading rubber factories of the
| country were the other day seriously con-
sidering the propriety ofmaking a S25,OOO,-
( 900 consolidation, to handle the entire crop
! Of Brazil.
RED CLOUD called on Secretary Teller
at Washington the other day and demanded
I $40, 900 for horses taken from him six years
ago by Governor Cook.
THREE veterinary surgeons, after a
| post mOrtem examination of four victims of
the horse disease raging in OskaloOsa, Iowa,
/ the other day decided the cause OF death to
have been cerebrO- spinal meningitis.
In the County Court at Denver,
1 Colo, the other day, by agreement between
the attorneys, Mrs. Tabor was granted a
| divorce from her husband, Lieutenant
| Governor Tabor, on the grounds of de-
sertion, with $3.50, 900 alimony.
ADvICEs from Cape Town to the
| Board Of Health at Washington, the other
! day, stated that during two months pre-
vious nine thousand people had been
stricken with small-pO aud two thousand
four hundred had died. The negroes OBJ
/ iected TO vaccination.