The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-07-12
IN BRIEF.

NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
JUpAH p. BENJAMIN was given
farewell banquet in London the other even
ing by two hundred representative English
men.
THE Supreme Court Of Missouri has
decided the Downing high-license bill con-
stitutionnl and applicable to the city Of st.
Louis.
THE committee on revision Of the
New Testament has completed the COM
Parison of the work Of the English and
American committees.
The decision of the British Govern
ernment prohibiting annexation of New
Guinea to Queensland is said to cause dis
conteat in the colonies.
THE cholera was apparently spread
ing in Egypt on the 9Th. There was
slight decrease Of deaths in Damietta and
an increase at other points,
A STATUE of ex-President Taylor, exc
cuted at Carrara, Italy, has arrived in
Louisville, KY, and will soon be unveiled
in the cemetery at that city.
UP to the 4th inst. the Internal Rev
enue Bureau at Washington had received
claims for S2,O00,O0O for rebate OF taxes
paid on tobacco, snuff and cigars.
ARGUMENT covering the whole lot
terry question as related to the Post-office
Department was heard by the Postmaster
General at Washington on the 9TH.
THE death list on the 4th included
Bishop Johh McMunen, OF the Catholic do
cese.of Davenport, Iowa, and Bishop Pink
ney, of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of
Maryland.
CHICAGO, anxious to be ahead of the
rest of the world, sends out word that
Heaven itself, with its artillery and electric
display, assisted in the observation of the
Fourth there.
THE Acknowledgement at Washing
ton rules that the shipment of whiskey to
Bermuda, with view to avoid duty pay
ments, is not an expectation within the
view Of the law.
PARNELL, in speech at the Cork
banquet in connection with the Industrial
.EAnlUlLlOn Rll bIt obLg ctAAtA AAN bNAANFNA 1AAN
Exposition was a hopeful sign of the re-
vival of Irish Industries.
THERE were one hundred and forty
deaths from cholera at Damieta, Egypt, on
she 2d, fourteen at Mansurat and five at
Port Said A death at Alexandria was
suspected to be from cholera.
THE day we celebrate was duly OBJ
1
gave a reception. There was also recep
tion at the American Legation. The day
was also celebrated in the City of Mexico.
BIsHoP MCLAREN has taken issue
with the pastor of the Church of the Ascen
sion in Chicago, ILL.,, regarding the ritual
and it was thought the controversy wOulC
result in the establishment of a new church
STATEMENTS were made in the British
House of Lords and the Commons on th'
I'd that England does not intend to SCOOP
in New Guinea. Among the reasons as
signed was the objection of the natives t
annexation.
The Mississippi Independents held
their State Convention at Jackson ON tn
4th. The platform favors free ballot ant
a fair count, demands legislative super
vision OF EAllEOauS anu lAAloA Ht7S lAlc toOneAi
ern policy of President Arthnr.
A TORNADO swept over Ozauke
County, Wis, ON the morning of the 3d
almost completely wiping out a number q
small villages. Over two hundred house
were demolished in Belgium and Fredoni
alone, while many other towns suffere
nearly as badly.
Blythe law reducing the cost of posts
money orders, which went into effect o
the I'd, the following rates are established
For an order not over $40, 8 cents; not e.
ceeding $40, 20 cents; $40, 10 cents; $40,
cents; $50, - cents; $50, 80 cents; $40,
cents; $50, 40 cents; 500, 45 cents.
Ex-JUDGE PRATHER, Of Lafayett
County. Mo-, was the other day release
from constructive imprisonment by ord'
of the United States Circuit Court ;
jefferson City. He had been held for r
fusinS 10 obey an order of the court requi
ing a lsvy of taxes to pay certain bonds
NEARLY eight thousand persons a
sembled at the cemetery on the farm of q
late Governor Williams, of Indiana, on Il
4th. to witness the unveiling Of a suitab
monument. All the State officers we
present, and addresses were delivered I
ex-senator Mcdonald and Senators Woo
hees and Harrison.
INFORMATION received on the 2d fro
Rockingham County, Va, where w.
Flam was taken by friends after he h
been wounded in the recent duel with
+. Beirne, of the Richmond State, was
the effect that the wound was more aggr
waited than at first reported, and that Elan
condition was critical
In New York, on the 4th, the Con-
mental Guards, of Charleston, s. c., help
the veterans OF 1872 to raise the stars a.
stripes at the Battery. The cadets of t
Military Institute of Virginia were receiv
bv President Arthur at the Fifth Aven
Hotel, and returned a flag captured frc
the. l64th New York Regiment.
THE platform adopted by the Natio
al anti-Monopoly Convention, which clos
a two days session at Chicago, Ill,
the 5th, calls for abolition Of the natior
banking law, establishment Of the post
telegraph and saving bank systems,
a,..4od income tax and restriction