The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-10-04
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from, Various Sources.

NE WS LIN BRlEE
Compiled frOns Various Sources.
GENERAL SHERMAN will resign com
mand Of the army November /.
HENRY STANLEY wants Great Britain
to proclaim a protectorate over the Congo
country.
FIVE Townships in County Upper
airy, ireland, have been proclaimed on ac-
count Of outrages.
THE Massachusetts, Greenbackcrs
met in convention at Boston on the 25th
and nominated Butler for Governor.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR attended the lay
ing Of the cornerstone of the Burnside
Memorial Hall ut Bristol, r. l., on the 25th.
TIE issue of standard silver dollars
for the week ending September % was
S55s,409. Corresponding period last year,
$lS3,49S
THE Crotian members of the Austrian
Reichsrath refuse to take their seats till
the constitutional rights of Croatia are re-
stored.
DURING the earthquake at Java the
sea suddenly subsidized fifteen feet at Co
lombo, Ceylon, but resumed its usual level
in half an hour.
The International Peace Association
has issued an address calling on the people
of France to resort to arbitration for settle
ment Of the Chinese trouble.
The National Convention of State
Insurance Commissioners at Columbus,
o., agreed not to try longer to establish a
standard fire insurance policy.
Ex-GovERNoR TALBOT, chairman of
2 the Massachusetts State Board of Health
and Charity, declines to deliver certain
books called for by Governor Butler.
BISMARCK is credited with having
made King Alfonso Colonel of Uhlans for
the purpose Of causing the Parisians to give
him a cold reception and so engender hos
tile spirit.
SIEDENBACH, SCHwAB & Co., manu-
facturers and jobbers in clothing at 1l3
Grand Street, near Broadway, New York,
failed on the oath, with liabilities estimated
at 100000.
TIE New York Railroad Commits
sioners are investigating the reasons why
freight rates between New York and Sing
Sing should be the same as between New
York and Chicago.
BEFORE the Senate Labor Committee
on the oath Thos. d. Devereaux advocated
diversion of part of the money now spent
on military and naval schools to the
survey Of Government lands.
REUBEN +. CARROLL explained TO
tho Senate Labor Committee on the 27th
the system of railroad rebates by which all
oil producers are compelled to sell tleir
stocks through the Standard Oil Company.
THE Secret Service Bureau of the
Treasury Department is informed of the
capture at Duluth, Mimi, of plates for the
printing of counterfeit $40 silver certih-
Gates and $40 notes on the Bank of Mon
tronI.
AT the Railroad Conference in San
Francisco ON the 27th J. c. Gault, late GEN
eral Manager Of the Wabash Road, was
elected Commissioner of lines west of the
Missouri River. This closed the business
of the conference. +
THERE was terrible gale on the
lakes on the morning of the 25th. The
schooner York State, with seven men, was
lost on Lake Erie. Several other wrecks
arc reported. In Buffalo great damage. was
done to buildings.
ROBERT MURRAY, Medical Director
on Gen. Hancock's staff, said on the 27th
that the General was much better. An alb
scess was forming above his knee, but no
serious results were apprehended. The GEN
eral might be said in fact to be already con-
valescent.
SECRETARY CHANDLER on the 25th
directed the acceptance of the highest bids
for condemned. vessels of the navy. These
bids amount in the aggregate to S5OS,273
The appraised value of all the vessels was
$271 800; excess of bids over appraised
value, S36,973.
THE Navy Department has been in
formed that the Tennessee was only slightly
damaged by her recent accident. She will
probably be ordered into dry dock at New
York, however, as a precautionary measure
before starting on her proposed cruise to
the West Indies.
THE Grand Jury of the September
term Of the Third District, Salt Lake
Court, was impaneled on the 27th. No at
temptwa made to purge it of polygamists.
Judge hunters rulings forbid lt, yet the
Judge called their attention to the enforce
ment of the Edmunds law, and directed
them 60 investigate polygamy cases.
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A SAN Francisco dispatch of the
9th says: 1t is proposed to establish an in
land quarantine at Yuma, Arizona, to
prevent the introduction of Mexican
yellow fever into the United States. II is
understood that the railroad authorities
will cooperate. yellow fever broke out at
Lapaz. The heat is intense and people are
fleeing in all directions to escape the fever,
and in search Of a cooler atmosphere.
a NEW York dispatch of the 26th
announced the arrival in that city of Thorn
as NJ. Knapp, Of st. Louis, No., having in