The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-06-21
NEWS IN BRIEF,
COmpiled frOm YarlOus sOurees.

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Compiled from Various Sources.
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SECRETARY TELLER has expressed his
intention of expending all the money he can
legally in purchasing stock of cattle for
the Indians.
THE members of the Massachusetts
House Of Representatives have voted them
selves an increase Of pay from 500 to $50
for the session,
A CELEBRATION in honor of John
Bright as representative in Parliament for
Birmingham, Eng, for over quarter of
century was begun on the 18th. The pro-
cession was five miles long rEe-
G. w. BENJAMIN, the newly appointed
United States Minister to Persia, had ar
rived at Teheran ON the I1th and presented
his credentials to the Shah. He was re-
ceived with a cordial welcome.
The New Hampshire Republican
Senatorial caucus nominated Edward H
Rollins for United States Senator on the
18th. The Democratic caucus nominated
Harry Bingham, Of Littleton.
A. A. TALMAGE, General TranspOr-
tation Manager OF the Southwestern sys-
tenn of railroads, took the division superin-
tendents of the different roads under his
management to Chicago, H., on the 18th to
attend the Railroad Exposition.
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THE proceedings in the star-route
case at Washington were interrupted in
sensational manner ON the 18th. One of
the jurymen fell in a ft while attending on
the court for instructions. 1t was said to
be an attack Of deliriurn tremens.
JOHN AMBLER SMITH, on behalf of
the colored citizens of the Cherolcee Nation,
filed protest with the Secretary of the
Interior the other day against the payment
to Bushyhead and associates of 100000 for
lands ceded to the government by the
Cherokccs. asa-a4--.-st
In the House of Commons on the
18th Trevelyan, CHEZ Secretary for Ire
land, stated that the body of q jaror, the
Dublin hotel-leceper, w hose death was re-
ported as caused by poison administered
by the Iuvincibles, had been exhumed,
and no trace Of poison discovered
president. .SoLoMoE, of Hayt, tele-
Craphed the Haytian Consul at Philadel-
phia, Pa, on the 18th that there was no up
risings in Hayti, such as had been reported,
and that the only place whore there was
, trouble was at Miragone, where the rebels
were entrenched.. He instructed the Consul
/. to look out for an iron steamship for sale
in this country that can be utilized in an
attack on Miragone from the sea.
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WAR has again broken ont between
the opposing fuctions Of the Greek Indians.
A party Of SPEECHES., followers, who had
been permitted TO return to their homes
from Fort Gibson, J. IT., where they had
been held since the recent trouble, were
ruriously attacked by the Chicote faction
and several were killed outright and a
number seriously wounded and their prop
crty destroyed. Further trouble was ap-
pretended.
THE report Of the Nayy-yard Com
mission, which was tho other day approved
hy Secretery Chandler, recommends the
closing of the Pensacola, League Island,
ana New London yards and the conversion
of the Washington yard into a naval
arsenal. Various changes are suggested as
to the management of the Mare Island
ward, by which a saving of about fifty
dollars a day may he effected in the pay
roll. 1t is also recommended that the
work of fortifying the yard at Portsmouth
be discontinued. ...
In arguing the case in defense of the
dynamite conspirators in London on tho
18th one Of the counsel said it.was a matter
of common knowledge that plots existed in
America to manufacture dynamite for use
against England, almost with the conniv-
ance of the American Government. The
court required him to withdraw the state
ment as tending to impair the friendly re-
Iations between the two countries The
trial ended in the conviction of Or. Gala
Cher, Wilson, Whitehead and Curtin. The
other defendants were acquitted.
News was received on the 18th of
further destruction by storms, especially
i'm Kansas and Western Missouri. On the
Central Kansas Railroad passenger train
was picked up by the wind near Seuecai
Knns.. and hurled into the bed of a creek
twenty-five feet below. "A number of peo'
pIe we're seriously injured and the cars
were wrecked At a number of other
places in the State great damage was done
to property, and at several places persons
were injured. In Missouri the principal
damage was at Chinicothe and st. Joseph
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The Ohio State Prohibition Conven-
tion met Mt Columbus on the 14th. The
principles pronul gated indorse the national
platform Of Chicago Of August last year
denouuce the policy Of personal liberty
advanced by she Democrats, and the policy
of taxation in the Scott law, the Pond laws
passed by the Republicans, aud the repeal
ing of the Sunday law prohibiting drink
ing on the premises, also by the Republi
cans; condemn the taxation proposition o
the constitutional amendment and favol
the adoption Of a prohibitory clause; re
/. cognize the value Of the education of youtl
in schools against Liquor. ferdinand Schu
nlacher. Of summit County, was nominated
for Governor and II. T. Ogden, Of Hamil
TON County, for Lieutenart-Gov
TIE State Convention OF the Obi,
Greenback-Inbor party, in session at Co
lurbus on Che 18th, nominated Charlie
Jenkins, of NIaholnng. for Governor an'
William Baker, of Licking, for Lieutenant
Governor. lie platform charges both tn
GREAT parties with bribery and corruption
in securing 1bnfnations and carrying elec
tions. with fostering naouopohes, and witt
oxtravagance. 1T demands the abolition 0
+be national bank system and The subInis