The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-07-05
NEWS IN BRIEF.

NEWS IN BRIEF. |
Compiled from Various Sources.
THE Duke of Connaught opened the
Irish Lace Exhibition at the Mansion
House on the 25th.
The French Senate has passed bill
providing for direct postal service between
Havre and New York.
THE winning horses in the races at
Chicago, H., on the 25th were Sadie Nc
Marry, Apollo, April Fool and Viola.
THE cases against A. E. Boone, known
as the star-route straw bond cases, were
nolle pressed on the 2jth at Washington.
THE Paris. France, municipality has
voted 10000 francs to defray the expenses
of the delegates from Paris to the forth
coming Boston Exhibition.
AN executive order was issued on the
25th for the reorganization Of internal rev.
enue collection districts. The number of
districts was reduced from 126 to 81.
s
TIE finding of the court-martial in
approved by the President-dismissal from
the army and eighteen months at hard
labor.
GOVERNOR BURLER's request for
committee to search for rascality in va
rious departments of the State Government
has been refused by the Massachusetts
Senate.
The Minnesota Republicans. in con-
vention at St. Paul on the 27th, renomina-
ted Governor Hubbard by acclamation. c.
A. Gilman was nominated for Lieutenant
Governor.
COLONEL d. b. PARKER, Chief In
spector of the Post-ofice Department, has
declined an appointment as Postmaster Of
Washington, d. c., with an increase Of
$500 in salary.
A DELEGATION of Land Leaguers
called on the President at Washington the
other day and presented resolutions re-
garding assisted emigration. A. NJ. Sulli-
van delivered an address.
The liabilities of McGeoch, Evering-
ham & Co, Chicago, whose failure was an
nounced a few days ago, were steadily
growing on the 25Ch. The Receiver said he
had already figured up S6,OOO,oOO indebted
ness.
The Mississippi River Commission
concluded a two days session at st. Louis,
Mo-, on the 26th, having agreed on esti-
mates for appropriations to be made for
work below Cairo. The figures were not
made public.
II. w. WRIGHT, formerly Postmaster
at Racine, who has been doing extensive
lumber business at Merrill, Wis, made
assignment the other day, to cover liabilities
of about 100000. His assets were nomin-
ally $4,000.
THE Iowa Republicans. in Convention
at Des Moines on the 27th, renominated B.
r. Sherman for Governor, 0. II. Manning
for Lieutenant-Governor and Professor
Akers for Superintendent of Instruction,
all by acclamation.
GREAT distress was reported among
the fishing families along the Labrador
coast on tho 25th, owing TO the detention of
the spring supplies'by the jam Of gulf ice
along their shores. twas feared that some
deaths from starvation had already oc-
CURED.
THE recent reorganization Of the
internal revenue collection districts re-
,luces the number to eighty, forty-six dis
tricts being abolished or merged into others.
The annual saving by the reduction is
estimated by the Internal Revenue Bureau
at 500 900.
THERE is a hope for better tea. 1t
was reported from. China the other day
that spring rains had greatly improved
the crop, while from New York came news
of enforcement of the new law by the seiz-
1tre OF n cargo of adulterated teas valued
at So, 900.
e. The cornerstone of the new Univer-
sity of Vermont and the unveiling the stat
ute OF Lafayette, took place at Burlington
a few days ago, in the presence of ten
thousand people, including the Governor
and State officials and nearly oil the living
ex-Governors of that State.
LOUISE MICHEL, the French Socialist,
has been sentenced to six years imprison-
Inent and ten years police supervision.
or the other prisoners charged with rioting
and <iIage, Pouget and Monset got eight
and one years imprisonment, respectively,
and two others were acquitted.
THE case of General Adam Badeau,
a retired United States army officer,
now uI-General at Havana, has
been referred by the Secretary Of the
Treasury to the Court of Claims. 1t In
wolves the question of the right of a retired
army officer TO enter the consular service
and draw two salaries.
A RECENT statement prepared in the
offce OF the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue at Washington shows that the
aggregate receipts during May, 1888, were
Ssd6,sls greater than for the same month
OF 1882. There was an increase of S231, 729
from spirits; an increase Of S220,52I from
tobacco; an increase. of SS4.049 from banks
and bankers, and a decrease of $lsS, 752
from miscellaneous articles.
A TERRIBLE hail storm, which lasted
thirty minutes, is reported to have visited
the town OF Essex, Iowa, the other night,
breaking nearly every pane of glass in the
village and leaving banks OF hail from
four to five feet deep on the windward side
OF the houses. Farmers said that the corn