The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-11-08

ury, November !, was $1,5l1,5oe,7a7.
THE October coinage amounted to
s., ,2s4, ,7O4 of which S2,3jO, 900 was silver dol
lars.
A FILIBUsTER1NG expedition from the
United States is reported to have landed in
Cuba.
A REPORT is published in Paris that
De Brazza, the Congo explorer, had been
killed in a fight.
THE coinage of the United States Mint
for October was II ,s59,014, of which 81 $780,
05O were silver dollars.
A BROKERAGE system of furnishing
Chinese emigrants traders certificates has
been discovered at Canton.
A COURT Of inquiry to investigate
the causes of failure of the Greedy relief
expedition has been ordered.
OVER nineteen million acres of public
lands were sold last year. Receipts from
public and Indian lands were ST., ,7l8,ss3.
The wool-growers of Washington
Territory have formed an association, and
will work for the restoration of the tariff on
wool.
CoMMopoRE A. G. RHIND has been
promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral, and
Captain John H. Russell is made Commo-
dore.
THE special agent of the Mexican
Government in London has been instructed
to renew his efforts to readjust the national
debt
GovERNoR BUTLEP, Of Massachu-
setts. and Congressman May ybury, of Mich
igan, had long conference at Boston on
the 30th.
THE London Times compliments
Lord Lorne and saws Canada is the least
troublesome and the greatest Of British
colonial possessions.
DIR. LEONARD STEGNIJER of the
Smithsonian Institution has returned from
Alaska with skeletons Of the northern sea-
COW and other valuable specimens.
BEN BUTTERwoRTH took charge of
the office of Commissioner Of Patents on the
8lst, and General Phil Sheridan assumed
command of the army on November 1st.
In the French Chamber of Deputies
on the 3st Clemenceau, Radical, attacked
Ulle government pbAANy III AoAiNAAAA' n fCVC
of confidence in the government was adopt
cd.
In June last ex-Alderman John
Geiger, of Cincinnati, o., disappeared. On
the 29th body, identified as his by watch
badge and pocket-book, was found in Mill
Creek.
A WASHINGTON dispatch says the
President will sustain Postmaster General
Gresham's decision in the New Orleans lot
terry case including the ruling as to the Ma
tional bank.
THE Utah Commission is sanguine
that the law disfranchising Polyg-
amists will eventually weaken their infiu-
ence and destroy them as an element OF the
Mormon Church.
KAN CT SHANK, better known as
Grow Dog, sentenced to death for the muir
der of Spotted Tail, made his escape on the
20th at Deadwood, d. T. He was allowed
to go out unattended.
Hon. JOHN G. New, after an extend
ed interview with President Arthur, on the
3Oth has reconsidered his determination to
resign, and will retain the position of As
sistant Secretary of the Treasury.
THE annual meeting of the Woman
National Indian Association took place
in Philadelphia on the 2Sth, when Bishop
Whipple, of Minnesota, made an address.
Miss Mary L. Bonny was reelected Presi-
dent.
THE Marquis of Lorne has contrib
uted to the Contemporary ReUiet1 an arti'
Gle on Canadian Home Rule, in which be
holds that if any one State Of the Confed
Grafton gains preponderating influence
civil war win threaten.
THE Paris Figaro publishes the re-
port that the Governor of the Chinese
Province of Yum Nan, with 14,0OO troops
received orders to enter Tonquiu and oc
cupy Kaobang, $50 miles north of Hanoi
the French headquarters.
A HURRICANE passed in northeast
ern direction about three miles west of TIA
lequah, 1. T., on the morning of the 2Sth
Dwellings were blown down and trees up
rooted in a strip of country about 500 yards
wide. No loss of life is reported.
THE people of Swan Island, in the
Gulf of Mexico, are nearly starving. 4
schooner which visited the island October
"a, reports the fourteen people there a
living on wild hogs and cocoanuts, and ou
of ammunition with which to shoot tn,
hogs.
THE Public Land Commissioner rec
ommends the repeal of the Forestry act
because it, like the Desert Land act, is fla
grantly abused by spectators as mean
of securing large quantities of land wit
no intention of carrying out the terms O
The law.
MAJ.-GEN. JOHN M. SCHOFIELD, VIII
succeeds General Sheridan IN the com
mand Of the Division of the Missouri, arrive
in Chicago from San Francisco on the 50th
accompanied by his family and two mem
bers of his personal staff, Col. VIM.
Wherly and Lieut. G. B. Schofield.
THE Secretary of State on the 1st re
eeived from the Geographical Society c
France a very handsome gold medal il
tended as a testimonial to Lieutenant Fred
erick A. Schwatka, U. S. A, in recognitio
of his services in the successful expeditio
to King Williamsland in 1878 and 1880.
THE amount disbursed by army pen
sion agents the last year was S9,916,50-
OF this there was disbursed at Washington
d. c., $3,440,6l0; indianapolis, 81, ,154, ,S95
Chicago, 50, $50, ITO; Columbus, o., -, ,6S4 ,32I
Total amount of ''arrears pensions" di.
b2rsed by agents during the year, S79,S1