The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-07-19

THE New Hampshire Legislature,
which has been for several weeks trying to
elect United States Senator, had no quo
rum on the 9th in either house.
GENERAL JOHN NEWTON, President
of the Society of the Army of the Potomac,
has been invited to the reunion of Parsons
Confederate cavalry brigade, at Dallas,
Tex.
THE Treasury Department at Wash
ington in two days, the 9th and 10th, issued
warrants for S14,6O0,OOO on account of PEN
sions for the fiscal year ending June so,
1884.
The Surgeon General of the Marine
Hospital Service at Washington received
advices on the 9th that the Norwegian bark
Vega was at Ship Island with yellow fever
on board.
IN the French Chamber Of Deputies
on the 9th motion that amnesty be
granted persons who took part in the Paris
and Montceaules Mines riots was rejected
304 to 50.
ONE THOUSAND uniformed knights
were in attendance on the session of the
Supreme Temple of the Patriarch Circle Of
the Odd-Fellow's order in Chicago, ILL.,, on
the 18th.
THE Treasury reserve on. the 18th
amounted to S132, 900 600, falling about S15,-
100000 in a single day. The sudden reduc-
tion was due to the payment of nearly $751;
100000 on account Of pensions.
THE meeting Of delegates from West
ern cities, held ct the Southern Hotel, st.
Louis, Mo-, on the 11th, in the interest of
river improvement, adopted a resolution to
call convention not later than November
20.
AT Damieta, Egypt, on the 10th there
occurred forty-nine deaths from cholera; at
Samanoud, seventeen; at Mansurah, one
hundred and one. Fifty Europeans had
died it Damieta from cholera since the out
break of the disease.
A RECENT storm did great damage in
various sections about Lancaster, Pa, to
the growing crops. The corn and oat fields
were beaten level with the ground, and to-
bocco fields were badly washed, necessi-
tating replanting in many cases.
o-
osTNIAsTER- G GENERAL GRESHAM the
other day decided it was proper for the
Civil-service Commissioners to commune
cate directly, with subordinates in local
post-ofices, notwithstanding the postmas-
ter at Baltimore, Nd, objectedto it.
ADvICEs from Venezuela on the 9th
stated that locusts were making havoc in
many parts of the country. In one night
all the vegetation in the neighborhood of
Moron was destroyed. 1t was feared they
would soon reach the fertile valleys of
Caracas.
CHOLERA had appeared at Zifteh and
from Cairo, Egypt, on the 18th. A revised
list showed the number of deaths from the
disease at Mansurah the day before to
have been eighty-nine, instead of fifty-nine
as before reported. Thirty-fve deaths oc-
CURED at Damieta during the twenty four
hours ended at eight o'clock.
CABLEGRANIs from Dublin, Ireland, on
the Sth stated that four men had been con-
victed at the Sligo Assizes of conspiracy to
murder Two informers testified that the
prisoners had made an attempt to blow up
the Weston House, Galway, under orders
of a secret society. If they destroyed the
house and killed the inmates theywere to
receive f500, but failing to take life they
would only receive f2OO or $500.
GLADSTONE informed the British
House of Commons on the 18th that the
French admiral in the operations'at NADIA
gascar hauled down the flags of foreign
embassies, ordered the British Consul to
leave Tamatave at time when he was so
sick that he died seven hours later, impris-
oned British missionary, and refused to
allow a British man-Of-war to communicate
with the shore. Explanation has been de-
manded.-
AT their State Convention at Des
Moines, on the 18th, the Iowa Greenbackers
passed resolutions favoring civil-service
reform, a graduated income tax, postal
telegraph system, and the abolition of Rail-
road Commissioners. Hon. j. b. Weaver
was nominated for Governor, Sanford Kill
patrick for Lieutenant-G Governor, d. w.
Church for Supreme Judge, and Miss Abbie
O. Garfield for Superintendent of Public
Instruction.
A DISPATCH from Alexandria, Egypt,
on the 9th said provisions had given out at
Damieta, and people We're starving. A
number of European residents made an
attempt TO break the Gordon around the
town and several were wounded. The num-
Der of deaths from cholera on that day was
fifty-seven. The cattle plague at Behera
had ended in the death of all the cattle in
that district, and the cotton worm was do
ing great damage there.
THE platform of the Republican
State Convention of Pennsylvania, in ses-
sion at Harrisburg on the 11th, after de-
manding a continuance of the protective
policy, urges the distribution of surplus
federal revenue among the States, the re-
demption Of the trade dollar, and the
adoption of measures to prevent assisted
emigration William Lindsey nom-
mated for State Treasurer and Jerome B.
Niles for Auditor-General.
A TERRIBLE disaster occurred in the
Thames River Valley, around London,
Ont. on the 18th. Two hundred buildings
were overwhelmed by a torrent, and it was
thought fully one hundred persons had
lost their lives, and that $4,000 worth OF
property had been destroyed. Reports of
destructive storms were received from va
rious sections Of this country on the same
day, the most damage occurring at In
dianapolis, Ind, where a number of houses
were struck by lightning and one person
probably fatally injured