The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-09-06
IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.

Compiled from Various Sources.
The French Ambassador arrived at
Saigon on the 29th with the treaty which
was signed at Hue on the 25th.
THE United States steamship Monoc-
acy, has been ordered back to Corea to
continue the series of surveys begun there.
EXTENSIVE forest fires were raging in
the vicinity of Bar Harbor, Maine, on the
2sth, and upward Of 1000 acres had burned.
PLACARDs appeared in Paris on the
2Sth inviting citizens to rally to the sup
port of the monarchy under Louis Phil
hppe II.
THE Captain and officers of the United
States frigate Vandalia were entertained at
ball and supper by the Montreal Yacht
Club on the Both.
THE Treasury Department on the 3Oth
purchased 900 ounces of silver for deliv-
cry at the San Francisco, New Orleans and
Philadelphia Mints.
ISAAC II. LOCKWOOD was convicted
IN the United States Court at New Haven,
Conn, on the 20th, on the charge of using
. the mails to defraud.
A CAPE Town dispatch of the 28th
says the Supreme Court rejected the appeal
of O'DonneH to be tried there, andhe sailed
for England on that date.
SIXTY THOUSAND POUNDS damages is
the amount claimed against the owners of
the steamer st. Germain, which sunk
the Woodburn recently in the English
Channel.
REPORTS to the 29th from one hun
dred tobacco towns in the Connecticut and
IIousatonic Valleys indicate that the tobac-
co crop will be full average and excellent
in quality,
THE Salt Lake Gu. T.) Tribune office
was in a state of siege on the 2Sth by reason
of telling some too palpable truths. 1t was
supplied with arms from Fort Douglass for
protection.
A CONSIGNMENT of seventy-five cases
of cartridges and one hundred cases of ri
nes and revolvers was placed aboard the
City of Pekin at San Francisco for Shang-
hal on the 20th.
THE plans have been completed for
the proposed new silver vaults under the
cash room Of the Treasury Department.
The storage capacity of the vault will be
23,0O0,O0O silver dollars.
BISMARCK is reported to have received
so much benefit from the waters of Kissen-
gen that he wishes to return to Fridrich-
sruhe, but the doctors urge him to take up
his residence at Gastien.
The Washington Star of the 30th
said it was rumored that an investigation
which has been made will disclose startling
and sensational developments as to how
the verdict in the Star-route trial was
secured.
jules BARBOT an old and well-knOwn
actor was knocked down and robbed in
New York on the night of the 9th, and in
endeavoring to escape, one of his assailants
was shot dead by his pal, who intended the
bullet for a policeman.
THE New Orleans Grand Jury in its
recent report suggests as a sanitary meas
ure that cremation be established under the
direction of officers of the Charity Hospital
for the purpose of burning the bodies ol
those who die from contagious diseases.
VIENNA dispatches say the amount OF
wheat available for export is estimated
at 5,50O,000 meter centals; of barley, 5000,
600 meter centals. 1t is expected that nC
rye or oats will be available for export
The Hungarian wheat crop is estimated al
full average.
HANLAN, the oarsman, returned tC
Toronto, Ont, on the 9th, where he in
tended to rest few days pending th'
Carlton Place regatta on September @
whence he goes to Cincinnati. He would g
to Australia to row LaycOck If reasonable
expenses were allowed.
A REPORT reached Washington on the
28th that Secretary Teller had met tn
President at the Upper Geyser basin in tn
Yellowstone Park, and that an unpleasant
interview followed in relation to the pro
posed removal of the Apaches TO the Sal
Carlos Reservation. The report was, how
ever, discredited.
REPORTS of the 3Oth say the Frencl
harvest returns were unsatisfactory. o
the eighty-five departments, thirty sever
report crops above an average, while fiji
teen report average crops and thirty-thre
crops below an average. 1t is certain tina
large imports of cereals will be necessar.
the coming winter.
AT the close of business on the 25tl
the National treasury contained gold coli
and bullion, S203, 800, 204; silver dollars AM
bullion, Sis, sos, ,352; fractional silver coin
ST., ,S54, ,915; United States notes, S51,54l
SOC. Total, S403Ol4,s26. Certificates out
standing-Gold, So, ,93s, ,27O; silver, $74,625,
All; currency, S11,945,00O.
A FREE library was given to tn
town of Dunfermline, Scotland, recently b.
Andrew Carnegie of New York. 1t wa
opened on the 29th by Lord Roseberry,wh
spoke in praise of the generous Carnegie
He also referred to the visit he intends
make shortly to America, country whic
he said had always been dear to him.
THE Washington City Post-of1ice wa
supplied with the first installment of tn
new postal notes on the 30th. They ar
printed in yellow ink and bound in book
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