The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-10-11
IN BRIEF.

NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
TEN THOUSAND veterans participated
in the exercises of Grand Army day at
Pittsburgh the ID.
LATE reports furnish reason to believe
that the damage TO the corn crop by frost
has been largely overestimated.
President GREvY has been so affect
Cd by the events Of the past few days that
he has seriously contemplated resigning.
THE Democrats of the First District
OF North Carolina have nominated Thomas
w. skinner for Congress in place of Pool,
deceased.
THE German papers say the insults
offered King Alfonso were indirectly aimed
at Germany, and are considered sign Of
weakness.
KING ALFONSO has received the con-
gratulations of all the crowned heads on
account Of the enthusiastic reception &c
corded him at Madrid.
AT the Methodist State Conference in
Milwaukee charges were filed against Rev
G. A. Stockwell, who deserted his post to
stake a mining claim in Dakota,
THE validity of the Sl5, 200, 600 scrip
dividend issued by the Western Union Tel
egraph Company in 1881 has been affirmed
by the New York Court of Appeals.
ASSISTANT Postmastcr-Genera Hat
ton charges Emory Smith of the Philadel-
phia Press with concocting a scheme b.
which the Government was swindled out of
$780, ,OO0.
WIN. SHEFFIELD, aged sixty-five,
senior partner in the banking house of
Sheffield 81 Norton of Napoleon, o., ,7and a
member of the Henry County bar, commit
ted suicide on the ga by shooting.
A LONDON Times correspondent has
report from Greenland to the effect that
Lieut. Greedy was murdered by mutineers.
1t is supposed to come from the same i'm
probable source rs the Nordenskjold report.
ONE of the most experienced officials
Of the Post-ofIice Department estimates
that the loss of revenue during the next
twelve months, occasioned by the reduction
OF postage from three to two cents, will be
about S9,0O0,000.
IT is understood that r. Stockett Mat
thevvs has declined the nomination for At
.torney-General given him by acclamatior
bv the Maryland Republican State Con
vention. Professional engagements re
quire all his time.
SECRET service officials say that they
don't believe there is any truth in the re
port that the postal notes are being ''raised'
in different parts Of the country. They
claim that the ''raising'' process can not be
applied to these notes.
A DISPATCH from Madrid of the I'd
says: King Alfonso received ovations dur
ing his entire journey from the frontier t.
Madrid. Peasantry poured into the capita
to welcome him. All special dispatche'
agree that such enthusiasm was never be
fore seen in Spain.
TIE Women's Memorial Association
Of North Carolina have arranged for tn
removal of the remains of lO1 North Caro-
lima soldiers buried at Arlington cemetery
and the work has been commenced unde
the direction of Mrs. c. w. Harris. The.
will bo taken to Raleigh.
FIFTEEN THOUSAND steel and irol
workers in Glamorganshiro and Monmouth
shire, England, struck on the 1st against
reduction of ten per cent. in wages. En-
ploycrs urge, in view Of English and Amer
lean competition, that they must eithe
close their works or reduce wages.
y THE Interstate Lcvee Convention a
Nicksburg ON the 2d adopted resolutio
declaring it TO be the duty of Congress
provide for Improvement of the navigatio
of the Mississippi and its tributaries, an
recommending permanent organization {
all the people of the valley to secure thi
end.
THE value of imports Of merchandis
for the twelve months ended August B
S7OG, sol jG4; for the previous twelve months
S142,00S0l3; decrease this year, S3i,2Oi,34
Value of exports of merchandise for tn
twelve months ended August 81, $500, 40
9l9; for the previous twelve months. SI31
325, ,75s; increase this year SS3,3 ,3S0, ,lGL
FOLLOWING are the amounts distrih
uted in the several States by the Trustee
of the Peabody Educational fund the pa
year: Alabama, Si,775; Arkansas, S4,05t
Florida, s., ,025; Georgia, $500; Louisian
SIPS; Mississippi S4 400; North Carolin
$3.50; South Carolina, i,225; Tennessee
SI26O0; Texas, $4,000. Total, $71, ,175.
THE annual report of Secretary MAJ
we'll to the Cincinnati Pork Packers Ass
K citation shows total receipts of hogs at thi
n city the past year SS3,4l7, against 763, g
the preceding year. Shipments for Il
year, 2i2, 2,0l5, against 1S4,519 the previol
year. Average gross weight of hogs ?
pounds, against 24O the preceding year.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 2
saws: Lieut.. Darlington, while refusing
enter into any extended conversation T
garding the Greeley relief expedition 7
peated what he said in New York relati'
to the supplementary orders. He says;
never received any such orders. II
trouble is, somebody has been talking t
much"
FROM a statement prepared by l
rector of the Mint Burchard it appears th
the silver on hand July !, 1873, and p'
chased since then, was 1913, ,447, ,4SO ounce
of which 1l9, ,206, 224 ounces has been used
coinage of silver dollars and some subsidia
silver coin; 304, ,375 ounces has been vast
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