The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-08-23
NEWS IN BRIEF.
c5lnpiled from Various Sources.

Compiled from various Sources.
THE Treasury Department purchased
36s, 900 ounces Of silver on the 18th for de-
livery at the Philadelphia, San Francisco
and New Orleans Mints.
TIE investigation of the telegraph
strike by the Senate Committee, in session
az New York on the 18th, continued to de-
velop interesting views and statistics.
THE one hundred And sixth anniver-
sary Of the battle Of Bennington, VT, was
celebrated on the 10th by picnics, e,Ccur-
sions and addresses by the local clergy.
THERE was almost panic in Ameri-
can railway securities in London, Eng, on
the 14th. There was an advance all along
the line inNew York followed by another
drop.
In the first seven months of this year
French imports increased 5O,OOO,0OO francs
and exports decreased 5s,0OO,OOO francs, as
compared with the corresponding time last
year.
THE Weld of wheat this season in
France viii be 81, ,OOO, 900 hectolitres, CONF
pared with 1O4 100000 to 1O5,0O0,OOO each
year since 1872. The quality is expected to
esood. -.
A.JEwIsH representative of a London
banking house has been expelled from Rus
sia, and the decree is to be enforced prohib-
itthg Jewish manufacturers from employ
ing Christian workmen.
AK Amalgamated Association of
Iron and Steel Workers, in session at Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the 18th authorized the Treas
urcr tosdraw a sum Of money in support Of
the striking tclegraphers.
A COMPANY of Mexican infantry, en-
camped near Hermosillo, mutinied the
otheIsdRy, killing the Captain and First
Lieutenaut and heeiug 10 the mountains
with the arms and ammunition.
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CABLEGRAMs announced that the
Mia ~ falling, on the 18th and that there
werd 30 longer fears of food in Egypt.
There were go deaths from cholera there
ON the 18th, including six at Cairo.
TnE cholera as an epidemic was re-
ported diminishing in Egypt on the 18th.
There were only $40 deaths in that country
orthe 18th from the disease, forty Of which
occurred at Alexandria and nine at Cairo.
The italian envoy at Tangiers, Mo-
rocco, lowered his flag on the 18th because
the Sultan failed to accede to Italy's ulti-
matum demanding payment of certain
claims. An Italian squadron was in the
harbor.
TT is announced from Washington
that General Drum intends introducing a
.bfir IN Congress making the State Militia
partially subservient to the General Gov
ernment, which is TO contribute to their
support.
ANNOUNCEMENT was made on the
18th of the failure of George William
Ballou g. Co., a large stock brokerage
house Of New York and Boston, with liza.
bilities estimated at between S4,00o,0O0 and
S5,OO0,0OO.
HENRY WILLARD and family and a
number of Bavarian military and civic
officers, who came to the United States tC
witness the completion Of the Northern Pa
ciic Railroad, arrived at Newport, r. 1.
on the 14th.
THE Sunday law eases against the
Missouri Street Railway Company, at st
Louis, on the 18th resulted in a verdict OF
acquittal under instructions & the court
the State being unable to prove that it was
not a work of necessity.
A cory of the new commercial treaty
between Mexico and Germany has beer
published in Galveston. by its provisions
Germans are to pay no taxes not levied OF
NeXicans, and are to he exempt from mill
fnry service and forced loans.
IT is reported in Washington that al
application will be presented to the Presi
dent asking the pardon Of Paymaster Was
son, who was recently convicted in Texa
Of defrauding the Government and sent Z
the Leavenworth Penitentiary.
RECENT udvices from the interior o
Mexico state that at Tizimin, Yucatar
Eotavcuto and Vera Cruz the supply o
corn is exhausted and all provisions ar
very high in price. a famine was feare
along the Southern Pacific coast.
THR Khedive visited the hospitals a
Alexandria, Egypt, on the 10th and spok
words OF encouragement TO tho patient
snfefing sfron cholera. The death
throughout the scountrSa on the 18th nun
bored four hundred and si1ty-seven.
, -Iris reported that General Cortina
with three hundred Mexican revolution
lists, was in Queretaro a few days age
There were indications of n revolt in tn
northern States against what was deeme
usurpation Of power by the General GOV
ernmen6
rTOPEKA, Kans., has n floating debt c
$4,000, with no money in the treasury, an
two Councilmen oppose the borrowing
funds for current expenses. Mayor Wilso
there Fore discharged all but three polio,
men and all the firomen the other day, an
ordered the electric lights and gas cut of
THE Prohibition State Convention
n session at Eaton Rapids ON the l5tl
voteS q raise 100000 as a campaign funl
indotse "a the platform Of the National Coz
vention at Chicago, aud declared in favor
constitutional and statutory prohibition
the manufacture of liquor as beverag
A COMMITTEE of striking telegraph
crs called on q eneral EclIert at New Yol
4on the 18th 90 know upon what terms q
raen. could 20 TO work. They were referrS
to thc district superintendonts. Later
the. .day. .they. sent word that since their a
tefrpts to effect a reconciliation had prove
futile they proposed TO continue the fig
with renewed vigor.
The straight-out Republicans of vi
rzinia held their State Convention at Ric
t,,,ey, A ~, the 18TH The platform adoDt,