The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-08-02
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.

Compiled from Various Sources.
THE Ohio State Convention to secure
the adoption Of a prohibition amendment
was held on the oath at Columbus.
THE reunion of John Morgan's men
at Lexington, KY, was addressed by a
large number of prominent C0nfederates
on the 25th.
TIE Treasury Department purchased
100000 ounces of silver on the 26th for de-
livery at the Philadelphia, Now Orleans
and San Francisco Mints.
TIE cable announced on the 26th
that the revolution in Ecuador was ended
and an election was to be held. The pros
poets for peace in Poru were improving.
GENERAL TREyINo. Of Mexico, was in
st. Louis, Mo-, on the path, on his way to
meet General Ord in New York. The news
of that gallant officers death was a terrible
surprise.
A BANQUET given by the British vol
unteers in honorof the American rife team
took place at London, Eng, on the 25th.
The American and British rife teams were
present in full uniform.
A SERIOUS cholera outbreak was ex-
pected at Bombay, India, on the 23d. In
Egypt the cholera epidemic was said to be
supplemented by leprosy. physician
with forty assistants was to be sent from
India to Egypt.
OFFICERS of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul Road report the grain crop
along its lines west of the Mississippi in
excellent condition, with the exception of
some narrow belts in Dakota, where hail
beat down the stalks.
THE exchanges at twcnty-three lead
ing clearing louses in the United States for
the week ended on the 2lst were S1,0O7,S ,S70,-
40, against $025, AL, ,72o the week previous,
indicating an increase in general trade
throughout the country.
TIE death of Ex-Governor Thomas
Swami, of Maryland, occurred at his es-
tate near Lcesburg, Va, on the 9th. lie
was representative from Baltimore in the
Forty-second, Forty third, Forty-fourth
and Forty-fifth Congresses.
In the ballot for the New Hampshire
Senatorship the leading candidates stood
as follows on the 25th: Bingham, III;
Chandler, 20; Niarston, SO; Tappan, 26;
Patterson, %; Burns, 20. On the second
ballot; Bingham, Ill; Chandler, 60.
THE Georgia House of Representa-
tives on the 10Th unseated D. p. Proctor,
white, from Camden County, and seated
Anthony Wilson, colored, in his place.
Wilson had been in two previous Legisla-
lures. There arc two other negroes in that
body.
JUpGE BLoDGErr, of Chicago, Ill,
-, l. +, 4 4
are liable for debts OF the bank to the
amount of their stock, and that individual
suits to recover on this liability can be
begun without the Intervention of re
ceiver.
THE Sioux Indians held their annua
sun dance at Rosebud Agency the Other
afternoon, ten thousand being present from
all parts of the reservation. The Govern
nent had given orders to suppress thu
barbarous practice, but the agents wer'
powerless.
TIE Virginia Democratic State Con
vention met at Lynchburg on the 25th an'
adopted a platform, the final resolution o
which arraigned in strong terms the admin
istration OF National and State affairs, es
pecially between the President and Gen
eral Malone.
AT the national soldiers reunion a
Columbus, Ohio, on the 26th, twenty-fv
members OF the Fifty-fOurth Virginia Reg
iment were entertained by the Third Ohio
Speeches were made the day before by r
b. Hayes, Charles Foster and Judges Hoad
ley and Foraker.
Ir was announced at a strikers
meeting in New York on the oath that th
cable operators ut Duxbury, Mass, and a
Cape Breton, had struck. At Atlanta, Ga
the receiving clerk in the Western Unio
Office was slightly wounded by bullt
fired through window by an unsee
person.
THE Khedive returned to Alexandri
from Cairo, Egypt, on the 26th. Their
were 422 deaths from cholera in Cairo o
that day The death list on the 25th wa
five at Damieta, twenty-eight at Tantal
TWENTY-FIVE at Mehalla, six at Choba
seven at Samanoud, fifty-six at Mehalle
twenty-one at Stitch, twelve at Mansural
ffty-fve at Ghizeh and three at Menzalel
A FEW DAYS ago the Secretary of tn
Treasury received a draft for $4,000 draw
bv the Exchange National Bank of Atch
SON Rans., on the First National Bank
Chicago, with the following reques
WPlease place the amount of the enclose
draft to the credit OF the United states Il
the benefit of same" Signed, "Unknow
Debtor" The amount was credited to Il
conscience fund.
CHOLERA had broken out among tn
British troops at Suez, Egypt, on the 2it
The death list during the twenty-four hOul
ended at eight o'clock on that morning wi
four hundred aud sixty-three deaths
Cairo, tventy-three at zifteh, sixteen
Tantah, nine at Shirbin, thirteen at Ma
surah, one hundred aud seventeen at Oh
bin, forty-three at Mehallit, ninety-three
Ghizeh and seven at Chebau.
THERE was no abatement OF Il
strike difficulty on the 23d. In st. Lou
No, the Western Union had few mo
men at work, but there was a serious dear
OF Eastern quotations on 'ChanEe. Sout
ern quotations failed on the Cotton E
change. The company claimed to be CO
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