The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-06-28

sionists from st. Louis went out over two
roads on the 2lst for Chicago.
TIE death Of Archbishop James F.
Wood occurred at the Archepiscopal resi-
dence, in Philadelphia, Pa, on the 2oth.
GENERAL WALLACE, the United
states Minister, has declined to accept the
proposed Turkish license tax on foreigners.
THE Spanish Foreign Minister favors
an amendment of the law giving England
the right to search Spanish vessels for
slaves.
THE deed transferring to Lieutenant
General Sheridan house in Washington,
D. C., was recorded on the Goth. The price
was $4,000.
THE Chairman of the Pennsylvania
Democratic Central Committee has issued
call for meeting of the State Convention
at Harrisburg on August 1.
Iowa expects to raise O,0OO,O0O
bushels of corn and 22,OOO,OOO bushels of
wheat this year, and the oats crop promises
TO be the largest ever known.
REAR ADMIRAL BALDWIN, of the
American Navy, gave a banquet on the
ISth on board his flagship at Cronstadt,
Russia. 1t was the closing festivity of the
coronation.
THE death of James Washington
Sheahan, for many years leading editorial
writer on the Chicago (Ill.) Tribune, occur
red in that city on the 18th. He had been
sick long time.
THE President has recognized Joseph
Dr;+ 80, Of Co,
Diego, Cal, and Charles White Mortimer,
British Vice-CQnsul for Wilmington and
Los Angeles, Cal
The annual banquet of the National
Flint and Lime Glass Manufacturers Asso-
citation was held at Boston, Mass, few
evenings ago. The gathering represented
S12,000,000 of capital.
In consequence of a great exodus of
laborers to the Chilian guano islands the
Bolivian Government has issued order
prohibiting citizens from crossing the bor-
der without permission.
GENERAL CHARLES EWING, formerly
of Ohio, died at Washington, D. c., on the
20th, Of pneumonia. He was a brother-in-
law of General sherman, upon whose staff
he served during the war.
AT Cabinet Council at Versailles,
France, on the 2lst, it was positively stated
that the Queen of Madagascar had been
dead six months, and that the military
party had concealed the fact.
THE eighth annual meeting of the
American Association of Nurserymen and
Florists opened at st. Louis, Mo, on the
Goth, President Norman J. Coleman in the
mn Il Il 1
ance.
THE Irish Times says the Govern
ment has given James Carey, the informer,
the option of proceeding to one of the
British colonies or being released and al
lowed to remain in Dublin without police
protection.
THE Secretary of War has informed
Secretary Teller that the military have taken
all necessary precautions in regard to Cap
tain Payne in the event of another raid by
his party upon Oklahoma lands in the In
dian Territory.
THE cable announced on the 10Th
that the steamer Sophia, with Prof Nor
denksiold and his Arctic expedition, ar
rived at Reykiavik, Iceland, on June 6.
The party intended to start for Greenland
on the 10th inst.
REPORTS of heavy rains, causing seri-
Gus washouts and damage to railroads in
Missouri and Illinois, were received on the
17th Trains on many roads had been de-
Iayed, and in some instances business was
completely blocked.
SIX Indian boys and four girls from
the Indian school, Hampton, Va, called
upon the Secretary of the Interior at Wash
ington on the 10th. They were en- route to
their homes in Dakota, having finished a
three years. course of study at Hampton.
THE Grand Jury at Washington
brought in another indictment against
Thomas j. Brady ON the 10th, charging
that on July 13, 1880, he awarded mail
contract to J. r. Price and III the next No
vember received $1,000 as compensation
therefor.
THERE was no noabatement of the floods
in the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers on
the 21st. The water had passed the highest
point touched in the past twenty-five years
at ST. Louis, and from every part of the
Lower Missouri Valley advices indicated q
considerably higher rise.
THE Commissioner of Indian Affairs
has authorized the Indian Agent at Fort
Griffin, Tex, to allow him, for an exhibi
tion at the Louisville (Ky.) Exposition, tc
take to that place four or five Tonkana In
dians. with the understanding that they
shall be properly cared for
THE President has appointed the fol
lowing cadets at large to West Point Mill
tarv Academy: Manning J. Logan, Illinois
son of General Logan; Andrew Curtin
QUAY, Pennsylvania, and Pierrepont Is
ham, Illinois, with Robert A. Emmett, New
York, and Sa1auel D. Hatch, 10 "a, alter
yates.
THE Mississippi River continued K
rise slowly on the 10Th. 1t was over tn,
sidewalks at several places on the levee a
St. Louis A great deal of work was il
progress to protect exposed property a
that city and at other points, and every
Shing indicated that they would have tht
highest water known since 1853. It was
within less than foot Of the top mark o
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