The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-05-29

DURING the past week more American
stocks have been bought in England than
for twelve months preceding.
THE newspapers of Paris want a differ.
entail duty of twenty-five per CEN. i'm
posed against foreign trade in TOnquin.
LAST year the gross earnings of the
Western Union Telegraph Company were
S19,57I,476; net profits, So, ,642, ,513.
In the French Chamber of Deputies a
bill will be introduced providing for the
taxation of imported cereals and cattle.
A FIFTY per cent. assessment has been
made on the guarantors of the Cincinnati
Dramatic Festival. The Association has
to meet a deficit of $40, 100.
1t is claimed by the London Times that
America has been led into a false position
by its recognition of the African Interna-
tiOnal Association.
THE Finance Committee of the Senate on
the 20th postponed for a week considera-
tion of the resolution ordering an investi-
/ CATION into the causes of the recent bank
| failures.
RECENT reports from MatamOras, Mex
leo, indicate that a revolution is immi-
nent. Charges of corruption are openly
made against the Government.
! EFFORTS are making for an extension OF
the fishery clause of the Treaty of Wash
/ ington and for reciprocity between the
/ Dominion and the United States.
! THE Grand Secretary of the Grand
i Lodge of Odd Fellows, in session at Har-
risburgh, Pa, reports the membership in
creased 10 during the past year, being
now 1904.
THE Committee on Military Affairs of
the House will report favOrabIy a bill
making provision for the employment of
honorably discharged soldiers and sailors
in preference to civilians in the civil serv-
ice, the capacity of the former being equal
to that of the latter.
On the 21st, owing to a continued run,
the Penn Bank of Pittsburgh, Pa, sus-
pended temporarily.
A GENERAL strike of the iron-workers at
Pittsburgh is now considered improbable.
IN Akyab. British Burmah, immen Sc
damage is reported by a cyclone.
GENERAL CUsTER'S old horse which was
ridden by him in his Indian campaigns,
and owned latterly by Dr.. Carver, died at
| Vincennes, Ind, on the 21st.
On the 18th the American Lacrosse team
scored second victory at Manchester,
Eng, defeating the Lancashires.
THE Methodist Protestant Conference at
| Baltimore has decided that no change be
made in the form of the marriage cere-
mony.
THE National Industrial Congress was in
session on the 21st at Chicago; the Ma
tional Society Of Mechanical Engineers at
| Pittsburgh, Pa, and the Brewers AssOcia-
tiOn at Rochester, N. Y.
IT has been decided by the House Com
mittee on Agriculture not to report in IA
vor of appropriating any money for the
distribution Of seeds among the sufferers
by the Mississippi overflow.
THE proposition of Donnell, Lawson &
Simpson is to settle their Indebtedness to
their creditors with notes bearing six per
cent. interest and maturing in twelve or
twenty-four months from date. If this is
satisfactory to nine -tenths of those inter-
ested the firm will resume.
On the 22d the American end of the Ben.
nett Mackey cable was landed at RockpOrt
Mass, amid much enthusiasm.
ON the evening of the 2Ist Exeter Hall,
London, was thronged at the concluding
ceremonies of the WyclifFe celebration.
A CANADIAN loan of S5,000,000 will prob
ably be made to assist in the conversion of
five per cent. bonds.
A CALL has been issued by Secretary
FoIger for the redemption of S1O,OJO,OOO OF
three per cents. maturing June 80.
THE statement is reiterated by Gladstone
that the question of Egyptian finance will
be the leading question considered by the
| Conference.
THE Senate, by vote of % to %, refused
to reconsider the bill prohibiting the mail
ing of newspapers containing lottery ad
vertisements.
THE property of Lewis, the missing
Washington broker has been attached, and
his affairs are said to be in a very unprom
ising condition.
For the first four months of the Ipresen
year the gross earnings of the Missouri
Pacific Road, including the Iron Noun
tain, are -, Do, ,22S; net earnings $2,309,
392.
THE German Colonial Association
adopted resolutions of gratitude in re
gard to B.smarck's protest concerning
German commercial interests in the Congo
country.