The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-03-20

OK the 18th the Merchants Associia-
tion of Milwaukee, Wis.,, passed resolu-
tion calling for the suspension of silver
coinage.
AT Bridgeport. Conn, the Salvation
Army has been again raided by the police.
Three members fined on the 18th took an
appeal.
RECENT advices from the winter
wheat districts of Nebraska give promise
of a crop equal to that of last year, which
was the largest in the history of the State.
CoNGREss is urged by the New York
Board OF Trade and transportation to pass
bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treas
ury to pay s., 900, 900 annually for a period
of ten years for improvements on the Erie
Canal
A FAST mail train service has been
ordered on the Milwaukee & st. Paul Rail-
road. The service will be extended to the
Northwest as far as Minneapolis. 1t will
bring the through mail service from New
York to st. Paul inside of forty eight
hours.
THE proprietor of an estaminet near
Madeline, not far from Bordeaux, France,
is under police surveillance. He is alleged
to be a Fenian and a receiver of funds for
/ the Irish cause.
THE New York Assembly Committee
reported adversely on the bill designed to
/ protect newspaper dealers from libel suits
like that of Marie Prescott against the
American News Company for circulating
a paper containing matter injurious to her.
TIE monthly meeting of the Western
/ Nail Association was held at Pittsburgh,
/ Pa, on the 18th. Trade was reported fair
/ ly good, stocks fair and prices maintained.
The card-rate remains unchanged.
/ A SUBCOMMITTEE of the Senate For
/ eign Affairs Committee has recommended
a law authorizing the President, in case our
/ products are arbitrarily excluded by any
/ foreign power, to retaliate by excluding
4 their products.
The authorities of Vienna exercise a
close scrutiny in case of all packages ar
irving from England, America and Swift
zerland. Socialist intrigues are continually
brought to light.
NIH1LIsTs in st. Petersburg give the
police notice in advance that they will kill
informers.
WISCONSIN has dime novel mur
derer who styles himself Wild Bill of th'
Prairie"
THrRrY-oNE students graduated at the
Womens' Medical College of Pennsylvania
on the 18th.
AT Dubuque, Ia, q massmeeting o
Catholic and Protestant pastors, held OF
the 18th, protested against the bill pending
to rax church property.
THE freshmen and sophOmOres o
Williams College adopted the following
resolution on the 18th: "In view of the re
cent disorders in the college occasioned b.
the Limitation OF personal rights, we, as
class, are in favor Of removing all such lin
itation."
On the 18th the French occupied Ba
Mini. The Chinese fed in the direction O
Thainghuien. The French had sevent,
wounded.
THE Pacific Express Company havini
recovered its TiIler the presumption is tina
it viii endeavor to steer clear of such en-
barrassing accidents in future.
On the 18th General Graham cap
tured Osman Digna's camp after & shor
battle. Tae British loss was 10 in kille'
and wounded. The rebels lost 2,4O0.
SEVERAL witnesses testified in th
Carpenter trial at Petersburg, Ill, on tn
18th to defendants intimacy with the mul
dered girl, Zura Burns.
| On the 18th the anniversary meetin,
of the National WOman's Foreign Mission
ary Society took place in Philadelphia
, Pa. The number of auxiliary societies wa
reported at 3,371, an increase of 332 owe
the previous year. The number of men
bers is 5S6 633, an increase of 1861.
AN Indianapolis butcher discovere
on the 18th a lusus naturB in an unbOr
calf The animal has the body of the beast
while its head is allegel to be perfectly
shaped image of that of human being
Hair has grown along the back of the necl
but the skull is bare like that of an infan
SFNECA MILLER, one of the men VIII
threw dynamite cartridges into the hous
of Pawling, at 1 oughkeepsie, n. Y, ha
been convicted of murder in the second de
gaee, and ano her of the gang immediatel
, pleaded guilty.
! THE forfeiture of the Oregon Cent?
land grant has been agreed to by the Sc
= ate Committee on Lands.