The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-05-15

CONSIDERABLE OF panic was caused IN
New York on the 9th by the failure of the
Marine Bank of that city aud the suspen-
sion of Grant & Ward, bankers and bro
kers. The bank had capital of S4O) 900
and a surplus of 500, 900. The failure of
Grant & Ward was occasioned by the col
lapse of the bank. Jay Gould takes a
hopeful view of the situation of the cOun-
try, financially and commercially. and
does not think the Marine Bank in New
York amounted to much.
THE steamship Nevada, sunk in collision
with the Romano, was valued at 100000.
THE Swiss Republic wants to get rid of
the salvation army.
IN consequence of severe hail storm,
heavy damage to crops is reported near
Dayton, o.
The American Mediterranean squadron
has arrived at TenedOs.
FIGHTING between the Chinese and Black
Flags is reported at Lao Ki.
DURING the year past donations and
legacies to the American Tract Society are
given at S102,S
ACCORDING to the annual report of the
Lake Shore Road the increase in net earn
ings for the year were S343,9 800.
OK the 7th the Allentown Iron Works,
Philadelphia, Pa, were sold for 50, 900, and
win soon be running again.
Two English railroad companies, owing
to the depression in trade, have discharged
900 employees and cut down salaries ten
per cent.
The new law governing explosives, pre-
sented in the German Bundersrath on the
7th, is very severe, penal servitude and
death being among the penalties for the
violation of the law.
EXCITEMENT in New York over the fail
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and the belief is now expressed that it
could have been averted by proper man
agement.
On the Tth the commissioners appointed
to represent the various States at the
/ Worlds Exposition in New Orleans met in
/ Washington. Pans and suggestions were
/ discussed.
JAMES CLARK, confidential clerk of Ru-
/ dolph HOchkoher, commission merchant of
/ San Francisco and Austro- Hungarian Con-
/ sui there, is short $50 900 in his accounts.
| THE sessions of the American Forestry
! Congress at Washington closed on the
| S5h.
LAST year the American Bible Society
circulated ,357,O5I copies of the Bible in
this country and 451, ,164 copies abroad.
COMMISSIONER EVANS has ordered a
change in the manner of collecting the
matured tax on whisky, to take effect
/ August /.
! DR.. KELLER, of Arkansas, at the Medical
/ Convention at Washington, D. c., on the
/ Sth, said in a few years cremation would be
! regarded as a sanitary necessity.
| THE International Health Exposition in
/ London, held under the presidency of the
/ Prince of Wales, was formally inaugurated
! on the Sth with imposing ceremonies by
/ the Duke of Cambridge. 1t bids fair to
rival the Fisheries Exposition.
The alleged bribery in connection with
the late Kentucky Senatorial election
has been found by the committee of inves-
! tigation to have no existence in fact.
OK the Sth an investigation of the affairs
of the Marine Bank was begun. Excite
ment has moderated, the general impress
sion being that PresidenC Fish was hasty
| in his action.
PAPERs found in the possession of sol
diers slain in the late insurrection at
Fuigeros, Spain, indicate that the military
cOnspiracies were extended and growing
. formidable.
On the S.h the spring meeting of the Ken
lucky Association began at Louisville with
warm weather and the track ankle deep in
mud.
THERE were rich developments in the
! Sharon divorce case on the Sth. A colOred
/ witness who had previously testified in be-
half of Miss Hill acknowledged she had
been bribed to Perjure herself
Oh the Sth seaman Nindermann resumed
his testimony before the Jeannette Commit
tee of inquiry. Testimony was also given
by John p. Jackson, Paris correspondent
of the New y ork Hcrdld
THE Methodist Episcopal General Con.
ference at Philadelphia on the 8th dis
cussed the use of the church hymnaIs,
Rev. c. c. McCabe, of New York, said
the people would sing such hymns as they
please, no matter what the Conference
said.
TIE steamer Titania with the crew and
passengers of the State of Florida landed
at Montreal on the s b. Crowds were gath
cred at the wharf to see them. The stories
! nf tho lisa :. on. nre han1.trnndinc-