The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-07-23
MIsCELLANEOUs.

On the 14th the Western Nan Assocfa-
tion met at Pittsburgh, Pa, and reaffirm-
ed the card rate on nails.
THE National Bureau of Statistics re-
ports that exports OF beef and pork prod
ucts fOHt the eight months endel June 30
last aggregated in value S50,S45, ,239,
against SGl, 1913, ,752 during the Same period
in 1885.
THIS year soldiers reunions must pro-
vide their own tents, the Government not
having them TO spare.
IN New York City a street and park
have been named for General Hancock.
THE -three-miIe sngIe-scuu race for
81 600 between Enright, of Toronto, and
Griffin, of Buffalo, at Silver lake, N. Y,
on the 18th, was won by Enright by three
lengths. Time, 2I:40.
CHOLERA returns from Italy on the 14th
were as follows: Brindisi, 115 new cases;
50 deaths; Fontana, A new cases, II
deaths; LatianO, p new cases, 10 deaths;
San Vito, 20 new cases, death; Cordigro,
new cases, deaths; Trieste 3 new cases,
death; Fiume, 6 new cases, 3 deaths.
THE Peruvians propose to use the Amer
lean gold dollar as the basis of all mone-
tary transactions.
THE revolutionists in Tamaulipas, Mex
leo, have captured the town of Aguas
Leguas, five persons being killed in the
fight.
AN English bank with capital of SI0,-
O0O,O ,O0O is to be established in Madagascar.
A STATEMENT prepared at the Treasury
Department shows the receipts of the Gov
ernment so far this month to be decidedly
less than the expenditures, and unless an
Improvement occurs before the end of the
month the public debt statement to be is
sued August / will show little, if any, de-
crease.
THE Mexican congressional elections re-
suited in a large majority for the Govern
ment.
On the 18th the bodies OF Adrian and
Lucie Crucy were removed frsm their
late home, No. 60 Lexiu ton avenue, New
York, to Greenwood cemetery. The church
authorities were to the last unyielding in
their decision that the interment could not
take place in Calvary.
GEoRGE W. WHITE, of Buffalo, N. Y,
announced his intention of swimming the
was at the falls oa the 18th studying the
whirlpool.
A RIOT occurred among the prisoners in
t%e Richmond (Va.) city Jail on the 18th,
but a squad of efficient policemen, num-
bering about twenty, succeeded in sup
pressing the affair before serious trouble
occurred, by arresting the ringfeaders.
TUE coroner's jury in the case of Police
man Gardner, of Belfast, who died from
the effects Of wounds received in the re-
cent riot, failed to agree after five hours
deliberation, and were discharged.
AN immense gathering is expected at
Albany, n. Y, on the occasion of the BIZ
centennial exercises ami the Mardi Gras
festival and parade. Arrangements are
heing made to accommodate 100, 600
strangers.
THE Albany (N. W bi-centennial cele-
bration opened on the 18th.
THE business failures in the United
States for the seven days ended the 10th
numbered 163.
A PERs )NAL encounter occurred in the
Capitol building at Washington on the
10th between Concressmen Cobb, of In
diana, and Laird, of Nebraska.
TIE rehearing in the divorce case of
Crawford against Crawford aud bike,
opened by the Queens proctor, was begun
at London on the 18th. Tie evidence puts
a new color on the matter.
THE grand juyr's investigation of the
charges against members of the St. Louis
House of Delegates resulted i'm five bench
warrants being issued on the l6th for del
egates and lobbyiSts&
THE receiver Of the Provident Savings
Band of st. Louis has not yet been aLle to
find out what the condition of the wrecked
bank is. He only seems to know that no
payment can be made to depositors before
October.
The committee on pensions recommend
the passage over the Presidents veto Of
the bin granting a pension to John w.
Farris, Of Missouri.
Two clerks and a chief Of division in the
Treasury Department at Washington have
been dismissed for tampering with exam
ination papers
AFTER being locked up five hours, the
coroner's jury in the case of Policeman
Gardner, who was shot in the Belfast
riots, we're discharged, being unable to
agree.
TIE Secretary of the Navy has decided
to cons truct one of the new cruisers on the
plans and designs Of the Naniwakan re-
IN tly tuilt abroad, and the other on the
plans of the bureau Of construction.
THE cholera returns from Italy on the
18th were: Brindisi, s new cases, e deaths;
Province of Brindisi, 81 new cases, 81
deaths; Fontana, - new cases, : deaths;
Lahanos new cases, 6 deaths. ae dis
ease As abating and the symptoms becom-
ing milder.
THIS first train of eighteen carloads Of
tea bound from Japan % Eurc %, passed
through Omaha on the 10th, having made