The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-05-25

On the 10th the following bonds were
offered to the Government; Sl,SOo,6o0
registered As, at 12T 1-16 to 12T1z: S13S,2OO
coupon As, at 127 lie to 1919; $4,000 reg
fstered As, at 1867 to 10S@; $12,4O0 coupon
AIS, at los. Total, 81 1892, $50.
SINGER, NnICK & Co, Pittsburgh (Pa.)
iron manufacturers, have notified their
| one thousand employees of a temper cent.
/ reduction in wages, to take effect May ..
On the 18th the Pottsville Iron & Steel
! Company of Pottsville, Pa, gave the SIX
| hundred employees of the Fishback Roll
| ing-mill notice of ten-per-cent. reduc-
/ ton Of wages.
| on the 10th the following bonds were
! offered to the Government: S225,9J reg
/ istered As, at 127 to 12S; $4,000 coupon As,
at 127; S93,6jO registered AIS, at 1867 to
/ 1OS-total, S329, ,5jO-Of which the follow
ing were accepted; S95,S0O registered As,
at 127; $4,000 coupon As, at 127; $89, $50
registered 41zs, at los, making total Of
S195, $50.
On the I4th the annual meeting Of the
| American Tract Society was held at the
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New
York City.
ON the 10th Governor Hill of New York
issued proclamation declaring cOnta-
gious pleuro-pneumonia prevalent among
the cattle in New York, Kings, Queens,
Richmond and part of Westchester cOun-
ties, and proclaiming them quarantined
under the Federal Animal Industry act.
On the 10th the Secretary of War issued
an order, prohibiting regimental bands
from playing outside of the posts at which
they are stationed.
| On the 18th the following bonds were
offered to the Government: $2,OO5, $50
registered As, at 127 to 12Th; $4,000
coupon As, at127; S63, 900 registered AS, at
1867 Total, 2,O97, $50. The following
were accepted: S14,150 registered As, at
127; $4,000 coupon As, at 127; $3.50, 900 regis
tered AIS, at 1OS. Total, S223, $50.
On the 10th the suit of Inventor Edison
against the United States Electric Light
Company for infringement of patent, be-
{ gun three years ago, and on which TWEEN
I ty-six similar suits depend, was decided
= by Judge Wallace, in the United States
Circuit Court, in favor of the defendant
On the 18th twenty-one members of the
! ! Honorable Artillery Company OF London
i including a number of field and staff Off
GERS, sailed from Southampton, to become
the guests of the Ancient and Honorable
: Artillery Company of Boston.
4 On the 18th it was testified by a numbe
. of reputable witnesses before the com
: mittee examining the management of tn
Government Printing g-Ofice, that Mr.
Benedict had given contracts for furnish
, ing paper to a Philadelphia firm who's
bid was the highest and whose Commercial
rating was the lowest of all the bidders
: and that for MANILA paper contracted 70
. at 6 3-10 cents per pound he had paid theI
. 8, and 10 cents.
On the 18th the General Assembly of tn
IL Southern Presbyterian Church, represent
ing sixty mine Presbyteries, covering tn
y territory from Maryland to Mexico, me
70 in Baltimore.
q On the 18th the general term of the New
= York Supreme Court decided that tn
Third Avenue Railroad Company of Ne7
a York City, being by its charter forbidde
n to use steam as a motive power, can NJ
u substitute the cable system in place {
y horses.
THE only point of interest in the Par
nellite manifesto, says the London Time,
d is that, while Mr.. Parnell declares tn
II party to be entire strangers to the plan {
IS campaign, forty members of the part
~ meet and justify it.
eI In Washington, on the 18th, the Amer
II can Baptist Publication Society held i
lg sixtv-fourth annual meeting. The tot
receipts from all sources for the past YET
So we're S5S2,49O. One hundred and twel'
Oy new publications have been added to Il
9h society's catalogue, and 29,307, ,S07 pan
phlets and tracts were printed during Il
~ year.
es AT Llanefdd, Wales, on the 18th, t
40 tithe collectors and the police, who we
. protecting them, were attacked by t
ne people A general riot ensued, in viii
rs thirty-f five persons were injured, seven
them severely.
lIN On the 18th the bark Jessie MOreys q
u rived at Quebec, having on board t.
S brothers named Fleming, who were pick
u upon the banks, after floating twelve da
- in a dory without food, having been Il
% from the French fishing schooner JubiI,
y. of st. Johns, N. f.
AI- M. HERsoUT the wcll-knOwn Fren
All contractor, is trying to organize COZ
81 pany to construct a bridge across the I
'n' glish channel at a cost of E32, 100000,
1T is said that by way of reprisal for
- reference with Germans on the FreI
- side of the frontier, a German rescr
"a will be issued to prevent, if pOssih
90 Frenchmen from visiting Alsace-L'