The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-04-20

On the 10th the people of Georgetown,
D. c., celebrated the inauguration Of free
bridge communication with Washington
with speech making and civil and mill
tary parade.
THE Regent Of Bavaria has donated
5000 marks to the sufferers by the floods
in Germany.
THE Comptroller Of the Currency, on the
9th, declared a second dividend-hfteen
per cent.-in favor of the creditors of the
Fifth National Bank of st. Louis, making
in all, sixty-five per cent. on the claims
presented, aggregating S951, ,592.
In Jersey City, n. J., a company has
been organized with capital stock Of ST.
OOO, 900, to manufacture and operate ariaI
ships.
IT is said that the movement to send to
France statue of George Washington as
a present from the ladies Of America is
well under way. The names Of the statue
committee of prominent ladies will soon
be published. The French newspapers
are unanimous in the expression of salts
faction with the project.
AT San Francisco customs officials
seized about four thousand dollars worth
of opium at a warehouse just as it was be-
ing carried from the wharf.
IT is said the President and Secretary Of
the Treasury have decided that they have
Bond Purchase bill would, in consequence,
be shelved.
MUsKEGoN LAKE was reported free from
ice on the 18th, and lake navigation gener-
ally has been resumed.
EIGHT brewers of Newark, N. J., signed
the agreement demanded by the workmen,
on the 18th. The brewers pool is badly
broken.
Two THOUSAND people went from Tuam,
ryOf4 fyr C-a7x6 fha fo nd
SOW the lands Of Mrs. Badkin, at CIOonda-
room, whose tenants have been served with
notices Of eviction. They were accom-
panied by wagons laden with beer and
provisions. A detachment of police ac-
oompanied the campaigners.
THE trunk-line presidents, in a long
conference in Commissioner Fink's Office,
in New York City, on the 18th, failed to
| agree upon q revision of rates on export
freight shipped through inland cities.
A bill was introduced in the Senate, on
| the 18th, identical with the Bryce bill in
the House, to define and establish an an
chorage ground for vessels in the bay and
/ harbor Of New York.
| SENATE BILL appropriating $4,000 for
making a survey and estimating the cost
of removing Smiths, Petty's and Wind
mill islands from the Delaware river, be-
tween Philadelphia and Camden, was
! faYorably reported in the Senate on the
! 18th.
| House bills having special assignments
to days covered by the prOtracted dead
| lock lost their standing.
THE report of a terrible railroad acci-
/ dent at AvOca, Ia, on the 18th, is declared
to have been without foundation.
| On the 18th a receiver was appointed
and an accounting ordered of the assets
! Of Inre Kiralfy by Judge BOOkstaver, of
29ew York City, at the suit of David Good
man.
! On the 18th George Burton, of East Liv-
erpool, O., drove his wife from the house
and installed dashing widow from Tren-
/ ton, N. J., in her place. The female
friends Of the abused wife to the number
of 300 drove the guilty pair away in a per-
/ feet storm of stale eggs.
| DURING March, 1888, breadstuffs exports
| from the United States aggregated, 80,
/ O40, 743, a falling off from last year of s.,
| O60, $50.
/ ON the 18th the strike Of Italian laborers
on the Meriden & Waterbury railroad was
ended by the company paying off the meI
and discharging them.
On the 18th the buildings of the Liberal
Club. erected in birmingham, England
i in 1876, at a cost Of e64. 600. we're sold al
auction for f2,300-E10, 900 less than the
cost of the ground upon which they were
| erected.
! DISTRICT ASSEMBLY No. 81 knights o1
Labor of Philadelphia have issued a cir
cular to the friends of organized labor
asking for contributions to assist in pay
| ing off the indebtedness incurred in the
late strike in the Lehigh Valley coal
| region.
BUSINESS failures for the seven days
ending on the 18th, as reported by r. G.
Dun & Co., were: For the United States
200; for Canada, %; total, ODD, as com
pared with DOT the previous week, and III
for the corresponding week of last year
THE British Government proclaimed the
twenty meetings proposed to be held il
County Glare, Ireland, on the 18th, under
the auspices of the National League.
On the 18th the Chicago & Atlantic rail
road reduced its passenger rate from Chi
cago to Boston from nineteen to seven
teen dollars.