The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-07-27


IN Winnipeg, Man, it is reported in Of
| fetal circles that the Behring's sea diff.
! Guilty has been ali but settled between
| England and the United States, the latter
country now accepting a proposition
made years ago.
On the 18th the annual convention OF
| the Emerald Beneficial and Literary AS
sociatiOn of North America began its ses-
| sions in st. Patrick's Hall, Baltimore, Nd
FOR violating the Bait act Magistrate
! O'Reilly, of ST. Johns, n. F.. on the 18th,
! fined the captains of the French ''bank-
! ers'' Virginia and Amazon twenty dol
| lars each, besides confscating the
schOOners.
THE offers of bonds made the Secretary
! of the Treasury, on the 18th, aggregated
| over 81, 900, 900, but none were accepted.
IT is said that the Maharaiah Holkar OF
Indore has just married damsel in her
| twelfth year and thus excited the keen
| indignation of his other wives.
On the 18th a waterspout passed from
the ocean through the town of North
Beach, Fla, doing considerable damage
to boats in the harbor and houses in its
track.
IT is reported from France that forged
100 franc notes of the Bank of France
have been discovered in circulation.
THE American Mechanics of Pennsyl-
vania will hold their next State conven-
ton at Harrisburg on the third Tuesday
in July, 1899.
On the 18th the National centennial Of
the origin of civil government in the
| Northwest at Marietta, o., closed with
''OhiO Day." the most numerously-at-
tended and enthusiastic of the celebration.
THE dedication of the Woonsocket (R.
~ Hospital occurred on the 10Th. 1t is
| constructed on the cottage plan, and cost
$40, 900.
On the 10Th an earthquake shock, with
out damage, was felt at Dumfries, Scot
land.
IT has been decided that the great
dOuble-scuu race between Teemer and
Hamm and Gaudaur and Mckay will be
rOwed on the Round Bay course, Severn
river, near Baltimore, Nd, August or s.
The managers of the course are to offer
purses to be contested for by other oars
men on the same day.
A SCHEDULE of campaign rates will
shortly he issued by the Pennsylvania
Railway Company. The heavy passenger
traffic expected during the presidential
contest has necessitated the arrangement
Of a special tariff to provide for the
transportation of large bodies. The new
rates will probably be one half the pres
ent tariff.
TIE State Gazetteer of California, for
1888, just issued, gives the population Of
the State at the present time over a
million and half. The official census
of 1880 placed the population at about
half that number.
ON the 10Th, the man found murdered at
Westfeld, N. J., several days ago, was
identified as Edward Miller, recently
coachman for John F. Lawrence, a
wealthy New York business man residing
at Westheld. 1t is supposed by the au-
thorities that Miller was murdered for his
! money.
ABOUT 5000, 900 feet of lumber was de-
stroyed, on the 10th, by fire in the lumber
piles on the docks of Montgomery, Cham
paign & Co., at Lakeside Mich. A large
proportion Of this was choice stock, and
the loss can not fall short of 500, 600, about
half of which amount is covered by insur-
ance. -
ON the 2Oth all the Indian Commission,
with the exception of Judge Wright of
Tennessee, left Bismarck, Oak, for
Standing Rock agency, and held their
first conference with the Indians on tho
21st.
CoMTE DE PARIS reply TO deputation
of Partisan workingmen, who called upon
him at the Sheen House, was published
by lie S0IeH and other Royalst papers,
on the 2Oth. The police have made no
attempt to interfere with the sale Of the
papers.
ACCORDING to the report of the director
Of the mint for the year1SS7 the product
of gold amounted to S33, 900, 600, and of sill
yer to $153. .257, ,OO0 Coinage of the mints
during the calendar year amounted to
$50, ,3T9, 151.
A SELECT committee of the House Of
Commons has recommended the closing
of all public houses throughout Ireland on
Sundays hereafter, and at nine O'Clock on
Saturday nights.
AT Per ham, Mimi, the grasshOpper war
continues unabated. Although over 1O,-
900 bushels have been caught the farmers
| are still catching them at a lively rate.
Mono to speak of have flown.
THE steel cruiser Charleston, the first
! Government vessel ever built on the Pa
cifc coast was launched from the ship
yards of the Union Iron Works, San
! Francisco, on the 10th, and was witnessed
by an immense crowd.