The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-05-04

A FAVORABLE report was Ordereu Dy LuS
House commerce committee on the bill
authorizing the Kentucky Gas Company
to lay a conduit under the Ohio river near
Louisville.
On the oath the House committee on In-
dian affairs agreed to report with favora-
BILE recommendation a bill to pay the
Wahpeton and SissetOn Indians, in Da-
kota, S342, 900 in one installment which is
now due to them in annual installments.
IT is said that an immigration associa-
ton has been formed, with headquarters
in New York, the object of which is to
populate the South with Roman Catholic
immigrants.
A MANIFESTO to the electors, condemn.
ing the Boulangist movement, has been
signed by a majority of the Deputies for
the Department of the Seine. The Sena-
tors for that department have been asked
to attach their signatures to the mani
festo.
On the Path the colored people Of the
District of Columbia held a memorial
meeting in the Metropolitan A. N. e.
Church. EuIogies were delivered on the
life Of ex-senator COnkling. Frederick
Douglas was the principal speaker.
IT was reported on the 25th that John
Thornwald had discovered a adepOsit of sill
yer ore within twenty miles of Bismarck,
Oak. He refuses to dTvulge the location
of the mine, but exhibits rich specimens
in proof of his assertions.
On the 25th the affair of the st. Johns
On. b. Building Society were reported to
be in q chaotic state, and the depositors,
mostly mechanics and middle class peo-
pie, expected to lose about 100000
SUITS have been brought, by direction
of the Attorney General, against the
Western Union Telegraph Company and
Union Pacific Railroad Company to re-
cover moneys claimed to have been ille-
| gally paid to the telegraph company on
| account of telegraph service over the sub
sidized lines of the railway company.
| On the 26th Mrs. Amanda Cowan, a So
called Undertaking medium, was exposed
/ as a fraud in Boston by the sudden light
! ing Of candles by a party of gentlemen
1 who attended the seance for that purpose.
! AT Baltimore, on the 26th, the steam
ship Maine, from Bremen, with 1, 100 pas
| sengers, was quarantined, having a case
/ Of smallpox on board.
! On the 25th the Crosby High License
! bill was passed by the New York Senate.
| THE blOck-tin output of this country, so
says the American Tin-Plate Association,
is now almost exclusively controlled by a
! French syndicate working in harmony
with the copper syndicate.
On the 26th Jake Kilrain wired from
London an acceptance of John L. Sulli-
| vans $4,000 challenge.
On the nights of the oath and 25th
| Lynchburgh, Va, was visited by heavy
! frosts, and it is feared that fruit in that
| vicinity is badly damaged.
On the 26th G.. Hall, a brakeman, OBJ
tained verdict for $25, 900 damages at
| Mobile, Ala, against the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad Company for the loss
of q foot by being knocked off of a freight
train by a low bridge.
On the 9th five additional Newark IN.
J.) brewers, making fourteen in all,
81 gned the contract proposed by the jour
| neymen.
In westchester County, N. Y, on the
| 27th, Jim BrOckleman and Mike Dunn
fought fourteen rounds to a draw. The
purse was divided.
On the 27th the horses of the late ex-
Senator Conkling were sold under the
hammer. They brought respectively, 81,
200, 81 800 and 81, $50.
THE Rome correspondent of the London
Times on the 27th asserted that the Pope's
decree against the plan of campaign had
already been sent to the Irish bishops,
and would be published in England and
Ireland in about ten days.
COMMENTING on the late papal decree
against the "plan of campaign" F" the Dub
lin FreemG1PS Journal of the 9th urges
the people to exercise calmness and
patience, and receive it with profound re-
! spect and loyalty to Rome.
/ On the 9th the statement that the Pope
had issued decree cOndemning the ''plan
of campaign" afterward denied, was con-
firmed.
AT Atlanta, Ca, and other points, Con-
federate Memorial Day (April 27) was OBJ
served by a general suspension of busi-
ness, parades, addresses and decorations.
At Washington, Ca, a beautiful monu-
ment to General Robert Toombs was dedi-
Gated.
In Lyons, France, on the 9th, a serious
riot occurred in consequence of strikers
trying to intimidate those of their number
trying to resume work. The latter were
attacked with stones, and many severely
wounded. The police interfered, and sew
eral of these, too, were hurt, but the
rioters were finally subdued, and six Of
| the ring leaders arrested.