The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-08-02

SPEAKING Of the proposed new post
Office building in New York, Postmaster
General Wanamaker, on the 25th, said;
''The building of the new post off ce in
New York City is a matter of ten years
or more after Congress has acted on it.
What we have to do now is to put the old
building in condition for use."
HENRY S. IVES obtained a writ Of ha-
beas corpus, returnable to the Supreme
Court of New York City on the 26tk re-
quiring cause TO be chosen why he should
be longer detained in Ludlow Street Jail.
He and his partner, G.. II. Stayner, have
been in confinement six months.
In the debate on the royal grants in the
British House of Commons, on the 25th,
Mr.. Gladstone said he was adverse to
practicing any economy which would
impair the dignity and splendor of the
crown. At his age he could look back o n
a long career as a representative of that
crown with feelings of unaffected pride.
The son of Marshall H Mitchell, the
United States Consul at Kingston, Ont,
was arrested for house breaking on the
25th. He is thought to be insane.
THE Denver, Texas & Fort Worth rail-
road on the 26th, made a reduction of
eighteen cents per hundred on first class
freight from Denver to New York via Gal
weston and the gulf, and promised an ad-
ditional reduction of four cents in a few
days. Arrangements are also being
made to extend this reduced rate to
Utah, Montana and all Northwestern
points. The matter is causing no little
CONSERVATION in railroad circles.
The English syndicate has purchased
| five of the six breweries in Paterson, n.
j., for an aggregate of s., $50, 900. The
| former owners retain one third interest
! in the concern.
AT the Detroit CMich.) Driving Park on
| the 26th, Guy was driven with a running
mate to beat Maud SIS time but failed to
do it, making the mile in 2:12h.
HUTCHINSON, OGDEN s. Co., wOrsted
yarn spinners, of Philadelphia, assigned
on the 26th; liabilities about $780, 900. tits
/ thought some arrangement Will be made
| by which the firm can continue business.
/ THE contract with the Union Iron
! Works of San Francisco, for the con-
| structiOn of a coast, defense vessel was
signed on the 26th, by Secretary Tracy.
| The contract price is S700,000.
A BELATED south bound Midland pas
| senger train ran into an extra freight
| train near Waterloo, Va, on the 26th, de-
railing five freight cars and badly wreck
ing them and the engine. Engineer
| Matthew Acton, of Alexandria, was badly
| injured and an unknown tramp, who was
| stealing aride, was killed.
Ex-SENATOR STEPHEN w. DORSEY ap-
peared at the Office of Thompson, Acker-
ley & Kaufman, in New York, on the Goth,
and supplementary proceedings We're at
| once begun before Mr.. Kaufman. It was
| announced that no information would be
| given to the press unless the matter was
filed in court.
Two-THIRDs Of the cjtton-spinners of
England have reached an agreement to
run on half time for one month.
THE Yellow river has again burst it:
banks in the Shang Tung district, China.
A large stretch of territory is inundated,
and great loss of life aud property is re
ported.
GENERAL EmMoxs CLARK has de
clined the appointment as United State!
| Consul at Havre, France.
JAMES MCCALL, of Troy, N. Y, kicked
his wife to death on the 26th.
FOREST fires were raging in the neigh
borhoOd of Helena, Mont, on the 26th.
A MOVEMENT viii be inaugurated il
Virginia to secure Congressional aid t
} pay the State debt.
AN English syndicate, it is said, ha
purchased seventy eight grain elevator
/ in the Northwest.
l THE personal property of ex-Edito
West of the Chicago Times was levied o
/ by the sheriff on the 26th.
AN exhaustive inquiry shows negT
f labor to be growing in value in the South
THE Richmond Paper Company, O
Providence, r. L, suspended on the 26tl
/ THE valuation of Indiana railroads fo
l | taxation has been raised over 81, 900, 900.
Q Two SMALL sons of Fred Dwenker weT
| killed by train near Chicago, on the 25tl