The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-08-17

THE Lake Shore Road suffered
another accident to its freight trains, at
Clyde, Ohio, Aug. 8, which delayed trains
and caused considerable damage. Careless
ness was the cause.
THE National Tube Works Company,
Of MsKeesport, Pa. have sued number of
their former workmen for conspiracy, al
leging that by threats and infimidating
workingmen they caused the company to
expend large snms of money for police pro-
lection, etc. Three Of the strikers were
arrested and afterward released on bail.
The hackers of Sullivan and Tug
Wilson have notified them to cease train
Ing, as the New York courts refused to en-
join the police from interfering with the
gloye-fght.
AN earthquake shook up the Island of
Chios on the sth. Ae
THE Subsidiary High Court of the
Ancient Order of Foresters of the United
States is in session at Boston.
NEPAUL and other feudatory States in
India have volunteered to furnish contin-
gents for the British army in Egypt. The
Sultan's proclamation, declaring Arab
Pasha rebel, condemns the conduct OF the
military leaders as criminal, and mentions
hefriendly relations Of the Porte with Eng
land.
THE President, who has $4,000
available for the-suppression of epidemics,
has referred the matter of yellow fever in
Texas to the Secretary of the Treasury.
There are about fifty cases in Brownsville.
The people have organized and are prepared
for the worst, though no aid ia requested
from the Government at present,
THE Amalgamated Iron-workers in
Chicago elected the following officers: Pres
ident, John Jarrett; Secretary, VIM. Mar
tin; Trustees, Samuel S. Wainwrisht, VIM.
Weihe, Edward Rogers; Treasurer, George
". Perry. Adjourned to meet ext year in
Philadelphia.
The steamer MOsel, bound from Bre-
men to New York, went ashore on the Eng
| lish coast, the other day, and will probably
be total loss. All the passengers were
saved.
THE Boston dry-goods clerks study
ing the processes of European industry were
warmly received by President Grevy in
Paris on the 9th.
FIVE cases of the most violent type
of smallpox have been discovered in one
family in the village of Stanchfield, Isanti
County. MINI. Two children died few
days ago, and it is believed none OF the FIVE
now sick Will recover.
TWENTY-FIVE Apaches recently cap
tured by Mexican troops were publicly shot
in Chihuahu the other day.
FOREST fires near Sandwich, Mass,
have driven number of families from their
homes.
| The Grecian Government has ap-
pointed a commission to proceed to England
and make contracts for the construction Of
| powerful war vessels.
FELTvILLE, a deserted village in New
Jersey, was sold by receiver the other day
for $11,45O. There are eight hundred acres
! OF land, twenty houses, two mills, a church,
| school-house, and store, and $3.50, 200 was
once refused for it. It was built by Felt, a
| paper manufacturer, who transferred it to
Townsend, the sarsaparilla man, who placed
a mortgage of $60,0 900 upon it.
THE iron manufacturers in Pennsyl-
vania are engaged in a simultaneous effort
to start their works with men from outside
the unions, and have thus far met with
success.
THE Agricultural Department holds
that the cattle plague now prevailing in the
Middle and Southern States is the Texas
cattle fever. Agents Of the department have
been sent to Virginia, North Carolina and
Alabama to investigate, and information is
| being sought in Pennsylvania.
CONTRACTS have been let at Buffalo
for the construction of portion of the pos
tai telegraph line between that city and Chi
cago, and work on the indianapolis branch
| will commence August 81.
THE fact that the recent storms in
| Northern Ohio swept away thirty bridges in
Holmes County gives some idea of the ruin
! to crops.
Mr.. INGRAM, Of Montreal, Cana, on
the day preceding his retirement from the
/ post of assistant manager Of the Merchants
Bank, induced the chief teller to pay him
| $4, 700 on the false statement that the direc-
tors were about to make such an appropria-
! tion In his favor.