The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-10-19
EmrLornrs of the Northern Pacific

Road in Montana, to the number Of twenty
five hundred, who struck against and in
crease Of half a dollar week in their board
have been asked to resume work at the old
price OF subsistence. Five thousand China
men refused to strike.
ABOUT year ago, at Grand Rapids,
Mich., Mrs. Norah Ryan sued Hon. Henry
Fralick for 500, 900 damages for the seduc-
tion Of her daughter. The defendant being
an old and wealthy citizen, a sensational
trial was expected. When the case came up
the other day, Fralick's counsel raised the
point that on the declaration the mUther
could only bring suit under common law
for loss of the services of her daughter, and
the court instructed the jury to find for the
defendant.
THE butcher business of New York
is being revolutionized by the arrival of
dressed beef, in refrigerator cars, from Chi
cago.
THE Mexican Government, having de-
clared forfeited the concession to the Te-
huantepec International Railroad, has made
a contract with Delfin Sanchez to complete
the work.
YELLOW FEVER is spreading at Pen
sacola, Fla, and an insufficiency of funds
makes the situation alarming. All classes
and denominations are asked for contribu
tions.
ALEXANDER KIER, foreman of the
men whose incomplete work caused the ter
rible accident on the Long Branch Rail-
road, at Parker's Creek, N. j., in June
last, has been indicted for manslaughter.
AN earthquake shock of several sue
onds' duration was felt at Montreal, Que
bee, on the 10th.
THE National Treasury has received
bonds amounting to $780, 900 bequeathed the
country some months ago by Joseph i.
| Lewis, of HobOken, N. j., for the purpose
of paying off the bonded debt.
| OwING to the alarming increase of
pauperism in the South OF Ireland, the Dub
lin Union has taken the lead in proposal
to send 1000 able bodied men and women
to Canada, at a cost of e., 900.
THERE was an expensive blaze at Ell
PasO, ILL.,, the other night. The fire origina-
ted in the kitchen of the El Paso House, and
was first discovered by one of the proprie-
tors, who at once aroused his boarders, some
OF whom were compelled to escape through
windows. The loss is estimated at $4,000.
PROFESSOR SWIFT, of the Rochester
Observatory, says that the new comet lately
| discovered in Greece is a fragment of the
great comet, broken off at its perihelion
passage.
a DISPATCH from Chatham. Pittsyl-
vania County, Va, says the ravages OF
| diphtheria are fearful. Most of those who
die have black vomft and some are covered
with running sores that eat to the bone.
The doctors are unable to account for the
terrible fatality, and think scarlet fever and
| diphtheria are combined.
In the Jeanette investigation at
| Washington Commodore Calhoun testified
that at the time the vessel sailed she was
perfectly seaworthy, but he coincided in the
| opinion expressed by the inspectors in their
report to the Navy Department at that time,
! that from her construction sit was not pos
sible to make her particularly adapted for a
| long cruise in the Arctic regions" E" Capt.
johnson corroborated the statement of
Commodore Calhoun. Both gentlemen arc
of opinion that it would be impossible to
construct a vessel of either wood or iron
that could successfully Withstand the strain
| to which the Jeanette was subjected.
! THE charges against GOuverneur
| Morris, Collector of Customs at Sitka, Alas
ka, Including frauds upon the Government
in connection with the importation and sale
of liquor, drunkenness, the ruthless slaugh-
ter of Indian dogs, arbitrary and aggressive
| conduct toward the naClVeSs as well as ON
GERS of the Government having business
with him, have been referred to Secretary
| Folger.
THE Ballou House, at North Adams,
Mass, was fired by an incendiary the other
morning. A fireman and a lady boarder
| were hurt.
STRONG re-inforcements have been
sent to Southern Tunis, with the object OF
carrying on Operations--o a large scale
against insurgents during the cold season.
THE President has accepted fifty
miles of Northern Pacific Railroad, begin
ming in Idaho and ending in Montana,
which was lately examined and reported
on by Commissioners Blackstone, Fry and
! Reed